Quotes / House and Powers of X

House of X #1: "The House That Xavier Built"

"Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed."
— Professor X

"To me, my X-Men."
— Professor X

"It's time to get with the program, Sage. You need to bury all that cynicism and replace it with good old-fashioned hope. The Professor has changed all the old rules..."
— Cypher

"My family has spent our entire lives being hunted and hated. The world has told me that I was less when I knew I was more. Did you honestly think that we were going to sit around forever and just take it?"
— Cyclops

"Some would be offended at a wolf presenting as a sheep, but I have learned hard lessons from your kind—so I know the truth...
You are all wolves."
— Magneto

"You see, I know how you humans love your symbolism, almost as much as you love your religion. And I wanted you—I needed you—to understand...
You have new gods now."
— Magneto

"I have a new word for the lexicon of man: KRAKOA.
And in the future, when you speak it, make sure you do so softly and with proper deference.
For we will be listening."
— Magneto

Powers of X #1: "The Last Dream of Professor X"

"I was smiling because I have recently had the most wonderful dream. Of a better world and my place in it."
— Professor X

"Here's the thing, Charles... It's not a dream if it's real."
— Moira MacTaggert

"We're building a better world, Mystique. And everyone who would live in it owes something."
— Professor X

Rasputin: Will you pray for me, priest?
Cardinal: Of course. My faith is boundless... I pray for all living things.
Rasputin: And that's your problem, priest... You've forgotten that machines have no souls...and that humans lost theirs a long time ago.

"The nature of that man, Sinister, reaches far beyond any hope of redemption. There can be no salvation for the devil himself."
— data page on the betrayal of Mister Sinister

"It's important to keep a record of the great sins of history. Even better to preserve a remnant...something to point at...and hope to God they never have dominion again."
— The Librarian on his captives

House of X #2: "The Uncanny Life of Moira X"

"If you can find it in you to survive — if you are worthy — than I will make you into something more than them. Something eternal."
— Apocalypse

Destiny: Such a gift, knowledge. And yet here you are, using it to betray your own kind.
Moira: It's a disease—what we are. But I'm not trying to force it on anyone—I'm only trying to cure people who want it.
Destiny: You think this stops at want? You think they'll let you keep this thing you've made? Do you have any idea how much they hate us? The humans will come for you. They'll break you, chain you and make you their own. Then mankind will use what you've done here to eliminate our entire race. I have seen the potential of your good works, and I do not care for them.
Moira: How, exactly, is it that you think you can stop me?
Destiny: I am much older than you are. My powers will have manifested full of the knowledge of what we have done. If you—once again—try to do this evil work against our people, like today, I will see the outcome of it and find you. Again. And if you try to kill me before I kill you...I will see my end coming and prevent it. You see, Moira, we are joined together now, you and I. You will know that I am out there, waiting for this version of you. And, knowing that, have a choice: Change or die. Help your people, or I will annihilate you in all your lives to come.

Moira: I don't want to die like this.
Destiny: Dying like this...is what a life poorly lived gets you. Pyro?
Pyro: Yes, Mother?
Destiny: Burn her. And slowly, so she doesn't forget how dying like this feels.

"I am here. I have always been here."
— Moira X

Powers of X #2: "We Are Together Now, You and I"

"There is a chasm between you and I, Charles. A gap that cannot be crossed.
With each passing day, I fear it never will be."
— Magneto

Magneto: Remember: This will be a frontal assault of an orbital station tens of millions of miles away built by a secret organization whose sole purpose is the extinction of mutants. Can such a thing even be done?
Cyclops: ...Does it need doing?
Xavier: Yes.
Cyclops: Then it will be done.

Xorn: For most there is nothing. Just the pointless march toward oblivion. It's eat, sleep, fight, die, just as it has always been and always shall be, until the sun swallows us all.
Rasputin: You're fantastically depressing, Xorn. The perfect teammate for the end times.
Xorn: Thank you, friend.

