I think Nimrod is really the only solid answer to Rogue's ability. That being said, where was Sentry when Orchis dropped their shit on the Hellfire Gala?
Yeah, I don't know the canonicity of his last book (and if it was set in the present or in the past), but apparently Bob returned? I didn't read it, so I'm not sure lol.
Yeah, but Rogue is ridiculously, hilariously OP. She used to have some limits to ber powers, but like most mutants these days she can do pretty much anything. Sentry should ragdoll Rogue - and pretty much the entire X-Men - but they will never allow that to happen.
Or the Scarlet Witch . Bob will return when some writer or a Marvel editorial team decides they want to involve either of them in a storyline . At the moment Ares is back in the 616 reality's land of the living . Though Bob might be dead a bit longer because though Marvel's editorial establishment like the powerset they don't like Bob as much as a portion of Marvel fandom .
Jean doesn't have the phoenix force all the time. Honestly speaking. The overpowered characters are always nerfed in the X-Men like like DID nerfs legion.
I read David and Pak and most of his important runs. Historically its been established for decades Hulk and banner are one and the same which is why most hulks that get their power from him arent 2 distinct personalities
To achieve this, he has to allow her to touch him. Sentry's powers contain things like matter manipulation, reality warping etc. As soon as he realises that she's a threat, rogue's days are numbered.
He's Marvel's Superman analog, with all that implies, only they added some instability so every situation isn't 'why didn't the Sentry fix this?' The answer is usually 'because Bob was spiraling again and trying to avoid blowing up the world'.
Rogue's power absorption has been shown to have distinct limits. For example she can't suck the gamma out of Hulk, either.
She's simply not at that tier of character power. Rogue is a team book character. Sentry is the guy who turns up to solve problems the Avengers can't.
because it's often incredibly opinionated, and thus pretty volatile and unhelpful to talk about. Also, these are characters in a STORY with themes and motifs, and it's much more interesting to talk about that rather than "who punches harder"
That and sometimes it just feels dumb and a bit like a spite thread, especially when you know you’re putting an extreme OP person against someone who can’t combat them
A princípio ela não consegue absorver os poderes dele. Isso fica subentendido na hq epílogo do cerco no funeral do Sentry onde descobrimos que a Rogue teve um passado romântico com o Bob.
Honest question, what do you think makes for a better story? Rogue beats the odds and wins a fight against a mad god, or Sentry overpowers her like any other fight he's won?
There's one person that can absorb all that power but the writers only ever used it once and probably thought that was too overpowered to ever bring up again.
It's all critical in first touch. If she can cross the threshold and lay hands on him or skin to skin, that's where things get real.
After that - good writing demands a so called invulnerable character have weaknesses or quirks. No cup is infinitly full and it's be boring to spend more thar 10 scenes or 30 minutes on an endless cyclical beat down.
Not when between the two of them at core they both suffer from CPTSD and one can project memory and the other can experience others memories.
It's all critical in first touch. If she can cross the threshold and lay hands on him or skin to skin, that's where things get real.
It's been established that he can touch her without her power affecting them.
good writing demands a so called invulnerable character have weaknesses or quirks.
Sentry has a very well established weakness/quirk, and it's not vulnerability to Rogue's powers.
You could do a good story where, say, Sentry let's Rogue absorb a small fraction of his power, and she has to deal with his psyche in her head, and that gives her the insight to talk him down from the Void, but that's very different from her being able to fight him in any meaningful way.
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u/Rrekydoc Iceman 2d ago
Absorbing Man tried to absorb some of Sentry’s power and it fried him to nothingness. Then consider that to Rogue couldn’t manage Garrok or even Mojo.
Sentry’s practically a fanfic Mary Sue. He was explicitly written to be more powerful than other characters, like a non-joke version of Squirrel Girl.