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PermalinkShe’s got such a bad fucking attitude.
That’s why I love her.
A few months ago I rewatched X2 and came to the conclusion that Mystique is actually the hero of the movie. Posted this on my DW a while back, but I feel it needs repeating, because the awesomeness of Mystique cannot be understated. Because she’s like the only character who actually makes choices and ACTS rather than just reacting, and also, she is responsible for every single positive step forward the plot takes. LET ME SUM UP. In X2, Mystique:
1. Impersonates Senator Kelly, keeping the Mutant Registration Act off the Senate floor.
2. Attempts to protect the X-Men by insisting to the President of the United States that the mansion is just a school.
3. Finds out that Stryker is involved in Erik’s imprisonment.
4. Hacks into Stryker’s files to find the location of Erik’s prison and intel on the guards.
5. …and, oh yeah, that Stryker is building his own Cerebro.
6. Seduces the guard and injects iron into his bloodstream, enabling Erik to break out of jail.
7. Impersonates Logan to infiltrate Alkali Lake and kicks everyone’s asses once she’s inside.
8. Hacks into the Alkali Lake mainframe to find Cerebro.
9. Impersonates Stryker in Cerebro to convince Jason to alter his illusion.
10. Pilots the motherfucking helicopter off the dam.
Granted, there’s also the bit with the attempted genocide, which she perpetrates, and leaving the X-Men behind to die. And attempting to seduce Logan for no reason except to fuck with his head, which, frankly, the way he keeps hitting on a basically-married woman who has turned him down at every single impasse and yet he never stops harassing her, I gotta side with Mystique on this one.
In contrast, our nominal hero Wolverine stabs some guys, steals yet another of Scott’s vehicles, gets shot a bunch, and then abandons his entire team at Alkali Lake in order to get his own personal vengeance. Yeah, whatever. If it weren’t for Mystique, Erik would still be in prison and then Charles would have killed all the mutants on the planet because the X-Men would never have put Stryker together with the assassination attempt, therefore never thinking to have Jean read Kurt’s mind to find Alkali Lake in the first place.
So there.
Hello, new wonderful person, with all of the best Raven feels, so neatly and perfectly explained.
I should like to be your friend now plz.
reblogged for commentary :3
(trigger warning: rape)
I like Mystique, but let’s not write off her attempted rape of Logan when she was impersonating Jean. Using Jean’s form to deceive Logan, since he wouldn’t consent to sex with her real identity? That’s serious shit, and implying he deserved it is victim-blaming, and gross. (And this isn’t the first time I’ve seen the “Mystique and Magneto are the real heroes of the X-Men movies” argument totally ignore/gloss over her attempted rape.) So yeah, let’s not.
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