But isn't Miracle Man a Shazam/Captain Marvel analogue...and Shazam, in the eyes of the courts anyway, was a rip-off of Superman? I think all of these characters all ultimately end up back at Supes, sadly. Not entirely accurate, but you know what they say about perception.
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Character wise, sure.
But power wise, he's always been meant to invoke silver age Superman. Who, again, could move planets without breaking a sweat. He's a step above the top weight class for superheroes, putting him above Thor, Adam et all (at least in theory. Yes, Thor killed him and even She-Hulk clobbered him).
Its why he's the elephant in the room and frankly, why he should have stayed dead
Given all that Thor, Hickman's Hyperion, and Immortal Hulk have done more or less recently, I don't think we can say that Sentry should be banished to limbo or permanently killed because he is too OP. Thor and Immortal Hulk arguably have greater feats and can't/won't ever be permanently killed by virtue of franchise character protections. That Sentry can be killed, or stalemated, or battled to the point of temporarily exhausting his powers by someone who occupies his same class/tier, pretty much tells us all we need to know. If Sentry is too OP, then so too are his peers. Marvel writers don't seem to be worried about the elephant in the room. They'd only come across as hypocrites if they were.
And don't even get me started on how all of this relates to Blue Marvel. Apparently, he's the only OP character who gets held in check. It's 2020, but they're still telling the one Black OP hero that he can't swim in the same pool as his white counterparts. Now that's a pretty big (bleep)ing elephant, if you ask me.
Sentry's power levels would certainly be difficult to manage but I think the way writers handle his mental health is a bigger issue.
Honestly, I sometimes feel like this is a blessing in disguise for Adam in some way given what tends to happen to OP characters in these days. When they aren't getting jobbed, they're being turned into villains. See Scarlet Witch and Sentry.
I fear we may get about five years of Adam as a powerhouse before someone thinks to give him his own Dark Phoenix/No More Mutants moment and I don't think we can handle that.
Adam as a villain could happen sooner than we think. If it's true that Adam and Dr. Doom will share some great cosmic secret, that could easily be misconstrued by the rest of the heroes as Adam allying himself with Doom in some way. And with Adam being a largely unknown quantity, austere as a consequence of his history, and yet powerful in his own right, I could easily see signals getting crossed and the rest of the Marvel Universe gunning for Adam. Misunderstandings tend to escalate all of the time.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind it at all if Adam had a little bit more edge, confidence and understated swag. Like Magneto. Or Thanos.
If Adam appeared in animation, who would you like to voice him?