Nimrod (Marvel)
Nimrod is a machine that featured in Marvel Comics.
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History
His creation came under cyberobotics Project Nimrod program that was made to be the next generation of Sentinel. (Excalibur v1 #66)
Nimrod then shifted to combat mode as he targeted the Juggernaut and overpowered the supervillain just as the X-Men arrived on the scene. Despite their combined assault, Nimrod was prepared for them individually due to being armed with data on the subjects and a variety of weapons to combat them. He nearly overpowered them until Rogue used her powers to absorb the abilities of several X-Men where she used them in combination to heavily damaged Nimrod forcing the Sentinel to retreat from the scene. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #194)
At Humanity's Last Stand, Simon Trask managed to use the future Sentinel technology and added it to his Shepherds. These made these armored agents of the cult being given Nimrod-type capabilities. (Uncanny X-Men Annual '95)
In 2049, a time-travelling Nimrod Sentinel was targeting a Mutant child at Osaka in Japan but was defeated by Cable. (Cable v1 #155)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Nimrod's primary programming was to defend humanity. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #193)
It included a codex of information from its timeline that included the various Mutant threats in the world. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #193)
Powers and abilities
These Sentinels were capable of altering their appearance and behaviour to resemble humans in order to infiltrate society without drawing suspicion. They were equally able to link with more primitive computers in the search for information. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #193)
As a Sentinel, it was equipped with a wide array of hunter slayer systems designed to achieve its objectives. Among its armaments included various weapons systems such as plasma bolts. Nimrod was equipped with a disintegrator that reduced targets to atoms though some foes with mystical protections were unharmed by such an attack. It could emit tight-beam ultra-high frequency sonic's designed to induce a high degree of pain preventing a subject from experiencing thought and thus preventing them from commencing any action. A synapse dislocuter could be deployed then to jam the neural impulses from a subjects brain to their body effectively paralysing them. For defense, it could generate a force field to prevent attacks from harming it. Nimrod could generate a psionic inhibitor field designed to suppress the powers of any telepaths in the area. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #194)
Nimrod had complete control over his component elements down to a molecular level allowing him to reintegrate himself when damaged. The only effective means to destroy this Sentinel was by completely destroying the body to prevent any form of self-repair from taking place. When faced with such a danger, Nimrod was capable of teleporting away from the scene in order to continue operations another day. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #194) This type of unit was on par with Class Omega Mutant subjects. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #208)
Notes
- Nimrod was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita, Jr. where he made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #191 (March, 1985)
- In Uncanny X-Force v1 #8 (2011), a damaged Nimrod unit kept as a trophy in Cavern-X was identified by Deathlok Prime as a Super Sentinel Version 32.1 that originated from an alternative future timeline that had a 1.34% potential to occur.
In other media
Television
- In X-Men: The Animated Series, Nimrod made a number of appearances as a villain starting in the "Days of Future's Past" multi-part episode. He was shown as being a new series of advanced model Sentinels from a future where they were mass produced following the assassination of Senator Kelly at the hands of a Mutant. The fearful human population thus began rounding up Mutants and placing them in concentration camps with the Sentinels serving as their enforcers. However, the Sentinels concluded that Mutants were humans and thus mankind needed to be protected from itself. As a result, both humans a Mutants were placed in camps. Nimrod was dispatched following the capture and escape of Wolverine from a detention center. A Mutant tracker named Bishop's service was also terminated leading to him joining the resistance with Wolverine. Nimrod entered into the resistance headquarters where Forge had constructed a time machine to send a person back into the past to stop the assassination of Senator Kelly. The Sentinel was responsible for killing Wolverine but not before Bishop went trough the machine to go back in time. Nimrod pursued him Bishop into the modern age where he confronted him along with the X-Men. He managed to overpower them until they combined their attacks destroying Nimrod's body but his body began to self-repair itself. This was until Bishop used his gun to target a temporal beacon that locked Nimrod into the past and its destruction sent him back to his own era.
Video games
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Nimrod class Sentinels appeared as antagonists in the Facebook video game.
- In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, Nimrod appeared as a playable card in the iOS video card game with two present being the Mark I and Mark II.
Appearances
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
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