Originally Posted by
Grunty
Personal opinion here. Despite being a fan of mechs in various media, i always felt the big purple Sentinels are one of the dumbest part of the X-men franchise. Even as a kid when i saw them in X-men TAS for the first time, they felt odd to me and i switched channel for the time being.
Besides not liking their design, i think another problem i had back then was that it felt so non-sensical for them to exist as main weapon against mutants, not only were they idiots in programming and largely inefficient against the actual powerfull mutants, they also destroyed so much property and if they can be mass produced in such numbers, shouldn't the entire world of the X-men be like a star trek future allready? (Again kids thoughts).
Human sized androids (see Batman TAS), smaller human piloted mechs (see Superman TAS), or people in power armor (see Iron Man) would have felt more appropiate to kid me as "anti-mutant" weapons.