Erik Lensherr: [sees Apocalypse for the first time] Who the fuck are you?
Charles Xavier: The world's already begun rebuilding its arsenals.
Erik Lensherr: It's human nature, Charles.
Charles Xavier: I still have hope.
Erik Lensherr: [wry laugh] Oh, yes. Hope.
Charles Xavier: I was right about Raven. I was even right about you.
Erik
Lensherr: What about the rest of the world? Doesn't it ever wake you up in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they'll come for you, and your children?
Charles Xavier: It does indeed.
Erik Lensherr: What do you do when you wake up to that?
Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul
that comes to my school looking for trouble.
Apocalypse: Everything they've built will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one!
Erik Lensherr: Who are you?
Apocalypse: Elohim, Pushan, Ra - I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze.
Jean Grey: [to Mystique] Seeing you that day on TV changed my life.
Kurt Wagner: Mine too.
Peter Maximoff: Mine too. I mean, I still live in my mom's basement, but pfft. Everything else is, uh... well, it's pretty much the same. I'm a total loser.
[laughs]
Apocalypse: [sends the world's nuclear weapons into space] Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines. You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel, but you can never strike god!
Apocalypse: You are all my children, and you're lost because you follow blind leaders. These false gods, systems of the weak, they've ruined my world. No more.
Moira MacTaggert: [opens a CIA folder] Ever since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of God. I was tracking one of them. They call themselves Ashir En Sabah Nur, named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first.
Alex Summers: World's first what?
Moira MacTaggert: The world's first mutant.
Alex Summers: I thought mutants didn't evolve till this century.
Moira MacTaggert: That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens of thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. They've been searching ancient sites all around the
world for clues. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess.
Charles Xavier: Do you think he lived in all that time?
Moira MacTaggert: Yes and no. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. Some
of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years.
Charles Xavier: An all-powerful mutant?
Moira MacTaggert: Exactly. And wherever this being was, he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers.
Alex Summers: Like the
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He got that one from the Bible
Moira MacTaggert: Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually it would end in disaster, cataclysm, some kind of... apocalypse.
Charles Xavier: The end of the world...
[reciting Apocalypse's message to the world]
Charles Xavier: This message is for one reason alone: to tell the strongest among you...
Apocalypse: Those with the greatest power, this earth will be yours!
Charles Xavier: Those with the greatest power... protect those without. That's my message to the world.
Apocalypse: You betray me?
Magneto: No. I betrayed them.
[attacks Apocalypse]
Mystique: [to Magneto] I know you think you've lost everything, but you haven't. You have me, you have Charles... you have more family than you know. You never had the chance to save your family before, but you do now. That's what I've come here to tell you.
Magneto: [to Quicksilver] And you?
Peter Maximoff: I'm your... I'm here for
my family, too.
Mystique: I'm gonna go fight for what I have left. Are you?
[first lines]
Charles Xavier: Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond
imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world.