However, in a horrible stroke of irony his father was later killed by other surviving humans. Upon arriving at the village, Stryker and the team them interrogated nearby villagers to see if there were any other meteorites and are informed that the rock fell from the sky as a meteor. Gender His character was modeled after Jerry Falwell. Regarding mutation as a disease, William sent his son to Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters in the hope that Professor Xavier might have some way of curing Jason's "condition"; however, Xavier did not accept the elder Stryker's perspective, and encourag… Seeing Wolverine slaughter everyone's in sight, and knowing that berserker is heading his way, Stryker leaves, claiming that he'll be right back, but in truth, he makes his getaway in one of the helicopters. An officer emerges and states that Stryker is wanted for questioning about his connection with General Munson's murder, which Stryker was charged of. He says his talents were obtained by watching the slaughter of thousands and his victories honor them. Date of Death Actors/Actresses He states that "if there's one thing I know better than anyone, it's my own work". Then, military police in military vans arrived and approached the exhausted Colonel. Once lobotomized, his personality was completely erased, and he's just a puppet in William's hands. As such he had to live in hiding, learning to depend on the kindness of both humans and mutants, making this version a far more tolerant person than his 616 universe counterpart. The battle culminates when Wolverine orders Archangel to take out Stryker, shifting into the Death persona and slices Stryker in half at the waist via wings. Xavier sees Lady Deathstryke and tells Stryker that for someone who hates mutants, he hangs out with them a lot. They attack a compound there and after defeating the compound's security forces, they obtain a mysterious rock - later discovered as a meteorite fragment that fell from the sky as a meteor - from the compound's leader and discover that it originates from a remote village. As he is in mid-leap, Logan is shot in the head twice by Stryker with adamantium bullets, and falls to the ground, unconscious - damaging his brain, causing amnesia, and forcing Logan to lose much of his long-term memory. His son, Jason blamed him for his mutation, as it was usually passed along through the Y (male) chromosome. Affiliation - So who is this Stryker anyway? Once clear the city is destroyed by Weapon X. In order to stop this scheme, the X-Men are forced to join forces with Magneto. Unfortunately, he says, Xavier is too powerful to be mind controlled, so he'll go straight to the source. Mystique reveals her true form and knocks out everyone in the room except Trask, who she shoots dead. [14] After the Adamantium cyborgs apprehend Lady Deathstrike to harvest genetic material for the Weapon X Project to use for their Adamantium Cyborgs, Old Man Logan and Sabretooth evade the Adamantium cyborgs as Stryker and the Weapon X Project were able to get their tissue samples. Stryker apparently died when an explosion at his base at Alkali Lake destroyed a nearby dam, flooding the base and the surrounding valley. At Alkali Lake, X-Men member Wolverine finds nothing left of the military base Charles Xavier suggets he visit in the previous movie. He then introduces Xavier to "mutant 143" – a young sick-looking mute man on a wheelchair, with pipes connected to his brain as a mind-controlling agent. Whilst there, Trask unveils to the generals present the prototype specs for the Sentinels and the mutant detection devices to be fitted into each of them, until he detects Mystique's presence in the room. Learning of Stryker's son and believing that he was too emotionally close to the situation, Stryker kills General Munson. Lady Deathstrike makes way onto the airplane where Stryker was being transferred. [10][11], During the "Weapons of Mutant Destruction" storyline, Stryker made his presence known (after being restored to life as a cyborg) and has formed the Weapon X Project's latest incarnation with some humans' help that he swayed to his side like Dr. Aliana Alba. Stryker sees through Mystique's abilities whilst she is imitating Wolverine to enter Stryker's base at Alkali Lake. The story prior to his recent reappearing formed the loose basis for the film, X2.Stryker is the primary antagonist, and he is played by Scottish actor Brian Cox.His military background from the comics is expanded in the film, by adding elements from the character known as General Chasen in the comics, such as his involvement in the Weapon X program [15]. Wolverine avenging Stryker by letting him die. Zero humorously questions Logan's job payment as a lumberjack by asking if it pays 18 grand a year. [21], The Ultimate Marvel iteration is an Admiral named William Stryker Sr., the leader of the anti-mutant conspiracy