Sentinels (Marvel)
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| − | *In X-Men: Children of the Atom, a Sentinel was a playable character in the fighting arcade game. The characters stage was a Sentinel factory in Genosha with a Master Mold in the background. | + | *In X-Men: Children of the Atom, a Sentinel was a playable character in the fighting arcade game. The characters stage was a Sentinel factory in Genosha with a Master Mold in the background. |
| + | *In X-Men: The Official Game, Sentinels made an appearance in the video game tie-in to X2: X-Men United set during events after the movie. The Sentinel program was mentioned as being operated by the government with HYDRA seeking to recover Sentinel components from the Alkali Lake facility that was run by William Stryker. Numerous Sentinel Tech parts could be collected by the player for upgrades. A Sentinel head was situated at one part of the base whilst at another numerous Sentinels attacked Mutant intruders. | ||
*In Marvel Heroes, Sentinels featured as antagonists that targeted players in the game. | *In Marvel Heroes, Sentinels featured as antagonists that targeted players in the game. | ||
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The Sentinels are a class of machines that feature in Marvel Comics.
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History
Simon Trask utilized a virus to turn numerous humans of his Humanity Now! activist coalition into biomechanical bio-Sentinels that started attacking the X-Men. Norman Osborn had the Dark X-Men make their debut in battling the Human Sentinels where Emma Frost commented that the human hosts were no longer alive nor human. Both H.A.M.M.E.R. and the Dark Avengers became involved as the three groups sought to stop Trask. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #514)
Overview
There were various models of Sentinels created that included:
- Mark I :
- Mark II :
- Mark III :
- Mark IV :
- Mark V :
- Kilgore Sentinels : these large models were created with the purpose of decimating entire nations of Mutants by itself. (Avengers A.I. v1 #2)
- Wild Sentinels :
- Human Sentinels : biomechanical creations that were created from a virus that transformed humans and made them subservient to the controller with reports that they were able to fire energy blasts from their palm but after firing the host body died. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #514)
- Prime Sentinels :
- Nimrod :
- Stark Sentinels :
Units
- Gol-19 : from a parallel future created by the Chronomancer. (Bishop: The Last X-Man v1 #7)
- Number 2 :
- Rover :
Notes
- Sentinels were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where they made their first appearance in X-Men v1 #14 (November 1965).
Alternate Versions
- In Civil War v1 (2015), one version of the Sentinels were shown to reside on Battleworld in the civil war between Iron Man and Captain America. These versions were known as Iron Sentinels and created by Tony Stark to police his region known as the Iron. They were programmed for external defense and were not capable of assaulting their own base which was why they were deployed against Captain America's forces in the Blue.
Gallery
Nimrod-class Sentinels.
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, a Sentinel features in the episode "A Firestar Is Born" where it appeared in Firestar's backstory where Angelica battled one of them during her time with the X-Men.
- In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, the episode "The Mutant Agenda" featured Sentinels in a cross-over arc with the X-Men. They were created as part of a training exercise in the Danger Room when Spider-Man accidently activated the simulation when visiting the X-Mansion whilst looking for Professor X's help for his recent mutation. The holographic replicas of the Sentinels were later deactivated by Jean Grey.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, the Sentinels appeared as antagonists of the series. Various models were shown to had been created such as the Sentinel Prowler and Sentinel Hounds. They were shown as being the results of the Mutant Response Division's Sentinel Program that was funded by Senator Robert Kelly and developed by Bolivar Trask. Its culmination was the Master Mold that was a feminine artificial intelligence and giant Sentinel that was being created to control as manage other such units. The Master Mold later turn against humanity and created a future whereby it along with the Sentinels dominated the world. A time displaced Professor X lived this future and used Cerebro to inform his X-Men in the past to prevent this future from coming to pass.
Films
- In X-Men: Days of Future's Past, the Sentinels were shown to be in research and development in the 1970's where they were products of Bolivar Trask's genius who constructed them from advanced polymers lacking metal, engines that allowed them to hover and rapid machine guns in the arms along with a sensor that could detect the X-Gene. Trask headed Trask Industries who learnt of the existence of Mutants and believed that they threatened the existence of Humanity. As a result, he attempted to convince members of the various governments to take his warnings seriously and invest in the program. His experimentations on Mutants were discovered by Mystique who succeeded in assassinating him but she was caught in the act which led to the Sentinel program being authorized. Through a study on Mystique's body, the Sentinels were given the ability to adapt and evolve their abilities to combat threats allowing them to take over the world. By 2020's, they were moving to eradicate Mutants and Humans which forced the surviving X-Men to project Wolverine back in time to stop Mystique. In the past, Magneto found the eight prototype Sentinels that were being taken to a public demonstration where he infused metal within them in order to turn them against the President. However, he was stopped and Mystique stopping her plan in eliminating Trask thus showing that Mutants could be trust which stopped the Sentinel dominated future.
Video games
- In X-Men: Children of the Atom, a Sentinel was a playable character in the fighting arcade game. The characters stage was a Sentinel factory in Genosha with a Master Mold in the background.
- In X-Men: The Official Game, Sentinels made an appearance in the video game tie-in to X2: X-Men United set during events after the movie. The Sentinel program was mentioned as being operated by the government with HYDRA seeking to recover Sentinel components from the Alkali Lake facility that was run by William Stryker. Numerous Sentinel Tech parts could be collected by the player for upgrades. A Sentinel head was situated at one part of the base whilst at another numerous Sentinels attacked Mutant intruders.
- In Marvel Heroes, Sentinels featured as antagonists that targeted players in the game.
Appearances
- X-Men:
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
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