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Quote1 As I told Dr. Cooper right before she betrayed me and her kind, people are good. Too damn good. Thus, to protect humanity, I must protect humanity from itself. From the hearts that start dripping red at the latest token underdog. From seeing themselves in those who would use their same hearts against them. Tolerance is extinction. But even worse is empathy. Quote2
Bastion[src]

History

Origins[]

Years ago, the time-traveling Sentinel Nimrod traveled back in time to kill mutant leader Charles Xavier years before he could found his X-Men. Nimrod was defeated and destroyed, but a part of it managed to infect a university janitor.[1][2]

Sebastion Gilberti (Earth-92131) from X-Men '97 Season 1 10 003

The janitor went on to have a child named Sebastion Gilberti. Sebastion was born with the ability to communicate with machines. Sebastion struggled with being different and the burden his powers and Nimrod's influence placed on his young mind. Believing that Sebastion was a mutant, Charles Xavier sought him out when he was starting his X-Men, but Sebastion's mother rejected Xavier's offer due to her dislike of mutants.[2][3] However, she would go on to lie to Sebastion, telling him that she had begged Xavier to take him in, but he had refused.[4]

Many years later, when the Sentinel Master Mold was destroyed by the X-Men, it uploaded itself into Sebastion, creating a new being; Bastion.[2]

Operation: Zero Tolerance[]

Sebastion Gilberti (Earth-92131) from X-Men '97 Season 1 10 004

Allying himself with Mister Sinister, Bastion secretly orchestrated the Mutant Massacre on Genosha by the Wild Sentinels. He kidnapped Magneto, who was presumed killed in the attack, and kept him imprisoned by fitting him with an Inhibitor Collar. When Henry Gyrich almost exposed him to Rogue, he arrived on his apartment and killed him on his sleep.[5]

Bastion planned to destroy mutantkind by using his Sentinel technology to upgrade humanity, creating so-called Prime Sentinels, a mix of human and machine, just like he himself.[2] As he unleashed his Prime Sentinels upon mutantkind, destroying the X-Mansion, he was betrayed by Valerie Cooper, who freed the captive Magneto. Magneto traveled to the North Pole and used his magnetic powers to unleash a global EMP, disabling the Prime Sentinels.[2] Following the blackout, Bastion carried the corpse of his own mother, crying over her death, and took her back to her home, saying that there's finally quiet.

Afterwards, Bastion retreated back to his headquarters in the Galapagos Islands. After sensing the arrival of the X-Men's Gold Team (consisting of Jean Grey, Storm, Cable, Beast, Morph, and Forge), he crated a huge army of Sentinels to fight the X-Men, defeating them.[3]

When Charles hijacked Magneto's mind to restore the Magnetic Field on the planet, resulting Bastion's Prime Sentinels to reactivate, Bastion called his vison inevitable, while Xavier's crippled like him. After capturing Beast, Morph, Forge and Storm, Bastion taunted the three mutants, stating that Operation Zero Tolerance was in its final phase. However Jean then rose from the water, becoming the Phoenix. She reassembled the Mnemonic Scrambler and placed it on Bastion, shutting down his Prime Sentinels. Despite this, Bastion was able to overpower and knock out the three mutants with a blast of energy, before destroying Cable's cybernetic arm and absorbing it into himself, transforming and growing wings.

He then flew to Asteroid M to bring it down to Earth and eliminate both mutants and humans alike. Before he could make it he was intercepted by Rogue, who wanted to avenge the death of Gambit, and Roberto Da Costa, now calling himself Sunspot, before overpowering them both. When he arrived on Asteroid M, he was intercepted by Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Jubilee. Before he could finish them all, he was crushed by a Sentinel, hijacked by Beast, Morph, Forge and Jean. All the X-Men then prepared to fight him until Cyclops told the rest to stand down, not wanting to continue fighting Bastion. He then attempted to appeal to Bastion's human nature, but Bastion refused, admitting that humans and mutants are monsters. Bastion was then killed, when President Kelly sent two missiles to the Asteroid.[4]

Attributes

Powers

Sebastion Gilberti (Earth-92131) from X-Men '97 Season 1 10 005
  • Cybernetic Body: As a synthetic life form he possesses various superhuman attributes:
    • Reanimation
    • Technopathy: Bastion has the ability to communicate with and control machines.[2]
    • Portal Creation[2]
    • Enhanced Durability: As part machine, Bastion can survive in extraterrestrial environments, such as the vacuum of space or on the Moon.
      • Regeneration: Bastion can efficiently self-repair, however, his repair does have is limits as he wasn't capable of fully regenerating after Jubilee blasted him in the face. His self-repair is not as powerful as Nimrod's.
    • Flight: Bastion can normally levitate using jet boosters, but after absorbing Cable's mechanic arm, he was able to grow a pair of metallic wings, similar to those of Archangel. He is fast enough to fly all the way up to Asteroid M.
    • Energy Projection: Bastion can fire purple energy beams and blasts out of his chest, hands, and even his mouth. They are powerful enough to incapacitate mutants as well as match Cyclops' optic blasts.
    • Teleportation: Bastion can teleport mid fight like when Rogue tried to attack him.

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