within the U.S. Government, and also linked to the Legacy Virus's creation before presumably killing himself. [2], Reverend William Stryker is a religious fanatic with a military history. Silver Star (Ribbon) with "V" Valor Device, Meritorious Service (Ribbon) with "V" Valor Device, Vietnam Service (Ribbon) with Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, indicating won twice, His father, William Stryker Sr., has a minor role in. After freeing the imprisoned mutants, while leading them out of the facility, Logan, and the mutants are stopped and confronted by Weapon XI, Deadpool - now controlled by Stryker. A notable discrepancy exists between the two portrayals of Stryker by Josh Helman and Danny Huston respectively; although Helman's incarnation is meant to predate Huston's, Helman only wears military decorations from the Vietnam War (1955-1975), whereas Huston wears decorations from the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War. 15 years later, Stryker had a new plan to wipe out all mutants. With his new body, Stryker led an assault against Kitty Pryde's team of mutants before Pryde managed to damage Stryker's machine body enough to destroy him permanently.[26][27][28]. He attempted to lead a spiritual congregation of survivors at a special tent set up in Central Park, but was unable to successfully conduct his service. He tells the four not to get too close to the walls, for it may create some discomfort. Eventually, after everyone else left, only Agent Zero and Victor stayed faithful to Stryker. Brian Cox (actor)-Wikipedia. Jason Stryker was a mutant with the ability to create illusions in the minds of others. That's all it takes to convince the President, he tells Stryker to enter, detain and question, but the last thing they need to see is the body of a mutant kid on the six o'clock news. In 2009, William Stryker was ranked by IGN as the 70th-greatest comic book villain of all time. Stryker tells Magneto that he wants to have one final talk about the house that Xavier built, as well as the machine called Cerebro. After the reveal that mutants were the creation of human experimentation, Stryker orchestrated a massive attack in Times Square and began rounding up mutants to force them to repent under punishment of death. Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker in this sequel to the Marvel Comics-based blockbuster X-Men. William Stryker - the only other man I know who can manipulate adamantium. William "Bill" Stryker Jr. is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. The X-Men appeared but were betrayed by Rogue who had made a deal with Stryker to make her normal beforehand in exchange for her services. Driven by this conviction, Stryker then becomes a popular but controversial preacher and televangelist. Stryker escaped and began hallucinating visions of his deceased abusive father who egged on his hatred of mutants and religious fervor until he was ready to once again strike back against the mutants. Stryker (Brian Cox), a villianous former Army commander, holds the key to Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) past and the future of the X-Men. Stryker was also willing to kill his superiors if they went against his plans by murdering General Munson when he threatened to close the Weapon X Program. With his last breath, he manipulated a wave of Nimrod Sentinels to kill every mutant in the country. Yuriko leaves the room, and Stryker tells Xavier that it's frustrating that nobody really knows how many mutants exist or how to find them – except him. Status He often plays villains, such as William Stryker in X2, Agamemnon in Troy, Pariah Dark in the Danny Phantom television series episode "Reign Storm", devious CIA official Ward Abbott in the first two Bourne films, and in Chain Reaction. Stryker binds Logan's bones with adamantium, making him virtually indestructible by grafting the metal compound onto his entire skeletal structure. Brian Michael Bendis (w), Mahmud Asrar and Brandon Peterson (p), Mahmud Asrar and Brandon Peterson (i), Israel Silva and Marte Gracia (col), VC's Cory Petit (let), Nick Lowe (ed). While the numerous waves of Nimrods started hunting mutants around the whole country, others had the command to build a giant Sentinel, where Stryker's mind was transferred. Later, Stryker is present at Trask's side when he unveils the Sentinel designs to President Nixon in the Oval Office, as a response to the impending mutant threat posed by Magneto and Mystique. Stryker wants more information and has Wade Wilson interrogate in his place because he speaks the language. "Characters and Story Details Revealed for X-Men: Days of Future Past", "William Stryker Voice - X-Men franchise | Behind The Voice Actors", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Stryker&oldid=1004924449, Articles to be expanded from December 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Possession