Sentinel (comics)

Publication history

Characteristics

Types of Sentinels

• Mark I and Master Mold - Created by Bolivar Trask. First appeared in X-Men #14. Bolivar Trask sacrificed himself to destroy the Master Mold.
• Mark II - Created by Larry Trask. This model was capable of adapting to and counteracting superpowers almost instantly. First appeared in X-Men #57.
• *No.2, the robotic leader of Larry's Sentinels, later "mutated" with the capability of creating space warps.
• Composite - Created by merging the remaining portions of five Sentinels destroyed by the X-Men and came under control of Ashley Martin. It was destroyed by her when it rebelled against her.
• Mark III - Created by Stephen Lang and Project: Armageddon, secretly funded by Edward Buckman and the Council of the Chosen. First appeared in X-Men #98.
• * X-Sentinels - Created by Stephen Lang. They are androids who were duplicates of the original X-Men. First appeared in X-Men #99.
• Mark IV - Created by Sebastian Shaw. First appeared in X-Men #151.
• Mark V - Created by Sebastian Shaw for U.S. government's Project Wideawake. First appeared in New Mutants #2.
• Mark VI - Created by Shaw Industries for Project Wideawake and used by Onslaught. Also incorporated parts of Project Nimrod.
• Mark VII - Created by Shaw Industries. They were experimental and remote controlled.
• Nimrod - A prototype Super Sentinel that arrived from the "Days of Future Past" timeline and was later reactivated by Reverend William Stryker.
• * Project Nimrod - Created by an offshoot of Project Wideawake and was in the experimental stage, Project Nimrod was actually a self-awareness program that Nimrod implanted before its demise into the base's military computer cybernet, the program served as a sleeper virus that awaited the opportunity to access a Sentinel development program so it could use it to re-create Nimrod itself. Cancelled after X-Force interfered.
• Prime Sentinels - Created by Bastion and '. They were at first disabled humans infected with Nano-Sentinel technology at Prospero Clinic under the believe that they were being equipped with cybernetic nanotech implants to replace their lost limbs. Unbeknownst to many of them, they became sleeper agents for Operation: Zero Tolerance, as they would, upon activation by a mutant attack or near the presence of one, transformed into armored beings with powerful weapons systems.
• * Omega Prime Sentinels - The second generation of Prime Sentinels. Often simply called Omega Sentinels, their nanotechnology is far afield's in advancement to their brethren. Omega's have an 8 step cycle of transformation they undergo before transmuting from full organic to complete machine entities; which are Infection, Nesting, Replication, Dormancy, Activation, Union, Adaptation and finally Omega. Karima Shapandar is one of them.
• Wild Sentinels - Built in secret by a new Master Mold in Ecuador, activated by Donald Trask III and used by Cassandra Nova. New units are produced based on the currently available resources – salvaged parts, weapons and sometimes even entire vehicles – which give this particular type of Sentinel a very diverse, rag-tag appearance. Due to both this and their design flexibility, a wide variety of different shapes and forms have been observed. The Mega-Sentinels used to destroy Genosha and Nanosentinels both belong to this kind of Sentinel. The technology used in Nano-Sentinels is also employed by Weapon Plus for their artificial evolution experiments and the creation of their Super-Sentinels.
• Mark VIII - Sentinel Squad O*N*E, designed by Stark Enterprises. Unlike other Sentinels, the Mark VIII requires a human pilot.
• * T.O. Sentinels - An intended upgrade to the Squad O*N*E sentinels conceived of by director Robert Callahan, who sought to use techno-organic substance to increase the effectiveness of his Sentinel program. Failing in his first attempt he would get a second chance after obtaining the Warlock infected New Mutants to use as experimental fodder for further technoforming augmentation to his Sentinel Squad Armor unit.
• Bio-Sentinels - Human mutant corpse infected by a technological virus created by Kaga, They come with the innate capacity of weaponizing bio-technological apparati such as Brood designed missiles as a means of offense.
• Stark Sentinels - The Stark Sentinels debuted during the AXIS storyline. Under the influence of the Red Skull, Tony Stark created a model of Adamantium constructed Sentinels outfitted with Pym Particle technology with databases withholding knowledge of different super heroes he acquired after the 1st Civil War storyline. When Red Skull became the Red Onslaught, and the Avengers arrived to Genosha to stop him, he deployed the Stark Sentinels.
• Mother Mold''' - A self-aware and capable of adaptation Master Mold variant head designed to create "Master Molds" which in turn create Sentinels. Built in secrecy near the sun by a human group called Project Orchis which is made up of various members of human organizations such as A.I.M., S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, Alpha Flight and others, once coming online, Mother Mold will lead directly to the creation of Nimrod, the ultimate nanotechnological Sentinel form.

