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Time Travel and its Consequences Explained
Kitty Pryde
Basically, your body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as you're back there, past and present will continue to coexist. But once you wake up, whatever you've done will take hold and become history. And for the rest of us it'll be the only history that we know. It'll be like the last fifty years never happened. And this world, this war...the only person who will remember it is you. Alright, Logan, I need you to clear your head and to stay as calm as possible.
Wolverine
What? What do you mean?
Kitty
If your mind gets rocky it'll be harder for me to hold you. You could start to slip between past and future.
Wolverine
What if I need to get a little rocky?
Kitty
Think peaceful thoughts.
Wolverine
Peaceful thoughts. You have any good news?
Kitty
Well, you don't really age, so you'll pretty much look the same.
Iceman
You won't have much time in the past, the Sentinels will find us. They always do.
Kitty
And this time we won't be able to run, we'll have no escape. This is our last chance.
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Guilt and Responsibility in X-Men Conversations
Peter Maximoff
It'll pass, it happens to everyone. You must've done something serious. What you do? What you do? What you do? Why did they have you in there?
Erik Lehnsherr
For ].
[[w:Assassination of John F. Kennedy|killing the President]
Peter
Oh… Shit!
[mouths quietly to the taped up guard, who undeniably understands his shock]
Erik
If there's one thing I'm guilty of, it's fighting for people like us.
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The Weight of Choices and Consequences
External Links
(official site)
[http://www.x-menmovies.com/ ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'']
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Sacrifice and the Cost of Power
Erik Lehnsherr
How did you lose them?
Charles Xavier
The treatment for my spine affects my DNA.
Erik
You sacrificed your powers so you could walk?
Charles
I sacrificed my powers so I could sleep. What do you know about it?
[angrily]
Erik
I've lost my fair share.
Charles
Dry your eyes, Erik. It doesn't justify what you've done.
[laughs coldly; angrily]
Erik
You have no idea what I've done.
Charles
I know you took the things that meant the most to me.
Erik
Well, maybe you should have fought harder for them.
Charles
If you want a fight, Erik, I will give you a fight!
[stands up in rage]
Wolverine
Sit down!
Erik
Let him come.
Charles
YOU ABANDONED ME!!!!! YOU TOOK HER AWAY AND YOU ABANDONED ME!!!!!
[seizes Erik by the front of his shirt]
Erik
Angel, Azazel, Emma, Banshee. Mutant brothers and sisters, all dead! COUNTLESS OTHERS EXPERIMENTED ON, BUTCHERED!!!!!
[growing angrier as he recites the names; Erik's rage begins to affect the plane's stability]
Hank
Erik--!
Erik
WHERE WERE YOU, CHARLES?! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM!!!!! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOUR OWN PEOPLE NEEDED YOU?! HIDING!!!!! YOU AND HANK!!!!! PRETENDING TO BE SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT!!!!!
Hank
Erik!
[trying to maintain control of the plane]
Erik
You abandoned us all.
[relinquishes his control of the plane, allowing Hank to regain control]
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Teaching History in Unlikely Conversations
Wolverine
You did it.
Professor X
Did what? Logan, don't you have a class to teach?
Wolverine
A class to teach?
Professor X
History.
Wolverine
History. Actually, I could use some help with that.
Professor X
Help with what?
Wolverine
Well, pretty much everything after 1973. I think the history I know is a little different.
[The Professor is surprised.]
Professor X
Welcome back.
[reads Wolverine's mind and understands what he went through]
Wolverine
It's good to see you, Charles. It's good to see everyone.
Professor X
Well, I had a promise to keep. You and I have a lot of catching up to do.
Wolverine
Yeah.
Professor X
What's the last thing you remember?
Wolverine
Drowning.
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Embracing Power and Identity in Unity
Erik Lehnsherr
You built these weapons to destroy us. Why? Because you are afraid of our gifts. Because we are different. Humanity has always feared that which is different, but I am here to tell you, to tell the world, you're right to fear us. We are the future. We are the ones who inherit this earth and anyone who stands in our way, will suffer the same fate as these men you see before you. Today was meant to be a display of your power. Instead I give you a glimpse of the devastation my race can unleash upon yours. Let this be a warning to the world and to my mutant brothers and sisters out there, I say this. No more hiding. No more suffering. You have lived in the shadows of shame and fear for too long. Come out. Join me. Fight together in a brotherhood of our kind, a new tomorrow that starts today.
Magneto
All those years wasted fighting each other, Charles, to have a precious few of them back.
[Charles comforts him as the Sentinels begin using their energy beam to break through. Iceman tries to hold them off using his ice powers to barricade the door.]
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Debate on Mutant Defense and National Security
Senator Brickman
We are reviewing our defense expenditures, and all the black books are being opened. We can't support a weapon that targets our own citizens. If these Mutants as you describe are already living among us, then they are living here peacefully.
Senator Parker
We haven't had an incident in over ten years.
Senator Davis
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[[w:X-Men: First Class|After what happened in Cuba!]
Parker
It was never confirmed. We have very real enemies out there. The Russians, the Chinese.
[Addressing Trask]
Brickman
We are talking about a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of our population.
Dr. Bolivar Trask
Allow me to read something to you.
Brickman
Please.
Trask
This was acquired from our friends in the CIA. It's a dissertation written by a mutant at Oxford University and I quote: "To Homo Neanderthalensis, his mutant cousin: Homo Sapiens," which is us, "was an aberration. The arrival of the mutated human species, Homo Sapiens, was followed by the immediate extinction of their less evolved kin." Well, now we are the Neanderthal.
