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I am the inevitable horrid truth of everything, little one. I am where everything goes to die. I am the suffocation of all that you hold dear. The end of hope. The hidden laid bare. I am the end of all lies. It's no wonder I scare you so, little lying god.
The Void is one of the main antagonists of the Marvel Universe, serving the main antagonist of the Sentry series by Marvel Comics and the arch-nemesis of the titular hero, Robert Reynolds.
He is the evil split personality of Robert Reynolds, better known by his alias "The Sentry". Because of his unstable mental condition, paranoia and schizophrenia, Robert unconsciously created The Void from his near-unlimited power to warp reality after becoming a superhuman. The entity embodies his darkest thoughts and acts as a counterforce to The Sentry's existence to adjust the balance between good and evil.
It was later stated that The Void was actually a byproduct of the villain Mastermind implanting a "mental virus" inside the Sentry's mind to make the hero become paranoid. This together with his powers to manipulate reality made the Void a real being rather than just a hallucination.
In the Dark Avengers series, the Void's origin was once again changed and the story suggests that it wasn't created by Reynolds mind at all, but is actually the biblical Angel of Death who bonded with the hero's body and mind when he drank the Golden Sentry Serum.
Although the exact origin of the Void is unknown, his first activities were seemingly traced all the way back to circa 1600 BCE, where Moses pleaded for every Hebrew doorpost to be marked with lamb's blood in order to protect the Israelite firstborn from the final plague God was to bring upon Pharaoh Ramses and upon Egypt: the Angel of Death, believed to be the Void himself, although other beings have been told to be that entity.
The Sentry[]
The Void is a dark entity that has said to have bonded to Robert Reynolds when he consumed the serum that turned him into the Sentry by Lindy Reynolds, Norman Osborn, the Silver Surfer, and the Void itself. Years after the Sentry had become famous, the Void finally showed up; it almost killed Scout, driving the Hulk into a rampage, and murdered over a million people in Manhattan. When he finally discovered the Void was actually the dark side of his powers, the Sentry teamed up with Reed Richards and Doctor Strange to devise a system that could make every single person on Earth forget he existed. Once the Sentry was no longer active and had been forgotten, the Void vanished.
Years later, Robert's memories began to return as did the Void - rampaging across Europe and killing a large number of members of the Super-Heroes of Europe. The Sentry went to his old teammates for support but the only one who remembered their shared past was the Hulk. As the Void made his way back to Manhattan, the pieces started to fall into place and the Sentry's old friends gathered to come to his and the city's defense. Remembering the dual nature of Robert's powers, the Sentry and Reed Richards turned the Watchtower back on, banishing the Void and making the world forget the Sentry once more.
The Sentry's memories soon returned, as did the Void. Returned to the world, the Sentry captured the public's hearts, as newspapers referred to him as the Golden Guardian while he saved hundreds of lives a day. Reynolds' psychological problems had only gotten worse, however. Unable to come to terms with the fact that Robert Reynolds, Sentry, and the Void were all the same entity, the Sentry confined the Void to a vault in the Watchtower. Convinced by C.L.O.C., Reynolds's psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelius Worth, entered the vault and found nothing therein but a single chair facing a mirror. Confronting Reynolds with this, the perplexed Reynolds fled to the fairgrounds where he initially gained his powers.
Cornelius followed Reynolds to the fairgrounds to find the Sentry and the Void fighting. The Void claimed Reynolds had transformed into the Void rather than the Sentry, and the Sentry was a mere guilt-borne byproduct of that transformation. With only half of Reynolds' memories - the other half being possessed by the Void -, the Sentry was not sure if the Void was wrong or not. The Sentry chased the Void away and then explained to Cornelius why he had hired him in the first place: Reynolds subconsciously wanted someone to reveal the Void's existence to the world so he would no longer have to hide that aspect of himself. Then Sentry told Cornelius how he really gained his powers as a teenager-to wit, by stealing the Professor's serum and ingesting it to get high. He further told Cornelius that all the time, he knew the Void was never in the vault of the Watchtower. He knew that if Reynolds believed the Void was in the Watchtower, the Void would be. This kept the world safe from the Void for as long as Sentry could keep up the charade.
The Sentry then went to Doctor Strange in search of an answer as to whether he existed or not. Doctor Strange deceived Sentry into going back to his old Professor's research facility. The two men imprisoned Sentry in a fictional world where he was located at an insane asylum and superheroes did not exist in an effort to prevent any more damage. Sentry broke free from the illusion and, after having confronted the Professor who had created the original serum, traveled to Antarctica to confront the Void and learn what memories of Reynolds the Void had in his mind.
