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LGBT History of Supervillains: Mystique
The shapeshifting villainous Mutant whose personal relationships are more interesting than his supervillain actions, Mystique has definitely had a rich history when it comes to her sexual encounters.
Born Raven Darkholme, little is recognizable of Mystique’s origin such as when she was born due to the fact that her shapeshifting ability allows her not to age as normally as ordinary humans or other Mutants.
Mystique’s first recorded relationship was in 1921 in Mexico where she came into contact with Logan aka Wolverine. However their romantic entanglement did not last long as Raven’s villainous side took hold and she betrayed Wolverine. Other male encounters have included the demon Azazel and former lover’s enemy Sabertooth both of whom she spawned sons from, as well as Iceman and Baron Christian Wagner with whom she married and duped him into believing he was her son Nightcrawler’s father despite it being Azazel.
Mystique’s most notable romantic partnership however is the one she had with the precognitive Austrian Irene Adler aka Destiny. Despite the fact these two were hinted at being romantically involved since 1981, a time when h
Mystique And Destiny "Be Lgbtq+ Do Crime" At Their Wedding (Spoilers)
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Last year at CCXP Luciano Vecchio was selling this print of Mystique and Destiny with the slogan "Be Gay. Undertake Crime."
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Last year at São Paulo's CCXP comic convention, Luciano Vecchio, painter of Immortal X-Men, was selling this print of Mystique and Destiny with the slogan "Be Male lover. Do Crime." Which is a little easier if one can shape-shift into anyone or anything, and the other always knows what's coming next.
At the time, they were separated by time, space and dimension in the comic books. We thought that their reunion was probably just an issue or two away, but it took a little longer. But in celebration of the union of the couple who are, more than anyone, responsible for Moira Mactaggert turning poor and the whole Krakoan experiment collapsing. Destiny really should have seen that all coming and been less mean. But hey, they are the horrible guys and, as Tom Brevoort points out, the X-Men line is in need of those right now.
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In recent years, mainstream comics publishers like DC and Marvel have made amazing strides in increasing the LGBTQ+ rep in their universes, though they still have a long way to go. But getting here was a delayed and gradual process, with many notable landmarks — and some admitted missteps — along the way. In Queer Superhero History, we’ll look at gay characters in mainstream superhero comics, in (roughly) chronological order, to see how the landscape of Gay rep in the genre has changed over period. Today: Mystique!
There is a famous line in the 2003 X-Men movie, X2, in which Iceman’s parents discover that their teenage son is a mutant. “Have you tried…not existence a mutant?” Iceman’s mother asks him. It’s obviously meant to evoke its real-world equivalent: “Have you tried not being gay?” The mutant rights battle in the Marvel World was probably most widely understood as a metaphor for civil rights and racism before X2, but this mainstream, blockbuster show clearly — if delicately — tied it to LGBTQIA rights as adv. Mutants, and the X-Men, are a metaphor for queerness (among other things).
This wouldn’t have been news to longtime X-Men readers. Chris Claremont, the
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Mystique’s up-to-date career began as an opponent of the first Ms. Marvel, but she later formed the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, which she led with the counsel of Destiny (Irene Adler). Eventually Mystique (Raven Darkholme) arranged a pardon for the Brotherhood, which was redefined as the government super-team Liberty Force; the group clashed with the X-Men and the Avengers in both incarnations. Following Destiny’s death at the hands of the cyborg Reavers, Mystique’s activities became more unpredictable, leading her to both lead Freedom Force endorse into crime and to ally herself with the X-Men and X-Factor, but she is at show active in the field of mutant terrorism once more.
Despite an unseemly amount of sidestepping around the matter, there is virtually no doubt that Mystique and Destiny were lovers; the two are seen dancing romantically in Marvel Fanfare #40 (with Mystique, suggestively, in the establish of a man of about the same physical age as Destiny), and on one occasion the ancient power known as the Shadow King refers to Destiny as Mystique’s “leman,” an archaic legal title for “lover” (The word’s an
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