| Mystique | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Real Name: | Raven Darkhölme |
| Alias: | Risty Wilde Pestilence |
| Age: | Unknown |
| Species: | Mutant |
| Originally From: | Germany (presumed) |
| Relatives: | Kurt Wagner (son) Rogue (adopted daughter) |
| Affiliations: | The Brotherhood Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (formerly) Bayville High School (formerly) Magneto (formerly) |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Red |
| Eye color: | Grey iris, white sclera (season one) Black iris, yellow sclera (season two-four) |
| Height: | 5'10 |
| Character Information | |
| Powers: | Shapeshifting |
| First Appearance: | Strategy X |
| Voiced by: | Colleen Wheeler |
| GALLERY | |
- "You X-Men are nothing but puppets for Charles Xavier, and I am a sharp blade cutting your strings just so I can watch you fall!"
- —Mystique to Scott in Turn of the Rogue
Mystique is the mother of Kurt Wagner, the adoptive mother of Rogue and a mutant. She was put in charge of recruiting members of the Brotherhood of Mutants by Erik Lehnsherr. Eventually, she was chosen by Apocalypse to be Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen.
Must See Episodes[]
- Rogue Recruit
- Turn of the Rogue
- Shadowed Past
- Fun and Games
- The Hex Factor
- Blind Alley
- Self Possessed
- Impact
Personality[]
Mystique has extraordinary impulsive issues, which leads her to get defeated and beaten extremely easily by others. She also has a degree of superiority complex, as she always feels the need to be in control of others, even when there are those around her with greater authority. In addition, she can hold grudges against those that get in her way.
Physical Appearance[]
Mystique's more natural form is that of an adult woman with a slender yet muscular build, light blue skin, bright, red, hair that slightly went over her shoulders and which ended on her back, she also wore a navy blue lipstick. Her eyes often shifted to have a yellow sclera with a black iris or a grey iris with a white sclera. A yellow, triangular shaped gem was placed upon her forehead.
Outfits[]
During her time as Principal of Bayville High School, Mystique was known by the school as Principal Darkhölme, she was a tall woman with short black hair who wore a grey buttoned up blouse that was accompanied by a matching skirt with mundane brown tights, a lilac shirt with a pair of white earrings. Once the X-Men discovered their Principal and enemy were one in the same, Mystique renounced her identity as Principal Darkhölme and left the school under mysterious circumstances.
When as her natural self, Mystique wore a white, sleeveless but long dress with a purple skim-suit under it, her shoes were a pair of matching white boots that reached up to her thighs as well as a pair of white fingerless gloves that almost went up to her shoulders. After returning to The Brotherhood, Mystique wore a black, two-pieced outfit with the top being up to her neck as it also exposed her stomach. Her skirt was short with two slits at the top, she wore short black leather boots that reached just over ankle with a piece of black matching fabric tied to her wrist.
Powers and Abilities[]
Mystique possesses the ability to shapeshift into seemingly whoever or whatever she chooses. Her shapeshifting powers also allow her to retain the fingerprints and voice pattern of those she transformed into, although she cannot replicate any non-physical powers of other mutants.
After her exposure to the Gems of Cyttorak, Mystique's powers were enhanced further and became harder to detect by other mutants. She was able to fool the X-men by disguising herself as Charles Xavier for months and was shown to be able to mask her scent from those even with enhanced senses such as Logan.[1] Her mind became more advanced and was unable to be read telepathically by Jean Grey.[1]
Former Powers[]
While under the control of Apocalypse, Mystique became his Horseman of Pestilence. This transformation greatly enhanced her already existing powers while providing her new ones. She displayed a number of powers not originally shown such as become more than one creature at once, turn body parts into weapons, become liquid, and could heal from large holes made from Cyclops' blasts and regrow limbs.
Upon Apocalypse's defeat, Mystique was freed and returned to her normal state.
History[]
Alternative identities[]
Notes[]
- Production Art - Mystique
- Concept Art for Mystique.
