I think the most terrifying aspect was how they just move on to the next target after a kill. Other villains would show some emotion after they get some kind of victory. The sentinels simply don’t, they kill and just walk away. That’s what sets them apart, they’re not exactly villains, they’re a force.
And they happened because of Mystique's dna that can adapt to anything thrown at them If they havent got her DNA, they wouldve been just robots but these are basically actual terminators
@@johnvlog1537 well the "weakness" of the movie sentinel is basically to hit them really hard lol. They are not indestructible per say, but yeah, they are scary.
@@Arpin_Lusene It seems like some superpowers are just too much for them to adapt to and they have to resort to overwhelming numbers to deal with such opponents. Clearly the nuke strike worked. It just couldn't kill enough of them. And even when they adapted to Iceman it still took 3 of them to gang up on him which means even a sentinel adapted to Iceman cannot take him on 1vs1.
I think the main thing that makes the sentinels work so well is because the movie is based on time travel, so you can do the worst case scenario to show the level of threat and then still have that one last chance
Thanks for pointing out this. It's disingenuous from the TH-camr to compare 5m of movie that happen on a future that the heroes are trying to prevent, then to what's "actually happening". It's not like they killed a bunch of main characters and ended the movie. No one would ever do that. Oh wait.
@@IC-23 "All" hype for dead characters in comic book movies that are ongoing is mostly dead on arrival. I'd argue that having 1 year of an abrupt ending of a movie where a bunch of heroes die has more weight than 5 minutes of a future that isn't going to exist.
@@DenOftheBlackLotus Not when one of these characters is Spider-Man who was the latest and greatest (literally) character to join the MCU. It immediatelly cheapened the ending of IW for me, because it was obvious that they're bringing everyone back (except for the robot I guess, but who cares about the robot?).
Exactly it wasn’t like the heroes learn or realize something to take them out, their only choice was to try and stop them from ever being created in the first place
Kinda similar to Thanos. They had to cheat to win against him with knowledge of the future. I am still mad at how Endgame completely discarded Infinity War.
@@benbenklin Indeed, Endgame was a huge downgrade from Infinity War. All the character development Thanos had goes up in flames and we got robbed from what should have been a powerfully emotional fight between the heroes trying to bring back the ones they lost and the titan who sacrificed the one thing he loved because he believed he was doing the right thing.
In the timelines where the sentinels succeeded they actually did eventually lose... To the juggernaut. Apparently even with perfect killing machines, the Juggernaut is still unstoppable. So one timeline hilarious has the juggernaut killing the last sentinel while he is all alone on a now dead earth.
Yeah, the reason why the sentinels in days of future past were so terrifying was because they’re based off the super sentinel in the comics known as Nimrod. It was a lot like doomsday from DC. He could adapt and basically pick and choose what powers he needed in order to eradicate whatever mutants he was dealing with, and he had the same type of directive thinking and operation as Ultron cold and exact.
Sentinels also induce fear into its opponents. When it repairs from a face punch, it make sure the opponent sees it. If it transforms, it waits enough for the opponent realise that the transformation has worked. It killed Storm and throws her backwards while looking at you. You get the idea.
The movie brilliantly answered two problems at once. 1.) There are SO MANY X-Men. How do you highlight and feature as many as you can without slowing down the plot of the movie? 2.) How do you make the Sentinels a legitimate threat to the heroes? The solution apparently was to make the Mutants expendable. "Hey! It's that guy! I remember him from... and he's dead." :)
They made that with the third X-Men. That mutant that throws wooden sticks at you. I vividly remember his animated version. He showed up in the movie, I went “hey 🤓 it’s that guy that throw sticks out of his wrists…oh he is about to 😅….and Wolverine got him😒……that’s it? 🤔”
@@Ligmaballin They'll come back more stronger and scarier. They not only adapt to damage but they adapt to any environment they're in and copy any abilities, skills and powers thrown to them
I love it when machines who are hyped up to be ‘’efficient killers’’ actually deliver on this description. Something that’s frustrating in the later Terminator movies is how much terminators are hyped up as advanced machines made specifically to kill yet fail so badly at this task by just throwing their target around or getting bullied the entire movie. The Sentinels actually felt dangerous. A machine so advanced that nothing can stop, quickly and efficiently goes for the kill and can’t be stopped no matter what.
I hate when terminators throw people around! It's so silly. 😂 If an actual terminator grabbed someone, that part of the body would be toast - broken, crushed or snapped off. And then the rest of the body would follow. No throwing around. I laughed so hard when the legless terminator in Salvation threw John away twice! Why would it do that if it has no legs to catch up to John before he recovers from the throw? Ridiculous. And it grabs him ever so gently to barely wrinkle his clothes.
It's something that was partially missing from Ultron too. The snark was fine considering the setup, and he did kill a little, but even with his army of robots the scale of destruction never felt as real as the Sentinels.
@@moriakpotatoNot just terminators, its a common trope in any big strong guy/monster/robot vs a smaller guy fight. Lots of throwing the protagonist across the room to show off their strength, when they had every opportunity to just crush their throat. Then the protagonist grabs a gun or some other plot device and gets the upper hand or escapes.
