Mystique gives Kelly a first-hand (or rather, feet) lesson on the anger of being oppressed after being forced to listen to his racist drivel about locking mutants away in concentration camps while disguised as his bodyguard.
Mystique: (With seething, righteous anger) You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child. (Literally kicks Kelly's racist ass unconscious.)
Heck pretty much any time Mystique is on screen. Even when she's beating the shit outta Wolverine.
There are two in Wolverine's introduction scenes. The first comes when he is in the cage, not really fighting, and then breaks his opponent's hand by punching it. Awesome because it properly confirmed (for those who missed the blindingly obvious fact that this was Wolverine) exactly who it was. The second occurs when said opponent confronts him later, threatening him with the fact he knows he's a mutant and attacking him with a knife. The look on his face when he realized that Wolvie isn't just Made of Iron, but has foot long metal claws as well is utterly priceless. The announcer confirming what we already know just makes it more awesome.
Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight's winner, and still King of the Cage... the Wolverine.
They also work in Wolverine's signature CMOA from the comics, where he unleashes the two outer blades around someone's throat and threatens to pop the middle one. When the bartender threatens him with a shotgun Logan uses his other hand to claw it clean in half, before calmly walking away.
Sabretooth's intro has him KOing Logan in 2 hits.
Magneto: "You homo sapiens and your guns."
Later on in that scene, Magneto daring Charles to kill him.
Magneto: Let them pass that law, and they'll have you in chains, with a number burned into your forehead!
Charles: It won't be that way.
Magneto: Then kill me and find out.
Props to the Professor for managing to control both Sabretooth and Toad at the same time with no difficulty.
While it's a tearjerker, the opening scene where a young Erik begins manifesting his powers prying the gates open while he screams for his parents and the Nazis have a difficult time regaining him, letting the audience know who that is.
Jean managing to use Cerebro to find Magneto, especially since unlike the Professor, she couldn't use it properly.
Even more impressive given later films in the franchise explain what would've happened if something had gone horribly wrong.
Storm blasting Sabes through a wall with lightning while being choked by him, and to Sabretooth for having not a scratch on him
Toad takes Cyclops out of the fight by simply taking his visor, not even needing a punch
Toad gets a wonderful moment when he utterly trounces Cyclops, Storm and Jean without even breaking a sweat. Adaptational Badass, thy name is Mortimer Toynbee.
And then, Storm trounces him and gets him fried. Yea, while it did stop Toad's pretty cool moment, it took quite the guts and raw power.
Wolverine calling out Magneto on his hypocrisy: "You're so fulla shit. If you were really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing." A point which Magneto, for all his speeches and oratory skills, cannot argue against, merely giving him a Death Glare.
Cyclops dispatching Sabertooth and Magneto, while also coming up with a plan that uses every X-Men's power to their advantage.
Heck, credit has to be given to Logan as well, since taking out Sabretooth was his plan, and then to Jean for working it out in seconds. To elaborate, Magneto has used his powers to restrain the X-Men, and then ties up Scott so that he is facing Jean and then makes Sabretooth remove his visor to prevent him from escaping. So, what does Logan do? He swipes the visor from Sabes, and brings it to Jean, who uses her powes to levitate it in front of Scott with it directed at Sabes while simultaneously convincing Scott to open his eyes, leading Sabes to getting blasted out through the side of the statue.
Mystique slaps around Logan with her superior speed and skill, untill she tries to match strength with him.
And then Logan shows her that her transformations DO NOT hide her from his Super-Senses.
And another point for Logan, Mystique initially tries to fight him claw to claw via mimicking his form, but Logan almost immediately slices right through them as Mystique's claws as impressive a copy as it is is no match for real Adamantium.
The Professor and Magneto's final exchange. So good they reused it over a decade later in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Magneto: Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night, the feeling that someday they will pass that foolish law, or one just like it, and come for you and your children?
Charles: It does indeed.
Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
Charles: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school (looks at Erik)looking for trouble.
The very idea of Magneto's plastic prison which dovetails perfectly with the dialogue:
Magneto: Why do you come here, Charles?
Charles: Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
Magneto: Ah yes, your continuing search for hope. You know this plastic prison of theirs can't hold me forever. The war is still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it. By any means necessary.
Charles: And I will always be there, old friend.
The fact that they had to build a custom high-tech prison shows off how badass Magneto is, while simultanerously showing off not only Charles' cleverness (in that he was able to come up with this idea) but also his mercy. Magneto kidnapped one of Charles' students and nearly murdered hundreds of world leaders, but Charles still refuses to use the death penalty. He's still "looking for hope" despite everything, and he doesn't display the slightest bit of hatred for Magneto. He feels "a great swell of pity". But that doesn't make him weak or naive; he still built the plastic prison, after all. Magneto, meanwhile, is still determined to fight. It's a perfect display of their competing philosophies. And the whole thing is accompanied by a game of chess. Not only does this remark on how smart they are (and how Charles is the smarter of the two, having defeated Magneto's scheme and also won the chess game), but it also subtly comments on the situation. The goal of chess is technically not to defeat the opponent's king, but to leave the king under threat with no means of escape. Which is exactly what Charles has done by placing Magneto in this prison. Also also, Magneto tips his own king over at the end, which you could interpret as a metaphor that even though Charles defeated Magneto, Magento is ultimately responsible for his own defeat, since it was his misguided philosophy that led him down the wrong path in the first place!
