X-Men '97 (TV Series)

Tolerance Is Extinction - Part 1 (2024)

Catherine Disher: Val Cooper

Quotes 

• [Bastion returns to his hideout to confront Val for releasing Magneto] 

  Bastion : You just had to let the dog out. Do you understand the futility of your bleeding heart, of fighting the future?

  Val Cooper : You're a monster.

  Bastion : I was born this way.

  [Bastion forms metal restraints around Val] 

  Val Cooper : You know, in Genosha, I felt a lot of things. Pain, grief, admiration for those who fought, despite the odds. But 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.

• Bastion : You sound like a dinosaur fretting the fate of an asteroid before impact.

  Val Cooper : I'm more concerned you're the asteroid, Bastion.