X-Men '97 Episode 9 - Tolerance is Extinction Part 2 *spoilers*

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Hank modified Cerebro to scan for cybornetic thoughtforms using Prime-Trask's template as a model. Bastion pinged on Cerebro just regularly. Obviously the nanobot-ed, techno-organic virus infected Primes are not the exact same as regular mutants, but their DNA has been mutated, and Bastion himself has the 'mutant power' of technopathy, so in this series, they are all still mutants.

Which is honestly a more interesting premise. Even back in season 1 of the OG series, Mastermold was like, mutants ARE humans, so humanity must be protected from itself, and then wanted to remove all the human world leaders brains and replace them with computers. The whole mutant vs. human scheme is a false dichotomy. Bastion is going with the idea of fighting mutants with mutants, just his own, technologically created, thus completely under control of his technopathy, mutants. Just like how all real world dramas are ultimately just one group of people dehumanizing another, just so they can have control.

we'll have to agree to disagree. To me, Bastion's father infected his wie's embryo with whatever sentinel tech that infected him, leading to the human/sentinel hybrid that was then born. In on of the episodes it was stated that the prime sentinels are essentially sentinels that can make more sentinels and to me that implied that had any of those humans had kids, they'd create more Bastions, which essentially would be a new species, not the regular X-gene mutants that the X-men are

Also, side note, if Bishop got lost in the time stream immediately, and baby Nathan was all by himself on the other side, how did he live? He was a little baby dying of the techno-organic virus infection. Without Forge's super science, and the regular care an infant needs, he would have died within a day or two.

He wasnt by himself. He obviously was picked up and raised by someone