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Project: Sentry started in March of 1947, when a joint American/Canadian government operation employed former Nazi scientists and material from the Canadian program Weapon X in an effort to re-create the Super-Soldier Serum and magnify its effects a thousand times over. Cold War politics interfered with the project, and roughly thirty years later, the program had become fragmented into sub-operations with outsourced research and no central administration properly guiding it. One of the recipients of outsourced work was an unnamed professor, who perfected the formula into the Golden Sentry Serum.[citation needed]

Robert Reynolds, a former meth addict broke into the laboratory of Professor Cornelius. He consumed the compound intending to get high, and obtained remarkable solar-based superhuman abilities. All samples of the serum were destroyed afterwards and the program was shut down since the project's personnel were terrified of the unprecedented effect of the serum's unauthorized use and the implication that Reynolds could share the power with others.[2]

Years later, Sentry would join Norman Osborn in his Dark Avengers so that Norman could help him with his mental problems. Apparently, Osborn would give a version of the Golden Serum to Robert to enhance his powers, though this caused Void to take control of Reynolds' body.[3][4]

Later, Scout, Sentry's former partner, obtained the golden serum notes from the Professor's grandniece, and teamed up with Cranio, a retired villain of his and Scout's, to disassemble Robert and become the new Sentry after recreating the serum. However, the plan would fail after Robert merged with Void, Scout began to suffer the effects of the Serum after consuming it and Cranio was stopped by Sentry who then burned the Serum's notes to prevent anyone else from recreating it.[5]

Alternate Reality Versions

The Age of the Sentry (Earth-1611)[]

According to Cranio, the serum actually makes a human's physiognomy capable of hosting a limitless interdimensional energy force created from an alternate dimension where millions of Earths are destroyed and remade by a cosmic being known as Destroyer Darkmass. Whoever hosts that energy force gains its power while creating a secondary timestream such as the Void, rewriting the universe as a necessary balance.[6]

Notes

  • As a method to control Reynolds after he was brought into Project Sentry to test his new-found abilities, the professor gave him a false explanation for the serum's effects and deceived him into believing he required regular re-applications of it, which were actually harmless saline injections. The deception caused Reynolds to develop a psychosomatic addiction to the false serum.[2]

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