Sentry
Is this Muh Phenix or Illuminated?
So I just read every Sentry book to answer this, and now I have questions.
Does Sentry 2018 just ignore Age of the Sentry entirely? Cause in Age of the Sentry Cranio discovered he didn't even have a backstory, he wasn't a person, Sentry was some sort of reality warper and the Serum didn't literally give him powers, it just contained the power to contain Sentry's force from another universe as it came to theirs. But then Sentry 2018 ignores all this, Cranio is just some guy, the serum is literally a superpower serum, etc. Are we just to assume Age of the Sentry is full of mistakes because of Reed?
Honestly, Sentry's original Appearance and Age of the Sentry go great together, but his other appearances just boil him down to SUPERMAN BUT VIOLENT and "He was there the whole time!" like says. Even the original Sentry comic is kinda like that, but I feel like its necessary for Age of the Sentry to work properly. Otherwise they shoulda just left the character at that.
But now he's literally black and red superman but violent instead of just an interesting thought experiment. Thanks, House of Ideas.
it’s not Muh Phoenix that I know for sure so maybe Illuminated?
it's from Mightygodking.
His Civil War parody was really good
I don’t get the Superman comparison. Isn’t he just a drunken slightly overweight average dude who managed to be one of the most powerful beings in Marvel Verse? The whole point was nobody was going to suspect someone like that to be Sentry. Robert also got his powers through experiment as opposed to being an alien from another planet and having innate powers. The only thing he and Superman have in common is they both get powered by the sun.
Hyperion is way closer to being Marvel’s Superman both in origin and power set unlike Sentry who is only the latter.
Oh fuck, I don't need your civil war was funny as hell, I didn't know he did something else.
he is the worst of both
I've had the tab for this thread open for hours, but somehow missed this post.
Hyperion IS more similar to Superman, but then that's because he's supposed to be a straight-up expy of Superman, created as part of an expy Justice League, that were created because someone wanted to make a cross-over with the Avengers and the Justice League, but couldn't manage the cross-company complications, so they made a substitute to use instead.
The basic idea of the Sentry is that he's a Silver-Age-Superman-esque character that was retconned into Marvel's history, but forgotten. He has the flying brick powerset, he's got the cape, the big S and he contrasts with Marvel's regular superheroes by being way more powerful than them and more of an all-good good guy, rather than the sort of flawed, slightly neurotic sort of characters that used to define the differences between Marvel & DC.
They probably gave him the experiment origin rather than the alien one, because it's still pretty Silver-Age, without being too similar to Superman. They probably wanted him to be like Superman without being a total rip-off of him.
I've always thought Void was a really ancient symbiote for some reason. The relationship between Bob and Void kind of reminds me of Eddie and Venom a little.