Was disappointed by new origin story for Sentry in Thunderbolts

I've never read some big overarching story arcs in Marvel/DC, but plenty of short self-contained stories or limited series. And I really love "The Sentry (2000)". It's a great story, which beats you can't pull a second time. And now there is no way to adapt this story "He was one of us from the start, but we forgot", because half of original run was powered by the question "Who the fuck is Bob?".

It's a shame Marvel decided to change this aspect of Sentry.

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AntonineWall2025-12-24 13:36

I thought it was awesome; definitely made for a more interesting movie that I had expected when going in

NicoleIlieva2025-12-24 13:56

His comics origin works best in a contained story.

His movie origin is better, and makes much more sense within the context of the MCU.

N8CCRG2025-12-24 14:22

I think you're in the minority for preferring the "Actually Sentry was there all along but the universe and the audience all forgot" retconning backstory. But even if it was more popular, the fact that they already erased the memory of Peter Parker from the universe means they'd be retreading a lot of familiar ground if they tried to tell that story.

umbium2025-12-24 15:32

I am grateful they didn't do that.

Even if in comics works because they nailed it once, wich i doubt, but i didn't read the story, and usually a lot of praised comic stories are random crazy plot twists that come from nowhere.

In cinema this kind of plots are usually seen as cheap and i have yet to see once this troupe is used in a good way. Saying Sentry was there from the start would have been really bad received such a crazy retcon.

We had something similar with the ant man and captain marvel retcons and fandom didn't liked it too much.

mrbaryonyx2025-12-24 17:51

yeah, the problem is that was like, the one good Sentry story

after that he was basically like "the big god character whose unstoppable" and then gets his ass beat by whoever the big bad is for that particular event (Hulk in WWH, Knull in King in Black) so the big bad can prove he means business

DarthTigris2025-12-24 18:29

The 2nd mini by Jenkins was pretty good too. Just re-read recently.

blackbutterfree2025-12-24 16:55

Jessica Jones was the same in the comics. "Here's this teenage girl who's been fighting crime since '63, who disappeared in '79 and resurfaced in '01 as a Private Investigator." (I'm using real world dates, but she was active for four years in-universe. Sliding Timescale means she was active in the real world four times as long.)

And I think we can all agree that her not acting as a superhero until like 2013 when she saved that one girl while dressed as a sandwich is much better than her suddenly having been saving people in the background of the MCU since its inception.

mrbaryonyx2025-12-24 17:50

kind of sounds like they're giving that story to Spider-Man