This is the major crossover event for 2010, and it involves Norman Osborn and the God of Mischief, Loki, plotting to invade and take over Asgard, which presently exists on Earth, hovering over Oklahoma. The New Avengers, including the returning Captain America, the Mighty Avengers, and Osborn's Dark Avengers will all be involved in this plotline.
My favorite Marvel superhero the Sentry will apparently be a central charcter in this event. I like that, any time he gets in the comics, I will read about!
Well, they advertised for issue 2 of this series that "an Avenger would die" and they were right!
But they didn't say which kind of Avenger. There's New, Dark, Mighty, and Young!
Anyway, Ares of the Dark Avengers was fighting the Asgardians, and one of them told him that the real enemy in this fight was Norman Orborn. Ares agreed, and confronted Osborn with his accusation of his attempt to take over Asgard. Ares then said he would destroy Osborn for that treachery!
He then is about to attack Osborn, but the Sentry (hooray!) comes out of nowhere and prevents that, as he feels he needs to protect Osborn, after all the "help" he has given to Reynolds in controlling the Void.
Anyway, Ares and Sentry keep battling, and Ares says he had once considered Sentry a friend, but no longer. Wordlessly, and seemingly without any emotion, Sentry takes hold of Ares, lifts him up, and.....tears him apart!
WHAT?!?!
I know that the Sentry is the most powerful superhero on Earth, but Ares is a GOD! I thought they were more or less immortal, and could not die in that manner! What's going on here?
I really do wonder if Ares' demise will be permanent. I mean, what about the other Olympian Gods, how will they react to this? Also, what will happen to Thor, now that he has been battered down by the other Dark Avengers? How will the other Asgardians deal with this?
I look forward to the rest of the series. Just like when the pro-Superhuman Registration Act heroes made a clone of Thor back during the Civil War, when Sentry literally tore Ares in half, I was like "I didn't see THAT coming!"
Sentry and Thor have not yet fought in the mainstream Marvel Universe, but in last year's "What If: Secret Invasion", they did battle, and Thor snapped Sentry's neck. Like I said, that was a What If, so it didn't really happen.
I wonder, will this really happen?
Heard about that scene & rolled my eyes. Even at his most powerful DC wouldn't have had Superman beat a god. Do the Marvel writers have a bet on just how ridiculously overpowered they can make a character?
On the other hand, IIRC Ares was killed in a Hercules miniseries back in the '80s... and he got better.
Not to mention actual mythology where, IIRC, one myth had some enemies of the gods capturing Ares, & ripping off his arms & legs (or was it just his tendons?). He got better.
Keith, do you remember the Superman Vs. Darkseid one-shot? Superman challenged the Dark God to a battle, with Kal-El getting John Henry Irons back from Apokolips if he could win.
Superman fought long and hard, and ended up swelling Darkseid's eyes closed so he could no longer use his Omega Effect. And when Supes said that all he wanted was Irons back, Darkseid was amazed, because he could have had so much more. Superman told Darkseid to read it and weep, and told him to not come wreck havoc on Earth again.
My point is, they did not have Superman *destroy* Darkseid the way the Sentry tear Ares apart. I am a fan of Greek Mythology myself, but I had never read the one where Ares has his limbs ripped off. And yes, as a God, I can see him "getting better" from that.
Just like I don't think that in the Marvel Universe is Ares' death permanent. I just don't buy it.
Also, remember the Titan Prometheus? His punishment from Zeus for giving fire to Man was to be shackled up on a mountainside, with vultures forever tearing open his side and eating his liver. Being immortal, he could not die from this, so you see the agonizing torture he was under?
The myth said he was there for many centuries, until another was born brave enough to defy the Gods. He climbed up the mountain, broke the shackles and killed the vultures. His name - Heracles (or Hercules, depending on the myth.)
Cool! So that's why I don't think Ares will be dead for long.
As for Robert Reynolds, He seems to be getting more and more unstable, and possibly becoming dangerous to the denizens of Earth. I really hope he does not become the "Parralax" of the Marvel Universe: you know what I mean?
No, I never saw the Superman vs. Darkseid one. Sounds like it was around the time of the Our Worlds At War storyline. I was thinking back to the Silver Age which most people think featured Supes at his most powerful.
AMR - I am a fan of Greek Mythology myself, but I had never read the one where Ares has his limbs ripped off.
I finally found the book I thought I had read that in, but apparently I misremembered. The Aloeids had captured Ares, bound his arms & legs & locked him in a chest. Not sure why I remembered it as removing his tendons.
