X-Men ‘97 is without doubt a superb television show. The series – a continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series – is fit to bursting with action, adventure, and drama, and it is a knock-out piece of television which stands head and shoulders above its peers.
The show works as well as it does because the stories are mesmerising and the characters are excellent. X-Men ‘97 also boasts great animation.
But in addition to the great characters, excellent stories, and superb animation, X-Men ‘97 also features some fantastic dialogue. The series is filled with memorable lines, from all the key heroes and villains.
Want to check out the best lines from X-Men ‘97: Season One? Of course you do – and you can! Below is a collection of the best quotes from the show.
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Rogue – “Well, your little pep talk went about as smooth as a dozen cats in a yarn store.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Morph – “Ya-ho, someone’s daddy didn’t get him a pony for his sweet 16th.”
Magneto – “My parents perished when I was a child.”
‘Montendo/Lifedeath: Part One’
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Gyrich – “Did you honestly think we’d roll over and let mutants take over the planet? That we wouldn’t fight back?”
Storm – “Yet your cruelty has only made humanity more sympathetic to our cause.”
Gyrich – “Oh, did it? No, you’re in vogue, Storm. A fad. ‘Look at my mutant friend.’ But under all that fashionable sympathy, normal people know that the more room we make for your kind, the less we leave for ours. So we might wear tolerance on our sleeves, but we know the naked truth: Tolerance is extinction.”
‘To Me, My X-Men’
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Roberto Da Costa – “Good guy or bad guy?”
Cyclops – “Name’s Cyclops. Definitely the good guy.”
‘To Me, My X-Men’
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Rogue – “Look, plenty of us at this table got pasts so dirty they don’t squeak no matter how much spit you got.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Professor Xavier – “Hear me. Class is now in session.”
‘Lifedeath: Part Two’
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Magneto (Danger Room hologram) – “Hear me. Humanity’s days are over. We are nature’s favoured children. A new age begins, as we build a bright new mutant future.”
‘To Me, My X-Men’
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Jean Grey – “Ugh… Logan, he’s… he’s here!”
Wolverine – “Who, Apocalypse?”
Jean Grey – “THE BABY!”
Wolverine – “Oh, crap.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Magneto – “After all our tête-à-têtes you have finally realised what I did ages ago. Even Charles Xavier can make a mistake.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Prime Sentinel – “Why resist the inevitable?”
Wolverine – (holding up his claws) “Lady, I got six reasons why.”
Nightcrawler – (brandishing three swords) “No, mein freund, nine!”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part One’
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Rogue – “Dang! I’ll be a wet bird on a live wire!”
‘Remember It’
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Magneto – “As a boy, my peoples’ homes were burned to ash because we dared to call God by another name. Then my people hunted me with those who had once hunted them. I was a freak, born a mutant, an abomination to their misnamed gods. In history’s sad song there is a refrain: Believe differently, love differently, be of different sex or skin and be punished. We sing this song to one another. The oppressed become oppressors. Xavier knew this and dreamed we could change, find harmony, a future, where human and mutant could relinquish the past and finally… ugh. You claimed justice is overdue. Indeed. But so is healing.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Nightcrawler – “Every gambler has a tell. Modesty was Gambit’s.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Magneto – “Oh, to play by the rules and still they come for you.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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X-Cutioner – “You know what I hate about your kind? You act like you’ve got it so bad. Normal people have it hard too. Harder. We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see, it’s the whining. I hate your whining, just as much as I hate you.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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General Ross – “Thought your kind were the good guys?”
Rogue – “You killed those, sugar. Now you get me.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Bastion – “Think, Nathan, I could have used slaves, camps, or death marches… but instead I killed Genosha in 4,621 seconds.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Three’
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Judge – “Well now, who does she think she…”
Storm – “Do not think, be silent, heed my commands and you shall survive.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Magneto – “What must we do to be good enough? Is this the high roads destination? If so, I say as I have too many times before: Never again.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Sentinels – “Surrender, mutants.”
Cyclops – “Give ‘em the forecast.”
Sentinel – “Omega level threat detected.”
Storm enters.
Storm – “Ancient sands, heed my command and reclaim these relics of hatred.”
