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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
The King Without a Kingdom
The biggest scary thing about the Future Sentinels is that their heads open up like furnaces whenever they are about to kill people.
It's been 3000 years…
Oh, bother.
@Tobiasdrake
No, in that clip you see the Sentinel facing Sunspot (the fire guy) turning itself into ice to counter him. The Sentinel that fights Iceman turns into fire.
The Sentinel Colossus fights doesn't seem to just be copying his metal form, but turning itself into an even stronger metal.
Edited by M84 on Apr 29th 2024 at 9:26:03 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
Wifi powers. The Sentinals traded data on Sunspot and Iceman to counter each other.
Oh, bother.
The general idea is that the Future Sentinels are using whatever power is best suited to counter their targets.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Interestingly the Sentinels must be able to pump their powers up to higher levels than the originals they're copying from. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to both counter Iceman with Sunspot and Sunspot with Iceman.
Oh, bother.
Yeah, hence my idea that the Sentinel fighting Colossus didn't just copy his metal form but turned itself into an even harder metal.
Disgusted, but not surprised
The Head of the Hydra
The Sentinels really are the perfect manifestation of mutants conflict with humanity.
To hate another group so much you design machines made for nothing more than the purpose of killing them, and to constantly refine weapons until they become nothing more than monsters born from your own hatred and malice.
They even begun attacking humans as well, showcasing that they've also lost control of the monsters they've made and have turned against them.
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 29th 2024 at 7:03:15 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
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That’s because the Sentinels understand something that their creators always forget:
Mutants ‘’’ARE’’’ humans.
So they were built to protect mankind from themselves.
Mastermold said as much, word for word in the original X-men cartoon.
One Strip! One Strip!
Funny but not helpful
The Sentinels never not turn against their human masters.
You'd think humans would learn but we're not learning machines.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
The Head of the Hydra
Reminds me of the line from Inferno 2021 where the Omega Sentinel reveals the machines are playing Orchis, went something along this line.
"The secret they don't know, we hate them as much as we hate you."
Edited by slimcoder on Apr 29th 2024 at 7:32:36 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
The sleepiest good boi
Weird, I must've missed the robot apocalypse last year.
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Disasturbator
that was from the Bad Timeline which was thankfully erased when I went back in time and punched this one guy so the sentinel program never happened
your're welcome
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Funny but not helpful
Thank you very much
We may live in a slow burn AI capitalist nightmare but it’s still better than Days of Future Past.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
So we're in Logan slowburn discreet genocide rather than Days Of Future Past direct action genocide?
Edited by dcutter2 on Apr 29th 2024 at 4:20:03 PM
The Element of Hyperbole.
Sentinels have always been one of my favourite X-Men things. Conceptually they're just so cool. And you don't need to dedicate much time to characterizing them if you don't want to because of how they work.
I'm not sure if there's a name for this, but I sometimes feel like a lot of superheroes have this issue where adaptations can only write ONE of their villains competently. In the case of the X-Men, it's M Agneto. Have the movies written any good X-Men villains who aren't Magneto?
Edited by GNinja on Apr 29th 2024 at 3:22:17 PM
Kaze ni Nare!
Schreiber's Sabretooth was the best part of an otherwise Goatse-sized shit movie. Just a perfect encapsulation of everything Creed is about.
Disasturbator
He looked weirdly comic book accurate,which baffled me to end when everthing was clearly not
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The Head of the Hydra
Sebastion Shaw was pretty underrated in First Class.
Plus he's portrayed by Kevin Bacon.
Actually, it's the other way around. Sabretooth was redesigned in the comics to look more like Liev Schreiber. Prior to X-Men Origins he had a lion mane.
Disasturbator
stop it ur confusing me!
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The Scrappy of the Trope Pantheon, God of Thumps
Give me yellow spandex, not 2000s leather. I would literally clap if they get James Marsden back as Cyclops then do him justice in Deadpool 3
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Tyler Mane had the look and the intimidation, but was a barely-verbal brute with no personality. Schreiber didn't have the look, but his body language gave him the intimidation factor and he had a laser-accurate take on Creed's personality and character. The malice and contempt he could convey with his lines more than made up for not being a massive dude (and Schreiber is still a pretty big guy, just not a behemoth like Mane).
The Head of the Hydra
Man I hope Sabretooth returns in DP 3.
Be a perfect way to finally settle their rivalry.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
If he gets an MCU version, I vote Kevin Durand. Honestly, Pablo Schreiber would be great too if you can overlook his half-brother having already played him.
They preferred the bulky looking killer robots from the 90s I expect
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