Post by Marvel Girl on Apr 19, 2008 12:07:09 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Cannon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Robert Reynolds
Code names/Aliases: Sentry, Void, Bob, Golden Guardian of Good, John Victor Williams, Scout
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Adventurer
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Gender: Male
Age: 28
Apparent Age: 28
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 6'2, 200lbs.
Appearance: The Sentry is a tall well built man with shoulder lenght long blond hair. He is caucisan and stands over six feet tall. As the Sentry he is usually dressed in his gold and blue costume, pictured below that holds a blue belt with a stylized gold S. Also The sentry has a constant light glow about him that calms even a fully enraged Hulk.
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Super Powers: The Sentry's superhuman powers and abilities derive from the Super Soldier Serum as the serum was increased 1000 times. Making it much more potent the experimental serum creates a phase-shift in his molecules, causing each atom to step an instant ahead of the current timeline. The serum induces a photosynthetic reaction, resulting in a hyperstate of consciousness. Though most of his powers and their limits are still unknown, he has displayed several abilities similarly possessed by Superman. Such are:
Superhuman Strength: The Sentry possesses vast superhuman strength, granting him the ability to lift (press) far in excess of 100 tons. He has demonstrated several astonishing feats of strength during his career, including easily lifting tremendous weights, ripping Carnage in two (although it is not certain if he is dead), taking Terrax the Tamer's cosmic axe and shattering it with his bare hands, and his unrestrained power overloaded the Absorbing Man. While possessed by The Void he was able to break the Hulk's limbs with relative ease. He can also absorb solar radiation for additional strength. The Sentry has yet demonstrated a limit to his strength, but he easily rivals the likes of the Thor and Hercules. His recent clash with the most powerful incarnation of the Hulk has suggested his physical prowess is among the elite as he was able to hold his own until collapsing.
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 minutes (where it takes light over 8 minutes). This perhaps suggest that his speed during inter-stellar travels is in excess of the speed of light if not near it.
Flight: The Sentry possesses the ability to float by unknown means, utilizing his superhuman speed to fly far above supersonic speeds. He has demonstrated traveling to the Sun and back in a matter of minutes.
Superhuman Senses: The Sentry possesses superhuman senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, and has been demonstrated hearing a butterfly's heartbeat in Africa.
Photokinesis: It may be theorized that the Sentry also has the superhuman ability to generate, control, and emit light. This ability to produce hard-light constructs may be similar to those of Dazzler's when it was revealed that the Void is a just an expression of his repressed persona, and thus his creation. He
Telepathy: The Sentry possesses vast psychic and mental forces mainly used for holding his physical powers together, though it is not yet mentioned whether the Sentry can use them the way Professor X and other psychics use theirs; the only psychic abilities he had displayed so far is implanting his memories inside Paul Jenkins' mind.
Invulnerability: The Sentry seems to possess high-invulnerability, and has been seen surviving extremely harsh atmospheric conditions, including the vacuums of space. Nick Fury has stated that so far they haven't found a way to kill the Sentry and Iron Man's scanners found no physiological weaknesses in the Sentry's body (although its been displayed multiple times that he is susceptible to mental manipulation: by the Void, the Crazed General and a villain known as the Hippi who forced him to drink an entire lake of LSD) .
Healing/Resurrection: The Sentry appears to be able to bring the dead back to life under extreme emotional distress. As revealed in The Mighty Avengers issue 6 series, After Ultron/Tony Stark murdered his wife, Sentry was able to resuscitate her by simply touching her. It does not appear he has control over this power, as he was shocked by his ability to do such an act. This may also extend to simply healing others' injuries.
With Marvel dubbing The Sentry as the world's most powerful superhero, and with the serum causing a photosynthetic reaction to his body, completely altering his state of consciousness, it is nonetheless conceivable that Sentry's powers are limitless, and may even rival those of the Silver Surfer's and Phoenix's. He has very similar powers to Gladiator and Hyperion, as they too were based on Superman. In effect, the Sentry's powers are limitless.
Learned Abilities: None known.
Equipment: Cloc, a robot designed to monitor the world for emergencies and inform Sentry of the most important ones.
Weaknesses (Must Have): First and foremost he is deathly afraid of his powers, having a strong case of agoraphobia. Secondly its unknown if he has any resistance to mental munipulation. Thirdly, is that he is weakened when in the N-Zone. Fourthly, he has sever emotional isssues and his power becomes way out of control. Finally, if anything happens to Lindy, he'll kill who ever harmed her.
