who's a heretic now?

Doesn’t it ever wake you up, in the middle of the night? The feeling that someday they’ll come for you? And your children?

Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever - I am Phoenix!

i can kill yo short ass with my brain you fucking maple leaf don’t get got

Female Awesome Meme - [1/10] females in a movie: Ororo Munroe; “No, Professor. They can’t cure us. You want to know why? Because there’s nothing to cure. Nothing’s wrong with you. Or any of us, for that matter.”

The X-Men

#erik’s face ‘like really raven you just added ‘o’ to magnet” (x)

#and then he proceeded to use it forever and ever god bless

Multilingual Magneto (◠‿◠✿)

You abandoned me.

It’s not their pain you’re afraid of. It’s yours, Charles. And as frightening as it can be, that pain will make you stronger. If you allow yourself to feel it, embrace it, .it will make you more powerful than you ever imagined. It’s the greatest gift we have: to bear their pain without breaking. And it comes from the most human part of us: hope. Charles, we need you to hope again.

coming out to your parents

If you try for one second to tell me the X-Men isn’t an allegory for the gay rights movement, I will smack you. They weren’t even remotely subtle about this.

The mutants have always been an allegory for anyone that didn’t fit in to society. The folks who drew the comics made a point of that early on.

It’s not just the gay rights movement, its not just kids trying to “come out” to their parents.  Its people being mistreated by the government, put away, forced to pretend to be “normal”, systematically oppressed, even killed for who they are because the powers that be cant control it.  It’s an allegory for blacks, gays, the disabled (mentally and physically), women, and anyone really who isnt a white man at the top of the food chain.

Fun fact: Ian McKellen worked with the screenwriters to make this scene directly parallel with kids coming out as queer to their parents. This scene was 100% meant to be an allegory for coming out.