Bullseye Fact — November 6, 2026

Today's Fact

Bullseye spent the Dark Reign wearing a dead hero's costume — and Norman Osborn spent it aiming him at the one person the Sentry loved.

BULLSEYE MURDERED THE SENTRY'S WIFE — THEN TOLD THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE SHE HAD JUMPED!

The Featured Fact

Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers put Bullseye in Hawkeye's costume and sold him to the public as a hero, but the private work stayed familiar. Osborn understood that Lindy Reynolds was the Sentry's only anchor — the wife whose presence kept Robert Reynolds, and the monstrous Void inside him, halfway manageable. A grieving, unmoored Sentry was a weapon Osborn could point, so he quietly ordered Bullseye to remove her.

Bullseye took Lindy up in a helicopter, strangled her high over the ocean, and dropped her body into the sea where it would never be recovered. It was a murder with no weapon to trace, no corpse to examine and no witnesses but the killer — the perfect crime assigned to the one man who treats every assignment as a craft project. The killing stayed hidden while the Dark Avengers marched toward the Siege of Asgard.

When the Sentry demanded to know where his wife had gone, Bullseye lied to the most powerful being on the planet without blinking: Lindy had killed herself, he said — she had jumped from the helicopter over the countryside. Reynolds flew off to search for a body that was actually at the bottom of the ocean, and Osborn kept his leverage. The truth about the murder only surfaced in the reckoning retold in Dark Avengers Vol. 1 #13 (2010).

Why It's Obscure

Plenty of villains have threatened the Sentry's life; Bullseye went after the one thing that made the Sentry want to live.

The costume

Hawkeye's name — Throughout the Dark Reign Bullseye operated publicly as Hawkeye, so the Sentry's wife was killed by a man the world believed was an Avenger.

The order

Osborn's logic — Lindy's affection was the Sentry's only known weakness; removing her let Osborn exploit the widower's grief and instability.

The lie

The cover story — Bullseye claimed Lindy jumped from the helicopter over the countryside, sending the Sentry searching on land for a body dumped at sea.

#13, 2010

The exposure — Dark Avengers #13 lays out the Sentry's history and the fate of his wife, bringing Osborn's secret order into the open.

Gallery

The killer and the husband — Bullseye at work, the panel that sums up his aim, and the Sentry, the man he lied to.

Bullseye crouched on a rooftop holding a blade, on the variant cover of Bullseye issue 1 — **Perched and patient** Variant cover of Bullseye #1 (2017): the assassin crouched over a burning city, a blade palmed and the target on his forehead lined up.

Comic panels of Daredevil deflecting bullets and Bullseye staring up in shock — **Someone who never misses** Panels captioned with the trade's own verdict — 'someone who never misses' — as Bullseye's face drops: even his lies were delivered with that same unerring aim.

The Sentry in his gold costume and blue cape above a city — **The husband** The Sentry above the city he protects: the near-omnipotent hero whose wife Bullseye strangled, and who believed the suicide story.

Sources

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Bullpen Bulletins

Bullseye (Earth-616) — Marvel Database Records that Bullseye, as the Dark Avengers' Hawkeye, killed Lindy Reynolds on Osborn's orders and lied that she had jumped from the helicopter.
Lindy Reynolds — Comic Vine States Osborn ordered Bullseye to kill Lindy to exploit the Sentry's grief, and that Bullseye choked her to death and threw her from a helicopter.
Sentry (Robert Reynolds) — Wikipedia Summarises the Dark Avengers period: Osborn breaks his deal with the Void and has Bullseye murder the Sentry's wife.