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"I'm going to use an asset the CIA didn't issue me."
―Moira MacTaggert[src]

Moira MacTaggert was a CIA agent and the love interest of Charles Xavier.

Biography[]

X-Men: First Class[]

During the 1960's, Moira MacTaggert served as a CIA agent investigating Sebastian Shaw and his group, the Hellfire Club. After infiltrating one of their clubs in Las Vegas, by posing as one of the strippers, and witnessing Emma Frost and Azazel display their powers in an attempt to intimidate Colonel Hendry, she attempted to warn the CIA but was rebuffed. Daunted, she sought out one of the leading experts in genetic mutation, Charles Xavier, a young graduate student at Oxford.

After attending Charles' thesis presentation, Moira approached him celebrating in a bar and questioned him about the validity of his claims. After reading her mind about what she'd seen, he agreed to help her. She took him and Raven Darkhölme to brief the CIA director about mutants but they were first met with ridicule then shock and fear when Raven proved their claims when she morphed into one of the agents.

But with the backing of an agent known only as the Man in Black, MacTaggert agreed to help them stop Shaw as a liason of sorts between Charles' "team and Division X", the government department they operated under. She participated in the team's mission to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped bring down the Hellfire Club. After sharing a kiss with Charles at his mansion and christening his new team the X-Men, he erased her memory of their location so that she could not reveal it to the CIA, nor be made to tell them.

X-Men: Apocalypse[]

"Ever since the world found out about mutants there have been secret societies, cults, who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of god."
―Moira MacTaggert[src]

Moria, with the X-Men erased from her memory, resumed work at the CIA and eventually had a son named Kevin with a husband that she later divorced. In 1983, Moira began investigating strange cult followings in Egypt. One of which involved a tomb which, unknown to her, was the resting place of and ancient mutant know as En Sabah Nur. She compiled all her research and contacted Charles Xavier and Alexander Summers. She explained to them how these cult tracings went back centuries, and that she found out about En Sabah Nur and how he may have been old enough to have influenced multiple religions.

Charles took Moira back to the X-mansion, where the telepath used Cerebro to locate En Sabah Nur. However, Charles was debilitated when he tried to access the mutant's mind, and was promptly captured by his Four Horsemen, much to the shock and dismay of everyone, including Moira. Alex made a vain attempt to kill Apocalypse before he escaped, but instead hit the Blackbird, causing an explosion that destroyed the mansion. Moira, as well as everyone else in the mansion, was saved by Quicksilver.

Moira and the X-Men were captured by William Stryker, and confined to a power-dampening cell at Alkali Lake's Weapon X facility. Moira tried to reason with Stryker, but ultimately the Colonel kept the mutants contained. Moira and the X-Men were able to escape with the help of Scott Summers, Jean Grey and Kurt Wagner, as well as an unknown test subject of the facility. They found prototype tactical suits and a jet for them to use. The X-Men now fully geared up, went to fight Apocalypse and save Charles, while Moira stayed on board the stolen jet.

In the aftermath of the battle, Moira checked on Charles to see if he was alright. The latter finally decided to restore her memories. She shed a tear of nostalgia as she remembered her time with the X-Men during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Charles deeply apologized for taking the memories away.

Moira arrested Stryker for his unruly misconduct towards a superior officer and minors. Stryker tried to excuse himself, saying that as mutants they were dangerous, but Moira shrugged it off.

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Trivia[]

  • In the comics, she is Scottish, but in X-Men: First Class and Apocalypse, she is American.
  • She is the only female lead not to have superpowers, as Emma Frost, Mystique, and Angel all have mutant powers.
  • Although Moira MacTaggert appears in X-Men: The Last Stand, the characters have nothing in common, all they share is a name.

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X-Men: First Class[]



X-Men Apocalypse[]

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