@@denisl2760But that's not exactly what happened in this movie either, the villain instantly killing the protagonist is something that would end the movie quickly, and leave nothing for the film makers to show in the rest of the movie or the later parts, in this movie they just showed this in upcoming future, and it didn't exactly happen, it's the same with others too, the only time they'll show protagonist dying quickly is either in a vision or time travel
The best way to describe these Sentinels would be "Efficient Cruelty". They are appropriately machine-like in their combat approach and general demeanor - with all the tactical efficiency that entails - but the methods in which they kill their targets can only be called _sadistic._ Like ganging up and tearing Colossus in half, slowly choking out Sunspot and Iceman, overloading Bishop's energy absorption and slowly lowering Warpath into its face-laser. The Sentinels are brutally skilled Mutant killers, but more than that they are inhumanly cruel butchers.
Probably not? From my limited knowledge, the Sentinels from Days of Future Past are able to beat the mutants because they basically adapt their powers based on the actual gene that the mutant they're fighting with has. Hulk doesn't have a mutant gene. He's pure gamma radiation. Same thing with Thor. He's the Norse God of Thunder. Even if one of the Sentinels were able to hypothetically gain the power of Mjolnir, Thor can just....control it. This was shown in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes when Absorbing Man absorbed Mjolnir and Thor just levitated him to space. Iron Man would also not have a problem, cuz...well, it's Iron Man. He has suits meant to take on heavy hitters. tl;dr: The Avengers will be fine.
@@megamegaO In the MCU, they're not. Their powers were a result of HYDRA experimenting on them with the mind stone, so the mutant gene would not be present.
What makes them terrifying and entertaining is the very fact there's no comments, jests, no epic monologues or them telling you their grand plan as they laugh at your weakness. They walk in, adapt, kill you and walk straight unto the next. When they're done, they walk away. No words.
These things were so fucking Terrifying, they are mindless and they're not even made of metal so powerhouses like Magneto and Xavier can't even stop them
If Bullseye has titaniun sniper rifle & bullet, he can easily take out Magneto. That's why Magneto is very careful and has henchman. He knows his limit.
@@mystique666 not true one bit, Magneto can control EVERYTHING on the electromagnetic spectrum. meaning magneto can make radio waves, nuclear energy etc. in theory that segment at the end with storm and magneto should have just killed every sentinel made. it goes to show how they got them to be super sentinels
They're not even truly mindless considering how strategic these guys are (taking out the big hitters first, adapting to every power for each specific mutant they fight, sneaking, etc. Mindlessness can't pull this off anywhere NEAR as well, which is even MORE terrifying)
Let's put it this way, they wiped out everything on earth. Every human and every mutant. I'd say most threatening villain to date in X-Men. The only way they were defeated is by making sure they were never created. So technically they were never really defeated. The only villain to not be defeated by a conventional way.
Earth would absolutely crush any Marvel cosmic empire if they had these. Imagine Loki and the Chitauri or Thanos' fleet showing up to Earth in the Avengers and they face a few thousand of these Sentinels.
The arogue cut as well as the beginning, something overlooked, as that the mutants not killed are rounded up and harvested to power the Sentinels' combat abilities. Especially Rouge who's power's used to help their adaptability.
These sentinels were hands down the most terrifying villain in a movie based on a Marvel IP. Bar none. You name it. Thanos, The Winter Soldier, Scarlett Witch, Kang. None of them felt like fighting them was altogether hopeless. Sure, they were tough, some heroes died and so on and so forth. But you knew there was the hope of beating them. Here, instead, the stakes on Wolverine's mission are through the roof, because you know the only hope for survival is to stop them from ever existing.
0:49 the early 2000's marvel didn't have to be special with their villains. Back in that time we just wanted an avengers move that was fun to watch and that was literally it😂
I do not agree, they are very different. Sentinels are pure brute force, they represent oppression and hate. Ultron is a complex villain, like Thanos. He is not really bad, he understand the futur problems and want to impose his solutions by force. His intentions are good but the way he impose them are bad. If Ultron was just a brute, he would be bland, just as Thanos would be if he was just a bad guy. It work in x-men because Sentinels are not the villains of the movie, it's the hate that create them. These two movies have very different message.
@@pierrotA Thanos wouldn't have been bland tho if he was just what he was in the actual comics that made him famous, being a cosmic simp who went to great cosmic lengths for love, or at least what he thought love to be.
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Ultron was pretty terrifying, he was still somewhat on the comedic side looking back. One scene that rivals the sentines was with wanda or Black window I dont remember actually but he basically talked about how he always comes back stronger and as he says that he literally demolishes his own body with a new and improved copy of himself. And the sound effects also were really adding to it. Fantastic scene.
