William Stryker I'm putting together a special team, with special privileges. Tell me, gentlemen, how would you like to really serve your country?
3rd most-quoted character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009): in 9 of its 42 quotes
Most scenes with: James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine (5)
Mutants, I don't hate them. I just know what they can do. You don't realize this but we are at war. I took an oath: Protect this country. My name is William Stryker, and I am not a monster. I'm simply a patriot.
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2 quotes William Stryker William Stryker [Preparing his gun, filled with adamantium bullets, to kill Wolverine]
His brain may heal, but his memories won't grow back.
Scenes with William Stryker
6 scenes
Guard
[cell door opens. Wolverine and Sabretooth are in shackles; an officer enters the cell and approaches them]
Freaks! You're animals! Freaks!
William Stryker My name is Major William Stryker. You've been charged with killing a senior officer. Is that correct?
Apparently, we have some issues with authority...
Just keep a lid on it.
...sir.
Stryker The warden tells me that your sentence was carried out by a firing squad at 1000 hours. How'd that go?
It tickled.
Stryker [takes off his sunglasses]
You boys tired of running? Tired of denying your true nature?
What do you care?
Stryker Oh, I care. I care because I know how special you are. How valuable. Look, you can stay here locked up like freaks of nature, or you can join me. I'm putting together a special team with special privileges. Now, tell me, how would you like to really serve your country?
Great, stuck in an elevator with five guys on a high-protein diet.
William Stryker [exasperatedly]
Oh, Wade!
Dreams really do come true.
William Stryker Now just shut it! You're up next.
Thank you sir, you look really nice today. It's the green. It brings out the seriousness in your eyes.
Oh my God, do you ever shut up, pal?
No, not while I'm awake.
[holding Stryker to the wall by the neck]
For six years I've been here. No one knew me and then you show up. The next day she's dead!
William Stryker I tried to warn you.
Why didn't you tell me it was Victor?!
William Stryker I–I didn't know.
William Stryker I– I swear.... on my son's life I didn't- [Wolverine lets him go; he drops to the ground] Victor's appetites were becoming too public. I had to lock him up. He felt I betrayed him. He went AWOL, he said he was coming for all of us.
You didn't come to warn me. You came to save your own ass. [walking away]
Stryker So what's your plan, captain? You can't beat him, Logan. You know you can't.
I'll find him and kill him.
William Stryker I can give you the tools to defeat him. [Wolverine turns] We can still save the others.
You mean save yourself, right?
William Stryker I can promise you two things: You will suffer more pain than any other man can endure, but you will have your revenge.
I come with you, I'm coming for blood; no law, no code of conduct. You put me in the right direction, you get the hell out of my way.
When it starts, whatever the reason is that you're doing this, focus on that. Maybe it will help.
Trust me. I've been through worse.
No. You haven't.
William Stryker [to Wolverine]
We're gonna make you indestructible. But first, we're gonna have to destroy you. You remember what we were looking for in Africa?
I remember.
William Stryker Well, I found it, it helped us to create a metal compound so strong, that you'll be able to withstand virtually anything. It's called adamantium. I can't put Victor down myself, Logan, to kill him, you'll have to embrace the other side, become the animal.
Let's do this.
William Stryker Oh, I almost forgot. [brings out Wolverine's old dog tags.]
I want new ones.
William Stryker What do you want them to say?
Wolverine.
William Stryker [Zero's helicopter has crashed after Wolverine cut off its rotor blades.] [On the radio]
Zero.
I'm down.
William Stryker Zero, is he dead? Is Logan dead? Zero come in.
William Stryker Logan?
Where's Victor?
William Stryker Come back to base. I'll explain everything. We'll take Victor down together.
Wrong answer. After I kill Victor I'm coming for you. You wanted the animal, Colonel. You got it. [drops the headphones, addresses Zero] Those were good people back there. Innocent people.
[Zero just grins; Wolverine starts to walk away from the wrecked helicopter.] [laughs]
It's funny how good, innocent people tend to die around you!
[Wolverine stops walking and extends his claws, strikes the ground and ignites the fuel trail to the chopper, destroying it and killing Zero.]
Military Police
[The hypnotized Stryker was walking on a road and his hypnotism was gone before a military police truck arrives. The military policemen emerge out of the truck]
Colonel Stryker?
Military Police
[Stryker turns to the policemen]
Colonel William Stryker?
William Stryker Yes.
Military Police
You're wanted for questioning in connection of the death of Gen. Munson. Sir.
