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"Rogue is not like us. She is different. She may be a mutant, but she will reject our mutant Brotherhood when she understands that we embrace some...darker ways."
---Destiny, Classic X-Men 44
"But where the heck is Rogue, Pyro!"
"Hey, you wanted her along! The mutant Brotherhood's a class act. You broke your own rules by lettin'a baby mutant like her tag along!"
"She has to be broken in somehow. She'll be an asset to the team---once she gets past adolescence."
---Mystique and Pyro and Mystique, Marvel Fanfare 60
"Get away from me, chickie. We're on a job."
---Pyro, Marvel Fanfare 60
"Who's the poor mutant we're kidnapping? Will he be used for missions too?"
"It's better to be with the Brotherhood than to be in an institution where he'll be poked and humiliated like a freak."
---Rogue and Mystique, Marvel Fanfare 60
"As always, Tessa, your information was spot on. Coelho was indeed playing a double game. The armaments meant for the Hellfire Club's Hong Kong division were being sold again---only this time to the Brotherhood."
---Sebastian Shaw, Marvel Super Heroes 11
"Heard Destiny say you was back. Blast it, haven't Ah proved my worth to the Brotherhood, proved Ah can handle myself? Ah don't need Mystique to fight my battles. If you're a threat to me...Ah'll deal with it!"
---Rogue, Marvel Super Heroes 11
"That 'implosion' stunt my lady 'lawyer' taught me is pretty nifty. Looks like she's worth trustin' after all. She said transportation would be waitin' outside the prison. All I had to do was make it outside on my own. An entrance exam, she called it, to see if I was good enough to join---the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! Well, I am, babe! As you---an' the entire world---are gonna find out!"
---Blob, UXM 140
"The fact remains that on Halloween, 1980---today---the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants will murder presidential candidate Robert Kelly, along with Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert. Kelly's assassination will set into motion a sequence of events that---30 years from now---will culminate in the destruction of the world in a nuclear holocaust."
---Kate Pryde, UXM 141
"The Brotherhood killed him to teach humanity to fear and respect the power of Homo superior. Their plan backfired. Mutants became objects of fear and hatred."
---Kate Pryde, UXM 141
"She's earned her position, and the complete trust of her superiors. Unfortunately, that loyalty is as much an illusion as her appearance. For Raven Darkholme is a metamorph, a shape-shifter---a mutant, better known to her comrades as Mystique...founder and leader of the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!"
---narration, UXM 141
"Now, prepare yourselves, mutants. The time has come---to strike!"
---Mystique, UXM 141
"My colleagues and I comprise the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. We are your future, humans. Resist us at your peril."
"You been babblin' a lot about the mutant menace, Kelly. We're here to teach ya the error o' your ways."
---Mystique and Blob, UXM 141
"Senator Kelly is fond of speaking against the mutant menace. My colleagues and I are that menace incarnate! As an example of our dread power---as an object lesson to those that would oppose us---we intend to kill him!"
---Mystique, UXM 142
"I...underestimated the X-Men, but never again. The Brotherhood will be rebuilt---stronger than ever---and when the time is right...the X-Men will die."
---Mystique UXM 142
"Destiny---captured as well! Have no fear, my dear friend. Neither you nor the Brotherhood will be in prison for long. This Mystique swears!"
---Mystique, UXM 142
"Now we go back to the present, to be introduced to The New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants...and a dumber bunch of Evil Mutants you never saw. The Blob is the only one in the group with a halfway decent power; the other [sic] are just silly."
---LOC magazine (article about the DoFP story) #5
"Wolverine claims that his team of X-Men is better than the original---but somehow I doubt that the original X-Men would have spent more than three pages beating The New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants."
---LOC magazine #5
"Two pages after this, the X-Men finally manage to give the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants a so-so defeat. [Actually, both teams end up running away from the Army, but the Evil Mutants don't run fast enough and they didn't get to assassinate Senator Kelly, so the X-Men won. Sort of.]"
---LOC magazine #5
"I am---Mystique! I lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. You might call Rogue my...protégé."
---Mystique, Avengers annual 10
"That's three Ah couldn't affect---two more than Mystique an' Ah bargained for. If Ah stay, Ah could probably kill them all, but Ah can't afford the risk. With what's at stake, Mystique would skin me alive."
---Rogue, Avengers annual 10
"Spider-Woman is dangerous, Mystique. If she rescues Iron Man, his power could tip the scales against us."
