Jason Stryker

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Jason Stryker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is usually depicted as the mutant son of William Stryker and an enemy of the X-Men.

Publication history

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Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson, he first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #5 (1983). His character was later re-introduced in All-New X-Men #19 (2013) and was officially given his name "Jason Stryker" in that version.^[1]

Fictional character biography

At the time Jason's mother, Marcy Stryker, got pregnant, his father William was still a colonel and stationed on a nuclear testing facility. After the couple crashed their car in the Nevada desert, Marcy went into labor, forcing Stryker to deliver their baby. Marcy fell unconscious in the process and, upon waking up, she asked if the baby was fine, only for William to snap her neck. William saw his son's birth as a sign from God, causing him to turn into a religious fanatic that ensures the genocide of all mutants.^[2] However, Jason was kept alive and Stryker resorted to A.I.M. to treat his son's mutant condition.^[1]

As an adult, Jason joined the Purifiers to continue his father's work and faced the original X-Men's time-displaced version.^[3] Jason was defeated and arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D.^[1]

Powers and abilities

Jason Stryker possesses the ability to project a blinding white light from his body that is powerful enough to knock several people unconscious. His mutation was apparently initially unstable, as he was born horribly deformed and was also implied by his father to be deathly ill, afflictions that A.I.M. was able to somehow alleviate, though with side-effects such as chronic headaches and insomnia.

Other versions

Ultimate Marvel

The

• Jason Stryker appears in
  Mystique
  , impersonating Stryker, commands Jason to change the target to all the humans. Jason was last seen inside the replica Cerebro chamber and gets left to drown when the Weapon X underground complex was flooded by Alkali Lake.
• Jason Stryker makes a cameo appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, set decades prior to the events of X2.^[8][10] He is kept in cryogenic suspension and is a driving force behind his father's inhumane mutant projects that eventually results in Weapon XI.