  Related mutant-hunting creations

• Tri-Sentinel - A giant-sized, six-armed, three-faced combination of three fairly standard Sentinels bonded together by Loki as retribution for losing the Acts of Vengeance ploy, and defeated by Spider-Man at the peak of his cosmic powers. Later revived by The Life Foundation, only to be destroyed again by Spider-Man and Nova. Mendel Stromm later obtained another one from the bunker of the bankrupt Life Foundation and was later approached by a mysterious benefactor who prepared to give him a Master Mold that specializes in creating Tri-Sentinels.
• Soviet Sentinels - Created by the Soviet Union and later purchased by Cuban government officials.
• Super-Sentinels - Using Nano-Sentinel technology, Weapon Plus created artificially evolved superhumans at The World. Three of the creations were chosen to form the mutant-hunting Super-Sentinels: Huntsman, Fantomex and Ultimaton, who were intended to be presented to the public as superheroes in order to make the extermination of mutantkind look "like a Saturday morning cartoon".
• Colcord's Sentinels - Some of the Boxbots created by Madison Jeffries to serve the Weapon X Program, run by Malcolm Colcord. In one variation of the Days of Future Past timeline seen in the Weapon X: Days of Future Now limited series, one of the Boxbots evolves into a new Master Mold and a new breed of Sentinels.
• Hardaway - A cyborg created at Camp Hayden, killed by the Mutant Liberation Front, who called himself a Bio-Sentinel.
• X-51 - Captured by Bastion and "infected" with Prime Sentinel nano-bots which reconfigured and reconstructed his systems thereby giving him similar capabilities to Nimrod, such as adapting to almost any situation and programming that at times forced him to attack mutants.
• Juston Seyfert's Sentinel: First appearing in Sentinel #1, this is a rebuilt Sentinel, reprogrammed to obey Juston Seyfert. Initially, Seyfert controlled the Sentinel by riding on its shoulder; he now has built a cockpit into it. Seyfert and his Sentinel are former members of Avengers Academy and featured in Avengers Arena''.
• Sentinaughts - One of the types of sentient robots who live in the free robot city of The Core, Sentinaughts are apparently based on the Sentinel design. They vary in size from roughly human to the large stature of traditional Sentinels.
• Nano-Sentinel - Microscopic sentinel type of tech created by Cassandra Nova and implemented in various ways by other users. Moving within the body and attaching themselves to the brains of humans and mutants alike, turning them into mutant-hating assault drones with no self control. Ready to take down any mutant who so much as looks at them.
• * and unknown form of human made sentinels created by Simon Trask using a nanite based Sentinel Tech virus. The victims become anti-mutant activists who later, at Trask's command, are fully transformed into lifeless robotic Sentinels mindlessly following Trask's orders.
• Adamantium Cyborgs - Near-fully mechanical mutant hunter killers refitted by Weapon X with the titular metal as an endoskeleton using sentinel based nanotech. Coming in numerous alphabetical categorical batches, these bionic weapons can shed their skin revealing a murderous automaton with the abilities of various X-Men heroes & villains integrated into them.
• Core/Central Command - A biotech Master Mold variant behind the design parameters of the new Prime Sentinel's.

  Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

Days of Future Past

Hembeck

Here Comes Tomorrow

House of M

MC2

Ronin

Star Trek

Ultimate Marvel

What If?

• In What If... Starring Cannonball's little brother Josh—and his pet Sentinel", shows Josh finding and adopting a Sentinel.
• In "What if... Starring Secret Wars: 25 Years Later", the children of Marvel heroes are teleported back to Earth where, sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of "Days of Future Past" is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels.
• In "What if... Starring Juggernaut: The Kingdom of Cain", Juggernaut has killed the X-Men, and as a result there is no one to oppose the Sentinels, so the world is ravaged by them until they are destroyed by Juggernaut.

  In other media

Television

• A Sentinel appeared in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. In the episode "A Firestar Is Born", Its seen in a flashback, fighting the X-Men back when Firestar was a member.
• The Sentinels appeared a number of times on the X-Men animated series, voiced by David Fox. They were season one's main antagonists. The Sentinels first hunt down Jubilee. The Sentinel program, controlled by Bolivar Trask and Henry Peter Gyrich, was cancelled but was moved overseas to Genosha. Master Mold was constructed as the Sentinels' leader/mass-production while on Genosha, but it was apparently destroyed when Storm flooded the complex. Sentinels are later seen in Bishop's future timeline where they had taken over the world and mutants were on the verge of extinction. In the season one finale, the Sentinels, acting under Trask's orders, rescued Senator Robert Kelly from Magneto, but Master Mold was then "giving the orders now" in Trask's and Gyrich's secret base in the United States. As Master Mold plans to kidnap world leaders from around the world and replace their brains with computers so that the world would fall under its control, the X-Men managed to fight through a seemingly endless wave of Sentinels until Professor X flew the explosive-filled Blackbird into Master Mold and escaped at the last minute with Magneto's help. However, the Sentinels had sporadic appearances in season four.
• The Sentinels appeared in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. In the episode "The Mutant Agenda", they are seen in a simulation when Spider-Man accidentally activated the Danger Room when visiting the X-Mansion.
• The Sentinels appear in '. This version is much more powerful and heavily armed than their comic book counterparts. There was originally only a prototype created by former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bolivar Trask, however, released in public by Magneto to force the X-Men to fight the prototype and reveal mutant existence to the media. The prototype alone was a dangerous challenge, even for the combined might of the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. Three upgraded models are later used by S.H.I.E.L.D. against Apocalypse and prove a difficult fight for the ancient mutant. Professor X's future visions in the series finale hinted at Nimrod appearing later in the show's timeline leading a fleet of Sentinels.
• Sentinels appear in the Wolverine and the X-Men animated series, voiced by Jim Ward. There are several types: Sentinel Prowler, the Mark I Sentinel, a more futuristic Sentinel, and Sentinel Hounds. The Sentinels are controlled by Master Mold.
• Sentinels appear in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Tom Kenny. This version were created in an alternate reality's future to defend a superhero-less city. They are seen in the episode "Days, Nights and Weekends of Future Past! ".
• A Sentinel appeared in a Danger Room simulation in Marvel Anime: X-Men.
• A Sentinel appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. In the episode "Game Over", a Sentinel is included in Arcade's Madland game which Spider-Man takes control of, using its firepower to cheat through one of Arcade's levels.
• A Sentinel appears in the Toei anime series '.
• The Gifted television series, which is connected to the X-Men cinematic universe, features a modern-day government agency called Sentinel Services under the control of Agents Jace Turner and Edward Weeks. After failing to capture the Mutant Underground, and Weeks is killed by Esme Frost, the determined Turner quit Sentinel Services. Turner allied with Trask Industries under Dr. Roderick Campbell is revealed to have been responsible for the Hound Program, which reprograms mutants. Sentinels in this universe are small spider-like robots with a rotating red eye in the center. They are extremely durable and can withstand intense physical assaults and intense heat, capable of quickly adapting to damage to continue functioning. They capture mutants by latching onto them with immense grip, even Thunderbird could not break free from a Sentinel until the mutant Eclipse assisted with an intense heat blast and even then the Sentinel continued to function and hunt them. With their spider-like design, they can crawl and maneuver on walls and ceilings.

