Elizabeth Braddock (Earth-616)/Quotes

Be quiet, Tom. I'm getting something... Wire...and sores and hunger and lice, Tom. My head's full of screaming people...and one of them's me!

Yes, Brian. The price was high, but we did win. We know we won. We have time to mourn our dead.

Havok -- have you lost your senses?! Are you trying to kill us?!!

You wanted to know, Alison... why we are necessary?! Here is the reason! People like her, mutants like ourselves -- for if we don't stand up to defend them, who will?!

I am Lady Mandarin. Yield, warrior -- or suffer the consequences!

Here I go. Alone. Armed. Facing impossible odds. Crawling through a ventilation duct. As Jubilee would no doubt say: "... eat your heart out, Bruce Willis!"

That's not a knife. This is a knife--The focused totality of telepathic abilities--

My telepathy's gone, Storm...had to shut down to contain the Shadow King. Everything's quiet in my mind...

Moments like this, I start to agree with Rogue. The world hates us so much, the hell with it. Who needs the X-Men, anyway?

This was my moment of ultimate truth, the final confrontation in the ring between matador and bull where both know that only one will survive. I knew that would be me... right up until the moment I died.

--Seven of us -- charged by fate, or whatever, with protecting the structural integrity of -- EVERYTHING!

Looking for your teleporter? This challenge is to the death, remember? So how 'about we see just how good you really are?

This is who I was. A last link to my life. Gone. A life that was ripped away from me a long time ago by one man. A man I thought I had made my peace with. I was wrong. Whatever mercy I had left in me burned away with that body. Whatever vestiges of Elizabeth Braddock that would spare him again are gone. Become now? Matsu'o Tsurayaba is going to die.

Matsu'o!! I chided one of the X-Men's students for showing mercy to a foe. I did not tell her that I had made that mistake once. With you. You too me, body and soul, and I still forgave you. Despite everything you did, I let you live. Now I realize my mistake. Now I correct it. Face me!!

It isn't the morality of the mission that frightens me.. it is my elation at the opportunity to repay these devils.

Millions of souls were being consumed every second. There was no other way. And you know that. But you made me do it. So you get to stay the good guy.

I'm sorry. I know now. I deserve to die.

Oh my God -- Bishop?! Is that really you? Did you just growl at us?

I tell myself that if I do it... If I do take lives in the course of doing what's right... Then at least it means other people won't have to. Like I'm... Like I'm saving innocent souls. But that's a lie. That's lazy guilt-dodging bollocks. The truth is this: I rejoined X-Force because I couldn't bear to stay away. My name is Elizabeth Braddock, and I'm an addict.

He's not mad, Ororo. He's infuriating and prideful and egomaniacal and secretive... but he's also right. We can't bury our heads in the sand and wait for this to be over.

Lord... blind me! N-No look at all of them! This is what Akkaba wants. They want me to be afraid... to call out to... Warren -- Warren... Archangel... I'm sorry... but I need you!

You should have told me. You. I shouldn't have heard about this from anyone else.

No, Warren! Don't you see? All of this would just have been the start if you hadn't saved me. And if he took me, he can take others. Jean, the Cuckoos, Quentin, Emma Frost. Any one of them is like a psychic nuke, and he's going after them right now. I saw what he's planning. If he gets any of them... if he gets out...

It ends here, Sapphire! No more! No more souls!

And I never felt that way toward Kwannon's body, only mine. It was so much easier to be kinder to myself... through her body. I did not struggle with my eating disorder when I looked like her. Because she is not me, and she is beautiful. ⚞SIGH⚟ Anyway, my point is that I don't miss anything about the old ways.

It was the seat of power of Excalibur for so long -- it seems right to set up a gate there. And it might be the way to save Brian.

Are you through? Next time you're fearfully obsessing over me, save me a trip and just think your hateful thoughts. I can sense them from paradise, where I live. I serve the queen. And in times of crisis in the Otherworld, she trusts my judgment over her own.

We are not his. We are our own, and I am Otherworld's true defender. Surrender, Morgan Le Fay.

Well, the ritual is changed now. I'm not letting you kill it. Do what you do best. Adapt. You've been so eager to show all of Krakoa your virtues. Show us this one.

I'm sorry to hear that, my lady -- because I'm the only Captain Britain you've got.

I'm sorry-- Kwannon-- I--

It's a fresh start. No one can promise it won't hurt like hell... but I've certainly had enough of my own. This one is yours.

You're Arthur? King Arthur? How stupid the legends are. You're just a man. And you've forgotten why you fear my kind. I don't need this Citadel's power to stop you. I never have.

The Corps are fighting for the unconquered Citadel and Lady Saturnyne, who stayed within. And that's what this blade is made of. All the power of the Citadel-- hngh-- And it's all that's left untouched by Merlyn. I was given it-- --to lead the Captain Britain Corps.

Though I should say, the quest will be deeply personal and test each of our souls.

You're part of the Captain Britain Corps--as your leader, I'm never far away.

For those born with powers, ceding an inch isn't an option. England is their home too. And I won't be the Captain Britain who leads the super-powered away from their homes.

They think they can spin it all from Downing Street. But they've forgotten that in politics... there are times one's called to knock on some doors. And the first door up is sure to get people's attention.

This pool is a dimensional nexus. Otherworld's magic—which I can still manipulate as Captain Britain—touches all nexus points.

Hello, #$@#. Remember what I said about my sword and your guts? I bloody meant it.

That's right. Because pain goes away. Just like this hurt will. So just remember -- all pain is only temporary, okay? No hurt lasts forever.

Sheriff Whitechapel. A pleasure. You'll forgive us--there isn't a place to check in.

You're a poison. You wanted us to be X-Men... but you also wanted us to be the Hellfire Club and X-Force and the blasted Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. You wanted it all, and it cost those around you everything.

Braddock Manor, my ancestral home. We-we're in England.