The Void finally let slip that Reynolds actually ingested a super-saturated, exponentially more potent version of the Super-Soldier Serum that created Captain America. This was considered dangerous to the government as his blood with the serum in it, would be able to create more of it. A few assassination attempts against both personas were made. In anger over this revelation, Sentry threw the Void into the Sun telling his enemy that he no longer needed him to balance his own actions of good. To which the Void promised to return.
New Avengers[]
The Sentry was subsequently confronted by the New Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., along with the Inhumans and X-Men. Crying, he said he'd been trying to warn them of the coming of the Void and now it was too late. Without the group being able to respond to this, they were suddenly attacked by the Void. Robert, helped by Emma Frost, finds out that nobody remembered him because of himself trying to erase the Void; instead, it was the intervention and manipulation of his mind by the Mastermind-the one hired by the General-to use his great mental powers in order to contain the abilities of the Sentry and force everyone-himself included-to forget the existence of him. If he finally remembered his life, the Sentry would be seized by fear of the devil's attack on the world, hence the Void. Upon learning this knowledge, the Void vanished, and the Sentry came back to life courtesy of Emma Frost. He was offered membership in the Avengers, in part to keep a closer eye on him, and in part due to the fact that they would be in need of his power; he accepted.
During a fight with Yelena Belova, Sentry had his powers drained by her. This would become her death since, as she also became exposed to a manifestation of the Void who wrapped himself around and incapacitated her. Sentry told Belova that if she answered his questions, he'd send the Void away. She was liquefied by her employers before answering any of them, though. During the Skrull Secret Invasion, Sentry left Earth so as not to take part in the battle, because he thought he was the cause of that battle. In response, due to this, the Void popped out as an equal and opposite reaction and fought off some Skrulls to save Lindy Reynolds, promising to do all that Sentry wouldn't do.
Dark Reign[]
After becoming head of national security, Norman Osborn paid the Sentry a visit, gaslighting him and gave him a vial of the same serum that originally gave him his powers. Once he drank it, the Void took over and accepted Osborn's offer to become his secret weapon and to keep his newly formed Cabal in line.
In fear of what he was becoming and refusing to let her go, when Lindy tried to kill her husband with an alien weapon, she began to form theories about the origin of the Void. Unfortunately, the Void took control of her husband and revived him. A terrified Lindy begged the Void to just end her misery, and the evil entity obliged, only for Robert to intervene, reminding his counterpart of their deal of not touching her. Robert flew far from Earth, intending to commit suicide by plunging himself into the Sun, only to regenerate. The Void mocked his efforts, and for all intents and purposes, he should give him complete control. He returned to New York City and started ripping it apart before being talked down by Osborn. The Void would agree to serve Osborn because he was cowed when Doctor Doom threatened Osborn at a Cabal meeting.
The Siege of Asgard[]
In Asgard, the Void was sent by Osborn to kill Ares due to Ares ripping him in half to kill him. He then was sent to take Thor down. Before their fight was over, an overcome Osborn-combined forced of the Avengers, the Secret Warriors, and many other heroes-ordered the Void to end it. The Void destroyed the base of Asgard and completely destroyed the city. Defeated and crazed, Osborn told the heroes they'd all be killed as the Void took on a monstrous form. Thor engaged the Void but began to lose until Iron Man took control of a damaged H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier in the area and used it as a bullet to strike the Void. The Void finally fell to the Thor with a mighty attack from Mjolnir when Robert pleaded him to kill him. The Thor took the Sentry's charred body and sent him into the Sun. There, Robert's body was continuously regrown from an atom just to be burned down again after that. Bored from the cycle, the Void left him behind and went to the White Hot Room.
They were once captured by Doctor Strange, being the Void-beings still separated from Robert, and imprisoned inside the Sanctum Sanctorum, from which he was released later by Strange himself for use against Loki, now the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth. After revealing to Loki that the Exile of Singhsoon-a spell which transfers all the world's magic to its caster that Loki had been in search of-was inside Zelma Stanton's soul, the Void was separated from Strange, locked back at the Sanctorum.
Sentry World[]
When Robert returned as the Sentry, the Void was confined to the Sentry World: a pocket dimension created inside Robert's psyche by Doctor Strange. Because of his former protégé Billy Turner's machinations, Robert fully gave in to the Void and merged with it, becoming one with it and finally assuming the form of a dark version of the Sentry. But that didn't last: the Void seized control of Robert once more and sent him into conflict with Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda in the small town of Pawhuska, stabilizing the Sentry when Fat Cobra extracted a chunk of the Void into his mouth. The Sentry refused custody and escaped.
