Sentinels are robots created with the sole purpose of destroying mutants.
History[]
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
In 1973, Bolivar Trask pitched the Sentinel Program to Congress but they declined him so he pitched them to foreign powers instead such as Vietnam and China.
Mystique then killed Trask in Paris as revenge for all the mutants he had killed. She was taken in, tortured and experimented on. The Sentinel Program was then green-lit, and eventually Rogue and Mystique's DNA was used to make the Sentinels unstoppable.
X-Men: The Official Game[]
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X-Men: The Last Stand[]
A Sentinel is used as a simulation in the Danger Room in order to train the young X-Men in team play. The robotic behemoth attack Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Colossus and Iceman, with Wolverine and Storm as the team leaders. The young mutants only manage to defend themselves against the Sentinel's attack, with Logan smoking a cigar at a distance, complaining about how boring the task of a teacher is. When an explosion makes Wolverine lose his cigar, he gets angry and makes Colossus throw him towards the Sentinel, decapitating it with his claws and putting an end to the simulation.
The Wolverine[]
Trask Industries announced that the Sentinel program was in it's 50 year anniversary.
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
Trask Industries finally developed Mystique's DNA and replicated it into the latest Sentinels. The Sentinels began taking over the world in order to destroy the mutant threat. At first the Sentinels only targeted mutants which were either terminated or sent to Mutant Concentration Camps, then they targeted regular humans who had a chance of having the mutant gene passed on to their children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren. Some humans attempted to rebel and save mutants but those were also targeted, leaving only the worst of humanity left to rule.
While the mutants were nearly extinct, the powerful ones survived and continued to fight the Sentinels such as the Free Mutants lead by Bishop and the X-Men lead by Charles Xavier and Magneto. In a final effort to win the war, Kitty Pryde sent Wolverine's consciousness back in time to stop the Sentinel Program from ever being activated. However while Wolverine faced multiple complications the Sentinels eventually found the group and killed Magneto, Storm, Bishop, Sunspot, Colossus, Iceman, Blink and Warpath.
Known types of sentinels[]
Capabilities[]
Functions[]
- Robot Physiology: The Sentinels possesses several physical and non-physical attributes.
- Advanced Strength: The Sentinels Mark X possessed immense physical strength, enough to break through solid materials; such as thick ice, stone and metal, as well as physically overpower most other mutants; such as Sunspot, Iceman and even Colossus relatively easily. Two Sentinels Mark X were strong enough to rip Colossus in half and one managed to decapitate Iceman; despite him being in his ice form.
- Advanced Durability: One of the Sentinels more phenomenal capabilities is their capacity to sustain damage. Even without their powers of mimicry, they can endure strikes from Colossus, one of the most physically powerful mutants and resist sustained ice and fire streams from Iceman and Sunspot respectively.
- Advanced Flexibility: The Sentinels Mark X are remarkably flexible.
- Superhuman Mobility: Despite the Sentinels' size and bulk, they are remarkably fast and agile, and can move as if they are weightless. Their mobility is enough to outmanoeuvre the mutants, perform mid-air flips and climb the side of a mountain quickly and with ease.
- Superhuman Immunity: Due to the fact that the Sentinels' bodies are comprised of a unique polymer; they are completely immune to any mutants who possesses magnetic powers.
- Flight: The Sentinels Mark I could fly using the vent-like systems on their chest, generating a beam of heat much like a modern jet engine that produces a visible jet of heat. The Sentinels Mark X could also fly though no visible propulsion mechanisms or wave of heat from a possible propulsion source could be seen like the Sentinels Mark I.
- Mutant Detection: Sentinels are equipped with sensors that allow then to track carriers of the X Gene, such as mutant or even people who could have mutant offspring. This allows them to hunt mutants anywhere in the world and they will not stop until they have eliminated their target.
- Machine Guns: The Sentinels Mark I possessed Gatling guns on one of their arms, capable of firing 3000 rounds per minute. This was not present in their future counterparts and was replaced with an ability to fire intense energy beams from their face.
- Energy Beam: One of the Sentinel's main offensive weapons, they open the front of their heads like a flower to reveal an orb of fire like energy that can fire extremely potent and sustained energy blasts, capable of burning or melting through anything, as well as strike a target with great amounts of kinetic energy, seemingly just as powerful than 50 caliber bullets. This beam is powerful enough to overload Bishop in a matter of seconds and melt Iceman to the point where he is incapable of reforming, although both cases did take some time.
- Shapeshifting: Due to the Sentinels' unique composition, created from the reverse engineering of the capabilities of Mystique, a shapeshifting mutant, they can alter their bodies to fit a variety of purposes. Most commonly, they are seen altering the shapes of their arms into extremely sharp blades and claws. Also when inactive, they take on a smaller form for transportation.
- Power Mimicry: The Sentinels can copy and replicate the powers of other mutants. They were mostly seen altering their bodies into forms almost identical to those of Colossus, Sunspot and Iceman in order to counter them. They also used powers similar to Emma Frost, Darwin, and Lady Deathstrike. It appears that a Sentinel needs to be exposed to the enemy mutant's powers for a bit of time before this ability is activated. They are also capable of sharing newly copied powers and abilities with other Sentinels.
Relationships[]
- Bolivar Trask - Creator.
- William Stryker - Co-creator.
- Mutants - Enemies.
Appearances[]
- Earth-10005 (2 films)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (First appearance)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Behind the scenes[]
Sentinel prototype seen in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Uncaged Edition video game
- Although Sentinels were set to appear in every X-Men movie, they never did. However, some sketches of their rendering for X2: X-Men United appear on the DVD extras. They appear almost the same as in the comics, with the exception of a compact form they were meant to use for transportation.
Trivia[]
- In the video-game tie-in between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, it is revealed that Sentinels were created by William Stryker as a part of his Weapon X project, with Trask and HYDRA financing their construction.
- Sentinels were supposed to appear in X-Men, used by William Stryker and Henry Guyrich against the X-Men, but they didn't go beyond the first draft.
- Sentinels were planned to appear in X2: X-Men United, but were cut. A sign of them can be seen on one of William Stryker's computer, in which "Project Wideawake" appears.
Gallery[]
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
X2: X-Men United[]
X-Men: The Official Game[]
X-Men: The Last Stand[]
