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Mason Eckhart

Mason Eckhart (played by Tom McCamus) is the main antagonist on the television show Mutant X. He is the head of the GSA, the agency responsible for capturing and experimenting on New Mutants.

Biography[]

Mason was once the head of security wing at Genomex. He and the young geneticist Adam Kane began as friends; they were also rivals for the affections of Invisible New Mutant Danielle Hartman before Mason convinced her to leave Genomex for good. As a result of a horrific accident, Incident X, for which he blamed Adam, Mason's immune system was destroyed. In order to stave off infection, Mason was forced to wear a white wig, synthetic protective skin and gloves. When Genomex's creator, Dr. Paul Breedlove, threatened to go public with information about Genomex's New Mutant research, Mason had him murdered in order to protect the organization's security. He then officially began expanding The Genetic Security Agency (GSA) to protect the Non-New Mutant world from "genetic terrorism".

With the aid of Tricorp Botanical's biogeneticist Dr. Kenneth Harrison, Mason explored several (unsuccessful) avenues for creating New Mutants that could be controlled, even as his GS Agents sought to contain the existing Children of Genomex. Dr. Harrison, along with GS Agent Morgan Fortier, would later betray him by allowing the first New Mutant, Gabriel Ashlocke, to place Mason in a stasis pod and take over Genomex. Six months afterwards, Mason's stasis pod automatically reopened, and he returned to his work.

Mason convinced Shalimar's father, Naxcon CEO Nicholas Fox, to provide him with the resources he required to create a New Mutant army. After the explosion at Naxcon Corporation Industries damaged his protective skin, he obtained Adam's research on his condition to construct a device to cure himself. However, before he was able to locate Sanctuary, he was electrocuted by Brennan and he fell to his death.

Personality[]

Mason is a scheming person. He plans a lot of schemes which are successes and failures. He also has accomplices with him to help him carry out his schemes.

Powers and abilites[]

While Mason does not have any actual New Mutant powers, he is a Machiavellian schemer. Most of his schemes are unsuccessful and only one of his schemes was successful. His only successful scheme was when GSA Nick Renfield froze Barry and he had Barry podded. Most of his schemes are unsuccessful because his agents, informant, accountant and trainees failed to carry out his schemes and they end up in a stasis pod.

Trivia[]

  • Early casting breakdowns show that the character of Mason Eckhart was originally to be named Albion Magnus. However, once Magnus was considered too similar to the name of X-Men's villain, Magneto, the name was changed, first to Marcus Eckhart (briefly), then again to Mason Eckhart before the show was aired. Hints of that original name "Marcus" tend to pop up from time to time in old articles and websites, and even once in the series itself. If you listen carefully to the episode "Russian Roulette," you'll notice that Sonya mistakenly calls herself "an associate of Marcus Eckhart." And in Mason's biography on the faux website Genomex.net, it is stated that Mason once had a twin brother, Marcus, who drowned in an accident when the two were boys. There are certain fans who subscribe to the theory that the crazy-haired stammering man Brennan killed in the season three episode "Into the Moonless Night" was not really Mason, but in fact his twin Marcus Eckhart.
  • Mason speaks french. His favorite composer is Henry Purcell. He strongly discourages smoking in his office at Genomex. He has a fear of infection.
  • He resembles American artist Andy Warhol. During his period in cryo-stasis, he lost his Andy Warhol-hairstyle. He had a new look in Season 2 of the show. What happened to his new look after the explosion is uncertain. How he got his Andy Warhol hairstyle in Season 3 of the show is uncertain.
  • Mason's eerie resemblance to the American artist Andy Warhol is probably unintentional. According to one interview with Tom McCamus, Mason's white wig was chosen for its creepy appearance:

"The wig is a collaboration idea – FX artists, directors, actor and producers. When we were in the special effects studio experimenting with plastic skin and silicon, we tried on a number of wigs. The white one had the right, creepy feel to it. The one I wear now was made later on, when it was decided that the wig shouldn’t be so wild.”

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