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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Sentry: The Marvel Superman's One 'Weakness' Is Too Raw for the MCU - and That's Unfortunate sentry Sign in to your CBR account The Sentry has the honor of being both one of the most powerful Marvel superheroes and one of the most controversial, and these two facts are not exactly mutually exclusive. Marvel's take on a certain Man of Steel, The Sentry, and the events that introduced him was seen as ill-fitting for the more grounded Marvel Universe. Despite this immense power level, The Sentry is shown to have a surprising weakness. One of the reasons that the Golden Guardian of Good is so powerful is that he literally became addicted to the drugs that first empowered him. This made what was essentially a superhero deconstruction character even darker. It's this darkness that might keep him out of the MCU. Here's a look at The Sentry's substance dependency and why it might be too dark for the big screen. The Sentry and Drug Addiction Even before becoming The Sentry, Robert Reynolds, his human alter ego, was a drug addict. He first took the compound that gave him his powers as a means of potentially getting high, and he discovered it and its Nazi creators (who were hoping to recreate Captain America's super-soldier serum) by accident. The event that turned him into The Sentry the first time was also incredibly dark and tragic, as it killed several of those around him. Now craving the power that the serum bequeathed him, Reynolds was desperate for the scientist who created the Golden Sentry Serum to make more of it. Despite his sunny exterior, he would become increasingly dependent on this substance. This is referenced in the original The Sentry miniseries by Paul Jenkins and John Romita Jr., where a flashback to the
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