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William Stryker | |
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (November 1982) |
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Species | Human |
Team affiliations | Weapon X, formerly Stryker's Crusade and the Purifiers |
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The Reverend William Stryker is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A minister and former sergeant[1] with a strong hatred for mutants, he is usually depicted as an enemy of the X-Men. He is also the father of Jason Stryker.
The character has appeared in the X-Men film series, where he is instead depicted as Colonel William Stryker, the head of Weapon X and enemy of Wolverine, portrayed by Brian Cox in X2 (2003), Danny Huston in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and Josh Helman in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). In 2009, William Stryker was ranked by IGN’s as the 70th-greatest comic book villain of all time.[2]
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