- Charles Xavier: The world's already begun rebuilding its arsenals.
- Erik Lensherr: It's human nature, Charles.
- Charles Xavier: I still have hope.
- Erik Lensherr: [wry laugh] Oh, yes. Hope.
- Charles Xavier: I was right about Raven. I was even right about you.
- Erik Lensherr: What about the rest of the world? Doesn't it ever wake you up in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they'll come for you, and your children?
- Charles Xavier: It does indeed.
- Erik Lensherr: What do you do when you wake up to that?
- Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble.
- Jean Grey: [to Mystique] Seeing you that day on TV changed my life.
- Kurt Wagner: Mine too.
- Peter Maximoff: Mine too. I mean, I still live in my mom's basement, but pfft. Everything else is, uh... well, it's pretty much the same. I'm a total loser.
- [laughs]
- [reciting Apocalypse's message to the world]
- Charles Xavier: This message is for one reason alone: to tell the strongest among you...
- Apocalypse: Those with the greatest power, this earth will be yours!
- Charles Xavier: Those with the greatest power... protect those without. That's my message to the world.
- Apocalypse: It's over, Charles. You're finished. You're mine now.
- Charles Xavier: You will never win.
- Apocalypse: And why is that?
- Charles Xavier: Because you are alone... and I am not.
- [Jean Grey appears]
- Apocalypse: [sends the world's nuclear weapons into space] Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines. You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel, but you can never strike god!
- [after brutally dispatching a group of humans who slew his wife and child]
- Erik Lensherr: [screaming skywards] IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME? IS THIS WHO I AM? Is this who I am?
- [breaks down in tears]
- Apocalypse: Everything they've built will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one!
- Mystique: [to Magneto] I know you think you've lost everything, but you haven't. You have me, you have Charles... you have more family than you know. You never had the chance to save your family before, but you do now. That's what I've come here to tell you.
- Magneto: [to Quicksilver] And you?
- Peter Maximoff: I'm your... I'm here for my family, too.
- Mystique: I'm gonna go fight for what I have left. Are you?
- Charles Xavier: You sure I can't convince you to stay?
- Erik Lensherr: You're psychic, Charles. You can convince me to do anything.
- Charles Xavier: Goodbye, old friend.
- Erik Lensherr: Good luck, Professor.
- Erik Lensherr: Who are you?
- Apocalypse: Elohim, Pushan, Ra - I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze.
- Charles Xavier: I told you from the moment I met you, there is more to you, Erik. There is good in you, too.
- Erik Lensherr: Whatever it is you think you saw in me, Charles, I buried it with my family.
- Jubilee: [walking out of Return of the Jedi] I'm just saying Empire is still the best. It's the most complex, the most sophisticated. Wasn't afraid to have a dark ending.
- Scott Summers: Yeah but come on, if it wasn't for the first one you wouldn't have any of the rest of the movies.
- Jean Grey: Well, at least we can all agree the third one's always the worst.
- Kurt Wagner: [at the academy] It's my first time in America. I'm very excited to see your culture.
- Scott Summers: Well, you're not gonna see it here. The only thing American about this place is that it used to be British.
- Moira MacTaggert: [opens a CIA folder] Ever since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of God. I was tracking one of them. They call themselves Ashir En Sabah Nur, named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first.
- Alex Summers: World's first what?
- Moira MacTaggert: The world's first mutant.
- Alex Summers: I thought mutants didn't evolve till this century.
- Moira MacTaggert: That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens of thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. They've been searching ancient sites all around the world for clues. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess.
- Charles Xavier: Do you think he lived in all that time?
- Moira MacTaggert: Yes and no. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. Some of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years.
- Charles Xavier: An all-powerful mutant?
- Moira MacTaggert: Exactly. And wherever this being was, he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers.
- Alex Summers: Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He got that one from the Bible
- Moira MacTaggert: Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually it would end in disaster, cataclysm, some kind of... apocalypse.
- Charles Xavier: The end of the world...
- Charles Xavier: [senses Apocalypse with Cerebro] I've never felt power like this before...
- [his eyes go black]
- Apocalypse: You are all my children, and you're lost because you follow blind leaders. These false gods, systems of the weak, they've ruined my world. No more.
- Scott Summers: [mourning Alex] It should have been me... he was the one going to do something with his life.
- Jean Grey: That's not how he felt. He felt you were the one that's gonna do something special with your life. That you were gonna make the difference in the world. Maybe even change it.
- Scott Summers: How do you know what he felt?
- Jean Grey: I know what everybody feels.
- [first lines]
- Charles Xavier: Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world.
- Charles Xavier: Think of your wife, think of your daughter. What would they have wanted?
- Magneto: They would have wanted to live.
- Magneto: I tried your way, Charles. I tried to be like them, live like them. But it always ends the same way. They took everything away from me. Now, we'll take everything from them.
- Charles Xavier: [using Cerebro] It's her.
- Hank McCoy: Who?
- Charles Xavier: Moira.
- Hank McCoy: Wha- Moira MacTaggert?
- Charles Xavier: Mhmm.
- Hank McCoy: Give me the details.
- Charles Xavier: Well, she looks amazing. She's barely aged a day.
- Erik Lensherr: Stay back. Whoever you are, don't try to stop me from killing these men.
- [Apocalypse makes them vanish in cemented ground]
- Apocalypse: I'm not here for them. I'm here for you.
- [enters energy field]
- Apocalypse: Come and see.
- Hank McCoy: You wanna go see Moira.
- Charles Xavier: I wanna go check her out- check out... the situation.
- [clears throat]
- Magneto: You think because you can see into my head you know how it feels? You're looking in the wrong place, Charles.
- Jean Grey: [wakes up from a nightmare] I saw the end of the world. I could feel all this death...
- Charles Xavier: Jean, it was just a dream.
- Ororo Munroe: Mystique said Magneto is your father. Are you going to tell him?
- Peter Maximoff: I might... but I think I'll just stick around here for a while.
- Ororo Munroe: Me too.
- [psychic battle]
- Charles Xavier: You're in my house now!
- Apocalypse: [starts to grow] You'll need a bigger house.
- Apocalypse: [at Cairo] This was meant to be the center of the universe before I was betrayed. Now it will be.
- [creates a pyramid]
- Erik Lensherr: [addressing his coworkers] Some of you spoke to the police about what you believe you witnessed here yesterday. You wanna know my powers, know who I am, see what I can do. I'll show you. Think of the person you love most in your life. Your wife, mother, daughter... Now that person will know what it is to lose someone they love, and live with that pain. Forever.
- Polish Worker: [in Polish] Henryk, please. Don't do this.
- Erik Lensherr: My name isn't Henryk. My name is Magneto.
- [Psylocke brings Apocalypse to Angel, but sees Angel's wing is damaged]
- Psylocke: His fighting days are done.
- Apocalypse: No, they're not.
- [fixes Angel's wings and turns them to metal]
- Apocalypse: Rise, my Angel!
- [Scott locks himself inside a toilet cubicle, covering his eyes in pain. The Jock peeks over the cubicle]
- School Jock: You're crying? I haven't even kicked your ass yet!
- [after hearing Charles' telepathic message]
- Col. William Stryker: I know that voice. It's Xavier, isn't it? What's going on?
- Raven: We don't know!
- Peter Maximoff: We don't know, bro!
- Apocalypse: Weapons... superpowers... The weak have taken the Earth. For this, I was betrayed. False gods, idols... no more. I have returned.
- Jean Grey: Sorry to break it to you but you're not the biggest freak in this school.
- Scott Summers: Well, that's a first.
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