William Stryker (X-Men Revised Timeline)

## Villain Description

### Goals

Experiment mutants at all costs, even if he has to hurt or kill them (mostly succeeded)
To discover a way to end the mutant kind (failed)

### Powers

Strength
Weapon Use
Research

### Skills

Charisma
Deception

### Type of Villain

Corrupt Militant

**Colonel William Stryker Jr.** is one of the main antagonists of the X-Men Revised Timeline. He is the tertiary antagonist of the film *X-Men: Days of The Future Past* and one of the secondary antagonists (along with Magneto) of *X-Men Apocalypse*. He is a megalomaniacal and ruthless field commander of the US military who has an obsession with the mutants as he intends to hunt them down, even if he breaks the law.

He is portrayed by Josh Helman.

## History

### *Days of The Future Past*

He is a sadistic, ruthless and xenophobic commander working for the US military. He made an alliance with Bolivar Trask in order to wipe out the mutant populace of the United States. He started experimenting the mutants, and thereafter lots of mutants were killed by him and Bolivar Trask during the experiments. However, unknowingly to Stryker, Mystique posed as one of the operating military commanders, and she helped the mutants escape from his deadly experimenting. He and Trask then present the idea of Sentinels to Kennedy so he could destroy all the mutants of the US and make a profit off of it. He then manages to capture Mystique (after she killed most of his guards) and he begins to experiment her in his lab. Through this, he takes samples of her power and this gives The Sentinels a chance to unleash each and every mutant ability. He and Trask form an anti-mutant movement.

However, after the days of the future past have changed, Stryker fails to capture Mystique since Magneto, Wolverine and Charles Xavier intervene. Logan recognizes Stryker from the Weapon X program which was responsible for killing his own father. Stryker tries to kill The Wolverine, but fails due to Logan's superhuman body abilities, and he runs to a safe place. He and Trask later introduce The Sentinels to the president and his officials outside the Whitehouse, as they are all surprised to see The Sentinels obeying Magneto's commands. Magneto speaks and as Stryker attempts to shoot the mutants down, Mystique stops him from doing this, and she almost gets to kill him and the other government officials out of rage on the humans. However, Charles stops her from killing Stryker and the latter. Afterwards, Stryker is presumably charged for illegal military operations, however, he continues operating as a field commander without Trask.

### *Apocalypse*

He later becomes obsessed with hunting and experimenting the mutants as he had unfinished business to attend to. He became the lead operative of the Weapon X program and he afterwards confronted the mutants with his soldiers and used a special shockwave device to cause all the mutants nearby to fall on the ground. He took the unconscious mutants to be experimented illegally his facility and he put them into a large cell which he used for his own agenda. However, Wolverine invaded the facility, thus allowing the mutants to escape. After realizing that the mutants have escaped the facility and learning how powerful the mutants really are, he ran out of the facility and fled in a helicopter.