One of very few super heroes active during the years just prior to the Fantastic Four's emergence, Sentry gained new importance when the new wave of heroes rose to prominence. After trouncing the school bully who had tormented him, Reynolds sewed together a costume and made his debut as the heroic Sentry.
2000) and was created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, with uncredited conceptual contributions by Rick Veitch.Įmpowered by the enigmatic Professor's secret formula, high school student Robert Reynolds became a superhuman.
The character first appears in The Sentry #1 (Sep. Split-Personality Merge: At the end of the 2018 miniseries, Bob and the Void merge turning into a black-haired, red-costumed being with the powers and personality of the Sentry and Void combined.The Sentry (Robert "Bob" Reynolds) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe.The result was a merger of Bob, the Sentry, and the Void, with the new Merged Sentry, decidedly not being in the mood to be imprisoned.
Things start to go wrong when the device, a one-of-a-kind gadget Tony Stark and Doctor Strange made for Bob, gets stolen by Scout, his bitter ex-sidekick who ended up being driven Axe-Crazy by the Sentry's powers. Sealed Badass in a Can: in the Lemire miniseries, Bob willingly limits himself on a kind of parole which uses a device to periodically visit an alternate universe where he can be both Sentry and the Void.According to the second mini, Bob became the insane Void persona from the moment he ingested the serum. Psycho Serum: The serum that gave Bob his powers was a new version of the Super Soldier serum amplified 100,000 fold.This was such a late change that the cover of New Avengers 3 has a short-haired Sentry. This wasn't present in the original miniseries but was added when the Sentry was introduced to the main Marvel Universe to distinguish him from other blonde heroes when unmasked. Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Bob's hair is of average length, but becomes quite long when he's the Sentry.This could be something to do with his psychosis, as his strength levels yo-yo almost as much as Gladiators.By the time Siege rolled around, Bob was shrugging off blows from Thor's hammer without a scratch on him. Power Creep, Power Seep: In his miniseries, the Sentry actually bled after being bitten by a dog.Mercy Kill: In the 2018 series, Bob has to do this to Scout who was wracked with ceaseless pain from a corrupted facsimile of his own powers that rendered him virtually invincible while melting him from the inside-out.Laser-Guided Amnesia: Imposed this on everyone, including himself, before the events of the first mini, courtesy of a transmitter he and Reed created.Ideal Hero: The second miniseries reveals that the Sentry persona is actually Bob Reynolds' idealized version of himself: the handsome, invincible champion of the entire planet.Lampshaded in-comic: "I don't throw everything into the sun.".Hurl It into the Sun: After defeating the Void in the second mini, Bob hurls it into the sun after giving it a kiss.So he's like Superman's fifth cousin twice removed. Which makes the Sentry an Expy of a reworked Darker and Edgier Captain Ersatz of a Captain Ersatz, as Marvelman was a British copy of Captain Marvel, who was himself a copy of Superman. Both feature middle-aged guys who are vaguely haunted by their past as the most powerful person on the planet, even down to details like being jealous of their super selves, their wives being more attracted to their other selves, and their origins in a secret government program.
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