Trask Industries was a robotics corporation responsible for creating various anti-mutant weapons, including the infamous Sentinels, during the decades following the Vietnam War.
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Foundation[]
Trask Industries was founded in 1967 by Dr. Bolivar Trask and developed DNA-generated artificial limbs that revolutionized the field of prosthetics.[1]
1973-2013[]
After Trask was assassinated by Mystique in 1973 for conducting unethical experiments on mutants, Trask Industries was finally given permission by the Nixon administration to develop the Sentinel program.[2] They partnered with athletic officials to implement a genetic testing policy that prevented mutants from participating in professional sporting events, influenced by the actions of Peter Maximoff after he used his mutant powers to break eight world records in track and field events in 1977.[3]
1989 saw the FBI partner with Trask Industries to unveil a method of using DNA evidence at crime scenes to identify criminals. Around the same time, Trask Industries used this DNA database to build a private mutant registry off the record, with plans of selling it to governments around the world.[4]
In 1996, Trask Industries inadvertently caused an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease in their attempts at creating a cure for the X-Gene. [5] They were also responsible for the construction of Camp X-Ray in 2001, a mutant internment zone located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.[6] Following a string of breakouts from Camp X-Ray, Trask Industries developed the Mutant Inhibitor Collar in 2009 to suppress mutant powers and prevent any other prisoners from escaping from the camp in the future.[7]
In 2010, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was acquired by Trask Industries to use as a mutant research facility.[8] Nearly forty-five years after capturing Mystique, Trask Industries was able to use her DNA to develop the Sentinel Mk X, which had the ability to adapt to any mutant power. These evolved Sentinels were then unveiled to the world in 2013 in response to the ongoing mutant uprisings.[9]
X-Men: Days of Future Past - The Rogue Cut[]
In 2023, Magneto and Iceman broke into the Trask Industries Research Facility at the X-Mansion to rescue Rogue, who had been stored within the Cerebro Chamber to prevent her from being located by Professor X.
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
After Wolverine was sent back in time by Shadowcat to 1973, his actions in the past prevented the Sentinel program from ever being developed by Trask Industries and the Sentinel Mk X from ever being created. In this new timeline, Trask was also arrested for selling military secrets to foreign governments, leaving the fate of his company ultimately unknown.Trivia[]
- An advertisement for Trask Industries can be seen at the airport in the post-credits scene for The Wolverine.
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