"There is a faster, more aggressive race in our midst, eager to inherit the Earth we stand upon. Science calls them Homo sapiens superior: the mutants. You saw my findings: the human race will be just as extinct as the neaderthal man within four generations. Unless we fight back before it's too late. Unless we exterminate the mutant germ line once and for all. Humanely, of course."
—Cassandra Nova
"No one saw it coming... they were drinking tea... making love... All those lights... going out... no one saw..."
—Charles Xavier
"Professor X tried to kill his twin sister while they were both still in the womb. We ought to talk..."
— Jean Grey
"So we'll start at the beginning, shall we? 'A' is for 'Atom'."
— Charles Xavier
"This is the voice. This is the voice of Magneto. This is the voice of the Genoshan Nation. It's a strange thing to die in the darkness. It's a strange thing to die. I was Magneto, master of the magnetic forces. Now I will be a voice in the darkness, echoing forever. Once, I was a mortal man. Now I am becoming memory, immortal. They must have thought they could silence us forever. Instead we have become magnetic. Unstoppable. Do you understand? Our voices will be broadcast around the world... into space. At the speed of light. At the speed of radio. Our voices traveling without end through the depths of time and space. Beyond this life. And far, far... beyond this death."
—Magneto
"Professor, it's the future already... I thought I was going to miss it... look at the curve of time... Manhattan is gone... the school is gigantic! So I'm thinking... I'm thinking 'what if you're wrong, Professor X'... I can't help thinking that thought and not letting it loose... not trying to be rude but... what if you'd... r-really... missed the point? What if we were both wrong, Professor X... What if it wasn't the humans to blame at all? What if the real enemy... was inside... all along?"
—Quentin Quire
"The fire of the Phoenix burns through lies, you understand? The gaze of the Phoenix is like an x-ray tearing through every self-deception. So burn."
—Jean Grey
"Look. I have broken The World. But do I build a new prison here in the ruins... or do I dare go beyond? I will ask... are you real?"
— Weapon XV aka Ultimaton
"X-Men emergency indeed, Charles. The dream is over."
—Magneto
"May history judge my actions, great or small. In the final reckoning... when I have given them paradise and the world is free... these poor dead will not seem so many. Now let the sky fall."
— Magneto
"Our universe is broken. We have no idea where the break occurred, all we know is there's no one left to put it right. Except for us..."
— Cassandra Nova Xavier
"I drowned the last whale. I can do anything now."
—The Beast
"Live, Scott."
—The Phoenix
