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Warning : Spoilers in front for Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 1!Spider - Manand theX - Men ’s greatest robot villain have officially combined to take form a terrifying raw superweapon : theSentinel - Slayer . While most of their rogues ' gallery lie of human foe , both Spider - Man and the X - Men regularly face off against robotic villains that have given them serious fuss . Alistair Smythe ’s Spider - Slayers and Bolivar Trask ’s Sentinels have proven to be huge threats to their various heroes due totheir programming to hunt down them down . Now , they seem to have join forcefulness under the watchful eyes of Doctor Octopus with a terrifying new manikin .
InSpider - Punk : Arms Race # 1 , Doc Ock and Justin Hammer unveil a trade name - unexampled creation call the Sentinel - Slayer whose one determination is " place defence against swan punk - pack . " However , it ’s made very clear that they specifically mean Spider - Punk and his ring following their overthrowing of President Norman Osborn in the character ’s previous electric arc . To show off the Sentinel - Slayer ’s power , Hammer purchase order Octavius to unleash a very rough prototype of the political machine on the heroes , and it prove to be a near - achiever .
Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 1comes from the creative team of Cody Ziglar and Justin Mason .
Spider - Punk is able-bodied to ruin the machine with Vibranium Heel kick yield to him by Shuri , but this does n’t mean it ’s an easy triumph . In fact , if the political machine were more competent , it could have ended the fabled lot in tragedy .
The Sentinel-Slayer is a Monstrous Design that Holds Killer Potential
" [ Spider - Punk ] mentions that the whole block is almost destroyed even when the automobile is ' barely held together . ' "
Perhaps the most weighty moment of the fight between Spider - Punk ’s circle and the prototype Sentinel - Slayer is Hobie Brown ’s concern following the battle . He mentions that the whole block is intimately destroy even when the machineias " barely held together . “Given that Hammer and Doc Ock have made it clean that this first personification of the Sentinel - Slayer is just a prototype , the band ’s next turn with a newly improved variation of the Orcinus orca robot may not be as golden .
The way that the Sentinel - Slayer adapts to every sub ’s fighting style while most squelch a few of them , including Ironheart , at last makes it the most fearsome enemy the chemical group has faced yet . So , with a few enhancements , the Sentinel - Slayer 2.0 has the potential to be even more destructive than any Sentinel that come before it , include the Wolverine Sentinels . With a few upgrades , it could unleash a point of chaos that even Spider - Punk ca n’t treat .
The Sentinel-Slayer’s Lovecraftian Design Hints at Surprises to Come
The overall design of the Sentinel - Slayer seems to take a hatful of inhalation from H.P. Lovecraft ’s Cthulhu . The way the robotic tentacle form a character of whiskers gives off Lovecraftian vibes , and it ’s a brilliant way of showing that this machine is circumstantially difficult to understand when it comes to agitate it . There are surprise in store for the heroes as they are perpetually countered by various defense maneuver , including an electric shock to stun Mz . Marvel and a unsighted fire chemical mechanism to shake up off Daredevil . Now , Doc Ock is using " the pick up data to put the end touches on a project that ’s a little snatch more … personal ' with an ominous figure lurking in the shadows above him . This hints that the Sentinel - Slayer has style more in store for Spider - Punk and the band , and it ’s something they ’ll never see follow .
The potential difference behind the Sentiel - Slayer and how up to it is of taking down this universe ’s version of Spider - Man is absolutely terrifying . The Sentinels and Spider - Slayers from former Marvel stories have already been chilling enough , with the latter being hatchet man of a horrific dystopian time to come that wiped out nearly every mutant inDays of Future Past . The combining of the two has turned theseX - MenandSpider - Manvillains into their deadliest physical body yet , and it will be enthralling to see what lies in entrepot once Doc Ock gives theSentinel - Slayerthe climb it involve to be even more herculean than before .
Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 1
Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 1is available now from Marvel Comics !
