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The Sentry

Sentry

Real Name
Robert Reynolds
First Appearance
The Sentry #1 (September, 2000)
Creators
Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, Rick Veitch
Team Affliations
New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Dark Avengers, Horsemen of Death
Alias
The Void, Death, The Golden Guardian of Good
Base of Operations
New York City
Powers
Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, senses, durability and Invulnerability, Energy projection and manipulation, Matter manipulation, Flight, Telepathy, Resurrection, Healing factor, Mental projection
Skills and Abilities
Fighting Experience
Tools and Weapons
None

Sentry is a superhero in the Marvel Universe and also carries within him the supervillain known as the Void.

Origin[]

For a long time, the Sentry was the most beloved superhero on Earth who had gained his powers through mysterious medicine. Soon, he gained powers that could make him incredibly powerful, only to learn years later that he was his own greatest enemy and had to wipe his existence from mankind's memory (including his own), until the day he was remembered once more.

Biography[]

Project Sentry[]

In 1947, Department K (a covert branch of the Canadian government) and the remaining members of Operation: Rebirth (the government project that created Captain America before losing the only man who knew the secret of the Super Soldier program) decided to work together to create Project: Sentry, a group with the goal of creating a force far greater than a super-soldier. However, over time, the project had become divided into countless sub-projects farmed out to independent contractors with minimal-to-none government oversight. One of the last men involved in the project, Professor Cornelius Worth, eventually completed Project: Sentry ten years later in a labratory in New York City.

The Sentry is Born[]

Very little is known about the early life of Robert Reynolds. What is known is that he was a meth addict who was desperately searching for some kind of high when he came upon Professor Cornelius laboratory. There, with his partner, he found the experimental serum that Cornelius had been working on and decided to drink it. Upon ingesting the formula, he was overwhelmed with power, so much so he destroyed his partner and a guard with his excess energy. Soon after, he demanded that Professor Cornelius provide him with more of the drug.

Soon, Robert had a seemingly limitless number of powers, including super strength, speed, flight, and photokinesis to name a few, which made Professor Cornelius nervous about the man his research had resulted in turning into a god. The minds behind Project: Sentry were able to keep Robert isolated for testing for a time, but eventually he left, crafting a superhero costume of himself and giving himself the name The Sentry.

The Age of the Sentry[]

After appearing in public as a superhero, the Sentry became among the most popular heroes for both his power and optimism, becoming America's foremost superheroic paragon of virtue. Over time, he became close friends with the heroes of New York, being a mentor to the young Spider-Man, an equal to Reed Richards, a defender of the outcast heroes the X-Men and even one of the few people monstrous hero the Hulk considered a friend. The Sentry also met a woman named Lindy Lee and the two fell in love and married. The Sentry also gained a sidekick, a boy named Billy Turner who became the superhero, The Scout (how exactly Billy gained powers remains unknown but it is likely that the Sentry, knowingly or unknowingly gave them to him). Lindy Lee learned about Robert's addiction to the serum that gave him his power and did nothing about it, a decision she would regret as she felt something unfathomable awakened within him and that she should have killed him on their wedding night.

Not long after and throughout his career, The Sentry found himself repeatedly encountering a mysterious villain known as the Void. The Void began seemingly like a conventional villain, though seemed to be able to use the Sentry's own fears against him. Eventually, their conflicts culminated in a horrific battle where the Void nearly killed Scout, drove the Hulk into a rampage and killed one million New York citizens. The Sentry would then learn that the Void was actually an aspect of the Sentry himself, using his powers to materialize and threaten the world. The Sentry discovered the only way to stop the Void was to make everyone on Earth, including the Sentry himself, to forget his own existence.

