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Quotes by Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

I'm up to my navel in little blue geeks!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Isn't it obvious. Don't you see the resemblance? They're my flesh and blood. They're all my little brothers.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Odd how even in the face of tragedy, there are often such wonders -- such miracles -- to be found.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Lets close with affirmations. Everyone, please repeat after me: "When I look to humans to dictate who I should be or how I should look, I reject who I am. I deserve to be alive. I look exactly the way I'm supposed to."

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

NASA will love him.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

To be honest, Fräulein Locke, I don't usually make a habit of striking the beautiful women I meet -- but I've a need for your souped-up shotgun. I hope you don't mind me using it to blast this place to smithereens.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

See for yourself. Lorna's alive, I think. But this other one is beyond human help.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Cerebro says there is half a mutant, in a place called Poughkeepsie. Is there really a city with such a name? Unglãublich!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Every so often, liebchen, since I look like a demon... I have this irresistible urge to play the part.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You know, my mother told me there'd be days like this.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Callisto -- and me? You're... kidding?!?

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Lockheed! If you don’t get your tail out of my face, I’m going to bite if off!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Poot?! Oh, no! I went 'Poot' and I didn't teleport! Where's the Bamf?!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

We can't afford to antagonize the police, Phoenix.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

'Vega-Superior?' Please, be serious.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Odd how even in the face of tragedy, there are often such wonders--such miracles--to be found.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You said that the Legacy Virus has been infecting humans rather than the mutants it was designed to kill. That information was generated here on Muir Island. There are only two humans here. Rory has spent no time around infected mutants. It's you, isn't it, Moira? You have the legacy virus.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

I cannot prevent the others from talking about this incident. It will get back to the Professor, eventually. Logan will probably take to gnawing on a photo of you for a few days.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Being a team leader in these times has not been conducive to mindless joy... I used to have a lot less responsibility. I've had to preside over such horror... ... Genosha, Black Air, the verdammte X-Man, the devil under London. The Soulsword trouble...

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

In that moment, Charles Xavier gave me the most precious gift of all...a chance at LIFE. For this, I shall eternally remain in his debt.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

...It's more than just feeling 'out of the loop,' Piotr. It's like we don't even count anymore Not even to the X-Men's enemies.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

If the Neo are truly predators, Cecilia... then all that stands between them and the world they would make their killing ground... are the X-Men!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

He said that my coming there had compromised them. It had become too dangerous. These people were no longer worth the risk. He was going to kill them. That was when it started. His callousness, his disregard. I snapped. I had the power. I had the ability. So I used it.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Sean! Am I to understand you have known criminals serving under you?! These men are killers!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Aye, carumba. Bet you thought I was going to say something cute in German, didn't you-- Please tell me you're kissing him out of gratitude, Stacy.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You are unique, Logan. And I do not speak of what has been done to you. Is the wolf evil when it culls the sickness from the herd?

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

It saddens me to know that I share genetics with a man whose heart is so black that he sees no other options. Sees no possibility for either love or compassion.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

We all did. We may have some rough edges but we came together as a team. Savor the moment, my friends. They don't come often. But when they do, they make me glad to be an X-Man.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

The only things hard about Logan are his bones and his claws. Everything else is just a man trying to do the right thing.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

So, what do we call ourselves? The Fantastic Six? X-4?

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

We X-Men represent the law of civilization. We patrol the genetic frontier between the present and the future, hopefully for the good of all.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Like it or not, we aren't ordinary people. We don't live ordinary lives. To pretend otherwise puts innocents at risk. Great power doesn't just mandate responsibility. It arouses equally great passion, and not always for good. That's why we embrace Xavier's dream -- because it speaks to a day and a future where we don't have to worry about that. The passions, and the hatred, will have been cooled by acceptance. We won't be mutants anymore, just... people.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You're on TV in another dimension right now, star of a top rated show. There's probably an Armor-Baby, too.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Kitty, I'm sorry I was not there for you...and I miss you.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You must be confused. "Beast" is a friend of mine. He is blue though. I'm surprised we don't get confused more often!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Forgive me for being blunt, Logan, but...she was going to die anyway. Be it from poison, old age or any number of reasons. All of which you are immune to.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

