Previously on X-Men...
Why are you doing this to me?
I haven't done anything.
You can help us identify
the most dangerous mutants of all.
That's the last of the mutant files.
Who are these so-called X-Men?
Wolverine! Pull back!
What's wrong, Jean?
It's Morph.
Cyclops, we are being overwhelmed.
Hold it right there!
This attack was foiled
with the help of experimental robot policemen called Sentinels.
Sentinels.
How would you like to locate the Sentinels' home base?
Surrender, mutant.
Not!
Returning to base for repairs.
You miss me, petite?
Is that all of them?
Ain't that enough?
I'll avenge you, my friend. I swear it!
Well, get a load of that!
A mutant trying to read!
No, Look at the title.
Animal Farm. He's just looking at the pictures.
See any of your relatives in there, hairball?
Hey! What the heck is that?
Don't try anything!
Stay put! Don't take your eyes off him!
Hey! Oh, why me?
Make them stop!
You go to the window
and call off your freak friends!
Do it, or so help me...
Wolverine. So impulsive.
Sergeant! Wait! Sergeant!
I don't believe we've met.
Magneto, I presume.
Come! We must hurry!
Your solicitude is appreciated,
I assure you.
I regret, however, that—
What are you waiting for?
My day in court, actually.
Professor Xavier and I feel—
Xavier?
Charles Xavier had you break into the Mutant Control Agency?
Reluctantly, I assure you.
And he would leave you to rot in prison?
Not at all.
My trial serves a purpose.
It shall prove my innocence and the righteousness of our cause.
What chance does a mutant have,
tried by normal humans?
Cover that hole with fire. Don't let them out!
Are these the people whose laws you trust?
They don't seem to share your sense of brotherhood.
They only fight because they fear us.
Because they don't yet understand.
They do understand.
Our mutant powers make us superior.
That is why they fear us.
That is why I must stand trial.
They must see that we are not a threat to mankind,
but are a part of it.
Let's go! Come on!
The humans must be crushed,
and I have the power to do it.
Huh? Ah!
Hey! Hot graphics!
It's a tape of tonight's news
about the detention center attack.
Oh. Who's the guy?
He was once a friend.
Was? - We met after a war.
I worked in a hospital,
secretly using my mental powers to heal the survivors.
A dedicated young aide named Magnus assisted me.
Together, we helped patients rediscover the joy of life.
We became friends.
But for some, a war is never over.
Remnants of the army
that had so brutally occupied his small country returned,
attempting to retake it.
We saved what patients we could,
revealing for the first time
to each other, to anyone,
our long-hidden mutant powers.
But Magnus wasn't through.
He'd lost his family when those people overran his country.
Consumed by rage, he tried to destroy them.
I stopped him. But I'd never seen such a change in a man.
I tried to help him deal with his pain.
Magnus, your violence will solve nothing.
We must use our special gifts to bring peace to mankind!
You're a fool, Charles. Look at them!
They can't even make peace with each other.
Heaven help us if he was right.
Possessing the power of magnetism,
he began calling himself Magneto.
He and his growing legion of followers
attacked power plants, factories, government buildings,
determined to disrupt human society,
paving the way for mutant takeover.
But you stopped him.
I did what I could.
But now, after all these years, it seems he's begun again.
But the X-Men are here now, Professor.
He can't fight all of us.
Get out of here!
We don't want you here!
Down with mutants!
Order! Order, I say!
That's better.
It doesn't look like it's gonna be Beast's day.
Your Honor, because of the severity of this defendant's crime
and his demonstrated danger to the community,
the people move to deny bail.
Your Honor, my client is charged with a simple felony.
You're denying him bail just because he's a mutant.
Now, Mr. Hodge, you know this court harbors no prejudice.
Any insinuation to the contrary will not be tolerated.
Your Honor?
Yes, Mr. McCoy?
May I address the court on the subject of mitigating circumstances?
Certainly, Mr. McCoy.
I wouldn't want anyone to think we weren't being fair.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Your Honor, we mutants yearn only to live in peace
with our human brothers.
To paraphrase the Bard, "I am a mutant.
Hath not a mutant senses, affections,
fed with the same food,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a human is?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?"
Don't tempt these people, Mr. McCoy.
Please get to the point.
Certainly.
Two days before the...
incident in the Mutant Registration Office,
eleven mutants disappeared, taken...
Your Honor, what possible relevance could this have
to Mr. McCoy's criminal activities?
All were recent registrants with the Mutant Control Agency.
Your Honor, the defendant is attempting to justify his crime
by attacking a program set up to help mutants.
What about the mutant attack
on the detention center last night?
My brother was one of those guards!
Bailiffs, remove that man!
A lot of good men were hurt!
Is that your idea of helping mankind?
Quiet, quiet, I say!
- Now...
in view of the violence of both the original offense
and last night's attempted escape,
the court feels this defendant would pose
a danger to the community, if released.
