Sentry

## The Sentry

"*You may be the dark, but I am the **light**! And shadows **always** die in the light of the sun. So will you. So will **anyone** who dares threaten this world. **My** world! [...] I know who I am. I am the Sentry. Earth's greatest hero. Not even **you** can stop that now,*"
—Sentry taunting The Void[src]
**Robert "Bob" Reynolds** is a former meth-addict who accidentally consumed a potent replication of the Super Soldier Serum, gaining the power of a million exploding suns and becoming **The Sentry**, the greatest hero Earth has ever known. However, Reynolds discovered that his archenemy, The Void, was actually a part of his own repressed personality. To protect Earth, he erased the memory of the Sentry - and therefore of The Void - from the minds of everyone on Earth, including his own.

In 1988, Robert started remembering his heroic adventures as The Sentry, while also rediscovering the truth of The Void. He finally separated himself from The Void, not knowing the entity would gain its own physical form and the powers of a god. Sentry faced down The Void in a battle that completely destroyed New York, besting his nemesis and re-merging himself with The Void. Sentry then placed himself at the bottom of the ocean, where he could meditate and quieten The Void.

More than thirty years later, Sentry was awakened by S.W.O.R.D to help the Future Foundation against the coming of Kang the Conqueror. However, the Prime Kang acquired the Ebony Blade and corrupted it, awakening The Void. The Cosmic Worm almost gained its full power, but was stopped by the supposed sacrifice of Spider-Man and Immortus. Carrying the guilt for The Void's actions, Sentry allowed himself to be kept imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Following the Incursion, Sentry and The Void merged into one being and fought in God Emperor Doom's arena on Battleworld. When The Void was defeated by Jack Of Hearts, Robert used the power of Battleworld's star to awaken the Sentry, turning the tide of the final battle between Doom and the Resistance. Sentry attended the funeral of Scarlet Spider before deciding to explore the Cosmos, where the threat of The Void would no longer hang over Earth.

## Biography

### Early Life and Background

Robert Reynolds was born in 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany in World War One. His father was a soldier who never returned from war while his mother was a poor washerwoman who saw her son as a burden. He grew up on the streets and quickly became a career criminal, before having a change of heart and attempting to enlist in the US military during World War Two. After being denied, he fell into depression and ended up on methamphetamine.

### Becoming the Sentry

Reynolds bribed a doctor named Baron Von Blitzschlag and was able to break into a lab where some of the ingredients to make meth were being stored. Instead, however, Reynolds found a secret serum that the government had created to create an army of super-soldiers. Ingesting the serum, Reynolds gained the power of a million exploding suns, giving him the ability to fly, project light, survive any environment and the strength to lift over 1,000,000 metric tons comfortably. Recognising his responsibility, Reynolds took the identity of The Sentry, and was quickly recognised as Earth's protector against any threats that faced it.

## Powers, Equipment and Abilities

* **Chemically Enhanced Physiology:** The Sentry's superhuman powers and abilities derive from a special version of the Super Soldier Serum of which it's potency was increased thousands of times by cosmic radiation. The experimental serum creates a phase-shift in his molecules, causing the Sentry to become partially out of synch with normal reality. The serum induces a photosynthetic reaction, resulting in a hyperstate of consciousness. 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.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** The Sentry's strength varies greatly and depends on his mental stability. The Sentry possesses vast superhuman strength, granting him the ability to lift far in excess of 1,000,000 metric tons easily. He is one of the strongest beings in the Universe.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** The Sentry possesses the ability to think, move, 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 interstellar travels is several times that of the speed of light.
	+ **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 greatly varies, depending on his mental 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 several times the speed of Sound.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** The Sentry possesses vastly enhanced senses. He is able to hear almost any sound at any volume or pitch. He has shown enough control to block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. 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.
	+ **Flight:** The Sentry possesses the ability to float by defying gravity, utilizing his superhuman speed to fly far above hypersonic speeds. He has demonstrated traveling to the Sun and back in a matter of moments which would require him to fly at speeds faster than light.
	+ **Nigh Invulnerability:** The Sentry is, for all intents and purposes, almost completely impervious to harm, unless he wills himself to be killed. He has no known specific weakness, other than the corrupted Ebony Blade. He has been seen surviving extremely harsh atmospheric conditions, including the vacuums of space.
	+ **Psionic Abilities:** The Sentry possesses powerful psychic and mental powers mainly used for holding his physical form together.
	+ **Healing Factor:** The Sentry can heal himself from virtually all injuries. He also ages at an extremely slow rate, giving him the appearance of a man in his thirties even though he is well into his 100's.
	+ **Photokinesis:** The Sentry has the superhuman ability to generate, control, and emit light.
		- **Light Projection:** By conscious control over the light he produces, he can control its direction, frequency, amplitude and duration. The Sentry can produce numerous effects with the light he manipulates. He can simply cause a bright glow all about his body. 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.
		- **Energy Blasts:** The Sentry can generate light, heat, 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. The maximum power of these blasts is unknown.