It has been rumored that the villain for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is Bolivar Trask, and they made a shrewd casting decision with Peter Dinklage of "Game of Thrones."

However, Dinklage refuses to think of his character as a villain. In fact, he just pursued what he believed was right for the race of homo sapiens.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dinklage  justifies his actions: "I didn't want to play the villain. He's a man of science. He's a man of invention. He actually sees what he's doing as a good thing - [his ambition is] definitely blind and he's quite arrogant. He's strove all his life for a certain respect and attention."

Despite his noble intentions, Trasj encounters some worthy, non-mutant opposition:  "He's up against Richard Nixon," Dinklage said with a wry smile. "He's got some hurdles."

The character of Bolivar Trask is a complex one. He is not just a madman or a despot out to rule the world. His hatred of mutants run deep. His life story according to Marvel Universe states:

"When his own son developed mutant powers, Dr. Bolivar Trask set out to learn everything he could about mutation. Dr. Trask also had a daughter, Tanya Trask, who possessed mutant powers. Tanya's mutant powers of time travel caused her to "disappear" one day.

Returning as a young woman, Sanctity, as Tanya called herself, tried to change the past, so that her father's creations wouldn't destroy mutantkind. Rachel Summers tried to stop her, but their battle itself prompted Dr. Trask to push his project to completion.

Dr. Trask hired a team of scientists, to develop a medallion that would block Larry's powerful visions of the future, as well as erase any memory of them, and finally came to the conclusion that mutants would inevitably use their superhuman abilities to supplant Homo sapiens. Dr. Trask began working on Master Mold, the prototype Sentinel, to build an army of Sentinels to control the mutant population in his secret lab. Another team of scientists developed and built Dr. Trask's Sentinels, to his specifications. As his son grew older, Bolivar enlisted Larry Trask's help in the creation of the first wave of Sentinels. Dr. Trask occasionally removed Larry's medallion, so that he could secretly observe and record Larry's predictions about mutants in the future, and Larry accurately predicted the assassination attempt of Senator Robert Kelly."

He has both a personal and logical motive. But does that justify killing the mutants? The X-Men certainly don't think so.