Posing as German spy Leni Zauber, Mystique seduced freelance assassin Victor Creed (aka Sabretooth) while he was in Germany on a mission. Mystique later gave birth to a normal human child, whom she named Graydon. She gave him up for adoption, yet still kept an eye on him.

After finding out that his parents where both mutants and abandoned him he became resentful of all mutants. As an adult he formed an evil group called the Friends of Humanity that dedicated itself to opposing mutant civil rights by committing acts of terrorism against peaceful mutants and mutant sympathizers, and using the acts of violent mutants such as Magneto to rally support for their cause. He was also a member of the group Upstarts. At a rally for Graydon's hopeful presidential candidacy, an assassin shot and killed him. It was later revealed that the shooter had sworn to kill him after his part in the brutal attack on Trevor Chase the grandson of her lover Destiny.