Bolivar Trask

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Bolivar Trask is a male comic supervillain that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

As an anthropologist, he began to study the existence of Mutants and saw them as a threat to mankind. As a result, he was responsible for creating cybernetic machines known as the Sentinels tasked with targeting Mutants. He publicly unveiled the robots during a demonstration and had invited Professor Charles Xavier to the event. Dr. Trask showcased the abilities of the robots before commanding them to stop. However, the Sentinels refused to follow his commands as they deemed themselves superior to a human. Instead, they sought to achieve their directive of defending mankind but with themselves in charge. The Sentinels kidnapped Trask and took him to their base in order to force him to build more of their number. (X-Men v1 #14)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Notes

• Bolivar Trask was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in X-Men #14 (November, 1965).

Alternate Versions

• In X-Men: Alpha v1 #1 (1995), an alternate version of Bolivar Trask was shown to reside in the Age of Apocalypse. This version survived the genetic culling's and joined the Human High Council where he his world's version of Moira MacTaggert with the two having a daughter named Francesa Trask. Trask was responsible for the creation of Sentinels tasked with the protection of mankind from Apocalypse's forces.
• In Civil War: House of M v1 (2009), a version of Bolivar Trask was shown in the House of M reality. He was sworn in as the Vice-President of the U.S.A. and created the Sentinels to battle against Magneto following his rise to power. Magneto later confronted Trask onboard the Helicarrier where he called in Sentinels to defend him against the Master of Magnetism. However, the Sentinels enter their non-lethal mode due to the presence of humans on the carrier. Trask overrode hat feature leading to them attacking and causing the death of many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Magneto later threw Trask into the path of a Sentinel beam thus disintegrating him.
• In X-Men Forever v2 (2009), an alternate version of Bolivar Trask and his family line was shown in a reality designated as Earth-161. In this world, the Trask family was traced to Germany where Dietrich Trask was among the scientists working for the Nazi's in World War II to study a range of technological artifacts for the war effort. Dietrich was instrumental in uncovering a means of detecting differences in the human genetic structure without using a standard blood test. A joint America/British mission including Nick Fury and the Howling Commandoes along with Captain Logan of the Canadian military was responsible for assassinating him. However, his descendant Bolivar Trask survived and was smuggled to South America by Howard Stark with the goal of developing anti-Mutant technology. Bolvar later married Dr. Amelia Trask and had a daughter named Zigfried Trask with their family being cousins of the Starks. They were part of the anti-Mutant Consortium along with the Starks and developed the Sentinels as one of their research initiatives.

In other media

Television

• In Wolverine and the X-Men, Bolivar Trask featured in the series as a minor antagonist where he made his first appearance in "Thieves Gambit" and was voiced by actor Phil LaMarr. He was shown as a scientist hired by Senator Robert Kelly who was assigned to the Sentinel Program and the designer of the Sentinel Prowler. Bolivar was referred to as the gadget-man of the Mutant Response Division by Wolverine with Trask being shown to work alongside Dr. Sybil Zane.

Films

• In X-Men: Days of Futures Past, the character appeared in the movie where he was portrayed by actor Peter Dinklage.

Appearances

• X-Men:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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