Originating as the Quintessons' Dark Guardian robots, the Guardian robots of the Golden Age of Cybertron were powerful giant blue robots that kept the peace. They gave the Decepticons much trouble during the early days of the war but were eventually overcome.
Only one, Omega Supreme, the Guardian robot of the Crystal City, was ever named, had a distinct color scheme, and was shown to be sentient or able to transform, but it was not revealed if he was indeed unique amongst them in those regards.
At the end of Cybertron's Golden Age, the Guardian robots fought against the newly assembled Decepticon army extensively and destroyed quite a few drone warriors. They gave Skywarp the creeps with Thundercracker stating that they gave them a "pounding" in the old days. Shortly before Megatron's first confrontation with the newly activated Optimus Prime, a Guardian's head was destroyed by Decepticon laser fire, deactivating it.
Millions of years later, after escaping an Autobot attack on their time machine facility, the Decepticons found the remains of the damaged Guardian robot. Shockwave managed to reassemble the giant, though he noted that the lack of a head would limit its maneuverability, to which Megatron commented that "A warrior doesn't need a head, just a good strong body." This Guardian was unleashed upon Optimus Prime and the Autobots until the Aerialbots arrived from the past and merged into Superion. The sheer strength of the Guardian overwhelmed Superion at first, but he retaliated to such an extent that the Guardian was thrown into the air before crashing back into the ground where its body was destroyed. War Dawn
While creating a time window to the past, to stop the Transformer revolt, the Quintessons were discovered by a band of Autobots. Blaster, Blurr, Perceptor, Ramhorn, Rewind and Wreck-Gar attacked the Quintessons forcing them to withdraw leaving the portal open. When Quintesson reinforcements emerged, Blaster, Blurr, Ramhorn, Rewind and Wreck-Gar escaped through the window, while Perceptor was left behind. While they went in, an ancient Autobot calling himself A-3 came to the present. The group of Autobots were promptly attacked by Guardian Robots only to be saved by a female Autobot warrior named Beta. She was a leader of a rebel army set to attack their oppressors, the Quintessons. There were two problems: the Autobots were not warriors but engineers and scientists, and their primary leader A-3 had disappeared. As the time travelling Autobots aided the Autobot rebels, A-3 returned just in time to use his Coda Remote device that promptly deactivated the Guardian robots allowing the present day Autobots to go through the time window to their home. Forever is a Long Time Coming
Dreamwave comics continuity[]
*sigh* "I really got to get that transfer to Earth."
Known as Omega Sentinels, these massive mechanoids were seen guarding various strategically vital locations in Iacon. During the Decepticon attack on Iacon, they were among the first and last lines of defense standing between the Decepticons and the Decagon. Shockwave managed to kill two Omega Sentinels during the battle.
With one shot. The War Within
These versions bore a much closer resemblance to Omega Supreme.
Omega Sentinels were truly ancient beings, venerated as Cybertron's ancient protectors. Last Stand
During the reign of the Thirteen Primes, some ten million years ago, the Omega Sentinels were heralded as the guardians of the Crystal City, where the Thirteen regularly convened. Urged on by Onyx Prime, Prima sought to expand Cybertronian civilization towards the stars, and commissioned an interstellar fleet — which included a detachment of Omega Sentinels, and their leader Omega Supreme — to conquer and colonize the neighboring planet of Antilla. First contact between the two species turned to war, and the Omega Sentinels spearheaded the devastating Cybertronian invasion. The First Who Was Named Our Finest The war only came to a pyrrhic end when an Antillan scientist built and deployed a weapon that destroyed all life on the planet, killing several Omega Sentinels in the process. Our Finest The massacre, and the role that Cybertron had played in it, ensured that other races would come to fear the power of the Transformers. The First Who Was Named
On That Day, Cybertron Received a Grim Reminder.
