Larry Trask (comics)
| Larry Trask | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men #57 (June 1969) |
| Created by |
Roy Thomas Neal Adams |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Lawrence Trask |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Sentinels |
| Abilities | Genius level intellect, precognitive knowledge of future events |
Larry Trask is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was a mutant who was introduced as a villain for the X-Men.
Larry Trask is the son of scientist Bolivar Trask. At the age of five, Larry's mutant power of precognition manifested when he predicted the death of his mother. He lost his older sister Tanya soon after, as she was a mutant time-traveler who had become lost in the timestream.
Fearful of the "mutant menace," Bolivar crafted a medallion that would block Larry's powerful visions of the future, as well as erase any memory of them. As his son grew older, Bolivar enlisted Larry's help in the creation of the first wave of Sentinels. Bolivar occasionally removed Larry's medallion so that he could secretly observe and record Larry's predictions about mutants in the future, and Larry accurately predicted the assassination attempt of Senator Robert Kelly (as told in the classic "Days of Future Past" storyline).
Larry was skeptical of his father's hatred of mutants, until the night his sister Tanya (now calling herself Madame Sanctity) returned to the past. Tanya hoped to change the future by stopping her father's creation of the Sentinels, but she was thwarted by her friend Rachel Summers. Though Rachel successfully prevented Larry from witnessing the psychic duel that ensued, she could not hide the physical damage caused by the fight. This convinced Larry that dangerous mutants did exist.
Larry Trask later blamed the X-Men for his father's death, and used Bolivar's notes to create a new, stronger wave of Sentinels. He was aided in his effort by Federal Judge Robert Chalmers, who was a friend of Bolivar's and knew Larry's secret. Larry Trask created a base for his Sentinels inside the Colorado Rockies, and he ordered the robots to abduct and detain all known mutants. One of these mutants was Alex Summers; Larry gave him a containment suit to control his unstable powers, and a new codename: Havok.
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