"Normally, civilizations of our maturity only attract universal predators. This is because the perceived value of this system is found in its Celestial resources and not its living culture. Our system is a place to be mined...and not preserved. Now, after hundreds of years of ugly skirmishes and quiet wars, we decided to convert Nimbus into a replicant Worldmind and show the universe what we are capable of. And—it seems—we have snared a giant."
— Nimrod the Lesser

"WE-[PHALANX]-ATE-YOUR-WORLDMIND
THEY-FOUGHT-FOR-SOVEREIGNTY-AND-LOST-BUT-WE-[PHALANX]-SAW-THE-WHISPERING-GODS-BEHIND-IT
WE-[PHALANX]-HAVE-HEARD-YOUR-MESSAGE-NOW-HEAR-OURS
WHAT-DO-YOU-SEEK"
— The Phalanx

"Ascension."
— The Librarian

"You must see by now there is no you and I, there is only us.
We are together, or we are nothing."
— Professor X

Powers of X #3: "This Is What You Do"

"I am immortal, and I have no end."
— Apocalypse

"We don't sleep at all, Nimrod. In fact, that's what the mutants think is wrong with us — that we do not dream."
— Omega Sentinel

Rasputin: Yeah, well, here's an inconvenience...he has a singularity in his head. If I remove his mask...then all of this will be gone in an instant. So I'm not going to tell you again...stay back.
Xorn: No. Come closer...this is the ending I have always wanted.
Omega Sentinel: A singularity? I don't think you will. You people care too much about holding on...even when you have nothing to hold on to. Besides...do you have any idea what lies at the heart of a real black hole? I'll give you a hint— it's where we're headed...it's where we're all headed.
Rasputin: You know what? You're right. I don't know...
Omega Sentinel: No.
Rasputin: So let's find out.

Wolverine: I...I'm sorry.
Moira: It's okay... I have what I need now. And this...this is what you do.

So ended the ninth life of Moira X.

"And should forever end, let me die in battle, surrounded by my fallen enemies and with blood on my sword."
— Apocalypse

House of X #3: "Once More Unto the Breach"

"You make me so proud."
— Professor X

Xavier: And let me put your fears to rest, my son. You're not going to die. I won't allow it.
Magneto: For the righteous can never truly die. They live on. Transformed into something immortal by their mighty works...

Cyclops: The station has a long-term capacity of just over 3,000. So there are probably a lot of innocent civilians alongside whatever security they have.
Wolverine: Innocent civilians don't build machines to exterminate a species, Slim.
Marvel Girl: They're not soldiers in the war, Logan. They're just scientists scared of their own future.

Judge: All quiet on the Western front, A.G. Tolliver?
A.G. Tolliver: What we lack in volume we're making up for in depravity, Your Honor. The defendant is being charged with felony breaking and entering, felony assault, felony theft, two counts of manslaughter and—I swear to God—if bad manners for something I could add to the list, I would.

Judge: How does your client plead?
Sabretooth: Oh, I'm guilty, meat. Phtoo! I definitely got bad manners.

White Queen: What's going to happen is that you're going to surrender Mr. Creed to me.
Cuckoo: Sabretooth, Mum.
White Queen: Yes, thank you. Sabretooth. You're going to give him to me because—in anticipation of Krakoa becoming a sovereign nation—all Krakoans on United States soil—natural born or otherwise—now enjoy the privilege of diplomatic immunity. A recent gift from your State Department.

A.G. Tolliver: This isn't going to happen.
White Queen: It is going to happen...and as for what it means, well, it simply means we don't answer to you anymore.
Judge: That...thing is a killer.
Sabretooth: Just like my momma made me...and I ain't close to done.
White Queen: Yes. He's a bit of a monster—on that I cannot disagree—but he's our monster. And from this day forward, mutants won't be judged in human courts...or by the likes of you.
A.G. Tolliver: No. This is not how today ends. Not on my watch.
White Queen: Normally, I'd dominate that little mind of yours and make you stick that gun where your last boyfriend left you...but I've been told the art of diplomacy is about equalizing power dynamics...so why don't you pretend that some larger American purpose is being served here today...and I'll pretend like you could have stopped me.

"It's a brave new world, darlings... Best get used to it."
— White Queen

"For you to die, you would have to be forgotten...
And no one forgets a founder of a nation."
— Magneto

House of X #4: "It Will Be Done"

"No more."
— Professor X

The House of Xavier and the Way We Treat Our Children
— The code at the bottom of the title page

LOOK AT WHAT THEY'VE DONE
— The title of the data page about mutant extinction events and the list of humans who have committed mutant crimes

Nightcrawler: You ready?
Wolverine: So...I gotta ask... You still think there's something waiting for us on the other side?
Nightcrawler: Worried about your soul, Logan?
Wolverine: Just wonderin' what someone like me should expect.
Nightcrawler: When you wake from this earthly slumber, my friend, look for me. I will be there, waiting for you...radiant and with open arms.

