Frequent foes
Bolivar Trask, Lawrence Trask, & Steven Lang 🇺🇸
[Master Mold, Sentinels & Nimrod]
Bolivar Trask
• Renowned scientist and robotics expert
• With his two children Larry and Tanya displaying mutations, he becomes worried for the human race
• Hires a group of scientists to make an medallion that blocks Larry's mutation
• Works on Master Mold for prototypes of Sentinels
• Master Mold gets a mind of their own, has the sentinels kidnap Bolivar so he can make more sentinels
• Bolivar realizes he was wrong in his beliefs and that the X-Men truly mean to help humanity
• Betrays Master Mold by not making more Sentinels then blows up the lab with him and Master Mold still inside
TV / Movies: X-Men: Evolution (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), Wolverine and the X-Men (2009), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
First Appearance: X-Men #14 (Sep 1965)
Lawrence "Larry" Trask
• Bolivar's son
• Powers: Ability to see visions of possible near futures, hours in advance, he cannot control his power and his mind is constantly flooded with visions
• Constantly wearing an medallion that blocks his power
• Blamed the X-Men for his fathers death
• Uses his fathers notes to create a new stronger wave of Sentinels
• When the medallion that controls his mutation comes off, the Sentinels now targeted him
• Now being a target as well, he became catatonic
and in a state of shock
• The medallion was placed back on him, in the hopes that it'll help him out of his catatonic state and forget it ever happened
• Returns to a normal life after his encounter with the X-Men, however it wasn't long until Quicksilver kidnapped him to help save the Scarlet Witch from Sentinels
• After a fight with the Avengers against the Sentinels in Australia, he was tragically crushed by a falling Sentinel
• Was reborn on Krakoa
First Appearance: X-Men #57 (Apr 1969)
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Steven Lang
• The property of the Sentinel plans fell into the governments hands
• They pass it on to Steven, as he is the head of that department
• Gets funding to create new Sentinels and an orbital HQ from the Hellfire Club
• His Sentinels were inferior to previous ones since Steven had incomplete notes
• His space station is destroyed during the fight of the X-Men and Sentinels
• Was lobotomized during battle
First Appearance: X-Men #96 (Sep 1975)
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Master Mold
• Created to make Sentinels by Bolivar Trask to help control the mutant population
• Always turns on his creator and wants Sentinels to rule
TV / Movies: X-Men: The Animated Series (1992),
Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)
First Appearance: X-Men #15 (Oct 1965)
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Sentinels
• A.I robots designed to hunt and kill mutant kind
• Designs vary over the years but the main goal is always the same
TV / Movies: X-Men: The Animated Series (1992), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
First Appearance: X-Men #14 (Sep 1965)
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Nimrod
• On earth 811 (Days of Future Past) Nimrod was initiated and created to be a series of a whole new breed of Sentinels
• A Nimrod is the top and most powerful of the Sentinels
• More accurate attacks and takes less damage than a regular Sentinel
• Same goal as regular Sentinels; Destroy all mutants