Wasnt sexualized till the live action movies?
The live action movies came out in the year 2000. (Im guessing those are the ones you are talking about because by the time the first class movies came out Mystique was pretty much a nun)
Did you not read comics before the movies or did you forget 90s comics and their depictions of women?
Mystique was notoriously consistent in wearing what can only be described as the 90s were wild.
She was practically naked in many many iterations of her costume. (Naked in universe actually)
Her modernized white suit even as sexy as it is if fucking modest compared to her X-Factor look.
Funny you say she wasnt sexualized till the movies came out.......her costume went full on X-Treme Xmen after the movies, thats when she used to wear the generic mercenary combat gear suit.
The 2000s onwards is when comics couldnt get away with over sexualizing characters......implied sexiness became the thing, even her modernized classic white suit is still sexy but atleast its not a leotard all the way up her ass.
If the inspiration is the movies then they fucked up because the 2000s movies are what got Mystique completely wrong and have given people a warped view of Mystique from the comic. (who is a better character than the 2000s movie)
She doesnt make herself look like that.
The blue form is her natural state, her aging slowed from when she was like 14 or some shit.
Shes Rogues adopted mother but they look the same age....im sure theres a panel I can find where people are shocked that Mystique adopted Rogue yet they look the same age.
When shes with Destiny she doesnt need to make herself look like anything so we know what her "true" form looks like.
And she looks relatively young, she fits in with core X-Men members even if shes well over 100.
Mystiques true form is considered grotesque to "bigot" normal humans, people who can look past her skin color and eyes consider her extremely beautiful.
Herself? Years of abuse have made her actually hate her natural state.....the First Class movies got this right with Mystique hating what she looks like naturally.
Like literally people get to Mystique by simply showing her a mirror or pictures of herself.