He claims possession of Bolivar Trask's wrecked Sentinel base's resources,[1] and is backed by Ned Buckman and the "Council of the Chosen",[1] the secret group in control of the New York Branch of the Hellfire Club prior to Sebastian Shaw's takeover.

[3] Afterwards, Lang's brain is used as a template for the minds of two Sentinels, Master Mold and Conscience, both of whom are destroyed in an attempt to release a virus which would have killed all mutants and roughly 97% of normal humans on Earth.

In the 2009-2010 miniseries X-Men Noir, Lang is a fictional character and lead for Bolivar Trask's pulp sci-fi series, "The Sentinels", who seeks to protect humanity from mutants.

[9] General William Kincaid (a character similar to Steven Lang) appears in X-Men Legends, voiced by John DiMaggio.

Under his campaign "Operation Vigilance", he planned to use the Graviton metal to crash Asteroid M into New York to blame the deaths and destruction on mutants for revenge.