Rogue is the mutant who can absorb another mutant’s powers through physical contact in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Rogue’s mutation makes touch dangerous because it can drain a person’s energy, memories, and abilities. In the film, she struggles with the possibility of permanently losing this power after Worthington Labs announces a mutant “cure.” Her personal decision becomes one of the movie’s smaller but important character arcs.
Anna Paquin plays Rogue in The Last Stand, continuing the role from the first two X-Men films. The character’s absorption ability is sometimes confused with Mystique’s shapeshifting or Kitty Pryde’s power to pass through solid matter. Kitty Pryde is also known by the codename Shadowcat, which explains why those names may appear in discussions of the same team.
The film’s central conflict concerns the announced cure and its effect on mutant identity. Rogue’s response gives the cure storyline a personal perspective beyond the larger battle between the X-Men and Magneto’s forces.