This thread covers up the majority of Sentry's feats and later on also explains the Sentry in greater detail.
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And as always... this thread is dedicated to the following people:
- Robert "Sentry / Void" Reynolds himself,
- his creator and overall amazing writer Paul Jenkins,
- Brian Michael Bendis, the writer who decided to bring the Sentry into the Marvel continuity,
- Rick Remender, who decided to bring the character back,
- all the writers who ever wrote on the Sentry,
- and ultimately all of the Sentry fans out there!
1.00 SENTRY'S POWERS
1.01 Molecule Manipulation = everything else is based on that
1.02 Super Strength
1.03 Super Speed
1.04 Flight
1.05 Super Durability
1.06 Nigh Invulnerability
1.07 Extreme Regeneration
1.08 Immortality
1.09 Shapeshifting
1.10 Enhanced Vision
1.11 Enhanced Hearing
1.12 Aura Detection
1.13 Force Fields
1.14 Teleportation
1.15 Invisibility
1.16 Telepathy
1.17 Empathy
1.18 Energy Emission
1.19 Energy Absorption
1.20 Energy Manipulation
1.21 Weather Manipulation
1.22 Healing
1.23 Resurrection
1.24 Life Creation
1.25 Constructs
1.26 Intangibility
1.27 Power Sharing
2.00 SENTRY'S FIGHTS AN ENCOUNTERS
2.01 Absorbing Man
2.02 Ares
2.03 Atlantean Terrorists
2.04 Attuma
2.05 Avengers
2.06 Blue Marvel
2.07 Carnage
2.08 Collective
2.09 Doctor Doom
2.10 Doctor Strange
2.11 Galactus
2.12 General
2.13 Hercules
2.14 Hulk
2.15 Inhumans
2.16 Iron Man
2.17 Molecule Man
2.18 Moon Knight
2.19 Namor
2.20 Noh-Varr
2.21 Photon = Genis-Vell
2.22 Punisher
2.23 Red Hulk
2.24 She-Hulk
2.25 Spider-Woman
2.26 Super Adaptoid
2.27 Super Skrull
2.28 Symbiotes
2.29 Temugin
2.30 Terrax
2.31 Thing
2.32 Thor
2.33 Ultron
2.34 Void
2.35 Wolverine
3.00 MISC FEATS & ENCOUNTERS
4.00 HYPERBOLE
5.00 ALTERNATE REALITIES
5.01 Misc
5.02 Fights
6.00 OFFICIAL BIO
7.00 TRIBUTE TO THE SENTRY
7.01 Tribute Art
7.02 Tribute Movie
8.0 SENTRY COMICS - RECOMMENDED READING ORDER
9.00 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
9.01 Who is the Sentry and what is the Void?
9.02 Does Sentry's power level depend on his mental state?
9.03 Why are Sentry's agoraphobia and his other mental issues such a big problem?
9.04 Did Thor kill the Sentry under his own power, or did the Sentry allow it to happen?
9.05 Is the Sentry a Superman rip-off?
9.06 Can the Sentry empower other beings?
9.07 Can the Sentry really control molecules?
- Sentry transmutes a piece of rock into a Healing Orb, which later on protects Hulk from the Void: http://i.imgur.com/LbNH1mi.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #3
- Together with Sentry's return the Watchtower materializes itself on top of the Avengers tower: http://i.imgur.com/EoI3Eqy.jpg
Scans from: New Avengers #10
- Sentry overpowers the Void, who broke the Hulk, ripped Ares apart and overpowered Thor as well: http://i.imgur.com/tgrGyZe.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #8
- Sentry overpowers the Hulk and breaks every single bone in his body, which took the Hulk out for few days: http://i.imgur.com/lKXNAmM.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #3
- In order to stop Exitar's descend Rogue is forced to absorb the powers of many Avengers and X-Men. She ends up having the powers of over 100 heroes and still fails to stop Exitar.
Sentry then arrives on the scene and helps Rogue by lifting the other foot of Exitar: http://i.imgur.com/BEOZKp6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7kYDQCa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/WrvgdfJ.jpg
Source from: Uncanny Avengers #21
- Later on Sentry flies Exitar's dead body into space at high speed: http://i.imgur.com/uaClu6e.jpg
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #22
- While Hulk prevents a cave from collapsing, Sentry flies in and out to save two Lobster-kids: http://i.imgur.com/yOfpzae.jpg
Scans from: Sentry & Hulk
-Sentry is miles and miles away from the Punisher and appears behind him, before the Punisher can even finish his thought: http://i.imgur.com/n1HJyBS.jpg
Scans from: Punisher V7 #1
- Sentry speedblitzes Morgan Le Fay and rips her head off, before she can even react: http://i.imgur.com/VWhILU1.jpg
Scans from: Dark Avengers #2
- Sentry covers hundreds of miles before Wolverine can even warn the Avengers and then proceeds to grab Thor and fly away with him at a velocity, which totally overwhelms Thor, because he can't handle the speed... And Thor is someone, who already covered lightyears in a matter of moments, which means that the Sentry is even much faster: http://i.imgur.com/NxMLdqQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1tbkmT2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/I9vjc7W.jpg
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #10
- Sentry states at two different occasions that he operates in milliseconds (a millisecond is a thousandth of a second): http://i.imgur.com/yniIv42.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #6
- The fight between a weakened Sentry and the Collective destroys a nearby moon: http://i.imgur.com/7yL5iSf.jpg
Scans from: New Avengers #18
- Sentry tanks World War Hulk's punches to the face and asks for more: http://i.imgur.com/CWP9x0i.jpg
Scans from: World War Hulk #5
IMPORTANT: You will see many more durability feats in his fights, which are posted down below, since regular fights were where Sentry gathered the most feats.
- After having a mental breakdown and therefore being less powerful, Sentry gets KOed by a huge explosion, yet saved by the Fantastic Four. Reed Richards states that Sentry would have made a mess of Pennsylvania on impact: http://i.imgur.com/d9AxZcX.jpg
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #14
- Acid strong enough to melt through steal has no effect on the Sentry: http://i.imgur.com/W6sRRh1.jpg
Scans from: Punisher V7 #1
IMPORTANT: You will see many more invulnerability feats in his fights, which are posted down below, since regular fights were where Sentry gathered the most feats.