But, Your Honor...
Bail denied.
Looks like I'll have time to catch up on my Dostoyevsky.
I'll show him a danger to the community!
No!
No! That's an order!
Out of my way!
Sabretooth!
You know that lunatic?
Let him go!
Come on! They're gonna kill him!
Good.
What?
Fine!
[Xavier, telepathically] Where are you? I know you're close.
- Professor? - Professor Xavier?
Charles? Are you all right?
I'm fine, Storm. Really.
You're looking for that Magneto guy.
You've been here all night.
Who is this Magneto, Professor?
Emergency!
Prepare infirmary to receive
critically injured mutant!
Everything happened so fast.
One minute, the judge denied Beast's bail.
Then this strange mutant just went berserk.
Is he gonna be OK, Professor?
He seems to have stabilized.
I'm glad.
Something about him reminds me of Wolverine.
His name's Sabretooth. Wolverine knows him
and hates him.
Did he give a reason?
Does he ever?
There he is. Why don't you ask him?
Here we are.
If it weren't for Xavier...
Wolverine!
Back off. Slow and easy.
I'm taking this maggot out of here,
one way or the other.
Uh, maybe we should move him somewhere else.
Wolverine! Personal vendettas have no place here.
You know we must help a mutant if he's in trouble.
It's not personal. He's a threat.
He was near death.
Not near enough.
Wolverine!
Now, get out of my way.
If you take Sabretooth from this infirmary,
don't bother coming back.
But you don't know him.
He can't stay here.
That is the way some of us felt about you when you first came.
This man's rages seem much like your own.
Get out of my way.
Sector 37!
- Magneto! Missile base alert!
How can you be sure?
I know him. Hurry! All else must wait.
Hey! Wait up! - No, Jubilee! Not yet.
Magneto is too dangerous.
But, Professor Xavier...
Besides, Sabretooth needs our help.
How come we're supposed to trash your old enemy,
but we got to go easy on mine?
You dare oppose me?
Your most powerful weapons shall destroy you,
and mutants will hide in fear no more.
Stop that thing!
He's heading for Launch Control!
Mutant liberation begins.
Initiation of launch sequence acknowledged.
Hey, what the—
Launch at T minus three minutes.
These things have armed themselves!
Computer override! Abort launch procedure!
- How much longer? - A few seconds!
It can't be!
Those missiles are targeted at us!
That's got it.
Launch at T minus two minutes,
thirty seconds.
It didn't work!
Something's maintaining the circuits!
Everybody out! Move it!
This is a code red emergency! Abandon base!
Repeat! Code red emergency!
Abandon base!
I see no one.
He was here.
I can still smell him.
"O what a brave new world that has such people in it!"
Magneto!
I'm glad you decided to join me
in the liberation of mutantkind.
Today begins a new world for all of us!
A world where we needn't hide in corners and crawl in fear.
I don't know what corner you crawled out of, bub,
but we don't find nuclear missiles all that liberating.
Come quietly or be taken.
And I hope you want to be taken.
This is your last warning.
I had hoped that Xavier would have realized
that his childish quest
for peaceful coexistence with humans is hopeless.
I suppose that a civil war is your answer?
Better that we die on our feet than live on our knees.
I cannot move!
Tell Xavier I am stronger now.
As I healed from our last encounter,
I had time to prepare.
Tell him those who oppose me are traitors to mutantkind.
I will show him no mercy.
If Charles Xavier dreams of peace
between human and mutant,
his vision will soon become a nightmare.
Wolverine. Storm. Are you all right?
Like new.
Nothing is broken.
- The silos! - They are starting to launch!
Not if I can help it.
Where's the blasted switch?
Cyclops!
No!
Professor! What is it?
I was wrong! I should have stopped him when I had the chance!
No, Cyclops, using your optic-blast would detonate the warheads.
Better here than over a city.
Got any other ideas?
Yes. I know what I must do.
Storm! Wait! Don't do it!
Is Storm doing what I think she's doing?
She's going to blow up those missiles herself!
Storm, Storm! Answer me!
Not now.
[Xavier, telepathically] Storm, I sense your plan of action,
but there is no need for self-sacrifice.
Professor, I must.
Open your mind.
Absorb what Cerebro knows about the missiles' computers.
Yes. I understand now.
I sure hope she's got this worked out.
Now, the warheads.
Control systems.
Short-circuited. Warheads disarmed.
[Cyclops, on radio] Good work, Storm. Storm?
Wolverine!
I'm on it!
Wolverine! Is she...
Must be our company, Cyclops.
She's asleep. She's exhausted.
Mission accomplished, buddy.
OK. Let's go home.
You've trained your X-Men well, Xavier.
They defied me and delayed my war.
You and your mutants protect the humans
who seek to destroy us.
Why? Why have you turned against your own kind?