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- "I'm blue. I'm Kurt. Kurt Wagner."
- ―Nightcrawler to Beast
Nightcrawler (born Kurt Wagner) is a friendly and excited mutant with the ability to teleport. He is a member of the X-Men.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Nightcrawler is forced to fight in mutant cage fights.
Kurt Wagner was working in a Munich circus as an acrobat until he was captured and taken to a Mutant fight club.[1]
Joining to the X-Men[]
Rescued by Mystique[]
He tried to escape, but the walls of the cage block his teleporting and he is forced to fight his opponent: Angel. Although initially, he tries to dodge and avoid fighting, Angel tells him that if he doesn't fight they will both be killed. Kurt knocks Angel into the walls of the cage severely damaging his left wing. Mystique has found the fight club and shuts off the power to the fences allowing Angel and Nightcrawler to escape, Angel fights his way out, but Kurt is taken by Mystique. Mystique takes him to Caliban in order to get a new identity to travel to safety. However, Mystique sees a news broadcast on Magneto and decides to go see Charles Xavier and she takes Kurt with her. At the school Kurt becomes friends with Jubilee who gives him a tour of the mansion, he also meets Cyclops and Jean Grey. He tells Scott how he is unfamiliar with what a mall is, so Scott decides that they should skip school and go out and have fun.[1]
Rescue Mission[]
Jubilee shows Kurt the school
At the mall, Kurt gets to experience normal teen activities: shopping for records, seeing Return of the Jedi and experiencing "brain freeze" from a frozen drink at the food court. Scott then drives the four friends back to the mansion, only to find it has been attacked by Apocalypse and the Horsemen and Professor X has been taken. Willam Stryker also arrives and kidnaps Mystique, Quicksilver, Moira MacTaggert and Beast. Kurt hides in the rubble of X-Mansion with Scott and Jean, who manages to use her telepathy to keep them cloaked from Strykers soldiers. The trio sneaks on the jet with the captured X-Men, to Alkali Lake Stryker's base for experimenting on mutants, to rescue their friends.
At Alkali lake the trio is forced to hide from guards and encounter Wolverine locked in a cage, Jean sets him free and he goes on a killing rampage throughout the base. While teleporting in various locations inside, Kurt eventually finds the captured heroes and Scott use his powers to blast open their cell. Kurt, Scott, Jean, Mystique, Quicksilver, Beast and Moira don armored suits and board a jet to fly to Cairo to save Professor X.[1]
War of Apocalypse[]
Jean, Kurt, and Scott in Cairo.
The team is divided with Kurt tasked to retrieve Charles's body from Apocalypse before they transfer consciousness's, but he is attacked by Angel again. Nightcrawler defeats Angel again and retrieves Charles, the X-Men return to the jet and are preparing to escape but the Horsemen attack and Kurt is forced to teleport himself and seven others to safety, straining him and causing him to pass out. When he awakes, his fellow X-Men have defeated Apocalypse once and for all.[1]
Member of the X-Men[]
Training in the Danger Room[]
Nightcrawler and the new X-Men in the Danger Room.
The mansion is rebuilt and Kurt stays on as a student permanently, also joining Mystique, Beast, Quicksilver, Cyclops, Jean and a reformed Storm as the new X-Men. Like his teammates, Kurt began wearing a superhero uniform, accepting the alias Nightcrawler. Under the watch of Professor X, the team gathers in the Danger Room to train against an army of Sentinels.[1]
Rescue of Endeavor[]
Nine years later in 1992, Professor X is now an adviser to the President of the United States as he and the X-Men are revered as worldwide superheroes. Xavier and Hank McCoy witness the Space Shuttle Endeavour encountering problems in space. Xavier is then telephoned by the President to provide assistance to the astronauts. Xavier dispatches Beast, Mystique, Quicksilver, Storm, Nightcrawler, Jean Grey and Cyclops to head to space, with Beast piloting the X-Jet.
The X-Men during the rescue of Endeavor.