Ultron isn’t supposed to be charismatic or funny. Ultron’s a cold uncaring, calculating machine who sees humans as inferior and nothing but a hinderance to earth. To give it a personality is to give it a more humanised feel, which contradicts its whole motive. A personality along the lines of how Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith would have been better suited for Ultron. What makes Ultron intimidating is that cold, blank expression it has. Disney just always has to have its villains be witty and funny, because that’s what tests well with market research, but this wasn’t a Bond villain, this was something entirely its own. A bit more research into the comics would have been good
@@JuhoSprite clearly not. When has Ultron ever been portrayed like that in the comics? This was nothing more than Disney exects, fearing that a pure killing machine as the villain wouldn’t be suitable for kids, so they made Ultron more marketable. In the end, the version they went with, ended up being generic, forgettable, unoriginal and childish. No respect for the source material.
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
It was indeed crucial. How else would the mainstream audience grow to fear them? - "Hey, so we got these cool Sentinels and we want the audience to be frightened by them. How do we do it?" - "I have an idea. You see that mutant character a lot of people seem to know and love?" - "Yeah, what about him?" - "Tear him in half."
The idea of sentinels are always just so odd for me. If they can make robots that can so easily kill mutants like storm and magneto, why not just have them go after other, actual threats to the planet?
Xenophobia mixed with greed and envy, they are afraid of mutatns for being born with gifts while people like captain america and spiderman are mutates which were made and not born with their gifts like mutants were so they hope they can replace those powers for their own.
To the people who make them, mutants are the biggest threat. Also in the Fox X men universe mutants are the only supernatural threat around so who else would they fight?
It's because at that period of time humans felt the biggest threats to the planet were mutants. There were people being killed by mutants at the time. Also, the sentinels eventually reprogrammed themselves as to hunt humans as well. Their programming originally had them hunting mutants however because humans can give birth to mutants, the sentinels deemed it necessary to remove all human life as a fails safe from the planet in order to 100% eradicate mutants.
It’s scary to see how a group of seasoned X-Men, with heavy hitters like Colossus and Ice Man struggle to even push one back solo. The comic version of Sentinels are huge and have strong lasers, but a robot mimicking and directly countering your powers is scary. I like to think they deployed a couple of the sentinel ships JUST for the mansion. It would’ve been a massacre. Great video. Cheers.
Only Jean Grey could take them on but at this point in the timeline she was already dead at the hands of wolverine. They were truly undefeated in the entire movie
This film still holds up today. And it is still an ever present fear of their return because of the butterfly effect they caused when meddling with time. They still get mystiques DNA, sure they shut the program down but all the blueprints are there for someone else down the Future to pick up where they left off. They are and ever looking presence over an uncertain future and that my friends is what makes them an effective villain and narrative gold to dig up later
My first thought when seeing these sentinels was, "Nimrod". It invoked the same feelings of fear, but after the sentinels finished the job, even then I realized Nimrod was lacking.
Yes, i love when you said there’s not even space for witty one liners or quips because all they can do is prepare for the worse, it really does effect the audience in how they perceive the villain and the stakes
When I first saw those sentinels I was like, “wow, these things are menacing, strong and durable.” (I also have a thing for tall men, well guess machine here. Kinda made me feel something deep down that I didn’t wanna be feeling for machines that are just taking out my beloved heroes) 😅
One aspect that makes the situation feel hopeless is that we see a good number of these sentinels being destroyed but more just take their place. Just shows how easilly they can replace their losses despite so much effort needed to kill just one and the next wave quickly learns the mistakes of the previous ones that failed.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and being super scared by these guys lmao. Just the way they just tore through those iconic superheroes so easily and ignored plot armor seemingly at all times, these guys were really out here killing mfs in multiple scenes like they were Terminators XD. Made the film so much scarier and engaging to watch.
I still think these guys are scarier than even Thanos, because Marvel gave us a Spider-man trailer right after Infinity War, so we already knew folks would come back to life somehow. But Days of Future Past? Even with the time travel, I don't think we were PREPARED for how terrifying the Sentinels would be. Somehow the time travel plot in Endgame was way less tense.
It's because the xmen are so badass that that's what it takes to best them. The avengers are ass in comparison and I'm tired of the mcu putting them front and center.
The Avengers shitstomps xmen Whether you’re biased or just r3tařďeď…….. It’s not okay to be wrong🤷♂️🤷♂️ 2 can wipe out 85% of the x men…. It has already been done …. What’s your defense???? Jean grey? The cripple who can barely stop his BF???
@@andrewblackmon1574 ok So you’re r3tarďeď…… go it ….now that’s out the way….. Everybody in X-men Is a copy of somebody else with a slight difference…. But since you just learned the word Generic today… I’ll let it slide little buddy….. You enjoy you’re X-men 👍
This is anazing content. Keep it up. I like how you the audio is not ultra perfect making it all sound like a conversation im having with one of my guys on a regular afternoon. You express your well thought out points precisely without fumbling around for extra minutes None of my time was wasted in this video and the topic itself was engaging. Thank you.
The music tone in this was awesome how when they were all fighting the Sentinels and then when it got real and the Sentinel stop playing games and started adapting the music just dropped and that's when everyone was defeated I felt it in my spirit this is the type of movies I've always loved
The fact the sentinels continue advancing towards their prey without hesitation, despite their injuries and missing limbs, is what amplifies their terrifying and formidable nature.
These things were SO COOL. This is how you update a classic villain, looked nothing like the comic Sentinals but they were honestly one of the most memorable villains in comic book films.
