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Mystique is the wife of Destiny / Irene Adler, the mother of the villain Graydon Creed, [11] adoptive mother of the X-Men heroine Rogue, [9] and the biological father of the X-Men hero Nightcrawler; conceived with her wife Destiny while in one of her male forms.
Mystique later becomes instrumental in Apocalypse's reawakening. Her backstory reveals that Mystique adopted a four-year-old Rogue, leaving her to be raised by a foster mother (Irene Adler), and Mystique is also the biological mother of Nightcrawler. Though she cares deeply for her children, her actions usually suggest otherwise.
Mystique [10] Raven Darkholme The Uncanny X-Men #141 (Jan. 1981) Co-founder and team leader. Served in several incarnations. Adoptive mother of the X-Man Rogue and actual mother of the X-Man Nightcrawler. Lover of Destiny. Later worked alongside the X-Men and the Marauders. Current member. Destiny [10] Irene Adler Co-founder and second in ...
Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, the character first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #141 (Jan. 1981). [1]As far back as 1981, Claremont had intended Destiny to be the lover of Brotherhood of Mutants teammate Mystique, and for them to be Nightcrawler's biological parents, with Mystique taking the form of a man for the conception.
Rogue was first slated to appear in Ms. Marvel #25 in 1979 (and artwork for the first half of the story was completed), [6] but the book's abrupt cancellation left her original introduction story unpublished for over a decade until it was printed in Marvel Super Heroes #11 in 1992, where she absorbed her current powers permanently from Ms. Marvel. [7]
The X-Men are forced to contend with numerous personal struggles: Cyclops is abducted and left for dead by Mystique; Spyke leaves the team to join the sewer-dwelling Morlocks when his mutation rapidly advances; Nightcrawler overcomes his insecurities about his appearance; Rogue learns that Mystique is her adoptive mother and loses control of ...
Mystique / Raven Darkholme (voiced by Randall Carpenter in 1993, Jennifer Dale in 1994–1996) – Mystique was shown as the leader of the Brotherhood, a close ally of Apocalypse, Rogue's foster mother, and Nightcrawler's birth mother. In the first season, Mystique aids Apocalypse in transforming several mutants into his Horsemen.
Rogue has nightmares about Kurt being abducted and experimented on (as a baby) by a dark figure (Magneto). It turns out that when she absorbed Kurt's memory, prior to her mother's (Mystique's) plan to keep her away from the X-Men, she also absorbed many more memories allowing the X-Men to find out that Mystique is Kurt's mother.