Never send an Archangel to do a Magneto’s job.
Call me what you will, Max. I know that I am doing God’s will.
So were they, Billy.
Oh how imaginative. I have not run from my name. Shorten it all you like, I am not a coward.
Oh, I must disagree. You are perhaps the most cowardly creature I have ever come across. I’ve killed braver insects.
Running from your name? Killing innocent Humans? All to then go crawling back into the arms of the only people who would accept you after so many betrayals?
And I am the coward?
You’re so pathetic, it’s nearly quaint.
I did not change my name to hide from it, you ignorant child. The humans who died by my hand were either militant threats or the casualties of war. And I came to the X-Men because my cause had been fulfilled by someone more suited to lead it. I have no patience nor reason to parade about like an irrelevant show pony.
Seems that you have yet to take off your bridle.
For every human I have killed I have saved 100 more. Your Sentinels crush them on their way to find us. I have only once in my life slain a child, and I would never do it willingly. You blow up school buses. I stand at the head of my cause, welcoming others to challenge me. You hide behind machines and politics, fearing for the day someone does.
Yes.
I would say that makes you the coward, boy.
As for the pathetic bit, well…honestly, I can’t be insulted, considering who is spewing the word.
How witty, Max.
Getting soft in your old age?
…What did you call me?
I called you by your name. Max.
What would Jakob and Edie think of their son now?
I see.
They’d probably think, mm…that strange man Max is talking to is out of uniform. How odd, for a Nazi. But, forgive them, they’ve been dead for seventy odd years now.
They don’t know that fools no longer fly in formation.
Call me what you will, Max. I know that I am doing God’s will.
So were they, Billy.
How witty, Max.
Getting soft in your old age?
…What did you call me?
I called you by your name. Max.
What would Jakob and Edie think of their son now?
I see.
They’d probably think, mm…that strange man Max is talking to is out of uniform. How odd, for a Nazi. But, forgive them, they’ve been dead for seventy odd years now.
They don’t know that fools no longer fly in formation.
I have smelt your stench.
And now I can see you.
All of you.
How witty, Max.
Getting soft in your old age?
…What did you call me?