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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Nightcrawler also known as Kurt Darkholme , Belasco , Gainsborough , Bamf , Great Boggie , Elf , Herr Indigo , Kurt , Blue Elf . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Kurt Wagner is Nightcrawler, a mutant with teleportation abilities and a devout Catholic, and he is a member of the X-Men.
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Kurt Wagner is the product of a love affair between two mutants, both with origins that have never fully been explained. His mother was the terrorist Mystique, at the time wife of Baron Christian Wagner, who was for a long time believed to be the father of Nightcrawler. His father is the Neyaphem warlord, Azazel, who had a great masterplan to impregnate earth women with his children so he could escape the brimstone dimension.
When Nightcrawler was born the townsfolk were horrified by Mystiques son's demonic appearance and so she threw him into a river, shapeshifted into another form and then claimed that she had killed the son and the mother.
Azazel however would not allow his son to die and so he saved him and gave him to one of his other lovers, and servant, Margali Szardos to raise.
Margali however tells a different tale to hide the truth, she says that he was discovered by her when she was walking by his house. She discovered his father, Eric Wagner, had died of a heart attack outside and found his mother lying next to him dead.
Margali took him in and raised him along with her real children Stefan and Jimaine (later known as Amanda Sefton) at the Bavarian circus where she worked as a fortuneteller to hide the truth about her sorcery. Kurt had amazing agility and soon his mutant abilities would manifest. Because of these gifts he did acrobat shows for the circus audience, people assumed it was a man in a costume.
When a millionaire circus owner from Texas approached them to try and get them to join his circus, he planned to move the circus to America and demanded that Kurt be in the freak show. Kurt was appalled at this and so he quit the circus and headed to Winzeldorf, Germany. He arrives there to find that his brother Stefan went insane and had been murdering children and so he battles him, hoping to stop the atrocity.
Kurt accidentally kills Stefan by breaking his neck (as children Stefan had made Kurt swear to kill him if ever he took an innocent life) and the villagers thought Kurt was the demon that killed the children.
Professor X comes in time to save Kurt from being killed and offered him to join the X-Men. He tried to tell Margali about her son but she was not at the circus at the time. Kurt becomes a valued member of the X-Men and has gone on many missions since he joined.
During his later years he truly gets in touch with his faith in Jesus. He is the chosen character that the X-Men send to fight demons in the 2005 Nightcrawler 12 part series. Also, in the cartoon hosted on Fox Kids, when Wolverine meets Nightcrawler for the first time, there is such an impact of love that Wolverine goes and prays to God and reads from the Bible at the end of the episode.
Member of the X-Men
Kurt becomes extremely happy with his new home and family the X-Men. Eventually he would battle Margali who blamed him for her son’s death. She cursed him into a pocket dimension and kept him trapped there. The X-Men along with Doctor Strange helped free Kurt and he explains to Margali about what really happened with her son, they reconcile right after. Kurt began to have self-doubt in himself when the Beyonder left him behind during one of the X-Men’s missions. He spent days thinking about why the Beyonder left him, he eventually saves a girl from Arcade and in the process regains his confidence.
Excalibur
Eventually he and Kitty Pryde left the X-Men and went to the United Kingdom. After working together so well they decided to create Excalibur. They stay in the UK and goes on adventures with the Excalibur for a while. Kitty and Kurt were working in the UK because the X-Men supposedly died in a battle, and the two became angry at them for not telling them it was fake. They eventually returned to the X-Men when Excalibur disbanded. Later Kurt wanted to become a priest and became co-leader with Angel. He never achieves priesthood but soon discovers who his real parents, one of which is Mystique. His father turns out to be Azazel, the leader of an all mutant crew that resemble demons, called Neyaphem. Azazel has had many children with many different women but never stayed or cared for them. When Nightcrawler learns that he was his father he not only flat out rejects him, but also helped defeat him.
