u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — reddlx

Sentrys Future

Not all Sentry stories should be just about mental health, or even mental health the main point. I know that might be a very crazy thing to say, especially looking at the character, but there is a genuine thought behind it.

I had some heated discussions with some people on a sentry post, how they complained that the current Sentry miniseries is just a rehash of 2000 Sentry. While I disagree and that I think this comics point is mainly to reinstate Sentry into the comics and ALSO make a new starting in point for new and returning readers, I can understand their worries and concerns

Sentrys past is plagued with his mental illness and the troubles he has to suffer trought it. It will always be a point in his story. And Mental illness can't just be magically healed like a broken leg. The problem is, always just focusing on it in every story, not have Robert Sentry and Void develop and have them be able to more cpabaly deal with it and even sooth their mental illness makes a story kinda redundant and seems lazy and repetitive. A character needs to evolve in some kind of way, to improve and become stronger.

A lot of people seem to want Robert to find a way for him to finally use his power better and more comtrolled and in a grander way, not be always so incapable and helpless and unable to do anything. They want to see that true hero the past has been talking about, the greatest hero who made the world truly a better place. That doesn't mean that emotional and mental themes can't be tackled anymore, but you can go into different areas and explore different things like loneliness, ptsd, anger, regret, things like that

I don't want Sentry stories to be stagnant, I want new and different antagonists, I want him to interact with different characters, I want to see him be more capable and epic and inspiring, I want him to face new challenges and see more of his powers. Marvel always calls him the strongest and greatest hero, and I want to SEE that!

Sentry is a character and story perfect for exploring a lot of different themes, not just mental health. To have wildly different adventures, a writer needs to understands that

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u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 2 days ago

▲ 73 r/sentry

I JUST realized this!

Paul Jenkins is the one who introduced Voids true horror form with the red and black and the tendrils, not bendis! Always thought it's bendis. This is my favorite Void form by the way, the horror form

(Sentry 2000 issue 1, Siege on Asgard, Marvel war of heroes)

u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 7 days ago

▲ 25 r/sentry

We dont need alternate universe Sentrys

I'm honestly very very happy that there are so few to almost no alternate universe Sentrys out there, and those that there are are so scarce they are pale copied imitations who have the exact same backstory and history to the real Sentry. Some of them seem to be so irrelevant that they don't have a void and are just corpses which could have been just made from our real Sentry

I'm not a hater on the multiverse, I like it actually quite a lot! You can do a lot of things and explore different stuff if done right and it can be really awesome! But I want to just have one Sentry, one Void and one Robert and focus on them. I want all the attention on them so it doesn't feel cheap, so whatever we do with them has more meaning and so that they are more unique. I wanted to express this because of the midnight universe announcement of marvel, and the whole ultimate universe thing. And I feel like if we have au Sentrys running around any writer cam come along and fuck things up, write something absolutely awful and then use the excuse of alternate universe or something. No, I want to focus on the real Sentry and give him the quality he needs and deserves, and I want marvel and writers to be really careful and considerate to what they do.

Edit: I had a theory of my own that because every single one of them are so incredibly similar to the real Sentry, that each of them are fragments of our Sentry, Robert and Void which got separated from him and scattered across the multiverse. That's why there are such a limited amount of them

u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 16 days ago

▲ 5 r/sentry

Theory on Bob and his relationship/nature with Sentry and Void

So this is a thought I had for a while now. Had a lot of discussions about the topic too, so I feel like a post would be good for this

Basically, me personally most certainly do not think Sentry and Void are mere illusions, hallucinations, some form of mere mental disorder or personality disorder. The reason for this is, they're too unique and different. This isn't like let's say Moon Knight, or Legion or even Hulk. Void and Sentry have their completely unique personalities, minds and thoughts even down to their powers and how those work. Void is the absolute antithesis to Sentry, with Sentry being weak to anti matter while Void gets empowered by it. On top of that they existed. They even existed apart from each other

But I'm not saying Sentry and Void are completely separate entities from Robert either. The thing is that despite their differences, despite how antagonistic they are towards each other they care for each other in a very strange way too sometimes in a way. It's almost like Robert, most likely unconsciously, created Void and Sentry because of the difficulties in his life, be it his loneliness, his mental problems, or anything else, to be some sort of imaginary friends he could rely on. Maybe they came into existence due to his powers resonating with the darkness and light inside and around him, maybe being his unconscious voice or something like that.