Storm uses her powers to destroy the Sentinels.
‘To Me, My X-Men’
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Rogue – “Can it you roosters.”
‘Remember It’
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Rogue – “Who dies next Professor? Jean? Been there, done that.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Two’
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Magneto – “Bigot. Ingrate. Sycophant. Worm. So small I could smite you with a step. There was a time I would smite you all for what was done to Storm, but today I have saved you from your own, for an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of Earth – how vast it is versus how small we make it. Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own, but merely to accept that this is a shared world with a common future and that my kind, like yours, has the right to live in it. I am trying to be better. Please, do not make me let you down.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Jean Grey – “I was Phoenix. Me. Power incarnate.”
‘Fire Made Flesh’
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Gambit – “Scoundrels like me, we don’t get no white picket reward, we too busy for love. Too busy sinning.”
‘Remember It’
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Beast – “Oh, my stars and garters. Scott, you have to get Nathan.”
Cyclops – “Hank, what’s wrong?”
Beast – “Scientists, like artists, have signatures to their work. I know who cloned Jean! A man so dark and twisted he can be described as nothing other than… Sinister.”
‘Fire Made Flesh’
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Gambit – “Gambit see your bet and raise it, because the cards always be in ma favour.”
‘Remember It’
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Charles Xavier – “No. No! They were dancing, drinking wine, making love. Oh, my children. My children of the atom. Destroyed. No! Nooo!”
‘Lifedeath: Part Two’
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Magneto – “We shall not live our days wondering if we could have saved more.”
‘Remember It’
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Rogue – “Daddy always used to say, breaking into prison was easier than breaking out.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Cyclops – “I got too comfortable. Never again.”
Jean Grey – “No one could have seen this coming.”
Cyclops – “Magneto did. He warned us, repeatedly.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Val Cooper – “You know, in Genosha I felt a lot of things: Pain, grief, admiration for those who fought despite the odds. But do 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.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part One’
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Storm – “What are demons, but reflections of our fears and shame? Things we bury within us, hide from loved ones, even as they poison our hearts, until we finally heal our adversary by embracing it.”
‘Lifedeath: Part Two’
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Magneto – “I promised a boy a future free of fear, only to watch his frightened eyes be vaporised inside his tiny skull, because he believed in me. In the dream you had me sell.
(Turns to the X-Men)
“How many more of your bones will pave the way to Xavier’s future, where we simper like beggars for tolerance? Your professor’s dream is dead, so I offer a new one. A home to replace what they stole from us. A new Genosha.
“We have gotten here by walking this man’s path. We are left but two choices: Cling to this dying world or rise to your future and look down upon this fallen pig-sty planet.”
Xavier – “We are not gods, Magnus.”
Magneto – “Gods abandon those who believe in them. Mutants do not. Decide, my X-Men.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Two’
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Beast – “‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ The ever affable Mr. Rogers.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Charles Xavier – “To me, my X-Men.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part One’
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Beast – “‘Riots are the language of the unheard’.”
Trish Tilby – “Martin Luther King. But smashing windows is destruction, not communication. Normal people won’t accept mutants if they feel threatened. That fear is the whole issue.”
Beast – “Perhaps the Professor’s vision for the future was too near sighted and begging for your tolerance was our first mistake.”
‘Bright Eyes’
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Bastion – “Humanity would rather die than have kids like us.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Three’
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Gambit – “The name’s Gambit, mon ami. Remember it.”
‘Remember It’
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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 Grey – “Make them mind your weather, sister.”
Storm – “And them weather your mind.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part One’
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Rogue – “Remy was the most Cajun man I ever met. As much as he wanted to escape the bayou, he knew our lives were about what bits of us we leave behind and what we carry into the future. Maybe if you saw us a people and not students you’d have realised that.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Two’
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Magneto – “Be animals and be caged.”
‘Mutant Liberation Begins’
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Jubilee – “This isn’t some weird school. It’s a family.”
‘To Me, My X-Men’
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Rogue – “His name was Gambit. Remember it!”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Three’
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And finally…
Wolverine – “Been in a lot of wars, Bub. The brave always die first.”
‘Tolerance is Extinction: Part Two’
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