#bob reynolds

[dailymarvelstudios]

Thunderbolts* (2025), dir. Jake Schreier

[lanasgirlfr]

wdym this lil guy ripped someone in half???😖

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Lewis Pullman really landed two major movie franchises as guys named Bob

Which means…if we ever get a live-action Bob the Builder movie…hmm…

[mcudc616]

Lewis Pullman as Bob Reynolds aka Sentry in Thunderbolts* (2025)

[vertigoartgore]

2009's Dark Wolverine Vol.1 #75 cover by cover artist Leinil Francis Yu and colorist Laura Martin. Source

[thena0315]

New Thunderbolts* Photos

[andloveisenough]

who cares about plot when you have yelena belova, bucky barnes, alexei shostakov, bob floyd reynolds and depressed john walker in one movie?

not me, that's who

[babybirbb]

if i had a nickel for every time lewis pullman played a character named “bob” i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but its weird that it’s happened twice

[breathing-in-waves]

The Thunderbolts movie is really trying to pull me out of my 7-year fanfic writing hiatus, huh?

[gxdsfavgal]

ahh i just love my Bob’s🥹🤍 the wso & sentry

[rowinablx]

My poor meow meow

[brw]

Do you think Sentry is interesting?

Hmm. I'll be honest, I don't find Sentry himself to be terribly interesting; he is, ultimately, a prime example of an Evil Superman, and that trope doesn't really do it for me (2k essay about Simon technically fufilling the role of an Evil Superman nonwithstanding, although Simon is more of a mediocre Superman as opposed to an evil one).

What he is interesting is that he's sort of a precursor to the whole trope. Evil Supermen have existed before 2000, but in the last 20 years they've become unavoidable; Omniman from Invincible, Homelander from The Boys, Plutonian from Irredeemable, Superior from Superior, Hyperion from Marvel, and a number of Superman variants from DC including characters from Watchmen and The Authority all fill this trope in their own ways and have become especially prominent in the past 20 years.

I think Sentry really marks the beginning of 2000s comics becoming edgier, grittier, sort of acting against the fun levity and camp that defined the 60s. You can see this especially with the 60s-themed pages in the original Sentry limited, which are portrayed as being delusional, childish, the ramblings of a madman compared to the more visceral and realist (although it's Jae Lee, so still stylised) early 2000s art. It's interesting, because I usually hold that to 9/11 and the impact it had on the general American psyche and the way the Iraq war caused a lot of disillisionment with "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", which is definitely why Evil Superman became such a big thing in the 2000s and onwards, but Sentry predates that. He's sort of an odd duck that way, and maybe points towards a changing cultural shift even if 9/11 never happened.

But as a character himself, Sentry is kind of one-dimensional, in part because the trope he helped popularise and turn into the mainstream has become so saturated it isn't interesting anymore. Superman, but he's insane and evil, but thinks he's a hero. We've seen it before. There's two different Amazon television series' with that concept. And as a character, he doesn't really work long-term in Marvel Comics either. He's not really popular to have an ongoing series, and his being a Superman where Marvel doesn't really have an awful lot of Supermen makes him difficult to fit into a team. He was designed to be one of the most powerful beings on the planet, which makes it a little odd if you put him next to Black Widow on the Avengers. Superman has the benefit of being a core part of DC lore, and having various weaknesses that have been added to and developed for over 80 years of consistent publication history; Sentry doesn't. He doesn't hold the same narrative or thematic importance that other characters do, other than being one of many instances of the Avengers being really bad when it comes to looking after their teammates mental health and faculties. Of course, it becomes increasingly dangerous of them when you have such instances of him and Wanda causing massive reprocussions when they fail to adequately support them, but unlike Wanda, you can't have a Sentry with all his marbles, otherwise you just have Superman, and we don't need or particularly want that.

So, TLDR; he is interesting as an example of a larger cultural shift in the landscape of American superhero comics, and represents one of the first in the new wave of Evil Supermen and gritty, realist comics in general that have defined the 2000s, 2010s, and now going into the 2020s with popular media such as Invincible and The Boys. As a character himself, he suffers from the oversaturation of the trope he helped bring into prominence, and is sort of inherently a bit of an ableist mess, so he leaves a lot to be desired.

[lanasgirlfr]

bob kinda cutie

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

The Thunderbolts movie poster was bugging me because it felt so familiar for some reason. Just now, I realized what it reminded me of:

[mcudc616]

New Thunderbolts* Poster

[valjeanzachary]

Frowny boy