Calling it right now, The Eye from Legion? Is Jason Stryker, best known from X-Men 2.
Creepy guy with one miscolored eye who is able to create vivid illusions and works for the bad guys trying to round up rogue mutants? Just saying, that’s where my money is at.
oh jesus fuck
I just realized, Jason Stryker in Charles’s mind represents himself as a little girl
For the longest time I just interpreted that as him making himself especially harmless so Charles would trust him
But if you put that together with Jason’s pierced ears, and the fact that Charles says that Stryker wanted him to find out that Jason’s mutation was a “disease that could be cured”… the fact that Jason has short hair and no ability to take care of himself anymore after what his father did to him… and that the X-Men themselves are a strong metaphor for homosexuality in the films… especially in X-2 where Bobby’s family gives him an obvious “gay talk” about being a mutant, this is the least subtle movie of all of them when it comes to the parallels… it’s very possible that Jason Stryker’s metaphor is less about being gay, and more about being trans with parents who tried to “cure” him…
In one of the zoom-ins you can see that Stryker’s son, Jason Stryker, the illusionist in the wheel chair, had a pierced ear.
Now I know this is probably just the actor having one, but I personally find it such a tragic character note. With a military father like Stryker, a pierced ear would represent a period of rebellion and freedom.
Eventually, Jason was dragged home from Charles’s care. Stryker doesn’t tell us what he and his wife did to their son, but something drove him to torture his mother with illusions until she killed herself. Stryker eventually broke his son’s body and mind and turned him into a weapon, disassociating him as little more than a weapon, not his child at all. Stryker declares that his son “is dead.”
We only get little glimpses of the horror that was Jason’s life, but that piercing to me gives one of the most subtle and heartbreaking glimpses of who he was before his father destroyed him.
Avelera 