He raises an army and for years became a fierce opponent of both Cable and the Clan Chosen, as well as the New Canaanites, a despotic regime that replaced Apocalypse's.

[9] In 3806, the New Canaanites take full control of the planet, but Stryfe manages to travel back in time two-thousand years.

[10] In Japan, he fights Cable and clashes with the New Mutants who thwart his attempt to poison the water supplies of major cities.

[16] Stryfe sows chaos in the ranks of the X-Men, posing as Cable and shooting Professor X with an infected bullet, and taking Cyclops and Jean captive.

[citation needed] Stryfe battles Cable until the latter opens a temporal rift by detonating a self-destruct system, destroying his body.

[28] However, Stryfe ultimately regrets the path he took and the choices he has made in his life (stemming from his perpetual identity crisis as a clone), frees Bishop from the entity and sacrifices himself to save the Earth by absorbing Le Bete Noir into himself, shattering his body from the power overload.

[29] It's revealed during Messiah War that Stryfe was able to transport himself into the future instead of dying where he is discovered by Bishop, who has been traveling through time in an attempt to kill Hope Summers.

[30] This was confirmed by the writer Christopher Yost to be the same character that had previously plagued the X-Men, mentioning in particular his survival of his fight against Nate and Cable.

After Bishop initiated a global catastrophe that wiped out most of the people on Earth, Stryfe was able to step in and fill the leadership void.

Stryfe stole the Celestial Ship and technology and used it to raise an army that gave him total control over the people, save for a small rebellion.

Shortly after building his empire, Stryfe employed Deadpool as security and imprisoned Kiden Nixon who was used to create a chronal net, preventing anyone from jumping out of the timeline.

Cable and Hope travel further into the future, the X-Force return to the present, and Apocalypse drags Stryfe away, intending to use him as a new host body.

Stryfe explains to Bishop how he wants him to suffer after he betrayed him during Messiah War and claims that he was imprisoned and tortured by Apocalypse for years until he planned a successful escape and killed him.

Stryfe also has far more control over his massive psionic abilities than Cable or Nate Grey, apparently from having a whole lifetime of experience of learning how to use his powers which his alternate counterparts never had.

Stryfe also possessed other abilities through genetic manipulation similar to those that Cable achieved through cybernetic augmentation, including superhuman strength and durability.

It is revealed that Stryfe is actually a con man, working with Fenris to promote mutant unrest so they can sell Sentinels to the government.

Stryfe is a younger, corrupt General who, alongside Cable and J. Edgar Hoover, hires Wade Wilson (who in this timeline is a former CIA man turned mercenary) to get back a stolen nuclear briefcase.