As a method of control, the professor gives him a false explanation for the serum’s effects and deceives him into believing he requires regular re-applications of the serum, actually harmless saline injections. However, project personnel, terrified of the unprecedented effect the serum’s unauthorized use had induced in a random teen and the implication that he could share the power with others, make several attempts to kill him, attempts he was far too durable to even notice. Re-merging into a single individual and still not fully understanding what had happened, Reynolds is contacted by government officials, presumably alerted by the professor from whom he had stolen the serum, and the naive youth allows them to test his powers at the Facility. The heroic persona, wearing a makeshift mask, defeats the Buffoon and departs. He threatens his classmate and crush Lindy Lee. Unconsciously separating into two entities, neither aware of their connection to the other, Reynolds, unable to manage the Void identity as yet, takes the form of the Blue Buffoon, a costumed criminal based on childhood drawings. Due to his psychiatric problems, Reynolds manifests an intensely malevolent persona called the Void, but his subconscious just as quickly manifests a balancing heroic persona. Unaware of its nature and hoping for no more than a memorable drug experience, Reynolds drinks the serum and immediately obtains remarkable solar-powered superhuman abilities. However, Cold War politics eventually interfere with the project, fragmenting it into sub-operations with outsourced research and no central administration guiding it in its entirety, and no subsequent super-soldier projects, such as those that produced the Nightmericans, Ted Sallis, AKA the Man-Thing, Frank Simpson, AKA Nuke, and others, met with total success.ĭecades following Project Sentry’s beginnings, Robert Reynolds, a high school freshman suffering from schizophrenia and anxiety disorder, steals an experimental version of the Super-Soldier Serum from one of his science professors, a subcontracted researcher with the project. In March 1947, Project Sentry kicks off at the West Virginia installation known only as the Facility, when a joint United States/Canadian government operation employs former Nazi scientists and material from Canada’s Weapon X Program in an effort not only to re-create the USA's Super Soldier Serum, which empowered Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, nearly a decade before, but also to magnify its effects on an ideal test subject by several thousandfold. ![]() But his darker aspect lurks around every corner. After trouncing the school bully who had tormented him, Reynolds sews together a costume and makes his debut as the heroic Sentry. Empowered by the enigmatic Professor's secret formula, high school student Robert Reynolds becomes a superhuman.
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