"She's the one who saved Carol Danvers' life. Leave her to me. Destiny, the Brotherhood is in your hands. Guide them well."
---Destiny and Mystique, Avengers annual 10
"Mystique's plan depended on speed and surprise. The longer this struggle continues, the worse our chances become. We must act quickly, decisively, before the tide of battle turns irrevocably against us."
---Destiny, Avengers annual 10
"Huh--?! Mystique--?? You're runnin'! But what about the others?! They'll be captured!"
"So will we if we stay. Rogue, we can do our friends far more good as free agents than as fellow prisoners. Now climb aboard---or be left behind!"
---Rogue and Mystique, Avengers annual 10
"Hah! This sure beats schleppin' around after Mystique an' her revived Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!"
---Avalanche, Incredible Hulk 263
"Danvers! Neither she---nor anyone else---connects Raven Darkholme, civil servant, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...with Mystique. That ignorance will---very soon now---prove fatal."
---Mystique (as Raven Darkholme), UXM 158
"Was Rogue alone? Have we walked into the middle of a Brotherhood operation---an assault on the Pentagon? I...doubt it. Her demeanor was far too casual. Which raises an even more disturbing question: if she belongs here, could the Brotherhood be working in concert with the American government? That sounds beyond belief, but..."
---Storm, UXM 158
"You sent Rogue after me in San Francisco. If not for you, I'd still be...whole. You owe me, Mystique. And you're going to pay---with your life!"
---Carol Danvers, UXM 158
"The sooner we unload our cargo at Windust Prison, the easier we'll all breathe. After all, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants would have torn apart New York if they hadn't been stopped by the mighty Avengers!"
---prison guard, Rom 31
"The Brotherhood's escape from Rykers Island and their near victory over the Avengers convinced the authorities that they were too dangerous to house near a major population center. Avalanche's subsequent escape and attempt to blackmail Los Angeles (a dream shattered, along with every bone in Avalanche's arms, by the Hulk) strengthened the resolve to remove the mutants---Blob, Avalanche, Destiny and Pyro---to a specially-prepared maximum security prison in West Virginia."
---narration, Rom 31
"So this is the fearsome Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? I trust Tony Stark's inertia-disks have taken some of the menace out of them. Super-criminals are something new for Windust Prison---but we're ready for them. Special cells will hold them while you, Dr. Kellogg, run tests to see what makes them tick."
"It's a priceless chance to study the super-criminal psyche, Warden."
---Mystique (as Warden Windust) and Rogue (as Dr. Kellogg), Rom 31
"Is that theah the l'il ol' device that keeps the prisoners from movin'?"
"Yes, Doctor. Conventional shackles would never hold the Brotherhood---so Tony Stark came up with an energy beam which cancels out their powers and renders them inert!"
---Rogue (as Dr. Kellogg) and guard, Rom 31
"The real---! If that's the warden, and you're not Dr. Kellogg, then who...??"
"Didn't they tell ya'll back in New York that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants---was a sextet?!"
---guard and Rogue, Rom 31
"You're free! Free us!"
"Huh? Sure! Why not!"
"Because they're humans, Blob---Homo sapiens---while we are mutants---Homo superior! Besides, Mystique'd skin us for deviatin' from her command! Leave `em!"
"Y'know, it's bad enough havin' ta take orders from a freak like Mystique, Rogue---but I'll be burned if I'm gonna take `em from you!"
"You just might be burned, Blob---in the living flame of Pyro! Unless you shut up and do as you're told!"
---prisoners and Blob and Rogue and Blob and Pyro, Rom 31
"Pyro burned me! No matter what Mystique says about us evil mutants stickin' together---some day that limey louse is gonna pay for that!"
---Blob, Rom 31
"I overheard Tony Stark saying that bus was top secret, Mystique---so how in blazes do you know all about it?"
"Delve not too deeply into the secrets of Mystique, Avalanche, if you value your own peace of mind."
---Avalanche and Destiny, Rom 31
"Rogue, carry Destiny and me away from here!"
"But the others---!"
"Their inability to fight as a team brought them to this sorry pass! Let them brood in prison over what it means to be a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants."
"Ah'm beginnin' ta wonder if maybe we shouldn't just rename ourselves the Sisterhood!"
---Mystique and Rogue and Mystique and Rogue, Rom 31
"After their attempt to free their brother mutants from prison was thwarted by Rom, the Sisterhood sought shelter from the snow."
