Bob Reynolds

A man in pyjamas who wakes up in a vault with no idea why, and turns out to be the reason everyone else is there.

Status: Alive
Species: Human
First in print: The Sentry #1 (2000)
On screen: 2 entries

Who they are

Thunderbolts* is a film about depression wearing a superhero film as a coat, and Bob is where the coat comes off. A drifter who volunteered for an experiment, he comes out of it with more power than anyone in the franchise and a shadow that eats people. The film's ending is not a fight; it is a group of damaged people walking into his worst memory to sit with him, which is the most radical thing the MCU has done with a climax.

Connections

Member of

The Thunderbolts
Organisation · from thunderbolts

Ally

Yelena Belova
Character · from thunderbolts
She goes in first.

Appearances

Canonical timeline · 2 entries

Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.

The Multiverse Saga

2027

Thunderbolts*
2025 · Major role

Not yet placed

No settled position on the timeline

Avengers: Doomsday
2026 · Cameo

Beyond the screen1 from the comics · 1 speculation · click to open

From the comics

The hero everyone forgot

The Sentry was launched as a lost Stan Lee creation from the 1960s that the world had been made to forget — a hoax Marvel ran in the press, and a premise the character kept: a golden hero with the power of a million exploding suns, whose dark half, the Void, is the price of him existing at all.

The Sentry #1–5 (2000), Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee

Where this might be going

Guesses, not canon — reasoning from the comics and from what the films have already set up. None of it has happened on screen.

Doomsday has a Void in it

Plausible

Lewis Pullman is in the announced Doomsday cast, and the Void is the only thing in the current roster that scales to a Doom-level threat. Whether he is the weapon, the liability or the sacrifice is the open question.

Reasoning from the Doomsday casting and the end of Thunderbolts*