- Sentry says, that he feels Exitars energy in the White Hot Room (which is a different dimension): http://i.imgur.com/NJjSAgZ.jpg
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #22
1.13 FORCE FIELDS
- Sentry creates a force field out of light to deflect Terrax' blast: http://i.imgur.com/5HjyPAm.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #1
- Sentry managed to get into an area which was protected by Reed Richard's force fields... Maybe he teleported inside: http://i.imgur.com/HHSsOPg.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #2
1.15 INVISIBILITY
- Sentry can turn invisible by deflecting light and radiant emissions: http://i.imgur.com/hEFqBK4.jpg
Scans from: Civil War - The Return
- Once Reed Richards, Doctor Strange and he himself set up a device to make everyone forget about his existence to get rid of the Void. Sentry's mind was so strong that he started remembering and while searching for the answers he disabled the device, which made everyone forget about him and even made them ignore everything regarding the Sentry. All of that erased even the memories of animals: http://i.imgur.com/ynhThCc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8X6hFVf.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #5
- To save himself Sentry subconsciously puts his memories into the mind of a comic book writer, who then writers Sentry comics basing on Sentry's memories and makes it possible for the Avengers to find the Sentry and help him (keep also in mind that he managed to erase the memories of even the most resistant people like Thor, Hulk and Doctor Doom, as well most likely powerful omega level mutants): http://i.imgur.com/HFojvOH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JWuJMTt.jpg
Scans from: New Avengers #7 & #8
- Sentry resists Doctor Strange's mind magic and keep in mind that Dr. Strange is someone, who erased all of the memories from people's mind regarding Spider-Man's secret identites and forced them to ignore hints the same way Sentry did it: http://i.imgur.com/4kCZfq4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/72WD0ad.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #7
- Sentry says that he could easily remove events from history books, obviously by using powers he has already displayed: http://i.imgur.com/mhClR2p.jpg
Scans from: New Avengers #24
- Absorbing Man, who has a fraction of Sentry's powers invades Sentry's mind, but only gets access to what the Sentry is letting him see: http://i.imgur.com/OzSDsCN.jpg
Scans from: Civil War - The Return
- Emma Frost and Charles Xavier need to combine their efforts to invade Sentry's mind and even then Emma Frost has only access to the White Room she once built inside of Sentry's mind. Shortly after she is inside the Void attacks her and forces her to stay inside her Diamond Form to avoid being killed by the Void: http://i.imgur.com/I9vb0HF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9iWToAv.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0C5FPGV.jpg
Scans from: Dark Avengers & Uncanny X-Men - Exodus
- Sentry unleashs omni-directional energy to get rid of Attuma's soldiers: http://i.imgur.com/UsCtsFE.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #1
- Sentry and Photon unleash energies and destroy planets, even though they are still holding back: http://i.imgur.com/QFVF2yE.jpg
Scans from: New Thunderbolts #14
- Sentry overloads the Absorbing Man with above planetary level energies: http://i.imgur.com/peQgjbh.jpg
Scans from: Civil War - The Return
- Sentry gives Hulk a piece of his golden essence, which protects the Hulk in the fight against the Void: http://i.imgur.com/ZMqCehX.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #3
- It is stated that Sentry's mind is holding his powers together: http://i.imgur.com/wvOZNXq.jpg
Scans from: New Avengers #9
1.21 WEATHER MANIPULATION
- Void creates a storm and a hurricane, which rotates in the wrong direction: http://i.imgur.com/wHBEEmF.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #5
- Sentry fights Absorbing Man, who is already impressed by a fraction of Sentry's powers and says that he never felt power like that before. He asks Sentry if that's how it feels like to be God. Sentry then stops holding back and lets him taste even more power, but the same Absorbing Man, who absorbed Hulk's and Thor's power and even Odin's magic once, is not able to handle Sentry's power: http://imgur.com/a/UTVYr
Scans from: Civil War - The Return
- During their second encounter Absorbing Man is smart enough to only take a fraction of Sentry's power and use that to at least get rid of the Sentry: http://imgur.com/a/WTMLD
Scans from: Dark Reign - Lethal Legion #2
- During their third encounter Absorbing Man is empowered by a Cosmic Cube. Sentry is able to hurt him, but not really able to take him down for good. Then Absorbing Man uses Sentry's Kryptonite against him, which is reality warping: http://imgur.com/a/kHQU5
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #33
2.02 ARES versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights Ares and kills him after a very short and nearly one-sided battle: http://imgur.com/a/iJTKx
Scans from: Siege #2
- Sentry kills a bunch of atlantean terrorists and leaves only one alive, who later on gets fed to Venom: http://imgur.com/a/hrl8b
Scans from: Dark Avengers #6
- The Void fights the Avengers and many other teams like the X-Men, Inhumans, Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D and utterly stomps them, while Emma Frost is trying to help Robert Reynolds, who is subconsciously attacking the good guys: http://imgur.com/a/qjX6F
Scans from: New Avengers #9 & #10
- The heroes are fighting against the villains in Asgard, but once the Sentry bullrushes through Asgard everyone is fighting for survival: http://imgur.com/a/3Qbss
Scans from: New Avengers #64 & #64
- The Sentry fights the Avengers and many other heroes again and easily stomps them, until they all receive healing and a huge empowerment, which give them the ultimate edge in the fight. However, Sentry does not go out before killing Loki: http://imgur.com/a/GMcSS
Scans from: Siege #4
- A different angle of the Sentry killing Loki via molecule manipulation: http://i.imgur.com/wCe93x1.jpg
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #36
- Sentry says that he could kill all of he Avengers: http://imgur.com/a/5RaUX
Scans from: New Avengers #24
2.06 BLUE MARVEL versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights Blue Marvel: http://imgur.com/a/3CTn6
Scans from: Adam - Legend Of The Blue Marvel #5
2.07 CARNAGE versus SENTRY
- Sentry kills Carnage by flying him into the orbit and ripping him apart: http://imgur.com/a/3h5Fl
Scans from: New Avengers #2
- A weakened Sentry fights the Collective, a man with the powers of 50 different mutants, who easily defeated the planetbuster Binary, killed nearly the entire "Alpha Flight" team and stomped a bunch of other heroes. During their fight, Sentry and Collective destroy a nearby asteroid / planet: http://imgur.com/a/XBGqp
