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Marvel’sSentryis one ofthe most potent superheroes in the Marvel Universe , but his key weakness was taken from the company ’s Distinguished Competition via a Silver AgeGreen Lanterncomic . The two heroes , while possess wonderful power , are very much unalike in both ability and disposition . But inFlash # 227andFlash # 228 , a seemingly - barren Green Lantern story is the root of Robert Reynolds ' crippling weakness .
Conceptualized in the 90s , the Sentry is a massively - overpower character , though Robert Reynolds has various weakness to prevent the power for well solving any trouble . He suffers from severe genial health issues , including incapacitating agoraphobia , schizophrenia and alcoholism , and these often stop him from suit up and saving Clarence Shepard Day Jr. single - handedly ( thisis especially obtrusive inWorld War Hulk , in which the heroes of the Marvel Universe much have to pray him multiple times to help ) . In contrast to his strong-arm might , his genial res publica is quite fragile - and this ingredient into his biggest weakness : the Void .
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The concept of the Void would make a very early and rather misshapen appearance inFlash # 227andFlash # 228 . The back story , My Ring , My Enemy , centered around Green Lantern ’s surprising outbursts during the narration . He salvage a woman from a mountain climbing accident only to tell her to go forth the passel climbing to gentleman’s gentleman and"stay in the kitchen,“and rescues survivor from a woodland fervor only to perforate one in the bowel for failing to save himself . He quick realizes his actions are wrong andthe Green Lantern Power Ring is to find fault . “Each good I do is balance with an evil ! My ring is … my enemy ! "
Green Lantern eventually solves the problem by dominate his pack not to save civilian from the raging woodland fire … which is incisively what the ring does later ( the exact logic as to how inverse psychology can clear a equaliser of good and evil is not clear , but funnies in the fifty and 60 seldom paused to make logical sense ) . The Sentry has a similar weakness take the Void , though his is considerably more serious than the above Silver Age gimmick - centric story . For every act of upright charge by the Sentry , the Void commit an number of evil . Moreover , the Void is an internal manifestationof the Sentry ’s weaknesses in himself , and in a way , can never unfeignedly be defeated .
The balancing enactment between good and evil is Marvel ’s own elbow room of foreclose theSentry from becoming their version of Superman : a sub without any flaw . The parallel between the characters are easy to see , but the Sentry isdeliberatelyoverpowered by design . Green Lanternmay not be as democratic now as he was in the Silver Age , but this one story is - perhaps - the source for theSentry’smost unequalled weakness .
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