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This is kind of a labor of love for me. I Recently read Grant Morrison and Frank Quitetly's All star Superman. I loved it because it reminded me why I love Superman and why he is unique. So it inspired me to come up with this picture of Allstar Superman fighting his many "clones" or "odes" however you want to look at it. The name speaks for it self. However I do love all the characters in this picture but there is only one Superman.Superman, Apollo, Captain Marvel are registered trademarks of DC comics.
Hyperion, Sentry are registered trademarks of Marvel Comics
Omni-man is a registered trademark of Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
Supreme is a registered trademark of Rob Leifeild
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Honestly, my money is on Mister Majestic, with the Sentry in second place.
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Nah. All-Star Sups is ridiculously powerful.
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Is this All-Star Superman?Β Because If so, I at least think he'd beat Sentry.Β He'd tie with Majestic, if that was the case.Β
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It's kinda amazing how many Superman copies there are out there !
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Well he is the first of his kinds odes are sure to follow.
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If this were made today, you'd have to add Meridian from the Deathmatch comics, and Sovereign from Supurbia.
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Alas this was created before I ever heard of those characters.
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Derp.
In other news, I'm blind.
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lol anyone could have made the same mistake lol
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You should have Gladiator instead of Sentry on that picture.
Sentry is not a Superman-ripoff, even though there are few similarities (like the Watchtower / Fortress of Solitude and the Watchdog / Krypto). He has far more powers and his origin and his career are very similar to the Miracleman.
Gladiator shares much more similarities to Superman, like the exact same powerset and the weaknesses.
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Sentry is an obvious Superman rip off.
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No, because he has more similarities with the Miracleman :-7
You're wrong, just admit it.
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No. I'm sticking with my original proposition.
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It's okay 
And when you denied it, I corrected you again, so it's all cool!
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And I disagreed on good grounds. Mainly the fact that you are incorrect. All you did was posit that "Sentry is not a Superman-ripoff" and provided no reasons to believe it was true.
But since you like wandering off cliffs...
("The Sentry may not be an alien like Superman, and his origin is very different, but again, he is clearly Marvel's answer to Superman." -comicbookmovie.com
"Like I said, imitation is the highest form of flattery, and what better way to do it than simply admit, "Yeah...that's a pretty good character. Mind if we have one of those?" Admittedly, it took Marvel a long, long time to come up with its definitive Superman pastiche, but when they did... it was a doozy." - io9.com
"Various Marvel Comics characters are overtly based upon Superman, including: Hyperion Sentry Gladiator" - dc.wikia.com
"Marvelβs answer to the Man of Steel came in the form of a βprankβ that left us with a mentally ill Deus Ex Machina." - panelsonpages.com
"Marvel's The Sentry is essentially Marvel's Superman equivalent. (Part of his backstory is that he was supposedly created in the '60s, but was powerful enough that he actually made his writers and readers forget he existed.) At the moment, in both powers and personality, he's changed enough to be different from Superman, if only by being Ax Crazy, and handled in (sometimes) interesting ways." - tvtropes.org
"Of course, The Sentry is a pastiche on Superman" - comicsbulletin.com
Here is a thesis called A Man of Steel (by any other name) where Sentry is named as one of the many Superman clone. www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v5_4/teiwes/
"Sentry is the Marvel Universe's Superman" - Paul Jenkins mania.com
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You know. Paul Jenkins the Damn creator of the character?!?!?
Moreover, if Sentry is as you say a Miricleman ripoff then I'm still right. Miricleman aka Marvelman is a Captain Marvel ripoff which in turn is a Superman ripoff. The Sentry would be a Superman ripoff three times removed given your theory. lol
Now that you've been properly schooled go away before I block you.
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You should trust the biggest Sentry-fan outthere (me) more then other idiots, who don't have a clue about the character.
Paul Jenkins is a different story. He had slightly Superman in mind, but he turned Sentry into much more later on.
Here are Sentry's similarities with Superman:
- Has an "S" as his symbol ...