Scans from: New Avengers #18 - #20
2.09 DOCTOR DOOM versus SENTRY
- Sentry again flies through Doctor Doom's force fields and gets past his Crimson Bands of Cyttorak: http://imgur.com/a/yj3RC
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #9
- Sentry attacks Doom, but Doom uses a Spirit Reversal Spell on Sentry, which has more impact than even Doom expected it. By the sound of the name of the spell it most likely confronted Sentry with the Void, which caught him off guard. Iron Man gives Doom the advice to stop it, if he wants to live another day: http://imgur.com/a/2Pzl8
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #10
- Sentry walks through Doctor Doom's force fields, which are at their full capacity (and such have deflected attacks from the Infinity Gauntlet, the Watcher, Galactus and an amped up Captain Britain. Sentry then rips Doom's armor apart and renders Doom shocked: http://imgur.com/a/edXSu
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #11
- The Sentry attacks a Doombot and then finishes it off later on: http://imgur.com/a/ALk1A
Scans from: Dark Avengers #15
- Same fight as the one above... The Sentry destroys a Doombot, which then releases small, robotic drones, which start attacking the Watchtower and quickly overpowering Iron Patriot's force fields: http://imgur.com/a/YLiv9
Scans from: Siege - The Cabal
- Sentry later on rescues Iron Patriot by destroying Doctor Doom's drones: http://imgur.com/a/HYcVS
Scans from: Siege - The Cabal
2.10 DOCTOR STRANGE versus SENTRY
- Sentry resists Doctor Strange's mind magic, breaks free and KO's Strange: http://imgur.com/a/aZzyt
Scans from: Sentry V2 #7
2.11 GALACTUS VS SENTRY
- According to Spider-Man, Sentry fought Galactus to a standstill: http://i.imgur.com/YZapFsp.jpg
Scans from: Sentry & Spider-Man
- Sentry and the X-Men versus the General, one of Sentry's old foes: http://imgur.com/a/5n6cP
Scans from: Sentry & X-Men
2.13 HERCULES versus SENTRY
- Sentry faces Hercules (not really that much of a fight at all, since Sentry was holding back the entire time and then it was also already over and he had to save a bunch of people): http://imgur.com/a/mgccu
Scans from: Incredible Hercules #128
2.14 HULK versus SENTRY
- The Hulk attacks Sentry, but doesn't stand a chance: http://imgur.com/a/KUsy2
Scans from: Sentry & Hulk
- A weakened Sentry fights World War Hulk, one of Hulk's most powerful incarnations: http://imgur.com/a/C31HP
Scans from: World War Hulk #5
- Sentry meets Moon Knight (not really a fight though): http://imgur.com/a/Gzyus
Scans from: Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #2
2.19 NAMOR versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights Namor in a fight, where Namor doesn't manage to land even one clear hit. Emma Frost describes the Sentry as godlike in his powers and directly refers to him as God, therefore she tries to find a different way to get rid of him: http://imgur.com/a/xVVn7
Scans from: Dark Avengers & Uncanny X-Men - Exodus
- Sentry fights Photon in a battle, which destroys multiple planets in the Microverse, while both are still holding back and later on Sentry cuts loose and releases even more destructive energy: http://imgur.com/a/tYBQt
Scans from: New Thunderbolts #14
2.22 PUNISHER versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights the Punisher and actually gives the Punisher few feats: http://imgur.com/a/GbOGQ
Scans from: Punisher V7 #1
2.23 SENTRY VS RED HULK
- Sentry and the Avengers face the Red Hulk in a fight (it's Red Hulk from the Loeb era!): http://imgur.com/a/tbxvo
- Super Adaptoid steals Sentry's powers, but Sentry comes back and beats Super Adaptoid telepathically: http://imgur.com/a/nHaPU
Scans from: New Avengers Annual #1
2.27 SUPER SKRULL versus VOID
- Sentry protects his wife from a Super Skrull: http://imgur.com/a/SAca7
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #14
2.28 SYMBIOTES versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights a bunch of Symbiotes and KO's Symbiote-Wasp: http://imgur.com/a/smCAJ
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #8
2.29 TEMUGIN versus SENTRY
- Sentry takes out Temugin, who funnily enough took tanks apart and even gave Hulk and Iron Man problems: http://imgur.com/a/QQJqg
Scans from: Agents Of Atlas V2 #3
2.30 TERRAX versus SENTRY
- Sentry easily defeats Terrax, one of Galactus' heralds: http://imgur.com/a/Ggp5e
Scans from: Sentry V2 #1
- Sentry physically overpowers the Thing: http://imgur.com/a/GbodY
Scans from: Sentry - Fallen Sun
2.32 THOR versus SENTRY / VOID
- Void fights Thor during the Siege of Asgard and quickly gains the upper hand: http://imgur.com/a/jaq7q
Scans from: Siege #3 & Thor #608
- Sentry overwhelms Thor with strength and speed: http://imgur.com/a/Dlk2T
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #10
- Sentry fights Thor and ends the fight in a shocking way: http://imgur.com/a/VVPFP
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #11
- Sentry encounters Wasp and later on Thor as well - during the fight he displays a number of various abilities and later on two-shots Thor: http://imgur.com/a/N8CnR
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #15
2.33 ULTRON versus SENTRY
- Sentry fights Ultron and loses control later on: http://imgur.com/a/wdVgv
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #3 - #6
- Sentry and Spider-Man fight the Void, but Spider-Man gets taken out rather quickly: http://imgur.com/a/N2rEG
Scans from: Sentry & Spider-Man
- Sentry defeats the Void, who was attacking the Avengers before: http://i.imgur.com/w7abqS3.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #1
- Sentry and a group of heroes and villains fight the Void, who seems to be stronger than ever before: http://imgur.com/a/loBm8
Scans from: Sentry VS Void
- Sentry and Hulk fight the Void again in the Negative Zone, where Void is at his most powerful, while Sentry at his most weakest. The "fight" does not end well for the Hulk: http://imgur.com/a/EHu0H
Scans from: Sentry V2 #3
- Sentry gets confronted with the potential of the God Complex and later on fights the Void: http://imgur.com/a/zbLAx
Scans from: Sentry V2 #5 & #6
- Later on Sentry fights the Void again and destroys him in a bloody fight: http://imgur.com/a/2oLjQ
Scans from: Sentry V2 #8
- During the "House Of M" event Scarlet Witch warped Sentry's reality and now he doesn't have super powers anymore, but a son and still a Void inside of him: http://imgur.com/a/Un1an
- Absorbing Man with reality warping powers separates Sentry and Void and they start to fight: http://imgur.com/a/dZJIk
Scans from: Mighty Avengers #33
- Sentry and Void go through an inner struggle about Lindy's life: http://imgur.com/a/WnmIy
Scans from: Dark Avengers #13
- Nick Fury's files on the Sentry had him on power level +10, which is Hulk's power level as well, and that even before the Sentry learned an array of new powers like teleportation, regeneration, found out that he was truly immortal and overall got a power upgrade during his fight with the Molecule Man.
