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| “ | 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. | „ |
| ~ Bastion's speech to the X-Men as he turns the Prime Sentinels against humanity. |
| “ | Cyclops: Your mother lied. The Professor came to you, Bastion. Bastion: If she did, IT WAS TO PROTECT ME! Cyclops: Parents are human, too. They mess up. I know how it feels to have the things you trusted, the future you were building, crash down on you, and refuse to let go even as you're buried by what should've been. You’re not alone. Bastion: (laughs) This is what she was protecting me from? I massacre you freaks and you're recruiting me?! You're suicidal! Rogue: Fella, we could say the same about you and this dyin' duck fit of yours. Bastion: Humanity is going extinct. Jean Grey: No. They're having babies, and more and more of them like us. Bastion: There’s just one pickle, dear. Humanity would rather DIE than have kids like us! |
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| ~ The X-Men trying to reason with Bastion while understanding his tragedy, only for him to rejects their sympathies. |
Sebastion Gilberti, better known as Bastion, is the main antagonist of Season 1 of the Disney+ animated series X-Men '97, the sequel series to X-Men: The Animated Series.
He is a human-Sentinel hybrid born from Nimrod's technology who is the director of "Operation: Zero Tolerance", an initiative to turn everyday civilians into techno-organic "Prime Sentinels" so that they can enslave the mutant race in service to humanity. He also worked alongside Mister Sinister, Bolivar Trask and Henry Peter Gyrich to mastermind the Master Mold's massacre of Genosha.
He was voiced by Theo James.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close To Being Pure Evil?[]
- Wishes to annihilate all of mutantkind and advance humanity by turning them into organic robotic beings known as prime sentinels.
- Worked behind the scenes with many governmental figures around the world to gain funding for Operation Zero Tolerance.
- Kidnapped many people to turn them into prime sentinels so they can hunt down mutants without being detected. In this way, it would make the job of eliminating them easier.
- While at that, he worked with Mr. Sinister in creating the prime sentinels and views him as a personal asset to his plans.
- Orchestrated the genocide of the mutants living in Genosha, even creating the giant Master Mold to kill the mutants.
- This genocide led to many deaths, including Gambit, who sacrificed himself to destroy the Master Mold. The massacre was so horrific that it convinced Rogue to temporarily embrace Magneto's extremism and ruthlessly uncover who was behind it.
- Tried to present the mutants in a very bad light to the public in order to destroy the sympathy that humans had for them. He killed Gyrich in his hideout as to frame the mutants as assassins, while him and Sinister broadcast footage of Xavier's survival in space.
- By doing this, it will portray an image that the mutants lied about Xavier's death in order to gain sympathy.
- Kidnapped Magneto and had him watch his failures of protecting his race.
- He released his prime sentinels to attack many mutants all over the world.
- After Magneto shut earth's power down, Bastion created a new set of sentinels on an island powered by him so they can attack the X-Men group that is after him.
- Belittled the group for their failures on trying to stop him and tells them his plan on enslaving humans due to humanities sense of empathy for others and wants to get rid of it.
- He tried to kill Cable to make an example out of him to the X-Men and so he can't interfere with his plans no more.
- After his plans failed, he decides to destroy Astroid M and have the fractures of it kill everyone on earth. By doing this, a possible peace between humans and mutants is prevented.
- He ripped Cable's arm off and hit him with it. He then merged with it to advance his body.
- In his final moments, he denied any redemption for himself and ignored the X-Men's sympathy for him. Bastion even mocks them for it calling them "suicidal". Even though he acknowledges that he is not human, he chooses to die from the missiles that was heading towards Astroid M, rather than being saved.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Evil?[]
- He deeply cares for his mother and genuinely thought she was trying to protect him from the mutants even if she lied to him. When Cyclops tried to reveal the truth to him and that Xavier did want to see him, Bastion argued back that she was trying to protect him, showing that he trusted her. Despite turning her into a prime sentinel, his care for her is never subverted in the story as he was carrying her body in a very mournful manner and was crying. He places her on a bed and tell her "It's finally quite, mother".
- He was born with the Sentinel programming, which influenced his mind and his mother lied to him about his nature and kept Xavier from being able to teach the boy at his school. This led to him giving into the temptations in his mind and eventually becoming the monster he is in the present. This is played for sympathy, with the characters emphasizing that had he been allowed to go to the school, he would have gotten proper guidance and become one of the X-Men.
External Links[]
- Bastion (X-Men '97) on the Villains Wiki
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