X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Graduation Day (1997)

Cedric Smith: Professor X, Charles Xavier

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• Professor Charles Xavier : Cyclops: were I your father, I would tell you that no son could ever be truer.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Wolverine: loner, you have found a family. Wild savage, you have found dignity. Cynic, you have found faith.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Rogue: unable to touch, yet look around you - you will find that you have touched us all.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Storm: my beautiful Storm, mighty as a hurricane, gentle as a summer rain.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Gambit: how often must a scoundrel prove himself a hero, before he believes it himself.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Jubilee: you are the future. When I look at your face, I see hope.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Jean: first in my heart. Your courage allowed you to see things no other human ever has, yet remain the same innocent child I met so very long ago.

• Professor Charles Xavier : Morph: it's nice to see you home. In facing your fears, you have truly proven yourself an X-Man.

• Professor X : Hello, Magnus. Surely you have more impressing business than nursing an old friend.

  Magneto : Nothing more important.

  Professor X : Thank you. It seems I have quite an audience. Thank you all. I'm grateful to have the chance, to say goodbye.

• Beast : Is there anything I can do, Charles?

  Professor Charles Xavier : [quoting Hamlet]  "The friends thou hast, and thy adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."

• Professor Charles Xavier : Mutants are human beings!

  [COUGHING] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : They wish only equal protection under the law, to be accepted as...

  Henry Peter Gyrich : I've always wondered why you're such a mutant lover, Xavier. Xavier, the great peacemaker, friend of poor, misunderstood mutants. Could Charles Xavier be a stinking mutant himself?

• [first lines] 

  Henry Peter Gyrich : Can't you see? We are looking at the end of the world as we know it! For years, I've been trying to warn you! One, London, '93. Millions in damage. Two, their nuclear asteroid slamming into our planet. Three, mutant freedom fighters level a town in the former Soviet Union. I have seen what these monsters can do. Don't be fooled by bleeding-heart mutant appeasers! We are at war! The human race must take measures to survive! We must ratify the Mutant Containment Bill!

  [audience murmuring] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : Containment, Mr. Gyrich? Your precious bill speaks of taking innocent American citizens

  [coughing] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : and treating them like prisoners of war. There has been much strife between mutants and traditional Homo sapien humans, with mutants usually the victims. Mr. Gyrich's terrorists were actually heroes, risking their lives to save hundreds of innocent humans.

  Henry Peter Gyrich : They aren't like us! They don't want rights! They want to destroy us!