Bastion (comics)

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Bastion
Friends of Humanity
Operation: Zero Tolerance
Humanity's Last Stand
Notable aliasesSebastion Gilberti, Nicolas Hunter, Master Mold, Arnold Rodriguez, Template, The Oracle
AbilitiesA mystical fusion of Master Mold and Nimrod;

Bastion is a

Pascual Ferry and first made a cameo appearance in X-Men #52 (May 1996) while his first full appearance was in The Uncanny X-Men #333 (June 1996).[1]

Fictional character biography

Operation: Zero Tolerance

Main article: Operation: Zero Tolerance

Bastion is a mysterious man named Sebastion Gilberti who had risen to power in a relatively short time in the U.S. Government and began assembling the international anti-mutant strike force Operation: Zero Tolerance (OZT). When the X-Men learned about the existence of OZT some months before the operation became public, Gambit and Phoenix, acting on information, snuck into an OZT meeting being held at the Pentagon to learn more about the program and its leader Bastion, but did not come out with much. Bastion showed that he was more than met the eye as Phoenix could not read his mind and Bastion easily identified the two X-Men hidden among representatives of various foreign intelligence agencies interested in supporting OZT.[2]

When

Jubilee and taking her to the OZT base in New Mexico.[4]

As the OZT attempted to reconfigure the Sentinel force assembled by Project: Wideawake, Bastion deemed most of them outdated. Instead, Bastion was able to develop a new type of Sentinel, the Prime Sentinels. Graydon's death[5] was the last ammunition needed to initiate Bastion's OZT, which attacked mutants everywhere. The operation soon targeted and succeeded in capturing some members of the X-Men.[6][7]

Bastion also tries to buy off J. Jonah Jameson directly with all the available information he has managed to gather and decrypt on the outlaw X-Men and their associates. However, Jameson reveals that he has already been working on his own story for quite some time and invites Bastion to see what he has so far. When Bastion sees nothing, Jameson points out that Bastion has managed to ingratiate, intimidate, and dominate his way into a position of power in over a dozen countries. Yet there is no evidence of his existence. To Jameson, this means the greatest story to follow is Bastion himself. He also implies that Bastion was behind the disappearance of Nick Bandouveris and this means Bastion would kill to keep his secrets. Jameson then burns the data disk and orders Bastion out of his office and warns that he will see him charged with Nick's murder.[8]

After learning the nature of the Prime Sentinels, the

Senator Robert Kelly and Henry Peter Gyrich to suspend Bastion's operations. Bastion was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., with help from Iceman
.

Origin

While in government custody, more mysteries surrounding Bastion were discovered, but before a further investigation could be made, Bastion managed to escape and returned to the home of his mother figure, Rose Gilberti. However, she is accidentally killed by the authorities which sends Bastion into a rage and returns to the former OZT facility where Cable is fighting Machine Man, who has lost touch with his humanity. Bastion makes contact with the Master Mold unit which he had created the Prime Sentinels. Master Mold is drained of its energy as Bastion is transformed into a Nimrod unit.[9]

Being transformed, allowed Bastion's memories to be unblocked in the process and as it turns out Bastion had not been born human at all but started life out as two separate beings: the

Friends of Humanity. After regaining its identity as a Sentinel, Bastion attempts to lead another crusade against mutants by turning Machine Man into a Sentinel Supreme, but Machine Man and Cable were able to defeat him.[10] He was returned to government custody, only to be beheaded later by Apocalypse's Horseman of Death.[11]

Template

Bastion's remains were eventually found by a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Mainspring who headed a project called the Gatekeepers, whose goal is to study and destroy

Wolfsbane managed to destroy the Babel Spire.[14]

Sometime later,

Gambit to break into the government facility, intending to reclaim their stolen computer files. While there, Template showed the three X-Men false holograms of events and lies about their teammates. The X-Men eventually got their files, but they were left with doubts and fears about their teammates.[15]

X-Force

Following the events of the

Magus.[17]

It was later 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

Steven 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.[18]

