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Next up is the guy who replaced Nominus Prime, Infinitus, or as he's more commonly known, the IDW version of Sentinel Prime.

In the toys, Infinitus is Sentinel's Titan Master partner. Titan Masters, for those who don't know, are similar to Headmasters in that they are small robots who transform into a larger bot's head, only they also serve the function of piloting and controlling the MUCH larger Transformers known as Titans, like Metroplex and Trypticon and the like.

To explain Infinitus' story, let me explain the two ways in which Headmasters have worked:

1. Hasbro (West) - a partnership is formed between a Transformer and a smaller, often organic being, who is cybernetically-enhanced to be able to transform into the larger TF's head, and the TF cannot transform into robot mode without them as a result.

2. Takara (East) - there is no partnership at all, and it's just that a smaller bot controls a larger body they form the head of.

Hasbro's "Titans Return" toyline obviously goes the partnership route with the Titan Masters, but IDW's take went the Takara route, where they control larger bodies, some of which they steal from other Transformers, and even fed on the larger TF's spark.

Infinitus used to serve Nexus Prime, but after the Thirteen left Cybertron, he remained on the planet and followed the Thirteen's teachings. Eventually, he used his Titan Master abilities to snag himself a larger body, and worked his way into being the "head" of the Cybertronian senate's security forces under the alias of Sentinel. After the Senate assassinated Nominus Prime, they placed Sentinel as the new Prime under the lie that he had Matrix Affinity. From there, Sentinel enacted the will of the Senate, who used his security forces to bully the populace, which eventually led to the Decepticon Uprising, and Sentinel seeming died at the hands of Megatron. Unbeknownst to everyone, Infinitus had left his larger body, and was working in secret to make a comeback that would purge Cybertron of all those he deemed unfit for "his" world. This attack involved a horde of dormant Titans as it turned out. Fortunately, he was stopped, but the Titan attack still happened, though it was stopped by the combined efforts of Windblade and friends.

For the TFA backstory, I'd have Infinitus Prime as a Matrix successor to Nominus after the latter was assassinated by a rogue group Cybertronians, and try to succeed where his predecessor failed in trying to maintain order on Cybertron, only for his efforts to be thwarted by a force of invaders from other worlds. The results in his death, and the Matrix being passed to his final successor.

For this, I used Animated Sentinel for the body, Optimus for the head, and Starscream's blasters. The rest is based on Sentinel's Titans Return toy, which was a mixture of his IDW design and the classic Astrotrain.

From my understanding, the whole "Sentinel is an asshole" thing got started with Animated, and before that, he was just presented as the guy who preceded Optimus before dying by Megatron's hands. And from what I heard, the whole reason that Animated made him a jerk in the first place was because Hasbro didn't want the show's creators and producers to use Rodimus as the jerk. To be honest, I like that move, as having Rodimus be the jerk would've just been bad fanfiction.

Up next is Sentinel's IDW successor and the one before Optimus, Zeta Prime.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Description
Next up is the guy who replaced Nominus Prime, Infinitus, or as he's more commonly known, the IDW version of Sentinel Prime.

In the toys, Infinitus is Sentinel's Titan Master partner. Titan Masters, for those who don't know, are similar to Headmasters in that they are small robots who transform into a larger bot's head, only they also serve the function of piloting and controlling the MUCH larger Transformers known as Titans, like Metroplex and Trypticon and the like.

To explain Infinitus' story, let me explain the two ways in which Headmasters have worked:

1. Hasbro (West) - a partnership is formed between a Transformer and a smaller, often organic being, who is cybernetically-enhanced to be able to transform into the larger TF's head, and the TF cannot transform into robot mode without them as a result.

2. Takara (East) - there is no partnership at all, and it's just that a smaller bot controls a larger body they form the head of.

Hasbro's "Titans Return" toyline obviously goes the partnership route with the Titan Masters, but IDW's take went the Takara route, where they control larger bodies, some of which they steal from other Transformers, and even fed on the larger TF's spark.

Infinitus used to serve Nexus Prime, but after the Thirteen left Cybertron, he remained on the planet and followed the Thirteen's teachings. Eventually, he used his Titan Master abilities to snag himself a larger body, and worked his way into being the "head" of the Cybertronian senate's security forces under the alias of Sentinel. After the Senate assassinated Nominus Prime, they placed Sentinel as the new Prime under the lie that he had Matrix Affinity. From there, Sentinel enacted the will of the Senate, who used his security forces to bully the populace, which eventually led to the Decepticon Uprising, and Sentinel seeming died at the hands of Megatron. Unbeknownst to everyone, Infinitus had left his larger body, and was working in secret to make a comeback that would purge Cybertron of all those he deemed unfit for "his" world. This attack involved a horde of dormant Titans as it turned out. Fortunately, he was stopped, but the Titan attack still happened, though it was stopped by the combined efforts of Windblade and friends.

For the TFA backstory, I'd have Infinitus Prime as a Matrix successor to Nominus after the latter was assassinated by a rogue group Cybertronians, and try to succeed where his predecessor failed in trying to maintain order on Cybertron, only for his efforts to be thwarted by a force of invaders from other worlds. The results in his death, and the Matrix being passed to his final successor.

For this, I used Animated Sentinel for the body, Optimus for the head, and Starscream's blasters. The rest is based on Sentinel's Titans Return toy, which was a mixture of his IDW design and the classic Astrotrain.

From my understanding, the whole "Sentinel is an asshole" thing got started with Animated, and before that, he was just presented as the guy who preceded Optimus before dying by Megatron's hands. And from what I heard, the whole reason that Animated made him a jerk in the first place was because Hasbro didn't want the show's creators and producers to use Rodimus as the jerk. To be honest, I like that move, as having Rodimus be the jerk would've just been bad fanfiction.

Up next is Sentinel's IDW successor and the one before Optimus, Zeta Prime.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.