Cherik/Quotes

Quotes
"You can't. You'll drown. You have to let go. I know what this means to you, but you're going to die. Please! Erik, calm you mind."

- Charles stopping Erik from trying to kill Sebastian Shaw

"Can't stop thinking about the others out there. All those minds that I touched. I could feel them. Their isolation. Their hopes. Their ambitions. I tell you, we've started something incredible, Erik. We can help them."

- Charles telling Erik about his experiences with Cerebro.

"Would you mind if I...?"

- Charles indicating he wants to go into Erik's head.

"There's so much more to you than you know. Not just pain and anger. There's good to you, I felt it. And when you can access all that, you'll possess a power no one can match. Not even me."

- Charles trying to help Erik gain control over his powers

Deleted scenes
"You've never looked more beautiful, darling."

- Charles to Erik, using his telepathy to transform Erik into a drag queen in his and Angel Salvadore's minds

Other
"In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed. "That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking." Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated? "Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know." (For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")"

- Neela Johnson, The Daily Telegraph

"The only thing that matches the strength of their bond is the strength of their belief in separate ideals. And ultimately, one of them pays the price. Both emotionally and physically."

"He’s [Xavier] just been paralyzed and he’s been betrayed by the person who he’s probably come to care about more than anybody else in the world, and he’s the guy who did it to him."

- James McAvoy, Collider

"It’s kind of a love story, like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” which, really, was a love story between two men. This is the first time in their lives they’ve met someone who is an equal of sorts, someone who understands them and can connect and push them too."

- James McAvoy, Hero Complex

"Um, no offense, but you're wrong. I helped write the movie, and can tell you the gay rights/post-Holocaust Jewish identity/civil rights allegory stuff was all put in there on purpose. Joss Whedon designed the whole "Cure" storyline in the comic books specifically as a gay allegory, and Bryan Singer wove his own feelings of outsiderdom as a gay man into the movie series. The whole "Have you ever tried NOT being a mutant" coming out scene in X2 isn't even particularly subtle, while it is effective."

"If the story between Charles and Erik is on some level this…you know, tragic romance, you’ve got to arrange the other elements in that way too."

-, X-Men: First Class Blu Ray special features

"I think the movie would be less interesting, and much less fun, without [the romantic throughline]. I'm not sure, however, that the majority of moviegoers necessarily recognize the gay love affair, coded as it is, but I do think they'd notice its absence. The late, great Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) would probably agree with this assertion, seeing as he found these kinds of coded gay relationships informing so many mainstream films over the decades."

- Professor William Earnest, E! News

"With this not-always-subtle subtext established, finding ways to play with it is easy—a task made even easier by the fact that it's homoerotic, not homosexual in the literal sense, so it's about desire, tension, and, above all, unrequited love. No clothes have to come off, and so far as we know, they don't. But there are looks, body language, conversations, and above all, intimacy...The chess scene aside, from the standpoint of sexual imagery, I think the 'satellite dish' [scene] is the film's richest."

- Professor William Earnest, E! News

"If First Class was Eric’s story and Days Of Future Past is Charles’s story, then Apocalypse will be both of their stories. The first movie was about Eric becoming empowered. That’s the origin story of a man’s power. Days Of Future Past is about a guy who is a mess, masterminding the end of this massive movie. So they are both at their peak powers at the start of Apocalypse, so Apocalypse for me is culmination of that three-act love story."

-, writer of ' and ', Empire

Quotes
"It's going to take the two of us. Side-by-side at the time when we couldn't be further apart."

- Erik

"All those years wasted fighting each other, Charles."

- Erik