Bolivar Trask

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To stop the Sentinels, Xavier summons his X-Men. The X-Men fight the Sentinels, but Beast is captured. To reveal the X-Men's secrets, the Sentinels tell Trask to use a device to read Beast's mind. Trask discovers that the X-Men were mutants protecting humanity and realizes he had been wrong. He helps the X-Men defeat the Sentinels by sacrificing himself to destroy the Sentinels' base.

However, Bolivar's death would not be the end of the Sentinels. The Master Mold would return, and Bolivar's son, Larry, still unaware of his own mutant status, would follow in his father's footsteps and create new Sentinels to avenge his father.

Later, a relative of Bolivar, Donald Trask, would be recruited by the villain Cassandra Nova to gain control of a group of Sentinels. The machines, which now vary in size, do not harm Trask's DNA. They obey Donald's commands. However, once Nova finishes copying all of Donald's DNA, she kills him and takes control of the robots.

Recently, in X-Force, Bastion, who had been reactivated by the Purifiers, apparently resurrected Bolivar Trask using a Technarch to become part of a team of the world's most formidable mutant assassins. During the assault on X-Factor, Trask seized control from Bastion and, after ordering the attack to end, committed suicide.

Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist who saw the rise of mutants as a threat to humanity. Bolivar was also the father of Larry Trask, who, ironically, is revealed to be a mutant with precognitive powers. Bolivar realized this and gave his son a medallion that suppressed his power. Bolivar's other daughter, Tanya, was also a mutant, and her ability to travel through time caused her to disappear. Tanya would be rescued by Rachel Veranos in the distant future and would become part of the Askani under the alias Madame Sanctity. Tanya's time travels caused material damage to Trask's homeland. This mysterious situation only further solidified his attitudes toward mutants.

Bolivar decides that humanity must fight against mutants and develops robotic guardians for humanity, known as Sentinels. His son Larry was protected from the Sentinels' ability to detect the mutant X-gene because of the medallion Bolivar had given him. Bolivar publishes articles about the mutant threat. One of these articles featured an illustration of mutant lords keeping humans as slaves. This illustration would become a symbol of human-mutant relations, and several years later, Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang would base their appearance on this image.

Professor Charles Xavier invites Trask to a public debate on the relationship between humans and mutants. Xavier's arguments that mutants were like humans and not evil failed to convince Trask, and he revealed the Sentinels. Trask and his scientists had apparently created an open, adaptive, tactical/strategic programming system. However, Trask was not a very skilled programmer, and the Sentinels turned against him, claiming superiority over humans. The Sentinels left with Trask and took him to his first creation, the Master Mold, who ordered him to build more Sentinels.