Powers & Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Chemically Enhanced Physiology / Radioactive Serum Enhancement: The Sentry's superhuman powers and abilities derive from Golden Sentry Serum. The experimental serum granted him photokinetic based powers, essentially being fueled by the sun itself. His various powers seem to be based in molecule manipulation or reality warping, all stemming from his base solar charged body. Though most of his powers and their limits are still unknown, the Sentry has been said to have the power of a million exploding suns. He is so powerful that Karla Sofen theorized in front of Norman Osborn that what happened after Scarlet Witch broke down would be nothing compared to what Sentry could do. Sentry has also fought Galactus. He was stated to be an Omega-Level Threat by Mister Fantastic, and Nick Fury's intel classified him as Power Level 10+. During a meeting with Professor X, Emma Frost openly stated that the Sentry's powers are godlike, and during his time as a member of the Dark Avengers, Sentry's profile note that there is no limit to his powers and that he is nigh-omnipotent, thus making him the strongest member in the Dark Avengers Team. Following his return latter on, the Sentry finally accept his dark self, the Void and merge with the entity, creating a being far more powerful than all his past incarnations, when considering all the impressive feat throughout the Sentry and the Void lifetime of struggle, the all-new merged Sentry can be said to be arguably the most powerful superhuman on Earth.
    • Alpha Mutated Human Physiology (to Superhumans [Mutants / Mutates / Metahumans] only; Variation of Alpha Physiology) / Transcendent Mortal Physiology / Transcendent Superior Human Physiology
      • Immortality: The Sentry is chemically mixed with the super soldier serum. This makes him and the Void both immune to aging.
      • Transcendent Enhancement / Supernatural Condition
        • Godly Body
          • Superhuman Strength: The Sentry's strength varies greatly and depends on his mental stability. The Sentry possesses vastly enhanced superhuman strength, granting him the ability to lift (press) far in excess of 100 tons easily. He is one of the strongest beings in the Universe. He has demonstrated several astonishing feats of strength during his career, including easily lifting tremendous weights, ripping Carnage in two, taking Terrax the Tamer's cosmic axe and shattering it with his bare hands, moving a cruise liner effortlessly, and his unrestrained power overloaded the Absorbing Man. The Void was even able to break the Hulk's limbs with relative ease, and the Sentry himself was able to easily kill Ares by ripping him in half. He can also absorb solar radiation for additional strength. The Sentry has yet to demonstrate an upper-limit to his strength, but he has shown that it can rival the likes of the Hulk, although this depends on his mental state. The Sentry has also shown enough physical strength to be able beat the Void into submission more than once with pure force when he was relatively stable, which shows a high degree of power. During his most recent battle with the Void inside of the Sentry World, Sentry demonstrate devastating feat in shattering the entire moon to reveal the Void's whereabouts and then kill him easily by ripping him apart afterward. Following his fusion with the Void that granted him access to the combined might of both beings, Sentry has demonstrated an even greater degree of super strength, managing to easily overpower Scout, who had injected himself with the Golden Sentry Serum, to the point of effortlessly crushing his fist and breaking his neck. During an encounter with the Avengers, with Thor, Captain Marvel and She-Hulk in their ranks, the merged Sentry manhandle them and knock them all aside with ease. He stops a punch from She-Hulk and threw her into New Jersey, easily sink islands, picks up a giant cruiser ship out of the ocean it was in, punches can create giant craters in the ground (which is large enough to dwarf the size of the Helicarrier), Overpowered Thor, casually lifts a massive plane, & had managed to hold the energy of the Cosmic Cube.
