Who Is Master Mold? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Master Mold is a Marvel comic book character, with over 243 comic issue appearances. Master Mold was created by Bolivar Trask, with the Primary Directive of controlling the mutant "menace." Its AI grew exponentially, and it realized it needed to create more Sentinels to achieve this goal.

Who is Master Mold?

Origin Bolivar Trask created a servitor/controller called Master Mold, to control the perceived threat of the mutant race, who then went on to create the Mark I Sentinels (drones for the Master Mold). However, the Sentinels' logic dictated that the most efficient way to deal with the "Mutant Menace" was to control their creators. Master Mold gave orders to its 'soldiers' to rebel against their 'creator' and capture him to put phase I of its plan into effect: the creation of a vast army of Sentinels. Trask soon realised that it was he who had created the "threat". Concluding it was up to him to solve this problem, he sacrificed his own life to destroy the Master Mold. Creation Master Mold was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby . Master Mold made its first comic book appearance in X-Men #15 . Major Story Arcs Return A new Master Mold was designed and created by Stephen Lang , a anti mutant bigot that had access to Trask's old Sentinel engineering notes and remains of Mark I Sentinels to design new Mark II Sentinels for the purpose of killing all mutants.

Key facts

Master Mold is of robot origin and first appeared in "Prisoners of the Mysterious Master Mold!". The character is published by Marvel. With 243 recorded issue appearances, Master Mold ranks among the most featured characters in comics.