Well, according to Greg Pak’s World War Hulk, you use the Sentry’s agoraphobia (seriously…more on that later) and his fear of his own power as an excuse for the first four issues, and then you send him in when you paint yourself into a corner, pretty much make him seem crazy and Earth-threatening, and then have the Hulk defeat him to turn him into the hero of the story. Kind of sounds like someone who can come out of nowhere and pretty much wrap up a story in a snap. What are you going to do to make him not end it immediately? I mean the guy has the power of one million exploding suns…that sounds pretty powerful. Let’s say you do want to use the guy in the event. If he isn’t, he’s effectively a mobile deus ex machine No less, the Sentry lasts exactly two issues into Marvel’s biggest event before getting completely written out. Poor widdle Sentry, getting scared of the big bad shape shifting alien. In Secret Invasion, Bendis (who is seemingly the only person at Marvel who likes to use the guy) effectively writes him out of the book, sending him deep into space after a Skrull transforms into his alter-ego/nemesis the Void. The Sentry dealt with him as I would deal with a fly, or as Spider-Man would deal with Paste Pot Pete (minus the killing on the last part).įor an example of the Sentry being completely useless when it comes to events, may I guide you to Secret Invasion or Silent War. As in the one that tortured Spidey endlessly and was a legitimate heavy in Marvel comics. Yes…as in Carnage from Spider-Man comics. I mean come on, his first real appearance in a regular continuity Marvel book was in the first arc of New Avengers, in which his first big action scene was flying Carnage up to space and then tearing him in half. There is a pretty good reason why that is, and that’s because he’s so freaking overpowered that there isn’t a lot any writer can do with him. While the Sentry is seemingly a constant early on in every mega-event that Marvel puts on, he never seems to appear very much in the middle and end of events. He’s so over-powered he has to be written out of every event After my five points I believe you’ll even agree with me.ġ. In my case, the character I dislike I have enough disdain for to honestly believe that he is irrefutably the single worst character in comics and in this post I will make my case for it. Quite often though, you’re going to have your least favorite character as well. My favorite characters are all versions of the Flash, Kyle Rayner, Jesse Custer, Bigby Wolf, Deadpool…and really the list goes on and on. Everyone who reads comics has their favorite characters.
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