Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
I still don’t get what the omega sanction is. Does it just BFR through time? Because Batman ended up surviving it, so I don’t see why it would kill Sentry.
Thread question isn't about whether it kills him though.
Plenty of things have affected Sentry. Worms. Fat Cobra. Okoye with her spear choked him out. Invisible Woman hid an entire planet from him, and kept him out against his will.
These are all when Sentry is supposedly at his peak. Low showings? Sure. I agree they're low showings. But they still happened, and whilst people might try and explain them away or straight up ignore them, the fact remains that Sentry is still affected.
Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
He writes a lot of good stuff, but he often goes too far off the rails for me.
That’s actually why I like him so much. His Superman transcend all to me. His Superman is all the good things Superman is meant to represent magnified x10. If I ever want to read a gritty stone cold killer that does nothing but kill and kill, there are plenty of other comics to pick up.
Originally posted by Khazra RebornMorrison's take on New Gods has always been different than most. He writes them more as higher-dimensional, energy-based thought-forms(bordering on metafictional entities) that are derived directly from the Source itself, than just physical brutes like many other writers have in the past.
That sounds like pure nonsense, but I guess that’s Grant Morrison.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of that, because New Gods, by their very nature, *should* operate on that type of scale, imo.
Originally posted by Galan007
Eh, what?The Sentry...Standing there in front of Darkseid(which is what this thread is asking)...Would be sent hurling through the timestream in a 'life trap' tailor made for him by the Omega Sanction.
Physical regeneration is irrelevant here. The only way for Sentry to 'beat' the Omega Sanction, is if he can 'beat' that sort of temporal manipulation.
Hmmm, I actually think the Omega Sanction has two different usages
One like you mentioned, Darkseid trapped Batman in a time loop(temporal manipulation)
However, the 'life trap' I think is a different usage, as it creates a series of alternative realities to trap it's victim. Kinda like Dominus's reality-warping you may say. Thus this should require some reality-warping resistance I would say
https://ibb.co/7VrZLDK
Originally posted by Stoic
Your reasons seem to be based on your feelings though. That really isn't a reason why the OS has to work on a literal conceptual construct. It's like having a cartoon jump out of your head and do everything that you would do if you can imagine doing it, but in Bob's case his brain damage is diectly linked to why his power is often corrupted. Look up what tends to happen to people that are born with a damaged amygdala. Now factor that into the reality that goes on within Bob's mind.So why does the OS have to work on a thought come to life?
You sparked my curiosity.
Can you prove to us that Sentry is just a construct of the mind of Bob in which Bob is somewhere else creating and operating him (and not him actually)?
Provide issue numbers if you can.
Originally posted by h1a8
You sparked my curiosity.
Can you prove to us that Sentry is just a construct of the mind of Bob in which Bob is somewhere else creating and operating him (and not him actually)?
Provide issue numbers if you can.
There are many different citations. Owen took note that his molecules, although real, should not actually exist in that particular comic universe’s reality. The Sentry is as real as Robert believes that he is. His strength, durability, and powers all depend on what Robert believes is real, and not real.
The Sentry can not die because it isn’t truly alive apart from Robert believing that he/it is. Take note of all of his various appearances. Note that he has different versions of himself/itself. To understand the Sentry, or more importantly Robert Reynolds, is to first understand his psychological condition.
People in real life that suffer from his condition were often born with a damaged amygdala, or had it damaged over the course of their lives.
Imagine also this person having the power of a million exploding stars.
In real life, people that suffer from this condition have bouts, or wrestle against what is real and not real. A person with a healthy amygdala will see reality as it is, and not an illusion built up on improper information. His reality, or assessment of reality differs from a person with a healthy amygdala. The difference here is that Robert has all of this power attached to this condition.
In a way, he’s a lot like Bizarro. Having all of this power, but not able to access all of it due to his condition. We had a few glimpses of how powerful he could become. Deathseed was one, and his confrontations with Owen is another. Voidtry was how Bob imagined himself being at that particular time, only to return as what he deems to be the ultimate good guy.
Sorry for any typos.
Originally posted by h1a8You sparked my curiosity.
Can you prove to us that Sentry is just a construct of the mind of Bob in which Bob is somewhere else creating and operating him (and not him actually)?
Provide issue numbers if you can.
Stoic is right, when he says that Sentry is nothing more than a construct. Stoic just sometimes fails to showcase it.
But before I provide scans, I do want to point out that Bob does remain close to the Sentry and Void. It's not like Bob is somewhere in outer space looking down at his creations of Sentry and Void. In my opinion (judging by everything seen in comics so far) drinking the serum turned Sentry into a consciousness. That consciousness is on Earth and has created the body of a person for himself.
In Uncanny Avengers VOL 1 #15 he confirms that his body is just flesh and that he is driven by his soul:
https://i.imgur.com/BRQSqU8.jpg
In Sentry VOL 2 #6 his therapist comes to the conclusion that Bob is a schizophrenic, whose imaginary personas took on a physical form:
https://i.imgur.com/55EsgiD.jpg
In Sentry VOL 3 #3 Sentrys former sidekick confirms that Sentry and Void are just make-belief and that they are constructs created and empowered / depowered by Bobs will:
https://i.imgur.com/qa007KX.png
You can destroy the Sentry, but you can't kill him. He is there and he isn't. Did Knull really kill the Sentry? How? Was it because he was on a higher level of existence and simply overwrote Sentrys power? Was it because he absorbed half of Sentry and now Sentry can't restore himself back to completion? Or is the Sentry only dead, because he believes to be dead? No matter what it is, the writers can do whatever they want and everything will make sense, because with the Sentry nothing makes sense in the first place. Sentry is schizophrenic and he is written in a schizophrenic way.
