Marvel Comics seems to be obsessed with replacing their characters with minority versions. Ever since Miles Morales replaced Ultimate Spider-Man, the writers and editors have been gleeful about their forced diversity, even when they understand the fans don’t want replacement characters. Now, they’ve become a full meme as they’ve replaced The Sentry, a character who will be in the upcoming Thunderbolts MCU film, with a brown-skinned, wheelchair-bound woman.
The Sentry is a fascinating and complex character within the Marvel Comics universe, known for his unique origin story and the psychological depth of his character. Created by writer Paul Jenkins and artist Jae Lee, The Sentry made his debut in “The Sentry” #1 in 2000. At first glance, he appears to be a traditional superhero with extraordinary powers, but his backstory reveals a much deeper and darker narrative.
The Sentry’s alter ego is Robert Reynolds, a seemingly ordinary man who discovers that he possesses incredible superhuman abilities, including super strength, flight, and near-invulnerability. However, what sets The Sentry apart is his connection to a mysterious serum called the “Golden Sentry Serum,” which grants him his powers but also unleashes a malevolent counterpart known as the Void. The Void represents the darkest aspects of Reynolds’ psyche and acts as his greatest adversary, wreaking havoc and destruction wherever it appears. This duality between The Sentry and the Void forms the crux of the character’s internal conflict, as Reynolds struggles to control and reconcile these opposing forces within himself. Over the years, The Sentry has been both revered as a hero and feared as a potential threat, adding layers of complexity to his character and storyline.
The character was set to make an MCU debut in the new Thunderbolts film, with little known about the MCU iteration of The Sentry. With such a complex background, it seems like it would be difficult to pull off such a character in a team film, and Marvel would need to make some adjustments.
Naturally, when it comes to comics, when writers hear about adjustments to characters, they seem to want to force the diversity on every aspect of the Marvel Universe. With new series of The Sentry, the main character died, and his power was spread across multiple people. In the fourth issue of the mini-series, a black disabled woman then defeats the evil variant of the power, and the manifestations of The Sentry end up within her.
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At the end of issue #4, she is then taken by Misty Knight to a new superhero headquarters where she sits in her wheelchair, proudly proclaiming her new superhero name of Solarus, which seems to be a variant of The Sentry.
This appears to be yet another character Marvel will shoehorn into its universe that fans will have no interest in. The obsession with diversity is joke-worthy, with a wheelchair-bound dark-skinned woman flying through the air. If this is the direction the MCU wants to take The Sentry character for The Thunderbolts, audiences will surely riot.
What do you think of The Sentry being replaced in Marvel? Will this be the character in Thunderbolts? Leave a comment and let us know.
The Sentry could fly, right? Hover, right?
Supercripple.
Of course, I’m talking about the creators, not the character no one cares about.
At this point I welcome all their awful characters, agenda filled storylines and empty plots… let them lose money into oblivion.
Great Job FandomPulse in raising awareness! we need to know how to avoid them; in any case all these comics and movies are not made for us….
A crippled black female superhero. How come she isn’t deaf or blind too? And why doesn’t she identify as an attack helicopter, is Marvel prejudice against these people?
Best thing to do is to not purchase junk, I’ve learned this dr disney, marvel and a few other companies, as for Mark waid it’s time for him to drop fries.
I do not understand this craze to create Superheroes with disabilities. There have always been characters with disabilities that occurred organically in comics. None of them were to highlight some disability.
Off the top of my head: Dr Mid-Nite was visually impaired, Daredevil was blind, Niles Caulder was a parapelegic as was Charles Xavier, Lazarus Lane was in a Coma until Wise Owl would send out his spirit as El Diablo. I’m sure that I have missed plenty of others. But my point is, none of these characters were created for diversities sake.
Just because I have Autism does not mean an already established Character should be replaced by a character who has a disability. Marvel literally just put a chick in it.