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6/19/2025, 5:34:21 PM
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I get what you mean but I think you could just draw a comparison between how different Superman analogues are depicted in Marvel. It's possible a Sentry vs Superman fight could be a Doomsday Clock-esque clash where Sentry questions his own existence against a moral and ontological paragon in the form of Superman that precludes a traditional showdown, but it's also possible it could be more akin to how Sun God is depicted in Hickman's Secret Wars, where the Superman analogue fails in the moment (albeit his beliefs are later shown to be true in some form) and it's used to highlight how the Marvel universe is cynical and less optimistic. Or JLA/Avengers, where the comparison in the attitudes of both universes ends up putting Superman off-edge and affects him mentally as a result of him being a paragon for his own universe in the way Cap is for his. The entire point of Age of the Sentry is that Sentry's entire fake silver-age history, if it happened, would shift the Marvel universe to be more light-hearted and less grounded just through his existence, and that idea is kind of reflected in more recent comics if you take the implications of Lifebringer One at face value. I'm basically saying I don't think you could take a fight between Superman and Sentry as this fundamentally philosophical clash when that itself varies for both characters and their overall depiction, it's an interesting way to look at it for sure but I don't think you could pidgeon-hole it as the way the fight would always end up leaning into. In that sense, I think it's more fair to consider it as a traditional superhero action figure punch-up as opposed to basing it all on how those slightly-histrionic meta elements compare.
I get what you mean but I think you could just draw a comparison between how different Superman analogues are depicted in Marvel. It's possible a Sentry vs Superman fight could be a Doomsday Clock-esque clash where Sentry questions his own existence against a moral and ontological paragon in the form of Superman that precludes a traditional showdown, but it's also possible it could be more akin to how Sun God is depicted in Hickman's Secret Wars, where the Superman analogue fails in the moment (albeit his beliefs are later shown to be true in some form) and it's used to highlight how the Marvel universe is cynical and less optimistic. Or JLA/Avengers, where the comparison in the attitudes of both universes ends up putting Superman off-edge and affects him mentally as a result of him being a paragon for his own universe in the way Cap is for his. The entire point of Age of the Sentry is that Sentry's entire fake silver-age history, if it happened, would shift the Marvel universe to be more light-hearted and less grounded just through his existence, and that idea is kind of reflected in more recent comics if you take the implications of Lifebringer One at face value. I'm basically saying I don't think you could take a fight between Superman and Sentry as this fundamentally philosophical clash when that itself varies for both characters and their overall depiction, it's an interesting way to look at it for sure but I don't think you could pidgeon-hole it as the way the fight would always end up leaning into. In that sense, I think it's more fair to consider it as a traditional superhero action figure punch-up as opposed to basing it all on how those slightly-histrionic meta elements compare.
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