  Films

• The Sentinels were originally to appear in X-Men. In an early draft written by Andrew Kevin Walker and turned in during June 1994, Henry Gyrich and Bolivar Trask use three 8 feet tall Sentinels to attack the X-Men. Following a rewrite by Laeta Kalogridis, as well as various other rewrites and new scripts, the Sentinels were eventually dropped from the film.
• A Sentinel was seen in '. During a training simulation for the mutants at Professor X's school, Colossus throws Wolverine at the robot which results in its beheading; the Sentinel's body is shrouded in fog with the only part ever made visible to the viewer is a severed head.
• The Sentinels are featured in ' as a secondary threat to mutants. In 1973, Bolivar Trask pitches the Sentinel concept to the US Congress but declines so Trask attempts pitching to foreign powers. Mystique hunts down and kills Trask in revenge for the murder of mutants that were experimented on during the Sentinels' conception to accelerate research and is captured soon after. Inspired by the fear of Trask's death, the US government approves the Sentinel program, and experimentation on Mystique captured soon after Trask's murder leads to the creation of Sentinels that can adapt to and use mutant powers. The Sentinels eventually expand their targets beyond mutants to baseline humans based on the logic to have the potential to produce mutant descendants, culminating in a dystopian future where most of humanity and mutantkind have been wiped out. With Kitty Pryde's new ability to project the minds of others into their past selves, the X-Men project Wolverine - the only person capable of surviving the time-travel's psychological strain - back into his own past version in 1973 to rally the younger versions of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr to stop Trask's assassination, setting into motion the film's events. The storyline concludes with Mystique defeating Magneto and then deciding not to kill Trask on Xavier's and Beast's encouragement, resulting in the government witnessing clear evidence that not all mutants are a threat to normal humans and deciding to abandon the Sentinel program. The original prototypes from 1973 were similar in appearance to their comic counterparts being three times the size of a human, possessed gatling guns on one arm capable of firing 3000 rounds per minute, sensors that allow to track X-Gene carriers and could fly using the vent-like systems on their chest, and were built out of a space-age polymer to be immune to Magneto's powers to which Magneto infuses the prototypes with metal bars to control in the film's climax. In contrast, the future iterations were smaller and sleeker, with a body built out of adaptive mechanical scales, and has Mystique's adaptive powers which can reshape their hands into stabbing blades. The Sentinels were designed by Legacy Effects with Digital Domain building digital models based on their full-scale practical model while the future variant were all computer graphics made by Moving Picture Company.
• The Sentinels appear in . After Apocalypse's defeat, the 1973 versions were used when the new X-Men team begin a training simulation.

