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[altcunningham]

I always think about that whenever Sentinels come up. It’s the most ludicrous, unrealistic concept.

As an adult I find that to be the point. It's posturing for the peanut gallery that they have a solution to a very unsolvable problem.

Imposing name. Imposing scale. Told that it will protect you. Doesn't. Repeatedly throw money and marketing at it with Master Molds and scale to keep the propaganda up.

It's the equivalent of Mexico Will Pay For It and War on Terror. Kelly and Creed just need the votes and body count behind them. I'm sure they don't care if someone manifests like Cannonball and takes out half of a school. That's more power in their pocket.

I know this is just a hypothetical fantasy rant about
Comic books but look at hero registration and Civil War. An escaped super villain blows up the school and the heroes get punished for it? Another slapdash solution that sounds really good on a news ticker.

 

[CTV]

I always thought the sentinels were meant to represent government overreach by way of the military-industrial complex's impact on policing, especially disproportionate + over-policing of minority communities

 

[Damien]

I always thought the sentinels were meant to represent government overreach by way of the military-industrial complex's impact on policing, especially disproportionate + over-policing of minority communities

I think it's a combination of 'we need a 'police'-type enemy for our marginalized people to fight, backed up by the MIC, but we also need them to be robots because we don't really want to show cops being shredded into goo by our heroes.' Thus... Sentinels.