Sentinel in other media

Adaptations of the Sentinels in other media
File:X-Men Days of Future Past - Sentinels.jpg The Sentinels as they appear in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). In the film, two models appear; the Mark I model in 1973 (left) and the Mark X model in 2023 (right).
Created by	Stan Lee (writer) Jack Kirby (artist)
Original source	Comics published by Marvel Comics
First appearance	The X-Men #14 (November 1965)
Films and television
Film(s)	X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Television show(s)	X-Men X-Men: Evolution Wolverine and the X-Men The Gifted

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The Sentinels are a race of fictional robots appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. They made their first appearance in The X-Men #14 (November 1965) and are usually depicted as adversaries of the X-Men. Outside of comics, they have made appearances in multiple media, including films, television series, and video games.

Their first appearance outside of comics was in the animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–1983) in 1982, where they made a cameo appearance. They were major antagonists in the animated series X-Men (1992–1997). In the same year, the Sentinels also made their first video game appearance in arcade game X-Men (1992), developed by Konami. The Sentinels appeared for the first time as a playable character in the crossover fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000), the fourth installment in the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise developed by Capcom. The Sentinels also appear as antagonists in the animated series X-Men: Evolution (2000–2003) and Wolverine and the X-Men (2009).

In film, the Sentinels were present during the early stages of development of both X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003), but were cut from the finished product. A Sentinel made a minor appearance in a Danger Room simulation X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). The Sentinels appear as the primary antagonists of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) based on the comic book storyline "Days of Future Past".

Film

Main article: X-Men (film series)

The Sentinels appeared in an early draft of X-Men (2000), written by Andrew Kevin Walker and turned in during June 1994. In the script, Henry Peter Gyrich and Bolivar Trask use three 8 feet (2.4 m) 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.

• Sentinels were planned for inclusion in X2: X-Men United (2003), but they did not appear onscreen (although Project Wideawake is mentioned on a computer readout screen). Sentinel sketches appear as extras on the DVD release. The Sentinels' height was not specified, but the sketches indicated that although their appearance was not severely altered, they would have had the ability to compact itself into a rolling saucer as a mode of transportation.
• A Sentinel was seen in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), during a training simulation for the young mutants at Professor Xavier's school. At the end of the session, Colossus throws Wolverine at the robot, resulting in its beheading. The Sentinel's body is shrouded in fog with the only part ever made visible to the viewer is its severed head.
• The Sentinels are featured in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as secondary threat to the mutants. In 1973, Bolivar Trask pitches the Sentinel concept to the US Congress but when they decline Trask he attempts pitching it 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 the research for advancing them. Inspired by the fear of Trask's death, the US government approves the Sentinel program to hunt and kill mutants, and experimentation on Mystique, captured soon after killing Trask, 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 that they 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 having developed the 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 past self in 1973 to rally the younger versions of Charles Xavier and Beast to stop Trask's assassination, setting into motion the events of the film. The storyline concludes with Mystique defeating Magneto and then deciding not to kill Trask on Xavier'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 Sentinels from 1973 were similar in appearance to their comic counterparts being three times the size of a human, possessed gatling guns on one of their arms capable of firing 3000 rounds per minute, sensors that allow them to track carriers of the X-Gene and could fly using the vent-like systems on their chest. They were built out of a space-age polymer to be immune to Magneto's powers (but the mutant infuses them with metal bars to control them in the film's climax). In contrast, the future Sentinels were smaller and sleeker, with a body built out of adaptive mechanical scales, and besides having Mystique's adaptive powers they 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 1973 Sentinels appear at the end of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), once again in a training simulation, where the new X-Men team begins their training.

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. Trask constructed Master Mold for the Sentinels 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 Charles Xavier 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 Danger Room simulation when Spider-Man accidentally activated the simulation when visiting the X-Mansion.
• The Sentinels appear in X-Men: Evolution. 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. 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 Xavier'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! (Six Against Infinity Part 2)".
• 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", Arcade's Madland game includes a real Sentinel (in the Days of Future Past level) which Spider-Man took control of, using its firepower to cheat through Arcade's levels.
• A Sentinel appears in the Toei anime series Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.
• 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. In the episode "eXtreme measures", Turner allied with Trask Industries (the Sentinels' creator) 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 a mutant named 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.

Video games

Sentinels have appeared as major antagonists in almost every video game to feature the X-Men:

• In the X-Men arcade game, where they served as the bulk of enemies.
• In Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, they were featured enemies in Cyclops' levels.
• In X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, Sentinels appear as bosses 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. In the game, it is not called a 'Sentinel', but instead, is referred to simply as 'Robot'.
• In X-Men 2: Clone Wars, in the second level (the first level after the title screen), Sentinels appear in the background, as the level is set in a high-tech factory that produces Sentinels.

