William Stryker

William Stryker is a prominent enemy of the X-Men originating in the "God Loves, Man Kills" storyarc - he is depicted in the comic books as an insane evangelistic who views mutants as a sin against nature and seeks to destroy them, forming a similiar minded group in the form of the Purifiers.

However Stryker's origins were changed in the movie X-Men 2, in which he was a leading member of the Weapon X programme that created Wolverine - though he retained his hatred of mutants and ruthless nature, for the sake of simplicity we shall list the two Strykers as separate entities for the remainder of this article.