X-Men '97 Episode 7 is here with some interesting reveals, including the first ever introduction to the main villain of X-Men '97. Now I know what you must be thinking, "Mister Sinister would be the big bad" Well yes, he may be the one responsible for the execution of evil ideas, but the mastermind behind all these ideas was someone who goes by the name of Bastion. So who is this Bastion in X-Men '97? Let's find out!

Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for X-Men '97 Episode 7.

Bastion is a supervillain in the X-Men Saga who made his first cameo in X-Men #52 released in May 1996 with his entire appearance marked in the comic edition of Uncanny X-Men with The Uncanny X-Men #333 released in 1996 Bastion is a humanoid cybernetic being created when a highly advanced sentinel prototype named Nimrod merged with the Sentinel Master Mold.

Now, being a sentinel, he naturally has unfiltered hatred for mutants and came up with the idea of Operation Zero Tolerance and technology to turn humans into Prime Sentinels. As we saw in X-Men '97 episode 7, this was done with the singular goal of wiping out mutants from the face of the earth.