r/sentry

I've been trying to keep my eyes on the upcoming Armageddon event for a while now, and while Zdarsky's Captain America so far only discusses about post-Doom Latveria and the Red Hulk trying to conquer it, Wolverine Weapons of Armageddon touched topics that I find more interesting, with a whole backstory related to super soldier serums and especially the character of David Colton, who served as Captain America for a while and was now retired. In the last issue, they put their hands on a mysterious box coming from the multiverse holding an incredible power, and Wolverine uses it to save Colton from certain death. We don't see what's in the box, but in a couple of pages later Colton is seen flying away, something he couldn't do earlier, promising to "start saving people again".

We already know that Armageddon is an upcoming big event that's supposed to rearrange some stuff in the current Marvel universe and it's related to Red Hulk putting his hands on some Origin Boxes coming from the Ultimate Universe. In the solicit for Armageddon #2 they say "Red Hulk's tirade across the globe must be stopped! Until a mysterious new hero as powerful as the Sentry appears to level Red Hulk and the Avengers..."

While I doubt Marvel is going to replace our beloved Robert with Colton (especially now that we know Jenkins pitched more stories for him), we are definitely going to see Colton using Sentry-like powers from a serum coming from the Ultimate Universe Origin Box, at least in this story. I really have no idea of how this will go and what Colton's intentions could be, but it turns out we should keep our eyes open for Armageddon.

Me when knull fans exist:

Some custom Sentry figures I’ve made.

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)

Hi guys!

I wanted to share here what's actually one of my first Sentry fanarts, done almost a year ago, which I haven't shared here yet. 👉🏻👈🏻 I'm really grateful for all the lovely words this community has given to my art so far! (I hope you don't mind me posting so much-)

"True Faith" by New Order has been one of my favourite songs for years and finding out how perfectly it fits to Sentry really blew my mind. Despite the upbeat music, it talks about substance abuse from the perspective of an addict, using the sun as metaphor for his addiction.

As I was still fresh from my Thunderbolts watch I used mcu Bob in my drawing, but the cape he wears on his shoulders as a kid was inspired by that scene where he puts on a cape with pins in the 2000 comic, which I had just read at the time.

For more art find me on Instagram or BlueSky

Note- This is AI. If it's not allowed, please feel free to remove it.

Note 2- I don't like anything AI and I despise art made of it and think the same of music and prefer human music any day.

But I am not good at making music and have no experience in music. I do have experience in writing, so I just wrote the basic lyrics and fed it into the thing and this came out, and wanted to share it.

Again, if it's against the rules, I'll remove it. I just didn't see any rule for AI music.

P.S. - Sorry for infecting the sub with AI.

We need a crossover of these two

Just a shitpost and yes bobcarol is still alive lmao

When Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee first introduced the Sentry in the 2000 miniseries (and the brilliant prelude stories that framed it), Robert Reynolds wasn’t just a man with a dark side. He was the Golden Guardian of Good and the Void in equal measure—two absolute poles coexisting in a single being. That setup didn’t frame the Void as a repressed unconscious or a mental illness metaphor; it presented it as a cosmic, almost Manichaean truth. The Void wasn’t Bob’s “shadow self” in a Jungian sense, something to be integrated or healed. It was the necessary antithesis of the Sentry’s existence, as vast and total as the hero himself. The horror wasn’t that Bob had inner demons—it was that the very act of being the ultimate hero made the ultimate evil real. It’s not primarily a psychological issue. It's metaphysical law.

The 2000 version spoke more deeply to human nature. It suggested that our capacity for good and for harm aren’t separate compartments; they’re drawn from the same well of will, imagination, and power. The original Sentry embodied that terrifying openness. He was a walking contradiction that couldn’t be resolved by self-improvement or therapy, because the problem wasn’t internal imbalance—it was nature of being itself. There’s a genuine tragic grandeur in a hero whose very presence guarantees catastrophe, who has to erase himself from history not out of guilt, but to stop the world from being torn apart by his own absolute duality.

Later writers—understandably, because the original story was so self-contained—pivoted hard into the “man struggling with mental illness” model. Bob became agoraphobic, paranoid, addicted, haunted by the Void as his repressed violence. And while that’s a valid story, it shrinks him. It turns a mythic paradox into a case study. The Void stops being the darkest shadow to the loftiest ideal; it becomes about Bob - the mere ego - and his mental instability. At that scale, giving him “the power of a million exploding suns” isn’t just disproportionate—it’s absurd. A man whose core conflict is internal psychological struggle doesn’t need to be a reality-warper who can stalemate Galactus. The power level becomes a leftover artifact from the grander conception, and it makes the whole story feel like a cheesy soap opera.

The Sentry deserves narrative gravity not because he is powerful, but because he destabilizes the moral architecture that superhero stories usually depend on. Most superheroes operate on an implicit faith: that power, if guided by compassion and enough self-knowledge, ultimately bends toward good. Evil is treated as corruption, trauma, ignorance, or moral failure — something that can be overcome, cured, redeemed, or contained. But the original Sentry shatters that assumption.

Robert Reynolds is not a good man haunted by a sickness. He is the simultaneous existence of salvation and ruin. The Sentry and the Void are not hero and shadow, ego and id, health and illness. They are twin absolutes: the final expression of life’s capacity to protect and its capacity to annihilate, born from the same source and incapable of being separated. The horror of the character is not that Bob might lose control. It's that ultimate benevolence itself accompanies ultimate catastrophe as a metaphysical consequence.

That is what makes him mythic. The Sentry represents humanity’s oldest dream — that something infinitely powerful could also be infinitely compassionate; that strength and goodness can converge perfectly into singularity. But the Void exists to deny the innocence of that dream. It reveals that the same imagination that conceives paradise can conceive oblivion with equal clarity. The same will that desires to save the world can just as easily become the will to dominate it. Human greatness and human horror are not opposite forces. They are the same force turned in different directions.

In that light, the Sentry stops feeling like a conventional superhero and becomes something closer to a religious or tragic figure: a man who approaches divinity only to discover that divinity itself is unbearable. Not because he is weak, unstable, or insufficiently healed, but because no being can embody limitless good without calling forth its equal and opposite.

That is why his self-erasure carried such weight in the original story. It was not recovery. It was not therapeutic closure. It was an unresolved tension — the recognition that some contradictions cannot be reconciled, only sealed away before they consume the world.

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