- Professor X: Logan, my tolerance for your smoking in the mansion notwithstanding, continue smoking that in here, and you'll spend the rest of your days under the belief that you're a six-year-old girl.
- Wolverine: You'd do that?
- Professor X: I'd have Jean braid your hair.
- William Drake: What exactly are you a professor *of*, "Professor Logan?"
- Wolverine: [Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro look at Logan, none of the kids knowing what to say]
- [pause]
- Wolverine: Art.
- Nightcrawler: Excuse me? They say you can imitate anybody, even their voice.
- Mystique: [as Nightcrawler] Even their voice.
- Nightcrawler: Then why not stay in disguise all the time? You know, look like everyone else.
- Mystique: Because we shouldn't have to.
- Nightcrawler: You know, outside 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 two eyes.
- Storm: Well, 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.
- Mitchell Laurio: Have a nice sleep, Lensherr?
- Magneto: There's something different about you today, Mr. Laurio.
- Mitchell Laurio: Yeah, I *was* having a good day.
- Magneto: [gets up] No, it's something else...
- Mitchell Laurio: Sit down.
- Magneto: No.
- Mitchell Laurio: [draws his club] I said, sit your ass down!
- [He starts for Magneto, who holds up his hand. Laurio stops forcibly]
- Mitchell Laurio: [gasps] What are you doing?
- Magneto: Ah, there it is...
- [He lifts his hand, and Laurio lifts into the air]
- Magneto: Too much iron in your blood!
- [He draws a cloud of iron particles out through Laurio's skin, and squeezes them into a set of ball bearings. Laurio collapses to the floor, unmoving]
- Magneto: Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman. Especially one who's interested in you.
- Pyro: So, they say you're the bad guy.
- Magneto: Is that what they say?
- Pyro: That's a dorky looking helmet. What's it for?
- Magneto: This "dorky looking helmet" is the only thing that's going to protect me from the REAL bad guys.
- [magnetically takes Pyro's lighter and lights it]
- Magneto: What's your name?
- Pyro: [staring at his lighter in Magneto's hands] John.
- Magneto: What's your *real* name, John?
- Pyro: [summons lighter's flame to his hand] Pyro.
- Magneto: Quite a talent you have there, Pyro.
- Pyro: I can only manipulate the fire
- [flame disappears into Pyro's hand]
- Pyro: I can't create it.
- Magneto: You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home; they marry the good guy.
- Wolverine: I can be the good guy.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Logan, the good guy sticks around.
- Storm: [about Nightcrawler's markings] So... What are they?
- Nightcrawler: They're angelic symbols, passed on to mankind by the archangel Gabriel.
- Storm: They're beautiful. How many do you have?
- Nightcrawler: One for every sin. So quite a few.
- Madeline Drake: This is all my fault.
- Pyro: Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on, so it's his fault.
- William Stryker: The tricky thing about adamantium is, that if you ever manage to process its raw, liquid form, you got to keep it that way, keep it hot. Because once the metal cools, it's indestructible. But you already know that.
- Nightcrawler: Guten tag.
- Wolverine: [to Nightcrawler] Who the hell are you?
- [to Jean and Storm]
- Wolverine: Who the hell is this?
- Nightcrawler: Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich circus, I was known as The Incredib...
- Wolverine: Yeah, save it.
- Nightcrawler: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
- Magneto: Charles Xavier. Have you come to rescue me?
- Professor X: Sorry, Eric. Not today.
- Magneto: To what do I owe the pleasure?
- Professor X: The assassination attempt on the president. What do you know about it?
- Magneto: Nothing. Only what I read in the papers. You really shouldn't have to ask, Charles.
- Professor X: What's happened to you?
- Magneto: I've had frequent visits from William Stryker. You remember him, don't you?
- Professor X: William Stryker.
- Magneto: His son, Jason, was once a student of yours, wasn't he?
- Professor X: Yes. Years ago. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help him... at least not in the way his father wanted.
- Magneto: And now you think that taking in the Wolverine will make up for your failure with Stryker's son. You haven't told him about his past, have you?
- Professor X: I've put him on the path. Logan's mind is still fragile.
- Magneto: Is it? Or are you afraid of losing one of your precious X-men... old friend?
- Professor X: Eric, what have you done?
