X-MEN: THE LAST STAND [2006]

Take a Stand

Logan: Maybe it's time for us to move on.

Scott: Not everybody heals as fast as you, Logan.

No, Professor, they can't cure us.

You wanna know why?

Because there's nothing to cure.

Nothing's wrong with you. Or any of us, for that matter.

~Storm

Prof. X: Jean Grey is the only class 5 mutant I've ever encountered, her potential limitless.

Her mutation is seated in the unconscious part of her mind and therein lay the danger.

When she was a girl, I created a series of psychic barriers

to isolate her powers from her conscious mind.

And the result is Jean developed a dual personality.

Logan: What?

Prof. X: The conscious Jean, whose powers were always in her control, and the dominant side.

A personality that, in our sessions, came to call itself The Phoenix.

A purely instinctual creature, all desire and joy and rage.

Logan: She knew all this?

Prof. X: It's unclear how much she knew.

Far more critical is whether the woman in front of us is the Jean Grey we know

or The Phoenix furiously struggling to be free.

Logan: She looks peaceful to me.

Prof. X: Because I'm keeping her that way.

I'm trying to restore the psychic blocks and cage the beast again.

Logan: What have you done to her?

Prof. X: You have to understand...

Logan: You're talking about a person's mind.

Prof. X: She has to be controlled.

Logan: Controlled?

Sometimes, when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.

Prof. X: You have no idea of what she is capable of.

Logan: No, Professor, I had no idea what you were capable of.

Don't let it control you.
~Professor X, to Jean-Grey

We live in an age of darkness.

A world full of fear, hate and intolerance.

But in every age, there are those who fight against it.

Charles Xavier was born to a world divided.

A world he tried to heal.

A mission he never saw accomplished.

It seems the destiny of great man to see their goals unfulfilled.

Charles was more than a leader, more than a teacher.

He was a friend.

When we were afraid, he gave us strength.

And when we were alone, he gave us a family.

He may be gone, but his teachings live on through us, his students.

Wherever we may go, we must carry on his vision.

And that's a vision of a world united.

~Storm

Callisto: She couldn't be here with us.
Her power is completely unstable.
Magneto: Only in the wrong hands.
Pyro: And you trust her? She's one of them.
Magneto: So were you once.
Pyro: I'm stuck with you all the way.
Would have killed the professor if you'd given me the chance.
Magneto: Charles Xavier did for the mutants than you'll ever know.
My single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dream to live.

Logan: If Magneto gets that cure, we can't stop him.
Beast: Can you estimate how many he has?
Logan: An army. And Jean.
His powers have limits, hers do not.
Bobby: There's only 6 of us, Logan.
Logan: Yeah, we're outnumbered. I'm not gonna lie to you.
But we lost Scott.
We lost the professor.
If we don't fight now, everything they stood for will die with them.
I'm not gonna let that happen.
Are you?
[Bobby shakes his head]
Then we stand together.
X-Men.
All of us.

Mr. Worthington: I only wanted to help you people.
Kid Omega: Do we look like need your help?

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X2: X-MEN UNITED [2003]

The Time Has Come For Those Who Are Different To Stand United

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 an historical fact, sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.
~Professor X

Scott: It's not just a headache, is it?
Listen, I wasn't really sure how to say this, but ever since Liberty Island, you've been...
Jean Grey: Scott...
Scott: You've been different.
Jean Grey: My telepathy's been off lately.
I can't seem to focus. I can hear everything.
Scott: It's not just your telepathy.
A month ago, you had to concentrate just to levitate a book or a chair across the room.
Now, when you have a nightmare, the entire bedroom shakes.
Jean Grey: My dream are getting worse.
I keep feeling something terrible is about to happen.
Scott: I would never let anything happen to you.

Stryker: It isn't a petting zoo, Senator.
In this conflict, he is the enemy, you're just a spectator.
So why don't you sit this one out, all right?
Senator Kelly: Conflict?
Mr. Stryker, do you really want to turn this into some kind of war?
Stryker: I was piloting black-ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam
while you were sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly.
Don't lecture me about war.
This already is a war.
 
