The premise "society will not accept seeing me in my mutant form" for Mystique in the X-Men universe would have been more effective, reflecting the prejudices of today's society, if Mystique's un-shapeshifted form were a very fat woman (blue of course), not Rebecca Romijn or Jennifer Lawrence.
The audience's experience of the scene from First Class which became the template for the Perfection meme might change a lot. The scene is a series of cuts, so fan-made derivative videos are easily possible, though playing with the meme with static images and captions is even easier, as many have done.
(Incidentally, Mystique's turn to the Dark Side is a straightforward example of identity politics being used for evil.)
Though maybe the depiction of the real Raven (as was chosen through casting, and as originally drawn in comic books) is an important part of making the story entertaining: it is a fantasy universe in which even the supposedly ugly characters are incredibly good looking. Perhaps that makes it easier for the reader to identify with the character.
It would be funny if Mystique's real form were a puddle of liquid like Odo, though that would beg the question of what the blue humanoid form is.
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