Moira MacTaggert Quotes in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Moira MacTaggert: [opens a CIA folder] Ever since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of God. I was tracking one of them. They call themselves Ashir En Sabah Nur, named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first.

Alex Summers: World's first what?

Moira MacTaggert: The world's first mutant.

Alex Summers: I thought mutants didn't evolve till this century.

Moira MacTaggert: That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens of thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. They've been searching ancient sites all around the world for clues. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess.

Charles Xavier: Do you think he lived in all that time?

Moira MacTaggert: Yes and no. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. Some of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years.

Charles Xavier: An all-powerful mutant?

Moira MacTaggert: Exactly. And wherever this being was, he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers.

Alex Summers: Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He got that one from the Bible

Moira MacTaggert: Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually it would end in disaster, cataclysm, some kind of... apocalypse.

Charles Xavier: The end of the world...