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Sebastion Gilberti

42 appearances · Copper/Modern Age · 1996–2021
Who is Sebastion Gilberti?

A card-carrying member of the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe, Sebastion Gilberti made his entrance in The Uncanny X-Men #333 in 1996 — right in the thick of the Modern Age, when Marvel's mutant titles were among the most hotly followed books on the stands. Created by Scott Lobdell and Pascual Ferry, he's a figure who moves through some seriously charged company: Wolverine, Cyclops, and the ominous Bastion all share his pages across runs in X-Men, The Uncanny X-Men, and Cable. With 42 appearances stretching across a remarkable 25-year span into 2021, Sebastion Gilberti is one of those rewarding deep-cuts that dedicated X-fans love to track down — a persistent presence in the mythology that rewards anyone willing to dig into the era's rich, sprawling storytelling.

Teams & affiliations
X-MenX-FactorAvengersFantastic FourX-Force
★ First appearance
The Uncanny X-Men #333
Jun 1996

Trivia

  • Bastion debuted under the alias Sebastion Gilberti as a shadowy government insider, with his true nature parceled out across multiple X-Men issues rather than delivered in any single, tidy origin story.marvel.fandom.com
  • Marvel eventually established him as a hybrid of Master Mold and Nimrod, making him one of the franchise's most singular villain concepts — a human-facing synthesis of two distinct Sentinel legacies fused into one.marvel.fandom.com

Top series

Covers through the years — 1996–2017

The Uncanny X-Men #334 1996
The Uncanny X-Men #334
X-Force #82 1998
X-Force #82
Warlock #6 2000
Warlock #6
Avengers / X-Men: Utopia #1 2009
Avengers / X-Men: Utopia #1
X-Men '92 #4 2015
X-Men '92 #4
X-Men: Blue #9 2017
X-Men: Blue #9

Appearances

The Uncanny X-Men (1981)
Wolverine '96 (1996)
X-Man (1995)
#22
Cable (1993)
Venom: On Trial (1997)
#1
Generation X (1994)
Wolverine (1988)
#-1
X-Force (1991)
#82
X-Men Universe (1999)
Warlock (1999)
#6
X-51 (1999)
#12
All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2006)
#1
Avengers / X-Men: Utopia (2009)
#1
X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler (2010)
#1
X-Factor (2006)
X-Men: Legacy (2008)
X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations (2010)
X-Men '92 (2015)
#4
X-Men: Blue (2017)
#9
Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Shang-Chi (2021)