8 Great Characters Fox's Marvel Movies Have Completely Screwed Up

2. Mystique

Jennifer Lawrence's well-deserved popularity may have turned Mystique into the face of the X-Men franchise, but there's something very wrong with that. After an interesting new take on her origin story in X-Men: First Class, that movie ended with her joining up with Magneto's Brotherhood, a decision which felt like the perfect way of placing the character on the path to becoming a villain. Sadly, things went downhill from there. By the time Days of Future Past rolled around, Lawrence had clearly become too popular for Fox to portray her as a baddie, and while Mystique was conflicted at times, she was clearly entering hero territory. Now, with the shapeshifting mutant leading a squad of X-Men in the upcoming Apocalypse, her transformation into a full on superhero has been completed, and that's the worst possible way to handle this character. The original X-Men trilogy didn't do the best of jobs with Mystique, but at least she was a villain in those. Ignoring her duplicitous and manipulative nature is a wasted opportunity, as is glossing over her ties to characters like Rogue and Nightcrawler. As a result, it feels like this Mystique only exists for a certain demographic, and many great storytelling possibilities have been completely squandered as a result.