What is Sentinel Prime?
{{multiple issues|{{bare urls|date=November 2024}}{{fansite|date=November 2024}}{{primary sources|date=November 2024}}}}{{Infobox character | series = [[Transformers]] | image = Rosenbauer Panther 8x8 • Front, Flughafenfeuerwehr Bremen.JPG | alt = | caption = Sentinel Prime's alternate mode<br>in the 2011 film | voice = '''Film and television''': {{ubl | [[Jack Angel]] (''The Transformers'') | [[Townsend Coleman]] (''Transformers: Animated'') | [[Leonard Nimoy]] (2011 film) | [[Jon Hamm]] (''Transformers One'')}} '''Games''':<br>[[Troy Baker]] (''Transformers: War For Cybertron'') | affiliation = Autobots (allied with Decepticons in some continuities) | lbl22 = Function | data22 = Autobot Leader/Commander, mentor of Optimus Prime | lbl33 = Alternate mode | data33 = {{ubl |Rosenbauer Panther fire truck (2011) |Freight train (2016) |Spaceship (2016)}} }} '''Sentinel Prime''' is the name of several [[fictional characters]] in many of the ''[[Transformers]]'' series. The first mention of Sentinel Prime was in issue #65 of the US [[Marvel Comics]] ''Transformers'' series, where he was mentioned to hold the [[Autobot]] [[Matrix of Leadership]] before [[Optimus Prime]]. Sentinel Prime is One of the members of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] and dedicated as the leader of the Autobots and has since appeared in a variety of forms as either Optimus Prime's mentor or friend. In the 2011 live action movie ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'', Sentinel was the main villain and was voiced by [[Leonard Nimoy]]. Sentinel was also the main villain of the movie ''[[Transformers One]]''. ==Print media== ===Marvel Comics=== The 1988 British [[Marvel Comics|Marvel comic book]] The Legacy of Unicron Part 5 had a [[flashback]] to a golden Autobot dying and giving Optimus Prime the Matrix of Leadership so that Optimus could lead the Autobots.<ref>https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Sentinel_prime_lou.jpg</ref> Later the American comic book Transformers 65 listed every Autobot leader before Optimus and the last one was named Sentinel Prim