Nick fury also stated that they were only able to hold the Sentry in the Raft (prison for super villains) because he wanted it in the first place and remained in there freely: http://i.imgur.com/KfE6IlP.jpg
Scans from: Secret War - From the Files of Nick Fury
- Doctor Strange admits to the Sentry that he is afraid, after taking a look into Sentry's mind: http://i.imgur.com/YnbEuSS.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #6
- Reed Richards considers the Sentry an omega-level threat alongside the Hulk and the Phoenix: http://i.imgur.com/yRnwd5X.jpg
4.00 HYPERBOLE
- The professor, who created the Super Serum, which gave Sentry his powers, states that Sentry's powers are limitless; that he is omnipotent and immortal: http://i.imgur.com/D2doVmP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/l8gOsWS.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V1 #1
- Sentry's biography states that he has limitless power, but also that it depends on his mental stability: http://i.imgur.com/uJiik4c.jpg
- Sentry's Siege files state that he has limitless strength and speed and they also call him godlike: http://i.imgur.com/NtpbZV3.jpg
- Sentry's therapist describes him as the most dangerous man on the Earth: http://i.imgur.com/cbYJ6It.jpg
Scans from: Sentry V2 #4
- Spider-Man thinks that the Sentry is the most powerful guy in the galaxy: http://i.imgur.com/20DBXIp.jpg
Scans from: World War Hulk #1
- Tony Stark and Reed Richards call Sentry the most powerful human being in the universe: http://i.imgur.com/FfdHAMU.jpg
Scans from: World War Hulk #1
- The narration says that the Sentry is the most powerful being Wolverine has ever met: http://i.imgur.com/hq39M1i.jpg
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #10
- Rogue says that Sentry is the most powerful (and unhinged) person, she has ever known. Considering the fact that the narration told us that the Sentry is the most powerful being Wolverine ever met ... and then also taking the powerful omega level mutants and other threats these two mutants met in their life, that's a pretty intense, hyperbolic statement: http://i.imgur.com/B0CDIzS.jpg
Scans from: Uncanny Avengers #11
- The narration says that Sentry is bigger than god and that the power of the universe is his: http://i.imgur.com/EtloEHd.jpg
Scans from: Sentry VS Void
- Moonstone indicates that Sentry might overshadow Scarlet Witch if he snaps: http://i.imgur.com/5e8lDZT.jpg
Scans from: Dark Avengers #12
- Emma Frost says that Sentry is godlike in his power and even calls him God: http://i.imgur.com/z9oicVw.jpg
Scans from: Dark Avengers & Uncanny X-Men - Exodus
- The summary in Siege #4 states that the all-powerful Sentry is also the force of nature Void: http://i.imgur.com/rcqRcUL.jpg
Scans from: Siege #4
- Sentry gains his powers, sees a missile in the Ionosphere, grabs it and throws it into the Sun: http://i.imgur.com/4tLcAqq.jpg
Scans from: The Age Of The Sentry #1
- Golden Age Sentry and Silver Age Sentry collide, which rocks the entire city New York: http://i.imgur.com/qu5xLEv.jpg
Scans from: The Age Of The Sentry #4
- Sentry and Sentress (Ms. Marvel) fight Ursus The Ultra Bear: http://imgur.com/a/mmgDj
Scans from: The Age Of The Sentry #2
- Sentry fights the Mountain Main: http://imgur.com/a/Ekiel
Scans from: The Age Of The Sentry #3
- Sentry fights the Void (Eddie Emmerick), loses and becomes one with him: http://imgur.com/a/4s0HR
Scans from: The Age Of The Sentry #6
- Sentry kills Ares before the Siege on Asgard and therefore goes fresh into the fight, which lets him overwhelm every opponent he faces. Ultimately he turns into the Void and destroys the Earth: http://imgur.com/a/CoXmG
Scans from: What If? Osborn Won Siege
- Sentry fights Thor during the Secret Invasion: http://imgur.com/a/NT1Ic
Scans from: What If? Secret Invasion
There are few interesting things about the second bio:
1. It is stated that the Void decimated the planet Temporalon, which has also been backed up in the story and in other bio's later on, because Sentry was using tech from that planet.
2. One line in the bio says that the Sentry's mental state starts to fall apart with all new responsibility: "The Sentry, growing ill at ease with his renewed responsibilities and suspecting his memories were still not entirely intact [...]", which supports the idea of the Sentry losing the control over the Void, who then started taking over Sentry's body as portrayed later on.
3. Sentry is 6' tall and weighs in at 194 lbs... But that's probably not so important. Oh and he is left-handed!
Something that is also worth being mentioned: Iron Man also mentions that taking out the Sentry by overloading him with all of the current on-going catastrophes on the planet at that given moment was "an incredibly stupid move, since such an overload could have easily triggered a psionic outburst to remake the world more openly and cause another House of M to deal with".
He pretty much compared Sentry's potential to House of M Scarlet Witch and he was not the only one: http://i.imgur.com/60591EV.jpg
01. The Sentry - Volume 1
02. The Age Of The Sentry
03. New Avengers #1 - #3, #7 - #10
04. The Sentry - Volume 2
05. Civil War - The Return
06. New Avengers #24
07. Mighty Avengers #1 - #14
08. Silent War #2, #5
09. World War Hulk
10. Dark Avengers
11. Siege
12. Sentry - Fallen Sun
13. What If? Osborn Won Siege
14. Uncanny Avengers #10, #11, #15, #21, #22
9.00 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
9.01 WHO IS THE SENTRY AND WHAT IS THE VOID?
The Sentry is a very, very complex character and to answer the question above, you have to forget about the Sentry and the Void for a moment and concentrate on the guy, who actually matters: Robert Reynolds.
Robert Reynolds is someone, who suffers from mental health issues. He is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder. We will have to discuss his schizophrenia to answer the question above. The other two issues he has, will be covered later on: http://i.imgur.com/Z3Wrfe3.jpg
Many people assume, that the Sentry and the Void are different personalities, or that they're separate entities. Both assumptions are wrong. Here is what's actually the case:
The Sentry is a persona.
The Void is the manifestation of Robert's schizophrenia.
There is not much you need to know about the Sentry himself. He is what Spider-Man is to Peter Parker. When Peter / Robert gained powers, he took on a persona and became the superhero Spider-Man / Sentry.
The Void is something else entirely and to understand the Void, you need to understand schizophrenia:
Many people believe, that being schizophrenic means, that you have multiple personalities, but that is not the case. The specific illness for that would be dissociative identity disorder, which was previously known ans multiple personality disorder. That however is not an illness Robert suffers from. Robert is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and has displayed some of the common schizophrenia symptoms in the past:
1. Hallucinations (visual and auditory)
2. Delusions of Grandeur and General Delusions
Schizophrenics hear and see things, that don't exist. Unfortunately for them, these hallucinations are often very negative. Schizophrenics hear voices, which tell them to hurt themselves, or other people and they see monsters, which creep up on them and attack them.
The Void is nothing else than a hallucination and due to Robert's powers, the Void actually becomes real. Think about that for a second... Robert creates the Void, who can easily break all of Hulk's bones, by simply thinking: http://i.imgur.com/1SgLKve.jpg
Delusions of Grandeur:
Back in the day many people have wondered if the Sentry truly has the power of a million exploding suns. The fans tried arguing for it, the haters against it, but in the end of the day, it didn't matter at all, because every time the Sentry says, that he has the power of a million exploding suns, he says it, because he is delusional. The Sentry believes, that he is bigger than God and that the power of the universe is his. He believes, that he has the power of a million exploding suns and that he is better than Jesus: http://i.imgur.com/EtloEHd.jpg
General Delusions:
As you can see above, the Sentry suffers from delusions of grandeur, but at the same time, he suffers from delusions in general and that is where the Void again comes into play. Sentry knows, that he is the Void...
There are schizophrenics, who truly believe, that they're God, or that they're the Devil. These delusions are so strong, that no one could convince them otherwise.
