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Quote1 Ladies and gentlemen, I know from my own experience that mutant powers can be dangerous. But we must not forget that mutants are human beings. We must be careful that in controlling mutants who abuse their powers, we do not oppress those who would use their powers for good of all humanity. Quote2
Robert Kelly[src]

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Robert Kelly (Earth-92131) from X-Men- The Animated Series Season 1 12 03

Senator Robert Kelly was a politician who believed mutants to be a danger to society. When the President rescinded the Mutant Registration Act, Kelly decided to run for president himself on an anti-mutant campaign, promising to relocate all mutants in the US into internment camps.[2]

Hoping to turn mutants and normal humans against each other, Apocalypse sent the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to assassinate Kelly. Mystique tried to kill him while posing as Gambit. The X-Men were warned about the assassination by the time-traveler Bishop, causing the real Gambit to intervene and save the senator.[3] However, Kelly was kidnapped by Magneto, who had been watching the assassination attempt and wanted to finish what the Brotherhood had started. Magneto tried to kill Kelly, but he was saved by Bolivar Trask's Sentinels, who took him to Master Mold. Grateful for his rescue, Kelly agreed with Trask to put Sentinels in charge of handling mutants, but the Sentinels suddenly stopped to obey Trask's orders, and Master Mold revealed his plan to replace all world leaders' brains - including Kelly's - with computers. Before he could replace Kelly's brain, the X-Men arrived and the senator was rescued by Jean Grey and Cyclops. Master Mold was then destroyed by Professor X. These events made Senator Kelly realize that not all mutants were dangerous, drastically changing his political viewpoints. He even pardoned the X-Man Beast, who had been unfairly arrested.[1]

These actions led Kelly's former, anti-mutant supporters to feel betrayed by him and create the public anti-mutant backlash. President Kelly remained friendly with the X-Men, working with them to confront global mutant threats such as Magneto's building an armed, inhabitable, mutants-only asteroid.[citation needed]

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