Days of Future Past The Sentinels

[newwaveboy87]

As a gay man I may get penalized for saying this but...I hate the purple color scheme on everything. I get that it's supposed to make the bots seem less intimidating to humans but feminizing the sentinels just makes them feel...I dunno...like Robo-Cop Meets Barney.

And yes, I know the purple/fuschia color has comic book relevance, but this is ONE area where I would've expected some modernizing and updating...especially if they weren't going to go with the more barrel-chested, bulky Sentinel classic design. I don't hate it...but I don't like it for some reason either.

Maybe in action it'll look far better.

This. OH MY GOD THIS.

One thing I've never understood about the Sentinels in the various X-Men adaptations and comics -- why are they pink and purple? Nothing is scary or intimidating about pink and purple.

I've also always found them to be slightly ridiculous and impractical being like 3o ft tall. But then I remember what the hell I'm consuming and it nags a little less.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I never thought the Sentinels looked unintimidating due to their color, nor did I ever have a problem with their size.

In fact, I think part of the appeal is their size.

 

[newwaveboy87]

I've always thought, even in a universe where time-travel and aliens were fairly common occurrences, the government funding the building of gigantic purple and pink robots to hunt down, like, 5% of the population was straining emotional investment.

I've always preferred Nimrod and Bastian. They're far more intimidating and have way cooler designs.

 

[psylockolussus]

What about Mastermold?

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I've always thought, even in a universe where time-travel and aliens were fairly common occurrences, the government funding the building of gigantic purple and pink robots to hunt down, like, 5% of the population was straining emotional investment.

I've always preferred Nimrod and Bastian. They're far more intimidating and have way cooler designs.

I would imagine that mutants are larger than 5% of the population, and even if they were that small, that 5% of the population can do massive damage the likes that the remaining 95% can't do. So making gigantic robots to hunt down that 5% makes sense to me.

And the color scheme? Well the color scheme is the color scheme, but I can't imagine Sentinels of any other color.

 

[newwaveboy87]

What about Mastermold?

UGH!

I like the idea of MasterMold, but I can't stand that it's a huge immobile robot that makes the rest of them, somehow... I think MasterMold would be more effective if it was like HAL in the sense that it ran everything, but was just a computer program and not an obese robot that acts like an insect queen.

I really liked the makeshift, very robotic and cyber-punk looking Sentinels from New X-Men.

 

[newwaveboy87]

I would imagine that mutants are larger than 5% of the population, and even if they were that small, that 5% of the population can do massive damage the likes that the remaining 95% can't do. So making gigantic robots to hunt down that 5% makes sense to me.

And the color scheme? Well the color scheme is the color scheme, but I can't imagine Sentinels of any other color.

Not really. Why create something that could level half of a city to track down ONE person. Sure, that one person could do a lot of damage, but think of how much damage a fight between that one person and a gigantic robot could do.

It's a flaw in the logic behind them. But it's a comic book, so, you know, big robots blowing **** up is . Logic be damned! At least in, say, Pacific Rim building gigantic robots made some sense. You needed something that large to fight something else that large.

Mutants are fairly average looking, for the most part you do have some freaky looking ones like Nightcrawler or Beak. You don't really need a three-story tall robot to capture them. They could have made the Sentinels 10' tall and gotten the same effect.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

It may be a lot of comic book logic, but I buy the logic that such a huge menace is needed to take out something that packs so much punch.

Cyclops doesn't necessarily need to be big to punch a hole through a mountain... but if you're going to deal with someone that can do that much damage, you better be coming fully equipped with as much armor and weaponry as you can pack. I don't see 10 ft. Sentinels being tough enough to withstand that.

 

[Saitou Hajime]

Not really. Why create something that could level half of a city to track down ONE person. Sure, that one person could do a lot of damage, but think of how much damage a fight between that one person and a gigantic robot could do.

It's a flaw in the logic behind them. But it's a comic book, so, you know, big robots blowing **** up is . Logic be damned! At least in, say, Pacific Rim building gigantic robots made some sense. You needed something that large to fight something else that large.

Mutants are fairly average looking, for the most part you do have some freaky looking ones like Nightcrawler or Beak. You don't really need a three-story tall robot to capture them. They could have made the Sentinels 10' tall and gotten the same effect.

It's supposed to be overkill, that's the entire point of the Sentinels. Like ED-209 and Cain/Robocop 2 being used for urban pacification, they're a bad idea staring their users right in their face that they either can't see or just care to see until it's too late and it turns on them.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

It's supposed to be overkill, that's the entire point of the Sentinels. Like ED-209 and Cain/Robocop 2 being used for urban pacification, they're a bad idea staring their users right in their face that they either can't see or just care to see until it's too late and it turns on them.

 

[JP]

Jason.

 

[Rockteur]

Sentinel X is a robot with mutant DNA. Wouldn't that be Bastion?

 

[BMM]

I'm not a fan of how big the sentinels have been increasingly portrayed. I think 18 ft. works well. I would rather see the mutants battle a large number of 18 ft. sized sentinels than 1 stupidly large Pacific Rim sized sentinel.

 

[craigdbfan]

If Sentinel X turns out to be Nimrod...

 

[SilentWarriorZ]

welcome to genosha...

 

[Mystique's Leg]

Comicbooks have always used a wide range of colors and it always have had an element of exaggeration, so in this context I don't think pink and purple are too weird. Most importantly, in the comics mutants were drawn and written to be terrified of the Sentinels, even Wolverine doesn't take the threat lightly. I hope this fear is translated well in the movie.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

Nanotechnology...wouldn't that be Nimrod??

 

[EnDz0n3]

I hope we don't get the Nimrod's and Bastion's of the world for Mark X Sentinel. We finally get Sentinels and people want these lame characters?

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Yea I don't really want Nimrod or Bastion. Never much liked them.

 

[NanaT]

Never been a huge fan of Nimrod but I've always loved Bastion.

 

[xrs13]

Nimrod is more likely I think, but bastion would be kinda cool. Master mold is definitely the strongest contender for the final sentinel.

 

[GuestStar2004]

I think it will be nobrod

 

[psylockolussus]

Bastion would be a good villain, but we already have Trask as the main villain and I think the Sentinels should only appear in DOFP, like after this one, I would like to see another villain like Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse.

 

[jaymes_e06]

I think it will be nobrod

Huh?

 

[GuestStar2004]

Huh?

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