So when you see the Sentry transforming into the Void, then it's not a separate personality taking over... No, it's the Sentry suffering from delusions and believing, that he is the devil, who only wants to cause chaos and destruction. It's important to note, that the Sentry was not like that in the past. In the past Void was appearing as a separate entity, because Robert subconsciously created the Void... Later on Robert's mental illness started getting the better of him, due to Osborn poisoning Robert psychologically and that's where Robert couldn't control his delusions anymore and started becoming the Void: http://i.imgur.com/mFdQ0P4.jpg
Here is a little bonus, which will hopefully help you to understand schizophrenics even further. I'll now link you a video, from a young man named Jacob, who suffers from schizophrenia and talks about the most common symptoms (hallucinations and delusions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0gy8O6TtIY
Here are some of his quotes and please keep in mind, that schizophrenics are often not capable to hold onto a thought for all too long, which is why he often loses track of his thoughts and starts talking about something else.:
"I've been having a really bad delusion lately, which is where I'm thinking, that I'm the devil. And because basically all I hallucinate now are demons and they want me... They want my soul and stuff and they want me to hurt people... I see demons and that's about it right now."
"Basically delusion is something where you believe something, that is most likely not true. And you highly believe it and no one can convince you out of it, I guess..."
"Back a while ago, where I used to see the Girl from The Ring and it was hell... It was basically hell... I would see her every day, almost 24 hours... She would be sitting next to me, she would be standing somewhere... Just real creepy... She would climb on the walls and stuff and scare the hell out of me."
"I would have tactile hallucinations, where she would crawl at my feet and I could actually see the blood and stuff and I couldn't walk for days... I walked on my heels, because it hurt so bad and I could actually feel it."
"I would hear voices... a demon-type voice saying to kill myself and kill other people and... it was just so strong... it was such a bad... like I don't know... "
"I had delusions that I was God and I would think I'm God and I was actually thinking about like going around and saying that I'm good and that I can do all these crazy things and stuff like that..."
9.02 DOES SENTRY'S POWER LEVEL DEPEND ON HIS MENTAL STATE?
Yes, it does. That is the "gimmick" of the character, which ultimately makes him more interesting, but sometimes harder to really understand.
To prove you that the Sentry's performance was affected by his mental state, I will post a couple of instances, where Sentry's mental state was being mentioned and we could see his lower damage output.
The most infamous instance happened during the World War Hulk arc, where Sentry doubters say that the Sentry was at his best, while he was fighting WW Hulk. However, that was not the case. Sentry was vastly depowered during that arc and here is an in-depth coverage on why that was the case: http://i.imgur.com/LaDTDVv.jpg
This is the reason why we talk about a stable Sentry and an unstable Sentry. His bio tells us that if he is in a weak mental state, be becomes weaker and easier to defeat.
Sentry is agoraphobic. Agoraphobia is the fear of having a panic attack in wide, open space, without a safe place to hide. That affected him few times in the comics.
I can tell you from experience that you can't simply overcome a phobia in a matter of minutes and then be at your best. It's simply not how it works. You need years and years of treatment for that and in the comics it has been displayed that the Sentry never really overcame his agoraphobia until now, where he is back in the Uncanny Avengers and wrecking stuff easily.
But that is now and in the past it was different.
During the World War Hulk storyline the Sentry was being massivly affected by his phobias. Some doubters say that the Sentry got some kind of a pep-talk from Tony Stark during that arc and that it helped the Sentry overcome his phobias and be at his best, but that is simply not true. The pep-talk happened in the first issue: http://i.imgur.com/mqtXiQZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mv14ATj.jpg
However, do you see how Sentry doesn't leave the house and asks Tony Stark to come back?
Fast forward a couple of issues, where Tony Stark and Reed Richards left, while Sentry stayed at home: http://i.imgur.com/SQRUA3a.jpg
We see the Sentry standing in his doorway and we're being told that he has been standing there for the last 29 hours. In the flashback Sentry states that he is having trouble with the agoraphobia and that he can't help them.
So even though Hulk was wrecking chaos, beating up heroes left and right and causing damage in billions, Sentry was unable to interfere. If that's not unstable for you, then I don't know either.
And now to the moment when the Sentry entered the fight. It was the moment, where he didn't have any other option left. It was the moment, where the Hulk decided to kill the heroes: http://i.imgur.com/jAKwirO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/He1U75T.jpg
So it was never stated that he recovered from agoraphobia at that point or anything like that. He simply didn't have another choice and had to enter the fight to save the heroes.
Now we probably all know how the fight between the two went. It was a back and forth and the Sentry was expanding so much energy that he started destroying city blocks: http://imgur.com/a/C31HP
And now please look at that fight and tell me that the Sentry didn't have the upper hand in that fight. You can't, because that would be a lie otherwise.
Sentry was smiling, asking for more and talking to the Hulk, while the Hulk was fighting. When the Sentry was done with the talking, he started smacking the crap out of the Hulk. Later on we saw Hulk on the ground, being overwhelmed by Sentry's energy and Hulk's tribe trying to cut him free.
The writer himself confirmed that the Sentry kinda turned into the bad guy in that story, because he was about to destroy everything. Sentry let the Hulk beat on him to wear himself down and when it finally was over, he thanked the Hulk for pulling him back: http://i.imgur.com/ijPxOgx.jpg
"But Enzeru, all of that doesn't really make it clear how depowered the Sentry really was!"
You're right about that. That's why we will cover up more moments in comics, which explain all of that even further. Sentry wasn't mentally unstable for the first time at that point. His mental state affecting his performance was showcased in a different fight as well.
That fight was against the Collective. The Collective was a man, with the powers of 50 different mutants. His power level was insane at that point.
Collective killed nearly the entire canadian superhero team "Alpha Flight" and he overloaded Ms. Marvel with energy, which let her turn into Binary. As Binary, Ms. Marvel was capable of destroying planets: http://i.imgur.com/O4eC9vT.jpg
The Collective oneshotted a planetbuster... Captain America knew that their only fighting chance would be the Sentry, who at that time was dealing with his phobias again: http://i.imgur.com/RZBGL6m.jpg
Their fight lasted for few issues. It was a back and forth for the most part, but the Collective had the upper hand. However, you can see that when the Sentry and the Collective engage, their energies destroy a nearby moon.
So while obviously having less problems with his phobia at that point Sentry's energy output is already greater and while still in a weak mental state, he outperforms Binary, who is a legit planet buster.
That was not the first time Sentry easily outperformed a planet buster. During second mini, he was struggling with his mental problems, but he was still performing quite well.
In a fight against Terrax it took him only few seconds to end the fight, and when it comes to Terrax, we're talking about a herald of Galactus, who also has planetary level feats: http://i.imgur.com/6E5Kgxm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qS7yk5A.jpg
Then there was yet another fight: Sentry VS Photon!