  Video games

• The Sentinels appeared in the X-Men arcade game as the bulk of enemies.
• The Sentinels were featured as enemies in ' in Cyclops' levels.
• The Sentinels appear as bosses in ' in Genosha with varying sizes.
• A robot resembling a Sentinel also appears in both the arcade and SNES versions of Captain America and the Avengers; it is not called a Sentinel, but instead is referred to simply as Robot.
• The Sentinels appear in ' in the second level as it is set in a high-tech factory that produces Sentinels..
• A non-standard 10' tall Sentinel is a playable character in ', made another appearance as a playable character in ', and was also featured as a secret partner assist in '.
• The Sentinels appear in ' in Cyclops's intro. They hunt for mutants in the streets of New York City. One nearly kills a baby by stepping on it, but Cyclops tears off one of its legs, making the robot fall.
• The Sentinels are seen in ' in Cyclops/Spider-Man's level. They are shown in the background, patrolling the skies of New York City, hunting for mutants.
• The Sentinels appear in '. A male Prime Sentinel and a female Prime Sentinel are both available as playable characters.
• The Sentinels appear in X-Men Legends as the primary antagonists
• * A Sentinel Controller with eye beams, stomp, an enhanced version of the palm beam, rockets, and a wave that nullifies mutant powers
• * A Sentinel Weapons Platform in the shape of a purple spider with green blasters, which can bash and use a green wave that reverses the controls
• * A Sentinel Advanced with freeze beam, orange blasters, punch, groundquake, and a rush.
• The Sentinels appear in ', assisting with the evacuation after Apocalypse devastates New York City. Bastion later turns the Sentinels on the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. After Bastion is defeated, the Sentinels resume their evacuation duties.
• The Sentinels appear in ' as part of William Stryker's back-up plan to eliminate all mutants. Stryker would have the mutant-hunting robots track down and kill all mutants they could find. The Sentinels featured in the game appear to be similar to those from '. There are two types of Sentinels: one is a smaller, aerial model, and the other is a giant walking behemoth.
• The Sentinels appear in '. The Sentinel Mark I is one of the major bosses of the game. While infiltrating the headquarters of Project Wideawake to find John Wraith, Wolverine encounters two full-sized Sentinels, destroying a half-finished Sentinel with a Sentinel hand-weapon and defeating the other one in a prolonged confrontation.
• The Sentinel from X-Men: Children of the Atom is an unlockable playable character in ' and its updated version Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, with Jim Ward reprising his role. Its character ending has the Sentinel uploading Master Mold's program on Galactus's worldship, with the Sentinel's planning not only the destruction of mutants but mankind as well and shows several new Sentinel models sporting a design similar to Galactus himself.
• The Sentinels appear in X-Men Destiny. The player must defeat a Sentinel before they can challenge the final boss and main antagonist Luis Reyes.
• The Sentinels appear in '. The Sentinels are made up of the Coeus Sentinels, the Crius Sentinels, the Cronus Sentinels, the Hyperion Sentinels, the Iapetos Sentinels, the Phoebe Sentinels, the Rhea Sentinels, and the Themis Sentinel. A Salvaged Sentinel is an opponent for the players on the tutorial level. The Brotherhood of Mutants have also included their own versions of Sentinels called the M-Series Rho MK III, the M-Series Sigma MK III, and the M-Series MK III. In a Spec-Ops mission revolving around the Hellfire Club, Crimson Dynamo was hired by the Hellfire Club to build the Sentinels that obey their every command.
• The Sentinels appear in Marvel Heroes.
• The Sentinels appear in the 2009 Deadpool video game. Destroyed parts of Sentinels are seen in the ruins of Genosha. Deadpool narrates that the Sentinels attacked Magneto's country and slaughtered the six million Mutant residents.
• The Sentinels appear in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by Stephen Stanton. The player can fight three different Sentinels across New York City. Beating one unlocks a Mini-Sentinel as playable.
• A Sentinel appears in ' as a playable character.
• The Sentinels appear in Marvel Contest of Champions both as playable and non-playable.
• The Sentinels appear as enemies in ' with a Power Stone-enhanced variant known as the Infinity Sentinel' as a boss character. The Sentinels are deployed as Ultron's backup plan to steal the Infinity Stones from the Avengers by starting an assault at Xavier Institute after the X-Men dealt with the Hellfire Club. After stealing the Power Stone from the heroes, The Infinity Sentinel fights the heroes until being destroyed by Magneto.

  Toys

Parodies

• On the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken, the episode "Sausage Fest" showed a parody of the X-Men being killed by a Sentinel, and Professor X then recruiting the cast of the Police Academy films as replacements. The Sentinel eventually kicks them far as Professor X quotes "Same time next week?" to which the Sentinel nods yes.
• On the Cartoon Network show , the episode "Operation S.A.F.E.T.Y" shows an ambassador for children's health decided to build many giant robots to prevent children from playing harmful games. The main robot decided to capture adults and take over the world.
• MAD Magazine has and X-Men parody "ECH!-Men" featured a Sentinel with a huge posterior.