When Xavier asks him how he could think of lobotomizing his son, he replies "my son is dead", but before he orders him to launch his attack against all mutants, he says "Make me proud, son." Even decades later, he still calls Jason's powers a "condition." When William realised this he pulled Jason out and took him back home. Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: As Professor X put it, he saw Jason's mutant nature as a disease, and sent him to the Xavier Institute to be "cured", something Charles obviously wouldn't do.In the X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he is a Major, with anti-mutant sentiment still in formation.
Stryker: I was pilotin' Black Ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam while you were suckin' on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly. In X2: X-Men United, he is technically a Colonel, but demonstrating pretty much the same spirit in being hellbent on killing all mutants.Four-Star Badass: First a Colonel in X2: X-Men United, then a Major in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past.Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses in his older age.Faux Affably Evil: In X-Men Origins: Wolverine where he is ruthlessly manipulative in-order to create the events that would lead to Logan becoming Weapon X and also "Deadpool" aka Weapon XI.Fat Bastard: He is significantly stocky in his later life, in contrast with his fit and lean younger self.His son coming out as a mutant is what started it, an officer wanting to decommission him after suggesting his weaponization of mutants was because of it got killed for it and when his son came back from Xavier's school and used his projection to torture his parents for the abuse things went downhill. He even says he doesn't hate them, just that he knows what they can do and that they should be prepared for it, and he expresses surprised amusement at Trask's apparent Fantastic Racism. Played with, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past, where he doesn't seem to hate mutants as much, or at all for that matter.He takes it further than any other character in the films, trying to actively enact genocide (and getting pretty damn close). Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His hatred against mutants started when his wife killed herself just so their son Jason would stop torturing her with Mind Rape, and since then he's been a full-on Knight Templar due to it.The Dragon: Is this to Bolivar Trask in X-Men: Days of Future Past.So in-universe it's a case of Dragon Ascendant. This is a meta case however, as in-universe he was Trask's Dragon when he was younger before going onto becoming the Big Bad of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and then in X2: X-Men United. Bolivar Trask's second-in-command in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Demoted to Dragon: After serving as the Big Bad in two movies, he is Dr.Stryker: One day! Someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine! ONE DAY! ONE DAY!!! Big Bad Ensemble: With Magneto in X2: X-Men United, Stryker intended to use a machine called Dark Cerebro to kill all mutants, while Magneto wants to use it to kill all humans.Big Bad: In X2: X-Men United and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.When someone brings up that his treatment of mutants might be influenced by his son in X-Men Origins: Wolverine he shoves a blade through him. Berserk Button: Don't bring up his son in a conversation.In X-Men Origins: Wolverine he was the one responsible for shooting Logan in the head with an adamantium bullet, giving him amnesia.As intimidating as Magneto, without any powers!.Badass Longcoat: Wears a stylish, almost Gestapo-esque one in X2: X-Men United.Ascended Extra: Much less of an important character in the comics.Asshole Victim: It's hard not to cheer when Magneto finally rids the world of him.Affably Evil: In X2: X-Men United where he more or less mellowed out over the years, behaving in a much more personable way even while remaining just as abhorrent.But this version at least never murdered his own wife, newborn child, or right-hand woman like he did in the comics.