"If man...if man made me, then they are God. And you are titans, their spoiled lineage... But while you war, we children sit in judgment of those above us... We judge and find you both wanting.
Did you hear us, Olympus?
We have stolen your fire...and with it, we will burn you all."
— The Mother Mold

Look at what they've done...
...what they always do.
Look at how it always ends.
With fire...and death...and the funerals of our children.
Every victory...ash. Every triumph...defeat.
They've murdered so many of us, the world has grown use to it.
This is just...how things are for...those people. For mutants.
No more.

Powers of X #4: "Something Sinister"

"I fear our needs will far outlast our desires. We have many hard choices ahead of us."
— Professor X

Xavier: Hello. Thank you for seeing us. We've come to—
Sinister: Stop. Before either of you says a word I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I. Love. That. Cape. Amazing. Why do I not have a cape? How do I not have a cape?

"Psst! It's me! The Sinister with the mutant gene. And if you must know, my mutant power is overthrowing tyrants and being absolutely fabulous."
— Mutant Sinister

Xavier: This is Krakoa.
Cypher: Oh, cool. The secret island where mutants come to die. Fantastic. Excellent choice, sir.
Xavier: Is it wrong to expect more than sarcasm from someone whose mutant power is understanding and deciphering the nuances of any language?
Cypher: Uh... Yeah.

"We were Okkara. The one land. Ancient before the word existed, but not yet old in the way that they were old. The twilight sword of the enemy tore the world asunder, and what was one became two: Arakko and Krakoa. And from the chasm between them—from whatever wicked place they came—the enemy poured into this world. If not for the man who was not a man—the first mutant—the warrior-god in blue—the world would have fallen. But using all his mighty powers, he stood in the gap—pushed Arrako through the chasm—set his FOUR to sentinel that land...and sealed the chasm shut. Never to be opened again. It was a thing that had to happen—it was—but Krakoa remains alone—a half not whole—for now and forever..."
— Krakoa speaking through Cypher

"I'm not afraid of what I've done, but I do fear what it will one day cost."
— Professor X

House of X #5: "Society"

"Do you want to know the real difference between them and us?
Until now, we were never given a chance."
— Professor X

"Charles and I always wondered what would happen if mutants stopped being hunted—if we didn't have to run anymore...didn't have to hide... What would happen when—like with man—the greatest necessary traits in mutantdome weren't strength and aggressiveness, but intelligence, ingenuity, and creativity? And now we know."
— Magneto

"There you are, my boy... Even knowing I could bring you back...a part of me dies when any of you do... So let's not do that again, shall we?"
— Professor X

Storm: What is your name?
Cyclops: Cyclops. Scott Summers.
Storm: And how do I know it's you, brother?
Cyclops: Once I thought I was strong—a leader of mutants—and then you showed me what strong was.
Storm: I learned it watching you.

Storm: What is your name?
Marvel Girl: Marvel Girl. Jean Grey.
Storm: And how do I know it's you, Jean?
Marvel Girl: Oh...I'm the only "me" that ever was, Ororo.

Xavier: Over the years, man has killed millions of us—and so many remain lost. But this is the good work, Erik.
Magneto: And it must continue until Genosha is spoken of not as a grave, but as a crucible.
Xavier: The work will continue until it is done. It is foundational—everything.
Magneto: They should have killed us all when they had the chance.

Apocalypse: For centuries, I have fostered war and conflict, all in the hopes of mutantdom finally asserting dominance over this world. Now look at you...look at all of you... You have finally become what I intended you to be. I could not be more proud.
Magneto: We need to hear the words.
Apocalypse: We submit to the laws of this land, be what they may...and acknowledge that from this day forward, we all serve a higher purpose than want or need. One people. From this day forward.
Xavier: Very well... Then let it be known—let the word spread: Krakoa is for all mutants.

"Welcome home."
— Professor X to Apocalypse

"If you are us, then be with us.
Come home."
— Magneto

Powers of X #5: "For the Children"

"They will think we are doing one thing, but the truth is we are doing something altogether different."
— Professor X

CRADLE LOCATIONS
[1.]...................................[ House of X ]
[2.]...................................[ Island M ]
[3.]...................................[ Summer House ]
[4.]...................................[ The Pointe ]
[5.]...................................[ Moira's No-Place ]

Emma Frost: Ah, so it's the two of you together... This is either going to be incredibly heroic or terrifyingly reckless. Dare I ask which?
Xavier: Come now, Emma, where's your faith? Could it just as easily be both?

