Jason Stryker is a character appearing in

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s published by

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. He is usually depicted as the

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son of

William Stryker Reverend William Stryker is a fictional character in Marvel Comics, known for his recurring role as an adversary of the X-Men. A former sergeant and a devout Christian minister, Stryker harbors an intense hatred for mutants, often leading campai ...

and an enemy of the

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Publication history

Created by writer

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and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in ''

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'' #5 (1983). His character was later re-introduced in ''All-New X-Men'' #19 (2013) and was officially given his name "Jason Stryker" in that version.''All-New X-Men'' #21

Fictional character biography

At the time Jason's mother, Marcy Stryker, got pregnant, his father

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was still a

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and stationed on a nuclear testing facility. After the couple crashed their car in the

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desert, Marcy went into labor, forcing Stryker to deliver their baby. Marcy fell unconscious in the process and, upon waking up, she asked if the baby was fine, only for William to snap her neck. William saw his son's birth as a sign from

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, causing him to turn into a

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that ensures the

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of all mutants. However, Jason was kept alive and Stryker resorted to A.I.M. to treat his son's mutant condition. As an adult, Jason joined the Purifiers to continue his father's work and faced the original

's time-displaced version. Jason was defeated and arrested by

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Powers and abilities

Jason Stryker 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

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Other versions

Ultimate Marvel

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iteration of the character is Reverend

William Stryker, Jr. Reverend William Stryker is a fictional character in Marvel Comics, known for his recurring role as an adversary of the X-Men. A former sergeant and a devout Christian minister, Stryker harbors an intense hatred for mutants, often leading campaign ...

, the son of William Stryker, Sr. and the leader of an anti-mutant coalition armed with

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technology that is possibly stolen from

He has a Sentinel tech body armor that resembles Ahab from the mainstream Marvel universe and various alternate realities. His wife Kate Stryker and son John Stryker are killed during the "

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" wave through New York, leading to his hatred against mutants. His

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(that wears

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-esque outfits) later attack

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and

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. He is later seen with the advanced Nimrod Sentinels. When he attacks

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, executing mutants in public, the

appear and the Shroud kills him via a phasing arm through his abdomen; it's revealed that he's a mutant with the power of technopathy. His father used medication in order to suppress his abilities but his powers manifest with his last breath and manipulate a wave of Nimrod Sentinels to kill every mutant on the planet. It is revealed that his last act left his brain-patterns imprinted on the Nimrod Sentinels as

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, and continues to be a threat to the X-Men. Stryker led an assault against

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's team of mutants before Pryde managed to damage Stryker's machine body enough to destroy him permanently.

In other media

Film

* Jason Stryker appears in '' X2'' (2003), portrayed by Michael Reid McKay (normal form) and by Keely Purvis (illusionary form). This version, a mutant with heterochromic eyes and the ability to project

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s into people's minds, is William Stryker's son who was

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to make him into Mutant 143, a docile wheelchair user that cannot speak who is used by his own father to make a secretion from his brain to administer to other mutants to control and leaves a telltale scar. * Jason Stryker makes a

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in '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009).

Video games

* Jason Stryker appears in '' X-Men: The Official Game'', voiced by

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(as an adult) and by

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(as a child).

References

External links

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