Its true though. Writers cant seem to figure out if he should be written with normal hero characters or be written above them. How many times has he been written out of storylines because he just to powerful and could have ended the conflict within a panel or so? Happens a bunch.
WW is powerful enough to lasso the Phantom Stranger, in his place of power. She gets plenty of stories.
Batman can pull Bat Dicks out of his belt, faces down literal universal threats alone, no one outpreps him, heralds are unable to kill him....yet he still gets plenty of stories.
Let's do Marvel.
Thor is able to drain AMPED Galactus, is the Allfather of Asgard (and has all the power that comes with it), has the full unlimited Power Cosmic.....yet is in many a story.
Black Panther has the resources of an entire country (the most technologically advanced in Marvel), has haxx weaponry that lets him take punches give other heralds concussions, no one outpreps him....yet has plenty of stories.
They don’t, but it’s cool that they keep him around tbh.
Bendis revealed that the void Is actually the angel of death from biblical times. It’s not completely ridiculous that the sentry is the a “god of light”.
Let’s just see how this plays out
I'm certain that Donny Cates really, really likes the Sentry. He brought him in the issues of Doctor Strange after the events of Uncanny Avengers. He had Sentry play an important role in Marvel Knights. He kept mentioning him in other comics. And now he is bringing him back. As I said, probably because he simply likes the character.
I still think that he'll have Knull win the fight, if there is a fight between them. But Knull will very likely have to work for it, or even cheat.
Sentry being a god of light (probably not a literal one) sounds interesting. I'm already working on a video for that and scripting my theories. One of the theories: Sentry will wear his golden suit again.
I bet he’s G.O.L and he’s made himself forget who he is and turned himself into bob. Flawed human with mental issues. Bob’s instabilities make GOL’s powers manifest in a dark way as the void. This is how they going to retcon his character.
The space worm, running away from Hammond Torch, Cloc overloading Sentrys emotions, flying into space and leaving the earth numerous times in fear he might destroy it, etc. Those are just a couple of examples.
We have a character that has the strength of Superman, is a reality warper, and cant die. He's too powerful.
You're using his outright defeats as him being too powerful to write?
He is only one thing at a time though. Every writer has a different idea of what his powers are, it's not about him being too powerful, it's him being too much of a pain to write. The character is a total mess. That's why most writers don't want to write him.
Outright defeats? This is why nobody can talk to you on these boards. For the examples I listed-
Nobody on these boards thinks that Hammond Human Torch can beat the Sentry. Its laughable to even entertain that thought. The writer had to get rid of Sentry so that the story could progress and to show the Invaders as some kind of threat. Hell, in the same series they show Namor punch Sentry once and the Sentry wasnt involved for several panels afterwards. The same Namor that couldnt mount one single offensive attack against him during another encounter. Face it, the writer had to get rid of Sentry because he could easily solo the entire Invaders team. It happened in comics numerous times.
Defeated? Cloc overwhelmed him with emotions because Iron Man was a panel away from dying.
Defeated? The silly Space Worm was written in because the Wasp was a second away from being killed. A lot of people like to bring up the Space Worm because of how ridiculous the writers solution was to get Sentry out of the story for awhile. Sure, a giant worm can incapacitate a character that can transport and has molecular manipilation. Lol.
The Sentry gets written out of stories way to often due to his powerset. Its just the facts.
So your basically saying that writers cant handle a character with more than one power? You might be right. Sentry seems to be proof of this since he has so many different powers at a writers disposal. He being written out of so many stories actually proves your above statement. It really is pretty much the writers laziness and lack of creativity that makes it so much easier to just write him out.
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