Jason Stryker
| Jason Stryker | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Marvel Graphic Novel #5 |
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| In-story information | |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Purifiers |
| Notable aliases | William Stryker, Jr. |
| Abilities | Light emission |
Jason Stryker is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as the son of William Stryker, and an enemy of the X-Men.
Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #5. He was later re-introduced into the All-New X-Men comics in 2013 starting with Issue 19 and was officially given his name "Jason Stryker" in that version.
Jason was born after his parents, William Stryker and Marcy Stryker, crashed their car in the Nevada desert. William was stationed on a nuclear testing facility when Marcy was pregnant. Alone in the desert, Marcy went into labor and Stryker was forced to deliver the baby Jason. Stryker stabbed the newborn Jason. When Marcy woke from unconsciousness and asked if their baby was okay, Stryker snapped the neck of Jason's mother. His father saw his birth as a sign from God, turning into a religious fanatic that ensures the genocide of all mutants. However, his father kept him and resorted to A.I.M. to treat Jason's mutant condition. An adult Jason joins the Purifiers to continue his father's work, and faced the original X-Men brought to the present from the past.
Jason possesses the ability to project a blinding white light from his body that is powerful enough to knock several people unconscious. His mutation was apparently initially unstable, as he was born horribly deformed and was also implied by his father to be deathly ill, afflictions that A.I.M. was able to somehow alleviate, though with side-effects such as chronic headaches and insomnia.
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