Ian McKellen credited as playing...
Eric Lehnsherr • Magneto
- Mitchell Laurio: Have a nice sleep, Lensherr?
- Magneto: There's something different about you today, Mr. Laurio.
- Mitchell Laurio: Yeah, I *was* having a good day.
- Magneto: [gets up] No, it's something else...
- Mitchell Laurio: Sit down.
- Magneto: No.
- Mitchell Laurio: [draws his club] I said, sit your ass down!
- [He starts for Magneto, who holds up his hand. Laurio stops forcibly]
- Mitchell Laurio: [gasps] What are you doing?
- Magneto: Ah, there it is...
- [He lifts his hand, and Laurio lifts into the air]
- Magneto: Too much iron in your blood!
- [He draws a cloud of iron particles out through Laurio's skin, and squeezes them into a set of ball bearings. Laurio collapses to the floor, unmoving]
- Magneto: Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman. Especially one who's interested in you.
- Pyro: So, they say you're the bad guy.
- Magneto: Is that what they say?
- Pyro: That's a dorky looking helmet. What's it for?
- Magneto: This "dorky looking helmet" is the only thing that's going to protect me from the REAL bad guys.
- [magnetically takes Pyro's lighter and lights it]
- Magneto: What's your name?
- Pyro: [staring at his lighter in Magneto's hands] John.
- Magneto: What's your *real* name, John?
- Pyro: [summons lighter's flame to his hand] Pyro.
- Magneto: Quite a talent you have there, Pyro.
- Pyro: I can only manipulate the fire
- [flame disappears into Pyro's hand]
- Pyro: I can't create it.
- Magneto: You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.
- Magneto: Charles Xavier. Have you come to rescue me?
- Professor X: Sorry, Eric. Not today.
- Magneto: To what do I owe the pleasure?
- Professor X: The assassination attempt on the president. What do you know about it?
- Magneto: Nothing. Only what I read in the papers. You really shouldn't have to ask, Charles.
- Professor X: What's happened to you?
- Magneto: I've had frequent visits from William Stryker. You remember him, don't you?
- Professor X: William Stryker.
- Magneto: His son, Jason, was once a student of yours, wasn't he?
- Professor X: Yes. Years ago. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help him... at least not in the way his father wanted.
- Magneto: And now you think that taking in the Wolverine will make up for your failure with Stryker's son. You haven't told him about his past, have you?
- Professor X: I've put him on the path. Logan's mind is still fragile.
- Magneto: Is it? Or are you afraid of losing one of your precious X-men... old friend?
- Professor X: Eric, what have you done?
- Magneto: I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.
- Professor X: What have you told Stryker?
- Magneto: [sighs] Everything.
- [gas emits]
- Magneto: The war has begun.
- Professor X: Scott!
- Magneto: You should've killed me when you had the chance!
- Magneto: [Magneto uses his power to stop the X-Jet from crashing] When will these people learn how to fly?
- Magneto: His name is Colonel William Stryker, and he invaded your mansion for one purpose: he wanted Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own.
- Dr. Jean Grey: But that doesn't make any sense. Stryker would need the Professor to operate it.
- Magneto: Which I think is the only reason my old friend is still alive.
- Storm: Oh my God...
- [Storm, Jean Gray and Magneto exchange worried looks]
- Wolverine: What are you all so afraid of?
- Magneto: While Cerebro is working, Charles's mind is connected to every living person on the planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group - let's say mutants, for example - he could kill us all!
- Storm: Wait a minute, how would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?
- Magneto: ...Because I told him. I helped Charles build it, remember? Mr. Stryker has powerful methods of persuasion - even against a mutant as strong as Charles.
- [Cyclops, under Stryker's mind control, attacks Jean, Magneto, and Mystique]
- Dr. Jean Grey: Go! I'll handle him!
- Magneto: [to Mystique] This is one lovers' quarrel we cannot get involved in, my dear.
- [Rogue sees Magneto and Mystique talking, then they notice her]
- Magneto: We love what you've done with your hair.
- [Stryker comes to interrogate Magneto]
- Magneto: Ah, Mr. Stryker! Come to see that American tax dollars are keeping me comfortable?
- Magneto: [approaching an incapacitated Xavier] How does it look from there Charles? Still fighting the good fight? From here it looks like they're not playing by your rules... Maybe it's time to play by theirs!
- [to Wolverine]
- Magneto: The professor thought you would be able to figure it out on your own. He gives you more credit than I do.
- Magneto: Mr Stryker. Funny, we keep running into each other. Mark my words: it will never happen again.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Why do you need us?
- Magneto: Mystique has discovered plans of a base that Stryker's been operating out of for decades. Only we don't know where it is. We thought one of you might.
- Wolverine: The professor already tried.
- Magneto: [sighs] Once again, you think it's all about you.
- [he looks up. They follow his gaze and see Nightcrawler perched in the trees above them]