William Stryker (X-Men Movies)

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Colonel William Stryker is the main antagonist in the several X-Men movies. Unlike the comic version, Stryker is not a priest with a Nimrod's arm. Instead, Stryker is a corrupted military soldier who's attempted to eradicate mutants in various ways all because his son is a mutant.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, William Stryker is a ruthless military man in charge of an illegal project to experiment on mutants to harvest power for a mutant-killing "Deadpool" - to this end he imprisoned many young mutants, including Scott Summers, and manipulated Wolverine as well as his superiors. Stryker was emotionally scarred from his past, when his son killed his wife due to mutation and grew to see that most mutants were given a curse. After Deadpool was "killed," Stryker shot down Wolverine with adamantium bullets in hopes to either kill him, or have his memory wiped out. After was sucessful, he attempted to kill Silverfox, but she used her mutant abilities to have him walk until feet bleed.

X-Men 2
Fifteen years later, Stryker had a new plan to wipe out all mutants. He started this plan by using his son's mutant ability to brainwash Deathstrike to be his bodyguard and increase her skeleton with adamantium. He then managed to convinced the President to legalize an Anti-Mutant program, by brainwashing Nightcrawler to attack the President. While he was doing all that, he also brainwashed Magneto to have him tell Stryker all about Cerebo. Stryker kidnaps many of Xavier's students and then Xavier himself in order to build a Cerebro-2, utilzing his own son and he forces Xavier into tracking down all mutants on Earth with the intent of killing them all, in retaliation Magneto tries to use the same device to kill all humans on Earth. This caused Stryker to be shocked because Magneto use the device against him. The X-Men stopped the device and destroyed it. Magneto hung Stryker to the wall to make sure he never do this again. Wolerine confronted him one last time until the dam collapsed and thus killing Stryker.