X-Men (1992–1997)
Quotes
Wolverine: Hey, Tin Woodsman! I'm sending you back to Oz... in pieces!
Apocalypse: I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me and be broken!
Apocalypse: I know more of this world than you can even dream. That is why I must destroy it!
[after angrily ripping the roof off Cyclops' car]
Wolverine: [to Jean Grey] Tell Cyclops I made him a convertible.
[Fighting Morph, who has taken his form]
Wolverine: You might look like me. But you don't fight like me.
Warren Worthington III: I'll follow him to the end of the earth, through perdition's fire, until he breathes blood and rolls over, split, broken, finished!
Wolverine: THIS ONE'S FOR YOU MORPH!
Arcade Manager: [after Jubliee destroys a video game] Hey, you! Do you know how much that game costs?
Jubilee: Yeah, a quarter.
Wolverine: How come we're supposed to trash your old enemy, but we gotta go easy on mine?
Sabretooth: What's wrong, Wolverine? No kiss and make up?
Wolverine: Kiss this!
Female Cashier: You must like playing with cards.
Gambit: I like Solitaire ok... that is, unless I got someone to play with.
Gambit: [Gambit jumps in Rogue's car] Vacation eh. Muir island is no good for you. How about we go to Paris instead?
Rogue: How about getting your butt out of my car?
[She throws him out of the car and lands on his feet]
Gambit: [He runs and leeps over the wall and lands in her car] Let's have a kiss before you go, huh
Gambit: [She gets out of the car and walks off] What's wrong Chère?
Rogue: You know what happens when I touch somebody.You wanna end up in the hospital?
Gambit: Maybe it's worth, non.
[as Storm uses her weather-controlling powers]
Beast: And I used to wonder how she acquired her nom de guerre!
[trying to give Cyclops mouth-to-mouth]
Rogue: Come on, pretty boy... make a girl feel welcome.
[Wolverine has just found out the government is releasing Omega Red]
Wolverine: Who do those spy catchers think they're dealin' with? Winnie the Pooh?
Magneto: Are these the people whose laws you trust? They don't seem to share your sense of brotherhood.
Beast: They only fight because they fear us. Because they don't yet understand.
Magneto: But they do understand: Our mutant powers make us superior to them, and that is why they fear us.
Beast: That is why I must stand trial; They must see that we are not a threat to mankind, but are a part of it.
Magneto: The humans must be crushed, and I have the power to do it!
Cyclops: Energy blasts, huh? Here's one from a pro!
Wolverine: [to Gambit] Outta the way, Gumbo!
Beast: I wonder? "Security". Are any of us truly secure?
Wolverine: It's adamantium tasting time, boys!
Wolverine: Her trail went cold outside the house... Got bit by a dog, too.
Gorgeous George: Come to Gorgeous, pretty boy!
Gambit: Gambit likes to play hard to get!
Gorgeous George: You've gotta play harder than that!
Rogue: Keep your sticky fingers to yourself, you walking tar pit!
Wolverine: [the X-Men try to stop Wolverine from leaving] I go where I wanna go.
Apocalypse: [to Graydon Creed] I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you! I am eternal!
Magneto: You're all fools! Heroic fools. The brave are always the first to die.
Gambit: "I know", she say. "Let's take a trip," she say. "It be fun." Huh. Some fun!
Rogue: After what we been through, lately, I figured we could use some time off.
Gambit: But you didn't tell me we'd have a chaperone!
Wolverine: Don't whine to me, this ain't my idea of a good time!
Rogue: Hey, hoser, I thought you liked to ski!
Wolverine: This is sittin' around, drinkin' cocoa, and gettin' funny looks from rich people.
Rogue: Yeah? Well, next time plan, your own durn vacation!
[she leaves]
Gambit: Aw, Chère, wait!... Well, I hope you're happy!
Wolverine: Dunno the meanin' of the word.
