Bastion (Earth-616)

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Bastion

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Real Name

Bastion

Aliases

Master Mold, Nimrod, Template, Sebastion Gilberti, Nicholas Hunter, Arnold Rodriguez

Identity

Secret

Alignment

Bad

Affiliation

Formerly Operation: Zero Tolerance, Friends of Humanity, Humanity's Last Stand

Relatives

Rose Gilberti (foster mother, deceased)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Formerly Operation: Zero Tolerance base, New Mexico

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Height

6' 3"

Weight

375 lbs (170 kg)

Eyes

Hazel

Hair

White

Unusual Features

At present, Bastion exists as a disembodied head.

Status

Citizenship

Sentinels

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Mutant exterminator, former government operative

Origin

Origin

Bastion was created when Nimrod and Master Mold were merged by the Siege Perilous. (Robot)

Place of Birth

Inside the Siege Perilous

Creators

Mark Waid, Andy Kubert

First appearance

X-Men #52

History

Bastion was "born" when the giant robotic Sentinel Master Mold, having absorbed the advanced Sentinel prototype Nimrod into its systems, fought the X-Men, who saw no other way to stop the virtually indestructible amalgam except to force it through the Siege Perilous, a pan-dimensional portal which subjects those who pass through to the judgment of the universe's higher powers.

Reemerging from the portal as an amnesiac human/Sentinel hybrid with a seemingly immortal essence, Bastion's prime directives were soon reawakened, and he began assembling the international anti-mutant strike force Operation: Zero Tolerance (OZT). They attempted to reconfigure the Sentinel force assembled by Project:Wideawake, but Bastion deemed most of them outdated. Instead, he had a number of humans secretly outfitted with nano-technology to be Prime Sentinels.

Bastion

After Professor X voluntarily turned himself in after the events of Onslaught, Bastion confined him in an OZT facility along with the artificially-created mutant Mannites. Bastion also killed a Daily Bugle reporter who was going to report on Graydon Creed's history.

He then captured Jubilee. Soon after, Bastion put OZT into full effect, utilizing the Prime Sentinels quickly capturing several X-Men members. Bastion took control of the Xavier Institute and accessed Xavier's files, despite opposition from Cable and Caliban of X-Force. The five captured X-Men and Jubilee ultimately managed to escape. OZT was shut down by the U.S. government after Henry Peter Gyrich and Senator Robert Kelly asked the President to intervene.

Bastion was remanded into SHIELD custody, but he escaped and returned to the former OZT facility. There, he absorbed the energy from the Master Mold unit with which he had created the Prime Sentinels and sought to transform Machine Man into the Sentinel Supreme; he was opposed by Cable, and seemingly destroyed.

Bastion survived and was recaptured by SHIELD. Death (actually a brainwashed Wolverine) was sent to kill the Mannites, but also attacked Bastion, leaving only his head intact.

Bastion's head was recovered by the robotic Gatekeeper servants of the techno-organic being Mainspring. Bastion co-opted one of the Gatekeeper's bodies, and used it to attack the techno-organic hero Warlock and his allies. Defeated, Bastion's head was recovered by Mainspring, who stripped away the layers of his programming to reveal the original Master Mold's source code and, using the alien transmode virus he was infected with, rewrote Bastion's programming, transforming him into Template. The virus soon took complete control of Template and forced him to construct a Babel Spire on Earth to signal the alien Technarchy. To oppose them, Mainspring destroyed himself along with Template, while Warlock managed to destroy the Babel Spire.

Bastion's head was later retrieved by U.S. government agents in order to access the information he had stolen from Xavier's files. The information was retrieved by the X-Men, but not before Bastion attempted to sow mistrust among them by confronting them with misleading holographic scenarios.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Bastion possesses enhanced strength, speed, and endurance, flight via jet boots, command of other Sentinels, immunity to mutant attacks, laser vision.

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Superhuman, able to lift at least 10 tons.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Laser pistol.

Notes

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Trivia

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Appearances in Other Media

Bastion is the main villain in the game X-Men: Next Dimension. Here, he rips information out of Forge's mind and plants devices in his Sentinels that can depower a mutant. At Asteroid M, either Magneto or Phoenix destroys him once and for all.

Bastion appears as one of the bosses in the video game X-Men Legends II. He seems to be a mere anti-mutant activist, yet his ability to control Sentinels is noted, as the mission in question where he attacks the X-Men involved the X-Men teaming up with Sentinels to save civilians. Bastion then took control of the Sentinels to turn them against the X-Men.

See Also

• Appearances of Bastion (Earth-616) (Chronological)
• Appearances of Bastion (Earth-616) (Unordered)
• Character Gallery: Bastion (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Bastion (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Bastion (Earth-616)

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Links and References

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• Bastion on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki