:Bastion (comics)

{{Infobox comics character

|character_name=Bastion

|image= Bastion.PNG

|caption=Art from the variant cover for X-Force (vol. 3) #6 (2008).
Art by Clayton Crain.

|real_name=Sebastion Gilberti

|species=Android

|publisher=Marvel Comics

|debut=X-Men (vol. 2) #52 (May 1996)

|creators=Scott Lobdell
Pascual Ferry

|alliances=Purifiers
Friends of Humanity
Operation: Zero Tolerance
Humanity's Last Stand

|aliases=Master Mold, Nimrod, Arnold Rodriguez, Template, The Oracle

|powers= *Immunity to telepathic probes and mutant abilities

Adaptation
Technoforming
Ability to turn people into Prime Sentinels
Command of other Sentinels
Energy manipulation
Teleportation
Chronokinesis
Technopathy
Superhuman strength and durability
Flight

}}

Bastion is a character 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) while his first full appearance was in The Uncanny X-Men #333 (June 1996).{{cite book |last1=DeFalco |first1=Tom |author-link1=Tom DeFalco |last2=Sanderson |first2=Peter |author-link2=Peter Sanderson |last3=Brevoort |first3=Tom |author-link3=Tom Brevoort |last4=Teitelbaum |first4=Michael |last5=Wallace |first5=Daniel |last6=Darling |first6=Andrew |last7=Forbeck |first7=Matt |author-link7=Matt Forbeck |last8=Cowsill |first8=Alan |last9=Bray |first9=Adam |title=The Marvel Encyclopedia |date=2019 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-7890-0 |page=44}}

Fictional character biography

=Operation: Zero Tolerance=

Bastion is introduced as Sebastion Gilberti, a mysterious man who had risen to power in a relatively short time in the United States government and assembled the international anti-mutant strike force Operation: Zero Tolerance (OZT).The Uncanny X-Men #333 (June 1996){{cite book |last1=Brevoort |first1=Tom |author-link1=Tom Brevoort |title=Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History |last2=DeFalco |first2=Tom |author-link2=Tom DeFalco |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=Sanderson |first4=Peter |author-link4=Peter Sanderson |last5=Wiacek |first5=Win |date=2017 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1465455505 |page=283}}

As the OZT attempt to reconfigure the Sentinel force assembled by Project Wideawake, Bastion deems most of them outdated. Instead, Bastion develops a new type of Sentinel called the Prime Sentinels, who are humans transformed by nanotechnology.X-Factor #130 (January 1997) After learning of the Prime Sentinels' nature, Robert Kelly and Henry Peter Gyrich convince the President to suspend Bastion's operations. Bastion is captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. with help from Iceman.X-Men (vol. 2) #68-69 (October - November 1997)

=Origin=

Bastion later escapes from government custody and returns to the home of his adoptive mother Rose Gilberti. After the authorities accidentally kill Rose, Bastion is enraged and returns to the former OZT facility. Bastion makes contact with the version of Master Mold that created the Prime Sentinels and drains its energy, transforming him into a unit resembling Nimrod.Cable/Machine Man Annual (May 1998) This transformation unlocks Bastion's memories, revealing that he was created after a Master Mold absorbed Nimrod and the two were reborn into a singular human body after passing through the Siege Perilous.As depicted in The Uncanny X-Men #247 (August 1989).

Bastion was returned to government custody, only to be killed by Apocalypse's Horseman of Death.Astonishing X-Men (vol. 2) #1 (September 1999)

=Template=

Bastion's remains are found by former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Mainspring, the head of a project called the Gatekeepers, whose goal is to study and destroy Phalanx technology. Mainspring uses the Transmode Virus to reprogram Bastion, transforming him into Template. The virus takes control of Template and forces him to construct a Babel Spire on Earth to signal the alien Technarchy. Mainspring destroys himself along with Template while Warlock and Wolfsbane destroy the Babel Spire.Warlock (vol. 5) #6 - 8 (March - May 2000)

=X-Force=

Following the Messiah Complex event, the Purifiers recover Bastion's head and attach it to Nimrod's body, resurrecting Bastion. Bastion discovers one of Magus's offspring and uses it to infect Donald Pierce, the Leper Queen, Cameron Hodge, Steven Lang, Bolivar Trask, Graydon Creed, and William Stryker with the Transmode Virus.X-Force (vol. 3) #1 - 3 (April - June 2008)

=Second Coming=

Bastion acts as the primary antagonist in the X-Men: Second Coming storyline, where he sends Lang, Hodge, Trask, Stryker and Creed to kill Hope Summers. Later, Bastion attempts to kill Hope on his own, only for her to seemingly kill him.X-Men: Second Coming one-shot (May 2010)X-Force (vol. 3) #28 (September 2010)

=X-Men Blue=

Bastion is later revealed to have survived by transporting himself to the future, but was severely damaged by Hope's attack. Bastion decides to re-dedicate himself to protecting mutants, assembling a wave of Sentinels. Bastion eventually returns to the present and is confronted by the time-displaced X-Men, who learn that Bastion's actual goal is to preserve mutants until their population rises to a level where he can destroy them all himself.X-Men Blue #3 (July 2017)

In X-Men Blue, Bastion works with Miss Sinister, Emma Frost, and Havok to use the drug Mothervine to repower mutants worldwide. Frost, disillusioned by the Mothervine plot, frees Polaris and her team after overseeing Sinister's experiments on Jimmy Hudson, and the group travels to the inner circle's meeting room. Bastion battles them, but is caught off-guard by the arrival of Xorn, who kills him.X-Men Blue #23 - 28 (May - July 2018)

In other media

=Television=

Bastion appears in X-Men '97, voiced by Theo James as an adult and Kari Wahlgren as a child.{{cite web |title=Bastion Voices (X-Men) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/X-Men/Bastion/ |access-date=April 24, 2024 |website=Behind The Voice Actors |type=A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.}}{{Cite tweet |number=1790571076608786568 |user=KariWahlgren |title=Young Rose, old Rose, and young Sebastian... such a fun challenge to play multiple roles on Episode 8 of X-Men 97! Always a joy to be part of the X-Men universe... |first=Kari |last=Wahlgren |author-link=Kari Wahlgren |date=May 15, 2024 |access-date=May 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240519151959/https://x.com/KariWahlgren/status/1790571076608786568 |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |url-status=live}} This version is a human who was born with Sentinel-like abilities due to Nimrod infecting his father.