His first move was to capture several mutants and inject them with a strain of the Legacy Virus to cause their powers to go berserk and kill themselves and thousands of humans. This would compel the United Nations to form a Mutant Response Division, which is successful, despite X-Force's efforts.[19]

Bastion also had Pierce act as his mole inside the X-Men's headquarters, all the while building several structures that surround Utopia.[20]

Second Coming

Main article: X-Men: Second Coming

Bastion is the primary antagonist in the X-Men: Second Coming storyline. He is seen with Steven Lang,

Nightcrawler sacrifices himself. When rebooting, Bastion takes on much of Nimrod's old appearance, but is finally destroyed towards the end of the crossover when Hope manifests a variety of the current X-Men's mutant powers and obliterates him.[22]

X-Men: Blue

Despite his apparent destruction, Bastion had survived the attack by activating, at the last second, his temporal drives and shunted himself into the future. However, Bastion had suffered catastrophic damage from Hope's assault and the time-shift had corrupted and compromised his systems. Arriving when mutants were being faced with extinction due to the Terrigenesis cloud, Bastion decided to re-dedicate himself to protecting mutants, assembling, and reprogramming a wave of standard sentinels. He eventually returned to the present and was soon confronted by the time-displaced X-Men which confirm that Bastion's actual goal is simply to preserve mutants until their population rises to a level where he can destroy them all himself. The team try to fight him but Bastion instead just left them and retreat with his Sentinels.[23]

In the aftermath of Hydra takeover of the United States of America under the leadership of a Cosmic Cube-altered Captain America, Bastion seemingly started to work with Miss Sinister, Emma Frost and Havok to use Mothervine on a global scale.

Sebastian Shaw failed in his attempt to kill Magneto to gain a role in the Mothervine plot, Bastion was present to negotiate with and later fight the Master of Magnetism, simultaneously unleashing a wave of Prime Sentinels to finally release Mothervine under Havok's order; Magneto was able to escape by using a vial of Mutant Growth Hormone and throwing a lighthouse at the group, fleeing in the chaos.[26]

Thanks to Bastion's efforts, both humans and mutants began to experience accelerated mutations through exposure to the Mothervine.

Elixir, who was capable of reversing the Mothervine mutations and was taken across the world to stop the rampancy, to the notice of Havok and Bastion. Emma and Polaris managed to break into their meeting, and Bastion began fighting them off. Ultimately, he was caught off-guard by the arrival of Xorn, who absorbed him into a wormhole and seemingly destroyed them both.[29]

In other media

Television

Video games

References

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  2. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #333. Marvel Comics.
  3. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #339. Marvel Comics.
  4. ^ Generation X #27. Marvel Comics.
  5. ^ X-Factor #130. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ X-Men #65. Marvel Comics.
  7. ISBN 978-1465455505
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  8. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #346. Marvel Comics.
  9. ^ Cable/Machine Man Annual '98. Marvel Comics.
  10. ^ Machine Man/Bastion Annual '98. Marvel Comics.
  11. ^ Astonishing X-Men vol. 2 #1. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ Warlock #6. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ Warlock #7. Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ Warlock #8. Marvel Comics.
  15. ^ X-Men Declassified #1. Marvel Comics.
  16. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #1 (2008). Marvel Comics.
  17. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #2. Marvel Comics.
  18. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #3. Marvel Comics.
  19. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #12–13, 17–18. Marvel Comics.
  20. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #19. Marvel Comics.
  21. ^ X-Men: Second Coming one-shot. Marvel Comics.
  22. ^ X-Force vol. 3 #28. Marvel Comics.
  23. ^ X-Men: Blue #3. Marvel Comics.
  24. ^ X-Men: Blue #9. Marvel Comics.
  25. ^ X-Men: Blue #23. Marvel Comics.
  26. ^ X-Men: Blue #24-25. Marvel Comics.
  27. ^ X-Men: Blue #26. Marvel Comics.
  28. ^ X-Men: Blue #27. Marvel Comics.
  29. ^ X-Men: Blue #28. Marvel Comics.
  30. ^ a b "Bastion Voices (X-Men)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved April 24, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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