Played by Michael Reid MacKay Species Mutant Movie X2 | Team affiliations Purifiers Abilities Unknown | |
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Similar William Stryker, Robert Kelly, Mastermind, Lady Deathstrike, Mitchell Laurio | ||
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.
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Publication history
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.
Fictional character biography
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.
Ultimate Marvel
The Ultimate Marvel iteration of the character is Reverend William Stryker, Jr., the son of William Stryker, Sr. and the leader of an anti-mutant coalition armed with Sentinel technology that is possibly stolen from S.H.I.E.L.D. He has a Sentinel tech body armor that resembles Ahab from the mainstream Marvel universe and various alternate realities. His wife and son, Kate Stryker and John Stryker, are killed during the "Ultimatum" events, leading to his hatred against mutants. Stryker's forces (that wears Crusader-esque outfits) later attack Juggernaut and Rogue. He is later seen with the advanced Nimrod Model Sentinels. When he attacks Times Square, executing mutants in public, the X-Men appear and the Shroud kills him by Shroud's 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 Stryker's last act left his brain-patterns imprinted on the Nimrod Sentinels as Master Mold, and continues to be a threat to the X-Men.