Sentinel Prime
Character in the Transformers franchise From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Character in the Transformers franchise From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sentinel Prime (Japanese: センチネルプライム) is a fictional character in the Transformers franchise. Generally depicted as an Autobot leader, Sentinel Prime has served as either a supporting character or antagonist in Transformers media. His first film appearance was in the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon as the main antagonist, and he eventually returns as the main antagonist in the 2024 animated film Transformers One.
 | This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. (November 2024) |
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 Sentinel Prime's alternate mode in the 2011 film | |
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| Affiliation | Autobots (allied with Decepticons in some continuities) |
| Function | Autobot Leader/Commander, mentor of Optimus Prime |
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In The Transformers episode "Five Faces of Darkness: Part 4", Rodimus Prime journeys into the Matrix of Leadership and witnessed a series of flashbacks of Cybertron's early days. One of them showed an unnamed blue robot who was a gladiator when the Quintessons ruled Cybertron. He led the rebellion that chased them off Cybertron. He led the Autobots in their victory against the Decepticons, and led them to victory. However, he was killed by Megatron at the start of the next war. Optimus Prime's predecessor as Autobot Leader wouldn't have a name until the American comic.
In the Cartoon Network television show Transformers: Animated, Sentinel Prime is a supporting character and an imposing figure within the Cybertron Elite Guard corps with a brash and smug demeanor as well as an obsession with following the rules of his superiors. After scanning an alternate mode as an earth disguise, he transforms into a pickup truck with a snow-plow attachment.[1]
Sentinel Prime is the main antagonist of the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Originally appearing as a member of the supporting cast when Optimus Prime and the Autobots find him on the Ark, an Autobot spacecraft that crashed on Earth's moon after being damaged during its escape from a wartorn Cybertron. Sentinel initially appears as a noble character, refusing the Matrix of Leadership from Optimus and asking him to take on his role as a mentor to the Autobots, he takes on a more villainous role by making deals with Megatron and the Decepticons to conquer Earth (Unicron) and even assassinates Ironhide. At the end of the film, Sentinel Prime uses Decepticon pillars to bring Megatron's army to Earth, while making it clear that Megatron would answer to him, and Optimus Prime duel with each other. Sentinel overpowers and nearly kills Optimus, only for Megatron to intervene and injure Sentinel fatally, which allows Optimus to ultimately kill him with a shot through his head.[2][a]
Sentinel Prime appears as an antagonist in the comic Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye from IDW Publishing. Rumored to have been killed by Megatron during the early years of the Great War, Sentinel Prime later reveals that he had survived by imparting his knowledge into a smaller robot body and escaping in plain sight. Infiltrating the moon of Luna-1, he manages to outrun the Autobot guards there before taking mind control over one of them, Red Alert. They both mastermind a plot to send the reanimated Titan giants to attack Cybertron but Sentinel is eventually shot down by Red Alert, who turns on him. Sentinel then falls into a large hole by accident, killing him from the impact.[3]
In the High Moon Studios video game Transformers: War for Cybertron, Sentinel Zeta Prime acts as a vassal for the Quintessons and rules over Cybertron; he eventually manages to expel the Quintessons from Cybertron with the help of the population of Cybertron, who had formed a resistance.[4][5] He was later imprisoned by the Decepticons during the early days of the Great War, and the position of Prime was granted to the lowly librarian Orion Pax, who became Optimus Prime.[4][5] Sentinel was eventually executed by Megatron afterwards.[4] In his dying breath, he was able to talk to Optimus Prime and Jazz who had just come from receiving a distress signal from his prison.[5]
What truth, Pax? That I plucked your T-cogs out of your then-newborn chests? Forced you all to mine, so that I could pay off the Quintessons with Energon, and live like a king? Of course that's the truth! Because the truth is what I make it!
— Sentinel in Transformers One
In the 2024 animated film, Transformers One, Sentinel Prime is voiced by Jon Hamm, where he is once again the film's main antagonist. He is the head of Cybertron and leader of Iacon, to fight the Quintessons and search for the Matrix of Leadership, but to no avail. The truth was discovered by Orion Pax, D-16, Elita-1 and B-127, when Alpha Trion reveals that Sentinel was just the assistant, until he betrayed and killed the Primes to steal the Matrix from them, which failed when it rejected him and disappeared. He allied with the Quintessons for power in return for Energon, and secretly removed the miners' transformation cogs to keep them powerless. However, Sentinel and his soldiers arrive, so Trion holds them off to allow the others to escape, resulting in him being captured and executed by Sentinel. In Iacon, Sentinel tortures D-16, who learns that he took the cog of his idol, Megatronus Prime, before being branded with his symbol. In the battle, Sentinel is seen on video before the treaty with the Quintessons and the murder of the Primes, causing all the citizens to turn against him. Eventually, Sentinel is killed by a furious D-16 by getting ripped in half, who then takes Megatronus' cog, and renames himself as "Megatron".
Sentinel Prime was voiced by Townsend Coleman in the Transformers: Animated cartoon.[6] In Dark of the Moon, Sentinel Prime was voiced by Leonard Nimoy. In the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron, he is voiced by Troy Baker.[citation needed] In the film Transformers One he is voiced by Jon Hamm.[7]
Released in 2008, Sentinel Prime has a Deluxe Class action figure that converts into a dark blue pickup truck with an orange-silver snow-plow attachment and has two accessories included, which are a lance and shield.[8]
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