After the conclusion of the First Cybertronian Civil War, the Crystal City had vanished underground; by the time that the lost city was rediscovered by Nova Prime, only their leader Omega Supreme remained. Primus: All Good Things
In the days of the Senate, the Omega Destructors were massive enforcer units employed by the government, though they were very rarely used. They were of similar design to Omega Supreme, but it's unknown if they had any other connection to the Omega Sentinels of legend. The Omega Destructors were deployed by the ruthless Zeta Prime to stamp out any resistance to the Autobot regime in the early days of the war. The behemoths required large amounts of energy to function, which was an issue since energon was in short supply, but Zeta solved the problem by equipping them with vamparc ribbon weapons designed to drain energon straight from the bodies of Cybertronians. Parasites The modified Destructors were first unleashed on the rebel-infested city of Nyon. Ruins
To buy time for the insurgents to evacuate the city, Orion Pax and his Autobot unit poured all their firepower on one of the Omega Destructors, but only succeeded in distracting it. Giving up on his attempts at evacuation, the rebel Hot Rod then detonated a large number of powerful explosives hidden throughout Nyon, destroying both the city and the Destructors. Purge The remaining Omega Destructors were standing guard at Zeta Prime's Citadel when the combined forces of Orion Pax and Megatron attacked. Thanks to Kup, who knew that the giants could be brought down by concentrated fire at a seam-junction in their undercarriages, the attackers succeeded in defeating the Destructors. The final one gave them some trouble until it was destroyed by a full power blast from Shockwave's gun mode. Overthrown
When Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Arcee entered Unicron, they found the ruined corpse of an Omega Sentinel among the hodgepodge of everything the Chaos Bringer had devoured, prompting Bumblebee to wonder if there was some truth to the old legends regarding Cybertron's relation to Unicron. Last Stand Soon after, Bumblebee sought out the wounded Omega Supreme for answers regarding Unicron's past. Though Supreme was able to answer the Minibot's queries, doing so ultimately claimed his life, ending the Omega Sentinels. Stranger Eons
Beast Wars: Uprising[]
While spinning tall tales to his fellow bar patrons, Buzzclaw taught them exactly how to avoid an Omega Sentinel's strafing attack. He had no idea what he was talking about. Head Games
War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon[]
Voice actor: Keith Silverstein (Omega Supreme, English)
When the war between the Autobots and Decepticons began, the Guardians refused to get involved. Later, Optimus Prime summoned the Guardians for their assistance but, in spite of his pleas, the giants continued to hold their neutral stance. Siege episode 4 However, Omega Supreme would come to the Autobots' assistance by holding off the Decepticons as the Ark pursued the AllSpark through a Space bridge. Siege episode 6
During a raid on the Kaon arena, Elita-1, suspecting that she was being watched, bluffed that the Guardians were on stand-by for an attack, the falsehood luring out the cloaked Shockwave. Earthrise episode 6
Energon Universe[]
Within Megatron's data, Cobra Commander saw a scene where a Guardian robot battled Decepticons above the skies of Cybertron. Cobra Commander #1
Accessories: 2 small shields, 2 medium shields, 2 large shields, 4 armour halves (A, B, C, D), 4 ankle half (E, F, G, H), 2 feet, backpack, 4 tracks (J, K, L, M)
The most expensive army-builder ever?
An e-Hobbyexclusive, this toy is a redeco of the Generation One Omega Supreme toy. Using the same tooling as the Encore reissue Omega, this toy features the same retooled head.
The Guardian transforms into three individual components simultaneously: a large rocket base, a rocket and a tank. Not unlike the Seekers, whose toys involve minimal actual transformation and more "pull all the bits off and put them back on in different ways," the Guardian robot involves next to no actual manipulation of the parts, "transforming" instead by being disassembled into its component pieces, which are then put back together in a different configuration.
