Spider-Man's Greatest Sacrifice is Nothing Compared to Marvel's Superman
The Sentry, Marvel's version of Superman, has made a similar sacrifice to Spider-Man, making everyone forget who he was and wiping their memories of him from existence. However, unlike Spider-Man, who made everyone forget about Peter Parker in both the pages of Marvel Comics and the MCU, Sentry made everyone, including himself, forget his superhero side. Moreover, the Sentry did so multiple times to block his dark side from ever returning.
Sentry is Marvel's take on Superman, as he's the most powerful hero in the universe. Sentry is powered by a million exploding suns, as he gained his near-immeasurable powers after breaking into a science lab as a junkie and drinking an unstable super-soldier serum. However, while Sentry gained amazing abilities such as super-strength, energy manipulation, X-Ray vision, and many other powers, becoming a superhero came with a dark twist. Sentry's darker side, the Void, was trapped inside of him and, when broken free, turned the hero into a destructive force of nature hellbent on destroying the universe.
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In his original series for Marvel Comics, Marvel's Superman isn't introduced as an all-powerful hero. Instead, Bob Reynolds is an ordinary man with a seemingly normal life with no awareness of his powers. However, Reynolds soon remembers a history of fighting alongside the Avengers, including helping Spider-Man win a Pulitzer Prize for taking a photo of the elusive hero, working with the Hulk to control his anger, and his close friendship with Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four. But nobody seems to remember him. So why did he and the world forget his heroic persona? Reynolds soon learns about the Void, his
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