- Has his "Watchtower" (just like Superman's Fortress of Solitude) and his "Watchdog" (Superman's Krypto)
- Has superspeed, superstrenght, supersenses, flight and can absorb solar radiation ...
But there are also differences in the powerset:
- He is only nigh-invulnerable, since his main defence are a rapid healing and the ability to return from the dead ...
- He has far, far, far more powers like telepathy, healing, resurrection, he can absorb all kinds of energies, not only solar radiation, he can create forcefields, manipulate the matter and much more ...
- He also doesn't have any weaknesses like magic or weird stones (Hi @ Gladiator) ...
- He is also not an alien (Hi @ Gladiator), but just a regular human, who gained the power ...
- He is a much deeper character, because of his mental problems and the Void ...
As you can see, there is not really much what can turn him into a Superman-ripoff, but ... what about his similarities with the Miracleman?
I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a coincidence that Jenkins wrote Sentry how he did it in Sentry's first two volumes ... He had Miracleman in mind, that's for sure and here are their similarities:
- In their introduction, they were both middleaged, fat losers, who started remembering their past lifes as heroes so they went out to search for answers ...
- No one else was able to remember that time back ...
- After a while they both turned back into their superhero alter egos: tall, muscular, short, blonde hair ...
- Just like the Miracle Man Sentry also had forcefields, all kinds of energy blasts and stuff like that ...
- They both had their young, sidekicks, who were very similar to them ...
- With them a dark entity returned, who started threating everyone, and especially their wifes, to piss off the heroes ... For Sentry it was the Void, for Miracleman it was Kid Miracleman ... Void and Kid Miracleman were flying around, had their tendrils and insisted fear into the hearts of their enemies ...
- They battled against each other dramatically:
... when Kid Miracleman lost the war, he turned back into a child and begged to be stopped. Miracleman had to kill him.
... when the Void lost the battle, he turned back into Robert Reynolds and begged to be stopped. The Avengers had to kill him.
And yeah, Miracleman is of course based on Captain Marvel, but mainly because of their magic words ... Shazam, Kimota - the wizard crap ...
But, in my opinion Miracle is also a much deeper and far more complex character then Captain Marvel is, just like Sentry is more complex then Superman. But that's not Cap's and Supes fault - it's the way DC characters are written and I'm okay with that.
It still doesn't change the fact that Sentry has far more similarities with the Miracleman then Superman, and if you took time to read my post, where I explained it, you should actually have to agree.
The entire idea behind the character and the story are making him more based on Miracleman, then the "S" on his stomach and the few similar powers (which so many other heroes have, like for example Wonder Woman) to Superman.
Have a nice day.
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My response? You are a nerd and I'm still correct Sentry is a Superman ripoff wannabe clone.
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Opinion on personalities....
Sentry is interesting, but due to his multiple-personality problems, he's almost useless as a superhero (since half is time spent being the world's greatest villain).
Omni-Man is kinda a dick. 'Nuff said.
Supreme: Depends on the version. Interesting guy.
Apollo: I'm fine with him. Supposedly he's based on The Ray, but he really is more like Superman.
Captain Marvel: Wanna-be.
Hyperion: I think he's very... interesting. In some ways, he better fits the name Superman than Superman himself does, simply because he better fits the philosophical concept upon which Superman is based. He realizes that he is more powerful than any human and privately believes he's better. However, his complicated morality system (which is notably different from the one most humans like to say they have) keeps him in check. As well as Nighthawk being ready to punch his lights out. He seems to have the POTENTIAL to be just like Superman, if he can live up to it.
Superman: Over-hyped at times, I think that his character has gotten blander over the years. However, he is the very model of every superhero (seriously) and does deserves some credit for that. In many ways, I feel that writers foolishly gave him more powers in order to stay ahead of every other superhero power-wise, but failed to realize that it was unnecessary. In fact, I wish DC would either do an animated movie or at least a comic where they had Superman with his original powerset (speed, strength, toughness, leaping, and heightened senses. That was seriously it. He wasn't even as nigh-invulnerable as he currently is. Artillery shots could still seriously wound him), modern day OR period. Because Superman doesn't NEED to fire lasers from his eyes. He's Superman.