          • Superhuman Speed: The Sentry possesses the ability to think, move, run, and react at superhuman speeds. He has been observed catching bullets and has also been seen moving far in excess of supersonic speeds; his speed on earth is enough to be gauged as fast enough to move at orbital velocity (5 miles a second). It should also be noted that the Sentry has numerously been depicted as able to fly to the sun in a matter of moments (where it takes light over 8 minutes). This shows that his speed during inter-stellar travels is several times in excess of the speed of light. He has recently shown the ability to travel an indistinguishable amount of light years in a very short of time in flight. Sentry's flight was described to be bending space and time through pure speed, and that the speed he was flying at was so fast that it was disorienting Thor. Sentry has even been able to occasionally match Thor's combat speed in battle. (Thor has routinely matched beings with extreme combat speed, such as Gladiator and Silver Surfer). Don't forget that Sentry operates in milliseconds, which is 1 thousandth of a second. He rebuilt a tower in lightspeed, dodged strikes from Thor's Mjolnir, stopped a bullet from Skrull Sniper Rifle with ease before it hit Norman Osborn, disabled a bunch of nukes before it hit their target, casually dodge/block blasts from Terrax, fly across the entire city in a matter of seconds, & disoriented Thor with his speed.
          • Superhuman Stamina: Sentry's enhanced musculature is far more efficient than that of a human. As a result his muscles produce no fatigue toxins. However, his stamina, along with the rest of his powers, greatly varies depending on his mental and emotional state.
          • Superhuman Agility: Sentry's natural balance, agility, and body coordination are enhanced to levels that are far beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
          • Superhuman Reflexes: The Sentry can react at superhuman speeds exceeding the equivalent of several times the speed of Sound. As such, Sentry was able to catch a sniper bullet from a highly advanced Skrull gun. Sentry has in the past saved Cornelius Worth from a point blank gunshot wound to head from being inflicted on him by the Void. With him taunting Sentry, asking if he was "faster than a speeding bullet". Upon Sentry saving Dr. Cornelius he says to the Void that he himself knew he could catch the bullet because the Void knew how fast the Sentry was to the nearest millisecond.
          • Superhuman Senses: The Sentry possesses vastly enhanced senses. He is able to hear almost any sound at any decibel, pitch, and frequency. The only Earth creature who can detect sounds at the frequencies he can is a blue whale (0.01-200,000 Hz). He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source/frequency (He has remarked that he was able to hear a butterfly's heartbeat in Africa). The range of his eyesight is also far greater than that of a human being. He is able to detect a single person from hundreds of miles in the air and above cloud level. The full extent of Robert's other senses superhuman capabilities is unknown.
          • Superhuman Durability
          • Superhuman Endurance
        • Godly Physique: As a superhero, Sentry possesses god-like physique. He is extremely strong, very fast and very tough. He can rip Carnage apart with his barehands with relative ease, stops She-Hulks punches which are strong enough to send people to another continent and throws her to New Jersery from New York, can travel at interstellar speeds and travel faster than light, catch point-blank bullets without any effort and barely fazed from a nuclear blast. He also has shown to have extreme stamina as his muscles has shown to not produce fatigue toxins and never get tired.
        • Flying Brick
        • Godly Potential
      • Nigh-Invulnerability / Complete Invulnerability: The Sentry is, for all intents and purposes, almost completely impervious to harm, unless he wills himself to be killed he has shown no direct weakness. He has been seen surviving extremely harsh atmospheric conditions, including the vacuums of space. Nick Fury has stated that so far S.H.I.E.L.D. has yet to find a way to kill him, and even Iron Man's scanners found no physiological defects in the Sentry's body. Like all of his abilities, his durability depends on his mental state. He can go to completely no-selling Class 100-level characters but as soon as he wishes himself dead he could be killed in an instant, notably in Siege where he asked Thor to kill him. He has also been damaged when he requested to Hulk to punch him in during the Green Goliath's takeover of Manhattan to prevent himself from destroying everyone on the Earth. Acid strong enough to melt through steel is like shower water to Sentry. Lightning bolts from Ultron that were torturing Ares had little to no effect on Sentry.
      • Nigh-Omnipotence