[Opening a folder; Closes the folder]
Brickman
Speak for yourself, Dr. Trask.
[Members of Congress laugh quietly]
Trask
You know, when you sent our soldiers to Vietnam without the weapons they needed to win the war, you underestimated your enemy. You do that with this enemy and it won't be some border skirmish halfway around the world. This time, the war will be for our streets, our cities, our homes. By the time you see the need for my program, it'll be too late and you'll have lost two wars in one lifetime.
Brickman
We're sorry Dr. Trask, but your Sentinel Program... it ain't gonna fly!
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Questioning Destiny and the Possibility of Change
Charles Xavier/Professor X
The future: a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves... change our fate? Is the future truly set?
[first words by older self in original timeline]
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Choices Shape Our Future and Destiny
Charles Xavier/Professor X
The past: a new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our fate: each choice, each moment, a ripple in the river of time. Enough ripples, and you change the tide... for the future is never truly set.
[last words by younger self in revised timeline]
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Conflict Over Growth and Responsibility
Charles
How was she?
[about Mystique]
Erik
Strong. Driven. You should be proud of her. She's out there, fighting for our cause!
Charles
Your cause. The girl I raised, she wasn't capable of killing.
Erik
You didn't raise her, you grew up with her. And she couldn't stay your little girl forever, that's why she left
Charles
She left because you got inside her head!
[angrily]
Erik
That's not my power.
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Facing Doubts and Encouragement Among Friends
Hank McCoy
I'll go check the generator.
Wolverine
It's not the machinery, is it!
Charles
I can't do this!
Logan
Yes, you can!
Charles
No, I can't!
Wolverine
You're just a little rusty.
Charles
You don't understand, it's not a question of being "rusty!" I can flip the switches, I can turn the knobs, but my power doesn't come from here , it comes from...here . And it's broken. I feel like one of my students. Helpless. It was a mistake coming down here , it was a mistake freeing Eric, this whole thing has been one bloody mistake! I'm sorry, Logan, but they sent back the wrong man!
[points to his head; points to his heart; Xavier starts to leave]
Wolverine
You're right! Actually, it was supposed to be you. But I was the only one who could physically make the trip. And, uh, I don't even know how long I've got here. But I do know that a long time ago-well, actually, a long time from now-I was your most helpless student. And you unlocked my mind. You showed me what I was, you showed me what I could be. I don't know how to do that for you, you're right, I don't! But I think I know someone who might. Look...into my mind.
[Xavier stops, surprised to hear him admit this]
Charles Xavier
You saw what I just did to Cerebro! You don't want me inside your head!
Wolverine
There's no damage you can do that hasn't already been done, trust me!
[amused]
Charles
: You poor, poor man.
[reads Logan's mind and see his torture at the hands of Weapon X, his fragmented memories, the death of Jean Grey, and his hard life.]
Wolverine
Look past me.
Charles
No, I don't want your suffering, I don't want your future!
Wolverine
Look past my future! Look for your future. That's it. That's it...
Professor X
Charles.
Charles
Charles. Is this what becomes of us? Erik was right. Humanity does this to us.
[looks around to see the dire situation that both mutants and humanity face with the Sentinels in 2023.]
Professor X
Not if we show them a better path.
Charles
You still believe?
Professor X
Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, it doesn't mean they're lost forever. Sometimes, we all need a little help.
Charles
I'm not the man I was. I open my mind up, and it almost overwhelms me.
Professor X
You're afraid. And Cerebro knows it.
Charles
All those voices... So much...pain.
Professor X
It's not their pain you're afraid of. It's yours, Charles. And as frightening as it may be, that pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. It's the greatest gift we have: to bear their pain without breaking. And it's born from the most human power: hope. Please, Charles, we need you to hope again.
[shows Charles his school for Mutants, his own compassion, what he fights for which helps ease his past self's mind.; Xavier, stunned, breaks the psychic link]
Wolverine
Find what you were looking for?
Hank McCoy
The power's back on.
Charles
Yes. Yes, it is.
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Unity of Heroes and Powers
Taglines
Every hero, every power will unite.
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The Rise of a New Weapon
Dr. Bolivar Trask
Good afternoon, everyone, hello, thank you all for coming. Congratulations on winning this war. Now, I know you all have hands to shake and photos to take downstairs so I will get right to the point. There is a new enemy out there; an enemy that will render your arsenals useless, your armies powerless and your nations defenseless. You'll need a new weapon for this war. I call them Sentinels', named after the ancient guardians who stood at the gates of the citadel. They have the aeronautic capabilities of a Harrier jet, armed with guns that can fire off more than two thousand rounds of thermoceramic ammunition per minute. But size, power, speed- you could find that at Lockheed or Boeing. No, what makes the Sentinels so special is the ability to target the mutant X-gene. A genetic guidance system that can lock onto a mark half a mile away and won't trigger unless it has identified the target. With this weapon, there will be no human collateral damage. If I turn it on, the system couldn't even activate in here ...unless there's a mutant.
[begins a slideshow presenting Sentinel schematics; the detector starts beeping]
General Nhuan
There has to be some kind of mistake.
Trask
My machines don't make mistakes. What are you?
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Taking Control of the Situation
Officer
What do you want to do with him, Stryker?
Raven Darkhölme
I'll take it from here.
[Disguised as a smiling Stryker]
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Walls and Doors in X-Men Discussion
Professor X
The walls are made of reinforced steel.
Magneto
In other words, a door.
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The Future Begins Here
Taglines
The future begins.
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Confronting the Past for a Better Future
Taglines
His past. Our future.
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