History Characters / XMenTheAnimatedSeriesOtherVillains

* WeaksauceWeakness: Master Mold's attempt to save itself from an incoming flood is ruined by one little design flaw - it's plugged into the wall and can't break free. Whoops.

* OmnicidalManiac: He's happy to help Apocalypse destroy time itself if it means he can create a new race in his new world.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Bastion was presented as a considerable threat but ultimately never scored any significant victories over the X-Men or the Mutant population in general, his biggest accomplishments being the Zero Tolerance Sentinels and stripping the X-Mansion of its' Shi'Ar technology. In this series, Bastion is the one behind for the destruction of Genosha and the death of thousands of Mutants- an action Cassandra Nova was responsible for in the comics.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After getting sent back to the future, he doesn't reappear again.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Shortly after Rogue kills him in revenge for everything his creations caused in Genosha, Trask is forcibly mutated into the new breed of Sentinel created by Mr. Sinister to attack the X-Men.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Despite being firmly against mutantkind by having created the Sentinels, even he believes the attack on Genosha that was orchestrated by Mr. Sinister was beyond reason and is willing to [[DeathSeeker even accept]] ''[[DeathSeeker death]]'' than continue working for him.]]

* KillerRobot: As a Sentinel.

* AdaptationalJerkass: On the other hand, [[spoiler:''X-Men '97'' has him being far more cruel and creepy than his original depiction, gleefully destroying the lives of many of the X-Men, particularly Morph, Jean and Scott, for his own twisted ends, and allying with Bastion to carry out the Genosha massacre.]]

* BadassCape: He wears a very distinctive cape that's basically made of ribbons, rather than being a solid sheet of fabric

* SicklyGreenGlow: Instead of the red energy blasts of the smaller regular Sentinels and Master Mold, its eyes and the energy it emits glow an unpleasant green.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts really chummy around a captured Magneto.

* VilerNewVillain: By a ''substantial margin'' compared to the original run of the series. A lot of their villains, while threatening and dangerous, still had to play to censors and moral standards in the 90s--[[NobodyCanDie which meant that very rarely they could genuinely kill someone]]. Bastion, on the other hand, stacks up one ''hell'' of a body count compared to all of them that leaves quite a few characters KilledOffForReal, up to including most of Genosha and [[HeroKiller Gambit]], through his machinations or by his own direct hand.

* HeroKiller: Indirectly. [[spoiler:He is behind the Wild Sentinal that caused the massacre on Genosha, who killed Magneto, Gambit and Madelyn Pryor. He wasn't there to do it himself, but his actions directly led to their deaths and it was almost certainly his intention.]]

* HeroKiller: Fries Banshee and Marrow with a passing shot, nearly kills Nightcrawler with another, makes a serious effort to get Magneto and may well have succeeded, and definitely ''does'' kill Gambit, plus Madelyne's fate is [[UncertainDoom left uncertain]] after being caught up in its opening attack on Genosha, which all together leaves this thing with ''a massively staggering body count'' compared to any other Sentinel seen yet.

* VilerNewVillain: By a ''substantial margin'' compared to the original run of the series, where a lot of their villains, while threatening and dangerous still had to play to censors and moral standards in the 90s--[[NobodyCanDie which meant that very rarely they could genuinely kill someone]]--Bastion, on the other hand, stacks up one ''hell'' of a body count compared to all of them that leaves quite a few characters KilledOffForReal, up to including most of Genosha and [[HeroKiller Gambit]], through his machinations or by his own direct hand.

* ArcVillain: The Sentinels as a whole, led by Master Mold, serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're introduced as the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. These initial appearances frame them as tools for Gyrich and Trask, but the final three episodes of the season see them eclipse the pair's goals, with the X-Men working to prevent a BadFuture in which the Sentinels rule the world before Master Mold betrays its creators in favor of global conquest--an agenda it continues to pursue when the Sentinels briefly resurface in season 4. They return as major antagonists in season 1 of the revival, though this time they fulfill their intended role as "merely" weapons of mass destruction employed by [[spoiler:Bastion]].

* EliteMooks: In the BadFuture in "One Man's Worth", some of the heroes encounter some enforcers, which are basically super Sentinels that are [[PaletteSwap blue-green in color]]. Just two of them are so powerful that Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop fighting together can barely beat ''two'' of them. [[spoiler:Then the Wild Sentinel gets introduced in '''97'', a model so powerful it nearly wipes out the entirety of Genosha alongside killing Gambit.]]

* ArcVillain: The Sentinels as a whole, led by Master Mold, serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're introduced as the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. These initial appearances frame them as tools for Gyrich and Trask, but the final three episode of the season see them eclipse the pair's goals as the X-Men work to prevent a BadFuture in which the Sentinels rule the world, before Master Mold betrays its creators in favor of global conquest--an agenda it continues to pursue when the Sentinels briefly resurface in season 4. They return as major antagonists in season 1 of the revival, though this time they fulfill their intended role as "merely" weapons of mass destruction employed by [[spoiler:Bastion]].