        • Molecular Manipulation: Following a confrontation with Molecule Man, Robert discovered he has the powers of molecular manipulation which he had used to revert himself from the liquid Molecule Man had turned him into. The extent of these powers are not yet known, but he was able to defeat the Molecule Man. However it should be noted that unlike Molecule Man, Sentry has little control of his powers. Since The Void and the Sentry are essentially the same person with differing personalities, The Void's own shapeshifting might be a result of the Sentry's molecular manipulation. Additionally Reynold's molecular manipulation ability theoretically would give him potential regenerative healing abilities as well despite his nigh-invulnerability. It has been theorized that the vast majority of his powers are derived from his ability to alter matter and energy and that he could simulate almost any superpower with enough practice and control. He seems to do this unconsciously as the Void when he changes shape and power sets. It is also possible that he had survived from being disintegrated by Morgan Le Fay due to the same power. Since losing his agoraphobia, and therefore gaining full control over his powers (in Uncanny Avengers), he has been able to utilize his power to manipulate molecules to even greater degrees than ever before.
        • Flight: The Sentry possesses the ability to float by defying gravity, using his superhuman speed to fly far above hypersonic speeds (above Mach 10). He has demonstrated travelling to the Sun and back in a matter of moments which would require him to fly at speeds faster than light. And during the Skrulls secret invasion he flew to Saturn (about 746 million miles distance) almost immediately, which required him either to move at many times the speed of light (still thought to be impossible in this space-time) or to have bypassed space altogether thus giving the impression that he had moved faster than light-speed. He has also been stated to travel at many times the speed of light. One plausible explanation is that Sentry uses his absolute control of his molecular structure to mitigate and or prevent his body from obtaining additional mass as he moves/flies at speeds far greater that light-speed, although this has yet to have been proven or shown. And has also been remarked to fly at such speeds not even a god of Asgard could withstand. Sentry has also been able to fly with such force to behead and kill Attuma.
          • High-Speed Flight: Travel at a speed exceeding speed of light. Sentry can fly at from hypersonic speeds to flying faster than light-speed.
          • Levitation
        • Teleportation: On at least one occasion, Sentry has shown an ability to teleport in a blinding flash of golden light. Sentry teleported away, after meeting Nate Grey, he was also able to teleport from the Sun back to the Earth, and managed to get into an area which was protected by Reed Richard's force fields.
        • Photokinesis: It may be theorized that the Sentry also has the superhuman ability to generate, control, and emit light. This ability to produce hard-light constructs may be similar to those of Dazzler when it was revealed that the Void is a just an expression of his repressed persona, and thus his creation, he has also used it to block an energy blast from Terrax.
          • Light Projection: Having absolute control over the light he produces, he can control its direction, frequency (color), amplitude (intensity), and duration. The Sentry can produce numerous effects with the light he manipulates. He can simply cause a bright glow all about his body, eyes & hands. He can create a pulse of light on the order of several tens of thousands lumens of power per second (the sun produces at most 10,000 lumens of brightness at noontime), which temporarily blinds people with its brilliance. This ability has been proven to be able to calm down the Hulk though it also reduces him to a childlike mentality who believes the Sentry and his wife to be his mother and father.
          • Invisibility: Sentry can turn invisible by deflecting light and radiant emissions.
          • Energy Blasts: The Sentry can generate light, heat, kinetic force, and other forms of energy as powerful blasts and explosions of a yellow color. These blasts are usually generated from the hands and eyes. But he was always like to use its in the form of optic blast. The maximum power of these blasts is unknown. It has shown previously to be capable of burning Hulk's skin and levelling whole city blocks in the past. He has also shown the ability to emit omnidirectional blasts that were able to eliminate a large group of Attuma's soldiers. He also killed Nova during final Scourge event, blast a group of thunder guard for assaulting Asgard and destroy iron man Hulkbuster armor with a yellow heat beam from eyes.
            • Heat Vision
          • The power of 1 million exploding sun.
