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This article will contain MAJOR spoilers for recent Marvel Comics titles. Specifically, SIEGE. Please do not read any further if you do not want the comics spoiled for you. You have been given very fair warning by now. Continuing to read will give you spoilers galore.
So. SIEGE #3 came out this week. And at the end, it was revealed that Norman Osborn has been controlling The Void by keeping him suppressed within Bob Reynolds, all along. This isn’t a huge surprise, as in the recent issues of DARK AVENGERS, there have been some quick interactions between “Stormin’ Norman” and the Sentry’s other half.
It has also recently been revealed that The Sentry has far more power than anybody ever expected – He has the ability to manipulate molecules in any way that he can imagine. This makes him one of the absolute most powerful superhumans in Marvel’s history. While Apocalypse has the ability to alter his own molecular structure in any way, he cannot affect the molecules of others. Say what you will about Thanos being evil, but at least when he was in control of the Infinity Gauntlet, he’s aware of the power he wields. And even The Molecule Man, who has the same abilities as The Sentry, just wants to be left alone. Molecule Man doesn’t really wish any harm on anybody that leaves him alone, anymore. And as the pre-SIEGE issues of DARK AVENGERS showed, he’s able to be reasoned with.
But The Sentry is a drug addict who is addicted to drugs that make him incomparably powerful. And he suffers from multiple personality disorder, with the distinct personalities of Bob Reynolds and The Sentry and The Void all running around in the same head, disagreeing all the time, all wanting different things. Add to that the fact that The Void is distinctively destructive, and I’m thinking that the heroes in the Marvel Universe really need to ask themselves if it wouldn’t be safer for everybody if they just destroyed Bob Reynolds and all of his multiple personalities, altogether.
Of course, at what point are Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and friends allowed to decide when somebody allowed to live or die?
I’m very intrigued to see what happens in SIEGE #4, now that The Void is decidedly the last big obstacle before the dawning of the Heroic Age.