---narration, Rom 32
"Leave Rom? No! We've gotta help him!"
"Rogue, need I remind you that we are evil mutants?"
---Rogue and Mystique, Rom 32
"You three claim to be devoted to evil, and yet you aided me in defeating the greatest evil of all."
"It is mankind that has made us evil. We are dedicated only to our own kind."
---Rom and Destiny, Rom 32
"As for the future, it is mankind---which has shunned and scorned us, its betters---which is and will remain our enemy!"
---Mystique, Rom 32
"It's been a long time since we've met, X-Man. And we owe you and your teammates plenty for the shambles you made of our plans back then."
---Mystique (to Angel), Dazzler 22
"Elsewhere, three of the most dangerous women alive---Destiny, Mystique, and Rogue, the female members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants---confer..."
---narration, Dazzler 23
"She is Rogue of the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, an organization dedicated to the establishment of mutant supremacy on Earth."
---narration, Dazzler 28
"But don't worry. This time Ah don't want yuh tuh lead me tuh the Angel, so Ah can force him tuh take me and the Sisterhood tuh the X-Men---tuh stomp `em for bein' good guys! Now all Ah want is tuh beat the tar outah yah!"
---Rogue, Dazzler 28
"Her name is Rogue, a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Through direct physical contact, she absorbs the abilities and memories of others."
"Could this be a diversion---the prelude to an attack?"
"I've psi-scanned the estate, Nightcrawler. She is quite alone."
---Storm and Nightcrawler and Xavier, UXM 171
"Ah tried t'make Mystique understand, but she wouldn't listen. She was certain we could work things out on our own. Ah love her, Professor---she's been like my mom to me---but Ah knew she was wrong. Ah turned to the X-Men---even though we're enemies---because you're mah only hope."
---Rogue, UXM 171
"You know Rogue's history. Are we expected to fight beside someone we do not---dare not---trust...who might betray us at any time?!"
---Storm, UXM 171
"Foolish child. You forget who you're up against: Mystique---leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants."
---Mystique, UXM 177
"I'd like you to train my Brotherhood the same way, by pitting them against your X-Men robots."
"No problem---provided we use tonight's parameters. Namely, that one o' those heroes won't be programmed to stun its foe, but kill. A little somethin' t'make the stakes more interesting for all concerned."
"Agreed."
---Mystique and Arcade and Mystique, UXM 177
"Blob is not stupid---or brave---enough to attack by himself. The rest of the Brotherhood must be nearby."
---Colossus, UXM 177
"Professor, have you alerted Rogue?"
"I believe, Storm, she is best left out of this. A battle with those who were, until recently, her teammates and friends might put her loyalties to an unendurable test."
---Storm and Xavier, UXM 178
"Kurt, who's attacking us?! And why?!!"
"The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants---sort of the X-Men's opposite number. I assume they're out to settle old scores. Unless...this has something to do with Rogue!"
---Amanda Sefton and Nightcrawler, UXM 178
"You remember which side you're on, old lady, an' act accordingly!"
---Blob (to Destiny), UXM 178
"This was too easy---almost as if the Brotherhood did not care about the outcome."
"Petey! Storm, part o' Kitty's mayday was that he'd been hurt! An' where's the kid herself?!!"
"Dummy, the girl didn't matter, an' her Russkie smooch was icin' onna cake! Ain't you clowns twigged things yet?! We were never after your hides. This was a diversion! Go ahead, send us back to prison. We been there before, we'll bust out. But you poor slobs're gonna haveta find yourselves a new teacher. Or a way to raise the old one from the dead!"
---Storm and Wolverine and Blob, UXM 178
"And when it's over, when you have to choose between X-Men and Brotherhood---him and...me---what then?"
"At least I'll have a choice. More'n Ah got now."
---Mystique and Rogue, UXM 178
"Nice---you bozos won't stop us an' these cops can't, they ain't got the firepower. Caught red-handed, we walk away. I gotta hand it to Misty, she looks after her own. An' the night wasn't a total bust. We still nailed Colossus."
---Blob, UXM 178
"Obviously, someone wishes us to believe Kitty is dead. We would bury her, mourn her--perhaps even hunt down the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, in the mistaken belief that they were responsible...since this occurred during our battle with them, all the while never suspecting she was still alive..."
---Storm, UXM 179
"The swine! Pyro heated Peter white-hot, then Avalanche smothered him in liquid nitrogen---near absolute-zero cold."
