Cerebra's Files: Movieverse
Senator Kelly
Real Name: Senator Robert Kelly
Played By: Bruce Davison
Affiliation: United States Senate
Status: Deceased (Magneto)
Powers & History:None (human). X1: Kelly was a virulently anti-mutant campaigner
who believed that mutants were dangerous and that the normal humans deserved to
know who was a mutant and what they could do. As such he was a firm supporter
of the Mutant Registration Act. Kelly was therefore the first target of Magneto
for his mutation machine. Mystique, who had been posing
as Kelly's aide Gyrich, kidnaped the Senator in a stolen helicopter, and Magneto
tested his machine on Kelly. After waking up, Kelly found that his body had extreme
flexibility, and he managed to escape from his cell on Magneto's island by squeezing
through the bars. The mutation Kelly was given gave him the ability to turn in
to a kind of fish-man with gills in his back. He was thus able to swim to shore,
whereupon he traveled to Xavier's school to beg for
help. At the school he was taken to the medical bay where Xavier
read his mind and learned what Magneto had done. Kelly's body was rejecting the
unnnatural mutation of his cells and it finally caused him to perish, his body
turning into water and bursting. In the X-1 comic, Kelly was freed by Magneto
and allowed to leave the island rather than him squeezing out of his cell and
escaping. Mystique impersonated Kelly for 3 months after the Kelly's death
and the failure of Magneto's mutation machine. X2: As Kelly, Mystique reversed
Kelly's anti-mutant stance and his support for the Mutant Registration Act, and
found out about Stryker's program in a private meeting with the President.
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