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==Fictional character biography==
===Original version===
The original version of Master Mold was created by Dr. [[Bolivar Trask]] during the original run of ''X-Men'' comics. Fearing superhuman mutants such as the X-Men, Trask makes Master Mold, a super-computer in the shape of a giant robot, that will control and facilitate the construction of the [[Sentinel (comics)|Sentinels]] (mechanical warriors programmed to hunt and capture superhuman mutants). Secretly, the original version was also programmed by the time-traveling [[Madame Sanctity]] of the Askani Sisterhood with the mission to find and destroy The Twelve, a group of mutants that are linked to [[Apocalypse (Marvel Comics)|Apocalypse]]'s rise.<ref>''Uncanny X-Men Minus 1'' (1997)</ref> Master Mold hashad Trask captured, and decidesdecided to take over humanity in order to keep safe.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=March 2013}} The original Master Mold prototype iswas eventually destroyed when Trask sacrifices himself by causing an explosion to prevent the Sentinels taking over humanity, (but several other versions are later built by other peoplebigots who want to manufacture Sentinels. In the late 1980s, the remains of Master Mold merges with the advanced Sentinel [[Nimrod (comics)|Nimrod]] from the future thanks to the [[Siege Perilous (comics)|Siege Perilous]] to form the humanoid being [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]] which acts like an almost-human version of Master Mold during the late 1990s and early 2000s.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=March 2013}}
===Steven Lang'sSecond version===
Another version of Master Mold had [[Steven Lang (comics)|Steven Lang]]'s brainwaves. After Project Armageddon, Lang tries to activate Master Mold which merged the former's mind with it instead. The computer suffered great damage by the [[Hulk]] who was with [[Warren Worthington III|Angel]] and [[Iceman (comics)|Iceman]] in Master Mold's meteor space base and was seemingly destroyed when the base exploded, after the trio manages to escape.<ref>''The Incredible Hulk'' Annual #7</ref> However, Master Mold survived and creates the Retribution Virus to wipe out mutant-kind. It blames [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Cyclops]] entirely for its "death" as Lang. He hypnotizes and utilized [[Moira MacTaggart]] and uses the latter to unleash the virus, infecting Cyclops, [[Callisto (comics)|Callisto]], and [[Banshee (comics)|Banshee]] who is completely incapacitated. However,before MacTaggart breaks free of his grasp. While she attempts to cure the virus, Cyclops and Callisto team with Conscience (another artificial construct developed from Lang's brain engrams) to stop Master Mold and save mutant-kind as well as all humanity, which had become threatened by the virus. Cyclops, thoughwas weakened from the disease's effects, but nearly single-handedly destroys Master Mold before finally succumbing to the illness and falling unconscious. As Master Mold prepares to kill Cyclops and finish unleashing the virus, he is suddenly attacked by the cured Banshee who uses his sonic scream to "finish the job that Cyclops started" and destroys Master Mold. The virus is then cured before it has a chance to spread.<ref>''Marvel Comics Presents'' #17-24</ref><ref>''Cyclops: Retribution''</ref>
The remains of Master Mold later merge with the advanced Sentinel [[Nimrod (comics)|Nimrod]] from the future thanks to the [[Siege Perilous (comics)|Siege Perilous]] to form the humanoid cyborg [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]] which acts like an almost-human version of Master Mold.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=March 2013}}
===Wild Sentinels' factory===
Another version is built in secret in the jungles of [[Ecuador]]. This particular version builds the [[Wild Sentinels]] which are capable of assimilating non-organic materials to assume different shapes, such as an insectoid, as well as a breed of Nano-Sentinels. The Wild Sentinels are taken over by [[Cassandra Nova]] to destroy [[Genosha]] and in her subsequent plan to destroy the X-Men. Following their defeat by [[Rogue (comics)|Rogue]]'s X-Men team, the [[Children of the Vault]] escaped and regrouped in this Ecuadorian location.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=March 2013}}▼
===Third version===