          • Light Generation
          • Light Aura / Solar Aura
          • Personal Light
          • Mystic Light Manipulation
          • Solar Ball Projection
          • Solar Bolt Projection
          • Light Amplification
          • Hard Light Constructs
          • Photokinetically Enhanced Condition
          • Solar Presence
          • Solar Power
        • Energy manipulation
        • Darkness Manipulation: After merging with the Void, Sentry gained the Void's darkness manipulation abilities. He could generate tentacles from his darkness that could restrain someone as well as knock them away.
        • Psionic Abilities: The Sentry possesses powerful psychic and mental powers mainly used for holding his physical form together, & hold his physical powers within (though it is not yet known whether the Sentry can use them the way Professor X and other psychics use theirs). The few psychic abilities he has displayed so far was implanting his memories inside Paul Jenkins' mind, being able to erase himself from the memories of every being on the planet, with the help of CLOC, Dr. Strange, and Reed Richards. When at his full potential he could even use it in almost psychokinetic ways such as stopping a full-speed Mjolnir throw directed at him by Thor, though this may have been an extension of his matter manipulating abilities.
          • Omni-Psionics
          • Empathy/emotion manipulation
            • Telepathy
            • Empathic Consistency
            • Illusion casting
          • Mental projection
          • Cosmic Psionics
          • Telepathic Powers: One of his more powerful abilities, Sentry possesses the ability to invade other people's mind and mentally attack them. He can telepathically communicate with people and break free from illusions. Because of it, he is able to defeat Super Adaptoid with this ability. It's also been stated that Sentry can remove events from history books.
          • Incredible Mental Resistance: Sentry's mind is extremely strong, that not even mental influences or any mind invasion can enter it. It takes the combined efforts of Professer X and Emma Frost to enter his mind and only then they only have access to the white room in his mind. He is apparently immune to Rogue's power.
          • Materialization
          • Personal Subconscious
        • Biokinesis: The Sentry has an unknown or rarely used ability to affect biophysical effects to an unknown but seemingly limitless degree. Both his Sentry and Void persona's having used this aspect of their shared ability for various purposes. Robert once using his power to cure his therapist's daughter of a vegetative state and spinal problems seemingly just by being in the same room as her, while the Void bestowed an young unwed mother with an incurable breast cancer disease from states away.
          • Resurrection: The Sentry appears to be able to bring the dead back to life under extreme emotional distress. After Ultron murdered his wife, Sentry was able to resurrect her by simply touching her. It does not appear he has control over this power, as he was shocked by his ability to do such an act. This may also extend to simply healing others' injuries.
          • Incredible Regenerative Healing Factor: The Sentry can heal himself from virtually all injuries. He twice even came back from having his molecularity dispersed, during his fights with the Molecule Man and Morgan le Fay.
          • Bio-Reality Manipulation
          • Healing
            • Healing Touch
        • Power Sharing: A couple of times the Sentry has utilized a unique ability to bestow portions of his own power onto others or using it to augment existing powers in those of his friends. Taking a young boy named Billy Turner and giving him similar abilities compared to his own and taking him on as a sidekick called Scout, or making a playmate for himself and the Hulk when similarly empowering a dog named Normie who took the name of Watchdog. Reynolds even gave Hulk some of his own quintessence as a means to protect him from his dark half, The Void.
          • Power bestowal
        • Energy Absorption: The Sentry has been stated to be capable of drawing energy from 'anywhere and everywhere' including the Microverse.
        • Superpowered Physiology
        • True Power
        • Self-Origin Manipulation
        • Archetype Manipulation
        • Immortality Negation
        • Shapeshifting
          • Intangibility / Phasing
        • Peace Inducement
        • Temporal Phase Shift
          • Astral projection
        • Precognition
        • Force-field projection
        • Reality Manipulation
        • Quantum Inducement
        • Universe Destruction

