Prime Sentinel

Prime Sentinels
The Prime Sentinels attack. Cover to X-Men (vol. 2) #65. Art by Carlos Pacheco.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
In-story information
Member(s)	Agent Boyd Agent Mathers Arvell Curtis Felipe Helmut Mustang Number 5 Sanjit Shaara/Unit 3 Saroyan Karima Shapandar Tanya Ginny Mahoney/Unit #1031 Daria

Prime Sentinels are an advanced type of fictional Sentinel appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are depicted as a humans-turned-cyborgs that uses nanotechnology from the "Days of Future Past" alternate future.

Creation

The Prime Sentinels were created when Bastion initiated the Operation: Zero Tolerance program. These Sentinels were actually humans who had been fitted with cybernetic nanotech implants which, upon activation, transformed the humans into armored beings with powerful weapons systems. These altered humans were set up as sleeper agents, unaware of their natures until a signal from the Operation: Zero Tolerance base activated their programming. These Sentinels were used by Bastion to capture Professor X for his own purposes, as well as attack various mutants associated with the X-Men across the country. Bastion and his Prime Sentinels were eventually defeated by the X-Men with help from the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D., who shut down Operation: Zero Tolerance.

It was assumed that the threat of the Prime Sentinels and their second generation was over, upon the arrest of Bastion and the end of Operation: Zero Tolerance. However, when the mutant race endured another extinct event with the release of the Terrigen Mists into the atmosphere, the Omega Sentinels now revering the Terrigen Mists that's poisoning mutants, returned violently when the mutants were at their lowest. ^[1]

Powers and abilities

Prime Sentinels are equipped with several technological enhancements, superpowers bestowed ranging towards: flight, enhanced physicals, optic lasers and force-blasts as well as being able to dampen or disrupt the powers of mutants around them. On board scanning and homing sensors which enable them to detect the presence of Homo Superior within their vicinity, backed by combat computers which allow them to compensate for surprising events (say, the arrival of police cars) faster than normal humans. Finally, their programming may use the natural personality along with the original form of the host to lull unsuspecting targets into conversation, at which point they dampen their powers and kill them.

Omega Prime Sentinels, like Karima Shapandar, are equipped with mechanical regeneration coupled with some level of electromagnetic powers, but these were apparently prototypes, as their designs are clunkier than other Prime Sentinels. Other tools Karima shows that Omega Sentinels are equipped with include adaptive countermeasure facilities which enable them to fabricate specialized weaponry tailored to counter specific mutant adversaries. ^[2] Able to become resilient towards damage dealt prior to their chassis, as well as produce weaponized solutions angled towards dealing with a specific mutant target. ^[3]

In X-Men 2000 Annual they, like Omega Sentinels, are shown to have limited nano-mechanical morphing abilities. Able to morph or sprout cannon artillery from their body parts for greater arms fire. One of the deadliest abilities of the Prime Sentinels is displayed to be the lethal injection of nanomachines into another human being that will turn the target into a Prime Sentinel. It can be noticed that in the selfsame episode Rogue tries to use her personality-absorbing powers on one of the Prime Sentinels only to find nothing at all: she then states that nothing of the original host remains once the Prime Sentinel personality has taken over, though this is questionable as Magneto and Xavier were able to restore Karima's personality.

Known Prime Sentinels

• Agent Boyd
• Agent Mathers
• Arvell
• Curtis
• Daria
• Felipe
• Ginny Mahoney - Known as Unit #1031.
• Helmut
• Karima Shapandar
• Mustang
• Number 5
• Sanjit Shaara - Known as Unit #3.
• Saroyan
• Tanya

In other media

Television

• A variation of the Prime Sentinels appear in Wolverine and the X-Men . In the Sentinel-dominated future, some people were turned into cyborgs made from human technology and are shown to have a failsafe should their human half get compromised by telepaths.
• Prime Sentinels appear in X-Men '97. Bolivar Trask, after being tossed from a skyscraper by Rogue, transforms into a Prime Sentinel. He single-handedly takes down most of the X-Men until Cable uses an EMP grenade to stop Trask.

Video games

• Prime Sentinels appear as bosses in the fighting game X-Men: Next Dimension , which is based loosely on the events of Operation: Zero Tolerance. In the game, Prime Sentinels released their leader, Bastion, from S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. During an invasion at the Xavier Institute, they captured a weakened Forge after he destroys a Prime Sentinel. Later, they attack Magneto in Genosha, but Magneto destroys them. After the X-Men makes an uneasy alliance with the Brotherhood of Mutants, they attack the Citadel, and several Prime Sentinels were destroyed.
• Prime Sentinels appear in X-Men Legends . In this version, they are called Bio-Sentinels and they are under control by General William Kincaid (who is very similar to an X-Men villain William Stryker). They were destroyed when the X-Men saved a younger version of Bishop from being killed. In the end, it was revealed they were controlled by Master Mold (which is a giant Sentinel in the game). The X-Men defeated Master Mold and the Bio-Sentinels were seemingly destroyed.
• Prime Sentinels appear in Marvel: Avengers Alliance .

References

1. Uncanny X-Men #15
2. Excalibur Vol 3 #10 (April 2005)
3. X-Men: Legacy Vol 1 #242-243 (2011)

External links

• Prime Sentinel at Marvel Wiki