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3''The Sentry'' is a Creator/MarvelComics limited series by Paul Jenkins with art by Jae Lee.
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5One night, Bob Reynolds suddenly remembers that he is the Sentry, a superhero with the power of "one million exploding suns". Realizing that his arch-nemesis the Void is returning, Reynolds decides to seek out several prominent Franchise/MarvelUniverse characters to warn them and to discover why no one remembers the Sentry.
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7See ComicBook/AgeOfTheSentry for tropes related to that series.
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10!!'''The Sentry''' provides examples of:
11* AllegoricalCharacter: A recurring enemy of Sentry, even appearing more than the Void, in the ''Age of the Sentry'' mini is a villain named Cranio who has three brains. He always boasts of being [[CharacterCatchphrase three steps ahead of him]] and is a recurring figure in hallucinations. Given Sentry normally has three personalities in conflict with each other he might be a representation of Bob being his own greatest enemy and the greatest threat to others.
12* BackstoryInvader: A modern character retconned in as an inverted example, a hero from the Silver Age who happened to save the world in a way that erased everyone's memories of him. Leading up to the series that introduced the Sentry, Marvel got comic news sources in on the joke; they ran stories about how he really was a Silver Age hero who was created back then but never used and promptly forgotten.
13* CivvieSpandex: In the original miniseries, the Sentry's costume upon returning into action was just a gray jacket with a small cape held in place with clothespins. As the series progresses, it began to look more and more like attire appropriate for a superhero. By the end of the fourth issue, it finally became a proper superhero uniform.
14%%* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: The Void's wardrobe of choice throughout the second mini.
15* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The Sentry is the all-powerful Silver Age ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''--only as a complete neurotic mess who needs a supercomputer to tell him what crisis to respond to and is saddled with an AxCrazy SuperPoweredEvilSide that commits an act of evil for every act of good that the Sentry does.
16* CurbStompBattle: His fight with [[spoiler:Scout]] in Lemire's miniseries is absolutely brutal, and, once he stops trying to talk the other man down, very short.
17* TheDreaded: The high end of the superhero community keep a hawk-like watch on Bob in Lemire's miniseries, even when they're sure the Sentry can't return (let alone the Void) and have contingencies in case he even accidentally violates his parole.
18* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
19** In New Avengers #3, a non-possessed Sentry does this to Carnage.
20** The Void, possessing the Sentry, pulls this on Ares. Vertically. With his hands.
21* HurlItIntoTheSun: After defeating the Void in the second mini, Bob hurls it into the sun after giving it [[ScrewYourself a kiss]]. In Bendis' ''New Avengers'', he proposes doing the same thing to the Collective, which gets lampshaded in-comic: "I don't throw ''everything'' into the sun."
22* TheJekyllIsAJerk: The Sentry is a NighInvulnerable PhysicalGod who seems like an IdealHero at face value but is actually very dangerous due to his mental instability coupled with his power level. The Sentry's greatest enemy and his evil split personality is an EldritchAbomination called The Void, which is equal in power and will kill a person whenever the Sentry saves someone. The original person, Bob Reynolds, was a mentally unstable junkie who accidentally drank SuperSerum when looking for a fix, and the resulting problems may be a result of Reynolds repressing the real circumstances of how he got his powers. Essentially, the serum made him the ultimate RealityWarper and he created both a (warped) version of the hero he wanted to be and a monstrous reflection of how he actually thought of himself.
23* IdealHero: The second miniseries reveals that the Sentry persona is actually Bob Reynolds' idealized version of himself: the handsome, invincible champion of the entire planet.
24* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Imposed this on everyone, including himself, before the events of the first mini, [[spoiler:courtesy of a transmitter he and Reed created]].
25* MercyKill: In the 2018 series, Bob has to do this to [[spoiler:Scout]] who was wracked with ceaseless pain from a corrupted facsimile of his own powers that rendered him virtually invincible while melting him from the inside-out.
26* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In his miniseries, the Sentry actually bled after being bitten by a dog. By the time ''Siege'' rolled around, Bob was shrugging off blows from Thor's hammer without a scratch on him.
27* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Bob's hair is of average length, but becomes quite long when he's the Sentry. This wasn't present in the original miniseries but was added when the Sentry was introduced to the main Marvel Universe to distinguish him from other blonde heroes when unmasked. This was such a late change that the cover of New Avengers 3 [[CoversAlwaysLie has a short-haired Sentry.]]
28* PsychoSerum: The serum that gave Bob his powers was a new version of the Super Soldier serum amplified 100,000 fold. According to the second mini, Bob became the insane Void persona from the moment he ingested the serum.
29* SealedBadassInACan: in the Lemire miniseries, Bob willingly limits himself on a kind of parole which uses a device to periodically visit an alternate universe where he can be both Sentry and the Void. [[spoiler:Things start to go wrong when the device, a one-of-a-kind gadget Tony Stark and Doctor Strange made for Bob, gets stolen by Scout, his bitter ex-sidekick who ended up being driven AxeCrazy by the Sentry's powers. The result was a merger of Bob, the Sentry, and the Void, with the new Merged Sentry,]] decidedly ''not'' being in the mood to be imprisoned.
30* SplitPersonalityMerge: At the end of the 2018 miniseries, Bob and the Void merge turning into a black-haired, red-costumed being with the powers and personality of the Sentry and Void combined.
31* SupermanSubstitute: The original series seems to be heavily inspired by Creator/AlanMoore's rework of ''Marvelman''/''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}''. Both feature middle-aged guys who are vaguely haunted by their past as the most powerful person on the planet, even down to details like being jealous of their super selves, their wives being more attracted to their other selves, and their origins in a secret government program. Which makes the Sentry an {{Expy}} of a reworked DarkerAndEdgier CaptainErsatz of a CaptainErsatz, as Marvelman was a British copy of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], who was himself a copy of Superman. So he's like Franchise/{{Superman}}'s fifth cousin twice removed.

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