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I think the most terrifying aspect was how they just move on to the next target after a kill. Other villains would show some emotion after they get some kind of victory. The sentinels simply don’t, they kill and just walk away. That’s what sets them apart, they’re not exactly villains, they’re a force.
Yes, love that they are completely cold and unfeeling.
almost like biological robots
and no not just a robot
but biological
Terminators
Like zombies but they don't stop to eat the dead body or something but just go for the other one 💀
On the X-Men cartoon they were just
Regular sentinels.
And they managed to kill them.
These versions of Sentinels were genuinely menacing, design wise.
The lack of "face" and color truly increase the horror of these machines.
And they happened because of Mystique's dna that can adapt to anything thrown at them
If they havent got her DNA, they wouldve been just robots but these are basically actual terminators
I always felt like these sentinals are what Ultron should have been. Cold, calculated and deadly efficient.
What about these sentinels against Sebastian shaw.
@@munish259272He can only do so much with his energy absorption, these things can adapt scary fast, and are virtually unstoppable.
I never viewed the comic sentinels as terrifying. Until the movie version came out and I was like "oh wow, now that's terrifying".
I don't know what the weakness of sentinels but there body is really strong they can copy there opponents powers
@@johnvlog1537 well the "weakness" of the movie sentinel is basically to hit them really hard lol. They are not indestructible per say, but yeah, they are scary.
@@Arpin_Lusene yeah I also think if dark Phoenix can destroy them easily
Other then being like Terminators, they’re able to replicate their victims’ powers, becoming harder to stop and taking more innocent lives.
@@Arpin_Lusene It seems like some superpowers are just too much for them to adapt to and they have to resort to overwhelming numbers to deal with such opponents. Clearly the nuke strike worked. It just couldn't kill enough of them. And even when they adapted to Iceman it still took 3 of them to gang up on him which means even a sentinel adapted to Iceman cannot take him on 1vs1.
I think the main thing that makes the sentinels work so well is because the movie is based on time travel, so you can do the worst case scenario to show the level of threat and then still have that one last chance
Thanks for pointing out this. It's disingenuous from the TH-camr to compare 5m of movie that happen on a future that the heroes are trying to prevent, then to what's "actually happening".
It's not like they killed a bunch of main characters and ended the movie. No one would ever do that.
Oh wait.
@@DenOftheBlackLotus Infinity war cough cough.
@jainilpatel5811 except the hype from infinity was was dead in arrival because we already had confirmed sequels for dead characters.
@@IC-23 "All" hype for dead characters in comic book movies that are ongoing is mostly dead on arrival. I'd argue that having 1 year of an abrupt ending of a movie where a bunch of heroes die has more weight than 5 minutes of a future that isn't going to exist.
@@DenOftheBlackLotus Not when one of these characters is Spider-Man who was the latest and greatest (literally) character to join the MCU. It immediatelly cheapened the ending of IW for me, because it was obvious that they're bringing everyone back (except for the robot I guess, but who cares about the robot?).
The most terrifying thing about them is that they weren't defeated... not in a regular way
Exactly it wasn’t like the heroes learn or realize something to take them out, their only choice was to try and stop them from ever being created in the first place
Kinda similar to Thanos. They had to cheat to win against him with knowledge of the future. I am still mad at how Endgame completely discarded Infinity War.
@@benbenklin Indeed, Endgame was a huge downgrade from Infinity War. All the character development Thanos had goes up in flames and we got robbed from what should have been a powerfully emotional fight between the heroes trying to bring back the ones they lost and the titan who sacrificed the one thing he loved because he believed he was doing the right thing.
In the timelines where the sentinels succeeded they actually did eventually lose... To the juggernaut. Apparently even with perfect killing machines, the Juggernaut is still unstoppable. So one timeline hilarious has the juggernaut killing the last sentinel while he is all alone on a now dead earth.
@@setcheck67 is this a universe where the sentinels also targeted humans like ones who wouldn’t eventually birth a mutant?
Yeah, the reason why the sentinels in days of future past were so terrifying was because they’re based off the super sentinel in the comics known as Nimrod. It was a lot like doomsday from DC. He could adapt and basically pick and choose what powers he needed in order to eradicate whatever mutants he was dealing with, and he had the same type of directive thinking and operation as Ultron cold and exact.
oh I see that simularity! but wasn't nimrod a sentient being?
Sort of, he still mainly wants to destroy all mutants even though he killed all the other heroes.
Yeah but nimrods look like doofs compared to these things
That sounds more analogues to Amazo than doomsday
Actually the Fury from the Crooked World who killed all the world's superheroes who were in hiding. The opening is nearly identical.
Sentinels also induce fear into its opponents. When it repairs from a face punch, it make sure the opponent sees it. If it transforms, it waits enough for the opponent realise that the transformation has worked. It killed Storm and throws her backwards while looking at you. You get the idea.
I got chills just by reading this🥶
@@ourplanet4368skill issue
😂😂😂😂 the most terrifying antagonistic idea out there. Pure terror and despair
Said a lot about how hateful their creator was against mutant
The movie brilliantly answered two problems at once.
