However, because it didn""t show in Los Angeles until its general release that January, it was ineligible for awards in 1942, and competed in 1943.During a helicopter trip, anti-mutant politician Senator Kelly was abducted by two of Magneto""s staunchest supporters:blue scaly-skinned, agile, serpentine shape-shifting, martial arts-trained Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Ramos)ugly, lethal prehensile-tongued, acrobatic Toad (Ray Park)Kelly was flown to Magneto""s island fortress.The film also follows the nimble exploits around the night-time city of the second ingratiating and obsequious character, Sidney Falco (a name with predatory, bird-of-prey connotations) - a success-seeking, hustling, slick, unethical and smarmy, PR press agent.He left his own blood drippings on her cutting board.The worried young neighbor Alice (Anne Bruner), came out of her next-door house when she heard screams, and became the killer""s first victim inside her living room when she was stabbed in the chest with the butcher knife and blood spurted onto her neck(# 1 death).Later on the ship""s deck with he smooth Lockert, Fran appears ashamed of her cultureless midwestern roots, although projects her insecurities by denigrating fellow traveling Americans - calling them "dreadful" - while Lockert adds hat they are also "snobs.