Rogue: Looks like your behind the ol' 8-ball Gambit and I'm about to sink it.
Gambit: You not win the game yet Chère. Could be you need *incentive*. How about the winner get a kiss from the loser?
Rogue: [Rogue misses the shot] That's not funny or do you wanna end up in a coma.
Gambit: You can drain my energy any time, Chère. Gambit has plenty. Observe, first we charge the cue.
Jean Grey: Don't let Gambit get to you Rogue.
Rogue: I'd like to wipe that smirk off his face. Serve him right if I did give that lowlife a kiss.
Jean Grey: Maybe Monsieur Gambit is not as good as he thinks he is
[Jean telekinetically forces Gambit to miss the shot]
Rogue: Looks like you knicked the table Gambit.
Storm: Gambit,the term rec-room does not mean you must wreck it.
Gambit: Stormmakes jokes now, What next?
Wolverine: That morter looks a little thick Storm, better add some water.
Gambit: Big expert, always giving orders.
Wolverine: Making up for your screw ups Gumbo. Too bad you don't know how to do anything but pickpockets and steal candy from babies.
Wolverine: [Gambit charges a brick and Wolverine picks it up] Huh, look out.
Cyclops: [Cyclops fires a blast at the brick and it explodes] Gambit, What do you think your doing?
Gambit: He better be more careful with his mouth.
Wolverine: You better stop worrying about my mouth and start worrying about these.
[He draws his claws]
Rogue: Why don't you boys calm down.
Wolverine: Why? You afraid I'm gonna hurt him? I always thought you had a soft spot for that Cajun.
Rogue: About as soft as you fathead. Are you gonna shutup or am I gonna have to help you?
[to Sabretooth]
Wolverine: All right, you egg-suckin' piece of gutter trash! You always did like pushin' around people smaller than you! Well I'M smaller! Try pushin' me!
Juggernaut: What's she gonna do? Hit me with her diaper?
Jubilee: I'll show you, you overgrown trashcan!
Professor X: Phoenix, why do you inhabit Jean's body?
Wolverine: You kids better behave yourselves. I'm staying home to baby sit.
Cyclops: Tell me "DAD", AM I MAKING THIS UP!
Sentinel: Do not be alarmed. I am here to serve and protect.
Sentinel: Unidentified mutants... ignore.
Wolverine: Tag, you're it. This game is over!
Wolverine: What's the matter? Teacher's pet got cold feet? Anytime, pretty boy!
Morph: It looks like clear sailing from here.
Wolverine: I smell gun oil. Guards - they're onto us.
Professor X: Magnus, your violence will solve nothing. We must use our special gifts to bring peace to mankind.
Magneto: You're a fool, Charles! Look at them, they can't even make peace with each other!
Wolverine: I'll show 'em a danger to the community!
Cyclops: His name's Sabertooth. Wolverine knows him, and hates him.
Professor X: Did he give a reason?
Cyclops: Does he ever?
Wolverine: I'm taking this maggot outta here, one way or the other!
Professor X: Wolverine, personal vendettas have no place here.
Cyclops: You know we must help a mutant if he's in trouble.
Wolverine: It's not personal - he's a threat.
Professor X: He was near death.
Wolverine: Not near enough.
Magneto: Mutant liberation begins!
Magneto: Today begins a new world for all of us, a world where we needn't hide in corners and crawl in fear.
Wolverine: I don't know what corner you crawled outta, Bub. But we don't find nuclear missiles all that liberating.
Cyclops: Come quietly or be taken!
Wolverine: And I hope ya wanna be taken!
Wolverine: Stop the philosophy, let's go kick his butt!
Wolverine: You always were second best! And in this business, Bub, second best don't *cut* it!
Wolverine: [facing Vertigo] Lady... you make me sick!
Wolverine: Ducks... I *hate* ducks.
Wolverine: [looking in a refrigerator] Where's that blasted salami? I can *smell* it! Ahhh... all it needs is slicin'!
