—Mel[source]Val, you put a serum into someone like Steve Rogers, he becomes Captain America, but you do it to someone this unstable, I mean, who knows what it did to him.
History
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.[2] One of the recipients of outsourced work was an unnamed professor, who perfected the formula into the Golden Sentry Serum.[3]
Robert Reynolds, a meth addict, and an accomplice broke into the laboratory of the professor in search for a new drug. 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.[4][5]
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.[6]Alternate Reality Versions
The Age of the Sentry (Earth-1611)[]
The serum was developed by Professor Cornelius in a failed attempt to create a super-soldier serum. Cornelius discussed this project with Burton Dubois, but unbeknownst to them they were overheard by delivery boy Robert Reynolds. Upon hearing that the Communist Russia launched a missile at their base, Reynolds drank all of the serum, granting him this power of "a million exploding suns," and after stopping the missile he became the super-hero Sentry.[7]
According to Cranio, the serum actually made a human's physiognomy capable of hosting a limitless interdimensional energy force created from an alternate dimension where millions of Earths were destroyed and remade by a cosmic being known as Destroyer Darkmass. Whoever hosted that energy force gained its power while creating a secondary timestream such as the Void, rewriting the universe as a necessary balance.[8]
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)[]
Tasked by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine to create a superpowered individual to replace the Avengers, O.X.E.'s Project Sentry developed a drug based on Steve Rogers' Super-Soldier Serum which could bestow the power of "a thousand exploding suns." The project staff injected this drug into various volunteers in Malaysia through a series of horrific experiments. Almost all subjects were unable to withstand the drug's effects and perished. Believing the project to be a failure, de Fontaine had it destroyed, causing all information relating to this drug being lost. One of the subjects, however, Bob Reynolds, did gain powers from the drug, reviving himself and becoming the Sentry.[9]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]
See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Golden Sentry Serum
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Golden Sentry Serum
- 1 mention(s) of Golden Sentry Serum
- 6 image(s) of Golden Sentry Serum