Mutant Response Division

Evil Organization

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Full Name

Mutant Response Division

Alias

MRD

The Mardies

Origin

X-Factor

Foundation

United Nations (Earth-616)

U.S. Government (Earth-8096)

Headquarters

Mobile (Earth-616)

Mutant Response Division centre in New York City (Earth-8096)

Commanders

Earth-616
- Bolivar Trask (formerly)
- Bastion
- Stephen Lang (figurehead)
Earth-8096
- Colonel Moss

Agents

Colonel Moran

Sylvius
Nash
Sybil Zane
Robert Kelly (political backer)
Warren Worthington, Jr. (financial backer)
MRD soldiers

Powers / Skills

Equipped with anti-mutant arsenals

Political backing from government
Financial backing from a billionaire
Trained soldiers
Proficient Kidnappers and blackmailers

Goals

Created to hunt down and contain mutant "threats".

Crimes

No information

Type of Villains

Xenophobic Military

The Mutant Response Division were a group of elite soldiers designed to protect the world from the perceived threat of mutants, as such, they were enemies of the X-Men and part of the much larger mutantphobia pandemic that has always plagued the Marvel Universe.

The MRD are also ultimately the unknown pawns of Bastion, who orchestrated the events necessary to prompt the creation of the team - all as part of his master plan to exterminate mutants from existence.

Television History[]

Wolverine and the X-Men[]

The Mutant Response Division or M.R.D. appear in Wolverine and the X-Men as a mutant hunting organization led by Colonel Moss with the job of finding and containing dangerous mutants. M.R.D. was sponsored by Senator Robert Kelly and Billionaire industrialist Warren Worthington II. Dr. Bolivar Trask and Dr. Sybil Zane served as the scientists for the organization when it came to developing the Sentinels. The M.R.D has as nickname "the Mardies". Moss MRD commands to find and capture mutants, humans had some hidden Logan after he had saved a child, but the MRD discovers all and they arrest the family who saved Logan and the father is tortured by Colonel Morse. But Logan comes to save them Moss warns him to leave alone that family.

However, the MRD continued to posed a threat to both the X-Men and the mutants. The X-Men battle the MRD when they were set up by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants who they believed were attacking Senator Kelly. Later, the MRD chased Magma across town and lost control of her powers until Wolverine used a collar to shut down her powers. The MRD were filming this and it turns out, the MRD chasing Magma across the city was all part of Senator Kelly's plan to show a mutant putting the public at risk and hired Gambit to steal the collar in order to used it against other mutants. The MRD attack Wolverine until SHIELD show up and needed him for a mission and cause the MRD to pulled out.

When mutant named Nitro begged them to lock him due to his powers, the Brotherhood broke him and plan to take him to Magneto. The X-Men stop them and return him to the MRD and placed Nitro in a canister. The X-Men drop Harpoon at the MRD and Shadowcat tells him not to give him to Magneto.

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes[]

The Mutant Response Division are mention when Nick Fury orders Whirlwind to be taken to the MRD after discovering he was a mutant.

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Trivia[]

The Mutant Response Division were not in the comics but were made for the cartoon but did later appear in the comics.
According to the scripts for the unproduced season 2, it's reveal that the MRD have getting their equipment and weapons from Essex Corp.

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Movies
X-Men: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad) | Pyro
X2: William Stryker Jr. | Lady Deathstrike | Jason Stryker | Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Mystique, Pyro)
X-Men: The Last Stand: Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Dark Phoenix, Pyro, Juggernaut, Multiple Man, Mystique) | Omega Gang (Callisto, Psylocke, Quill, Arclight, Avalanche, Spike, Glob Herman, Phat) | Archangel
X-Men: First Class: Hellfire Club (Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Azazel, Angel Salvadore, Riptide) | William Stryker Sr. | Magneto | Mystique
X-Men: Days of Future Past: Trask Industries (Bolivar Trask, William Stryker Jr., Sentinels) | Magneto | Mystique | Toad | Horsemen of Apocalypse (Apocalypse)
X-Men: Apocalypse: Ashir En Sabah Nur/Horsemen of Apocalypse (Apocalypse, Magneto, Psylocke, Archangel) | Dark Phoenix | Mystique | William Stryker Jr. | Blob
X-Men: Dark Phoenix: Dark Phoenix | D'Bari (Vuk, Jones) | Brotherhood of Mutants (Magneto, Selene Gallio) | Mystique
The New Mutants: Demon Bear | Essex Corp (Cecilia Reyes) | Reverend Craig | Smiley Men

Marvel Anime: X-Men
Hellfire Club (Mastermind, Emma Frost) | U-Men (Sublime)

Legion
Legion | Shadow King | Oliver Bird | Time Eaters

The Gifted
Sentinel Services (Jace Turner, Ed Weeks) | Trask Industries (Roderick Champell) | Ted Wilson | Hellfire Club (Fenris, Reeva Paype, Frost Sisters, Rebecca Hoover) | Benedict Ryan

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