Bastion (comics)
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| Bastion | |
 Panel from X-Force #1, vol. 3 (2008). Art by Clayton Crain. |
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| Publication information | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men v2, #52 (May 1996) |
| Created by | Mark Waid Andy Kubert |
| In story information | |
| Species | Android/Artificial intelligence |
| Team affiliations | Purifiers Friends of Humanity Operation: Zero Tolerance Humanity's Last Stand |
| Notable aliases | Sebastion Gilberti, Nicolas Hunter, Master Mold, Arnold Rodriguez, Template, The Oracle |
| Abilities | A mystical fusion of Master Mold and Nimrod;
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Bastion is a supervillain that appears in the fictional Marvel Universe. The character was created by Mark Waid and Andy Kubert first in X-Men #52 (May 1996).
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[edit] Fictional character biography
[edit] Origin
Bastion started life out as two separate beings, the Sentinel factory, Master Mold, and Nimrod, a Sentinel from an alternate future. It was on one fateful day that Nimrod came across a piece of Master Mold's body. Master Mold's programming begin to co-opt Nimrod. The two of them become one being after being pushed into the Siege Perilous by Rogue and Dazzler. Now, a man of flesh and no memory of his past, Bastion is taken in by a woman named Rose Gilberti. Living with Rose, Bastion begins to hear about the mutant problem, across America. At some point, Bastion falls into anti-mutant groups, like Graydon Creed's Friends of Humanity.
[edit] Operation: Zero Tolerance
In time, Bastion is working his way "up the ladder", in the U.S. Government. Unwittingly, Bastion was able to develop a new type of Sentinel, the Prime Sentinels.
Two events, the fallout of Onslaught and the death of Graydon Creed, were the ammunition needed to initiate Bastion's Operation: Zero Tolerance, which attacked mutants everywhere. The operation is successful in capturing Jubilee and some members of the X-Men, taking direct control over the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, and gaining possession of the Xavier Protocols, a list of files containing information on killing the X-Men.
The President is convinced by Senator Robert Kelly and Henry Peter Gyrich to suspend Bastion's operations. Bastion is captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., with help from Iceman. While in government custody, Bastion regains his memories and escapes custody. He attempts to lead another crusade against mutants, but he is stopped by Machine Man and Cable. Bastion is returned to government custody, only to be later beheaded by a brainwashed Wolverine, who served as Apocalypse's Horseman of Death.
[edit] Template
A former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent by the name of Mainspring was heading a project called the Gatekeepers, whose goal is to study and destroy Phalanx technology. They find the remains of Bastion and rebuilds him, but loses control of him. Bastion, with the new body and new programming becomes known as Template, and kills Mainspring. Bastion fights against the heroes Warlock and Wolfsbane during these incidents.
Some time later, Carol Danvers contacts the X-Men about the current whereabouts of the remains of Bastion/Template. The X-Men sends Shadowcat, Wolverine, and Gambit to break into the government facility, intending to reclaim their stolen computer files. While there, Template shows the three X-Men false holograms of events and lies about their teammates. The X-Men eventually gets their files, but they are left with doubts and fears about their teammates.
[edit] X-Force
Following the events of the Messiah Complex event, the fundamentalist Purifiers assaults a heavily-defended SHIELD installation, breaching the tight security with the aid of several double agents within the organization and recovering Bastion's head. At one of their churches, the Purifiers installs the head onto the body of the Nimrod unit recovered from Forge's Aerie, returning Bastion to life. Immediately after his activation, the mutant-hunting robot alerts the Purifiers to the presence of the new X-Force. Bastion concludes, after accessing Nimrod's database, that the X-Men are the greatest mutant threat to the Purifiers' objectives in this timeline or any other, and there is no terrestrial force in existence that could guarantee the elimination of the X-Men. Bastion however reveals that he has found something that could: Magus. [1]
It was revealed that what Bastion discovered at the bottom of the ocean was not the real Magus, but one of his offspring in a mindless state. Bastion rewrote its programming and infected Donald Pierce and the Leper Queen, the recovered techno-organic remains of Cameron Hodge and Stephen Lang, as well as the corpses of Bolivar Trask, Graydon Creed and Reverend William Stryker with the Technarch transmode virus, declaring them to be the future of humanity and the end of mutantkind.[2]
[edit] Other versions
[edit] Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse storyline a Bastion existed, as evidenced when the X-Men are discussing Abyss who is the one "rumoured to have replaced Bastion". This Bastion has never been seen in the comic and there is no indication whether or not he is related to the main continuity Bastion.
[edit] In other media
[edit] Video games
- 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: Rise of Apocalypse voiced by Alastair Duncan. He seems to be a mere anti-mutant activist (though his true nature is mentioned in a trivia minigame), 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.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] List of titles
- X-Men vol. 2, #52, 57 & 64-69
- X-Force Vol. 1 #54, 68 & 82
- Uncanny X-Men #333-334, 339 & 346
- X-Men Unlimited #11, 16 & 27
- Generation X #20 & 23
- Wolverine Vol. 2 #115-118
- Wolverine Annual '96
- X-Factor Vol. 1 #127, 132
- X-Man #22 & 30
- Cable #40, 45-47
- Cable/Machine Man Annual '98
- Machine Man/Bastion Annual '98
- Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2 #1-2
- Warlock Vol. 4 #6-8
- X-Men: Declassified
- Onslaught Epilogue: The Path To Redemption
- Venom: On Trial Part 1
- X-Force vol. 3, ongoing