You're thinking of Achilles?
I hate to say this, but I don't think the Sentry is going to be around in the Marvel Universe for much longer.
I just read Siege #3, and it seems as if Marvel is going to do away with Sentry for good very soon, once the mini-series is completed.
In another battle with the Dark Avengers and Thor and the other Marvel heroes, Asgard is reduded to rubble and Loki is thought to have been killed. The heroes have attacked Norman Osborn and forced him into submission, and he tells them that they "don't know what they've done". Norman says that he was "the only one that could control him", and that "he'll kill you all."
The last page shows Robert Reynolds in some kind of weird-looking tentacled demonic form of evil, which the heroes will now have to defeat.
That's why I think Marvel is killing off the Sentry, they realized their mistake in making him too powerful, and now he will have to die.
This is pretty depressing for me. Sentry has been my favorite Marvel character ever since he was re-introduced in New Avengers #1, where he saved the heroes by pulling Carnage up into space and ripping him in half. I have to say, I was impressed with this character immediately!
Anyway, when Siege #4 comes out, we'll see if I'm right!
"Re-introduced"? I'm not sure if you realize the Sentry is a 21st Century implant into the Marvel U. If so, "re-introduced" is an odd (to me) choice of words.
Excelsior!
Benn, the reason I say that Marvel re-introduced Sentry is because he actually debuted in 2000, had a few comic appearances, and then was not used again until New Avengers started in 2004.
Just to let you know.
No prob.
The Siege is over. The Avengers and their Asgardian allies were victorious over the Dark Avengers, however, thanks to the Sentry, acting under orders from Norman Osborn, Asgard lies in ruins.
Robert Reynolds was unable to deal with his two alter egos constantly fighting, as the Sentry, he would do good, but as the Void, he would do bad. And Robert even begged the Avengers to kill him when he was in his powerless human state. The Void rose up in him one final time, and Thor was forced to destroy it, this time for good. Thor then went to the Sun and laid Reynolds's remains to rest within the mighty yellow star.
There was a funeral/memorial service for the Sentry, in the "Siege: Epilogue" special entitled "Sentry: Fallen Sun". I found it to be profound as well as appropriately written. A fine send-off for the one character I felt that Marvel was never able to know just what to do with, as his powers were beyond any other being on the planet Earth.
Sadly, the Sentry had to be killed off. I even predicted it a few months ago. It is quite tragic, but Benn and I had earlier agreed that Robert Reynolds was just too powerful, and that if nothing on Earth could harm him, what could Marvel do with him besides have him be mentally psychologically unstable so he would then end up being a threat to even his allies?
Anyway, as I had stated before, Sentry was my favorite Marvel character since I first saw him back in 2004, in New Avengers #1. I shall miss him!
R.I.P. Robert "Sentry/Void" Reynolds, 2000-2010
Here's an article explaining what's wrong with the Sentry (not to mention his funeral). NSFW
Excelsior!
Keep in mind, Andre, that it's cool that you like Sentry. Alot of people don't and the article does articulate why. Moreover, I wouldn't worry that he's "dead". This is, after all, comic book death we're talking about. He'll be resurrected before you know it.
Excelsior!
Hmm. Interesting article. But I don't care about that person's opinion. When it comes to comics, pretty much only my opinion counts, because I'm the one buying the comics I like, I am not going to start getting the ones others like all of a sudden. Even if they are more "popular" or "mainstream".
BTW, I couldn't care less about the Scarlet Witch or Rogue, so I am not concerned about their involvement with Robert. I had not idea that he ever even had any involvement of any kind with any woman other than his wife. But it is all irrvelvant now.
I do not get into all those years-long controversies or conspiracies about the way comic book characters *should* be, and I don't waste my time like a no-life-having ubergeek fanboy who constantly posts on a BBS about how much they hate a certain writer because of what they had their favorite character say or do in the recent issue.
Do you all get me about that? I have neither the time or patience for such a meaningless activity!
I buy both Marvel and DC and I generally accept what the writers decide to do for the characters in that issue. I'm not a comic book writer, and I would never tell an actual comic book writer how to do their job!
Thank you for allowing me to vent. End of rant.
P.S. If so many people hate Sentry so much, I would rather have him stay dead and have Marvel NEVER bring him back, as opposed to having everyone get all worked up and upset over why "Marvel doesn't need a Superman" and that kind of thing!