Quotable Quotes
Bishop: "You know, LeBeau, you are indeed something of a jerk."
Gambit: "There you go, mon ami -- there's somethin' you can
always count on."
- Uncanny X-Men #331/Essential X-Men #43
Bishop: "-- But it is reassuring in a small way, to know I am not
going insane."
- Uncanny X-Men #334/Essential X-Men #46
Gambit: "I mean, if de entire world didn't fear and hate us and want all
mutants dead--we'd be having the time of our lives."
Bishop: "But they do. And we aren't."
- Uncanny X-Men #334/Essential X-Men#46
Deathbird: "If you know I betrayed you and your fellow X-Men
to protect my love for you -- then why would you help me now?"
Bishop: "I'll help you to save us both. I'll help you no matter
what you've done, I... I DO love you, and love cannot be denied."
- Uncanny X-Men #357
Deathbird: [After Bishop is Injured in an Attack] "I will eat their
hearts while their bodies still twitch!"
- Uncanny X-Men #357
Deathbird: "I offer you a kingdom -- power to use as you wish.
I offer you myself -- and still you spurn me."
Bishop: "I am a man of principles, Deathbird."
Deathbird: "Principles? Or inhibitions...?"
- Uncanny X-Men #357
[Entire Transcript Is Taken From Thought Rather Than Speech]
Bishop: We turn from each other. We don't look back.
Deathbird: The man Karel and I fight our way to the portal. I will
forget Bishop. He was a tool. It is a long bloody fight whose victors
deserve reward. I will forget Bishop. He is soft inside. I am Shi'ar.
Strong. Alone, if need be. And determined. I will forget Bishop.
Bishop: I push myself on. I will forget Deathbird... I... I have
no choice...
Deathbird: I must get through. I have lost so much, already. I
will forget Bishop. ...I... I have no choice...
Bishop [Cut Lines] I am called Bishop. Fighting -- protecting -- is
what I do. The gate collapses -- reduced to rubble. Karel made it just
in time. I am alone. I didn't expect her to wait for me. I didn't. I
HATE her... I... I...
Deathbird: [Spoken] "Are you just going to sit there, X-Man?"
Bishop: [Spoken] "What--?!"
Deathbird: [Spoken] "We have much to deal with... and home is a
long way from here."
- Uncanny X-Men #357
Bishop: [To Pamela Greenwood] "Tell me why you have been eyeing
me. Watching me closely each time I am here. Tell me why you've been
spying on me. Tell me. I will not ask again.
- X-Men #49/Essential X-Men #39
Hank McCoy: "Bishop--cease and desist! We embarked on this
nocturnal excursion in order to make conversation with a fragile little
barkeep flower -- Not to watch you mistake flirtation for espionage!
Believe me--women pine not for the tall, dark and psychotic type! Good
Lord, man--what's WRONG with you?"
- X-Men #49/Essential X-Men #39
Pamela Greenwood: "Sometimes, though, sometimes, someone special
comes along... and you know that if he just opens up to you, it'll be--"
Bishop: [Wakes up and levels a gun at her head] "--A mistake."
Pamela: "--That g-gun? If you're a muh-mutant... why do you need a
weapon?"
Bishop: "I absorb and rechanel energy. Energy's not something I
have a lot to spare at the moment. I can probably work up enough to pull
a trigger though."
- X-Men #49/Essential X-Men #39
Beast: [Looking at Pamela Greenwood transform into Fatale]
"Apparently, your prognosis of danger was accurate indeed! "That's no
ladle," said the fork to the spoon! That's some shapeshifting killer!"
Bishop: "I knew it." {Cut Lines} "Like I kept saying--every
instict told me that there was something malevolent behind those eyes."
Beast: "So how do you feel now?"
Bishop: "Vinidcated. Guess I'm not that crazy after all."
- X-Men #49/Essential X-Men #39
Bishop: "You're... kidding."
Bishop: "You're not."
Bishop: "Now?"
Gambit: "Not yet! You need more power!"
Gambit: "Hold on!"
Bishop: "Now?"
Gambit: "Not yet!"
Bishop: "Now?"
Gambit: "Now!"
Gambit: "You did it...? I mean... You did it!"
- X-Men #51/Essential X-Men #43
Bishop: "You took me down at the train because I was
completely spent, Sinister. I don't have that problem
anymore. Now I'm riding the electrical power of your entire lab. Tell
me why I shouldn't shove a billion volts down your throat."
- X-Men #51/Essential X-Men #43
Rogue: [Looking at the Blackbird] "Ah'll bet that's Bishop with
her [Storm], drivin' -- he's a big 'un for flashy entrances!"
Wolverine: "He's a big one, period."
- Wolverine #71