Background: In 1947, Canada's Weapon X and remnants of the United State's Operation: Rebirth pooled their resources to become Project: Sentry, an attempt to not only recreate the Super Soldier Serum but, in post-war hubris, magnify its effects a thousand times over. Unfortunately, within a few years it had divided nearly a thousandfold itself into isolated sub-projects, with lab work farmed out to private contractors and overall administration virtually nil. Precisely where all of its resources ended up over the decades, what they might have begun, and where they ultimately led is unknown.
Over ten years later, Robert Reynolds, a gifted but erratic student, stole a chemical compound from one of his science instructors, the Professor, as part of his age-old quest for the ultimate high. Consuming the compound, Robert Reynolds gained the power of a million exploding suns. Project: Sentry, appalled at what their irresponsibility had wrought, persuaded Reynolds to let them test his powers at their facility, but they could not contain him for long, nor contain his desire to use his powers for good use, and the Sentry debuted before a world that had almost forgotten superhuman Samaritans. After trouncing the school bully who had tormented him, Reynolds sewed together a costume and made his debut as the heroic Sentry.
The Sentry was an optimistic and socially accepted hero who stood in marked contrast to the mostly freakish nature of Marvel characters. He had connections to Mister Fantastic, Iron Man, the Hulk, Spider-Man and Professor X. One of very few super heroes active during the years just prior to the Fantastic Four's emergence, Sentry gained new importance when the new wave of heroes rose to prominence. Almost instantly deducing Spider-Man's secret identity, Sentry became a role model for the young hero, as well as an ally to the X-Men, an equal to Reed Richards and a friend to the outcast Hulk. The Sentry even battled Dr. Doom alongside the Fantastic Four and defeated his greatest enemy, the General, with the X-Men's aid.
During this period, the Sentry married the love of his life, Lindy, and took the young Scout as his sidekick; but the arrival of the Void, a shadowy monster that exploited its enemy's greatest fears, ended the Sentry's charmed life. The Void nearly killed Scout, drove Hulk into a rampage, and murdered over one million people in Manhattan. Discovering that the Void had been the dark aspect of his own powers, the Sentry teamed with Reed Richards and Dr. Strange to create a system which made Earth's entire population, themselves included, forget all about the Sentry. With the Sentry inactive and forgotten, the Void vanished.
Years later, Robert's memories slowly returned along with the Void, who rampaged across Europe, murdering many members of the Super-Heroes of Europe (SHE). The Sentry contacted his former colleagues, but the only one who recalled their shared history was the Hulk. As the Void returned to Manhattan, the pieces began to fall in place and the Sentry's former friends assembled to defend him and the city. Remembering the dual nature of Robert's powers, Sentry and Reed Richards reactivated the Watchtower, dispelling the Void and making the world forget the Sentry once again; Later, however, Robert's memories of the Sentry soon returned, and he demanded to be placed on the Raft, S.H.I.E.L.D.' high-security prison for super-villains, claiming that he had killed his wife. Lawyers Daredevil and Foggy Nelson with bodyguard Luke Cage and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jessica Drew traveled to the Raft to visit the Sentry, in order to "find out what happened to him and his wife". Soon after their arrival the supervillain Electro staged a massive jailbreak, freeing almost ninety supervillains who then attacked Murdock, Nelson, Cage and Drew, along with the newly arrived Captain America and Spider-Man. During the ensuing melee the group is confronted by the alien symbiote, Carnage. Foggy Nelson, thrown into the cell containing Robert Reynolds, attempts to convince the Sentry to help them. Without saying a word, the Sentry blasts through nine levels of the complex carrying Carnage into space, where he rips the alien symbiote in half, possibly killing it (there appeared to be no body inside the symbiote). Inspired by this adventure, the other heroes soon formed the new Avengers, but Sentry vanished before they could invite him to join them. The Sentry stayed in hiding, but remained a person of great interest to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, who were both fascinated by his powers and worried that they may lead to another Scarlet Witch situation.
Returned to the world, the Sentry captured the hearts of the public, newspapers referring to him as "the Golden Guardian", and he saved hundreds of lives on a daily basis; Reynolds' psychological problems, however, had worsened. Unable to reconcile that Robert Reynolds, the Sentry and the Void are the same being, the Sentry contained the Void in a vault in the Watchtower. At C.L.O.C.'s urging, Reynolds' psychiatrist Dr. Cornelius Worth enters the vault and finds only a chair and a mirror. When Cornelius confronts Reynolds with this, Reynolds becomes confused and runs to the fairgrounds where he first gained his powers.