The interesting thing about that fight is that Sentry's mental state was never stated during that fight. So if we assume that he was performing quite well, it leaves us with even a bigger showcase of power output: http://imgur.com/a/tYBQt
What you have to look out for, when it comes to that fight:
- Sentry is aware of the planet being in danger, if they unleash,
- Photon teleports them into the Microverse where atoms have the size of planets,
- Sentry and Photon start fighting and the narration says that even though they're both holding back, their power is still enough to shred entire worlds and down below we see the planet being torn apart and Captain America being in danger,
- Photon teleports Captain America to safety and we see Sentry's golden energy (as opposed to Photon's blue energy) expanding and leaving the Microverse,
- Then Photon teleports them out of the Microverse again.
So a Sentry without any noticeable mental issues has enough power to destroy planets, while still holding back. And that power grows to a point, where it leaves the Microverse as you can see it on Iron Man's armor.
Then we have yet another showcase of Sentry's above planetary level energies, where he makes fun of Absorbing Man, that he couldn't even absorb the power of one planet and then proceeds to overload the Absorbing Man: http://i.imgur.com/v2wcVQB.jpg
But that is not all... As you can see here for example a mentally unstable Sentry is afraid of the Void and argues with him: http://i.imgur.com/tK0C7IP.jpg
A mentally somewhat intact Sentry however beats the living crap out of him and later on tosses him into the Sun: http://i.imgur.com/tkyYNIb.jpg
Sentry at his best is Void's equal and wins, if he is more motivated than the Void.
Think about that for a second. Everyone knows how powerful the Void actually is, but the Sentry has beaten the Void more than the Void has beaten the Sentry.
Sentry is just the one, who sometimes struggles with phobias and is less powerful, because of them. Void does not have a problem with that, which makes him more consistant. It doesn't change the fact that the Sentry at his best demolishes Void and pretty much everyone else.
9.03 WHY ARE SENTRY'S AGORAPHOBIA AND HIS OTHER MENTAL ISSUES SUCH A BIG PROBLEM?
I want to expand on one topic that has already been mentioned in this thread: Sentry's agoraphobia and his generalized anxiety disorder. I would like to explain it further and in greater detail why these two mental issues are such a big problem for someone and how they affects the mind and the body:
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives certain environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, often due to the environment's vast openness or crowdedness. These situations include wide-open spaces, as well as uncontrollable social situations.
The sufferer may go to great lengths to avoid those situations, in severe cases becoming unable to leave their home or safe haven.
In Sentry's case that is something that has been acknowledged by other characters as well: http://i.imgur.com/kIQx8aT.jpg
And the worst case scenario has been shown during the World War Hulk arc, where Sentry was not able to leave his house for days: http://i.imgur.com/l0ucGV1.jpg
Agoraphobia patients can experience sudden panic attacks when traveling to places where they fear they are out of control, help would be difficult to obtain, or they could be embarrassed. During a panic attack, epinephrineis released in large amounts, triggering the body's natural fight-or-flight response. A panic attack typically has an abrupt onset, building to maximum intensity within 10 to 15 minutes, and rarely lasts longer than 30 minutes. Symptoms of a panic attack include palpitations, a rapid heartbeat, sweating, trembling, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tightness in the throat and shortness of breath. Many patients report a fear of dying or of losing control of emotions and / or behavior.
Although the exact causes of agoraphobia are currently unknown, some clinicians who have treated or attempted to treat agoraphobia offer plausible hypotheses. The condition has been linked to the presence of other anxiety disorders, a stressful environment or substance abuse.
With substance abuse being a possible cause for agoraphobia Sentry comes into the discussion yet again, due to him having a history of being a drug addict in the past, but I think that it's important to point out that Robert Reynolds wasn't "simply" a junkie. He fell into the drug pit, because of his schizophrenia, which was bothering him. He was trying to ease his suffering by getting high, so that he wouldn't have to care about anything. http://i.imgur.com/kTlzWEB.jpg
However that is not the only possible cause, because anxiety disorders are in that list as well and Sentry suffers from generalized anxiety disorder: http://i.imgur.com/dp2UX4r.jpg
To quote the scan above: "He (Sentry) also suffers from agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder."
And this is what you need to know, when it comes to that anxiety disorder:
Generalized anxiety disorder is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry. This excessive worry often interferes with daily functioning, as the suffering individuals typically anticipate disaster, and are overly concerned about everyday matters such as health issues, money, death, family problems, friendship problems, interpersonal relationship problems, or work difficulties.
Individuals often exhibit a variety of physical symptoms, including fatigue, fidgeting, headaches, nausea, numbness in hands and feet, muscle tension, muscle aches, difficulty swallowing, bouts of difficulty breathing, difficulty concentrating, trembling, twitching, irritability, agitation, sweating, restlessness, insomnia, hot flashes, and rashes and inability to fully control the anxiety.
By reading that it becomes rather obvious that generalized anxiety disorder weakens the body and that is also the case for the Sentry, when he is struggeling with his phobia / illness: http://i.imgur.com/JJ8NqxZ.jpg
If you managed to read through all of this, then you should now be able to understand better why people are often talking about a mentally stable and a mentally unstable Sentry. If he is being affected by the agoraphobia and his anxiety, he instantly becomes less potent. The agoraphobia can drain his confidence and prevent him from leaving a safe zone, while the generalized anxiety disorder weakens his body and makes him less powerful.
9.04 DID THOR KILL THE SENTRY UNDER HIS OWN POWER, OR DID THE SENTRY ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN?
If you're curious about this, then you already know what exactly happened and what the controversy about it is. However, there really shouldn't be any controversy, because it was made very clear throughout the comic.
The first real attack Thor started against the Sentry was a Mjolnir strike against Sentry's chest, which left the Sentry unimpressed and Thor staggered: http://i.imgur.com/IEHrXo7.jpg
The second real shot Thor got during the fight was while the Sentry was in the sky and Thor said that he was attacking with all the power under his command. Thor summoned a big lightning, which didn't all too much to the Sentry either: http://i.imgur.com/ybfzNPr.jpg
The third real shot Thor got at the Sentry was after all the heroes (including Thor) got empowered by Loki's Norn stones. The Norn stones boosted the power level of the heroes so much - or at least made them so effective that even Captain America was easily capable of piercing Sentry's body with his shield toss: http://i.imgur.com/5XJ5LSe.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LjBM8Ca.jpg
In the two scans above you saw Loki talking about healing and empowering the heroes and you see them shining in rainbowy colors. The empowered Thor then summons yet another lightning in order to attack the Sentry: http://i.imgur.com/IqnQNaS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MWmJ7aQ.jpg
But the Sentry takes that one as well. The Sentry then kills Loki. The Norn stones disappear and the heroes state that they've lost the power upgrade: http://i.imgur.com/sv33eBo.jpg
What happens then is that Iron Man uses the Helicarrier to drop it onto the Sentry, which does enough damage to help the Sentry regain his senses and turn into Robert.
