Marvel's latest Avengers campaign mission has a lot to offer you. On the one hand, George Tarleton has finally completed his hideous transformation into the villainous MODOK. Not only that, but MODOK has made an unlikely ally. You will have to face not only a giant and evil head, but also a gargantuan metal titan called the Kree Sentry.
It's a lot to figure out, and the game's story takes little time to explain it all. So where did the Kree Sentry come from? Late campaign spoilers for Marvel's Avengers will follow.
Comic strip origins
The Kree Sentry debuted in Fantastic Four # 64 in July 1967. The species known as the Kree are technologically advanced and intensely militaristic who had built giant Sentry robots to defend their military bases. In the comics, Intergalactic Sentry 459 was left dormant on an island in the Pacific Ocean, where it observed and protected a Kree spaceport. The Sentry was accidentally activated by humans and fought the Fantastic Four.
In live media, the Kree have played a major role in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel films, and also in the Agents of SHIELD TV show, but no Sentries have yet appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. . In the animation, the Avengers fought Sentry 459 in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. A Kree Sentry has appeared in the Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 video game, but Marvel's Avengers has the biggest role for Sentries in a game.
Where does the Sentinel come from in Marvel's Avengers?
One of the mysteries of Marvel's Avengers is the fate of Steve Rogers (Captain America) after A-Day. The inciting incident of the game's campaign is that Kamala Khan finds a corrupted video file that shows George Tarleton locking Rogers in the reactor room of the Chimera Helicarrier before it explodes. It is revealed later in the game that Rogers ordered Tarleton to leave and that he deliberately detonated the Terrigen Crystal reactor. This led to massive destruction in San Francisco and an outbreak of Terrigen Mist which created a number of powerful inhumans.
In the campaign mission titled Test 1… 2… 3…, Tony Stark discovers that AIM scientist Monica Rappaccini saved and confined Rogers and used his blood to keep Tarleton alive. Saving him, Stark asks Rogers why he destroyed the Terrigen Reactor - it turns out that Terrigen's Crystal had reacted to something below San Francisco Bay, destabilizing the San Andreas Rift. Rogers destroyed the crystal in order to prevent another catastrophe
That something turned out to be the Kree Sentry, which the Avengers face in the final campaign mission. What the Kree Sentry was guarding and observing and how long he stayed under the bay is unknown. But seeing how a post-credits scene showed a capsule flying out of the destroyed Sentry, it won't be the last time Marvel's Avengers players will encounter the Kree.
