Master Mold

Master Mold
Cover to X-Men #16. Art by Jack Kirby.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The X-Men #15 (December 1965)
Created by	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
In-story information
Team affiliations	Sentinels Project: Armageddon
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and durability; ability to incorporate metal into itself; concussive blasts; plasma discharges; ability to scan mutants; flight

Master Mold is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. Since his primary purpose was to act as a portable Sentinel-creating factory, and the Sentinel robots were primarily used to hunt mutants, Master Mold has almost exclusively appeared in the X-Men and related, mutant-themed, comic books.

The Master Mold first appeared in X-Men #15–16 (December 1965 – January 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The character subsequently appears in The Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (1978), X-Factor #13–14 (February–March 1987), Power Pack #36 (April 1988), Marvel Comics Presents #18–24 (May–July 1989), The Uncanny X-Men #246–247 (July–August 1989), The Sensational She-Hulk #30 (August 1991), and Cyclops: Retribution #1 (January 1994).

The Master Mold received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #5.

Master Mold was created by Dr. Bolivar Trask during the original run of X-Men comics. In the 1960s, out of fear of a race of superhuman mutants that could dominate the whole world and enslave normal human beings, Trask makes Master Mold, a super-computer, in the shape of a giant Sentinel robot, that will control and facilitate the construction of the Sentinels (mechanical warriors that are programmed to hunt and capture all superhuman mutants.) Unbeknownst to all, the original Master Mold is also programmed by the time-traveling Tanya Trask (Madame Sanctity), part of the Askani Sisterhood, with the mission to find and destroy The Twelve: a group of mutants that are linked to the rise of Apocalypse, which the ruthless Sanctity considered an event that must be stopped at all costs. For unknown reasons, some of the mutants that are cataloged as the Twelve are not part of the group. The Master Mold has Trask captured, and decides to take over humanity to keep it safe.