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William Stryker (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Reverend William Stryker
Current Alias

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation
Stryker Crusade; Purifiers

Relatives
Marcy Stryker (wife, deceased), Jason Stryker (son, deceased)

Universe

Base Of Operations
formerly Mount Haven

Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Unusual Features
Cybernetic right forearm

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Reverend, terrorist, mass murderer, former soldier

Origin
Origin
Human

Place of Birth



Contents

History

God Loves, Man Kills

Stryker is a religious fanatic, with a military history which may have involved the Weapon X project, which resulted in Wolverine being given his adamantium skeleton. When his son was born after Stryker's car crashed in the Nevada desert, he was so physically deformed that Stryker knew he was a mutant and, in despair, killed his wife and son, and attempted to commit suicide by igniting the car. However, the car exploded, throwing him from the flames. He became convinced that Satan had a plot to corrupt humankind by taking over their souls while still in the womb, resulting in their mutations. He further concluded that the only reason God would have allowed his son to be a mutant was to direct him to his true calling: ridding the world of mutants.

Driven by this newfound conviction, Stryker then became a popular but controversial preacher and televangelist. While his followers, including a secret paramilitary group called the Purifiers, committed hate crimes against mutants, Stryker arranged to have Professor Xavier kidnapped, brainwashed, and attached to a machine that, using his brainpower, would kill all living mutants. In order to stop this scheme, the X-Men are forced to join forces with their nemesis, Magneto. When the extent of his bigotry becomes obvious (he attempts to kill Kitty Pryde in front of a television audience), one of his own security guards shoots and arrests him. He made no further appearances until "God Loves, Man Kills 2" (see below).

God Loves, Man Kills II

Stryker, who made no appearances until this storyline in X-Treme X-Men, was assumed forgotten. This time, it was revealed that Stryker had been serving a prison sentence as a result of the events of his previous actions. Lady Deathstrike, a character with ties to the X-Men's Wolverine, made her way onto the airplane where Stryker was being transferred. Once there, she killed his guards and rescued him, where it was revealed that the two are lovers, and he immediately began a crusade against the X-Men, focusing on Wolverine, Cannonball, the X-treme X-Men team, and Shadowcat, who he apparently had a grudge against.

Stryker sent a group of followers against several of the X-Men, and kidnapped Kitty Pryde. Along the way, Kitty convinced Stryker that mutants were not an abomination, and he seemed to turn over a new leaf.

Decimation

He came back as a major player right at the start of the Decimation following Marvel's House of M event, deeming the sudden massive reduction in number of the mutant population a sign of God, saying "He made the first step and now we have to take the next", basically rallying for genocide on TV. With the help of Icarus, one of the Xavier Institute's students, he caused a bus to explode, killing about 1/4th of the depowered students from the academy. Then he planned the assassination of Wallflower, ordering one of his snipers to shoot her in the head. Next he tried to kill Dust, though X-23 foiled the attempt by dressing in Sooraya's cloths and taking the bullet herself. The deaths of Wallflower and Dust were Stryker's prime objectives, as he had been informed by Nimrod that both girls would be fundamental in the destruction of his army. Finally he attacked the institute with his "purifiers," killing Quill, leaving Onyxx and Cannonball critically wounded, and hurting Bishop, Emma Frost and other students. After Stryker's Purifiers were defeated, he was killed by Elixir.

Stryker was later resurrected by the Purifiers using Technarch technology and controlled by Bastion

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

Skilled soldier and military unit leader

Strength level

Average

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Implant capable of blocking Telepathy.

Weapons

Cybernetic right forearm, taken from a Nimrod Sentinel.

Trivia

  • X2: X-Men United: Col. William Stryker, played by Brian Cox, was the head of the Government agency that coated Wolverine's skeleton in adamantium at a facility in Alkali Lake and is loosely based on William Stryker.

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