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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 ...
X2 (also marketed as X2: X-Men United, [2] [5] and internationally as X-Men 2) [6] [7] is a 2003 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn. The film is based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics.
William Stryker appears in X2: X-Men United, primarily portrayed by Brian Cox and by Brad Loree in flashbacks. This version is a U.S. Army Colonel and scientist who previously lobotomized his son, Jason, to make him more docile and to extract a mind-controlling substance from his body.
Looking back on X2 now, Cox is most impressed by the allegorical themes that Singer brought out of the X-Men comics and into the movie "There's real allegory in that film, and it serves a lot of ...
X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, The New Mutants As of May 2014, the DVD and Blu-ray sales of the first six films in the United States earned more than $620 million.
The first three films in the series are X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), starring Hugh Jackman as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X, Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm, Anna Paquin as Marie D'Ancanto ...
Magneto is investigating the murder of two mutant children who were killed by henchmen of the Reverend William Stryker. Stryker, who murdered his wife and newborn son after his son (a deformed mutant child) was born, seeks the wholesale extermination of mutantkind while presenting himself to the public as a fire and brimstone preacher, spreading a message claiming that mutants are abominations ...
Logan and Storm discover that Stryker had been building giant robots called Sentinels as another plan to eradicate mutantkind. Storm is abducted by Lady Deathstrike and Logan pursues her, eventually rescuing Storm. Nightcrawler is plagued by visions of Jason Stryker, who reminds Kurt he left him to die.