I posted Mystique once before and I am posting her again because Mystique is amazing.  It is interesting for me to sit down and think about the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (because this is a thing I do.  I sit down and think about the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.  You don’t?) because you had Magneto lead the original team.  He was one of the most powerful people on the planet and his powers really mean he can handle almost any threat head on.  As such his plans involved a whole lot of attacking stuff, storming fictional countries, and some old school mustache twirling villainy.  It also failed so spectacularly dude got turned into a baby by a space alien with a handlebar mustache.  Mystique should not have been able to follow that up.  Her powers are cool but they are not powerful in the way Magneto is.  Or even Blob.  I mean if you are going to threaten the US government in a fight shape shifting is not really the sort of thing to frighten a tank crew.  That is what makes her amazing though because Mystique is the sort of person who realizes being able to look like anyone is way, way more effective for taking down human society than throwing around steel girders ever will be.  It’s why for a long time her team was more successful because she was sneaky and smart.  Now, eventually it all blew up in her face but in her defense that was in the 90’s and did you see what happened to Cyclops’ baby in the 90’s?  Man, no one got out of that clean.  The point is Mystique is actually sexy and it has nothing to do with how she looks.  They all look good, they’re idealized drawings of women and she can look like anything she wants.  No it’s how she is, she’s evil in just a wonderful way, she’s manipulative, she is 5 steps ahead of everyone else and she can have you doubting everything you know.  She can play people against each other, she can come up with a master plan and when things go wrong she’s smart enough that she can get away and leave people shaking their fists about how next time they’ll get her.  She is badass.  Today I want to fuck Mystique.