Through Cerebro, I'm connected to them, and they to me.
We're not as alone as you think.
~Professor X

Logan: I need you to read my mind again.
Prof. X: I'm afraid the results will be the same as before.
Logan: We had a deal.
Prof. X: The mind is not a box that can be simply unlocked and opened.
It's a beehive with a million different compartments.
Logan: Spare me the lecture.
Prof. X: I have no doubt that your amnesia, your adamantium skeleton, the claws are all somehow connected.
But, Logan, sometimes the mind needs to discover things for itself.

I didn't realize Xavier was taking in animals, even animals as unique as you.
~William Stryker, to Wolverine

 Prof. X: William, you wanted me to cure your son.
 But mutation is not a disease.
Stryker: You're lying!
You were more frightened of him than I was.
You know, just 1 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.
My wife, in the end, she took a power drill to her left temple in an attempt to bore the images out.
My boy, the great illusionist.

For someone who hates mutants, you certainly keep some strange company.
~Professor Charles Xavier, to William Stryker

Bobby's Dad: You have to understand.
We thought Bobby was going to a school for the gifted.
Rogue: Bobby is gifted.

Nightcrawler: You know, outside of the circus, most people were afraid of me.
But I didn't hate them. I pitied them.
Do you know why?
Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own 2 eyes.
Storm: I gave up on pity a long time ago.
Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.
Storm: Sometimes anger can help you survive.
Nightcrawler: So can faith.

 Jean Grey: So, who's this Stryker anyway?
Magneto: He's a military scientist.
He spent his whole life trying to solve the mutant problem.

Jean Grey: I love him.
Logan: Do you?
Jean Grey: Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, Logan, they don't take him home.
They marry the good guy.
Logan: I could be the good guy.
Jean Grey: Logan, the good guy sticks around.

Magneto: What's your name?
Pyro: John.
Magneto: What's your real name, John?
Pyro, make some trick with fire: Pyro.
Magneto: Quite a talent you have there, Pyro.
Pyro: I can only manipulate the fire.
I can't create it.
Magneto: You are a god among insects.
Never let anyone tell you different.

The tricky thing about adamantium is that if you ever manage to process its raw, liquid form,
you gotta keep it that way.
Keep it hot.
Because once the metal cools, it's indestructible.
~William Stryker

 How does it look from there, Charles?
Still fighting the good fight?
From here, it doesn't look like they're playing by your rules.
Maybe it's time to play by theirs.
~Magneto

If you really knew about your past, what kind of person you were, the work we did together...
People don't change, Wolverine.
 You were an animal then, you're an animal now.
I just gave you claws.
~William Stryker

Stryker: You're a survivor, always have been.
Wolverine: I thought I was just an animal... with claws.
If we die, you die.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death, I will fear no evil, 
for thou art with me.
~Nightcrawler

 Mutation.
 It is the key to our evolution.
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.
~Jean Grey


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X-MEN [2000]

Trust a Few, Fear the Rest

I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in the United States.
A girl in Illinois who walks through walls.
What's to stop her from walking into a bank vault?
Or into The White House?
Or into their houses?
And there are even rumours of mutants so powerful that they can enter our minds and control our thoughts,
taking away our God-given free will.
I think the American people deserve the right to decide whether they want their children to be in school with mutants, to be taught by mutants.
Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that mutants are very real.
And they are among us.
We must know who they are, and above all, we must know what they can do.
~Senator Kelly

Rogue: When people touch my skin, something happens.
Wolverine: What?
Rogue: I don't know, they just get hurt.

Wolverine: What kind of a name is Rogue?
Rogue: I don't know. What kind of a name is Wolverine?
Wolverine: My name's Logan.
Rogue: Marie.