• A non-standard 10' tall Sentinel is a playable character in X-Men: Children of the Atom.
• In Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, the same Sentinel from X-Men: Children of the Atom makes another appearance as a playable character. It was also featured as a secret partner assist in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
• Sentinels appear in Cyclops' intro in X-Men: Mutant Academy. In it, they hunt for mutants in the streets of New York City. One Sentinel nearly kills a baby by stepping on it, but Cyclops tears off one of the Sentinel's legs, making it fall.
• Sentinels are seen in Cyclops/Spider-Man's level in X-Men: Mutant Academy 2. They are shown in the background, patrolling the skies of New York City, hunting for mutants.
• In X-Men: Next Dimension, Bastion is the main boss character, who is also unlockable as a playable character. A male Prime Sentinel and a female Prime Sentinel are both available as playable characters.
• In X-Men Legends, they are the game's primary antagonists. There are several versions of the Sentinels in this game:
  • Sentinel Alpha uses rockets, gas, stomp, and a palm beam
  • A Sentinel with rockets, eye beams, stomp, and a bomb (this version has shoulder pads like Sentinel Squad ONE)
  • A Sentinel Controller with eye beams, stomp, an enhanced version of the palm beam, rockets, and a wave that nullifies mutant powers (this version has a blue head and its body is blue and purple)
  • 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 (based on the Prime Sentinel) with freeze beam, orange blasters, punch, groundquake (with fist), and a rush.
• In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the Sentinels are shown assisting with the evacuation after Apocalypse devastates New York City. Bastion later turns them on the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. After Bastion is defeated, the Sentinels resume their evacuation duties.
• In X-Men: The Official Game (which fills the gap between X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand), the Sentinels are part of William Stryker's back-up plan if his plan to eliminate all mutants with the Dark Cerebro failed. 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 the game X-Men: Children of the Atom. There are two types of Sentinels: one is a smaller, aerial model; and the other is a giant walking behemoth.
• In X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game, the Sentinel Mark I is one of the major bosses of the game. While infiltrating the headquarters of Project Wideawake to find his old teammate 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 (now given the model number "COTA-94", in reference to the year Children of the Atom was released) is an unlockable playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and its updated version Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, with Jim Ward reprising his role. The Sentinel's character ending has the Sentinel uploading Master Mold's program on Galactus' 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 Marvel: Avengers Alliance. 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 them Sentinels that obey their every command.
• The Sentinels appear in Marvel Heroes.
• Destroyed parts of Sentinels (including arms, legs, heads and a boot) appear in the ruins of Genosha, in the Deadpool game. Deadpool narrates that the Sentinels attacked Magneto's country and slaughtered the 6 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 of the Sentinel unlocks a Mini-Sentinel to play as.
• Sentinels appear in Marvel Contest of Champions, both in playable and non-playable versions.
• Sentinels appears a enemies in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, with a Power Stone-enhanced variant known as the Infinity Sentinel serving as a boss character, after stealing the stone from the heroes’ hands. Avengers’ enemy, Ultron was the one who deployed the Sentinels as backup plan to steal the rest of the stones from the heroes by starting an assault at Xavier Institute, should Ultron failed his assault at Avengers Tower. The last Sentinel, the Infinity Sentinel is destroyed by Magneto, who alongside his fellow Brotherhood member Mystique and Juggernaut were sent by Hellfire Club to steal the stone back to them, until the arrival of Thanos’ Black Orders cause them to join the heroes to save the universe from the Mad Titan.

Toys

Several different toys of Sentinels have been made since their introduction. One is the X-Men Classics 10" Sentinel by Toybiz. A "Build-A-Figure" version of the character was made in wave ten of the Marvel Legends line. The most recent Sentinel toy is made by Hasbro as part of the Marvel Universe line. Along with a large, unposeable statue, two Minimates figures have been made of the Sentinels. The first, a classic version, came with Rachel Summers in either her Phoenix or Marvel Girl guises. The second, based on Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, comes with a red-haired "First Appearance" figure of Ryu. In 2014, The Lego group released a set in the Marvel Super Heroes line titled "X-Men vs. the Sentinel", featuring the sentinel as a buildable figure, also including the Blackbird, Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, and Cyclops.

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 to replace them. The Sentinel eventually kicks them far as Professor X quotes "Same time next week?" The Sentinel nods yes.
• In an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door entitled "Operation S.A.F.E.T.Y", an ambassador for children's health decided to build many giant robots to prevent children from playing harmful games. The main robot (which is a parody of Master Mold) decided to capture adults (because they could harm kids) and take over the world.
• MAD Magazine's X-Men parody "ECH!-Men" featured a Sentinel (called "Sentinent") with a huge posterior.

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