- As of Turn of the Rogue, the X-Men became aware that Mystique and Principal Darkhölme were the same person.[2]
- Mystique's son, Kurt, was experimented on as a baby by Erik.[3]
- Mystique gained more control over her powers after the events of The Cauldron - Part 2[4]
- After the events of The Cauldron II, Mystique disappeared.[4]
- After using Arcade to obtain Wanda's file using her alias of Risty, Mystique eventually freed Wanda from the institute she was locked up in.[5]
- In Fun and Games, Rogue discovered Risty was Mystique in disguise .[5]
- After she, as Risty, was saved by the X-Men from the interdimensional rift, she tried to show interest in Forge. [6]
- Mystique returned as The Brotherhood's leader in The Hex Factor. [7]
- Mystique was left trapped in Area 51 by Scott after the former refused to tell Scott where Xavier was.[8]
- Mystique abandoned her alias of Risty after being found out. [8]
- Wanting revenge, Mystique lured Scott to Mexico in Blind Alley.[8][9]
- To try and keep her identity as Risty a secret, Mystique lied to Rogue and claimed she (Risty) had to return home to Manchester due to mutants being outed.[10] [11]
- Mystique intentionally released Juggernaut from his prison.[2] [12]
- Mystique's disguise as Risty was so she could remain close to Rogue.[11]
- Self Possessed was the final time Mystique posed as Risty.[11]
- Mystique adopted Rogue when she was four. [11]
- Mystique appeared in Impact but only as a statue after she turned into one upon freeing Apocalypse.[13]
- Rogue pushed the statue of Mystique off a cliff in a fit of rage, much to the horror of Kurt who watched the ordeal happen. [13]
- Mystique was mentioned in Cajun Spice.[14]
- Mystique was shown to be alive in Ascension I albeit turned into one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse .[15]
- Mystique turned into several things in order to throw Logan off her trail including a puddle of water, a swarm of bats and then a panther.[16]
- Mystique can mask her scent even standing next to someone with enhanced senses such as Logan.[17] [8]
- Day of Reckoning I is the fourth episode that shows Mystique's ability to morph into animals, this time an owl. prior to that it was a wolf and an eagle, [2] a crow,[18] a cat,[19] and a snake[20]
Steven E. Gordon's interpretation of Mystique[]
"I was never happy with the original Mystique I designed. I felt that she had a very dated feel, but the clock was ticking and we just ran out of time. The second design was influenced by having seen the film and also a better understanding of what Mystique needed to be as a character. If we could have gotten away with a nude - look like in the film we would have, but I don't think Kids WB was quite ready for that. I also tried to make her more physically imposing and look more like a female weight-lifter - more in the vein of an Adam Hughes character. But that didn't go over very well so I settled for a more slimmed down version"
In other media[]
- This is Mystique's second role in an X-Men related cartoon, the first being in X-Men: The Animated Series.
- Mystique appeared in Wolverine and the X-Men.
- Mystique appeared in multiple films, some of which include: X-Men, X-Men: X2 (United), X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men: Apocalypse.
- Some of the video games Mystique appears in include: X-Men: The Arcade Game, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order and Marvel: Snap.
Appearance[]
| Season One | ||||||||||
| Strategy X | X Impulse | Rogue Recruit | Mutant Crush | Speed & Spyke | Middleverse | Turn of the Rogue | ||||
| Spykecam | Survival of the Fittest | Shadowed Past | Grim Reminder | The Cauldron I | The Cauldron II | |||||
| Season Two | ||||||||||
| Growing Pains | Power Surge | Bada-Bing Bada-Boom | Fun and Games * | The Beast of Bayville * | Adrift | On Angel's Wings | African Storm | Joyride | ||
| Walk on the Wild Side * | Operation: Rebirth | Mindbender | Shadow Dance | Retreat | The Hex Factor | Day of Reckoning I | Day of Reckoning II | |||
| Season Three | ||||||||||
| Day of Recovery | The Stuff of Heroes | Mainstream | The Stuff of Villains | Blind Alley | X-Treme Measures | The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | ||||
| Self Possessed | Under Lock and Key | Cruise Control | X23 | Dark Horizon I | Dark Horizon II | |||||
| Season Four | ||||||||||
| Impact | No Good Deed | Target X | Sins of the Son | Uprising | Cajun Spice | Ghost of a Chance | Ascension I | Ascension II | ||
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