The Guardian's distinctive forearms (left large cannon and right large, three-fingered claw) disconnect from their arms at the elbow and plug together end-on-end to form the rocket. Its legs are comprised of quite a few independent parts; the outer casing of each one is a "shell" made up of two pieces held together by three sliding yellow clips, concealing two further "shell" pieces which clip around the leg proper and are held together by its feet. All of these parts are removed and reassembled to form the "core" of the rocket base, which is completed with the addition of the Guardian's backpack and feet as a gantry for the rocket to stand astride, and its wings (made up of six individual pieces themselves, which can be assembled in various configurations) as a roughly elliptical track that surrounds the whole affair. This leaves the Guardian's torso, which then undergoes some actual transformation to become a tank that rests on the track. The torso features a battery-operated motor which propels the tank around the track as its turret spins and flashes with orange light, or allows the Guardian to walk (very slowly) forward in robot mode. This motor is extremely susceptible to failure.
Accessories: 7 Fire Blast effects, 2 track/wing pieces
Hold my beer.
Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Takashi Kunihiro and Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy) An add-on for Legacy: Evolution, Generations Selects Guardian Robot is a redeco of Siege Omega Supreme, and as such he's a huge Titan Class figure that transforms into a rocket base and comes with Lunar-Tread. His tank component can store a vehicle mode Micromaster in a front hatchway, with a track upscaled to the point that a deluxe class figure can roll on it. A robot mode Micromaster can fit in a space at the top of the rocket, with plenty of spaces in his general body for smaller figures. Like most Siege figures, Guardian Robot features extensive articulation and numerous 5 mm holes across his body to accommodate the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, and his large size means you can overload his arsenal. The tank mode can elevate its central turret as well as two smaller side cannons-however, once clipped into place against the robot head, the turret cannot spin. The robot head has a very small faux tank cannon attached to the back of it, which can be folded out of sight. Guardian Robot's track pieces use A.I.R. Lock System connectors to attach to his main body. Additional A.I.R. Lock connectors can be found at the ends of the ramps on his thighs as well as on flip-out black pieces on his legs/gray track segments. He also features Titans Return compatible connectors on the outer circumference of his tracks, though only Fortress Maximus (or Grand Maximus) has ramps that can reach them at a flat level. Other figures have to be boosted or have their ramps bent. The toy's instructions presumably have the same error as Omega Supreme's, where when transforming Guardian Robot's arms into rocket mode they say to collapse the forearms towards the shoulder section before closing the quarter-circular panels. However, the toy is designed to have the quarter-circular panels closed first. Then, line up the arrows on the forearms with the corresponding arrows on those panels, then collapse the forearms in towards the shoulders and rotate them in the indicated direction to lock them in place. Multiple owners of the toy have reported a noticeable worsening in tolerances from the mold's original release to the point of increased friction inducing breakage. 2113) As such, caution is advised when transforming the figure out of the box, particularly in the vicinity of the tank's front hatch, which is prone to breakage when squeezing force is applied to its sides. Instead, one can remove the tank side cannons from their slots and using the new opening, ease the hatch open. "GADEP & Lunar-Tread" was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive in Japan.
Notes[]
Although no toy of the Guardian Robots was made during the original Generation One toyline, they are clearly a slightly more Dery-ized, bulkier version of Omega Supreme. So much was this similarity that it came to pass 20 odd years later with the e-Hobby exclusive above.
The first homage or representation of the Guardian Robots came in the form of EnergonOmega Sentinel, a recolor of EnergonOmega Supreme (himself an homage to the original Omega Supreme), featuring a similar blue color scheme.
Footnotes[]
↑都市防衛ロボ ガデプ (Toshi Boei Robo Gadepu), translated as "City Protection Robo GADEP". GADEP is short for "Groundling Auto-DEstruct Powerbroker". [1] This is a retconned acronym. Originally, it stood for "Guardian/Defender/Protector" (Gādian Defendā Purotekutā), but this was more implied than explicit, giving the new acronym even more priority.