But the theory I have is that they evolved past that, becoming more individual while always being part of Robert. They became more, becoming ultimately the personification of Robert's Darkness and Light in the ultimate sense, his worst and best traits embodied for the better of worse and given life. They also act a lot like Ying and Yang, with Robert being in the middle creating balance, or at least trying to, but not being able to find inner peace. The closest we saw him reach that was Merged Sentry, but it was imperfect and unstable as it wasn't true balance, peace and control since The onky voluntary party in the merging were Robert and Void, while Sentry was forced to into the fusion and that lead to Void corrupting the fusion. That could also be a reason why a chi attack was so impactful against Merged Sentry, it didn't incapacitate him or hurt him, just temporarily cleanse his mind from the Voids darkness that was clouding him and imbalance him due to the fusion not being imperfect

Side note: I kinda would find it awesome and cool if Robert could go on a training arc, one where he can master his spirit like those mystical and spiritual heroes do and control himself more, it would also be a great development to mend some of the pain and suffering of his mental illnesses and bring them more under control, making him more self reliant.

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u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 17 days ago

▲ 99 r/xmen

So to be fair I don't know anything of what this is, I just found it. That's why I ask. But....I thought these two had a brother sister realtionship going on. Not....whatever that is. Gives me some weird vibes

u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 19 days ago

▲ 49 r/sentry

So I wanna out firstly with all the positives regarding Lindy in the new comics. And to be honest, this post doesn't really have any negatives towards Lindy.

First of all, she has been a MASSIVE improvement from her previous depictions! She's way more supportive, loving and there for Robert. Whenever we get this description of Lindy being his loving wife, I never got that feeling in the past. She never came across that way. But now I actually get that feeling! She's very caring of Robert and she truly tries her best to help Robert as much as she can in her capabilities. It makes me happy because that also shows me that Paul Jenkins and marvel looked at sentry in the past and have seen the things that didn't work out and have been a mistake, and are improving on it.

Also by the way, I don't know how everyone else feels of it, but Lindy looks gorgeous in the new sentry comic! She looks absolutely beautiful in my eyes and she has never looked better!

But that now brings me to the crux of the realtionship with Robert and Lindy here. With all the improvements we've seen, and in the issues that we got, i only got more of a feeling that Robert and Lindy don't work together long-term. Now how could I say that if I'm also saying she's much better and loving and stuff, the things I said before? Well the problem is.....no matter how much Lindy will try, she will never truly be eye to eye with Robert. For one, Lindy as I always say is a normal human, and especially in the newest issue she's absolutely overwhelmed and at her end when confronted with the superhero side of Robert. She's also in the dark about most of Robert's actions and what he does and how he operates, and if he would explain it to her she wouldn't understand, as much as she would try to. There are also the aspects of the Void, how that affects Robert, and his inner problems, emotionally and mentally which directly affect the superhero side of Robert. And on top of all that, Robert isn't a normal superhero. He's very....special if you want to say it like that. Other heroes can have normal people as lovers like spider man or super man, but Robert has such unique life and mentality I it seems like Lindy is constantly overwhelmed with everything.

I don't hate these two together, let me be clear of that. But I think Lindy even herself is realizing whatever they will try, it will never be enough. They are too different, Lindy doesn't know how to help Robert in a way that she would genuinely want to. There are aspects of his life she will never understand and things that she will always be left out on. Similarly to that whole laika watchdog thing. She wants him to save watchdog, for Robert to use his godlike powers. But the problem is exactly that. He can't do that without also accepting the consequences that will follow if he does that, and exactly that I think is bothering Robert so much. To have all that power and still nor being able to save even a dog he loves, just like whenever he was a child.

There are also the unspoken things like Lindys physical frailty and her genuine mortality, but those are side issues which albeit pile on top of the main ones

I love Lindy in the current run. Genuinely do. But I don't think that this will last for long. They have better chemistry than ever before. But I don't think its enough. Robert needs someone who can also relate to his other aspects of his life, and can understand him and help him there and follow him. But that's just what I think and feel

u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 23 days ago

▲ 48 r/sentry

I'm genuinely curious about what Wilson fisks purpose here is. Why the void hates him, and why he's doing all of this to him. Unless void is just using kingpin as a punching bag

u/Ok_Caterpillar_4977 — 28 days ago