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Bolivar Trask (Earth-616)

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Relatives
Simon Trask (brother) Larry Trask (son), Tanya Trask (daughter), Donald Trask III (nephew)

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Base Of Operations
Sentinel Base at an unknown location

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Anthropologist

Place of Death
Laboratory at unknown location


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History

When his own son developed mutant powers, Trask set out to learn everything he could about mutation. He hired a team of scientists to develop a device that would inhibit his son's powers. He finally came to the conclusion that mutants would inevitably use their superhuman abilities to supplant Homo sapiens. Another team of scientists developed and built the Sentinels in a secret laboratory. Trask wrote several articles on the "mutant question," but when he made an appearance on television, Professor Xavier realized that such propaganda must be rebutted. During the resulting debate, Trask demonstrated his robots, which unexpectedly left for their lab and took Trask with them.

Back at the lab, Master Mold, the prototype Sentinel, confronted Trask. It had come to the conclusion that Sentinels were superior to both races: thus, robots could and should supplant humans and mutants. Taking orders from a mere human ran counter to this new imperative, so Trask would thenceforth serve the Sentinels and help build more of them.

Meanwhile, the Sentinels had also taken prisoner an X-Man, the Beast. Master Mold ordered Trask to use a psycho-probe to read the Beast's mind and learn their plans. Trask learned, however, that the X-Men were protecting humanity and that his theory was wrong. This revelation, coupled with Master Mold's betrayal and the threat to humanity, told Trask what he must do: destroy the laboratory and the Sentinels. He died in the resulting explosion.

Unfortunately, Trask's propaganda, as well as several new and improved Sentinels, persists to this day.

The Purifiers, under the orders of Bastion, and using Technarch technology later resurrected Trask.

Powers and Abilities

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Abilities

Highly intelligent

Appearances in Other Media

Television

  • In the Fox TV animated series X-Men, Trask creates the Sentinels. This character appears in the episodes "Night of the Sentinels" and "The Final Decision."
  • In the WBKids TV animated series X-Men Evolution, Trask creates the Sentinels for SHIELD. This character appears in the episodes "Day of Reckoning" and "Uprising."

Movies

  • In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Trask (played by Bill Duke) leads the Department of Homeland Security. This character is not directly responsible for Sentinels but is partially responsible for anti-mutant sentiment.

Video games

  • In Ultimate Spider-Man, Trask is the head of Trask Enterprises. This character has no apparent connection to the Sentinels or the X-Men.
  • In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Trask has created the Sentinels but reprograms them to leave the X-Men alone.
  • In the video game adaptation of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he appears at the Project: WIDEAWAKE facility in the Southwestern United States and activates a Mark 1 Prototype Sentinel to attack Wolverine. Afterward, Wolverine slashes off Trask's hand to gain access to the bay doors. Later, after William Stryker erased Wolverine's memory with an Adamantium bullet, Trask captures him so that he can gain revenge. But Wolverine escapes, brutally kills his two guards and Trask narrowly escapes Wolverine's claws. Wolverine then looks to a ruined city where Sentinels are killing mutants...

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