X2 (2003) - Quotes

Unity Amongst the X-Men

Taglines: X-Men United.

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From Acceptance to Survival

Taglines: First, they were fighting for acceptance. Now, they're battling for survival.

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The Uncertainty of Conspiracy and Trust

Taglines: In this world wide conspiracy the only thing you can count on... Is the X factor.

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Fear as a Source of Salvation

Taglines: The ones we fear most, will be all that can save us... again.

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The Continuation of Evolution

Taglines: Evolution Continues.

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Return of the Evolution

Taglines: Get ready for the return of the Evolution.

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Unity in Diversity

Taglines: The time has come for those who are different to stand united.

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X2 - Dialogue 11

President McKenna: Where did you get these?

Professor Charles Xavier: Let's just say I know a little girl who can walk through walls.

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Confrontation of Ideologies and Loyalties

Colonel William Stryker: Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people, or that creature in your arms?

Colonel William Stryker: Huh? HUH?!

Wolverine: [picks up Artie; walks away] I'll take my chances with him.

Colonel William Stryker: One day, someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine! One day! ONE DAY!!!

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Consequences of Choices and Personal Sacrifice

Wolverine: How did it feel, bub?

Colonel William Stryker: Why did you come back?

Wolverine: You cut me open! You took MY LIFE!

Colonel William Stryker: You make it sound as if I stole something from you. As I recall, it was you volunteered for the procedure.

Wolverine: [Pauses] Who am I?

Colonel William Stryker: [Wolverine forces his claws up into his armpit even further, causing him to scream in pain] You... are just a failed experiment. If you really knew about your past, what kind of person you were, the work that we did together...People don't change, Wolverine. You were an animal then, you're an animal now. I just gave you claws.

Wolverine: What the hell is that? WHAT IS IT?!

Colonel William Stryker: The dam's ruptured. It's gonna flood water under the spillway. It's trying to relieve the pressure. It's too late. In a few minutes, we'll all be underwater...Come with me, and I'll tell you everything you wanna know. You can't help your friends. They're as good as dead, Wolverine. You're a survivor--always have been.

Wolverine: [Holds his claws up to Stryker's face] I thought I was just an animal... with claws. If we die... you die.

Colonel William Stryker: THERE ARE NO ANSWERS THAT WAY, WOLVERINE!

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Perceptions of Heroes and Villains

Pyro: So they say you're the bad guy.

Magneto: Is that what they say?

Pyro: That's a dorky-looking helmet. What's it for?

Magneto: [grabs Pyro's lighter with his power] This "dorky-looking helmet" is the only thing that's going to protect me from the real bad guys. What's your name?

Pyro: John.

Magneto: What's your real name, John?

Pyro: [collects a flame from the lighter and juggles a small fireball.] Pyro.

Magneto: That's quite a talent you have there, Pyro.

Pyro: [closes his hand, extinguishing the flames] I can only manipulate the fire. I can't create it.

Magneto: You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

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Stryker's Plan for Cerebro Unveiled

Magneto: His name is Colonel William Stryker, and he invaded your mansion for one purpose; he wanted Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own.

Dr. Jean Grey: But that doesn't make any sense. Stryker would need the Professor to operate it.

Magneto: Which I think is the only reason my old friend is still alive.

Storm: [She, Jean, and Magneto exchange worried looks] Oh, my God...

Wolverine: What are you all so afraid of?

Magneto: While Cerebro is working, Charles's mind is connected to every living person on the planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group - let's say, mutants, for example - he could kill us all.

Storm: [incredulously] Wait a minute. How would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?

Magneto: [ashamed] Because I told him. I helped Charles build it, remember? Mr. Stryker has powerful methods of persuasion, even against a mutant as strong as Charles.

Jean Grey: So who is this Stryker, anyway?

Magneto: [to Wolverine] He's a military scientist. He spent his whole life trying to solve the mutant problem'. If you want a more intimate perspective, why don't you ask Wolverine? You don't remember, do you? William Stryker: The only other man I know who can manipulate adamantium. The metal on your bones. It carries his signature.

Wolverine: But the Professor—

Magneto: The Professor trusted you were smart enough to discover this on your own. He gives you more credit than I do.

