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Official Episode Discussion 💀 NEXT TIME SPOILER THREAD Spoiler

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u/Sagallo1889 11d ago

I'm glad that Prime wins, hardly even debatably

Death Battle consistently places Marvel and DCs cosmology as the same, which Prime scales higher into than Sentry does

Both have the same stats with the leeway that DB gives comic characters, so that's irrelevant here

What matters is their powers, and Sentry has no answer to the Retcon Punch, which Prime isn't shy about using whatsoever, especially recently

I know that people argue that his supercomputer could clue him in on Primes powers, but how is he gonna use it mid-fight, while Prime is putting 24/7 pressure on him, it isn't the Tardis lol

Bobs best wincons are all stuff that normal Superman would resist, let alone Superboy Prime, who is vastly more powerful and mid-diffs all of DC whenever he shows up in a villain role

Tldr; if he has to extreme diff normal Superman (debatably, at that!), he loses to Prime

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u/LordGrima My matchup isn't popular enough for its own flair 11d ago

I haven't done deep research but from what ive heard theres at least 2 different arguments to Sentry being able to resist the retcon punch. One being his own molecules existing unbound by time and one ive heard of him returning from having himself prevented from being born. Though I cant find the source for the second one yet

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u/Sagallo1889 11d ago

The problem is that it isn't molecular or time manipulation, it's narrative manipulation

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u/LordGrima My matchup isn't popular enough for its own flair 11d ago

Im not to familiar with finding comics for scaling but I did find that the Sentry has been able to erase and unerase himself from not just the comic but the comic authors as well. I must note however I don't know what run this page im going to show is from or its surrounding context

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u/realBeyhero 11d ago

Isnt this the same comic where in universe, Sentry simply existed in universe as a comic book and it's Bob who had to relearned about his past and why he did all of that?

It wasn't narrative manipulation.

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u/LordGrima My matchup isn't popular enough for its own flair 11d ago

I don't know the context. For all i know the author shown could be from the in universe marvel comics instead of ours but I simply dont know. Just trying my best to find information on two characters im not familiar with.