Stryfe Marvel Fictional Character

Stryfe is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics Universe.

Stryfe Fictional Character Biography

A woman introducing herself as Askani appears to Cyclops and Jean Grey from the distant future after their infant son, Nathan Summers (Cable), is infected with a techno-organic virus by the immortal mutant Apocalypse and tells them that she can save the child. Nathan then arrives in the future and Mother Askani (Rachel Summers) clones the baby, hoping to salvage something if he dies. The clone's growth is greatly accelerated until he is the same age as Nathan himself. The Askani succeed in halting the spread of the techno-organic virus in Nathan's body, thereby saving his life. However, Apocalypse and his forces attack the Askani's hiding place and steal the cloned infant. Apocalypse takes the child as his own, raising him himself and naming him "Stryfe", intending to use him as his next host body. As Apocalypse is about to transfer his essence into Stryfe, he discovers that Stryfe is in fact a clone, thus unfit to house his essence. A teenage Nathan and the time-traveling Cyclops and Jean confront Apocalypse, leaving him unable to transfer into any host body, thus causing his essence to discorporate. Ch'vayre (Apocalypse's second in command) raises Stryfe afterwards.


Stryfe grows up to be an insane madman, wanting vengeance on both what he thought were his real parents (Cyclops and Jean) and his spiritual parent Apocalypse. He becomes an anarchist and terrorist rebel in the Nor-Am Pact region c. 3783-3806. in his alternate future. He raises an army and became a fierce opponent of both Cable (Nathan Summers) and his Clan Chosen, and the New Canaanites, a despotic regime that replaced Apocalypse's. During these wars he kills Jenskot (Cable's wife) as well as kidnapping and brainwashing their son Tyler Dayspring (Genesis).

In 3806, the New Canaanites take full control of the planet, but Stryfe manages to travel back in time two-thousand years. He forms a mutant terrorist group, the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF), alongside many powerful mutants including Tamara Kurtz (Dragoness). Stryfe orders his Mutant Liberation Front to capture Rusty Collins (Firefist) and Skids. In Japan, he fought Cable and first clashed with the New Mutants, who thwarted his attempt to poison the water supplies of major cities. Before long, his face was revealed to his minions; he looked identical to Cable. Stryfe abandoned his Antarctic Mutant Liberation Front base during an invasion by the new X-Force team (a reorganized New Mutants lineup). Stryfe then had the Mutant Liberation Front free the captive mutants Hairbag (Michael Suggs) and Slab, and turned them over to Mister Sinister before ordering an MLF attack on a clinic. He also confronted and defeated Kane (Weapon X II), and eventually declared his enmity for Apocalypse. Stryfe later battled Cable, who learned that Stryfe was actually his double. Stryfe sows chaos in the ranks of the X-Men, posing as Cable and shooting Professor X, as part of an assassination attempt. He confronts his captives, Cyclops and Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). He bested the Dark Riders, and confronted Apocalypse on the moon. Stryfe fights Apocalypse and nearly destroys him, wounding Apocalypse badly, becoming leader of the Dark Riders. As a final insurance, Stryfe gives Mister Sinister a canister that he claims holds genetic material from two-thousand years worth of Summers's descendants; in truth, it holds the deadly Legacy Virus. Stryfe battles Cable until the latter opens a temporal rift by detonating a self-destruct system, destroying his body. Stryfe's consciousness, however, enters Cable's mind, in which he stays until he voluntarily leaves.

While physically dead, Stryfe attempts to return to life through the body of Warpath (James Proudstar). However his attempt is avoided by the arrival of X-Force and Warpath was sent back to the living by Blackheart.

Somehow by unknown means Stryfe was revived and together with the Dark Riders began to subjugate Latveria. Stryfe was opposed by Cable and Nate Grey, and at first beat them easily, even going as far as to siphon off all of Nate's power. Madelyne Pryor appears to join forces with Stryfe, but secretly steals the psionic energy from Stryfe and gives it back to Nate. Nate, Madelyne, and Cable join forces to defeat Stryfe.

Stryfe reappeared, controlling the activation sequence for the Prime Sentinels. He used them to hunt down Lady Deathstrike, who held the complete codes for all the Sentinels in her cybernetic systems. Deathstrike was forced to turn to the X-Men, and together they defeated Stryfe, who teleported away.

Later, Stryfe tried to hunt down Bishop who was at the time possessed by an entity known as La Bete Noir, whose power rivaled the Phoenix Force itself and threatened to consume Bishop's body and unleash its evil upon the universe. However in the end, Stryfe regrets the path and choices he has made in his life, freed Bishop from the entity and sacrifices himself to save the Earth from La Bete Noir. Bishop remembers a proverb from his time - "It doesn't matter how a man lived his life; what matters is how he ends it" - and says he thinks Stryfe ended his life well. Gambit, however, was suspicious that Cable may have telepathically forced Stryfe to sacrifice himself.

Messiah War, Stryfe however survived and was teleported into a dystopian timeline. This was confirmed by the writer Christopher Yost to be the same Stryfe that had previously plagued the X-Men, mentioning in particular his survival of his fight against Nate Grey and Cable. Meanwhile Bishop, who was travelling into the future in an attempt to kill Hope Summers, the mutant messiah child, who he blames for causing his own dystopian timeline, somehow was able to track Stryfe down and enlists his aid in hunting down Cable and Hope in exchange for helping Stryfe overthrow Apocalypse. Stryfe takes over the world and captures Hope when she and Cable emerge from the timestream. Cable, a future version of Deadpool, a time-displaced X-Force, and Apocalypse join forces to defeat Stryfe and Bishop. Cable and Hope travel further into the future, X-Force return to the present, and Apocalypse drags Stryfe away, intending to use him as a new host body for his essence.


Vendetta, Once again Stryfe escapes from Apocalypse's clutches and travels back in time to the present in the Cable & X-Force/Uncanny X-Force crossover, Vendetta. Upon discovering that Bishop has returned, Hope tries to kill him in an act of vengeance. Stryfe appears and kidnaps them both to an abandoned MLF base. There, he attempts to manipulate Hope into killing Bishop, who has come to realize the error of his ways. When both X-Force teams attack the base, Stryfe uses his telepathy to force Hope to absorb his powers, knowing that she will not be able to handle them. He teleports away, leaving Hope as a sort of "mutant bomb." With Bishop's help, Hope fires all of the telekinetic energy straight up and into the sky.

Powers and Abilities

Stryfe was a clone of the mutant Cable and, as a result, possessed Cable's natural mutant abilities of telepathy and telekinesis. However, these abilities are far more powerful than the ones Cable has generally displayed in the main continuity, sufficient to block the use of Cyclops and Jean Grey's superhuman powers. This is because Stryfe was never infected with Apocalypse's techno-organic virus like Cable was. Therefore, he does not have to constantly expend his abilities to keep the virus from consuming his body, which apparently was a huge drain on Cable's capabilities. He also possessed other abilities through genetic manipulation similar to those that Cable achieved through cybernetic augmentation, including superhuman strength and durability.

Stryfe wears battle armor of unknown composition that is highly impervious to damage. He has been known to wield a blade capable of harming Apocalypse. He has used various advanced weaponry and technology from the 39th century of his alternate future, including his time-vortex field generator.

Stryfe has received extensive training in military combat techniques and the martial arts, and is a master marksman with firearms. He is a cunning terrorist strategist.


Sources from en.wikipedia.org

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