X-Men '97 (TV Series)

Mutant Liberation Begins (2024)

Lawrence Bayne: Carl Denti, FOH Soldier

Quotes 

• [after Storm is shot by X-Cutioner while protecting Magneto, she realizes that she cannot summon her weather powers while Magneto restrains X-Cutioner] 

  Storm : The breeze is gone. I cannot feel it, nor the moisture, nor the air. What has he done to me?

  [Magneto approaches Cooper and the Tribunal] 

  Val Cooper : Magneto, this was not what we wanted.

  Magneto : Lies. This is your dream. My kind splayed before you, powerless and afraid. All the X-Men have done is use their awesome power to protect a world that hates and fears them. Behold, their reward.

  [Magneto points at a weakened Storm] 

  Magneto : What must we do to be good enough? Is this the high road's destination? If so, I say, as I have too many times before, never again.

  [Magneto raises the stage] 

  American Judge : Let us go! No!

  [Magneto brings X-Cutioner, Cooper, and the Tribunal towards the sky until they have an aerial view of the East Coast. He then hovers over X-Cutioner's helpless body] 

  Magneto : Bigot, ingrate, sycophant, worm. So small, I could smite you with a step. There was a time I would smite you all for what was done to Storm.

  [Magneto hovers away from X-Cutioner] 

  Magneto : But today, I have saved you from your own, for an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of Earth. How vast it is versus how small we make it. Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream, and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own, but merely to accept that this is a shared world with a common future, and that my kind, like yours, have the right to live in it. I am trying to be better.

  [Magneto places X-Cutioner facing downward] 

  Carl Denti : Please...

  Magneto : Do not make me let you down.

• Carl Denti : [while beating on a blinded Cyclops]  Know what I hate about your kind? You act like you got it so bad. Normal people have it bad, too. Harder! We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see? It's the whining. I hate your whining just as much as I hate you.

• Beast : I am unable to ascertain the nature of the weapon on his back, but his armor is constructed from an energy-resistant titanium-laced alloy.

  Cyclops : You got a name?

  Carl Denti : X-Cutioner. Here to make sure gene freaks like Magneto pay for their crimes.

• Cyclops : Hurt my friends? Well, now you answer to me!

  Carl Denti : Humanity answers to no one!

• Carl Denti : [locks a restraining collar on Bishop.]  Round two! Absorb this!

  [blasts Bishop]