"Okay. Once upon a time there was a very evil man who happened to be a mutant, and his name was Klaus Schmidt or possibly Sebastian Shaw or possibly something else; we don't know for sure that either name was his real one. He took advantage of some very bad things that were happening to murder a couple and kidnap their mutant son, Erik Lehnscherr. Erik managed to escape after several years, and then dedicated himself to hunting down and killing his captor for the death of his parents. Meanwhile, a government agent named Moira McTaggert found out Shaw and saw demonstrations of the abilities of several other mutants he had managed to get on his side. She sought out Charles Xavier, a recent university graduate whose thesis paper suggested the existence of human mutants with fantastic powers, only to discover that he was one. He agreed to help her stop Shaw, who was trying to drive two powerful countries towards war. It turned out that one of Moira's co-workers was also a mutant, a genius who built a machine that let he and my father find others of our kind--including Erik. They joined forces with him and several others that they found to thwart the last stage of Shaw's plan, and succeeded, but they succeeded very publicly."