Cornelius followed Reynolds to the fairgrounds where the Sentry and the Void had been fighting. The Void claims that Reynolds transformed into the Void rather than the Sentry, and that the Sentry was merely a guilt-borne byproduct of that transformation. With only half of Robert Reynolds' memories (the Void possessing the other half), the Sentry was not sure the Void was wrong. The Sentry chased the Void away and then explains to Cornelius why Reynolds had hired him in the first place. Reynolds subconsciously wanted someone to reveal the Void's existence to the world so he would no longer have to hide that aspect of himself. The Sentry then tells Cornelius how Reynolds really gained his powers as a teenager: by stealing the Professor's serum and ingesting it to get high. He also tells Cornelius that he knew all along that the Void was never in the Watchtower's vault. He knew that if Reynolds believed he believed the Void to be in the Watchtower, the Void would be. This kept the world safe from the Void for as long as the Sentry could keep up the charade.
The Sentry then visited Dr. Strange to determine if he is real or not. Strange tricked the Sentry into traveling to his old Professor's research facility where the two men confine the Sentry in an illusionary realm where he is a mental patient and superheroes do not exist in an attempt to prevent any further destruction. The Sentry broke free of the illusion and after confronting the Professor, who made the original serum, he traveled to Antarctica to confront the Void and discover what memories of Reynolds the Void has in his mind.
The Void claimed that Reynolds had actually ingested a super-saturated, exponentially more potent version of the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America. This was considered dangerous by the government because the Sentry's blood could be used to create more of the serum, enough for the entire world. Several failed attempts were made to kill him. Enraged by this revelation, the Sentry throws the Void into the Sun, telling his enemy that he no longer needs him to balance his own actions of good. The Void promises to return.
Eventually, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the New Avengers confronted the Sentry with several disturbing facts: The wife he claimed to have killed was alive, and the only reference in the world that could be found of the Sentry was in comic books, stories invented and written down by the imagination of a man. Unable to face these shocking events, the Sentry fled. Resurfacing as Robert Reynolds at his home, the Sentry was again confronted by the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., along with the Inhumans and the X-Men. He cried, saying that he had warned them of the Void's coming and that it was now too late. The group was suddenly attacked by the Void. Robert, along with the help of Emma Frost, discovered that the reason no one remembered him was not because of his own attempts to erase the Void, but because of the intervention and manipulation of his mind. Mastermind, hired by the General, had used the great mental powers the Sentry needed to contain his abilities to force everyone (himself included) to forget of the Sentry's existence. Should the Sentry ever remember his life, then he would be struck by a fear of the devil attacking the world, hence the Void. With this new found knowledge, the Void disappeared, and Emma Frost resurrected the Sentry. The New Avengers offered him membership, partly to keep an eye on him and partly because they would need his power, which he accepted.
Later, Yelena Belova attacks the Avengers and absorbs the Sentry's powers. After Belova defeats each of the Avengers, she is defeated by the manifestation of the Void, which envelops and incapacitates her. The Sentry tells Belova that absorbing his powers has exposed her to the Void, but if she answers his questions, he can send the Void away. Later still, the Sentry fights Iron Man. During the course of the battle, Iron Man yells "C.L.O.C." - the name of the Sentry's robot prioritizing system - which then feeds all kinds of emergencies into the the Sentry's head, leaving him incapacitated and unable to finish Iron Man.
Recently, in the events of Civil War, the Sentry sides with Iron Man's Pro-Registration program. He accompanies a S.H.I.E.L.D. squad to battle Wolverine and tells him that he doesn't want to get involved but sees no choice - he claims he has to stop the ugly business even if that means becoming part of it for a while. He then knocks Wolverine unconscious and hands him over to S.H.I.E.L.D. After trying to escape from a battle between the New Avengers, believing that every path he could choose would ultimately lead to the death of people he knew, the Sentry was confronted by the Inhumans. Believed a threat, he was ordered to follow them to Black Bolt's presence on the Blue Side of the Moon. Then, after a discussion of the Civil War events with the (still unaware) Inhumans, he rekindled his friendship with them and almost resumed his past relationship with Crystal. He was then confronted by Iron Man himself, who finally convinced a still reluctant Sentry to join him. Three days after the climactic battle of the Civil War, the Sentry publicly announces his support of the Registration Act. Additionally, he has been recruited by Tony Stark to be part of the Mighty Avengers, the newest incarnation of the Avengers team. He has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes of the Initiative.
