X-Men '97 (TV Series)
Lifedeath - Part 2 (2024)
Cari Kabinoff: Deathbird, Council Member #1
Quotes
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Deathbird : Surrender? No, perish.
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Lord Araki : [clears throat] Your Majesty, I have known you since you were but a hatchling and wish only for your happiness. But given our war with the Kree, and how it's divided even we Shi'ar, is a royal wedding...
Empress Lilandra : Gladiator and his Guard fill my ears with news of coming victory.
Lord Araki : Yes, but we have been trapped in so much change, some yearn for the stable comfort of what is familiar for sameness.
Deathbird : Araki sugars his words, my sister. Your consort was born on the wrong side of the stars. He is Terran.
Empress Lilandra : Gentle sister, heed my throne.
Deathbird : A throne that is bound to more than the whims of your heart. A union with the Terran would bind the Shi'ar into alliance with his inferior home world.
Professor X : I respect you speaking the quiet part out loud, Deathbird, so let's speak plainly. Your Empress and I decide alliances, as well as which world we call home.
Lord Araki : Chandilar is home. Our throne world.
Professor X : Of course, Lord Chancellor. I merely meant...
Lord Araki : Spoke the quiet part out loud? Xavier would see his Milky Way ghetto become our new throne world.
Professor X : You are twisting my words.
Deathbird : High Council, for the sake of the empire, I must invoke the Rite of M'Dashaa.
[all gasping]
Deathbird : Terran, the rite requires...
Professor X : A non-Shi'ar pass a test of loyalty in order to wed a royal. I finished that volume my second day here, Deathbird.
Deathbird : Not any mere test, Terran. A challenge of my own choosing.
Professor X : Then choose.
Deathbird : To ensure we are protected from your Terran ties, you must renounce Earth and erase all memory of your life there.
[all gasp]
Empress Lilandra : Charles is a formidable psychic. His mind will not be easily scrubbed.
Deathbird : Luckily, we Shi'ar bow to a ruler of equal psychic power. Charles Xavier must purge all memories of Earth, and you, dear sister, must be the one to do it.
[crowd murmuring]
