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[Cyclops doesn't know if Logan's an imposter.]
Wolverine:
It's me!
Cyclops: Prove it!
Wolverine: You're a dick.
Cyclops: Okay.
Wolverine:
Magneto's right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you're on the right side?
Storm: At least I've chosen a side.
[About
his claws.]
Rogue: When they come out... does it hurt?
Wolverine: Every
time.
Bobby:
Welcome to Mutant High.
Dr.
Jean Grey: Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear.
[To
Senator Kelly]
Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a
strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom,
and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind.
The Brotherhood of Mutants. Oh, it's not so surprising really. Mankind has always
feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly
don't fear me. Not any more.
Magneto:
Welcome to the future.
Senator
Kelly: I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in
the United States.
Dr. Jean Grey: Senator--
Senator Kelly: Here's a girl
in Illinois who can walk through walls. Now what's to stop her from walking into
a bank vault, or the White House, or
[indicating the gallery]
Senator
Kelly: into their houses?
Dr. Jean Grey: Senator, please--
Senator Kelly:
...and there are even rumors, Miss Grey, of mutants so powerful that they can
enter our minds and control our thoughts, taking away our God-given free will.
Now I think the American people deserve the right to decide if 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 that they are among us. We must know
who they are, and above all, what they can do!
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: Ah, Logan. I'd like you to meet Ororo Monroe, also called
Storm. This is Scott Summers, also called Cyclops. They saved your life. I believe
you already know Dr. Jean Grey. You are in my School for the Gifted for Mutants.
You'll be safe here from Magneto.
Wolverine: What's a Magneto?
Prof. Charles
Francis Xavier: A very powerful mutant. He believes that a war is brewing between
mutants and the rest of humanity. I've been following his activities for some
time. The man who attacked you is an associate of his called Sabertooth.
Wolverine:
Sabertooth?
[looks at Storm]
Wolverine: Storm.
[looks at Xavier]
Wolverine:
What do they call you? "Wheels"? This is the stupidest thing I've ever
heard. students.
[Logan
has found his way to the Professor's office]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier:
I'm Charles Xavier. Would you like some breakfast?
Logan: Where am I?
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: West Chester, New York. My people brought you here for
medical attention.
Logan: I don't need medical attention.
Prof. Charles
Francis Xavier: Yes, of course.
Dr.
Jean Grey: Scott, when I tell you, open your eyes.
Cyclops: No
Doctor
Jean Grey: Trust me!
[To
Storm]
Sabretooth: You owe me a scream.
[Victor
Creed has Storm pinned to the wall]
Victor Creed: [Growl] Scream for me.
[To
Sabretooth]
Wolverine: Hey, bub, I'm not finished with you yet.
Senator
Kelly: What the hell have you done to me?!
Magneto: Senator, this is pointless.
Who would take you in now that your one of us?
Wolverine:
This is mine!
[Logan
confronts Magneto for the first time]
Magneto: You must be Wolverine. That
remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?
Logan: What
do you want with me?
Magneto: My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you?
[Logan
looks at Marie]
Rogue:
I saved your life!
Logan: No, you didn't.
Dr.
Jean Grey: I think you'll be comfortable here.
Wolverine: Where's your room?
Dr. Jean Grey: With Scott, down the hall.
Wolverine: Is that your gift?
Putting up with that guy?
Dr. Jean Grey: Actually, I'm telekinetic. I can
move things with my mind.
Wolverine: Really? What kind of things?
Dr.
Jean Grey: [shuts closet doors behind him with her mind] All kinds of things.
I also have some telepathic ability.
Wolverine: Like the Professor?
Dr.
Jean Grey: Nowhere near that powerful. But he's teaching me to develop it.
Wolverine:
I'm sure he is. So read my mind.
Dr. Jean Grey: I'd rather not.
Wolverine:
C'mon. You afraid you might like it?
Dr. Jean Grey: I doubt it.
[The
X-Men help Senator Kelly, a victim of Magneto's mutant machine.]
Senator Kelly:
I was afraid they'd--
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Treat you like a mutant?
[pause]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: We're not what you think. Not all
of us.
Senator Kelly: Tell that to the ones who did this to me.
Rogue:
The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel
him inside my head. It's the same with you.
Wolverine: There's not many people
that'll understand what you're going through. But I think this guy, Xavier, is
one of them. He seems to genuinely want to help you. And that's a rare thing,
for people like us.
Magneto:
You homo sapiens and your guns.
[commenting
on the X-Men uniforms]
Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things?
Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?
Logan:
What the hell are you doing?
Rogue: I'm sorry. I need a ride, I thought you
could help me.
Logan: Get out.
Rogue: Where am I supposed to go?
Logan:
I don't know.
Rogue: You don't know, or you don't care.
Logan: Pick one.
Storm:
Help us! Fight with us!
Logan: 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 who hate and fear you and you're wasting your time trying to
protect them? I've got better things to do!
Senator
Kelly: You're evading the real question. Three words: Are mutants dangerous?
Jean
Grey: That's an unfair question, Senator Kelly, after all, the wrong person behind
the wheel of a car can be dangerous.
Senator Kelly: Well we do license people
to drive.
Jean Grey: But not to live.
Storm:
Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing
that happens to everything else.
Magneto:
Why do you come here, Charles?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Why do you ask
questions to which you already know the answers?
Magneto: Ah, yes. Your continuing
search for hope. You know this plastic prisom won't hold me forever. The war is
still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it... by any means necessary.
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: And I will always be there... old friend.
Logan:
So what kind of a name is "Rogue"?
Rogue: I don't know. What kind
of a name is "Wolverine"?
Logan: Name's Logan.
Rogue: Marie.
[Trapped
inside the Statue of Liberty]
Cyclops: Storm, fry him!
