10 Oldest Mutants In X-Men History

5. Mystique And Destiny (Estimated Age - 250+)

Mystique certainly lives up to her name, and then some. In the movies her continuity is a little shaky but pretty much set, with her being roughly the same age of Charles Xavier, having been taken in by his family and raised like his sister. In the comic books, however, nothing is ever that simple. Which is saying something, considering all the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff we had to contend with in Days Of Future Past.

Anyway, when you delve into the history of Raven Darkholme, you also have to take a long, hard look at her decades-long relationship with Irene Adler, better known as Destiny. And if that name reminds you of the Sherlock Holmes character, well, that's because she's supposed to be that self same Sherlock Holmes character.

Irene Adler the X-Men character is the same as the Arthur Conan Doyle creation, which means she's at least been around since the late 1800s. If reports are to be believed, Destiny and Mystique - who have had a long-standing gay relationship, albeit less explicitly in the more conservative early era of the comics - though, the pair have been around even longer than that. Again there's no exact figure on it, but the official word from Marvel is that Raven and Irene have been active since the "dawn of the 20th Century", which means they're at least a hundred years old, but probably more.

"Active" suggests that the pair, who combine Mystique's shapeshifting abilities with Destiny's power to see the future, have been up to no good for a hundred years. So they're probably even older, having grown up and got their powers and decided to use them for bad stuff. So one of the X-Men's biggest foes is an old awesome lesbian, which is pretty neat.