Omega Sentinels (also known as Guardian robots, Omega Destructors, and Groundling Auto-Destruct Powerbrokers) are a subspecies of massive spaceship-themed Cybertronians from the planet Cybertron.
Biology[]
Anatomy[]
Omega Sentinels share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except they are gargantuan in size and transform into starships. Technically speaking, they scale around the same size as Combiners.
Powers and abilities[]
Omega Sentinels share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.
Omega Sentinels are stronger than most other Cybertronians, being able to shatter mountainsides and lift 300,000 tons with their clawed arm. They also use their brute force and cunning skill to take down some of Cybertron's greatest threats.
Omega Sentinels can destroy 12' steel cubes with their plasma blaster arm. They are also armed with powerful head-mounted laser cannons and powerful concussion blasters that can obliterate 200 Planet Q Terrorcons in one shot.
Certain Omega Sentinels can alternatively transform into mobile bases with laser cannon tanks and launching pads, from which rocket can be launched and achieve planetary orbit.
Omega Sentinels native to the Aurex Cluster can separate into aircraft carriers and battle trains. They also possess binary-bonding powers akin to Headmaster-type Bonded Masters.
Weaknesses[]
Omega Sentinels share many of the same weaknesses as other Cybertronians.
Culture and society[]
Omega Sentinels were once the peacekeepers of Cybertron, powerful giants that guarded cities and quelled uprisings. Though they gave the Decepticons much trouble at the outbreak of the Third Cybertronian War, they were no longer so prevalent by the modern era.
Throughout the multiverse, the most notable surviving Omega Sentinel is Omega Supreme, who is the only one seen to have his own name, distinct color scheme, and personality. However, it is unknown how unique these qualities actually are.
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- Although no toy of the Omega Sentinels was made during the original Generation 1 toyline, they are clearly a slightly more Dery-ized, chubbier version of Omega Supreme. e-HOBBY capitalized on this similarity by releasing an Omega Supreme redeco as a Guardian over twenty years later, though it is unknown if the Guardians in the cartoon were actually capable of transforming, as the toy does.
- The Japanese name for the Guardian robots, "GADEP", comes from the Japanese dub of the Generation 1 cartoon, but the only known source for what the acronym means is the e-HOBBY toy bio. e-HOBBY's excessively clunky answer, "Groundling Auto-Destruct Powerbroker", sounds like a back-formation, and some fans think the acronym originally had a different meaning, "Guardian/Defender/Protection". However, no official confirmation of this theory has been found.
- The Japanese name was later also used for Gadep, the drone companion to Brave Maximus from the 2001 Robots in Disguise series.
- Though these Cybertronians were originally called "Guardian robots" in the Generation 1 cartoon, they have been prominently referred to as "Omega Sentinels" in other media such as the Transformers Animated and War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoons.
- In Transformers: Energon, Omega Sentinel is portrayed as an individual sharing the same body-type as Omega Supreme. His blue color scheme was chosen as homage to the Generation 1 Omega Sentinels, who were blue recolors (and rather Deryized restylings) of the original Omega Supreme.
- Hasbro's original plans for the Guardians of Cybertron was for them to be an army of Omega Sentinel doppelgangers and play a major role in the Energon cartoon. However, like most ideas from Hasbro and Takara's toy developers, the cartoon makers never even heard it.
- At BotCon 2007, the Hasbro representatives repeatedly named the Autobots' ship featured in Transformers Animated as the show's interpretation of the Ark. At BotCon 2008, lead writer Marty Isenberg claimed the ship is not the Ark, but merely a repair vessel. However, lead artist Derrick J. Wyatt immediately responded that it very much is the Ark (a conversation that some fan sites failed to report accurately). As such, the model sheet for the ship labels it the Ark.
- However, no fictional depictions ever referred to the ship as the Ark and it was eventually revealed in the episode "A Bridge Too Close, Part II" to instead be Omega Supreme.
- Regardless, Omega Supreme's predicament during season 2 is eerily similar to that of the Ark in the Generation 1 cartoon, as both ships ended up embedded in the craggy face of a dormant volcano.
- In the Animated cartoon, the crew of the stasis locked Omega Supreme avoided calling the ship by name entirely, only referring to the computer as "Teletran-1". Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac backs up the idea that "Teletran-1" is indeed the name of the on-board computer only.
- However, in the comic adaptation of the cartoon, the ship itself was referred to as "Teletran-1". Luckily, Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II would clear up the matter by giving the ship the codename Orion.
- A Leader Class toy of Animated Omega Supreme (and a Lugnut Supreme retool) was conceptualized by Eric Siebenaler. However, both toys were cancelled alongside the fourth season of Animated.[1]
- In The Art of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, concept art can be seen of what appear to be the headless corpse of an Omega Sentinel found within the Sea of Rust.
- Whether this was intended to be Omega Supreme himself or simply another Omega Sentinel is unclear.