Sentinel Prime

* Robot Mode (Upgrade)
* Robot Mode (original body)
* Vehicle Mode (Upgrade)
* Truck Mode (original body)

Sentinel Prime is the main antagonist of Transformers Loud. The latest in the lineage of the Primes. he is the ruler of Cybertron, which he rules with an *iron fist* as the supreme commander of the Destron Empire, and crushing anyone that chooses to defy what is right for Cybertron.

## Personality

At one point, Sentinel personified what a Prime should be: wise, compassionate, and a more than worthy warrior. Revered by both friend and foe, after he recieved his upgraded body, few would dare stand against him.

However, being brought to the limit by both his own kind and numerous off-world forces has turned Sentinel into a very extreme type of patriot, to put it lightly. He loves his home planet with all of his Spark and will do anything - ANYTHING - to protect it, believing that he is the only one that can keep Cybertron safe, and that anyone who questions his methods is going against Cybertron itself, and will be met with heavy enforcement.

## History

### The First Civil War

Sentinel was originally forged to act as a simple worker unit, crafting & transporting Energon. However, when the war with the Decepticons, Sentinel was one of hundreds of Cybertronian citizens captured to do battle in their gladiatorial arena. And unfortunately, he wasn't one of the best fighters. He only barely managed to get by in his matches, and he only survived the battles with stronger opponents because they were too honorable to kill them (and even then, they themselves were executed for being too soft). Once free, he helped to orchestrate several resistence groups to lead a counterattack and free their world; at the same time, he would cooperate with some of the planet's greatest minds and weapons engineers to construct for him a new body that would give him the power to finish Galvatron once and for all.

## Armaments

* Transformation
* Ion Blaster
* Dual-Bladed Staff

## Relationships

### Alpha Trion

While he may have respected the old sage-like Cybertronian once upon a time, Sentinel found himself disagreeing with Alpha Trion as his armed forces gained more and more , feeling that he's simply been out of combat for too long to be relevant. Him speaking out against his enforcement of Cybertron and other worlds was the last straw, having him and his fellow council members executed for, what he believed was, going against the good of Cybertron and the will of the Matrix.

## Notes

Sentinel's character in this series is most prominently based off of his role as an ideological tyrant in the IDW comics, as well as slightly influenced by the Superman from the Injustice universe, where he started out as a good man with strong morals (similarly to Optimus) who wanted to protect his people but his ambition slowly grew and turned into a lust for power and control over everything, leaving him as the cruel, despotic ruler of Cybertron he is today.

* Funnily enough, Sentinel's role in Transformers Animated as Optimus's rival was originally intended to be filled by that show's version of Rodimus, but since Hasbro didn't want one of their major legacy characters to be portrayed as, well, a massive jerk, they replaced his role with another Prime from Transformers lore. So in a way, that decision has come full-circle in this series, with Rodimus being one of the main voices of opposition to Sentinel's rule t hroughout the series' run.

Somewhat as a nod to Optimus's change in appearance from when he was Orion to Prime, Sentinel is one of the few characters that possesses two distinct designs, that being his "appearance" in the G1 cartoon and his Titans Return toy; although as opposed to the "battle tank-which-looks-a-lot-like-a-train" as TF Wiki calls it, he's instead meant to turn into a sort-of "battle truck" that his IDW1-self was depicted to have in the Legends mobile game.