Moira MacTaggert

"I'm going to use an asset the CIA didn't issue me."

- Moira MacTaggert

Dr. Moira MacTaggert was a CIA agent and is a scientist living in Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland and is a former love of Charles Xavier.

X-Men: First Class
During the 1960's, Moira MacTaggert was a CIA agent working to uncover the mysterious Hellfire Club. During her investigation she manages to infiltrate a meeting by stripping down to her underwear to blend in with the strippers, in which she discovers mutants intimidating a military officer. After the incident, she seeks help from recently graduated professor Charles Xavier, due to his affinity for research in the subject of genetic mutation, only to learn that he and his foster sister, Raven, are mutants themselves, with Xavier demonstrating his mind-reading while Raven reveals her shape-shifting. She later becomes the liaison to the team, and assists the newly-formed X-Men in preventing Sebastian Shaw from starting a nuclear holocaust between Russia and the United States. At the climax, she is indirectly responsible for Xavier's paralysis, as she fires the bullet which Magneto deflects accidentally into Xavier's spine. In his rage, Magneto almost kills Moira by strangling her with her dog tags until Xavier implores him to stop. At the film's end, Xavier erases her memory of the events with Shaw and Magneto by kissing her, in order to keep the school for mutants that he has opened during the crisis a secret.

X-Men: The Last Stand
She appears on a video talking about the ethics of using mutant powers, such as transferring the mind of a dying man into the body of a patient with no higher brain function. She is later seen seated next to Beast at the memorial service for Xavier. After the film's ending credits, she appears again attending to the brain-dead patient, who suddenly speaks to her in Xavier's voice.

Relationships

 * Charles Xavier - Her first love and Ally.
 * Kevin MacTaggert - Son
 * Erik Lehnsherr - Friend turned Enemy
 * Banshee - Teammate
 * Havok - Teammate
 * Mystique - Teammate turned Enemy
 * Beast - Teammate
 * Angel Salvadore - Teammate turned Enemy
 * Hellfire Club - Enemies
 * Brotherhood of Mutants - Enemies
 * X-Men - Allies

Behind the scenes

 * Olivia Williams's name was uncredited in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Appearances/Actresses

 * Canon (2 films)
 * X-Men: First Class - Rose Byrne
 * X-Men: The Last Stand (First appearance) - Olivia Williams

Trivia

 * In the comics AND The Last Stand, she's Scottish, in First Class she is American.
 * She is the only female lead not have superpowers, as Emma Frost, Mystique, and Angel all have metahuman abilities.

X-Men: First Class
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X-Men: The Last Stand
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