| Tri-Sentinel | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #329 |
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The Tri-Sentinel is a fictional robot who has appeared in the superhero comics of Marvel Comics.
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The Tri-Sentinel's first appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man #329, which followed on directly from the Acts of Vengeance storyline. In that storyline, several supeheroes including Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and Cloak and Dagger came together to fight the Asgardian trickster god Loki. After Loki's defeat at the hands of Thor, Loki engaged in a final act of vengeance by creating a giant robot known as the Tri-Sentinel. He did this by merging three Sentinels together. The Tri-Sentinel was sent by Loki to attack a nuclear power plant and thereby destroy New York City. It was defeated by Spider-Man, who at that time possessed the powers of the Captain Universe entity.
In a subsequent Spider-Man storyline, the villainous Life Foundation gathered the remains of the Tri-Sentinel and rebuilt it to serve them and provide security for their clients. When Carlton Drake turned it on, it rejected the Life Foundation's directives and reinstated Loki's. Spider-Man and Nova undertook to defeat the Tri-Sentinel. Nova used an aircraft-mounted magnetic cannon to slow it down, while Spider-Man penetrated to the inside of the Tri-Sentinel's armour, fought its automated internal defence systems, and opened a vibranium container at the Tri-Sentinel's core, causing the Tri-Sentinel to melt before reaching a heavily-populated area.