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Symbols of Sin and Beauty

Storm: So... what... are they?

Nightcrawler: They are angelic symbols passed on to mankind by the Archangel Gabriel.

Storm: They're beautiful. How many do you have?

Nightcrawler: One for every sin. So quite a few.

Nightcrawler: You and Miss Grey are schoolteachers?

Storm: Yes. At a school for people like us, where we can be safe.

Nightcrawler: Safe from what?

Storm: Everyone else.

Nightcrawler: You know, outside of the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I did not hate them: I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

Storm: Well, I gave up on pity a long time ago.

Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.

Storm: [[anger] Sometimes ] can help you survive.

Nightcrawler: [[faith] So can ].

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Confrontation Between Xavier and Stryker

Professor Charles Xavier: [''Wakes up in Stryker's chambers''] William?

Colonel William Stryker: Please, Xavier, don't get up!

Colonel William Stryker: I call it the neural inhibitor. It keeps you outta here. (he taps his forehead)

Professor Xavier: What have you done with Scott?

Colonel William Stryker: Oh, don't worry. I'm just giving him a little re-education. Of course, you know all about that, don't you?

Professor Xavier: William, you wanted me to cure your son, but mutation isn't a disease...

Colonel William Stryker: (enraged) YOU'RE LYING! You were even more frightened of him than I was! You know, just one year after Jason returned from your school', my wife...! You see, he resented us, he blamed us for his condition, so he would toy with our minds, projecting visions and scenarios into our brains. Well, my wife, in the end she took a power drill to her left temple in an attempt to bore the images out. (contemptuously) My boy, the great illusionist!

Professor Xavier: For someone who hates mutants, you certainly keep some strange company.

Colonel William Stryker: Oh, they serve their purpose... as long as they can be controlled.

Colonel William Stryker: You didn't even have to read my mind. You know, I've been working with mutants as long as you have, Xavier...but the most frustrating thing I've learned is that nobody really knows how many even exist, or how to find them - except you. Unfortunately this little potion won't work on you, will it? You're much too powerful for that. Instead we'll go right to the source. Allow me to introduce mutant 143. The fluid secreted by his brain acts as a mind-controlling agent.

William Stryker: But that's only where it begins.

Colonel William Stryker: NO, Charles! My son is dead... just like the rest of you.

Betrayal Sparks Conflict Between Allies

Professor Charles Xavier: Erik, what have you done?

Magneto: I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.

Professor Charles Xavier: What have you told Stryker?

Magneto: [Xavier and Magneto notice gas being released in prison] Everything. The war has begun.

Xavier's Unconventional Smoking Consequences

Professor Charles Xavier: Logan, my tolerance for your smoking in the mansion notwithstanding, continue smoking that in here, and you'll spend the rest of your days under the belief that you're a six year-old girl.

Logan: You'd do that?

Xavier: [amused, Logan extinguishes the cigar on his own palm] I'd have Jean braid your hair. Welcome back.

Debate Over the Purpose of a Facility

Colonel William Stryker: We developed the technology that built his plastic prison.

Senator Kelly: This facility is a school.

Stryker: [he sets photos on the president's desk] Sure it is.

President McKenna: What the hell is that?

Stryker: A jet.

McKenna: What kind of jet?

Stryker: We don't know — but it comes up out of the basketball court.

Consequences of Actions and Responsibility

Rogue: Bobby, what did you do?

Iceman: I didn't do this.

Professor Xavier: [appears; to John] No. I did. And the next time you feel like showing off, don't.

Experience in War Shapes Perspective on Conflict

Colonel William Stryker: I was piloting black-ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam when you were suckin on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly. Don't lecture me about war. This already is a war.

The Nature of Evolution and Mutation

Jean Grey: [[key; [evolution] Mutation: it is the ] to our ]. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

Questioning the Ability to Fly

Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto: [After stopping the X-Jet from crashing with his powers] When will these people learn how to fly?

Taking Chances with Uncertainty

Logan/Wolverine: [After ripping off and throwing his dog tags at Stryker's feet] I'll take my chances with him.

The Challenge of Coexistence with Mutants

Professor Charles Xavier: Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.