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Raven Darkholme | X-Men: First Class 2/? travelistaa July 22 2011, 13:30:47 UTC
Charles brings Erik   to the facility where they  meet  a young Hank McCoy. Raven and Hank are   instantly smitten with each   other. Raven considers Hank 'beautiful'  with  his mutated feet and   there is an instant, budding attraction  between  them. He reveals later   to Raven that he is working on a serum  to cure  the physical  mutation,  but leaves his physical abilities  intact.  Requesting a  blood sample of  her, he tells her that he  believes that her  DNA and  her ability holds  the key to perfecting it.

Charles,   using a  mutant locating  device (Cerebro) in order to recruit more   mutants,  and Raven takes it  upon herself to either give everyone   codenames, or  come up with one  themselves, and she takes the name   Mystique.

During  a mission to  Russia where Charles, MacTaggert   and Erik try to find  Shaw, the  mutants stay at home and continue to   talk. However, instead  of Shaw  arriving in Russia, he sent Emma  Frost  in his stead and he  himself  (along with Azazel and Riptide) goes  to  attack Division X,  where they  kill everyone but the mutants. He  offers  them a chance to  join him, but  Angel is the only one who  willingly  accepts. Darwin  attempts to fight  back with the aid of Havok,  but Shaw  simply absorbs  Havok's energy and  kills Darwin with it.

With   the facility  destroyed and the  employees dead, Charles takes the young   mutants  back to train at his  family home in New York.

The  mutants   begin there training here,  each one working their bodies and  minds to   hone in and shape their  individual and unique abilities.  Raven opts  for  physical training since  her power stems from her body  itself -  though  while she works out, she  still maintains her 'human'  shape.  Erik sees  her as such, and makes  the comment that without the   distraction, she  would do much better. He  proves this by casually   lifting her weights  from her hands while he  speaks, then suddenly   dropping them on her,  causing Raven to  immediately shift and catch the   weights.

Later, Hank reveals to  Raven that he believes he  has  found the cure  to their appearances, and  offers her the serum.  Raven  rejects it,  telling him that they  shouldn't have to hide. He  counters  that by  telling her that she was  hiding at that moment, and  that she  was  beautiful when she wasn't blue  and a 'freak'. Raven,   unquestionably  hurt, does not take the injection.

She  goes to   Erik (who's  constant assurance of her true beauty was the main  reason   she refused  the injection) and attempts to seduce him as a  normal   human woman. Again  he tells her he prefers the real Raven - not  the   mask that she wears. They share a kiss, and Raven does not take the    form of the blond woman again.

The  next morning, they are    outfitted in suits made by Hank, who is  mysteriously absent and left    only a note stating to meet him at the  airplane. It is revealed upon    arrival that Hank had injected himself  with his serum, but it had    backfired - instead of masking his physical  abnormality, it only    amplified it and caused him to take on a far more  bestial appearance.

The    entire team  was instrumental in stopping the Cuban Missile Crisis    stopping Shaw’s  plan for world domination (by mutants). Raven was able    to fool Azazel by  appearing as Shaw, enabling them to hold the upper    hand while Erik  battled Shaw within the crashed submarine.

However,    the team  was split after the battle when instead of fighting each    other,  Americans and Russians both aimed their missiles at the beach on    which  the mutants had crashed. Erik warned them that humans would    never accept  mutants, and after a fight in which Charles was paralyzed    by a bullet  deflected by Erik, he left with Rip Tide, Raven, Angel  and   Azazel in  tow. The last scene of the movie showcases Magneto    introducing himself,  and he and his team liberating Emma Frost.

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