Xavier: This is that day you've been waiting for.
Magneto: To make right all the things that went wrong.
Emma Frost: What's going to make it different this time?
Magneto: Let us show you.

Emma Frost: One more time, then. For the children. All right. I'm in.

Namor: So let me see if I understand you clearly. You're inviting all the mutants on this planet to live together on your perfect little island. The good...the evil...and those beyond such quaint descriptors.
Xavier: Yes, we are, Namor. And we want you to join us. Please...come home.
Namor: It's kind of you to ask. But if I'm comprehending the real reason you're doing this, it's because you've finally realized that you are not them...and that they will never accept you or love you—not because you don't deserve it—but because they envy you. They hate your superiority. And they always will. It's good that you finally figured this out...but let me ask you: Do I strike you as someone who's just now realized how much better I am than everyone else? And do you actually think I believe you feel that way, too? Go away, little man. And don't come back until you really mean it.

It's worth nothing that, in terms of intellect and power, a Dominion is not colloquially "godlike" but categorically "godlike" and indistinguishable from any and all mythic or religious comparisons.

[NOTE: Beyond universal abstracts [under which Dominions are seen as "naturally occuring"], the only primal threats that a Dominion fears are the World-Eater, Galactus, and the singular universal manifestation of life, the Phoenix.]

"When you see me again, understand what that means."
— Namor

House of X #6: "I Am Not Ashamed"

"Is what we have perfect? No. What is?
But it's a start — and a good one."
— Professor X

"Humans of the planet Earth... I am the mutant Charles Xavier, and I bring you a message of hope. In the coming days, you will learn of several far-reaching pharmaceutical breakthroughs that have been discovered by mutant scientists. These drugs will extend human life, heal diseases of the mind and will prevent—or cure—most common maladies. Influenza, Alzheimer's, ALS, many cancers...gone. Overnight. These drugs will make life on this planet...better. Remarkably so.
All of this...we have made for you. In the past, they would have been a gift. Something freely given by me—to you—because I believed it would create harmony between our two peoples. That was my dream—harmony—but you have taught me a harsh lesson: That dream was a lie. You see, all I ever wanted was peace between mutants and humans. All I ever wanted was to love you and for you to love us. We wanted to save you—and we did, many times—but in return, all you did was stand by while evil men killed our children. Over 16 million of them.
So there will be no gift...for you have not earned it. We will—however—let you pay for it. In return for two things, we will provide you with the means to have a better life. One without pain or suffering and full of hope—and it will cost you so little. First, you must accept the island of Krakoa as the nation-state of all mutants on this planet. We will happily go through the same process as any newly formed nation with the U.N., but there is an expectation that our sovereignty will be recognized. Second, all mutants—by birth—can claim Krakoan citizenship. And with citizenship, we have a period of amnesty. So that those who have been singled out as criminals—or punished and imprisoned by humans—can overcome man's bias against mutants. From this day forward, mutants will be judged by mutant law, not man's.
These are our simple demands, and they are not negotiable. In return for making our lives better, we will do the same for you. And if you find yourself asking, who are these mutants to think they can dictate terms to us?
We are the future. An evolutionary inevitability. The Earth's true inheritors. You closed your eyes last night believing this world would be yours forever. That was your dream. And like mine...it was a lie.
Here is the new truth: While you slept, the world changed."
— Professor X

Xavier: I cannot say that everyone here best represents the ideals of what any society should be based on, but—be that as it may—it falls on us to establish the laws of this land.
Mister Sinister: Is he talking about me? If he is, I don't care. I won't be ignored. I have ideas. Nobody puts Sinister in a corner. No-bo-dy.

MAKE MORE MUTANTS
MURDER NO MAN
RESPECT THIS SACRED LAND
— The Three Laws of Mutantdom

Xavier: You have been found guilty. And so will be sentenced...
Sabretooth: &%@#$! Let me go! Let me—hhurrk!
Xavier: The problem—however—with sentencing you for your crimes is that we cannot send you back into the world. And as we tolerate no prisons here on Krakoa, that leaves us very few choices. Especially since capital solutions would bring you into resurrection protocols... Instead, this will be your fate. Stasis...deep inside Krakoa. Alive but immobile...aware but unable to act on it... And for how long? Forever, Creed. For that is how long mutant justice lasts. Perhaps...one day, a time will come when you have an opportunity to redeem yourself... But that time is not now, and until it is...you are EXILED.

