Past Sentry ideas/concepts/stories etc. That were wasted
Wanted to make a list of all the things we missed out on in the past, the Sentry ideas and concepts and similar. Since now Sentry will be paid way more attention, it's important to point at those stuff to see what went wrong with them
- Past Sentry Villains
I feel like any Villains from Sentry were totally wasted, those like Cranio, the general, the blue buffon and such. Now these are rather silly Villains if you look at them nowadays, they're like the equivalent of that marvel villain who shoots glue from his gun. But maybe you could have made them work somehow, cranio after all got a really good redesign.
- Sentrys entire presence during new avengers and more
I know that is a point that was brought up enough times already in the past, but in all seriousness sentry did now play a single role in those comics. Not only was he mischaracterised and inconsistent, he also was more like a bystander unless he had to beat up someone. That even went over to civil war, secret invasion and dark avengers. Some of the worst examples of bad writing
- Age of sentry concepts, specifically destroyer of darkmass
I feel like there are concepts in age of sentry that were set up that never got touched on again, like destroyer of darkmass. Now obviously these soulsnt fly and would work in any way with sentry, but like the Villains I mentioned before you could reimagine and update them to make them work
- The whole biblical angel of death Void thing
So it's obvious and even confirmed Robert
isn't....normal. his powers are inherent to him and always were his, the golden serum just awakened them. And it's also confirmed that Void and Sentry are separate distinct entities born and bound to Robert. But I would have loved to explore what their past was on the far past, like the thing with the angel of death in the Moses story. Now sure some might day that was just an allegory, but I hardly disagree. They put a lot of attention onto that and the way they depicted the angel of death as very VERY explicit to that of the Void.
- Robert and Rogue
Now I already mentioned that several times, I like the idea of Robert and Rogue, the concept of it. What I don't like is how it was never mentioned, never brought up again and just sort of forgotten. This could have been a new and interesting and good love interest finally for Robert, but sadly they misused Sentry after that point still. Still have in a way hope for it, but idk
- Death Seed Sentry
Now this was such a massive waste of an interesting concept tossed away so hard it could break a wall. After Sentry suffered so much pain and suffering and abuse both physically and mentally, being lobotomized, manipulated, tortured, used and then killed, while full of self hatred and self penance as he let the sun burn him, he finally was force to come back but due to everything was totally insane and broken, while still trying to help the world. The Void wasn't there either(well he was, since they are always connected) and was in some sort of between dimensions near the white hot room which by itself was an interesting concept. But nope they tossed this into the garbage bin
- Merged imperfect Sentry
If I had a nickel for every time Sentry had a weird interesting evolution that was totally wasted, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. No but seriously TWICE??? You wasted it the first time and then REPEATED THE SAME MISTAKE??? It's so weird because the concept of Robert making the void Sentry and himself fuse together to create an infinitely ultimate being is so cool but got retconned so fucking hard! And sure the signs were there that whatever they had become wasn't perfect because Sentry was forced into this, but the way they treated this was so absolutely abysmal it still makes me mad to this day
There is probably even more, so feel free to mention it so we can discuss it.
By the way, things like solarus or Steven yeun as Robert Reynolds(yeah I've said it having him instead of Lewis Pullman as Sentry would have been braindead and dumb, no hate to the actor but in no way he would have fit) or other bad ideas/concepts/stories that never got touched upon again, I don't care about. It's good they were never brought up and just got thrown away, and let us have it stay that way
Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:47 AM UTC