[pops his claws]
[apocalypse has captured Jean Gray]
Wolverine: What are you doing with her, you pile of dog puke?
Wolverine: Cyke has his problems, but he don't smell like a morlock!
Wolverine: Run all ya like, Lady. I like to hunt.
Storm: I summon the full power of the storm!
Apocalypse: I am Apocalypse! Look upon the future and tremble!
[Wolverine grabs onto War's flying horse]
Wolverine: Don't ya think we're getting a little carried away here?
Wolverine: Party's over, someone invited Nimrod.
Wolverine: I'm gonna remember this, Rookie!
Wolverine: Mr. Terminator here claims that an assassination's gonna take place that's gonna ruin the world, and one of us X-Men is the trigger!
[Bishop's temporal transceiver begins beeping]
Wolverine: What's going on? Someone in the future stealing your car?
Wolverine: [to The Blob] Okay, round-boy, let's dance!
Bishop: I'm back in the future again, nothing's changed. It's all just like I left it.
Forge: You can try again, and again if you have to, once the machine's rebuilt.
Bishop: But I didn't fail, Forge. I stopped the assassination.
Forge: Then something else must've happened afterwards, something that has made the future still turn out like this.
[after the X-Men discover their powers aren't working]
Storm: Our powers have abandoned us.
[after being knocked down by Callisto, who flees]
Wolverine: Oh, I love it when they play hard to get!
The Blob: I'm gonna flatten these X-clowns by sitting on 'em!
Jubilation Lee: Ugh! That's gross!
Cable: No! Not Apocalypse!
Sabretooth: The friends of my enemies are my enemies!
[raises claws]
Sabretooth: You want Wolverine gone? Then do what I say!
Professor X: Cruelty to creatures we do not understand seems limitless.
Apocalypse: I SHALL RETURN!
Sentinel: HALT! MUTANT!
Wolverine: "Attack" is one of my favorite words. And the name's Wolverine.
Wolverine: It was a filthy mutant!
[Fighting Wolverine]
Sabretooth: How about a little taste of Adamantium!
Wolverine: I hate it when that happens.
Jean Grey: Maybe I can read its mind.
[the X-Men find Senator Kelley's room trashed]
Cyclops: Kelly's gone, Professor. There must have been more mutants in that gang than we knew about.
Professor X: I don't believe this is the work of the same gang.
Jean Grey: Why not Professor?
Professor X: Because my watch has stopped.
Cyclops: I don't understand. Why is that important?
[Professor X drops the watch and it sticks to the side of his wheelchair]
Professor X: Because it's been magnetized.
Ruckus: I think you'd better watch your mouth... and mine!
Cyclops: Remember, careful with the civilians!
Wolverine: Sure, Cyke. I'll try not to bruise them while I save their lives!
Pestilence: Even mutants may feel the touch of Pestilence!
Magneto: Better that we die on our feet than lives on our knees!
Professor X: They haven't learned how to live at ease with their mutant powers, so their frustrated. Some lash out, while some have turned inward, letting their bitterness consume them. But, they all feel dissatisfied with themselves, and alone.
Jubilation Lee: Why are they doing this to me? I didn't ask to be a mutant.
Wolverine: I don't care which Spirit Ladies do what to which Cajuns, I'm here to stop a wedding.
Gambit: The name is GAMBIT! REMEMBER IT!
Ms Marvel: You took away my life! This ends now!
Gambit: Family, huh! This family ain't nothin' but trouble.
Wolverine: The man doesn't break a sweat against Apocalypse or Magneto. So - so what nails him? A pine tree!
Gambit: This is why I left Nawlins in the first place. I don't want to be a part of this family no more.
