Sentry and the Marvel Universe.
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As one of Marvel's most overpowered superheroes, The Sentry is capable of flight, super strength and speed, superhuman intelligence, photokinesis, energy absorption, and even teleportation. And that's only scratching the surface of what this god-man is capable of.
But even if Bob Reynolds is effectively Marvel’s version of Superman, he isn’t invincible, either. Despite his strength, the right opponent can find a weakness to injure, or sometimes even destroy the Sentry entirely. Here are the most powerful heroes and villains who beat ‘Marvel’s Superman’, the Sentry.
15 Iron Man
Iron Man is no slouch when it comes to superhero fights, but in a 1-v-1 fight, it was quick-thinking that ultimately allowed Tony Stark to prevail over the Sentry, rather than pure force. In this memorable moment, Iron Man hacks a computer program that is used to "prioritize crises" for the Sentry, so he knows where to go and who to save first.
Iron Man disorders the system, completely overwhelming his opponent, leaving him unable to function. It is a brilliant tactical victory, which circumvents the problem of physically defeating Sentry entirely.
14 Blue Marvel
Blue Marvel is, in all regards, a highly underrated Marvel powerhouse, and his triumph over the Sentry serves as a great example of why. Unlike Iron Man, Blue Marvel is able to stand toe-to-toe with Sentry in super-powered combat, confirming that his power levels are at least equivalent to his counterpart.
In their first face-off, Blue Marvel manages to score a decisive victory, knocking Sentry literally out of the atmosphere, sending him into orbit, where he floated unconscious for some time. Sentry would go on to get his win back against Blue Marvel in a subsequent encounter, but this still proves Blue Marvel has what it takes.
13 Anti-Man
Anti-Man thoroughly defeated Sentry in a physical confrontation, leaving the hero in a rare state of awe at the scope of his opponent's powers. His defeat of the Sentry, in fact, is held up as the primary evidence of the true heavyweight nature of the character, who was ultimately only defeated by Blue Marvel.
Part of what gave Anti-Man the edge over the Sentry, aside from pure brute force, has to be chalked up to the element of surprise. Sentry underestimated his enemy, and was caught off-guard by the egregious power levels of Anti-Man, allowing the villain to stun Sentry and put him down before he knew what hit him.
12 The Hippy (And LSD)
One of Sentry's earliest defeats came at the hands of "the Hippy," at least according to an account given by the Void. "He filled an entire lake with LSD and made you drink it," the Void tells Sentry, laughing at the fond memory from earlier times. If the Void is to be taken seriously, this shows that, as physically powerful as the Sentry is, he is not immune to substances, meaning he can be drugged, or possibly poisoned.
Of course, the Void and the Sentry, as two sides of the same character, are both unreliable narrators in their own way, and the Hippy non-sequiter from the original Sentry miniseries, while amusing, should be taken with a grain of salt when it comes to the character's canon.
11 Absorbing Man
Carl Creel aka Absorbing Man is a D-list villain who is incredibly overlooked in Marvel canon, as his power to absorb anything was granted to him through Asgardian magic courtesy of Loki, which he utilized to its fullest extent to win a major victory over the Sentry.
In Mighty Avengers #33 by Dan Slott and Khoi Pham, Absorbing Man is supercharged with the power of the Cosmic Cube, and even the Sentry’s ‘strength of a thousand exploding suns’ couldn’t match that raw, universal power. Absorbing Man flooded the Sentry’s mind with Cosmic Cube energy, fracturing his already damaged psyche, and winning a sound victory.
10 X-Man
There are few beings more powerful than Nathaniel Grey aka X-Man. To call him an Omega Level telepath would be doing the description of his powers a disservice, as he’s more akin to an omniscient god than a mere superhuman.
Sentry might have the strength of a god, but X-Man is the master of both the physical and metaphysical planes, and is honestly too strong to be regularly included in X-Men canon. And he proves as much in Dark X-Men #3 by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk, when he literally reshapes the Sentry’s memories in real time to make him think they were once friends, inspiring the Sentry to leave the fight altogether.
9 Human Torch
Without psychic or reality-warping powers at his disposal, the Human Torch had to handle the Sentry the old-fashioned way: sheer power. While many would assume this Human Torch in-question is the iconic member of the Fantastic Four, this character is actually the original Human Torch who served alongside Captain America and Namor on the Invaders team during World War II.
In Avengers/Invaders by Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, and Steve Sadowski, the Invaders are shot forward in time after the events of Civil War, and it’s up to the Avengers to take them in - including the Sentry. However, when the Sentry faces off against the Human Torch in issue #6, the old-school hero proves too powerful for him, and actually overloads his body with a fiery heat that seems to melt the Sentry’s eyeballs right out of his skull.
8 Knull
Speaking of dying by the hand of a cosmic god, the Sentry’s battle with Knull during the King In Black crossover event (by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman) ended with a similar finality, though with a touch more brutality.
In the first issue of the crossover, the Sentry flies to challenge Knull when the King in Black invades Planet Earth. However, the fight is horrifyingly short, as Knull grabs Sentry and rips him in half like he’s nothing.
7 Clea & Doctor Strange
A living Sentry is a powerful adversary (even if he’s faced his fair-share of defeats), but an undead Sentry is absolutely terrifying on a cosmic scale. In Strange #10 by Jed MacKay and Marcelo Ferreira, Clea and Doctor Strange are facing off against Revenant Prime - the name of the undead Sentry who’s immune to magic and overpowered to a frightening degree.
In the end, the only way they can beat him is by combining their magic and merging to create an entity more powerful than the Sentry, channeling the very essence of Life and Death.
6 Morgan Le Fay
This defeat is easily one of the most cruel, and most brutal. In Dark Avengers #2 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato Jr., the Dark Avengers challenge Morgan Le Fay after she defeats Doctor Doom single-handedly.
In the battle, Sentry is successful in getting the drop on Morgan, and he actually rips her head off with his bare hands. However, right after this supposed victory, Sentry just explodes for seemingly no reason at all, with a fully intact Morgan Le Fay standing behind him.
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Most of these people never beat The Sentry. Did you even read the comics? Also, did you delete my original comment that broke down how most of these people didn't win? That's petty
2024-10-21 15:05:35 Upvote 4 Downvote Reply 1 CopyActually you are wrong because the only people that sentry beat was scout but that was only because he combined his powers with the voids
2025-02-10 13:23:20 Upvote Downvote Reply CopyI hope the true sentry returns soon. Looks like they did the same uneeded race/sex change thats all the rage these days.
2024-11-24 18:48:31 Upvote Downvote Reply CopyYo... The sentry has beaten most of these... He obliterated the absorbing man... Destroyed Thor ...more than once... This scaling is horrible.... Sentry runs the fade to most of these...
2025-02-22 08:53:50 Upvote Downvote Reply Copy