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Ooh, another
Apr. 22nd, 2013 11:08 amgive me a character and i will answer:
Mystique
why I like them:
I always liked that Mystique could be anyone she wanted to be and yet they didn't completely gloss over the way this would mess with someone's head. You change shape enough and you're bound to forget yourself, just a bit.
I also adored the way that even with this in mind, parts of her personality didn't change. She was snarky and delightfully wicked and yet you couldn't ever write her off as a complete villain because she cared so much about Rogue and Destiny. I like my villains to have a heart, even if they are quite adept at hiding it away for long stretches of time.
why I don’t
In the wrong hands, Mystique tended to be wasted as an excuse for the artist to show some skin. Also, see Nightcrawler's origin story. :(
favoriteepisode (scene if movie) issue:
X-Men Unlimited #4 where you get a good chunk of the Mystique story and how it makes Nightcrawler and Rogue sorta-but-not-really siblings. Crash course in the ways in which Mystique had issues throughout the years. Woo?
favorite season/movie:
Gonna morph this one, too, and choose between movie Mystiques. Which I will then further cheat and not choose because I like them both for different reasons.
I liked the vulnerability in First Class Mystique and also the odd relationship between Mystique/Xavier/Magneto. Not sure I could've wrapped my head around the thought of Beast/Mystique prior to seeing it, but it worked for the movie.
Older Mystique is fun because she's cold and calculating (closer to comic Mystique) as well as being very happy being a mutant. Who wouldn't love Mystique's powers? At least until the potential to crack up presented itself, anyway.
favorite line:
I haven't beaten a man with his own leg since Carter was in office... but I still remember how.
favorite outfit:
I think Mystique, I think the white dress. *shrug* What can I say, it's what she wore when I first got into the comics. I never did really get the whole belt of skulls thing (how is that useful? Does she have things hidden in this belt? Where does it go when she morphs? Does it even actually exist or is it simply something she's chosen to show off as part of her outfit?
otp:
Mystique/Destiny. "She meant the world to me and you killed her as if she meant nothing."
brotp:
I lived for the issues where Rogue and Mystique would team up. Lived for them. *cough*
Some part of me is hoping for Mystique hanging out with the super couple of Erik/Charles in any future movies from the people behind First Class. Which isn't going to happen in reality, so my brain will have to make it so.
head canon:
I haven't given a lot of thought to Ms Darkholme in ages, truthfully. I was pretty content to just hope and wish for any issue with her in it, with bonuses given for any Rogue goodness thrown my way.
And a big chunk of this is due to the fact that comics change things so often that if you adhere to anything beyond "Mystique loves Rogue but is capable of doing horrible things to her if it means shaping her into the person M wants to her to be" you're just... going to go insane. I added the Destiny love when that became obvious and everything else just gets drafted onto these things or dropped, depending.
unpopular opinion
For someone who has been known to prance around absolutely naked, it took forever to find a Mystique image I liked enough to share. Some of her artwork over the years has been extremely unfortunate. o_O Or at least the stuff people have chosen to share online and is easily found is unfortunate.
Also fun as she's been in the movies, none of her appearances on film have managed to be anywhere near as awesome as comic!Mystique.
And I've no idea if any of these are unpopular or not because I'm that removed from comicbookdom.
a wish:
I wouldn't know where to begin. I've no idea what they've done to her in the last billion years and how well any of it went over.
an oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen
The universe already made Mystique/Sabretooth a thing so... I got nothing.
5 words to best describe them
red haired proud blue mutant.
my nickname for them
Mama Smurf. (It is now, anyway.)
Mystique
why I like them:
I always liked that Mystique could be anyone she wanted to be and yet they didn't completely gloss over the way this would mess with someone's head. You change shape enough and you're bound to forget yourself, just a bit.
I also adored the way that even with this in mind, parts of her personality didn't change. She was snarky and delightfully wicked and yet you couldn't ever write her off as a complete villain because she cared so much about Rogue and Destiny. I like my villains to have a heart, even if they are quite adept at hiding it away for long stretches of time.
why I don’t
In the wrong hands, Mystique tended to be wasted as an excuse for the artist to show some skin. Also, see Nightcrawler's origin story. :(
favorite
X-Men Unlimited #4 where you get a good chunk of the Mystique story and how it makes Nightcrawler and Rogue sorta-but-not-really siblings. Crash course in the ways in which Mystique had issues throughout the years. Woo?
favorite season/movie:
Gonna morph this one, too, and choose between movie Mystiques. Which I will then further cheat and not choose because I like them both for different reasons.
I liked the vulnerability in First Class Mystique and also the odd relationship between Mystique/Xavier/Magneto. Not sure I could've wrapped my head around the thought of Beast/Mystique prior to seeing it, but it worked for the movie.
Older Mystique is fun because she's cold and calculating (closer to comic Mystique) as well as being very happy being a mutant. Who wouldn't love Mystique's powers? At least until the potential to crack up presented itself, anyway.
favorite line:
I haven't beaten a man with his own leg since Carter was in office... but I still remember how.
favorite outfit:
I think Mystique, I think the white dress. *shrug* What can I say, it's what she wore when I first got into the comics. I never did really get the whole belt of skulls thing (how is that useful? Does she have things hidden in this belt? Where does it go when she morphs? Does it even actually exist or is it simply something she's chosen to show off as part of her outfit?
otp:
Mystique/Destiny. "She meant the world to me and you killed her as if she meant nothing."
brotp:
I lived for the issues where Rogue and Mystique would team up. Lived for them. *cough*
Some part of me is hoping for Mystique hanging out with the super couple of Erik/Charles in any future movies from the people behind First Class. Which isn't going to happen in reality, so my brain will have to make it so.
head canon:
I haven't given a lot of thought to Ms Darkholme in ages, truthfully. I was pretty content to just hope and wish for any issue with her in it, with bonuses given for any Rogue goodness thrown my way.
And a big chunk of this is due to the fact that comics change things so often that if you adhere to anything beyond "Mystique loves Rogue but is capable of doing horrible things to her if it means shaping her into the person M wants to her to be" you're just... going to go insane. I added the Destiny love when that became obvious and everything else just gets drafted onto these things or dropped, depending.
unpopular opinion
For someone who has been known to prance around absolutely naked, it took forever to find a Mystique image I liked enough to share. Some of her artwork over the years has been extremely unfortunate. o_O Or at least the stuff people have chosen to share online and is easily found is unfortunate.
Also fun as she's been in the movies, none of her appearances on film have managed to be anywhere near as awesome as comic!Mystique.
And I've no idea if any of these are unpopular or not because I'm that removed from comicbookdom.
a wish:
I wouldn't know where to begin. I've no idea what they've done to her in the last billion years and how well any of it went over.
an oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen
The universe already made Mystique/Sabretooth a thing so... I got nothing.
5 words to best describe them
red haired proud blue mutant.
my nickname for them
Mama Smurf. (It is now, anyway.)
