—Juston[source]Open the development module. I wanna add a new prime directive--one that overrides everything else. When unit becomes mobile, unit will not attempt to abandon Juston. Not ever. No matter what.
History
Origin[]
Juston Seyfert was raised along with his younger brother Chris by his father, Pete, in Antigo, Wisconsin. His mother left their family when he was still very young because she tired of domestic life and responsibility. The Seyfert family lived in a junkyard Seyfert Salvage. Juston and Chris had a very close relationship, and frequently worked together to build battlebots. Unfortunately, Juston and his friends Matt and Alex, small for their age, were often picked on at school.[5]
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Juston first meets his Sentinel
Sentinel[]
When Juston discovered a control chip, he didn't realize how important the discovery really was and inadvertently activated the self-repair mode of a deactivated Sentinel.[5] After discovering the semi-operational Sentinel, Juston began helping to rebuild and reprogram him.[6]
Juston's first major use of the Sentinel was to scare Greg and Josh, two bully-jocks who had been tormenting him and his friends. It worked, and Juston appeared to be a hero for scaring off the Sentinel.[7] However, almost immediately after, Juston began to feel guilty for his ill-gotten fame. To redeem himself he began going out at night with the Sentinel to do some good including rescuing a truck driver from an accident[8] and rescuing four survivors of a lane crash.[9] Juston Sentinel was eventually caught by the Commission on Superhuman Activities, partially fearing being implicated and partially wanting to find his mother, Juston stole the Sentinel and ran away.[10][11]
Fearing that the reemergence of the Sentinel would lead to evidence of their assassination conspiracy, Colonel Hunt and Senator Knudesen decided to use a prototype Sentinel Mk VII-A to destroy the Sentinel and kill Juston.[12] Juston was not able to find his mother, but he was able to escape Hunt's Stealth Sentinel, rescue his family, and blackmail Hunt and Knudsen into leaving them alone. After the their final battle, Juston used parts from the deactivated Sentinel Mk VII-A to repair and enhance his Sentinel.[13]
Avengers Academy[]
After knowledge of Juston's Sentinel became public, everyone freaked out. To keep his Sentinel, Juston joined the Avengers Academy which had just expanded it's enrollment, and relocated to the Avengers Compound in Los Angeles, California.[14] Despite his father's protest, Juston chose to remain with the Avengers Academy.[15][16]
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Quicksilver and Giant-Man rebuilding Juston's Sentinel
Juston continued to retool and modify his Sentinel, although it's presences at caused some issues with mutants at the Avengers Compound,[17][18][19][20] and despite his best efforts, Juston was unable to remove the "Destroy All Mutants" programming. Juston was able to add new directives that contradicted this original programming and set the "Destroy All Mutants" program as it's least important directive.[21]
When the Phoenix Force imbued five X-Men with its cosmic powers,[22] the Phoenix Five set out to reframe the world to their liking including the destruction of all Sentinels.[22] Emma Frost personally came to the Avengers Compound to destroy Juston's Sentinel.[21] Juston and the other students protested, and in the end Juston's Sentinel sacrificed itself to safe Juston from Emma. Luckily, Quicksilver was able to obtain the Sentinel's central processing unit before Emma destroyed it, but the Sentinel was able to be rebuilt.[15]
Avengers Arena[]
Juston and his Sentinel were among the sixteen young superheroes kidnapped by Arcade to battle to the death in his new Murderworld.[23] To prevent suspicion, Arcade sent a humanoid robot to live with his family in Antigo.[16]
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Apex murdering Juston
Originally, Juston journeyed out with his classmates X-23, Hazmat, and Reptil.[24] Unfortunately, it wasn't long before Juston and his Sentinel were attacked by Apex.[1] During the struggle, Juston was paralyzed, the Sentinel destroyed, and Juston was left for dead among the Sentinel wreckage in the desert.[1][25]
Fortunately, Juston survived, and driven by revenge he rebuilt the Sentinel as a pilot-operated fighting machine. Bent on revenge, Juston tried to kill Apex, but was stopped by Tim Bashir.[25] It wasn't long however until Apex regained control of her shared body, snapped Juston's neck, and left with his Sentinel, Death Locket, and Chasehawk.[26] What remained of the Sentinel was finally destroyed by Nico with her Staff of One during her final battle with Apex.[27]
Resurrection[]
