Later, Mystique impersonated Logan and Storm during the Liberty Island incident to sow confusion in the X-Men's ranks. A skilled fighter, Mystique held her own in a fight with Wolverine, until he stabbed her when she duplicated Storm. Mystique was able to disguise herself as a guard and was taken to a hospital. She later fled and disguised herself as Senator Kelly for about three months during which she reversed the dead Senator's support for mutant registration. In general, Mystique refuses to disguise herself as a 'normal' human except when she needs to because she feels she shouldn't have to.
After being alerted to the existence of Stryker's program and to Magneto's whereabouts, Mystique seduced a guard who worked in Magneto's prison facility and knocked him out, then injected him with iron. This allowed Magneto to gain access to metal when the guard walked into his plastic prison to deliver lunch. Mystique also impersonated Deathstrike and hacked into Stryker's computers to discover the location of his base and his Cerebra project. Wolverine suggested that she and Nightcrawler might be related due to their similar appearances but Storm dismissed it as probably random. Mystique's real name is given in the X-2 credits.
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