X2 (film)

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Professor Charles Xavier[edit]


Jean Grey[edit]


Colonel William Stryker[edit]



[Pyro and Iceman show off their skills in a museum, but the people caught by surprise at what's happening suddenly freeze.]
Rogue: Bobby, what did you do?
Iceman: I didn't do this.
Professor Xavier: [appears] No. I did. [to John] And the next time you feel like showing off, don't.

Senator Kelly: This facility is a school.
President McKenna: What the hell is that?
Stryker: A jet.
McKenna: What kind of jet?

Professor Charles Xavier: Erik, what have you done?
Magneto: I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.
Professor Charles Xavier: What have you told Stryker?
Magneto: Everything.

Colonel William Stryker: Please, Xavier, don't get up!
[electronic static]
Professor Xavier: What have you done with Scott?
Professor Xavier: You arranged the attack on the president.
William Stryker: But that's only where it begins.

[While Kurt prays, Ororo stumbles to him and look at Kurt's markings in his face]
Storm: They're beautiful. How many do you have?
Nightcrawler: One for every sin. So quite a few.
[Storm smiles]
Nightcrawler: You and Miss Grey are schoolteachers?
Nightcrawler: Safe from what?
Storm: Everyone else.
Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.
Storm: Sometimes anger can help you survive.
Nightcrawler: So can faith.

Wolverine: What are you all so afraid of?
Jean Grey: So who is this Stryker, anyway?
Wolverine: But the Professor—

Pyro: So, they say you're the bad guy.
Magneto: Is that what they say?
Pyro: John.
Magneto: What's your real name, John?
Magneto: That's quite a talent you have there, Pyro.

Colonel William Stryker: Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people, or that creature in your arms?
Colonel William Stryker: Huh? Huh?!
Colonel William Stryker: One day, someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine! One day! ONE DAY!!!
[While Wolverine walks away, Artie turns to Stryker, and sticks out his lizard tongue at him]

President McKenna: Where did you get these?


  • Get ready for the return of the Evolution.
  • Evolution Continues.
  • X-Men United.


Patrick StewartProfessor Charles Xavier
Hugh JackmanLogan/Wolverine
Ian McKellenEric Lehnsherr/Magneto
Halle BerryOroro Munroe/Storm
Famke JanssenJean Grey
James MarsdenScott Summers/Cyclops
Anna PaquinRogue
Rebecca RomijnRaven Darkholme/Mystique
Brian CoxWilliam Stryker
Alan CummingKurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
Bruce DavisonSenator Kelly
Aaron StanfordJohn Allerdyce/Pyro
Shawn AshmoreBobby Drake/Iceman
Kelly HuYuriko Oyama/Deathstrike
Katie StuartKitty Pryde
Kea WongJubilation Lee/Jubilee

About X2[edit]

  • "X2: X-Men United" is the kind of movie you enjoy for its moments, even though they never add up. Made for (and possibly by) those with short attention spans, it lives in the present, providing one amazing spectacle after another, and not even trying to develop a story arc. Having trained on the original "X-Men" (2000), i tried to experience the film entirely in the present, and the fact is, i had a good time. Dumb, but good.
  • Like all the characters in the Marvel Comics stable, the X-Men have psychological or political problems; in the first movie they were faced with genocide, and in this one their right to privacy is violated with the Mutant Registration Act. Of course there will be audience members who believe mutants should have no rights, and so "X2" provides a valuable civics lesson. (How you register a mutant who can teleport or shape-shift is not explained.)
  • Odd, then, that Wolverine is one of the dominant characters even though his X-Acto knuckles seem pretty insignificant compared to the powers of Pyro or Cyclops. In a convention borrowed from martial arts movies, "X2" pairs characters with matching powers, so that when Wolverine has his titanic battle, it's with an enemy also equipped with blades. What would happen if Pyro and Iceman went head to head? I visualize the two of them in a pool of hot water.
  • Since the earliest days of "Spider-Man," Marvel heroes have had personal problems to deal with, and there's a classic Stan Lee moment here in the scene where Iceman breaks the news to his parents that he is a mutant. The movie treats the dialogue as a coming out scene, half-seriously, as if providing inspiration for real-life parents and their children with secrets.
  • "X2: X-Men United" lacks a beginning, a middle and an end, and exists more as a self-renewing loop. In that it is faithful to comic books themselves, which month after month and year after year seem frozen in the same fictional universe.
  • On the first film, the studio was worried about the lead character stabbing people. We were like, “Yeah, okay, but he has nine inch blades that come out of his fists. People are going to get stabbed.” You can’t do what they do in the cartoons having him open doors or be the world’s most dangerous can opener. When we started to do X2 one of the first things I said to Bryan [Singer] was we needed to see Wolverine cut loose and just go on a rampage. We also knew we want the mansion be invaded. I think it was Bryan who said the others should be out of town and it should just be Wolverine watching the mansion, then you can see him tear into those people. We made sure the soldiers he was attacking were faceless. They got masks on, so you can stay in a PG-13 relm and murder a bunch of people. That’s what my 15-year-old self wanted to see from Wolverine.
  • When I first read this installment of the script, because I've been talking to fans, and if there's one thing they've said to me it was, 'You don't kick enough ass. Let's see that berserker rage!' I kind of thought about that, and I was like, 'Jeez, you're right.' When I went back to X-Men I, there really wasn't a lot there. I had a huge fight scene with Mystique, where I ended up on my back, knocked out, and there's a bit at the beginning, there wasn't a lot of that berserker rage. So, when I read the script, I thought the relationships were better, I thought it was funnier, I thought there was more action, but I still said, 'We've got to get even more action.' I kind of fought for a little bit more in the mansion scene sequence, particularly. That was a little more berserker rage there than was originally. But, apart from that, I thought the script had a great balance. I think it works for Wolverine's story. It's not like he's in the corner crying. He's at a crisis point where he's about to find out everything he's ever wanted to know, and as liberating as that would be, it's frightening as all hell. So, he's on edge. He's having these nightmares. So, it all kind of works in together with the action.
  • With the movie coming out in the aftermath of the military action in Iraq, Singer was asked if the troubled times made him nervous about people's reactions to the war theme in this film. "No, not at all, because the soldiers working in this film, they're not even working in the United States. They're working up in Alberta, in a secret base. They're working for a person who's completely rogue from the government. The President of the United States is very on the fence and very concerned, justifiably about issues. There are mutants who posses incredible power and who are terribly violent and dangerous to the human society and mutant society. I view these as henchmen, and in terms of fighter airplanes getting dogged and police getting dogged, no one in that sphere is really harmed. It's not about bullying the authority. I personally have tremendous faith and support of our authorities and military ... Having shown it to friends of mine in the military, they get a kick out of the fact that these soldiers are a bunch of rogue, dirt bags that get what's coming to them. And we see that. We definitely see that. This guy, Stryker, he's operating in his own universe. He's tricking the President, he's conning the President into his operation, so it's quite the opposite if anything. He's more of a terrorist."

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