Storm quotes from X-Men '97

Storm

So let them thunder, for I am lightning!

Jean

There are times when I think about the baby -- his future, and I... If he's a mutant, how do I tell him he's different? That the world will remind him of it every day? That he must always be careful, always be on guard, or else...

Storm

You wish him to be born human.

Storm

I have wondered what it would be like to be human; it is a tempting daydream. But then, I remember how my mutant gifts brought me to this mansion -- to this family. To a sister.

Storm

Jean, my sister: You of all the X-Men know the heartbreak of saying goodbye, having said it so many times. So I ask that you help the others understand why I could not stay to say it this day. My faith in your family's future is strong, and I cannot rob you of a bond you have more than earned. It is human nature to crave connection, as it is also mutant nature to be heard. Seen. To feel another's soul finally seeing yours... Connection is a fragile treasure -- one we sacrifice so much to maintain. Only to then sometimes watch it break in a blink that changes your life forever. We are no longer connected, Jean. And now, we walk in two very different worlds. But trust that I will cherish what we shared as X-Men, memories that already feel like a lifetime ago...

Jean

[reading the letter] "...like another woman's life, or another person's dream. Love, Ororo."

Storm

So you lied. My weaver of lies

It hasn't all been lies. This... This is not a lie.

Storm

No, don't you dare.

I could live forever. And still, my endless imagination would never conceive of a thing as perfect as you. A perfect path to your redemption. You are a goddess. Powers be damned. How do you not see that? Ororo, look at me. Look. I’ll say it once, just once. Then you can go or you can stay, but... I love you.

Storm

I thought of you while away. Of when my sister faced her darkness and emerged stronger. A survivor. A phoenix. All this change? It’s all the same. Let us do what we do. Believe not in a dream or our gifts, but in each other.

Jean

Make them mind your weather, sister.

Storm

And them weather your mind.

Poetic, isn't it? The inevitability of my vision. Even now, Professor Xavier must pave the path to my dream in order to honor his own. A dream as crippled as its dreamer, built to die. You mutants lost at birth, too. The Neanderthal 2.0. Buggy stillborns flapping upstream, draining yourselves dry so that the tide can more easily drown you. See me. The future's tide. Despite this little toy you X-Men would use to abort the bond to my creations.

Your creations are prisoners! Held hostage by ignorance and coercion! [Bastion blasts him with a laser beam, rendering him unconscious]

Storm

Hank!

Think. Had the good professor taken me in when mother begged him, I'd be hanging here with you freaks. In the name of peace, tolerance, and equal opportunity suicide. Even then, fate got my back.

Storm

Charles Xavier wanted to help you! He came to your mother, but she was too afraid! You would have been one of the first X- [Bastion grabs her by the neck]

Get your filthy paws off her!

I didn't ask for this, either. To be born with this... programming... This destiny inside me. The urges.

Storm

None choose to be born, Bastion, thus why we must never begrudge them being!

Did you just try to appeal to my humanity? Look at me. Yet another reason why Operation Zero Tolerance must skip to final phase. [Bastion lets go of Storm's neck]

Slavery and genocide ain't enough?

As I told Dr. Cooper right before she betrayed me and her kind, people are good. Too damn good. Thus, to protect humanity, I must protect humanity from itself. From the hearts that start dripping red at the latest token underdog. From seeing themselves in those that would use their same hearts against them. Tolerance is extinction. What is worse, is empathy.