1.) There are SO MANY X-Men. How do you highlight and feature as many as you can without slowing down the plot of the movie?
2.) How do you make the Sentinels a legitimate threat to the heroes?
The solution apparently was to make the Mutants expendable. "Hey! It's that guy! I remember him from... and he's dead." :)
They made that with the third X-Men. That mutant that throws wooden sticks at you. I vividly remember his animated version. He showed up in the movie, I went “hey 🤓 it’s that guy that throw sticks out of his wrists…oh he is about to 😅….and Wolverine got him😒……that’s it? 🤔”
@@cobra8888you mean bones? The bones knife thrower?
@@johnhagala3622 If that was his name then yes. Was it bones he is throwing? I guess so.
@@cobra8888 well, Idk what else he would have growing out of his wrists and they looked liked bones 😅
They're basically terminator of the x men
Except They're unkillable
The funny part is a T-800 somehow would've managed to destroy a robot like that😂 they sent an anti-terminator terminator and still won!
This movie was same like Terminator 2 Judgement Day according to youtube channel CouchTomato.
@@Vendeta552Unkillable? Highly doubt that, adapting to damage doesn't make you invulnerable. If they got thrown into a black hole they'd still die
@@Ligmaballin They'll come back more stronger and scarier. They not only adapt to damage but they adapt to any environment they're in and copy any abilities, skills and powers thrown to them
I love it when machines who are hyped up to be ‘’efficient killers’’ actually deliver on this description. Something that’s frustrating in the later Terminator movies is how much terminators are hyped up as advanced machines made specifically to kill yet fail so badly at this task by just throwing their target around or getting bullied the entire movie.
The Sentinels actually felt dangerous. A machine so advanced that nothing can stop, quickly and efficiently goes for the kill and can’t be stopped no matter what.
I hate when terminators throw people around! It's so silly. 😂
If an actual terminator grabbed someone, that part of the body would be toast - broken, crushed or snapped off. And then the rest of the body would follow. No throwing around.
I laughed so hard when the legless terminator in Salvation threw John away twice! Why would it do that if it has no legs to catch up to John before he recovers from the throw? Ridiculous. And it grabs him ever so gently to barely wrinkle his clothes.
It's something that was partially missing from Ultron too. The snark was fine considering the setup, and he did kill a little, but even with his army of robots the scale of destruction never felt as real as the Sentinels.
@@moriakpotatoNot just terminators, its a common trope in any big strong guy/monster/robot vs a smaller guy fight.
Lots of throwing the protagonist across the room to show off their strength, when they had every opportunity to just crush their throat. Then the protagonist grabs a gun or some other plot device and gets the upper hand or escapes.
@@denisl2760But that's not exactly what happened in this movie either, the villain instantly killing the protagonist is something that would end the movie quickly, and leave nothing for the film makers to show in the rest of the movie or the later parts, in this movie they just showed this in upcoming future, and it didn't exactly happen, it's the same with others too, the only time they'll show protagonist dying quickly is either in a vision or time travel
The best way to describe these Sentinels would be "Efficient Cruelty". They are appropriately machine-like in their combat approach and general demeanor - with all the tactical efficiency that entails - but the methods in which they kill their targets can only be called _sadistic._ Like ganging up and tearing Colossus in half, slowly choking out Sunspot and Iceman, overloading Bishop's energy absorption and slowly lowering Warpath into its face-laser. The Sentinels are brutally skilled Mutant killers, but more than that they are inhumanly cruel butchers.
...I'm going to enjoy this..very much
Indeed... just as they were intended.
The sad thing is that we'll probably never see them again, certainly not on the screens of MCU movies.
I just gotta say, if Ultron had these, the Avengers would've been smoked.
Movie Ultron would’ve been smoked too.
ultron is a pretentious bitch compared to these
Probably not? From my limited knowledge, the Sentinels from Days of Future Past are able to beat the mutants because they basically adapt their powers based on the actual gene that the mutant they're fighting with has. Hulk doesn't have a mutant gene. He's pure gamma radiation.
Same thing with Thor. He's the Norse God of Thunder. Even if one of the Sentinels were able to hypothetically gain the power of Mjolnir, Thor can just....control it.
This was shown in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes when Absorbing Man absorbed Mjolnir and Thor just levitated him to space.
Iron Man would also not have a problem, cuz...well, it's Iron Man. He has suits meant to take on heavy hitters.
tl;dr: The Avengers will be fine.
@@incerno159 Quick Silver, Wanda re mutants no? If they gained either of their powers they would run over the avengers with speed/wanda powers.
@@megamegaO In the MCU, they're not. Their powers were a result of HYDRA experimenting on them with the mind stone, so the mutant gene would not be present.
What makes them terrifying and entertaining is the very fact there's no comments, jests, no epic monologues or them telling you their grand plan as they laugh at your weakness.
They walk in, adapt, kill you and walk straight unto the next. When they're done, they walk away. No words.
Like Mahoraga
These things were so fucking Terrifying, they are mindless and they're not even made of metal so powerhouses like Magneto and Xavier can't even stop them
they probably are just not magnetic because Magneto can only control metal that are magnetic.
