been hooked up to a machine that will use his telepathic power to kill all of the world's mutants via cerebral hemorrhage. At a revival meeting, where a popular US Senator (who is a closeted mutant) is in attendance, Magneto and the X-Men confront Stryker and rescue Xavier. In the end, after Shadowcat and Nightcrawler successfully bait Stryker into admitting kidnapping Xavier and his plans for mutant genocide, Stryker is shot in the chest by a security guard when he tries to murder Shadowcat in public. Magneto and the X-Men part ways, with Magneto politely turning down an offer by Xavier to join the X-Men. However, before he leaves, he reminds the X-Men that Stryker may have the final victory, as already his defenders rally to him as he awaits trial for his crimes. In other media In film The plot of the 2003 film X2 took inspiration from God Loves, Man Kills. Some of the similarities include: William Stryker is the main villain. The collaboration of the X-Men with Magneto, their arch-rival The kidnapping of Professor Charles Xavier and some of his X-Men The use of Professor X and a duplicate Cerebro to mentally kill all the mutants on Earth There are also differences in the storyline, however. Some of the main differences are: William Stryker in the movie is a military scientist rather than a minister. The comic's Stryker was involved in the military at one point in his life, but left that to become a preacher long before the events of the novel. Both versions of Stryker have a mutant child, though in the novel, the child had already died prior to the events of the novel. In fact, Stryker himself killed his just-born son who happened to be a mutant (Though this was later retconned in 2013 in the All-New X-Men series). In the movie, his child is still alive. In the film, Stryker is responsible for Wolverine receiving his adamantium bones and claws; in the comic, they had never met prior to the events of the novel. In the novel, Stryker and his men are able to kidnap Professor X, Cyclops, and Storm. In the movie, only the first two are kidnapped. In the movie, Jean Grey is not only prominent, but the film foreshadows Dark Phoenix. In the comics, The Dark Phoenix Saga has already occurred, thus, Jean Grey did not appear in this