William Stryker

William Stryker
William Stryker in The Totally Awesome Hulk #21 (July 2017). Art by Robert Gill.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Nov. 1982)
Created by	Chris Claremont (writer) Brent Anderson (artist)
In-story information
Species	Human
Team affiliations	Weapon X, formerly Stryker's Crusade and the Purifiers
Abilities	Genius-level intellect Sophistication and wisdom Military training Possession of the forearm (hand to elbow) of the Sentinel Nimrod Psychological warfare and manipulation

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 The 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]