It will all just cease to exist. Unless... unless I open one last door. The one he's buried deepest underground, the one he hoped never to open again. I'm sorry, Logan. This is for your own good. This is the only way to save you from hell, mein freund. We've got to burn these demons out... with some fire of our own.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Let's hope you're right. Let's hope the X-Men still remember their old friends. And that they're not afraid to risk their lives one more time...To save a dead man.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

All rights, boys. Now comes the fun part.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

I dare say...I was born for this. Raise the flag, X-Men. And let's go be amazing.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

My name is Kurt Wagner. Better known as Nightcrawler. I fought the good fight, on this world and many others. I help saved the universe. And then I died. But that isn't the end of the story. Fate, it seemed, had other plans... ...and brought me back to life.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Amanda, your spell brought us right back to where my life with the X-Men began -- why am I not surprised? Fate has a wicked sense of humor.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You have the instincts of a hero, my friend. But above all, the soul of a good man.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

If you brought me back to life for no other reason, Lord......I pray it is to prove myself equal to that challenge. Logan deserves no less. He was my friend.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Is this why you came to rescue me, my friends? If so, I will not let you down. I will find a way to dethrone this so-called "King." I will find a way to save you.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Welcome to the Danger Room, FauX-Men -- hope you survive the experience!

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Be careful, Bobby... there's no telling what might be down here.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

So... color-blindness, baldness... cancer... they're all genetic mutations! The Sentinel is targeting everyone.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Magneto? Erik is here? I thought he was dead.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Mesmero, Avalanche, and Pyro attacked the Heritage Initiative's annual fundraiser.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

The choices we make, the chances we take, define us.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Zachary, where is she? Where's Mary?

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

I remember ze days ve did nozing but fight, instead of doing what really mattered.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

We live in a perfect world. That doesn't make us perfect mutants. This is the trouble with having everything: You have so very much to lose.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

You'd disagree with your sister for me?

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Here I can breathe. Here I can think. Which is good, because Krakoa asks hard questions of me. Every day there's some new, amazing something to believe in... and all it costs is the suspension of everything I used to believe... Speaking of... Crucible is today.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

There is wonder and hope... ja... But also there is vice and violence and death. Cheap death. They cannot all be off playing the hero. And they cannot all be down here, being indispensable. The problem is, I can give no good reason why mutants shouldn't behave as they do. Even at their most savage, I can find no moral flaw in these... emerging cultures. But I feel it. Something terrible, just out of sight. Waiting for the cracks to appear.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Okay Let's get you out of that... Chamber.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

I see it. I see how we win. I s-see how we flourish. The path. The Way.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

The spark is creative. The spark is patient. The spark is bright and beautiful, despite having no form or mind. In truth, the spark is barely real at all. The spark is just an idea.
And yet?
The spark will burn to ash anyone who █████ with the right of mutants to pursue happiness.

--Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

Conversations with Kurt Wagner (Earth-616)

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— Uncanny X-Men #204

Church of Humanity Priest

Wait-- you're Kurt? Kurt Wagner? You're the one they were training to ascend to the Papacy?

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Yeah, I figured as much. And once they had me in place, they would initiate a false Rapture, wouldn't they? So then, when this mutant Pope-- ---me--- --is "revealed" by a failure in the image-inducer-

Havok (Alex Summers)

The Church is revealed to be headed by the "Antichrist" and it would destroy the church completely. How would they initiate this false Rapture?

Church of Humanity Priest

They've been feeding me a diet of holy wafers-- --the bread disks that represent the body of Christ in communion ritual-- --and... they just don't taste right.

— Uncanny X-Men #424

Cannonball

I really think I'd be much happier--

Nightcrawler

--Scott, my friend, you know this can't work--

Polaris

Oh, dear Lord--