Name: X2
Genre: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Released: 2003-05-02
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Brian Cox

X2

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 Who am I?

[Pauses]

Colonel William Stryker 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 forces his claws up into his armpit even further, causing him to scream in pain]

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 I thought I was just an animal... with claws. If we die... you die.

[Holds his claws up to Stryker's face]

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

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X2

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.

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X2

Unity Amongst the X-Men

Taglines X-Men United.

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X2

Taking Chances with Uncertainty

Logan/Wolverine I'll take my chances with him.

[After ripping off and throwing his dog tags at Stryker's feet]

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X2

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 Oh, my God...

[She, Jean, and Magneto exchange worried looks]

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 Wait a minute. How would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?

[incredulously]

Magneto 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.

[ashamed]

Jean Grey So who is this Stryker, anyway?

Magneto 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.

[to Wolverine]

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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X2

Questioning the Ability to Fly

Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto When will these people learn how to fly?

[After stopping the X-Jet from crashing with his powers]

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X2

The Continuation of Evolution

Taglines Evolution Continues.

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X2

The Nature of Evolution and Mutation

Jean Grey 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.

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X2

Return of the Evolution

Taglines Get ready for the return of the Evolution.

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X2

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 Sometimes ] can help you survive.

[[anger]

Nightcrawler So can ].

[[faith]

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X2

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 I'd have Jean braid your hair. Welcome back.

[amused, Logan extinguishes the cigar on his own palm]

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X2

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.

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X2

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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X2

Unity in Diversity

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

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X2

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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X2

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 Sure it is.

[he sets photos on the president's desk]

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.

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X2

Consequences of Actions and Responsibility

Rogue Bobby, what did you do?

Iceman I didn't do this.

Professor Xavier No. I did. And the next time you feel like showing off, don't.

[appears; to John]

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X2

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 I'll take my chances with him.

[picks up Artie; walks away]

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

X2

Confrontation Between Xavier and Stryker

Professor Charles Xavier William?

[''Wakes up in Stryker's chambers'']

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.

X2

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 Everything. The war has begun.

[Xavier and Magneto notice gas being released in prison]

X2

From Acceptance to Survival

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

X2

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 This "dorky-looking helmet" is the only thing that's going to protect me from the real bad guys. What's your name?

[grabs Pyro's lighter with his power]

Pyro John.

Magneto What's your real name, John?

Pyro Pyro.

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

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

Pyro I can only manipulate the fire. I can't create it.

[closes his hand, extinguishing the flames]

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

X2

Fear as a Source of Salvation

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

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