X-Men: Days of Future Past
Simon Kinberg reassert a surprising point about Mystique ’s backstory inX - human race : day of Future Past . The particular entry in theX - Menfranchise attempt to reconcile the conflictingtimelines ofX - Men : First Classandthe originalX - Mentrilogy . ex - Men : First Classrecast the celebrated role of Magneto , Professor X , andMystiqueto tell an pedigree narrative set mostly in the 1960s .
In the first threeX - Menmovies , Mystique was portray by Rebecca Romijn . This reading of the character was a lowly villain alongside Ian McKellen ’s Magneto . We come across another version of this theatrical role inX - Men : First Classwhen the unseasoned sport , Raven , is found in Charles Xavier ’s kitchen , leading us to trust her parents had abandon her . The equally untested Xavier hire in the on the face of it homeless Raven , and the dyad farm up like siblings . The adult Raven AKA Mystique is played by Jennifer Lawrence , who had a leading ( and less villainous ) office inX - Men : First Class , X - Men : Days of Future Past , andX - Men : Revelation .
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Similar to Romijn ’s Mystique , Lawrence ’s is somewhat of a enigma ; we do n’t know on the nose how she is ( thanks to her figure - shifting abilities ) nor who her parent are . During a late ticker along withIGN , decade - Men : years of Future Pastwriter , Simon Kinberg explained an Easter testicle : in the conniption where Mystique pass through Trask Industries , she rifle through some files and sees the autopsy picture of mutants fromX - valet de chambre : First Class . One of these images is of Azazel . " There ’s Azazel , " said Kinberg , " Who we know is her pa , but she never gets to teach that . "
InX - Men : First Class , Azazel is play by Jason Flemyng . The teleporting mutant was a appendage of Sebastian Shaw ’s Hellfire Club , which served as an antagonistic hydrofoil for Xavier ’s newly - formed X - man . After the event of that motion picture , Azazel joined Magneto ’s Brotherhood of Mutants before being captured and killed . Nothing that happen inX - Men : First Classsuggests a kinship between Azazel and Mystique . In the comics , Mystique and Azazel become romantically involved and the conceive Nightcrawler . Before Kinberg ’s Apocalypse that Azazel is Mystique ’s father , many fans theorized thatNightcrawler(who can also teleport ) fromX - man : Apocalypseis the duo ’s materialisation . In a deleted scene fromX - humanity : Apocalypse , Lawrence tease that Nightcrawler was the lovechild of Mystique and Beast .
Lawrence ’s portrait of Mystique was a drastic departure fromother avatar of the character . This is one of the reasonsX - gentleman : daylight of Future Pastworked so well : you did n’t know what to expect . While Kinberg ’s remark about Mystique being Azazel ’s girl is interesting , it does n’t really change anything about the narrative ( there ’s no on - screenland evidence to bear out it ) . Now thatDisney / Marvel has acquired Fox , we ’ll just have to imagine a timeline where that father - girl relationship is explore .
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