Who Is Bolivar Trask? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Bolivar Trask is a Marvel comic book character, with over 384 comic issue appearances. Creator of the machines that hunt mutants known as the Sentinels.

Who is Bolivar Trask?

Origin Bolivar Trask was an anthropologist, who saw the rise of mutants as a threat to Humanity. Bolivar was a father, his son Lawrence 'Larry' Trask, who ironically was revealed to be a mutant precognitive, Bolivar on realising this took steps to hide his genetic quirk by creating a device that 'cloaked' his genetic signature, hidden inside an Amulet that he placed around his son's neck, pledging him Never to remove it. Bolivar Also had a 'gifted' daughter, Tanya, whose ability was to travel through time, unfortunately, her control was sporadically erratic,and was lost on the temporal tides of the timestream. Tanya would be rescued by Rachel Summers in the distant future, and she became a part of the Askani under the alias Madame Sanctity. Tanya's travels through time would result in damage to Trask's property. This mysterious situation would only further cement his fearful attitude. Bolivar decided that Humanity must take a stand against the mutants and developed a robotic solution, guardians for Humanity, that He named the Sentinels . His son Larry was 'invisible', undetected by the Sentinels' scanning devices, due to the medallion Bolivar had given him.

Key facts

Bolivar Trask is of human origin and first appeared in "Among Us Stalk... the Sentinels!". The character is published by Marvel. With 384 recorded issue appearances, Bolivar Trask ranks among the most featured characters in comics.