If Bullseye has titaniun sniper rifle & bullet, he can easily take out Magneto. That's why Magneto is very careful and has henchman. He knows his limit.
@@mystique666the original models were pretty metal then obviously these mfers get upgraded over time and their adaptations against mutants get better
@@mystique666 not true one bit, Magneto can control EVERYTHING on the electromagnetic spectrum. meaning magneto can make radio waves, nuclear energy etc. in theory that segment at the end with storm and magneto should have just killed every sentinel made. it goes to show how they got them to be super sentinels
They're not even truly mindless considering how strategic these guys are (taking out the big hitters first, adapting to every power for each specific mutant they fight, sneaking, etc. Mindlessness can't pull this off anywhere NEAR as well, which is even MORE terrifying)
I agree in everything, hard to think in a more frightening villain. They were portrait like a symbol of something unavoidable
Death
Let's put it this way, they wiped out everything on earth. Every human and every mutant. I'd say most threatening villain to date in X-Men.
The only way they were defeated is by making sure they were never created. So technically they were never really defeated. The only villain to not be defeated by a conventional way.
This was done with DC comics Doomsday as well... they went back in time to ensure the scientist didn't create him
Oh wow I didn't know that (non sarcasm) cool
the phoenix ?
@@arishemghoul9571 did the x-men have to go back in time to prevent Jean Grey from merging with the Phoenix entity as well?
@@shiningfaceofluzon5594 nope but it's way more powerful than this sentinels considered it can alter reality at a multiverse scale.
The thing that make them even more scary is there numbers there's so so many of them its incredible
Earth would absolutely crush any Marvel cosmic empire if they had these.
Imagine Loki and the Chitauri or Thanos' fleet showing up to Earth in the Avengers and they face a few thousand of these Sentinels.
@@denisl2760 lmao an infinity stone would just wipe them out
@@Footytalker I meant Thanos' fleet itself, without help from Thanos
@@denisl2760Sorry to say but these sentinels are only shown to absorb mutant powers.
They felt like that "thing" in your nightmare that you are trying to get away from but keeps catching up
This is exactly how i felt when i saw these things for the first time on screen😭
The arogue cut as well as the beginning, something overlooked, as that the mutants not killed are rounded up and harvested to power the Sentinels' combat abilities. Especially Rouge who's power's used to help their adaptability.
Yeah Rogue and Mystique were the inspiration to their design and adaptability
Without a doubt the scariest villians. The opening scene was perhaps the best scene I've ever seen
These sentinels were hands down the most terrifying villain in a movie based on a Marvel IP. Bar none. You name it. Thanos, The Winter Soldier, Scarlett Witch, Kang. None of them felt like fighting them was altogether hopeless. Sure, they were tough, some heroes died and so on and so forth. But you knew there was the hope of beating them. Here, instead, the stakes on Wolverine's mission are through the roof, because you know the only hope for survival is to stop them from ever existing.
Knull in the King in black story arc 😂
Also if they can kill Lady Deathstrike Logan ain't ish
Agreed. I remember watching the opening sequence in horror, but also so impressed that I was seeing x-men comic book team action live on screen.
The sentinels from days of future past are among the few enemies that cannot be overcome by the power of friendship
Well, that's terrifying. 😳
They overcame it by the power of time travel
@@pyrokatarina did they? I mean it's more like they avoided it rather than overcame it.
Bro they were terrifying. This is the most underrated hero movie
I AGREE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, when i saw these things I was genuinely scared of them and sort of angry that they exist.
0:49 the early 2000's marvel didn't have to be special with their villains. Back in that time we just wanted an avengers move that was fun to watch and that was literally it😂
What Ultron should have been rather than a quip machine with the capability of remorse.
This is so accurate and remember feeling the same way when I first saw the movie. 😂😂 Weird villain but very well spoken
I do not agree, they are very different.
Sentinels are pure brute force, they represent oppression and hate.
Ultron is a complex villain, like Thanos. He is not really bad, he understand the futur problems and want to impose his solutions by force. His intentions are good but the way he impose them are bad.
If Ultron was just a brute, he would be bland, just as Thanos would be if he was just a bad guy.
It work in x-men because Sentinels are not the villains of the movie, it's the hate that create them.
These two movies have very different message.
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Thanos wouldn't have been bland tho if he was just what he was in the actual comics that made him famous, being a cosmic simp who went to great cosmic lengths for love, or at least what he thought love to be.
Very different Ultron has a conscience these don’t.
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The image of the sentinels teaming up to tear Colossus of all people in half is permanently burned into my memory
100% CORRECT. The most scary, frighetening Marvel movie, the only one that got me scared for my childhood heroes.
Ultron was pretty terrifying, he was still somewhat on the comedic side looking back. One scene that rivals the sentines was with wanda or Black window I dont remember actually but he basically talked about how he always comes back stronger and as he says that he literally demolishes his own body with a new and improved copy of himself. And the sound effects also were really adding to it. Fantastic scene.
