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| Master Mold | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The X-Men #15 (Dec. 1965) |
| Created by | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
| In-story information | |
| Species | Robot |
| Team affiliations | Sentinels Project: Armageddon |
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Master Mold is asupervillain appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics most commonly appearing as an enemy of theX-Men and the leader of theSentinel mutant-hunting robots.
Master Mold first appeared inThe X-Men #15–16 (Dec. 1965–Jan. 1966), and was created byStan Lee andJack Kirby.[1]
The character subsequently appears inThe Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (1978);X-Factor #13–14 (Feb.–March 1987);Power Pack #36 (April 1988);Marvel Comics Presents #18–24 (May–July 1989);The Uncanny X-Men #246–247 (July–Aug. 1989);The Sensational She-Hulk #30 (Aug. 1991); andCyclops: Retribution #1 (Jan. 1994).
Master Mold received an entry inThe Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #5.
The original version of Master Mold is created byBolivar Trask. Fearing superhuman mutants such as the X-Men, Trask makes a super-computer in the shape of a giant robot that will control and facilitate the construction of theSentinels (mechanical warriors programmed to hunt and capturemutants).[2] Master Mold is secretly programmed by the time-travelingMadame Sanctity of the Askani Sisterhood with the mission to find and destroy the Twelve, a group of mutants linked toApocalypse's rise.[3] Master Mold has Trask captured and decides to take over humanity in a bid to protect them. Trask sacrifices himself to destroy Master Mold and prevent the Sentinels from taking over humanity.[2][4][1]
Another version of Master Mold possessesSteven Lang's brainwaves. After Project Armageddon, Lang tries to activate Master Mold, which merges the former's mind with it instead. The computer suffers great damage by theHulk and is seemingly destroyed when the base explodes.[5] However, Master Mold survives and creates the Retribution Virus to wipe out mutant-kind. It blamesCyclops entirely for its "death" as Lang. He hypnotizes and utilizesMoira MacTaggart to unleash the virus, infecting Cyclops,Callisto, andBanshee before MacTaggart breaks free of his grasp. While she attempts to cure the virus, Cyclops and Callisto team with Conscience (another artificial construct developed from Lang's brain engrams) to stop Master Mold and save mutant-kind as well as all humanity, which had become threatened by the virus. Cyclops is weakened from the disease's effects but nearly single-handedly destroys Master Mold before falling unconscious. As Master Mold prepares to kill Cyclops and finish unleashing the virus, he is attacked and destroyed by Banshee. The virus is then cured before it has a chance to spread.[6]
The remains of Master Mold later merge withNimrod, an advanced Sentinel from the future. Both are forced through theSiege Perilous, causing them to be reborn as the cyborgBastion.[7][8][2][4][9][10]
A Master Mold-esque factory is built in secret in the jungles ofEcuador. This particular version builds theWild Sentinels which are capable of assimilating non-organic materials to assume different shapes, such as an insectoid, as well as a breed of Nano-Sentinels. The Wild Sentinels are taken over byCassandra Nova to devastateGenosha and attack the X-Men. Following their defeat byRogue's X-Men team, theChildren of the Vault escape and regroup in the factory.[volume & issue needed]
InX-Men: Second Coming,X-Force travels to theDays of Future Past timeline where there are two Master Molds, one producing Nimrods and another one protecting the first Master Mold.[volume & issue needed]
Mendel Stromm is approached by amysterious benefactor involving a Master Mold that specializes in the creation of Tri-Sentinels.[11]Spider-Man takes remote control of the Tri-Sentinels and sends them back to Master Mold to destroy it.[12]
A new version calledMother Mold is seen in "House of X and Powers of X".Orchis creates a variant designed to create other Master Molds.[13][4] It is later revealed that Mother Mold will be the Sentinel generation that lead directly to the creation of Nimrod.[14][15]
Dr. Bolivar Trask equipped Master Mold with powerful weaponry and the ability to speak; Master Mold was also mobile so that it could defend itself from mutant attackers or so that it can be relocated easily if Trask had to find a new headquarters. The Steven Lang Master Molds were also capable of self-repair.
Master Mole, a fusion of Master Mold andMole Man created by theInfinity Gems, appears inInfinity Wars: Infinity Warps #1.[16]
Two characters based on Master Mold appear in theUltimate Marvel universe (Earth-1610):
In the alternate reality ofWeapon X: Days of Future Now, one ofMadison Jeffries's Boxbots, dubbed "Bot", becomes the new Master Mold and traps Jeffries within its body to harness his powers.[19]
InWhat If? Age of Ultron series set in an alternative future, Wolverine, the Hulk, Peter Parker and a Ghost Rider travel to theSavage Land to confrontEzekiel Stane using Master Mold to reproduce Iron Man armors. Stane uses an unnamed girl, described as an orphan, the sole remaining Trask descendant, and referred to only as 'Ms. Trask', to operate Master Mold that had apparently been left behind in the Savage Land. Seeking to unleash a wave of the armors upon the world, Stane is stopped and Master Mold destroyed.[20]
InX-Factor Forever Master Mold, Master Mold is bonded toCameron Hodge by Apocalypse to formMaster Meld.[21]
Master Mold appears inWolverine: The Lost Trail.
Master Mold was one of the team's original foes in the comics, dating back to 1965's The X-Men #15 from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In short, Master Mold is a sentient supercomputer in the shape of a colossal Sentinel who is able to create regular Sentinel drones at will. As AI tend to do in the Marvel universe, he has a habit of defying his original programming and deciding that all humanity needs to be annihilated, causing Trask to reluctantly team up with the X-Men to stop him.
[Bastion's] actually a fusion of a Master Mold and the futuristic Sentinel Nimrod, becoming something wholly new after passing through the mystical portal known as the Siege Perilous.
Dazzler remembers she has the mighty mystical doodad the Siege Perilous in her coat pocket and decides that the only way to deal with Master Mold is to open up Roma's promised wormhole to new lives...Master Mold/Nimrod will fuse into Bastion on the other end of their trip through the Siege.
[Bastion's] essentially the result of the merging of a Master Mold and Nimrod. Thanks to Nimrod's timey-whimey shenanigans, along with some weird magic-like stuff (depending on the origin you want to go with) we end up with Bastion.
The new mutant nation is currently facing an existential threat from Orchis, a collective of human scientists working to build a massive Sentinel factory called a Mother Mold. Worse, using knowledge gleaned from her ninth life, Moira knows that Orchis is on the verge of inventing the ultimate Sentinel, Nimrod.
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