X-Men '97 quotes

Scoundrels like me, we don't get no white picket reward. We too busy for love. Too busy sinning.

There is no love without sin, for love is best measured in what we forgive.

Now, the latest adventure; parenthood.

Cyclops

Jean... Jean and I don't have any kids.

You don't?

Cyclops

No.

Strange, I saw hospital records for one "Nathan Charles Summers", born to Scott and Jean Grey Summers just last month. Born at Westchester Memorial? Uh, I spoke to a Dr. Brians there, he said you told your teammate, told Rogue...

Cyclops

THAT JERK WOULDN'T DELIVER MY... He called my kid a freak.

Scott, I came here today to give the X-Men a chance to show the world that mutants are just like us. People. Normal. And you lie. Why lie?

Cyclops

Because you're normal.

Excuse me?

Cyclops

I said, because you're normal. You're ungrateful. We fight, risk our lives for you. Evil mutants, robots, crazy aliens... I gave him up. I gave him up because you can't say "thank you". Because I have to stomach your questions and prove that I'm a person. I lie because the truth is we're nothing like you. Thank God, because it's the only reason you people are still alive.

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

Magneto

Yet so many allow their leaders to be terrorists.

The name's Gambit, Mon Ami. Remember it.

Storm

So let them thunder, for I am lightning!

Want to know a secret? Coexistence is messy. Thus, my love for education, for my X-Men. Their heroism teaches a lesson we mustn’t forget. That the universe is very old, and all of us, very young. Born of ancient stardust, and all children of the atom.

Thought your kind were the good guys?

Rogue

You killed those, sugar. Now you get me.

Gotta do this by the book, Rogue. Right now, my hands are tied.

Rogue

Well, if your hands are tied, you won't be needin' this. [Grabs Captain America's shield and throws it into a mountain]

Bastion's very own Doctor Mengele.

Mr. Sinister

[chuckles]

What's so funny?

Mr. Sinister

I knew Mengele. He could have been so much more. But he settled on being a Nazi pup. I'm using Bastion. Pig pens brimming with mutant test subjects. That's my dream.

You know, in Genosha, I felt a lot of things: pain, grief, admiration for those who fought despite the odds. But you know what the oddest thing was? No one seemed shocked or surprised — not even me. Yes, I was scared, but really I just had the most profound sense of déjà vu, as if past, present, and future didn't matter and never had, because we always end up in the same ugly place. Thing is, Magneto knows us better than Charles ever did, knows we know better, that most of us experience tragedies like Genosha as a bit of déjà vu before getting on with our day. But the scariest thing about Genosha wasn't the death or the chaos. It was a thought, the only sane thought you can have when being chased by giant robots that were built to crush you: Magneto was right.

Magneto

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

Magneto actually did it.

What, saved our hides?

No. Declared war.

I only hope I'm not too late. [sends out a telepathic call] To me, my X-Men!

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.

Am I going to war, or a circus?

Cyclops

What did you expect? Black leather?