Nightcrawler transported himself and Quicksilver onto the space shuttle, where Quicksilver used his speed to unhook the astronauts' seatbelts and bring them back to Nightcrawler, who transported them back to the X-Jet. However, as they were preparing to leave, one of the astronauts informed the X-Men that their commander was still on the shuttle. As the cosmic force they believed to be a solar flare was too close and only Jean could stop it, Quicksilver use duct tape to affix a helmet to Nightcrawler, who teleported himself and Jean to the shuttle.
As the cosmic force approached, Nightcrawler saved the commander and returned to the X-Jet; however, Jean was left behind on the ship, and absorbed the Phoenix Force as a result. Nightcrawler teleported himself to the vast abyss of space to save Jean's body and bring her back to the X-Jet, discovering that Jean was alive. Returning to Earth, he was applauded as a hero, with people parading signs showing their admiration for him, and a child even wearing face paint to mimic his appearance.[2]
Jean Grey's Runaway[]
Nightcrawler and the X-Men confront Jean.
After Jean accidentally kills Mystique on Earth after losing control of her augmented powers, Hank leaves the X-Mansion. Using Cerebro, Xavier realizes that Hank has gone to see Magneto and that they are planning to kill Jean to avenge Mystique. Cyclops enlists Storm and Nightcrawler to join them, and he fights Selene and Ariki on the streets of New York. He is eventually rendered unconscious by the U.S. military, who place mutant ability dispersing collars on him.[2]
Fight against the D'Bari[]
As the alien D'Bari begin their attack on the train, Nightcrawler implores the soldier to free them, citing they could help. After he witnesses his fellow soldiers get killed, the soldier liberates the mutants.
Nightcrawler, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants unite against the D'Bari.
While Magneto and the X-Men engaged in combat, Nightcrawler distanced himself, not wishing to kill anyone. However, after witnessing the soldier get murdered, Nightcrawler becomes enraged and fights the D'Bari, using his teleportation to evade attacks while using his tail to impale them, before grabbing one of the D'Bari and teleporting them both outside the train to the tracks ahead. Grinning sadistically, Nightcrawler teleported himself back to the train, leaving the D'Bari to get struck by it. Nightcrawler is eventually rendered unconscious by Vuk, although he is shielded by Jean, who derails and destroys the train before disintegrating all the D'Bari before seemingly killing herself and Vuk in space.[2]
Hiding from Deadpool[]
Nightcrawler and the X-Men hide from Deadpool
In 2018, after Deadpool blew himself up as he blamed himself for the death of Vanessa Carlysle, Colossus brought him to the X-Mansion to recover. While there, Deadpool began complaining that he never saw other X-Men around the mansion apart from Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. While ranting, Deadpool was unaware that Nightcrawler, Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Beast and Quicksilver were in a room behind him. Beast quietly closed the door so that he did not notice them.[3]
Westchester Incident[]
In 2028, Charles Xavier developed Alzheimer's and suffered a massive seizure that injured 600 people, and killed 7 mutants, including several members of the X-Men. It is unknown if Kurt was among those who were either killed or injured.[4]
Personality[]
Nightcrawler is a devout Catholic and a very friendly character. Generally polite and cheeky, he is very protective of his friends and does whatever he can to help them, teleporting them to safety.
Nightcrawler is proud of his mutation to the point of announcing to Beast that he is blue in response to Beast's surprise at Mystique not in her blue form. He is still religious and dislikes fighting unless he is forced to do so, in order to defend himself. Nightcrawler also exhibits a subtle sense of humor, providing a well-rounded and endearing personality that balances his serious and introspective moments.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Teleportation: Nightcrawler is able to teleport to any place, as long as he knows where he is going. His teleportation gives him the appearance of being vaporized into a very brief puff of blue or pure black smoke or gas wherever he teleports to or from. As a teenager, Nightcrawler could not teleport multiple people without risk of extreme exhaustion or fatigue. Nightcrawler's teleports have a side-effect of weakening his passengers, especially those who are non-teleporters. Using repeated teleports, he was capable of repositioning himself and Archangel until he wore down his adversary and trapped him in a concrete and steel block. Though Archangel was able to recover and free himself, Nightcrawler's teleports exhausted the winged warrior long enough for Nightcrawler to rescue Professor X. Nightcrawler also, as a result of his ability, possesses an extra-sensory spatial awareness, used mainly when teleporting into an area that he is not looking at. Nightcrawler claims there is a risk of reappearing within a solid object; however, his spatial awareness allows him to teleport and avoid re-appearing into an object that was moved or a person that is standing in what is normally open space.
