X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Graduation Day (1997)

Barry Flatman: Henry Peter Gyrich

Quotes 

• Professor Charles Xavier : Mutants are human beings!

  [COUGHING] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : They wish only equal protection under the law, to be accepted as...

  Henry Peter Gyrich : I've always wondered why you're such a mutant lover, Xavier. Xavier, the great peacemaker, friend of poor, misunderstood mutants. Could Charles Xavier be a stinking mutant himself?

• Henry Peter Gyrich : A mutant ringleader! And I revealed him! He looks just like us, but he isn't! None of them are!

• Henry Peter Gyrich : You see? They're everywhere. Trust no one! Normal-looking people who defend mutants are mutants themselves!

• [first lines] 

  Henry Peter Gyrich : Can't you see? We are looking at the end of the world as we know it! For years, I've been trying to warn you! One, London, '93. Millions in damage. Two, their nuclear asteroid slamming into our planet. Three, mutant freedom fighters level a town in the former Soviet Union. I have seen what these monsters can do. Don't be fooled by bleeding-heart mutant appeasers! We are at war! The human race must take measures to survive! We must ratify the Mutant Containment Bill!

  [audience murmuring] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : Containment, Mr. Gyrich? Your precious bill speaks of taking innocent American citizens

  [coughing] 

  Professor Charles Xavier : and treating them like prisoners of war. There has been much strife between mutants and traditional Homo sapien humans, with mutants usually the victims. Mr. Gyrich's terrorists were actually heroes, risking their lives to save hundreds of innocent humans.

  Henry Peter Gyrich : They aren't like us! They don't want rights! They want to destroy us!