Mystique (Raven Darkholme)

Raven Darkholme, also known as Mystique, is one of the major characters from the Marvel Comics series.
== Charactah Account ==
True to her name, the shape shifting Mystique is an enigma. Is she a mutant terrorist determined to bring about the end of humanity, or a misguided mutant with a good heart?
Mystique can psionically alter the formation of her biological cells at will. As a result, she can cause herself to look and sound like an exact duplicate of any human, humanoid, or semi-humanoid being of any sex, wearing virtually any kind of clothing. Her control is so exact that she can precisely duplicate another person's retina pattern in her own eyes, finger, palm and skin-pore patterns on her own hands and skin, smell to overlap the original being, and vocal cords to match voices to the point of corresponding voice prints.
Mystique appears to have total control over every aspect of her physiology, allowing her to change the internal composition, primary function and pigmentation of each of her body's cells. Doctor Nemesis has confirmed that she is capable of rewriting the genomic instructions in every single cellular nucleus of her body and is therefore a gene-shaper.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* All-New X-Men
* Astonishing X-Men
* Avengers & X-Men: Axis
* Dark X-Men
* Dawn of X
* Destiny of X
* Essential X-Men
* Excalibur
* Exiles
* Hellions
* House of X
* Immortal X-Men
* Marauders
* Marvel Comics Presents
* Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men
* Marvel Mega
* Marvel Premiere
* Marvel Previews
* Maximum X-Men
* Ms. Marvel
* Mutant X
* Mystique
* Mystique & Sabretooth
* Reign of X
* Sabretooth
* The New Mutants
* The Uncanny X-Force
* The Uncanny X-Men
* Titans
* Ultimate Spider-Man And X-Men
* Ultimate X-Men
* Uncanny Spider-Man
* Uncanny X-Force
* Uncanny X-Men
* Uncanny X-Men Omnibus
* Weapon X
* Wolverine
* Wolverine & the X-Men
* Wolverine and Deadpool
* Wolverine and Gambit
* Wolverine Unleashed
* Wolverine/Deadpool
* Wolverines
* X-51
* X-Campus
* X-Factor
* X-Force
* X-Marvel
* X-Men
* X-Men Adventures
* X-Men Classic
* X-Men Deluxe
* X-Men Extra
* X-Men Forever
* X-Men Forever 2
* X-Men Universe
* X-Men Unlimited
* X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comics
* X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - The Complete Epic
* X-Men: Legacy
* X-Men: Manifest Destiny
== Trivia ==
* Contrary to what is shown in most other incarnations of her in film and television, the comics version of Mystique is not Magneto's second-in-command. In fact, before Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 4) the two only had a handful of encounters together and barely even knew each other. One depiction of her being an associate of Magneto was the X-Men arcade game by Konami, where she turns herself into Magneto to prevent the players from rescuing Professor X and has all his powers, but is defeated fairly quickly. She turns back into her normal self as Professor X is freed and the players go to the final boss, the real Magneto.
* Veteran X-Men writer Chris Claremont has stated in interviews that he originally intended for Mystique and Destiny to be Nightcrawler's biological parents (Mystique having morphed into a man for the conception), but Marvel nixed the idea for being too controversial, due to it being a point in time where writers were prevented from having a gay or bisexual character.
* In celebration of Marvel Comics 80th anniversary, Mystique, along with Dark Phoenix and Storm were featured in a special line of Barbie fashion dolls.
* Mystique was once married to Deadpool.
== Gallery ==
File:Mystique (Raven Darkholme) Render 01.png
File:Mystique (Raven Darkholme) Render 02.png
File:Mystique (Raven Darkholme) Render 03.png
File:Mystique (Raven Darkholme) Render 04.png
File:Mystique (Raven Darkholme) Render 05.png
== External Links ==
* Raven Darkhölme (Earth-616) at Marvel Database
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:Marvel Comics