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Same story with Killmonger in the first Black Panther film.
Or the Marco Inaros Faction in The Expanse, or Magneto in the old X-Men movies, and so on and so on. It's basically mandatory to have antogonists with a relatable agenda commit acts of cartoonish evil out of nowhere to make it clear that the only answer to injustice is incrementalist fuckery in aliance with macchiavellian ruling class ghouls.
When Magneto betrayed the demutantized Mystique instantly I was so mad.
Especially because Mystique in the movies had such a strong anti-assimilationist energy. Answering the question why she doesn't always look like a human with "because it shouldn't be necessary", having a literal shapeshifter refuse to obey passing dictates is fucking powerful for me as a trans woman.
I've never really considered it (probably because I'm not a trans woman) but now that you point it out it's hard not to see it.
I didn't think of it that way when i originally saw the movie, i was still an egg back then, but nowadays, it fits so well. I doubt it's intentional given the time the movie was made in, but things can work as metaphors for topics the authors didn't have in mind at all.