Scourge of the Negative Zone[]
As a result, the Sentry begged Reed to rid him of the Void once and for all. Reed was not capable of succeeding in such a task according to the laws of his universe, so he sent him into the Negative Zone in hopes of success. Thereafter, when the Sentry absorbed the bad cosmic rays, he broke free from the Void, leaving him in the helpless form of Bob Reynolds, incapable of changing into his superhero alter ego. An explosion occurred due to their separation and tore open space, which bridged the Negative Zone to the Cancerverse-a place where nothing could die. Sharing a mutual interest, the Void became the apparent new leader of Cancerverse forces while impersonating and taking the appearance of the Sentry.
Intending to return to his universe to further spread the infection of the Cancerverse, the Void simply tore a crack in reality-made by Annihilus, who used it to escape to the Positive Zone to seek help-into a rift with his bare hands. The Cancerverse forces attempted to infect a planet near the rift, but Beta Ray Bill managed to hold them at their tracks and sacrificed his hammer to entrap the Void within the Negative Zone once again before the rift collapsed. While searching for the Human Torch, who went to the Negative Zone with the rest of the Fantastic Four to help its inhabitants, the Void finds Nova instead. He overpowered the hero and handed him over to the Revengers, but Nova managed to flee from them before they could re-infect him with the virus.
When Reed Richards opened a portal to round up the galaxy's greatest heroes against the Cancerverse, a team of heroes held the Void in place long enough for the Silver Surfer to reunite Bob Reynolds with himself once more, returning the Sentry into his blackened form. They hoped that, once in control, Bob would call off the invasion, but this wasn't possible because the Void-who now had Reynolds' body shared with the Sentry in control-wasn't truly the leader of the Cancerverse, and it was now hell-bent on getting Nova back to the fold. With no other option, Nova attracted the Cancerverse's infection back to the tear it was coming from and swallowed it whole. The now-combined Sentry then slew Nova, thereby ending the plague and sealing the tear. Whereas all the other heroes returned to the Positive Zone, Sentry remained behind to watch over the universe he almost killed.
King in Black[]
The Sentry was called back to Earth to aid in the fight against Knull - the primordial dark god who created the Symbiotes - and attempted to fly him into space to rip him in half as he once did to Carnage. However, Knull easily overpowered the Sentry and tore him apart. Unleashed from its mortal vessel, the Void submitted to Knull and was absorbed by him. When Eddie Brock became the new host of the God of Light and turned into a cosmic version of Venom, he overpowered Knull, with the Uni-Power of Venom that destroyed Knull's body on the Sun and his living abyss inside Dylan Brock's body that tried to take over his body, beating the dark god with the Void along with him.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Immortality: For all intents and purposes, the Void cannot and will not ever truly die even long after being hurled into the sun both by Robert and later killed by a bolt of lightning by Thor. That the dark aspect of the Sentry cannot expire in any sense, it comes to be an existing entity all its own; it even left the chronically dying and regenerating body of its host while trapped in the sun.
Superhuman Strength: The physical abilities of the Void are a direct mirror reflection of his counterpart; however, it is reputed that the Sentry is visibly stronger. Despite that, Void has enough physical power to manhandle gods and monsters with little effort on his part, be it shattering the all-but-unbreakable bones of the Incredible Hulk or even knocking around the Sentry through a host of carnival rides with relative ease. He has even been able to pry open an interdimensional portal linking the Posiverse and the Negative Zone with his bare hands.
Superhuman Stamina: Dark Sentry has an advanced musculature greater than that of any human and most known superhumans. As he is a being of thought, his muscles produce no fatigue toxins, affording him all but unlimited physical stamina.
Superhuman Agility: Void's overall balance, agility, and body coordination have been augmented to levels considerably beyond the natural physical capabilities of even the finest human athlete.
Superhuman Reflexes: The Void can act and react at above superhuman speeds, exceeding several times the speed of sound equivalent. As such, he/it is quick enough to match the highly adept Sentry in the art of superpowered fisticuffs with little difficulty. Void is readily quick-witted enough to counterattack Ares as he pounced on him from behind and is capable of battling whole scores of Marvel's superhuman community with ease and without so much as a wasted movement.
Superhuman Senses: Similar to the Sentry, he has the capability to hear nearly any sound at any decibel, pitch, and frequency. The only earthly animal that can perceive sounds at a similar frequency range as he is able to would be the blue whale-0.01-200,000 Hz. He has demonstrated enough control to block out ambient sounds in order to focus on a specific source/frequency. The range of his eyesight is also way bigger compared to a human being. He is able to detect one person from hundreds of miles in the air and above cloud level. The full extent of Void's other senses superhuman capabilities is not known.