Professor X: You're in my school for the gifted.
You'll be safe here from Magneto.
Wolverine: What's a magneto?
Professor X: A very powerful mutant
who believes a war is brewing between mutants and the reest of humanity.
I've been following his activities for some time.
The man who attacked you is an associate of his called Sabretooth.
Wolverine: Sabretooth? [smirking]
Storm. [pointing at Storm]
[to Professor X] What do they call you? Wheels? [giggles]
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Anonymity is a mutant's first defence against the world's hostility.
To the public, we're merely a school for gifted youngsters.
Cyclops, Storm, and Jean were some of my first students.
I protected them, taught them to control their powers,
and in time, teach others to do the same.
The students are mostly run away; frightened, alone.
Some with gifts so extreme they're a danger to themselves and those around them.
Like your friend Rogue, incapable of physical human contact,
probably for the rest of her life.
And yet here she is with others her own age, learning, being accepted, not feared.
~Professor X

Wolverine: What will happen to her?
Professor X: That's up to her.
Rejoin the world as an educated young woman,
or stay on to each others, to become what the children have affectionally called "X-Men".

When I was a boy I discovered I had the power to control people's minds.
Make them think or do whatever I wanted.
When I was 17, I met a young man named Eric Lensherr.
He, too, had an unusual power.
He could create magnetic fields and control metal.
Believing that humanity would never accept us, he grew angry and vengeful.
He became Magneto.
~Professor X

There are mutants out there with incredible powers, Logan.
And many who do not share my respect for mankind.
If no one is equipped to oppose them, humanity's days could be over.
~Professor X

If it were up to me, I'd lock 'em all away.
It's a war.
It's the reason people like me exist.
~Senator Kelly.

Jean-Grey: The metal is an alloy called adamantium.
Supposedly undestuctible.
It's been surgically grafted to his entire skeleton.
Storm: How could he have survived a procedure like that?
Jean-Grey: His mutation.
He has uncharted regenerative capability which enalbes him to heal rapidly.
This also makes his age impossible to determine.
He could very well be older than you, Professor.
Cyclops: Who did this to him?
Jean-Grey: He doesn't know.
Nor does he remember anything about his life before it happened.

Are you a God-fearing man, Senator?
It's such a strange phrase.
I've always thought of God as a teacher,
as a bringer of light, wisdom and understanding.
You see, I think what you really are afraid of is me.
Me and my kind. The brotherhood of mutant.
It's not so surprising, really.
Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand.
~Magneto

Actually, I'm telekinetic.
I can move things with my mind.
All kinds of things.
I also have telephatic ability.
~Jean-Grey

Wolverine: You gonna tell me to stay away from your girl?
Cyclops: If I had to do that, she wouldn't be my girl.
Wolverine: Then I guess you've got nothing to worry about, do you... Cyclops?
Cyclops: It must just burn you up that a boy like me saved your life, huh?
You oughta be careful, I might not be there next time.
[before he close the door] Oh, and Logan, stay away from my girl.

 Wolverine: Is she all right?
Professor X: She'll be all right.
Wolverine: What did she do to me?
Professor X: Whenever Rogue touches someone, she takes their energy, their life force.
In the case of mutants, she absorbs their gifts for a short while.
In your case, your ability to heal.
Wolverine: It felt like she almost killed me.
Professor X: If she'd held out any longer, she could have.

[getting into Cerebro]
Wolverine: This certainly is a big, round room.
Professor X: The brain waves of mutants are different from average human beings.
This device amplifies my power, allowing me to locate mutants across great distances.
That's how I intend to find Rogue.
Wolverine: Why don't you just use it to find Magneto?
Professor X: I've been trying, but he's found some way to shield himself from it.
Wolverine: How would he know how to do that?

The first boy I ever kissed ended up in coma for 3 weeks.
I can still feel him inside my head.
And it's the same with you.
~Rogue, to Wolverine

Still unwilling to make sacrifices.
That's what makes you weak.
~Magneto, to Professor X

Storm: Help us. Fight with us.
Wolverine: Fight with you? Join the team? Be an X-man?
Who the hell do you think you are?
You're a mutant.
The whole world out there is full of people that hate and fear you,
and you're wasting your time trying to protect them.
I got better things to do.
You know Magneto's right, there's a war coming.
Are you sure you're on the right side?
Storm: At least I've chosen a side.

You've taught me everything in my life that was ever worth knowing.
And if anything happens, I'll take care of them.
~Cyclops, to a comatose Professor X

Magneto: You know this plastic prison of theirs won't hold me forever.
The war is still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it.
By any means necessary.
Professor X: And I will always be there, old friend.

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