Nimrod (comics)
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Nimrod is also the name of a vampire character in the Marvel Universe.
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Nimrod is a fictional character, a robotic supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Chris Claremont and John Romita, Jr. in X-Men volume 1 #191. The name is taken from the Nimrod described in the Bible as "a mighty hunter before the Lord."
Nimrod is a mutant-hunting android Sentinel from an alternate future who was created by the Sentinels who ruled that timeline. When Rachel Summers travelled back in time to the present, he followed her. In the present, he fought and single-handedly defeated the Juggernaut. He hunted Summers and her new teammates, the X-Men, ultimately teaming up with the Master Mold to do so. Rogue pushed both robots through the Siege Perilous, a mystical gateway that caused all who passed through it to be reborn with new bodies. Nimrod and Master Mold were merged into one being, Bastion. Originally, he was supposed to integrate portions of the Captain Britain villain The Fury, a superhero-killing robot. However, legal problems with Alan Moore, the Fury's creator, interfered with Marvel's plans.
In X-Force #35, a modern-day version of Nimrod appeared. This Nimrod was created by anti-mutant survivalist groups, and was based on the technology derived from the Nimrod from the future. It deactivated itself when Cable convinced it that its existence could cause a paradox and damage the timestream.
Other Nimrods
An unrelated robot named Nimrod fought Marvel's original Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) in Captain Marvel #37. This robot was created by the Kree Lunatic Legion. It was destroyed in combat with Captain Mar-Vell.
Nimrod was also the name of a vampire in a Tomb of Dracula story that ran in the black and white Dracula Lives! series. Nimrod was the Lord of the Vampires who was defeated and slain by Dracula, making Dracula the new Lord of the Vampires. A later story in Bizarre Adventures revealed that Nimrod had not been the true Lord of the Vampires; Nimrod's master, Varnae (named for Varney the Vampire), had sent him to die in battle with Dracula as a test of Dracula's strength.