Prime Sentinel

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. Like the original Sentinels, they are typically depicted as antagonists to the X-Men.

Prime Sentinels
The Prime Sentinels attack. Cover to X-Men (vol. 2) #65. Art by Carlos Pacheco.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	X-Men (vol. 2) #64 (April 1997)
Created by	Scott Lobdell Carlos Pacheco
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

Creation

The Prime Sentinels were created when Bastion initiates the "Operation: Zero Tolerance" program. These Sentinels are humans fitted with cybernetic nanotech implants which, upon activation, transform them into armored beings with powerful weapons systems. The Sentinels are set up as sleeper agents, unaware of their natures until a signal from the Operation: Zero Tolerance base activates their programming. Bastion uses the Sentinels to capture Professor X for his own purposes, as well as attack various mutants associated with the X-Men across the country.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} Bastion and his Prime Sentinels are eventually defeated by the X-Men with help from the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D., which shuts down Operation: Zero Tolerance.

Powers and abilities

Prime Sentinels are equipped with several technological enhancements which give them flight, enhanced physical abilities, optic lasers, and the ability to dampen or disrupt the powers of mutants around them. On board scanning and homing sensors which enable them to detect mutants within their vicinity.^[4]

Omega Prime Sentinels, like Karima Shapandar, are equipped with mechanical regeneration coupled with some level of electromagnetic powers. Omega Sentinels also possess adaptive countermeasure facilities which enable them to create weaponry tailored to counter specific mutants.^[2][8][9]

In X-Men 2000 Annual they, like Omega Sentinels, are shown to have limited nano-mechanical morphing abilities that enable them to sprout cannon artillery from their bodies. Additionally, Prime Sentinels are able to inject nanites into other humans, transforming them into Prime Sentinels.

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. These versions originate from a Sentinel-dominated future and possess a failsafe implanted by Master Mold that activates if their human half is compromised.
• The Prime Sentinels appear in X-Men '97.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} These versions were transformed by Mister Sinister's techno-organic virus and can transform into a variation of a normal Sentinel.^[10][11]

Video games

• Prime Sentinels appear as bosses in X-Men: Next Dimension.
• The Prime Sentinels, referred to as Bio-Sentinels, appear in X-Men Legends. These versions are controlled by Master Mold.
• The Prime Sentinels appear in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.

Miscellaneous

In 2020, two Prime Sentinel figures were released as part of the Marvel Legends line.^{[1][12][13][14]}