Refusing to let Juston perish, the Sentinel infected his body with nanobots to resurrect him. Juston was turned into a Sentinel himself, but was left in a catatonic state. His hybridized body was found by the recently resurrected Larry Trask and brought him to a warehouse near the Graymalkin Prison where he proceeded to harvest sentinites to create humanoid sentinels of his own. This led to the creation of a new Sentinel Program that served to assist the prison in capturing hostile mutants, while Trask kept the true origin of the nanites secret from his superiors.[2]
Although placed in stasis and left in a state of constant agony, a desperate Juston began communicating with the new human Sentinels, causing some of its members to be overtaken by the nanites, or "grafted," and be filled with the desire to free him. Voivod was fully grafted by the nanites following their latest mission and convinced fellow member, Sawtooth who wasn't grafted yet, to go to the warehouse and free Juston. The prison sent the Bloodhounds to stop them, forcing Voivod to sacrifice himself to allow Sawtooth to break into the warehouse and meet her progenitor.[2]
Juston introduced himself to Sawtooth, and explained to her the true nature of her team's nanites. Seeing she was being grafted herself, Sawtooth attempted to break Juston out of his container, only to be attacked by her leader Lockstep, who had been upgraded by Graymalkin to sever his connection to Seyfert. Under the orders of warden Corina Ellis, Lockstep went to kill Juston, but was stopped by Sawtooth who attempted to reason him out of killing a kid.
This led him to take her outside, and as he was about to kill her, their other teammate, Drumfire, arrived in her aid, piloting a Sentinel to squash their former leader. An injuried Lockstep was then overtaken by the prison's AI system, Perimeter, and fought Drumfire, leaving Sawtooth to make her way back to Juston and finally free him. Juston went to Lockstep and attempted to free him of Perimeter's possession, but sadly he was too far gone, and was forced to put him out of his pain. Regrouping with Sawtooth and Drumfire, Juston decided to escape together by rebuilding the latter's Sentinel and go somewhere to become something new.[28]Attributes
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Powers
Abilities
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Retooled Mark VI[citation needed] Sentinel with additionally part from Mark VII-A and unique modification made by Juston.
Weapons
Transportation
Notes
- It's been speculated that Tom Skylark's Sentinel Rover from Earth-15104[30] may be the same Sentinel that Juston befriended. Both sentinel's have a damaged face plate, a dented helmet, and wide-eyed expression.[citation needed]
- Juston has some abandonment issues relating to his mother's departure.[31][15]
Trivia
- Juston and the Sentinel's relationship is believed to be based on that of Hogarth Hughes and the Iron Giant from the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant.[32]
See Also
- 38 appearance(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 4 minor appearance(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 3 mention(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 50 image(s) of Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 15 quotation(s) by or about Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
- 1 item(s) used/owned by Juston Seyfert (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Avengers Arena #3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sentinels #4
- ↑ Sentinels #1
- ↑ Avengers Arena #9
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sentinel #1
- ↑ Sentinel #1–5
- ↑ Sentinel #6
- ↑ Sentinel #7
- ↑ Sentinel #8–9
- ↑ Sentinel #12
- ↑ Sentinel (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ Sentinel (Vol. 2) #1–5
- ↑ Sentinel (Vol. 2) #5
- ↑ Avengers Academy #21
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Avengers Academy #33
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Avengers Arena #13
- ↑ Avengers Academy #22
- ↑ Avengers Academy #27
- ↑ Avengers Academy #29–31
- ↑ Avengers Academy #32–33
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Avengers Academy #32
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Avengers vs. X-Men #5
- ↑ Avengers Arena #1
- ↑ Avengers Arena #1–3
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Avengers Arena #8
- ↑ Avengers Arena #9–10
- ↑ Avengers Arena #12
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Sentinels #5
- ↑ Sentinel #1–8
- ↑ New X-Men #151–154
- ↑ Sentinel (Vol. 2) #2
- ↑ Zachary, Brandon (August 20, 2022) Marvel's Tragic Take on Iron Giant Gives the X-Men's Greatest Enemy A Brutal Ironic End Comic Book Resources. Retrieved on January 9 2025.
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #9
- ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol 1 10