- Magneto: I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.
- Professor X: What have you told Stryker?
- Magneto: [sighs] Everything.
- [gas emits]
- Magneto: The war has begun.
- Professor X: Scott!
- Magneto: You should've killed me when you had the chance!
- Madeline Drake: Bobby? Aren't you supposed to be in school?
- William Drake: Do you know him?
- [they look at Logan]
- Bobby: That's Professor... Logan. Mom, Dad... there's something I need to tell you.
- Madeline Drake: We still love you Bobby, it's just this mutant problem is a little...
- Wolverine: [Interrupting] What Mutant problem?
- Madeline Drake: ...complicated.
- William Stryker: [to Logan] I didn't realize Xavier was taking in animals, even animals as unique as you.
- Magneto: [Magneto uses his power to stop the X-Jet from crashing] When will these people learn how to fly?
- Wolverine: Who am I?
- William Stryker: If you knew the kind of person you used to be, the work we did together... People don't change, Wolverine. You were an animal then and you're an animal now. I just gave you claws.
- President McKenna: What is that?
- William Stryker: A jet.
- President McKenna: What kind of jet?
- William Stryker: We don't know-but it comes out of the basketball court.
- [Wolverine approaches Stryker, chained to the outside of the dam, while carrying Artie in his arms]
- William Stryker: Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people? That creature in your arms? Huh? Huh?
- [Wolverine looks at Artie, then takes off his "Wolverine" dog tag and throws it at Stryker's feet]
- Wolverine: I'll take my chances with him.
- [he turns and walks away]
- William Stryker: One day, someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine!
- [Artie looks over Wolverine's shoulder at Stryker, and sticks out his lizard tongue at him]
- William Stryker: [shouts] One day!
- Nightcrawler: [to Storm] You and Ms. Grey are schoolteachers?
- Storm: Yes. At a school for people like us, where we can be safe.
- Nightcrawler: Safe from what?
- Storm: Everyone else.
- [Pyro gets into a fight with some kids in the food court, and sets one's clothes on fire. Bobby puts it out with a jet of ice. Just as everyone is staring at them, they freeze. There is dead silence]
- Rogue: Bobby, what did you do?
- Bobby: I didn't do this.
- Professor X: No, I did.
- [Professor X. wheels up]
- Professor X: And the next time you feel like showing off... don't.
- Cyclops: Everybody stand back.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Scott no. His mind is connected to Cerebro. Opening the door, could kill him and everyone his mind is linked to.
- Storm: Wait. Kurt, I need you to take me inside.
- Cyclops: Storm, who is this guy? Who are you?
- Nightcrawler: My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus...
- Storm: [puts her hand over Kurt's mouth] He's a teleporter.
- Nightcrawler: I told you, If I can't see where I'm going...
- Storm: I have faith in you.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Don't believe anything you see in there.
- Nightcrawler: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...
- [teleports]
- Nightcrawler: ... on Earth as it is in heaven.
- [first lines]
- Professor X: [voiceover] 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 a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.
- Magneto: His name is Colonel William Stryker, and he invaded your mansion for one purpose: he wanted Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own.
- Dr. Jean Grey: But that doesn't make any sense. Stryker would need the Professor to operate it.
- Magneto: Which I think is the only reason my old friend is still alive.
- Storm: Oh my God...
- [Storm, Jean Gray and Magneto exchange worried looks]
- Wolverine: What are you all so afraid of?
- Magneto: While Cerebro is working, Charles's mind is connected to every living person on the planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group - let's say mutants, for example - he could kill us all!
- Storm: Wait a minute, how would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?
- Magneto: ...Because I told him. I helped Charles build it, remember? Mr. Stryker has powerful methods of persuasion - even against a mutant as strong as Charles.
- [Cyclops, under Stryker's mind control, attacks Jean, Magneto, and Mystique]
- Dr. Jean Grey: Go! I'll handle him!
- Magneto: [to Mystique] This is one lovers' quarrel we cannot get involved in, my dear.
- [Rogue sees Magneto and Mystique talking, then they notice her]
- Magneto: We love what you've done with your hair.
- [Stryker comes to interrogate Magneto]
- Magneto: Ah, Mr. Stryker! Come to see that American tax dollars are keeping me comfortable?