Magneto: Oh yes!
A bolt of lightening into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school?
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: Don't give up on them, Erik.
Magneto: What would you
have me do, Charles? I've heard these arguments before.
Prof. Charles Francis
Xavier: That was a long time ago. Mankind has evolved since then.
Magneto:
Yes, into us.
Magneto:
[pointing to his head] Are you sneaking around in here, Charles? Whatever are
you looking for?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I'm looking for hope.
Magneto:
I will bring you hope, old friend, and I ask only one thing in return -- don't
get in my way.
Magneto:
We are the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter.
Mystique:
You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.
Wolverine:
So, couldn't wait to get my shirt off again, huh?
[discussing
Wolverine]
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: There are more powerful mutants out
there. Why should this one be so important?
Cyclops: Maybe it's his way with
people.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: You don't like him?
Cyclops: How
could you tell?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Well, I am psychic, you know.
Wolverine:
Well, it certainly is a big, round room.
Wolverine:
You going to tell me to stay away from your girl?
Cyclops: If I had to do
that, she wouldn't be my girl.
Wolverine: Well, then I guess you've got nothing
to worry about, do ya, Cyclops?
Cyclops: It must burn you up that a boy like
me saved your life, huh? Gotta be careful. I might not be there next time. Oh,
and Logan -- stay away from my girl.
Wolverine:
Felt like she killed me.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: If she held on any
longer, she could have.
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: Mankind isn't evil, just uninformed.
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled
us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet.
This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But
every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.
[In
the ring, before the fight with Wolverine]
Emcee: Whatever you do, don't hit
him in the balls.
Stu: You said "anything goes"!
Emcee: Anything
goes, but he'll take it personal.
[At
the Statue of Liberty.]
Magneto: Magnificent, isn't she?
Rogue: I've seen
it.
Magneto: I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of
tolerance. Peace.
Rogue: Are you going to kill me?
Magneto: Yes.
Rogue:
Why?
Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace here,
or anywhere else.
Prof.
Charles Francis Xavier: Where are you going?
Wolverine: To find her.
Storm:
How?
Wolverine: The traditional way: look!
Logan:
There's someone here.
Cyclops: Where?
Logan: I don't know. Keep your eye
open.
[Preparing
Senator Kelly for the mutation machine.]
Senator Kelly: What are you going
to do?
Magneto: Let's just say God works too slow.
Magneto:
Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they
will pass that foolish law or one just like it and come for you? And your children?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It does indeed.
Magneto: What do you do,
when you wake up to that?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: I feel a great swell
of pity for the poor fool who comes to that school... looking for trouble.
Cyclops:
All right, we can insert here at the George Washington Bridge, come around the
bank just off of Manhattan, land on the far side of Liberty Island, here.
Wolverine:
What about harbor patrol? Radar?
Cyclops: If they have anything that can pick
up our jet, they deserve to catch us.
Senator
Kelly: [on registering mutants] We must know who they are, and above all, what
they can do.
Rogue:
Wow!
Wolverine: What?
Rogue: Suddenly my life doesn't look that bad.
Toad:
Don't you people ever die?
Logan:
Everybody get out of here!
Storm: Why?
Logan: I can't move.
Magneto:
Ah, my brothers, welcome.
[Looks at Logan]
Magneto: And you,let's point
those claws of your in the safer direction.
[Sabretooth
has returned without Rogue]
Toad: Weren't you supposed to bring someone back
with you?
Logan:
Have you ever--
Dr. Jean Grey: Used Cerebro? No. It takes a degree of control
and for someone like me it's--
Cyclops: Dangerous.
Stu:
You owe me some money.
Stu's friend: Come on Stu.
Stu: No one takes beating
like that without a mark to show for it.
Stu's friend: Come on Stu.
Wolverine:
You lost your money. You keep this up you'll lose something else.
Stu: I know
what you are.
Wolverine:
Gotta get her out of there. Cyclops, can you hit it?
Cyclops: The rings moving
to fast.
Wolverine: Just shoot it!
Cyclops: I'll kill her!
Storm:
You could fly right over the torch.
Wolverine: Then let me go. If I don't
make it, then at least you can still blast the damn thing!
Cyclops: All right,
do it. Jean use your power, try to steady him.
Storm: Hang on to something.
Magneto:
Why do none of you understand what I'm trying to do? Those people down there-
they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant! Well, soon our fate
will be theirs.
[Rogue screams for help]
Wolverine: Your so full of shit!
If your really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing.
Magneto:
Why not come out where I can see you, Charles?
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier:
What do you want her for?
Magneto: Can't you read my mind?
Prof. Charles
Francis Xavier: What now? Save the girl? You'll have to kill me, Charles. And
what will that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they'll have you in chains
with a number burned into your forehead.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: It
won't be that way.
Magneto: Then kill me and find out. Then release me. Fine!
Wolverine:
That tickles.
Dr. Jean Grey: Hey.
Wolverine: Hey.
Dr. Jean Grey: How
are you feeling.
Wolverine: Fantastic.
[The
bartender is pointing his shotgun at Wolverine]
Bartender: Get out of my bar,
freak!
[Just
before the accident]
Rogue: You know you should wear your seatbelt.
[Cyclops
lands the plane abruptly]
Cyclops: Sorry.
Wolverine: You call that a landing?
Cyclops:
Wait a second! You said this machine draws it's power from Magneto, and that it
weakened him.
Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Yes, in fact it nearly killed
him.
Wolverine: He's going to transfer his power to Rogue and use her to power
the machine.
[Magneto
shoots Rogue with a tranquilizer dart while she runs away]
Magneto: Young
people.
Toad:
Quit playin' around!
Magneto:
Toad has a wicked tongue, Senator. Just like you.