Robert realizes that he caused all the death and destruction around him and asks the heroes to kill him. Thor denies that and Robert starts transforming again and yells at Thor to kill him, which Thor then does by striking him down with Mjolnir: http://i.imgur.com/nSOCXWf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SSqnsRp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aSRWtbQ.jpg
In my opinion the comic made it pretty much clear that Robert Reynolds was holding back so that the heroes could kill him and then choose not to resurrect himself immediately after.
Thor was trying his best in the fight before and he didn't achieve much. Thor even got a major power upgrade in the fight and it was still not enough to beat the Sentry, but when Sentry finally regained the control over his actions and asked to be killed, Thor managed to land the killing blow.
The writer of that story (Brian Michael Bendis) also confirmed that Robert Reynolds only lost and died, because he realized that it couldn't go on like that and wanted to die: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?...le&id=26287
Q: CBR NEWS: In this scene, Thor finally ends the threat of the Void AKA Bob Reynolds by killing him. It seems like when you consider the Void's power level, the only way this could have happened was because the Void wanted to die.
Brian Michael Bendis: I see there is a lot of online speculation about that, and I thought it was pretty clear. I don't like to over analyze these things. I prefer the work to speak for itself, but I'll put two things out there. [...]
Bob realized that things had gone as far as they could possibly go. There was no other end for him and without his cooperation he doesn't go away. I just didn't want to have a line in the script where someone like Spider-Woman goes, "Boy, if he didn't want us to kill him, we couldn't have killed him." I see a lot of people got it, though.
Can we please not use the word "rip-off"? It sounds so very negative. Let's just say "inspired by" or "based on"...
When it comes to already established and often even freshly introduced characters, they're often inspired by a different character or in some cases even straight up based on either one character or they have elements of few characters.
So naturally Sentry's story has some elements, which are based on other characters. Sentry and Superman share few similarties, but these similarities are rather superficial. The Sentry is actually based on another character: Miracleman.
However, here is a summary of the similarities between the Sentry and Superman:
1. Sigh... They both have an "S" as their symbol, which is easily seeable on their suits: http://i.imgur.com/HzthWEF.jpg
2. They both have a private base of operations. For Superman it's the Fortress of Solitude and for the Sentry it's the Watchtower: http://i.imgur.com/IW9xZJK.jpg
But the last major similarity is also already the one, that starts separating them... Superman gets his powers from the Sun. The solar radiation empowers him and if he is really close to the Sun, it supercharges him.
Sentry on the other hand for the longest time only believed that his powers came from the Sun. The solar radiation was empowering him, but the same can be said for other energies like for example anti-matter, which is empowering Sentry's dark side. In theory he should be capable of absorbing all kinds of energies and radiations and become stronger that way, simply because of his power set, which got retconned slightly. In the past it was supposedly solar based, but later on we found out that all he does is based on molecule manipulation.
Which is already a major difference between the characters. Some people believe that Sentry is based on Superman, because he has super strength, speed, invulnerability and flight, but so do many other characters. Even Captain Marvel, who is totally based on Superman... but Captain Marvel had the luxury of flight at the beginning, which was then later on added to Superman's power set.
- So a major difference is already Sentry's power set. Sentry has much more powers than Superman. They're nothing alike in that regard.
- Sentry's origin is also completely different, since he is a human, who drank a serum and gained godlike power, while Superman is an alien from outer space, who gets his powers from the Sun.
- Sentry's morality and personality are completely different... Where Superman is a blue boy scout, Sentry does not have that much of a problem with killing, if it has to be.
- Their place in their respective universe is completely different... Where the Justice League loves to have Superman on their team, the characters in Marvel are very well aware that Sentry might potentially be the greatest hero in the universe, but at the same time a simple change of emotions, might turn him into the greatest villain in the universe.
And the most important difference between Superman and the Sentry is the fact that both characters are telling a completely different story:
- Superman is about a man, who grew up on a farm with his foster parents, who taught him everything about truth, justice and overall the american way. Superman is probably the greatest hero in his universe and everyone is lucky that a good man became that said greatest hero and at the same time remained the most human of all the other heroes, even though he is not a human.
- Sentry on the other hand... Sentry is about an ordinary guy, just like you and me, with problems and fears. We don't know much about his past, other than he was sick and was taking drugs to battle his illness. And one of these drugs turned him into a God. And what happens, when someone ordinary gets ultimate power? Read my script down below!
The Sentry is a self-established character without any doubt. Maybe one day a new character will be based on him.
But yes, Sentry does have similarities with Superman. They're superficial, but they're there. If you're looking for the real answer though, then don't stop reading just yet.
This is now about the character the Sentry is actually based on: Miracleman. Now you just have to read and compare to see the vast similarities.
1. In Miracleman we have an ordinary guy waking up from a bad dream and remembering something. His wife wakes up from it as well and asks him if everything is okay... The same applies for the Sentry: http://i.imgur.com/KjUbI7R.jpg
2. Miracleman and Sentry are both aged guys with slight overweight. They slowly start remembering their prior lives as heroes: http://i.imgur.com/G5FADz7.jpg
3. At one point they both remember their heroic egos and transform into them. Both become younger, more muscular and start shining like Twilight vampires in Sunlight. Not that I ever saw any of the Twilight movies... No really, I didn't: http://i.imgur.com/yIIhsLG.jpg
4. With their memories returned they also realize that there is a threat coming. Their arch-enemies both come within dark clouds and attack the heroes and their wives: http://i.imgur.com/KZCrJz8.jpg
That is the major difference between the characters. Sentry was his own worst enemy. He was the Void... his own dark persona, which manifested as a separate entity and later on even started taking over Sentry's body.
When it comes to Miracleman it was his former sidekick Kid Miracleman, who became corrupt and tried to kill Miracleman.
6. Every fight has its end and the stakes at the end of the fights in both stories had even more casualties.
Both villains were temporary taken out by explosions. Void revered back to Robert Reynolds and Kid Miracleman revered back to Johnny Bates. Robert and Johnny both saw the destruction they caused, while not being in control. They also knew that they were not able to control their dark sides anymore. And while Robert asked the Avengers to kill him in order to stop himself, Miracleman had no other choice but to kill Johnny to prevent Kid Miracleman from ever taking over again...
I mean, you do see the vast similarities there, right? It doesn't take a genius to see how much more the Sentry is based on Miracleman than Superman.
It's actually quite annoying seeing clueless people writing blogs or making videos and referring to the Sentry as a Superman ripoff, while they don't really have much in common at all, besides the few superficial similarities. And these similarities never even factored into Sentry's existence at all.
On the first page of this Respect Thread you will find a list with the powers Sentry has displayed so far. One of these powers is "Power Sharing" and this serves as a further explanation.
The Sentry empowered two beings: a young man named Billy Turner, who became Sentry's sidekick Scout: http://i.imgur.com/3H2X6me.jpg
The counter-argument can be made that both Scout and Watchdog received a dose of the enhanced super-soldier-serum, which gave Sentry his powers, but we know for a fact that the serum never got re-created again and that the serum boosts the Sentry got later on, were harmless saline and even poisons, since the government was trying to kill the Sentry at the beginning: http://i.imgur.com/k6r4v69.jpg
To further prove that it was not a serum, that empowered Scout and Watchdog a different instance can be brought up.
