Sentinel


 * The Sentinels are a group of Decepticon drones from the Generation 1 continuity family.



The Sentinels were a series of combat robots used by Shockwave on Cybertron. None of them appeared able to speak or transform, but they sure did die easily.

Desertion of the Dinobots
When the Dinobots arrived on Cybertron through the Space Bridge, a large battle ensued in Decepticon Headquarters between the stompin' cyber-saurians and Shockwave's guard robots. Despite destroying many of them, the Dinobots, except for Swoop, were overwhelmed and captured.

Later, Spike Witwicky and Carly also used the Space Bridge to reach Cybertron, and quickly managed to escape from Shockwave's control room. The guardian of Cybertron then dispatched "the Sentinel", a treaded robot with pincer-like hands, to deal with the humans. Thinking fast, Spike crushed its head in a gigantic sliding door, destroying it. A group of guards accompanied the Head Guard in locating and capturing the two humans, who had joined up with Swoop. The prisoners were then sent to the Cybertonium Pit, where they were watched until a fight broke out between Spike and Grimlock. Lowering the force-field in order to remove the humans, the guards were attacked by the Dinobots, who made short work of them.

The Search for Alpha Trion
Later, when Chromia, Firestar, and Moonracer escaped capture at Shockwave's hand, he sent a different Sentinel, which was capable of flight, after the trio of fleeing Autobots. Though the wheeled, multi-gunned machine tracked them to the general vicinity of their secret headquarters, this Sentinel was obliterated by a single blast from Moonracer's pistol.

The Revenge of Bruticus
When next encountered, Shockwave had a large group of "Sentinel guards" -— of a different make from the last two units -— which he deployed in practice military maneuvers with giant holograms. These Sentinels were present when an asteroid arrived on Cybertron carrying the banished Combaticons.

Shockwave and the Sentinels defended the planet from these renegades, who combined into Bruticus and utterly annihilated them. A short while later, the Sentinels assisted a joint Decepticon-Autobot task force in defeating the giant Bruticus, although many more were reduced to scrap in the process.

Foreign names

 * Japanese: Destron Keibi Robo (デストロン警備ロボ Desutoron Keibi Robo, "Destron Guard Robo"), Guard Robot ("The Revenge of Bruticus", ガードロボット Gādo Robotto)