Oh there's no doubt that the Mystique of the original X-trilogy seriously had her shit together. She was never, ever anything like a clueless henchman. Ally trapped in a heavily-guarded plastic prison? No big deal. Got a plan. (Although in that timeline she may have used the same plan to get Erik out of the Pentagon.)
I do want to know where Raven learned all the crazy martial arts moves, though!
As I said over in my post, I think Erik's plan with taking over the Sentinels and turning them on the humans was a great one... if he'd stopped there and made it look like the Sentinels were faulty and Trask was incompetent. But Erik doesn't really do subtlety. *drops a football stadium on the White House* Yes, you may be right that Mystique just took what they were saying as "let's do nothing" rather than "let's not kill Trask, but we'll figure out something else". Even though doing nothing would apparently have been just as good.
I assume Erik had nothing else to do but lots of bodyweight exercises. For ten years. Jumping jacks? No exercise yard for him. I was mainly surprised that he seemed mentally/emotionally pretty unfazed (as in, no more unbalanced than usual).
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I do want to know where Raven learned all the crazy martial arts moves, though!
As I said over in my post, I think Erik's plan with taking over the Sentinels and turning them on the humans was a great one... if he'd stopped there and made it look like the Sentinels were faulty and Trask was incompetent. But Erik doesn't really do subtlety. *drops a football stadium on the White House* Yes, you may be right that Mystique just took what they were saying as "let's do nothing" rather than "let's not kill Trask, but we'll figure out something else". Even though doing nothing would apparently have been just as good.
I assume Erik had nothing else to do but lots of bodyweight exercises. For ten years. Jumping jacks? No exercise yard for him. I was mainly surprised that he seemed mentally/emotionally pretty unfazed (as in, no more unbalanced than usual).