Osborn lied to the Sentry by telling him that Tony Stark could have re-created the serum for him and that Osborn now had men working for him, who re-created the serum, which only works on the Sentry: http://i.imgur.com/Z2RDAem.jpg http://i.imgur.com/X5QmZEu.jpg
The lie should already be obvious by itself and the same a applies for the reason... Osborn was trying to manipulate the Sentry further into winning him over. However the tragedy was that the serum was not only not empowering the Sentry, but it had the exact opposite effect... That serum was destabilizing the Sentry psychologically, so that the Void ended up having the full control from the very beginning of the SIEGE event: http://i.imgur.com/LYNusBy.jpg
So we know that the serum Sentry took and got his powers from was a one-time-deal. The serums he then got from the government were saline and poisons in order to keep him around and also actively try to kill him and the third and final version of the serum was a psychological destabilizer, which allowed the Void to fully take over the Sentry.
Sentry was the only one, who could have given Scout and Watchdog their powers and that is being backed up by multiple bio entries as well.
When when Robert Reynolds first became the Sentry the implication was there, that he could share his power with others, something the government was afraid of: http://i.imgur.com/1ffGmni.jpg
The bio confirms that Scout and Watchdog received a portion of Sentry's power, which also confirmed the fears the government had: http://i.imgur.com/OT0CP2u.jpg
In the MARVEL PETS HANDBOOK Watchdog's bio also confirms that Watchdog got his powers from the Sentry: http://i.imgur.com/OFf030y.jpg
"Watchdog is believed to have been a normal dog named Normie until he obtained superhuman powers from the Sentry (Robert Reynolds)."
The bio goes on to say that once the Sentry erased the memories of everyone on the planet, including himself, they both lost their powers and only the Sentry regained his powers back, when he remembered his past.
Sentry was one of the selected few, who regained their memories. Watchdog did not remember his past with the Sentry and therefore did not get his powers back.
In SENTRY - FALLEN SUN we see Scout and Watchdog yet again, both powerless and leading a normal life: http://i.imgur.com/FrvAZ3H.jpg
Minor addition: The Watchdog in the end might be the roboter Sentry and CLOC built to replace the original Watchdog, but it's rather unlikely since Watchdog would still have had his own robotic powers at that point and it would have been weird to see Scout walking a roboter.
It was most likely the original Watchdog, who stayed with Scout, when he lost his powers as well, while the robotic replacement is still in the Watchtower together with CLOC waiting for the return of the Sentry.
9.07 CAN THE SENTRY REALLY CONTROL MOLECULES?
Yes, he can, but there is much more to it.
I've basically lied to you at the very beginning of this thread, by saying, that everything the Sentry does, is based on molecule manipulation. That is not entirely correct. The Sentry is actually a reality warper, who as for now believes, that his powers are based on molecule manipulation.
Him being a reality warper is something, that can be read between the lines and I don't know if Marvel will explore that aspect of the Sentry further, of if they will go with the molecule manipulation, which they established on panel.
Let's look at the reality warping aspect anyway:
Basically, the Sentry has done some iffy stuff in comics, which may be too much even for a molecule manipulator... One of those things, was erasing everyone's memories and by everyone, I do mean everyone. The Sentry had not only erased the memories of over 7 billion people, but also animals: http://i.imgur.com/HHPEZSQ.jpg
I don't care how much of a molecule manipulator you are, but one does not subconsciously pull the memory molecules out of every sentient being on Earth.
What's interesting to note, is that, when the memories returned, it was stated to be a "shift of reality": http://i.imgur.com/e9gGqqe.jpg
Paul Jenkins, the creator of the Sentry and the writer of the story, from which the two scans above are, confirmed, that he intended the Sentry to be a reality warper: http://i.imgur.com/T6dQNMI.jpg
Later on the writer Brian Michael Bendis had the Sentry realizing, that he was capable of doing, what he was doing by controlling the molecules: http://i.imgur.com/T15c2UM.jpg
However, in an interview Bendis also stated, that Sentry only thinks, that he has the powers of the molecules, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the case: http://i.imgur.com/WZfkrfZ.jpg[/irl...com/YGsaqMe.jpg
And where I can easily see a molecule manipulator doing just that, I sure as hell can't see a molecule manipulator sending his tendrils of darkness back to 1600 B.C. to say "Hi" to Moses: http://i.imgur.com/AZZGolf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/oItfgDq.jpg
In the comics the Sentry had resurrected his wife, who got killed by Ultron and he had also resurrected himself from total annihilation. A summary of those events referred to that as the Void twisting the reality to suit his whims: http://i.imgur.com/YGsaqMe.jpg
So, is the Sentry a reality warper or not? You decide.
This is now a weird one... Not all too long ago I started writing on a Sentry script for a Sentry on-going, which I wanted to pitch over to Marvel, once it's done. I know about the "no unsolicited submissions policy", but I was like "**** it! YOLO!". It didn't work out of course, but it was a nice experience working on a script.
I'm posting the scripts here for the hardcore Sentry fans, who might be interested in seeing what a take from someone, who is not Paul Jenkins / Brian Michael Bendis / Rick Remender would have been like.
Here are some pointers:
+ I tried establishing THE AGE OF THE SENTRY as canon, to expand on the Sentry lore...
+ I tried linking all of the various Sentry origins together...
+ I tried clarifying some of the more confusing moments in Sentry comics...
Here are some warnings:
- The story is pretty dark at times. There are some scenes, where I felt very uncomfortable writing them...
- Issue #10 was like the midway of my vision, so the story is not done and never will come to an ending...
- I didn't finish issue #9 and never will...
- It's the work of a complete novice, who didn't know what the hell he was doing, so take it for what it is...
I hope you've enjoyed this Respect Thread and that it will help you out, no matter if it's for a board battle, or if you're simply trying to learn more about the Sentry.
If you have any more questions, feel free to message me on Facebook. No, my name is not Robert Reynolds. That account got created back in the day specifically for the first Respect Thread: https://www.facebook.com/robert.reynolds.75054
I'll most likely not answer here and even on Facebook you'll probably have to wait for an answer, but it's at least something and better than nothing.
Take care!
Last edited by Enzeru on Dec 23rd, 2014 at 03:19 AM
I asked a mod to correct it, since members can't edit on their own. Here is the actual link: http://imgur.com/a/XBGqp
I also asked if he could add one more thing to the point: "9.07 CAN THE SENTRY REALLY CONTROL MOLECULES?" and the addition would be the following one:
In the comics the Sentry had resurrected his wife, who got killed by Ultron and he had also resurrected himself from total annihilation. A summary of those events referred to that as the Void twisting the reality to suit his whims: http://i.imgur.com/YGsaqMe.jpg
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