14 quotes
Embracing Change and New Identity
Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
Forget everything you think you know. Whatever lessons you learned in school... whatever your parents taught you... none of that matters. You're not kids anymore. You're not students. You're X-Men.
[to Scott, Jean, Kurt, Ororo, Peter, Beast at the Danger Room; glances to Beast to start their training session, with Sentinels appearing; Professor X watches as the Danger Room doors close.]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Clash of Eras and Ideologies
Ororo Munroe
Where are you from?
En Sabah Nur
A time before man lost his way.
Ororo Munroe
Well, welcome to the 80's.
En Sabah Nur
This world needs to be... purified.
[in Egyptian]
Ororo
What?
En Sabah Nur
Saved.
Ororo
You can't save the world... just going around, killing people. There's laws. Systems in place for that kind of thing.
En Sabah Nur
My child, why do you enslave yourself?
[approaches Ororo; touches her]
Ororo
What are you doing?
En Sabah Nur
Making you stronger, my goddess!
[imbues Ororo with power, turning her hair white.]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Destruction for a New Beginning
En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
You will reach down, my son, deep into the earth. Rip everything they've built from the ground. Wipe clean this world, and we will lead those that survive into a better one.
[to Magneto]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Communication Among Friends in Chaos
Jean Grey
Watch where you're going.
[telepathically]
Scott Summers
I can't.
[to Jean]
Alex Summers
Who are you talking to?
[to Scott]
Jean
Me.
[referring to herself]
Scott
What? I just heard you in my head.
Jean
I'm a telepath. I read minds.
Scott
Well, stay out of mine. I don't need some weird girl creeping around in there.
Jean
Don't worry, Scott. There's not much to see.
[walks away]
Scott
Hey, wait. I... I didn't tell you my name.
[stunned at she calling him by name.]
Jean
No, you didn't.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Burden of Extraordinary Abilities
Prof. Charles Xavier / Professor X
Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world.
[first lines]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Origins of Mutants and Belief Systems
Moira MacTaggert
Ever since the world found out about mutants in 73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or a sign of God. I was tracking one of them, they call themselves "Ashir En Sabah Nur". Named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first.
Alex
World's first..." what?
Moira
The world's first mutant.
Alex
I thought mutants didn't evolve till this century.
Moira
That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens-of-thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. They've been searching ancient sites all around the world for clues. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess.
[shows the evidence]
Professor Charles Xavier
Do you think he lived in all that time?
Moira
Yes and no. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. Some of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years.
Charles
An all-powerful mutant?
Moira
Exactly. And wherever this being was, he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers.
[shows the picture of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse]
Alex
Like "the four horsemen... of the Apocalypse?" He got that one from the Bible?
Moira
Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually it would end in disaster. Cataclysm, some kind of... "Apocalypse".
Charles
The end of the world.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Identity Declaration by Magneto
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
My name isn't Henryk, My name is Magneto.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Strength Determines Survival
Taglines
Only the strong will survive
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Facing the Coming Apocalypse
Taglines
Prepare for the Apocalypse.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Futility of Human Tools and Faith
En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines... You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel... BUT YOU CAN NEVER... STRIKE... GOD!!!!!
[having manipulated the launch of all nuclear weapons out into orbit]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Hope Amidst Human Nature's Flaws
Charles
The world's already begun rebuilding its arsenals.
Erik Lehnsherr
It's human nature, Charles.
Charles
I still have hope.
Erik
Oh, yes. "Hope".
[chuckles]
Charles
I was right about Raven. I was even right about you.
Erik
What about the rest of the world? Doesn't it ever wake you up in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they'll come for you and your children.
Charles
It does, indeed.
Erik
What do you do when you wake up to that?
Charles
I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble. You sure I can't convince you to stay?
[Erik nods.]
Erik
You're psychic, Charles. You can convince me to do anything.
[smiles; begins to leave]
Charles
Goodbye, old friend.
Erik
Good luck, Professor.
[leaves]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Struggling with Identity and Expectations
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME?! Is this what I am?! Is this what I am?
[screaming skywards]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
The Many Names of Destruction
En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
Elohim, Pushan, Ra – I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Hope vs. Reality in Team Dynamics
Raven Darkhölme
Hank you're building a warplane down here.
Hank McCoy
After what happened in Washington, I thought we're gonna come back to start the X-Men. I could always use to talk about but...
Raven
Charles wants students, not soldiers.
Hank
He thinks the best of people. He has hope.
Raven
And you?
Hank
Well, I think we should hope for the best. And... prepare for the worst... I think the world needs the X-Men. Maybe now you're back, you could help me convince them start a new team.
Raven
I'm here about Erik.
Hank
Right. Yeah, of course. Of course...
[smiles]
Raven
I think he might be some kind of trouble. Real trouble.
Hank
Isn't he always...?
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.