While at first there was some dispute between the Sentry and his wife, Robert joins the team while Tony Stark and Ms. Marvel offer him assistance to battle his mental issues. He's described to be the most powerful of the team, but lacks proper training on how to use his abilities, usually apologizing for his mistakes, such as causing damage to the city building and then again when he's thrown into a blimp. When Iron Man morphs into the new female Ultron, she analyzes the Sentry and states his high power level and being very difficult to terminate. He has yet to demonstrate said power, but so far he's managed to brush off any attacks from Ultron. He battles Ultron, with neither one seeming to be able to win, until Stark's helicarrier falls due to a computer virus from Ultron.
In the battle against Ultron the two proved to be evenly matched. Neither was able to win until Ultron used a virus to down Stark's helicarrier. Ultron then initiated "Plan B" and killed Lindy, the Sentry's wife. An enraged Sentry - his eyes completely dark, reminiscient of a possible return of the Void - attacks Ultron once more. And in an exchange of blows Sentry is knocked away as Ares and Ant-Man proceed to infest Ultron with a virus intended to destroy it. Soon after, Sentry once again attacks Ultron, almost compromising the Avengers plan, nearly destroying Ultron by tearing its head off. Before he can finish, he is knocked away by Ms. Marvel. After Ultron's defeat he returns to the Watchtower to find his wife, Lindy, alive and well - having apparently revived her himself. Stark is later shocked when a terrified Lindy secretly requests that he find a way to either de-power or kill her husband
During the World War Hulk event the Sentry talks to Reed Richards and Tony Stark. As both men were able to convince Robert to fight off the Hulk upon his return to Earth, but not before the Sentry had a talk with Iron Man. A confrontation with the Hulk ends up dropping Sentry's Watchtower straight down through Stark Tower/Avengers headquarters, destroying it. Later, Reed Richards tries to build a machine that will cast a projection of the Sentry and recreates his calming aura, hoping that it would calm the Hulk, but the Hulk doesn't fall for it. Later in a confrontation between the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, Sue Storm tries to call the real Sentry for help, but he does not answer the call and is sitting in his apartment watching television. The President attempts to convince the Sentry to fight the Hulk. The Sentry watches the battle between the Illuminati (minus Professor X) and a gigantic monster. When the Illuminati are victorious, the Hulk modifies the obedience disks implanted in them, making them want to kill each other. After seeing this, the Sentry flies out of his home to face the Hulk, declaring that it was time to play God.
As Mister Fantastic was ordered to kill Iron Man, Hulk stopped this declaring that his return was for justice. Sentry had arrived and engaged the Hulk for a while until both reverted to human forms, the battle ending with Bruce hitting the Sentry with a weak punch causing Robert to collapse before him.
Personality : The Sentry is an extremely powerful being and fully is aware of it. However he also has a deep fear of it, making him an agoraphobic. It has kept him at times from intervining insome cases due to his fear of his dark side the Void. His wife Lindy calls it his "bad days." However The Sentry is a devote family man and loyal friend and will push past his fear to protect them and the world.
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Brief Sample Roleplay I am Robert Reynolds. I’m a mild-mannered, easy-going kind of guy. I like tennis and Bill Cosby. I hate salad. I prefer dogs to cats. Nothing personal, I just do.
I am the Sentry. I’m one of the universe’s most powerful defenders. I can bench press the planet. I stare Death in the eye. Children want to be me when they grow up. I inspire others.
I am the Void. I cause nightmares. I devastate lives. I would sooner crush your skull and take your wallet then smile at you. I don’t know the meaning of the word “remorse.” Pity is something you’ll have to look elsewhere for.
I am a hero.
To be a hero, you have to know how to act. You have to know when to fight, and when to flee. You have to be able to put others before yourself. You have to do the right thing, no matter what.
I think about two-thirds of me can act like that.
It’s not always easy. Sometimes, when I’m hovering above the landscape in my golden uniform, I think to myself, “I deserve some time off. I’ve saved more then my share of lives this week. Aren’t I entitled to just a small vacation, even for just a few hours?”
Right about then is usually when Cloc tells me there’s an earthquake in Istanbul or something.
Cloc is my super computer that keeps tabs on the world to let me know where I’m needed. I can’t be everywhere at once, but with Cloc, I can do the next best thing. Cloc is my best friend…sort of. I don’t really have friends. Reed Richards and I were really close once, but it’s not like I can play poker with the guys every Friday when London is being held for ransom.
What if I really did take a vacation for once? What if Reed and I did play poker on Friday?
“Excuse me, sir?”