"It's distasteful, I know...this business of running a nation. I pray that we never get used to it. That we never grow cold from it. That we never learn to love it. It's been said that when a parent has a child, they never get a good night's rest again. Well, I have millions of children, and I haven't slept in decades... I may never sleep again... Now the same may be true of you.... But they will. In soft fields of lush green... Staring at the stars and dreaming of a future where they hold those stars in their hands. This is what we will give them. A home. A nation. And someday in the future...the world."
— Professor X

"Just look at what we've made."
— Magneto

Powers of X #6: "House of X"

"And now we build."
— Professor X

The Librarian: Your personal memory may differ, but historical records imply mutants never really saw what was coming. It's sad really... The idea that you were what was next. Evolutionarily inevitable.
Logan: We were.
Moira: We are.
The Librarian: Look around you, Moira Kinross. See the cage. That's inevitable. Not you being outside of it. Mutants are an evolutionary response to an environment. You are...naturally occurring. But what happens when humanity stops being beholden to its environments? When man controls the building blocks of biology and technology... Evolution is no match for genetic engineering. What good was one mutant adapting to its environment when we could make ten super men? You thought it was the machines that would defeat you...but we just used them to buy time. Sentinels bought us years. Nimrods bought us decades.

Moira: All right. Send me on my way...
Logan: Close your eyes, Moira.
Moira: No. My eyes are open, and they're going to stay that way. Just make it quick.
Logan: Don't worry, darlin'... This is what I do.

And so ended the sixth life of Moira X.

Moira: I opened my mind to you—so you know that I know you, Charles Xavier. I have loved you. I have hated you. And all the emotional complexities in between. Not once in all my lives have you changed...
Xavier: Thank you.
Moira: It's not a compliment. You're a good man who believes in the goodness of others...and it breaks my heart that I have to break that part of you. But I will break it. Because that's what has to happen now. I know you will fight me...just like your shade, Erik, will fight me. But this time, I mean for all of us to be together. All of us. You've been dreaming the wrong dream, Charles...and it's long past time that you wake up.

"My concern — my paramount fear — is that I fracture his psyche and eventually unleash something unexpected on the world."
— Moira's Journal, Entry 14

"He had the most marvelous idea regarding the potential tandem of several mutants and what they could accomplish if they worked in harmony. The only thing we lack is is a mutant with the ability to tweak primal matter or give reality as we know it a push.

I have used my expertise in genetic modification to find potential matches for both Charles and me to produce a mutant.

There are several possibilities."
— Moira's Journal, Entry 17

"We have lost Magneto.

I had hoped — given the opportunity — to help make him a better man. Instead all we have made is an enemy.

I am just as bad as they are. If not worse."
— Moira's Journal, Entry 52

Xavier: We promised to bring Destiny back.
Moira: You cannot do that.
Xavier: We know.
Moira: There can be no precogs on Krakoa. We cannot—will not—tolerate mutants who can see the future.
Xavier: We know.
Moira: You don't understand. She has ways of seeing me...and I am a weakness because my death ends all of this.
Xavier: We know.
Moira: Do you? What happens when we bring her back and she tells everyone what she sees? What if she tells everyone the truth?
Xavier: Moira...we know. And we'll put her off as long as we can.
Magneto: Tomorrow, tomorrow, not today, all the mutant leaders say.
Xavier: We'll put them all of them off, but one day... They deserve to know the truth.
Magneto: Just like Charles and I did.

Moira: You really want them to know—that we always lose?
Xavier: The truth is that until now we have always lost...but this time it's going to be different.
Magneto: For we are different.
Xavier: And that is all because of you. There's no denying what you've done, Moira. You shaped us into this... You made us into this... We are the perfect tools for an imperfect age. You should celebrate what you've done...for you have done it well. But now it's time for you to step aside...and let us do the good work for which we were created.

Magneto: Is it enough?
Xavier: This is only the start, Erik, but we have to hope so.
Magneto: And if it is not?
Xavier: Then we do...more. Whatever the cost. Whatever it takes. This is all there is, Erik. We live and die with this, you and I.
Magneto: Then I will die for it. And if I fall, then you will raise me up—I will show the world what a real mutant is.
Xavier: Keep talking like that...and you're sure to elicit a response.
Magneto: I am not ashamed of what I am. Let them try to stop us this time.
Xavier: Yes... Let them try.

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