How old is Mystique?
We don’t know. However, she is certainly very old. Her shape-shifting powers constantly rejuvenate her cells, making her body perpetually young (in other words, she is not disguising herself to seem young; she is naturally youthful). In flashbacks, she has been seen working with Destiny by a backdrop of horse-drawn carriages, which suggests an era of at least a century ago; she may have been around before even that. Incidentally, this means Destiny lived longer than a normal human lifespan, too. Mystique claimed in a 2004 issue that “I wasn’t born last night — or even last century, for that matter”.