Kurt becomes a leader of the Uncanny team for a period of time leading Wolverine, Psylocke, Marvel Girl, Cannonball, and Bishop. After a few missions with the Uncanny team Kurt helps Storm liberate a part of Africa that was under oppression by Storm’s uncle. When Professor re-emerge after M-Day and had lost his powers, he reveals to the team about Vulcan. Xavier then takes a team of X-Men, including Kurt, to go into space and after Vulcan.
Kurt was one of the X-Men that returned home from space, along with a newly repowered Xavier, Warpath, Darwin and the new member Hepzibah. Unlike the others, during the Extremists arc, Nightcrawler followed Xavier and attempted to help him on his adventure to find Magneto.
During MC, Nightcrawler took out Exodus when the X-Men first attacked the Marauders, by teleporting him outside and slamming his face into the snowy floor. He was then gravely injured by Scalphunter, who shot him. Nightcrawler was out of action until New X-Men #46, where he teleported all the injured out of the Med Lab, but was then teleported with the others to Muir Island, and took part in the final battle.
After the X-Men were "disbanded", Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine go to Europe. While there, Wolverine messes with Nightcrawler's image inducer, making him appear as if he's Angelina Jolie. After a visit to Russia, and the three are travelling back through Europe by train. Suddenly they're ambushed by Red Room robots. Wolverine begins to fight, and Nightrawler teleports Colossus outside. Nightcrawler is then shot by one of the robots and begins to fall. Wolverine then jumps to catch him, and puts himself under neath Nightcrawler, so when they hit land he'll take most of the force.
Later we see Nightcrawler in a transparant box with a bag over his head and tucked into a straight jacket.
Powers
Earth-15104 Nightcrawler
Kurt's mutant power is teleportation. He is actually opening a portal to and traveling almost instantaneously through another dimension. When teleporting, Kurt leaves behind a whiff of brimstone and a characteristic "bamf" sound as the air around him implodes. After some training sessions, Kurt has developed the ability to bring more with him when he teleports, including other people. Kurt's teleportation range is limited, but he can travel up to a few miles if required. He must also have visited the place before, or he risks teleporting into a solid object, which could be fatal as two things cannot occupy the same space in that particular instant in time.
This style of teleportation is physically demanding not only for Kurt, but particularly for others he brings along with him who are not used to it. When used offensively, the stress of rapid succession of teleports can incapacitate a normal person. It has been hinted that his physiology may make travel less physically stressful. His teleportation is more easily done following the magnetic poles of the earth (north and south) he can travel about 3 miles north and south and 2 miles east and west.in the age of apocalypse nightcrawler grabbed ahold of an assailant and teleported with his head but it is unknown if he could do it in a normal reality or if he just choose's not to because of his beliefs.
Kurt has many demonic traits in his appearance. He is covered with dark blue fur, has yellow eyes, long sharp canines, and pointed ears. His hands and feet are both larger than average, with two large fingers and a thumb on each hand and two large toes with a toe-like protrusion on his heels (which allows him to grip with his feet). He also has a prehensile tail that is strong enough to lift his own weight.
The dimension he travels through constantly bends the light around him, making him appear in shadow during normal daylight and rendering him nearly invisible during the night. There has been dispute over whether Nightcrawler's agility level is actually superhuman, or if his life as a circus acrobat has caused him to be extremely (but not superhumanly) agile. He can also use his tail to fight with a sword, grab things and can even hang from it. Kurt can also cling to any surface, allowing him to scale walls.
Characteristics
Gender--Male
Height--5' 9"
Weight--145 lbs (66 kg)
Eyes--Yellow
Hair--Blue
Unusual Characteristics--only three fingers on each hand, he has two long toes pointing forward and one long two pointing backward, a prehensile tail, pointed ears, fang-like canine teeth, and his body is coated with a blue-coloured fur.
Alternate Realities
Earth-295
Nightcrawler of the reality known as (Age of Apocalypse) has a more pirate-like and vicious style, and is known as Kurt Darkholme instead of Kurt Wagner.
