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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Welllll, I dunno if I'd say Mystique was as well known as WW up until the first X-movie she was in I would definitely check out a Mystique or Storm movie though! To be a superhero movie, in my opinion, you either gotta have powers or a cool costume (I don't count Widow's outfit as a costume 'cause it's essentially a spy catsuit haha), otherwise I feel like I'm watching a Die Hard/ James Bond/ John Wick style movie where the protagonist just kicks butt, and for me that wears thin quickly...

The X-Men movies elevated Mystique and Storm a long time before the Wonder Woman movie came out this year. My mother knows who Mystique is. Mystique was a major player in the last three X-Men movies. I think they should recast the character, but I think Jason Aaron's "Get Mystique" would make for a good movie and there was the Mystique solo series years ago where Prof. X blackmailed her into doing good and she worked with a mutant named "Shortpack" who was the size of an action figure.

Mark Waid's recent run on Black Widow was excellent and there's some cool ideas in "Deadly Origin". Plus, a character like Black Widow could go on an adventure that is totally independent of the Avengers and you could drop it in anywhere in the continuity of the MCU. It could be a more personal story or she could stop a secret plot that endangeres the world but most people have no idea. The spy/espionage angle of Winter Soldier was one of the things people liked about that movie and it's still regarded as one of the better MCU movies.