The only part I felt worked was her reaction to her father's betrayal and calling him out since no other writer, besides Claremont, was willing to go...
To back this - in Mystique's solo in the early 2000s, Xavier flat out tells Forge his telepathic abilities are useless in locating her, so he has to...
Yes and that was the tricky part of his backstory. What I interpreted it as was that when he roughly hit puberty his powers awakened. With them also...
His state of mind also plays into his action as he just saw Genosha massacred by a bunch of sentinels. I dont think his actions were self defense but...