of the forearm (hand to elbow) of the Sentinel, Helman reprised his role in the 2016 film, William Stryker is referenced several times in, William Stryker appears in the video game adaptation of, This page was last edited on 5 February 2021, at 02:51. Logan asks Stryker what's happening, and Stryker tells him that the spillway is about to get flooded because he was trying to relieve the pressure. He next tried to kill Dust, though it was actually X-23. They provided him with armaments and weaponry acquired from a cache of destroyed Sentinels and Stryker became the leader of an anti-mutant militia. His bigotry's extent becomes obvious when he attempts to kill Kitty Pryde in front of a television audience resulting in a NYPD officer shooting him. Characterized by his unequivocal hatred of mutants, Stryker's hatred goes so far as to kill his own wife Marcy Stryker and their mutant son immediately after birth in Nevada. But Stryker refuses, asking Mystique if she really expects him to believe what she says. William Stryker has been arrested by Moira MacTaggert for all of his wrongdoings. That event emanated from where Stryker found the X-Men, at the home of the world's strongest psychic. Jason Stryker was born in 1963, and despite his father's sordid past, apparently enjoyed a relatively normal upbringing until his mutant powers manifested during puberty. He uses the Cerebro device, designed by Magneto and himself, to track and locate mutants across the world. Through the countless experiments that torture her, Mystique's DNA was mapped, reverse engineered, replicated, and installed into the most recent Sentinels, wherein the nature of her powers are distilled and used to enable the Sentinels' capability to imitate and adapt any mutant powers to counter their abilities. A natural genius, Xavier is regarded as an authority on genetic mutation. Although the physical injury heal, his memories seem to be permanently gone. Logan escapes the facility after overhearing Sryker's plans. His basis on this was thinking that the only effective way to kill mutants was with mutants by building the ultimate mutant killer - Weapon XI. He asks him where Scott is. Bastion revealed Stryker has the second highest number of mutant kills as the Purifiers' founder, and is surpassed only by the Sentinels' creator Bolivar Trask. Comic Stryker enters the code and steps inside, seeing his son and Xavier. Whilst there, Trask unveils to the generals present the prototype specs for the Sentinels and the mutant detection devices to be fitted into each of them, until he detects Mystique's presence in the room. William Stryker The whole village descended into chaos as Stryker's team started killing the civilians. That's Brian Cox, who played William Stryker in "X2: X-Men United," among many, many other roles. He wakes up to find William Stryker sitting in front of him and Yuriko Oyama standing by the wall. Now with a personal incentive, Stryker's hatred only expanded until he set his goals on killing every mutant on Earth. After Logan returned to save Kayla from being killed by Victor, and defeated him, Logan and Kayla prepared to free the captured mutants. His Purifiers, in conjunction with Cameron Hodge's Right footsoldiers, engage the X-Men and New Mutants. Mystique later poses as Major Stryker to fish Wolverine out from the Potomac River, where he was flung by Magneto, and states that she will take him under her care. As Victor is watching through the window from a nearby room, Wolverine was told that Victor and Stryker were subsequently working together to capture various mutants, culminating in tricking Wolverine into agreeing to have adamantium bonded to his skeleton by claiming that Victor had gone rogue and had killed the woman Wolverine loved. Just then, Senator Kelly enters (actually, Mystique in disguise, as the real senator is supposedly dead). Stryker manages to get himself out of the cables, but before he can get up, Cerebro's effect gets to him and he grabs his head in pain, Stryker is shocked that Cerebro II is turned against him as he writhes in pain, just like every other "white light" in Cerebro, including President McKenna. Mystique almost blows her cover, calling Magneto by his first name, but corrects herself and asks Stryker if he has access to Erik Lensherr. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. He promptly leaves and abandons Victor and the group before walking into the night and leaving, while ignoring Victor's calling out to him. While walking to the hallways, Stryker and Lady Deathstryke look at the water pressure meters, and the Colonel panics. Moira says that he can't keep her imprisoned, but Stryker says he can. Jean manages to keep them hidden by manipulating the mind of one of Stryker's men. An attempt to get too close to the source and the Hulk did not want Man... 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