Bastion (comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men vol. 2 #52 (May 1996) |
| Created by |
Scott Lobdell Pascual Ferry |
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| 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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A mystical fusion of Master Mold and Nimrod;
Bastion is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Scott Lobdell and Pascual Ferry and first made a cameo appearance in X-Men #52 (May 1996). His first full appearance was Uncanny X-Men #333 (June 1996).
Bastion is a mysterious man who had risen to power in relative 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 couldn't read his mind and Bastion easily identified the two X-Men hidden among representatives of various foreign intelligence agencies interested in supporting OZT.
When Professor X voluntarily turned himself in after the Onslaught event, Bastion confined him in an OZT facility along with the artificially-created mutant Mannites which revealed later allowed Bastion to take direct control over the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, and gaining possession of the , a list of files containing information on killing the X-Men. Bastion also killed a Daily Bugle reporter who was going to report on Graydon Creed's history and later Bastion himself succeeded in capturing Jubilee and taking her to the OZT base in New Mexico.
As the OZT attempted to reconfigure the Sentinel force assembled by Project: Wideawake, Bastion deemed most of them outdated.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. The death of Graydon Creed 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.
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