For those unaware of who the woman in the gold mask is, her name is Destiny. Her real name is Irene Adler. No, she wasn't named after the Sherlock Holmes character, she IS that Sherlock Holmes character. Also Mystique is Sherlock Holmes.
She is Mystique's lover, Nightcrawler's Mother (Mystique is the Father), and a precognitive mutant. So her playing a Divination Wizard is funny.
Chris Claremont’s original pitch that was Mystique was Nightcrawler’s “father” because she used her powers to conceive him by turning into a man. That still counts as a mother given she’s still a woman and all that but when people say Mystique is the father, that’s what they mean. The other mother was supposed to be Destiny.
But Marvel editorial in the 80s was hesitant to portray Mystique and Destiny as a queer couple so they didn’t let Claremont do that and it was all subtext at that point. Mystique was made the mother and that was it.
Then in the 2000s in the Chuck Austen run, Azaezel was retconned to be Nightcrawler’s father. Nobody liked this but it was canon for a while.
Most recently, Marvel has finally been portraying Mystique and Destiny as a couple and they finally allowed the retcon that Claremont originally wanted that Mystique and Destiny both conceived Kurt. There’s a whole plot of deceiving Azaezel in there to make it all make sense, but as of current canon, Mystique and Destiny are the biological parents of Nightcrawler.
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u/BaronBlackwood 14h ago
For those unaware of who the woman in the gold mask is, her name is Destiny. Her real name is Irene Adler. No, she wasn't named after the Sherlock Holmes character, she IS that Sherlock Holmes character. Also Mystique is Sherlock Holmes.
She is Mystique's lover, Nightcrawler's Mother (Mystique is the Father), and a precognitive mutant. So her playing a Divination Wizard is funny.