- Superhuman Agility: Nightcrawler's agility, balance, reflexes, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the human body's natural limits. As a result, his bones, muscle, and joints have more elastic strength and durability than humans, allowing him to perform gymnastic and contortionist maneuvers without damaging his bone structure.
- Superhuman Stamina: Nightcrawler is resistant to his own teleports; however, teleporting with passengers continuously will weaken them as they do not possess the resistance he does. He can use this to grapple and incapacitate his adversaries. He may be possibly resilient to physical hits as a bullet does not seem to fully penetrate his arm nor slow him down at all.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Nightcrawler reflexes are enhanced to a point where he can effortlessly dodge automatic fire and decisively teleport before being shot at. His reflexes appear to be equal to Archangel's. When rescuing Professor X, Nightcrawler teleport is shown, from his perspective, to be travelling through a wormhole like shadow. Whilst the time between disappearing and reappearing is almost one second, for Nightcrawler it feels like one second. This shows that one second is roughly six seconds long from Nightcrawler's perspective.
Nightcrawler's tail
- Prehensile Tail: Like Azazel, Nightcrawler's tail allows him to grab onto objects with relative ease, such as when he relieved a White House security guard of his sidearm. His tail is strong enough to not only support his body weight but also lift an adult man completely off the ground. It is deft enough to fight with like a sword or blunt weapon and its talon or stinger like tip is sharp enough to be a stabbing weapon. His tail was strong enough to throw grown men with ease and even catch Angel off guard and slam the winged mutant into the electric cage.
- Wallcrawling: Nightcrawler is also able to cling to solid surfaces, such as walls, via his hands and feet.
Abilities[]
- Master Combatant: Kurt was able to defeat Angel, a highly skilled mutant cage fighter.
- Master Acrobat: Growing up in a circus, Nightcrawler is an extremely a talented acrobat, contortionist and martial artist.
- Bilingualism: He is fluent in English and German.
Relationships[]
Allies/Friends[]
- Caliban † - Former Ally
- X-Men
- Charles Xavier/Professor X † - Former Mentor, Former Teammate, Friend, and Rescuee
- Raven Darkhölme/Mystique † - Former Mentor, Teammate, Rescuee and Savior
- Hank McCoy/Beast - Former Mentor, Teammate, Friend, and Rescuee
- Jubilation Lee/Jubilee - Former Classmate and Friend
- Scott Summers/Cyclops - Former Classmate, Teammate, and Friend
- Jean Grey - Former Classmate, Teammate, and Friend
- Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver - Teammate, Friend, and Rescuee
- Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto - Ally and Former Enemy
- Ororo Munroe/Storm - Teammate, Friend, and Former Enemy
- Logan/Wolverine † - Former Teammate, Friend, and Rescuee
- Moira MacTaggert - Teammate, Friend, and Rescuee
Enemies[]
- Apocalypse † - Enemy
- William Stryker - Enemy
- D'Bari † - Enemies
Trivia[]
- In an outtake from X-Men: Apocalypse, Jennifer Lawrence mentioned that Nightcrawler was the illegitimate son of Mystique and Azazel. For this to be true, Nightcrawler had to have been conceived between October 1962 and July 1963, as Azazel was killed by Project WideAwake operatives on the latter date.
Behind the Scenes[]
- Jesse La Flair was a stunt double for Kodi Smit-McPhee in the role of Nightcrawler.
References[]
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