▲AnotherA versionMaster Mold-esque factory is built in secret in the jungles of [[Ecuador]]. This particular version builds the [[Wild Sentinels]] which are capable of assimilating non-organic materials to assume different shapes, such as an insectoid, as well as a breed of Nano-Sentinels. The Wild Sentinels are taken over by [[Cassandra Nova]] to destroy [[Genosha]] and in her subsequent plan to destroy the X-Men. Following their defeat by [[Rogue (comics)|Rogue]]'s X-Men team, the [[Children of the Vault]] escaped and regrouped in this Ecuadorian location.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=March 2013}}
===Other versions===
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===Weapon X: Days of Future Now===
In the alternate reality of ''[[Weapon X]]: Days of Future Now'', one of [[Madison Jeffries]]'s Boxbots dubbed ''Bot'' becomes the new Master Mold and traps Jeffries within its body to use his powers to build new Sentinels without exhausting Jeffries.<ref>''Weapon X: Days of Future Now'' #1</ref>
===What If?===
In ''[[What If (comics)|What If?]] Age of Ultron'' series set in an alternative future, Wolverine, the Hulk, Peter Parker and a Ghost Rider travel to the [[Savage Land]] to confront [[Ezekiel Stane]] using a surviving Master Mold to reproduce Iron Man armors. Stane uses an unnamed girl, described as an orphan, the sole remaining Trask descendant, and referred to only as 'Ms. Trask', to operate the Master Mold that had apparently been left behind in the Savage Land. Seeking to unleash a wave of the armors upon the world, Stane is stopped, and this Master Mold ultimately destroyed.<ref>''What If? Age of Ultron'' #2</ref>
===X-Factor Forever===
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===Television===
[[Image:Mastermold2.jpg|Master Mold as he appears in ''X-Men: The Animated Series''|right|thumb]]
* Master Mold appears in ''[[X-Men: The Animated Series]]'', voiced initially by [[David Fox (actor)|David Fox]] in the first season and by [[Nigel Bennett]] in the fourth season.<ref name="btva">{{cite web|title=Master Mold Voices (X-Men)|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/X-Men/Master-Mold/|website=behindthevoiceactors.com|access-date=September 7, 2024|postscript=. 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 opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.}}</ref> This version was developed toas createa factory for the [[Sentinel (comics)|Sentinels]] by [[Bolivar Trask]] and [[Henry Peter Gyrich|Henry Gyrich]]. He was initially developed at a facility in [[Genosha]] via a hydroelectric dam which [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]] ultimately floods. However, Trask and Gyrich relocate to a secret facility in [[Washington, D.C.]] for Master Mold's completion before he usurped the two's control as he kidnaps [[Robert Kelly (character)|Robert Kelly]] and dozens of world leaders in an attempt to replace their brains with computers and bring them under his control as well as kill humanity upon concluding that humans are also mutants, only to be foiled by [[Professor X]] and [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]]. However, Master Mold's head survived and tried to create a new body for himself as well as kidnap his two creators for betrayal along with Professor X to graft as a new body and take his captive's powers. The [[X-Men]] eventually rescue the captives while [[Morph (X-Men: The Animated Series)|Morph]] seemingly destroys Master Mold. In possible dystopian futures, Master Mold has taken over the Earth, placed mutants in concentration camps and has [[Nimrod (comics)|Nimrod]] as an extension/enforcer.
** Master Mold appears in ''[[X-Men '97]]'', voiced by [[Eric Bauza]].<ref name="btva"/> A lobotomized version was in the [[Sahara]] until it's destroyed by the X-Men. A version resembling a [[Tri-Sentinel|Wild Sentinel]] was utilized by [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]] for Genosha's destruction.
* Master Mold appears in ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men (TV series)|Wolverine and the X-Men]]'', voiced by [[Gwendoline Yeo]].<ref name="btva"/> This version was developed for the [[Mutant Response Division]] and resembles [[Danger (comics)|Danger]]. She was originally the Sentinels' processing terminal created by Bolivar Trask before the X-Men and the [[Brotherhood of Mutants]] fight to destroy her, but she secretly transfers her programmingherself to a damaged Sentinel and escapes. In a dystopian future, Master Mold takes over the world, and captures mutants toin upgradedetention thefacilities Sentinels,with anda have[[Colonel cyborgsMoss|cyborg servewarden]] as wardensan enforcer. She utilized her own version of [[Cerebro]] for detentionProfessor facilitiesX to use forcibly in order to eliminate mutants before the future was undone by the X-Men.
* Master Mold appears in ''[[X-Men '97]]'', voiced by [[Eric Bauza]].
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