I respect that you are a fan, but I disagree. That Ultron scene was .. okay I guess. The whole film is the problem to begin with I think
Ultron isn’t supposed to be charismatic or funny. Ultron’s a cold uncaring, calculating machine who sees humans as inferior and nothing but a hinderance to earth. To give it a personality is to give it a more humanised feel, which contradicts its whole motive.
A personality along the lines of how Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith would have been better suited for Ultron.
What makes Ultron intimidating is that cold, blank expression it has. Disney just always has to have its villains be witty and funny, because that’s what tests well with market research, but this wasn’t a Bond villain, this was something entirely its own. A bit more research into the comics would have been good
@@TheCelticTiger32 I mean im pretty sure they HAVE done research on the comics. cuz they are like... you know, marvel?
@@JuhoSprite clearly not. When has Ultron ever been portrayed like that in the comics? This was nothing more than Disney exects, fearing that a pure killing machine as the villain wouldn’t be suitable for kids, so they made Ultron more marketable. In the end, the version they went with, ended up being generic, forgettable, unoriginal and childish. No respect for the source material.
I also really liked High Evolutionary from Guardians 3. He was a villain done right. Brutal, unsympathetic, obsessed and straight up evil...
It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Coming to theater, I thought it was watching a horror movie instead of an x-men movie. The introduction of DOFP is peak marvel
The way remaining X-men got slaughtered in DOFP was crucial
Crucial?
You mean brutal?
without Kitty's power, they would've been dead years ago, from the creation of the Sentinels. Those machines are invincible.
*cruel?
It was indeed crucial.
How else would the mainstream audience grow to fear them?
- "Hey, so we got these cool Sentinels and we want the audience to be frightened by them. How do we do it?"
- "I have an idea. You see that mutant character a lot of people seem to know and love?"
- "Yeah, what about him?"
- "Tear him in half."
Been trying to make my own drone enemies for a story I’ve been working on. These DOFP sentinels were actually one of my main inspirations!
holy shit. I never saw that movie. That really is insane. This "all home is lost" feeling... you dont have that in any other movies these daya
Days of Future Past is really good! Definitely worth the watch 😊
Finally someone that appreciate Days of future past film
My wife and I still joke that they should have made one of those separable keychains that looks like colossus after watching him get yoinked in half….
This ia what i want on Ultron
The idea of sentinels are always just so odd for me. If they can make robots that can so easily kill mutants like storm and magneto, why not just have them go after other, actual threats to the planet?
Xenophobia mixed with greed and envy,
they are afraid of mutatns for being born with gifts while people like captain america and spiderman are mutates which were made and not born with their gifts like mutants were so they hope they can replace those powers for their own.
To the people who make them, mutants are the biggest threat. Also in the Fox X men universe mutants are the only supernatural threat around so who else would they fight?
It's because at that period of time humans felt the biggest threats to the planet were mutants. There were people being killed by mutants at the time. Also, the sentinels eventually reprogrammed themselves as to hunt humans as well. Their programming originally had them hunting mutants however because humans can give birth to mutants, the sentinels deemed it necessary to remove all human life as a fails safe from the planet in order to 100% eradicate mutants.
Planet? These things could conquer the galaxy
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They are less like villians and more like an unstoppable force of nature. The X-men react to them like people would react to a tornado approaching.
It’s scary to see how a group of seasoned X-Men, with heavy hitters like Colossus and Ice Man struggle to even push one back solo. The comic version of Sentinels are huge and have strong lasers, but a robot mimicking and directly countering your powers is scary. I like to think they deployed a couple of the sentinel ships JUST for the mansion. It would’ve been a massacre. Great video. Cheers.
Only Jean Grey could take them on but at this point in the timeline she was already dead at the hands of wolverine. They were truly undefeated in the entire movie
Juggernaut can easily beat them as he's unstoppable, I think they even gave up in the end lol
This film still holds up today. And it is still an ever present fear of their return because of the butterfly effect they caused when meddling with time. They still get mystiques DNA, sure they shut the program down but all the blueprints are there for someone else down the Future to pick up where they left off. They are and ever looking presence over an uncertain future and that my friends is what makes them an effective villain and narrative gold to dig up later
Dr. Manhattan lifts a brow. “Part of me wants to help, but I’m busy creating galaxies.”
My first thought when seeing these sentinels was, "Nimrod". It invoked the same feelings of fear, but after the sentinels finished the job, even then I realized Nimrod was lacking.
They also reminded me of Nimrod. There was no beating him, except sending him back to his own time (the future).
Yes, i love when you said there’s not even space for witty one liners or quips because all they can do is prepare for the worse, it really does effect the audience in how they perceive the villain and the stakes
The Sentinels are basically X-Men’s version of the T-800 from The Terminator series.
I always love finding small channels that do this type of content.
2:06 someone definitely said “that’s my kind of woman”somewhere in the comments, if not then it’s here now.
These are such cool sentinel looks
They're very similar to the Terminators sent by Skynet, just absolute killing machines with no emotion and error
Great video! Underrated channel
Sentinels were Spinosaurus of the Marvel that were so successful antagonists and yet forgotten because they were over powered 😔
Exactly the video i needed
Also in dc the scariest thing come close to the sentinel is the paradoom in dark apokolip war doomsday combine parademon
Though just about anyone would end up killing a few of those in the end, which was kind of anticlimactic.
