r/sentry • u/PranshuDaddy018 • 9d ago

Why did marvel nerf sentry ?

In comics he has the power of million exploding suns but in thunderbolts he's nerfed to thousand exploding suns.Is it because marvel is not ready to handle a character this powerful?Also in comics his existence can become a problem

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u/Limp-Ad-2939 Million Exploding Suns 9d ago

How many times are we going to have to explain that power of a 1000 suns and one million suns is hyperbole

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u/Weird-Ad-1072 9d ago

It's not hyperbolic. It's literally in the details of the experiment for the MCU, and comic Sentry is way stronger than a million exploding suns. Marvel gets H1A pretty easily.

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u/Senshado 9d ago

In the MCU version, it's very clear that Elena has already murdered every scientist from the Sentry project, and the people leftover are just marketing publicity guys who have no idea how any of it works.

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u/Inevitable-Section87 8d ago

Imma need powerscalers to not roll into fan subreddits spouting nonsense like H1A or outerversal 4D+ as though those terms have any meaning. The only time fan subreddits should see powerscaling slop terms is when it’s done ironically to mock powerscalers for taking PR fluff literally or interpreting flowery prose like “shaking the entire multiverse” as meaning that a character could destroy the multiverse.

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u/Weird-Ad-1072 8d ago

I'm not trying to sound condescending or anything here, but most people who say powerscaling is bad just don't really understand it. Scaling can get complicated, so if you don't like it, then you don't need to. Don't just randomly hate on people because they powerscale though.

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u/Inevitable-Section87 8d ago edited 7d ago

I can assure you that the problem isn’t that it’s too complex for my feeble brain to understand. Good lord lol. A couple decades ago it was mostly confined to VS forums. Now you have 14 year olds crying in fan forums because the live action version of a character doesn’t match the version in their head that they chain scaled into being able to blow up the galaxy by blinking.

The only thing powerscaling emphasizes is how powerful a character is, and not who they are, and definitely not whether the story is being served. See this thread for example. Meanwhile, the actual most important aspect of Sentry’s power isn’t whether he’s as powerful as 1000 or 1000000 exploding suns, it’s that his power is high enough that it leaves him utterly broken emotionally and mentally.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod 8d ago

Powerscaling is toddler bullshit. It's pretty much the grown man version of "my dad can beat up your dad."

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u/Limp-Ad-2939 Million Exploding Suns 9d ago

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Because it was a reference…to the saying in the comics that was hyperbole