Magneto quotes from X-Men '97

Magneto

As a boy, my people's homes were burned to ash because we dared to call God by another name. Then, my people hunted me with those who had once hunted them. I was a freak, born a mutant -- an abomination to their misnamed gods. In history's sad song, there is a refrain: "Believe differently, love differently, be of different sex or skin, and be punished." We sing this song to one another. The oppressed become oppressors. Xavier knew this, and dreamed we could change. Find harmony -- a future where human and mutant could relinquish the past and finally... ugh... You claim justice is overdue. Indeed. But so is healing.

Magneto

This is your dream. My kind splayed before you, powerless and afraid. All the X-Men have done is use their awesome power to protect a world that hates and fears them. Behold their reward. What must we do to be good enough? Is this the high road's destination? If so, I say as I have too many times before, "never again".

Magneto

[To the X-ecutioner] Bigot. Ingrate. Sycophant. Worm. So small, I could smite you with a step. [to the Judges] There was a time I would smite you all for what was done to Storm. But today, I have saved you from your own. For an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of Earth -- how vast it is, versus how small we make it. Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream, and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own. But merely to accept that this is a shared world with a common future and that my kind, like yours, have the right to live in it. I am trying to be better. Please... do not make me let you down.

Magneto

If I may offer advice, Scott: Be wary. Be vigilant. Tragedy lures with fortune first.

Magneto

Enough. [triggers an EMP that utterly obliterates Earth's technology in retaliation for the attack on Genosha]

Magneto

Charles Xavier was the finest man I knew. Despite our differences, he never ceased to have faith in our friendship, nor forgive my many failings. Perhaps that is why the old fool has done this.

Cyclops

Magneto, what are you doing in our home?

Magneto

Your home? I beg to differ, Cyclops. The last will and testament of Charles Francis Xavier. As you all will see, his fortune, his school, everything he built, everything he fought for, now belongs to me, my X-Men.

Magneto

Xavier's sacrifice brought about a world more tolerant towards mutants. I am indebted to honor his last wish, even if his X-Men won't trust me. Perhaps they are right not to. My past is too littered with error.

Rogue

Mine was too, remember? But the X-Men still took me in. The thing is, I didn't go about demanding their trust -- I earned it.

What in the blazes did we do?!

Magneto

You gave a monster a trial. Now you are traitors to your kind. Oh, to play by the rules, and still they come for you...

Most other nations don't allow a terrorist to be their leader.

Magneto

Yet so many allow their leaders to be terrorists.

Magneto

I am not the one who needs to be reasoned with, Charles.

There is a large asteroid hovering over my home that begs otherwise.

Magneto

I promised a boy a future free of fear, only to watch his frightened eyes be vaporized inside his tiny skull because he believed in me. In the dream you had me sell. How many more of your bones will pave the way to Xavier's future, where we simper like beggars for tolerance? Your Professor's dream is dead, so I offer a new one! A home to replace what they stole from us, a new Genosha! We have gotten here by walking this man's path. We are left with but two choices, cling to this dying world or rise to your future and look down upon this fallen pig-sty planet!

We are not Gods, Magnus!

Magneto

Gods abandon those who worship them. Mutants do not.