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William Stryker, Jr. was an army colonel set on destroying mutants. He is responsible for the creation of Wolverine's adamantium skeleton and claws and was involved in the creation of Sentinels.

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Early life[]

Stryker shared the history of his counterpart, until 1973.

X-Men: Days of Future Past[]

"You must really despise these mutants."
―William Stryker to Bolivar Trask[src]

In 1973, William Stryker approached a military camp in Vietnam, ordaining for the release of four mutant soldiers into his care (Havok, Toad, Ink and the Mutant Soldier) for Bolivar Trask's research. An army colonel approached Stryker and interrupted the procedure, revealing himself to be Mystique in disguise. She quickly defeated Stryker and all of the soldiers, and allowed for the mutants to return back to America. Stryker recovered and tried to stop the plane from taking off, to no avail.

Stryker was in Paris during the Paris Peace Accord, where Trask outlined his plans for a safeguard technology against mutant incursions in the Sentinels. Trask activated his Mutant Detection Device, revealing the presence of Mystique posing as a South Vietnamese general. Mystique again defeated Stryker and the other armed guards in the room, before pulling the gun on Trask. Stryker recovered and fired a taser at Mystique, temporarily immobilizing her, whilst Magneto arrived along with Logan and Charles and used his powers to attach the taser to Stryker instead.

As Stryker laid convulsing on the floor, Wolverine stared at him and immediately underwent traumatic visions of his Weapon X days, which caused him to temporarily snap out of Kitty Pryde's time travel. Stryker then ran out of the room, glancing at Wolverine's bone claws. Back in Washington D.C., Nixon unveiled Trask's Sentinels outside the White House as the first line of defense for America's security, with Stryker in attendance. When Magneto activated the Sentinels, Trask berated Stryker for disobeying his commands.

As soon as the Sentinels began firing on the humans, Stryker shepherded Trask into the metal bunker underneath the White House along with the President and the cabinet. Unbeknownst to them, Mystique had infiltrated the bunker in another attempt to assassinate Trask. Trask identified Mystique's presence in the bunker via his mutant detection device, prompting Stryker and the others to subdue her and raise their guns against her.

Magneto used his powers to disarm the men and pull the bunker out of the White House. Stryker tried to kill Mystique in the ensuing chaos, using a specialized plastic gun. Mystique easily knocked him out and disarmed Stryker, using his handgun to deal a bullet wound to Magneto's neck, causing him to fall down.

Later, Stryker reports Trask selling weaponry and government secrets to the Vietnamese, Russians, and Chinese, leading to Trask's arrest.

Mystique later posed as William Stryker when fishing Wolverine out of Potomac River, where Magneto had sent him.

X-Men: Apocalypse[]

After Apocalypse had disarmed the worlds nuclear arms, Stryker arrived at the recently destroyed X-Mansion where he used a device to knock out everyone present. He then captured and brought Raven Darkhölme, Hank McCoy, Peter Maximoff, and Moira MacTaggert to Alkali Lake. Stryker proceeded to interrogate them on the location of Xavier. However, soon Wolverine, who Stryker had somehow managed to capture and put through the Adamantium bonding process, is freed thanks to Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Kurt Wagner. Seeing Wolverine slaughtering his men through cameras, Stryker, fearful for his life, left Alkali Lake and escaped.

Following Apocalypse's defeat and demise, Moira has Stryker arrested for his recent crimes and treachery, assaulting and kidnapping her, a federal officer and for issuing unruly punishment to minors. Stryker warns her that mutants should not be trusted, Moira watches as Stryker is taken away and nonchalantly ignores his words on how untrustworthy mutants are, knowing that his words are not true.

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Behind the scenes[]

  • Josh Helman revealed to IGN that he was originally cast as Juggernaut in Days of Future Past but was offered the role of Stryker after Juggernaut was omitted from the story.

Trivia[]

  • In the comics, Stryker is not an army officer, but he is a reverend, a Christian televangelist that is an anti-mutant activist (Because he believes all mutants are satanic) and runs his own hate group the "Purifiers".

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X-Men: Days of Future Past[]

X-Men: Apocalypse[]

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