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Thoughtful comment.
That's All Star Superman not Regular continuity Superman and a cartoon has just been released.
That is in my humble opinion the greatest and truest understanding of the character.
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Ummm... actually, he was even MORE powerful in All-Star Superman, at least he was midway through. But yes, both the movie and comic version of All-Star Superman provided the greatest understanding of Superman's character. He's a hero not because he's powerful, but because he's always trying to make the world better. Even when he's about to die due to Lex, he tells Lex to do better with his life. To make the world a better place. I especially love the line, 'If you really cared about saving the world, you'd have done it a long time ago.' Which challenged Lex to actually do it, giving a geneticist the ability to improve human evolution by making all humans Supermen. I just love that part, as it addresses two things: Superman tried to make Lex be a better person, even at the end of his own life, and that the reason Lex Luthor is such a great villain is the he COULD have been the true Superman.
Look at it like this: Lex Luthor was rich, powerful, well-connected, and highly intelligent. He was able to create great achievements in the fields of genetics, he had great political power, was a robotics expert, was an excellent physicist, and was very rich. If he TRULY wanted to help the world, he could have practically saved the planet. His name would have gone down in history as humanity's savior, and the world would have been better. He would have been a true 'Uber-Menschen, a Super-Man.' Instead, a farmboy from Kansas with some nifty superpowers was left to do the job that Lex Luthor could have accomplished in a relatively short time. In fact, Lex actively impeded his progress. What makes the Lex/Superman rivalry so much greater is that Clark knows that Lex, if he had actually cared, could have been a MUCH better Superman than Clark. But he didn't, so Clark was left to be the great and noble hero. Again, this just makes Superman more awesome.
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Hmm Interesting.
Also Grant Morrison did the Superman equals Jesus in a much more subtle and sophisticated way as opposed to the shallow attempts I've read else where.
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Wow this is some good work!! I am a huge superman fan its good to see another fan as well.
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Thanks! I'm a Superman fan as well. This is all-star sups. I think he would win!!!!
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Of course he would win he is the original Superman after all the others are just copies. Its like putting fei long from Street fighter against forest law from Tekken it won't work because they are both the same person because they are both Bruce lee!!
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I guess you're right
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Yeah It's missing a few. Icon for example.
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I feel that hyperion's story line is how superman is supposed to be told. I love superman as an oldschool icon but the retelling in marvels version just fits todays society soooo much better
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I hear what you're saying but have you read all star?
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nope...probably should but I haven't been keeping up with dc too much lately. Watchmen was the last thing i read of theirs. Marvel seems to have captured my attention
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you should, it will probably change the way you look at Superman. In fact DC is putting out better books nowadays you'd be suprised by what you find out there.
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ill give it a shot...All Star superman you say?
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yep best superman story ever written.
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So who takes it? I'd say either Superman or Omni-man....or maybe Sentry, Supreme, Apollo, Captain Marvel, Hyperion lol. Cool piece, how long did it take to finish?
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I wonder who would win. My beet is on All star Superman. It took my a little while because I drew each character individually and once my friends saw the first version they wanted me to keep adding more.
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The Sentry and his whole "power of a bili exploding suns" thing could pull it off, if he could manage to not go crazy. He's been a straight punk in Secret Invasion/Civil War (and just about everything else).
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Yah Sentry is pretty powerful. So is Apollo. Hyperion too. Not mention Supreme. But in the end I think Sups would take it specifically All star sups. Did you read it?
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oh yeah man, that book is dope. It's such a fun and fresh take, yet it's basically supe's 101. I'm not that big a fan of Q's art, but he does pull it off on that book.
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Yeah, Q put everything he got into it this time around. Ilike taht "Supes 101".
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hey feel free to borrow the term lol
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