| Mystique | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Real Name | Raven Darkholme | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alternate Identity | Mystique Risty Wilde | ||||||||||||||||||
| Powers and Abilities | Shapeshifting Blue Appearance | ||||||||||||||||||
| Team Affiliations | Brotherhood of Mutants Horsemen of Apocalypse | ||||||||||||||||||
| Allies | Magneto X-Men | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family and Friends | Nightcrawler (Son) Rogue (Foster Daughter) | ||||||||||||||||||
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- Mystique is from the Non MAU series X-Men: Evolution.
Raven Darkholme, also known as Mystique, is a mutant and the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants formerly under the command of Magneto. She later became a part of the Horsemen of Apocalypse. She has also used the alias Risty Wilde.
Biography[]
Mystique had a son, who would become Nightcrawler. However, he had an altered appearance from birth and she was revealed as a mutant. Villagers chased her and she abandoned the child. She and Destiny found a girl named Rogue and they became her foster parents. The two manipulated her so that she would eventually be an ally.
Mystique met Magneto at an unknown time and became his right-hand woman. She went to Bayville where the Xavier Mansion was located and became the principle of Bayville High School, where those who lived at Xavier's went to school, under the name Raven Darkholme.
Stopping Rogue from joining[]
Rogue attended a school dance and against her better judgement, danced with a boy that touched her after she fell down and was put into a coma by her. Knowing the X-Men would arrived to recruit her, she and Destiny met up again and discussed their current situation, citing that the two managed to keep her powers hidden for five straight years and in a single night, their accomplishment is ruined. She decided that the best way to have Rogue come back to them would be to use her powers and shape-shift into the other X-Men and attack her. Going first as Wolverine, she attacked Rogue while she was inside the boy's home and discriminated the name X-Men by using it to refer to herself as him.
Mystique next attacked Rogue as Cyclops, causing the young mutant to become even more afraid.
Other endeavors[]
She started the Brotherhood of Mutants and recruited Toad, Avalanche, and Blob. Magneto had her get Quicksilver, who was actually his son.
When Magneto revealed his ultimate plan for mutantkind with Asteroid M, he had Mystique fight Storm to prove herself. But she was easily overwhelmed and knocked out by Storm.
Mystique later guided the other Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men members left behind to the secret base. She went into the chamber with the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak where her powers were greatly increased.
With Mystique's reputation in ruins, she took on a teenage girl form and called herself Risty Wilde to befriend Rogue. She used Rogue to get inside the mansion then blew it up.
Mystique was later manipulated by Mesmero to release the ancient mutant Apocalypse. But releasing him turned her to stone.
Mystique's son Nightcrawler tried to help her, but Rogue pushed the statue off of a cliff apparently killing her.
But Mystique had really been altered into becoming a Horseman of Apocalypse. Her powers were radically altered. Though Apocalypse was defeated and she was released.
Powers and Abilities[]
Raven has the power to change her body into any human or humanoid shape, a wide range of animals and some inanimate objects. She is able to imitate someone so well that she can pass retina, fingerprint and voice scanners. Mystique cannot mimic the powers of other mutants, only the physical appearance, but if a mutation is physically based, such as Wolverine's claws, then she can mimic them using her own abilities. She is seemingly able to change her mass, having become a number of small animal shapes and once pretended to be a statue in the foyer of the Xavier Institute.
Mystique's powers were increased by Magneto's enhancer on Asteroid M, enabling her to change her scent to match the forms she took and her own body became scentless. Additionally the enhancement made her immune to telepathic probing and mind control, and further increased her strength.
Mystique is physically tougher than the average human; appearing immune to the effects of extreme weather and is strong enough to shatter stone with one of her kicks. She is superhumanly flexible and is skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
When under the command of Apocalypse, Mystique's powers vastly increased. She could transform into several beings simultaneously, a liquid state and even regenerate lost limbs. It is unknown if these changes were reversed when she was released.
Due to the nature of Mystique's powers, she is in fact always naked and the clothes are simply extensions of her body.
Personality[]
Mystique is a ruthless, feared, and unscrupulous manipulator.
Relationships[]
Nightcrawler[]
Kurt is Raven's son; whom she had abandoned.
Rogue[]
Rogue is Raven's foster daughter.
Background[]
Mystique was voiced by Colleen Wheeler. Risty Wilde was voiced by Nichole Oliver.
Steve E. Gordon, who was a director and character designer on X-Men: Evolution, said that he wanted to design Mystique nude like Rebecca Romijn in the X-Men film. However, this idea was scrapped when Gordon figured that Kids' WB would not approve of having a naked woman in a kids cartoon. She was instead given a design closer to her comic book counterpart in season one.[1]
In the Comics[]
Mystique cannot change size or become multiple several beings simultaneously. The several beings is because of Apocalypse. But she can only become smaller by being denser and vice-versa.
She has joined the X-Men, though has not been a Horseman.
Her shapeshifting powers give her a kind of healing factor. She is quite old, possibly as old as Wolverine. The two have even met each other several times before joining the Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men, and may have been romantically involved.
She and Destiny are lovers, both in her real form and one of a man.
She and Sabretooth had a son named Graydon Creed, who started the anti-mutant group called the Friends of Humanity.
References[]
- ↑ Steve E. Gordon at popgeeks.com
External Links[]
- Marvel
- Wikipedia
- Raven Darkholme (Earth-11052) at Marvel Database
- Raven Darkholme (Earth-616) at Marvel Database