William Stryker (Earth-10005)

Stryker sent his son Jason to Xavier's school in hopes of curing his mutation, regarding it as a disease that he believed needed be cured. Xavier had no interest or belief in 'curing' mutants, which angered Stryker. Additionally, Jason continued to grow angry, resentful, and vindictive towards his parents; he tortured them by planting illusions in their brains until his mother committed suicide by drilling into her own brain in order to "bore the images out". Stryker then gave his son a lobotomy to make him more docile.

Stryker was a Major who recruited Victor Creed and James Howlett to join Weapon X. Stryker tried to learn where a adamanium came from. Stryker ordered Creed to execute the witnesses after what James had seen he left. Through the years Stryker worked with Creed and used Wade Wilson as Weapon XI. He had Creed to kill all the other members of the team and had Logan's girlfriend Kayla Silverfox fake her death. After Logan was left for dead by Victor, Col. Stryker persuaded Logan to become Wolverine. The process was successful, and Stryker hoped to use Logan for the XI, but Logan heard this and escaped. After General Munson tried to shut Weapon X down, Stryker killed him. Stryker also kidnapped mutants in order to pass their abilities onto Weapon XI. The others escaped with Kayla and Logan while Logan and Victor battled Weapon XI. Weapon XI was defeated, but Stryker shot adamantium bullets into Logan's head, causing amnesia. He pointed the gun at Kayla but Kayla used her power of persuasion to make him walk until his feet bled and then keep walking. Stryker unwillingly did so. Later, he was detained for questioning by military police in connection with General Munson's murder.

X2: X-Men United

Years later Col. William Stryker raided the X-Mansion, kidnapped several young students and came across Wolverine once again, revealing that he once knew the him. Jason, under his father's direction, brainwashed Xavier into using Cerebro II, a reproduction of Cerebro, to kill all mutants. Xavier and Magneto learned that Stryker was the mastermind behind an assassination attempt on the president by a brainwashed Nightcrawler. Magneto, wearing a helmet designed to shield against telepathic attacks, was able to reach Xavier while the X-Men were incapacitated by the psychic assault, but then had Jason make Xavier use Cerebro II to kill ordinary humans. At his direction, Mystique impersonated Stryker and instructed Jason of a change in plans, which Jason then communicated to the brainwashed Xavier. Magneto and Mystique escaped, and soon thereafter Storm and Nightcrawler entered Cerebro II and disrupted Jason's illusion, allowing Xavier to break from his control before any humans and mutants could be killed.

Stryker himself apparently died when an explosion at his base of operations destroyed a nearby dam, flooding the base and the surrounding valley. In his last moments, he confronted Wolverine about how he apparently volunteered to have the adamantium placed in his skeleton, and asked him whether he would actually side with mutants (implying that Wolverine originally hated his mutation before his amnesia). Looking at the young mutant he was carrying to safety, a young boy with a lizard-like tongue (Artie Maddicks), Wolverine stated that he would "take his chances with him" and left him to die.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

No superhuman powers

Abilities

High-level intelligence; piloted black-ops missions in North Vietnam; other military training

Strength level

Normal human male

Weaknesses

None known

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Military Helicopter

Weapons

Arsenal of military weapons

Trivia

Stryker is one of only two people to see through Mystique's disguise, the other being Wolverine. He sees through it when Mystique is imitating Wolverine. He states that if there's one thing he knows, it's his own creation, and correctly guesses that Mystique is a shape-shifting impostor.
Stryker was played by Brian Cox and later Danny Huston.

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