Contains spoilers for Sentinels (2024) #1!The X-Men The latest team of complex villains have done their job to capture the worst of mutantkind, but they may just have a little more to chew on with the return of one of the franchise’s most powerful villains who once beat the Hulk, among others. If the Avengers have to put their lives on the line to win the first time, do the traumatized soldiers stand a chance?
The new book X-Men book Sentinels (2024) has just revealed the terrifying villain they will be facing when the team’s newest member Drumfire sees attack After first activating her new powers.
Onslaught, perhaps the most 1990s comic book villain of all, is a psychic being made of all the worst thoughts and impulses of Professor X crossed with Magneto’s own evil. In the famous Onslaught saga, only the sacrifice of all the Avengers and the Fantastic Four were able to stop it, meaning that the new Cyborg Sentinels will have their work cut out for them.
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Sentinels marks the return of Onslaught, the ultimate X-Men villain of the 1990s
Sentinels Follows the adventures of the titular team of cyborg soldiers who are supposedly the successors of the classic mutant hunting sentinel robots. Headed by Lawrence Trask, son of original Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask, the team is working to capture the deadliest mutants to bring back to Greymalkin Prison; The former X-Mansion that was co-opted into a mutant prison. After a breakout at Greymalkin, Drumfire activates her energy redirecting powers to kill Omega Red but instead of a charred skeleton, what she sees is Onslaught standing in the wreckage of Red’s body.
Onslaught recently appeared in the miniseries Way of x And his one-shot conclusion, X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation #1Where he was inserted into the mutant nation of Krakoa by anti-mutant coalition Orchis in order to kill the island from within. in path of x, Onslaught hidden by anchoring to the emotion of Hate Himself, the hatred felt by the mutant lost to Fabien Cortez. Onslaught could be doing the same thing to Drumfire in Sentinels, co-opting one of her emotions to survive. Onslaught was defeated in Onslaught revelation by Krakoan Unity, but the new team is anything but unified.
Onslaught’s apparent reappearance may be a little more complicated than it seems at first
It is also possible that Onslaught is not Indeed There. One of the core concepts of Sentinels is that its characters are the traumatized survivors of various Marvel events, incl The original Onslaught crossover. Drumfire’s mother was killed in the original Onslaught event, so she may be having a traumatic flashback. It’s also possible that this is a side effect of her cyborg augmentation. The issue highlights the sensory side effects of the augment several times, and Onslaught’s appearance may be a new manifestation of those side effects, but that doesn’t mean the manifestation isn’t dangerous.
Just because Onslaught may be imaginary doesn’t mean it isn’t real. Onslaught is a being made of pure thought, and it is resilient enough to survive in emotions itself. Regular rules don’t apply to someone like Onslaught, whose powers and exact behavior is basically made up of every story. Why can’t it be created or recreated by a traumatized cyborg whose own brain is being experimented on? The new Sentinel program aimed to create soldiers strong enough to stop them X-MenBut they could have just remodeled something much, much worse.
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