---Nightcrawler, UXM 179
"My beliefs tell me to forgive my enemies---but what I want to do most is track down the Brotherhood and rip out their accursed hearts!"
---Nightcrawler, UXM 179
"I been hangin' out with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, fightin' the X-Men again. Soon's I heard you was in trouble I hotfooted it right over here. You're my pal, the only guy who never looked at me like a freak. I'll help you somehow, Gunther."
---Blob (to Unus), Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man, 91
"Rogue's bitterness---and fear---over her uncontrollable powers may well drive her back to the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants..."
---Storm, UXM 183
"What would you say, Valerie, if you knew that I was one of those very beings you're so concerned about? Not merely a mutant but a terrorist...Mystique, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. I'll take any measures necessary to protect myself---and ensure my group's survival and success. Whatever your plans, my dear---whatever the devices Forge has crafted for you---you're both beaten before you've begun. And quite possibly as good as dead!"
---Mystique (as Raven Darkholme), UXM 183
"On the other hand, the scanner's ready to go. [....] As a matter of fact, it reveals that one of us in this room---is a mutant!"
"What!?! Does he mean me?! Who else?!! If he denounces me, that's sure to jeopardize my true identity---as Mystique leader, of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! That must not happen. I've no choice---I'll have to kill him, and Val as well!"
---Forge and Mystique (as Raven Darkholme), UXM 184
"So close---to total disaster! But this is only a temporary reprieve. I have to make certain Forge's scanner is never used or, failing that, to disguise my real nature from it. And finally, most assuredly, to repay our host in full for his little 'jest'."
"Whatever's happened to Raven's sense of humor? If looks could kill, my troubles'd be over. I really spooked her---I wonder why? She got something to hide?"
---Mystique (as Raven Darkholme) and Forge, UXM 184
"The mutant control act was passed in response to the assassination---by mutants---of Senator Robert Kelly. Yet here, now---he's the man responsible for it! My time shift was successful. I'm in the past. But is it the right past...my past?"
---Rachel Summers, UXM 184
"Though originally affiliated with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Rogue has of late been operating with the X-Men. In all probability, therefore, she was not fighting them in earnest, but merely providing a diversion, allowing another teammate to penetrate our prime data bank and erase all references to the X-Men and mutants in general---from the entire federal computer network. A further possibility is that the X-Men and Brotherhood have formed an alliance---they may even have been working secretly together from the outset."
---H.P. Gyrich, UXM 185
"Ororo---surely you didn't expect me to appear in public wearing my own face? The leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is an internationally notorious terrorist. I thought this camouflage would avoid any...unpleasantness."
---Mystique, Marvel Fanfare 40
"Henry Gyrich and his team have been searching the river, downstream from where she landed---without success. She either drowned or escaped."
"Rogue is a resourceful young woman. I would say the latter."
"What brought the two of you together, anyway? She's a crook, part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants."
"No longer. Besides, she and I have much more in common than you suspect."
---Forge and Storm and Forge and Storm, UXM 186
"All that horror---an' it was Mystique's fault. My foster mom was the mutant who murdered Kelly."
---Rogue, UXM 188
"Ah wonder why we bother. Even if we succeed---an' save this mystery sod's butt---it won't make no real difference to us. We'll still be outcasts. We'll still be hated. Would Ah be any worse off if Ah'd stayed with Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? Don't really seem so."
---Rogue, UXM 196
"I am Mystique."
"Leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants?!"
"The same. Although that organization may well have outlived its usefulness."
---Mystique and Val Cooper and Mystique, UXM 199
"In a sense, that night was the end of my life, too. No more Rogue the wild kid, hotshot member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Bein' two people trapped in one skull drove me insane. An' the only person who proved able to help me was the Brotherhood's arch enemy, Charles Xavier---founder of the X-Men. They're mutants like me---only where Ah was a crook...they're heroes."
---Rogue, UXM 203
"You've never forgiven me for that, have you?! All the time Ah've fought b'side you hasn't made a whit o' difference! Ah'm still the renegade, runaway bad girl from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants...who you were forced to accept as a team-mate!"
---Rogue, UXM 244
"His name is Robert Kelly and he knows firsthand how dangerous these deviants can be. A few years ago, some mutie terrorists called the Brotherhood of Mutants tried to kill him."
---a television program, X-Men 103 (note what Marvel is calling them these days)