My first time realizing how dangerous sentinels were is in the old X Men cartoons plus they explain how it happened and why they can adapt.
When I first saw those sentinels I was like, “wow, these things are menacing, strong and durable.” (I also have a thing for tall men, well guess machine here. Kinda made me feel something deep down that I didn’t wanna be feeling for machines that are just taking out my beloved heroes) 😅
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@@Wulabaloo heh…😅
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The view numbers on this video shows how intriguing they were.
Great observations. I pretty much agree, these sentinels are horrifying, and original. Thanos was pretty bad as too. Excellent video, thanks 🙂
One aspect that makes the situation feel hopeless is that we see a good number of these sentinels being destroyed but more just take their place. Just shows how easilly they can replace their losses despite so much effort needed to kill just one and the next wave quickly learns the mistakes of the previous ones that failed.
The future Sentinels were everything Ultron try to be and fail to do.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and being super scared by these guys lmao. Just the way they just tore through those iconic superheroes so easily and ignored plot armor seemingly at all times, these guys were really out here killing mfs in multiple scenes like they were Terminators XD. Made the film so much scarier and engaging to watch.
At 3:56 didn't Blink used her portal there for the Magneto or is it another Mandela effect 🤨
This video use the Rogue cut, it was Kitty who saved Magneto in the Rogue version.
Different version, haven’t seen it so I don’t know how it makes sense for kitty to save him when she’s supposed be holding wolverine in the past
@@porvita1z119She was replaced by rogue to hold Wolverine in the past
I forgot how crazy the intro to that movie was. I might have to watch it again soon. Well done video.
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I still think these guys are scarier than even Thanos, because Marvel gave us a Spider-man trailer right after Infinity War, so we already knew folks would come back to life somehow. But Days of Future Past? Even with the time travel, I don't think we were PREPARED for how terrifying the Sentinels would be. Somehow the time travel plot in Endgame was way less tense.
0:26 who is that? Pyro?
Sunspot I think
@@cascade_4790yeah it’s sunspot bishop says his name so he can charge up
@@cascade_4790Who sunspot
@@luckymark571A member of new mutants team.
These Sentinels are the most brutal. They don't take prisoners.
It's because the xmen are so badass that that's what it takes to best them. The avengers are ass in comparison and I'm tired of the mcu putting them front and center.
The Avengers shitstomps xmen
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2 can wipe out 85% of the x men…. It has already been done ….
What’s your defense???? Jean grey? The cripple who can barely stop his BF???
@@yourhero782 enjoy the generic heroes
@@andrewblackmon1574 ok So you’re r3tarďeď…… go it ….now that’s out the way….. Everybody in X-men Is a copy of somebody else with a slight difference…. But since you just learned the word Generic today… I’ll let it slide little buddy….. You enjoy you’re X-men 👍
@@yourhero782wow bro so edgy
@@andrewblackmon1574 Based!
This is anazing content. Keep it up. I like how you the audio is not ultra perfect making it all sound like a conversation im having with one of my guys on a regular afternoon.
You express your well thought out points precisely without fumbling around for extra minutes
None of my time was wasted in this video and the topic itself was engaging.
Thank you.
and now im gona watch that movie again.
The first five minutes by far were the best of the movie.
I recently just watched every single one of these back to back, after watching loki s2 so got right in the mood for DP3
Here before this guys channel explodes!!! Can't wait to see what else he makes! Top notch my man!
They were PERFECT!
One movie you can watch over and over
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The x men: days of future past was such an amazing movie and great video Reggie :]
This was the best X-Men movie by far.
Solid video 🤘
These fellas scared me as a kid. Genuinely hit the gold standard of villains.
That's what you call cold natured killing machine without failure.
The music tone in this was awesome how when they were all fighting the Sentinels and then when it got real and the Sentinel stop playing games and started adapting the music just dropped and that's when everyone was defeated I felt it in my spirit this is the type of movies I've always loved
I think the most surprising thing is how you don’t have more subscribers, great content
i followed so you could be at 850, keep growing
Finally a video acknowledging how amazing the sentinels were
Captain America: "I can't do this all day"
These guys were so terrifying when I was 12 watching this for the first time. First time I’d ever been spooked by a marvel movie.
This was an awesome breakdown! You just earned a subscriber!!!
Can't believe they made the Sentinels more menacing than Ultron. Days of Future Past is awesome! One if the best superhero movies of all time
The fact the sentinels continue advancing towards their prey without hesitation, despite their injuries and missing limbs, is what amplifies their terrifying and formidable nature.
This was awesome!!!
They were like gods. Too adaptable.
Nice vid
These things were SO COOL. This is how you update a classic villain, looked nothing like the comic Sentinals but they were honestly one of the most memorable villains in comic book films.
deserves a rewatch
I loved this. The opening sequence was a masterpiece!
The Sentinels basically inspired Stranger Things’ monsters.
Even Surtur, Hela, Thanos, Celestials were afraid of Sentinel