[a Hellfire Club guard is pointing a gun at Wolverine]
Wolverine: I know what you're thinkin', punk: "Question is, can I get Wolverine before he turns me into shishkabob with those claws?" Well, bub, seein' as how these claws are adamantium, the strongest metal known, and can slice through vanadium steel like a hot knife through butter, buddy, you gotta ask yourself: "Do I feel lucky?"
Apocalypse: Fool! You dare to claim dominion over me?
Apocalypse: I shall not forget this impudence!
Wolverine: [sniffing] Zit cream?
Jubilation Lee: Oh no!
[beast disarms "Friend of Humanity" thug]
Beast: Perhaps you are unaware that this is a dangerous weapon.
Sinister: Enjoy your revenge, Morph. I know I am.
Jubilee: Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?
Graydon Creed: You were born!
Wolverine: [to Jubilee] If you knew how much bubble gum I had to sniff to find you!
Wolverine: Didn't anybody ever tell you, you don't kick a man when he's down, hairbag!
Hairbag: Hey, who told ya my name? You making fun of me? Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!
Sinister: I should've let you die!
Professor X: I sense the lingering presence of something... sinister.
[Wolverine claws Omega Red in the back]
Omega Red: Forgot about my carbonadium armor, didn't you? Well, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours!
Wolverine: Let me up, or I'll rearrange your windpipe!
Rogue: [to Cable] Remember me, Bright Eyes?
Cable: [transports into phone booth] Time to reach out and touch someone!
Phoenix: I... am... Phoenix!
[Professor X's dark side has emerged from his body]
Cyclops: I don't want to hurt you!
Professor X: But *I* want to hurt you!
Rogue: Lilandra's out colder than leftover hush puppies!
Iceman: This is getting way too hot for me!
[Multiple Man duplicates himself]
Wolverine: What is this, a two-for-one sale?
[Multiple Man makes more duplicates]
Multiple Man: No, it's more like a baker's dozen!
[Wolverine slices Pierce's arm]
Pierce: My arm! Blast you!
Storm: I believe that pleasure is mine!
[Storm hits him with lightning]
[Rogue rips off Pierce's arm]
Rogue: Thanks for the hand, Sugar. I bet these cybernetic things cost an arm and a leg.
Dark Phoenix: The mortal Jean Grey is no more, I am fire-made flesh, power incarnate, I am the *Dark Phoenix*!
Rogue: What is this, catch the X-Man day?
Lilandra: Charles Xavier, it is the decision of the high council of the Shi'Ar Empire, that the being known both as the Phoenix and as Jean Grey, must be destroyed!
Professor X: Lilandra, stop this!
Lilandra: For the sake of all that lives, Jean Grey must perish!
Rogue: My daddy always said two's company and three's an eavesdropper.
Wolverine: [to Nightcrawler] Don't talk to *me* about *God*!
Rogue: You know, I remember when I was 13. Had me a boyfriend, so I kissed him. Poor boy was in a coma for three days. That was when I first realized that if I touched anybody, I'd absorb their strength right into me.
[sighs]
Rogue: Some "power," huh? That's when the boys stopped calling.
Beast: [Chuckles] Consider yourself fortunate. I had dandruff.
Gambit: [after Nightcrawler finishes telling the X- Men about his life of persecution for being a mutant] I guess peace don't come to the wicked-lookin'.
Bishop: I should have known better than to play poker with an assassin.
Gambit: Shut up, fool!
[he throws a card, it explodes harmlessly against Bishop's chest]
Bishop: I can absorb your bio-energy, and channel it right back.
Bishop: [fires energy blasts from his hands at Gambit, who ducks]
Bishop: That's my mutant power.
Wolverine: [pops claws] How would you like to try absorbing *these*?
[Mystique has shape changed to Gambit's form]
Gambit: Surprised to see me? I know I am.
Gambit: You wanna play with Gambit? Here, pick a card!
Gambit: Cyclops, give 'em an eyeful!
Bobby Lebeau: Destroy her! Destroy them all!
Gambit: Bobby Shut up. Take away her powers but not her life.
