Master Mold

Master Mold was created by Bolivar Trask to build an army of MK I Sentinels to control the mutant population. However, this version was damaged when the Sentinel Headquarters was destroyed by the X-Men.

After Trask's death, the government of the United States put the Sentinel operation under the command of Stephen Lang, a mutant-hating bigot who began reconstructing Sentinels with Trask's notes for his own goals. The Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club provided him with funds, not knowing that he wanted to kill all mutants. Lang rebuilt the Master Mold but did not use it.

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Master Mold was created by Bolivar Trask to build an army of MK I Sentinels to control the mutant population. However, this version was damaged when the Sentinel Headquarters was destroyed by the X-Men.

After Trask's death, the government of the United States put the Sentinel operation under the command of Stephen Lang, a mutant-hating bigot who began reconstructing Sentinels with Trask's notes for his own goals. The Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club provided him with funds, not knowing that he wanted to kill all mutants. Lang rebuilt the Master Mold but did not use it.

During a battle against the X-Men, they destroyed the space station where Lang and the Sentinels were. Lang was lobotomized, but his memory-engrams were printed in Master Mold's computers. Thus, Master Mold suddenly believed that it was Lang himself.

Surviving the explosion, Master Mold built a new base on a nearby asteroid and then went to Earth to capture Angel and Iceman. Master Mold also, accidentally, captured the Hulk. The three heroes managed to escape their prison and the Hulk severely damaged Master Mold. Master Mold tried to blow away the station to destroy the mutants, but the mutants and the Hulk managed to escape.

The damaged body of Master Mold fell into the sea, off the coast of Alaska. Using its reconstruction facilities, the wreckage from an oil platform, and sunken ships, Master Mold was again complete and detected X-Factor leader, Cyclops, in Anchorage, looking for his missing wife and son. Master Mold attacked him, but Cyclops tricked him into shooting gas storage tanks The resulting explosion destroyed Master Mold's body, again, but its brain module survived.

Somehow, Master Mold reached Muir Island and mind-controlled Dr. Moira MacTaggert. Master Mold then made her create the Retribution Virus, which stopped mutants from using their powers and then killed them. However, Dr. MacTaggert's lover, Banshee, noticed something wrong and called Cyclops for help. Cyclops went to Muir Island and Master Mold tried to kill him twice, but failed.

Master Mold infected Banshee and a mutant girl with the virus and then captured them. Cyclops tried to stop Master Mold's robots from taking them away but was then defeated. However, he managed to rescue Dr. MacTaggert from the mind control. Dr. MacTaggert then tried to research for a cure, but Muir Island was then invaded by Master Mold's robots, which were led by a special robot, Conscience, which was programmed with Lang's memory-engrams and a skill to feel emotions. Dr. MacTaggert, Cyclops, and his ally, Callisto, were defeated by the robots, infected with the virus (except for Dr. MacTaggert), and taken to Master Mold.

Master Mold and the Conscience discovered that the virus had mutated and also killed normal humans. Master Mold insisted on using it anyhow, assuming that a small number of normal humans would survive that could be controlled to avoid the birth of new mutants. However, Conscience, being emotional, decided that it would be unfair and apparently destroyed Master Mold, and later itself, to avoid the use of the virus.

Somehow Master Mold survived and decided to destroy Franklin Richards who was then of nursery-school age. Franklin's friends, the team called Power Pack, fought back, saving their friend and destroying Master Mold. However, they failed to destroy his brain module which was later found by the advanced Sentinel, Nimrod. Nimrod and Master Mold merged together and battled the X-Men only to be forced into the Siege Perilous.

The Master Mold reappeared and joined Father's Descendants. Master Mold "died" in the final battle against the Secret Avengers, after being overpowered by Captain Britain.

Another Master Mold would turn up in Down Acres, North America; where a rogue survivalist program was using its technology to experiment with precursor Omega Prime Sentinel technology for protection in the post-apocalyptic world to come. Such activities would draw the attention of Eric Lensher to this group after looking up the news of a violent mutant death taking place around rural California, where he follows up on the lead found there in order to seek out and dismantle the hate crime engine.

Subject ID: 115763

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