Scrying Sense: The added senses of the Void are those of the senses of the Sentry. He would know everything that Reynolds sees and does in an instant.
Clairvoyance: The Void, by himself, has extra sensory perception of an unknown potency. Being more in tune with the world around him, rather than of just the tangible spectrum, such as sensing if and when his human self had been disturbed by the presence of another force or ascertaining what Loki did to empower the heroes standing against him.
Nigh-Invulnerability: For all practical purposes, the Void is resistant to all forms of injury.
Warping Speed: The Void can also think, move, run, and react at faster-than-superhuman velocities. As a creation of living shadow born from a thought, in many respects he may well be faster than his good half. The Dark Sentry can appear anywhere in the world at any given time, and even beyond, with or without the knowledge of the Sentry, capable of moving and traveling thousands to trillions of miles at the drop of a hat before returning to his creator's shattered psyche.
Resurrection: It would appear that the Void can resurrect himself and bring back the dead when he is under extreme emotional distress.
Regenerative Healing Factor: The Void can heal himself from almost any injury.
Umbrakinesis: It has massive control over darkness, creating soldiers to make up a shadow army.
Molecularkinesis: The Void shares the Sentry's powers of matter and energy manipulation. He once used this to trap the Avengers within an impenetrable cloak of black matter that he had created, substantial enough to easily restrain Thor and Giant Man. Where most concentrated- to say, through his tentacles, the Void could induce total atomic cancellation in a target, as he did during the disintegration of the immortal Loki.
Flight: The Void naturally possesses the power of flight which, coupled with his superhuman speed, enables him to fly at rates far above hyper-sonic to trans-light speeds. He could match, in a contest of flying speed, that of Sentry and at the same time can also sit stationary in mid-air if required. He can fly even at speeds high enough to outpace even a god of Asgard, battering him into near unconsciousness in one stroke.
Ultimate Intangibility: Through Sentry's dark personality, he is able to manipulate and shift molecular/atomic density and cohesion to physically phase through objects and people, inflicting tremendous pain on a subject.
Night Augmentation: The Void is most powerful at night.
Negative Zone Augmentation: Whenever the Void is within the Negative Zone, his powers are at maximum.
Biokinesis: Like its counterpart the Sentry, the Void has an as of yet untapped capacity to affect organic matter in undisclosed but seemingly unlimited ways. The Void persona uses such attributes to malignant ends, while his lighter half acclimates more beneficial ones. Its power over such aspects is so great that the Void afflicted a women with breast cancer a world away.
Photokinesis: Despite being a dark element, The Void would create light in the dark when working alongside the Sentry.
Atmokinesis: The Void has immense control over the weather, creating destructive storms.
Appearance Adaptation: The Void is an expert shape-shifter, figuratively and literally changing and switching his appearance on the fly. Forms range from a shadowy, trench coat-wearing villain to a shell-skinned mega beast, monstrous flame effigy, obese pustule atrocity, and massive hurricane of darkness. He can even turn himself into a copy of the Sentry.
Adaptive Possession: The Void has the ability to possess nearly anyone he wants and can even share his powers with them, as he did with Dr. Strange in order for him to fight off Loki's challenge for his title of Sorcerer Supreme.
Infini-Tendrils: The Void can create deadly Infini-Tendrils that impale others, causing traumatic visions of the past, present, and future. The Tendrils are also capable of inflicting physical damage; for example, when they broke every bone in the body of the Hulk.
The Void appears in the 2025 superhero film Thunderbolts* as one of the two main antagonists (alongside Valentina Allegra de Fontaine).
He was portrayed by Lewis Pullman, who also portrayed Jordan Weaver in Skincare.
Trivia[]
The nature of the Void itself is ambiguous, for while intrinsically linked to the Sentry, having existed independently of him on multiple occasions and being referred to by Norman Osborn as the Biblical angel of death.
His wife, Lindy Reynolds, had a theory that Bob accidentally opened himself up to something of Biblical proportions when he drank the drug that gave him his powers, even going so far as to identify this something as possibly being God. She had no proof of it and thought it was crazy, though the Void mockingly told Robert her theory was indeed true.
Despite the Void having taken on some symbiote-like characteristics, writer Donny Cates has said it isn't a creation of Knull. Yet in King in Black #1, the Void was depicted being controlled by and bonding to Knull much like a symbiote with Knull boasting the Void serves him.
The reason Sentry isn't in his dark form in King in Black #1 is all because of a continuity error on Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman's part because they didn't know he already fused with the Void when they wrote and illustrated the issue, and Marvel's editorial department didn't catch it before publication.
