Reverend William Stryker
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Colonel Stryker
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (1982) |
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| Full name | Colonel William "Bill" Stryker, M.D. |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Stryker's Crusade and the Purifiers |
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Colonel William "Bill" Stryker, M.D. is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is usually depicted as an enemy of the X-Men. In the X-Men film series, the character has been portrayed by Brian Cox, Danny Huston and Josh Helman. In 2009, William Stryker was named IGN's 70th Greatest Villain of All Time.
Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in the 1982 graphic novel X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills. His character was modeled after Jerry Falwell.
William Stryker is a religious fanatic, with a military history which may have involved the Weapon X project (the same project that results in Wolverine being given the adamantium skeleton). Stryker is characterized by his unequivocal hatred of mutants. So strong is this hatred that Stryker goes so far as to kill his own wife and mutant son Jason Stryker immediately after his son's birth in Nevada. Crazed and outraged, Stryker then makes a failed suicide attempt. As time passes, he is convinced that Satan has a plot to destroy humankind by corrupting prenatal souls, the result of this corruption being mutants. Additionally, Stryker eventually comes to see the birth of his mutant son as a sign from God, directing him to his true calling: ensuring the eradication of all mutants.
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