2010: The Sentry loses it

Dark Avengers #14

Toward the end of the era known as Dark Reign, the villainous Norman Osborn had been presidentially appointed to a position akin to Secretary of Defense on steroids. His assembled Dark Avengers includes the Sentry, a man with the power of a million exploding sons who is cursed with a darker side, the Void. Tension around the Sentry's dwindling sanity has been steadily growing, and now...

Bob. What are you doing? Bob. Stahp.

 The Sentry has finally lost his marbles completely, and is being taken over by the Void, his evil half. This has been a long time coming, so the potential for death and destruction has been well established. It is an effectively horrifying development for the book's cast and for the rest of the Marvel Universe.

Major turning point in the Sentry's tale.
We know he has gone too far.

Sentry/Void cuts loose on Manhattan, sending dark tendrils of death into the street. Cars are thrown and explosions are everywhere, sending bodies flying.

Buildings crumbling! Vehicles exploding! Emergency rescue poses go!

The Dark Avengers are deployed and are seen in various tableaus as they do what they can to combat the vast threat. Other heroes make cameos, striking one-panel appearances in the middle of the mayhem.

"Sue, darling, did you hear something?"

Not even the Baxter Building is spared, as one of the mid-level floors explodes.

The obvious toll of death and destruction in this story is never addressed, since the event called Siege starts virtually on the heels of this incident. From the number of bodies being thrown, and cars and buildings being destroyed, amount of sheer shrapnel flying everywhere, the number of city blocks affected, this Watcher estimates fatalities in the 20-100 range.

This stands as a perfect example of massive civilian deaths at the heart of the Marvel Universe - Manhattan - with no subsequent consequence or even notice... save that of your faithful Watcher!

Body Count: 20-100 (unmentioned)

Dark Avengers #14

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Mike Deodato