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I just don't get people who say X-Men wasn't "woke" until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mystique / Raven already transgendered into a bunch of dudes and back into a lady, in the X-Men movies years ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, of course, which is why this is all so baffling. Or would be, if anyone still expected the Culture Warriors™ to have a single clue what they're talking about.

Also, in the comics, Mystique has been in a lesbian relationship with Destiny since the 80s, and Chris Claremont even planned at one point to have it revealed that Mystique had shapeshifted into a man and fathered Nightcrawler, with Destiny being his mom. That got nixed by the higher ups, but IIRC, the comics actually went back to that idea and made it canon recently.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow I didn't know she could grow a functioning boner.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the part of her power set that makes you go "Now hold up, that's a little complicated?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a fun time to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you think about it, if you could change your body at will like Mystique or Morph, the only thing stopping you of having all sorts of fun would be your own biases.

I do wonder how a pregnancy would work, tho. Could be an interesting plot point if getting pregnant limited the power

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Since the fetus is still a part of her at that point, can she just reform it at will like the rest of her? Could she spontaneously make a baby that's ready to be born? Disturbing implications...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She also has a wife but that might only be established since krakoa. I haven't read the classics as I wouldn't know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She and Destiny were definitely an item as far back as I was reading (late 80s). I don't think they had officially tied the knot though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From what I’ve heard, Mystique is now canonically Sherlock Holmes and met destiny in the late 1800s when she was being a detective in London.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I saw that was a thing now, that Mystique and Destiny are now canonically Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, respectively. That's the kind of awesome weird shit that makes me want to get back into comics.