* CharacterSignatureSong: Seems to Favor "The Purple People Eater." Despite being more magenta than anything else...

* ArcVillain: The Sentinels as a whole, led by Master Mold, serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. The final three episode of the season deal with preventing a BadFuture in which they rule the world, before Master Mold betrays its creators in favor of global conquest--an agenda it continues to pursue when the Sentinels briefly resurface in season 4. They return as major antagonists in season 1 of the revival, though now they're merely weapons of mass destruction employed by [[spoiler:Bastion]].

[[folder:Graydon Creed]]
!!Graydon Creed, Jr.
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnStocker
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The founder and leader of the Friends of Humanity

[[folder:Friends of Humanity]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''No more mutants!'']]
An anti-mutant hate group founded in the wake of Robert Kelly's change of heart regarding mutants.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Men from many different ethnicities are included in their ranks, as are woman by the time of ''X-Men 97.'' Seems as long as you're not a mutant, you're free to join.
* FantasticRacism: They're a hate group dedicated to the persecution of mutantkind, regardless of whether or not their mutations are potentially dangerous or if they're just benign.
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: The mere ''existence'' of mutants is offensive to them. In "Mutant Liberations Begin", one member claims that the Morlocks living in the sewers is ''oppressive'' to humans because they can picture them living there in their heads.
* {{Hypocrite}}: They claim to be fighting for humanity, but it's clear said "protection" only applies to people who agree with them. They even try to murder the court trying Magneto in "Mutant Liberation Begins" for giving him a fair trial, simply because this meant they viewed him as a fellow human being.
* MugglePower: They are an anti-mutant hate group composed of regular humans.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Though not at first, their last appearance in the original series makes it clear they are meant to be a TakeThat to the Ku Klux Klan, as the councillors that usurp Creed's leadership are shown wearing hoods.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While they do have a point about ''some'' mutants being dangerous, they happily target harmless mutants and humans who support mutants out of sheer bigotry.
* TookALevelInBadass: The sequel series shows them getting their hands on Sentinel-tech, which they have repurposed as [[HandCannon Hand Cannons]]
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* BishonenLine: The mastermind behind the Genoshan Master Mold looks like a normal human.

[[caption-width-right:350:No more mutants!]]

!!!Sentinel & Affiliates

* ArcVillain: The Sentinels led by Master Mold serve as the most common enemy and main threat in the first season. They're the antagonists of the two-part premiere, and are the muscle enforcing mutant slavery in Genosha. The final three episode of the season deal with preventing a BadFuture in which they rule the world, before Master Mold itself betrays its creators.

!!!Sentinel-related

!!!Mister Sinister & minions

* CardCarryingVillain: He calls Mister Sinister and the X-Men's other opponents as "villains" and implicitly doesn't reject the notion of being lumped in with them.

* AdaptationalJerkass: On the other hand, [[spoiler:''X-Men '97'' has him being far more cruel and creepy than his original depiction, gleefully destroying the lives of many of the X-Men, particularly Morph, Jean and Scott, for his own twisted ends, and he is revealed to be the mastermind behind the Genosha massacre.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Though a deranged MadScientist already in the original series, he's significantly more malicious in '''97''. [[spoiler:For all of the evil Sinister in the original series wrought, he never committed such acts as infecting a baby with a techno-organic virus or orchestrating a full-blown massacre of an island nation.]]

* AssholeVictim: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Most of the X-Men are horrified that Rogue decided to go through with killing him in revenge for what his creations did in Genosha, but Wolverine admits all of them were thinking of doing it.]]

* ArcVillain: Master Mold is the central villain of the first season, being the leader of the Sentinels before betraying his creators in the finale to assert his own dominance over the world. He returns as the villain for the season 4 two-parter "One Man's Worth", orchestrating the assassination of Xavier in the past so it can rule unchallenged.
* BadassBoast: Busts out of its exploding lair with a good one.
-->'''Master Mold:''' I cannot be destroyed.

* BigBadWannabe: He's the one spearheading the Mutant Registration Act and employing Trask to create Sentinels, but Master Mold ends up turning on its creators in the first season finale and pursues its own agenda for the rest of the series, forcing the pair into hiding. He manages to fatally injure Xavier in the finale of the original series, but is immediately arrested for it and ultimately only provides global support for Magneto's planned revolution. [[spoiler:He makes a pretty good Hannibal Lecter impersonation in his first episode in '''97'', but in his second one Bastion [[UndignifiedDeath smothers him with his barehands in his cell, of all things]].]]

[[folder: Bastion '''(Massive spoilers)''']]

* BigBad: The true villain of season 1 of ''X-Men '97'', being the true villain behind the Genoshan massacre and the fostering of a new war between humans and mutants.