Abilities[]

  • Genius/Superhuman Intelligence: Robert is very intelligent. He is capable of using his powers to detect all substances in a single object and thence determine how much of what substances make up an object. He is adept with mechanics, architecture, machinery, tracing energy sources, cybernetics, robotics and computer science. He used his great intelligence to construct his Watchtower as well as everything inside of it. Since he has never been very wealthy, it is likely he recovered all of the substances required for his Watchtower's construction from many different areas of the Earth or (perhaps) other planets as well. Once he collected the right amounts of the different substances he needed, he would then forge them into the materials and technology he needed. His other inventions include CLOC (with the help of Reed Richards) and the Watchtower. His intellect allows him to determine all substances in a single object and able to detect what they are. He has shown great skills in architecture, machinery, computer science, mechanics and the list goes on. He invented a device that erased the entire world's memories of him, including himself.
  • Personal Subconscious
  • Divided Mind
  • Counter
  • Master Combatant
  • Immortal Slayer
  • Space Combat
  • Archetype Combat
  • Enhanced Combat
  • Indomitable Will

Physical Strength[]

Class 100+; the Sentry possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift well over 100 tons easily. He has been able to stalemate one of the most powerful incarnations of the Hulk while weakened by his Agoraphobia, destroy the shields of Dr. Doom, and even contain a Cosmic Cube for a while before it was absorbed into the Sentry's body. Marvel dubbed The Sentry as the world's most powerful superhero at some point in time. He is still able to harm Absorbing Man, despite him being amped by the Cosmic Cube.

Weaknesses[]

Due to his condition, Robert suffers from many weaknesses:

  • The Negative Zone: The Sentry is at his weakest in the Negative Zone, which is Blue Marvel's source of his strength & power. His powers and health gradually deteriorate the longer he is inside the zone itself and even worse, his counterpart/nemesis The Void's powers increase to maximum. However, in his new state while merged with the Void, Sentry was able to retain all his superpowers in the Negative Zone without weakening at all.
  • Due to his condition, Robert suffers from many weaknesses:
    • Psychic Assault: The Sentry has a fragile psyche and is readily susceptible to mental manipulation. Although if he is relatively stable he can resist such manipulation, as he has in the past when Dr. Strange tried to convince him that the Sentry wasn't real and that it was an illusion, stating that "he was always too powerful for this type of magic".
    • Lack of Control: Sentry doesn't seem to have complete control over all of his abilities, as he didn't even know he was capable of Molecular Control until his battle with the Molecule Man and was genuinely shocked after reviving his wife from the dead.
    • Vulnerability to Chi: Spiritual energy based attacks, such as Chi, have been shown to be capable of injuring Sentry especially when inflicted by someone powerful.
  • A multiple personality disorder which results in the creation a villain known as The Void that sometimes takes over him.
  • Former Weaknesses
    • Mental Illness: The Sentry's mental instability has led to his immobility on several occasions. He suffers from one if not several mental illnesses real and fictional. The Agoraphobia makes Sentry fear releasing his full power as he stated if he lost control even for a millisecond, there would be dangerous consequences. Characters have taken advantage of Roberts' Agoraphobia in battle, one occasion Jimmy Hammond made Robert believe that by heating him up he would release the Sentry's full power. As Robert is an Agoraphobic, this lead him to fly away to escape. Since then he has lost his Agoraphobia since returning as a Horseman of Death.
      • Even before becoming Sentry, he suffered from agoraphobia and anxiety disorder.
      • He was diagnosed as agoraphobic, paranoid schizophrenic, suffering from GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and from a premorbid schizotypal personality disorder.
      • He was stated to suffer of Agoraphobia and Schizophrenia, among others.
    • Even when he's not dealing with the problems of the Void, Sentry still has a very high degree of instability. He's VERY open to manipulation (either psychic manipulation or anyone who is able to mess with his mind & play head games). The Sentry is prone to bouts of depression, prone to bouts of low confidence in himself which can sometimes paralyze him with fear, even though he's one of the most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe. But when his confidence levels are high, he's virtually indestructible.
  • Personal Negativity
  • Personal Power Link

Paraphernalia[]

Equipment[]

  • Sentry's Suit
  • C.L.O.C.: The Centrally Located Organic Computer who assisted Sentry. It was created by Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic).

Facility[]

  • Sentry's Watchtower

Media[]

(He and Void) appears in Super Hero Squad Online (along with Void).

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