Earth-2182
In another reality Nightcrawler fell in love with Scarlet Witch, and they had a daughter - Nocturne who eventually ended up in Earth-616. She sees Earth-616 Nightcrawler as a father-figure and they have become close friends.
First Appearance: X-Men Millennial Visions 2000
Earth-1610 Nightcrawler
Earth-1610
In the Ultimate universe Nightcrawler was rescued by the X-Men from the Weapon X program. While accepted as a member of the X-Men for a time, he seems to be a bit insane, and have a fixation with Dazzler. He went so far as to kidnap Dazzler, keeping her in a cave where the other members of the team could not find her while she healed. After the kidnapping of Charles Xavier by Cable, Nightcrawler escaped the mansion, looking for a place where he can fit in. He was recently told about the Ultimate Morlocks, who he may seek out. Toad and Kurt were captured by the Morlocks and were called spies. When the Disbanded X-men came to rescue them, nightcrawler refused to leave and became the leader of the Morlocks. He appears quite similar to his Earth-616 counterpart, except he makes gold-yellow smoke instead of purple when teleporting, and he appears to be much younger.
Earth-15104
In the reality known as Here Comes Tomorrow Nightcrawler is a henchman of Sublime/Beast and have been infused with the powers of Cyclops, Madrox and Angel. He is known as Crawler.
Earth-58163
In the House of M reality Nightcrawler is a member of SHIELD's Red Guard.
Earth-9997
The Nightcrawler of the Earth X reality became Belasco. He lost his arm while "bamfing" away from the Grey Gargoyle. His arm remained in stone but Nightcrawler appeared elsewhere in human form. The mutated populous of Earth-9997 feared and attacked him for his normalcy. He was beaten to death or near death by the mob when he was confronted by Mephisto who lead him to believe that Nightcrawler will always be feared because he is a demon. Nightcrawler then took on the guise of Belasco an evil sorceror described by Dante Aligheri. He was subsiquently trapped in ice by Mephisto and sent back in time accidently by Captain America, where he would appear in front of Shanna, with little to no memory of his life as Nightcrawler.
Earth-597
On Earth-597 Nightcrawler is known as Belasco and is a Nazi and member of Lightning Force. He is also considered the ruler of Limbo. He has red skin and horns protruding from his forehead. Similar to his Earth-616 counterpart he possesses a prehensile tail and pointed ears. His feet and hands however were much more like a humans in this reality.
First Appearance: Excalibur 9
Earth-2149
In the Marvel Zombiverse, Nightcrawler is one of the last heroes to infected by the zombie plague. He was bitten by the zombified version of the Fantastic Four.
Earth-811
In the Days of Future Past reality Nightcrawler and Amanda Sefton had a daughter named Blue. They were among the first to die when the United State outlawed mutants.
Earth-904
In this reality Nightcrawler was a member of the Warriors Three.
Earth-12
In this reality Kurt Wagner is known as Nightcrawler and is a friend and teammate of Mimic of the Exiles.
First Appearance: Exiles 14
Earth-Professor's Secret Service
The X-Men deem themselves the representatives of their fellow mutants, and Professor X becomes the leader of Genosha.
First Appearance: X-Men: Millennial Visions 2000
Earth-2000114 (X-Men: Evolution)
It is revealed in this reality that Kurt Wagner (aka Nightcrawler) is Mystique's child and Rogue his foster brother.
X-Men: The End
Kurt is married to another mutant who appear very much similar to him and they have a child named T.J. Wagner, But in this reality, T.J. is a boy. Nocturne also exists in this reality.
Earth-Dark Phoenix
In this reality Nightcrawler was put on trial with his fellow X-Men and Jean Grey (then possessed by the dark Phoenix). Nightcrawler unknowingly battled against the Exiles.
First Appearance: Exiles 3
What if?
In "What if the X-Men have stayed in Asgard?", Nightcrawler became a member of the Warriors Three. And in "What if the all-new, all-different X-Men have never existed?", where Kurt was never recruited by Xavier.
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