Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
TMDB
Modern, Comics: Nightcrawler leaves the afterlife for a new body made of Bamfs to rejoin the X-Men and defeat his father Azazel.
Cinematic
A mutant X-Men member, played by Alan Cumming, with German and American citizenship, listed for the unreleased Avengers: Doomsday. The page is a stub with no biography. It names his teammates and lists Reed Richards as an enemy.
Comics
Kurt Wagner is a blue-furred, fanged mutant who teleports in a puff of brimstone. Raised in a Bavarian travelling circus, he was recruited into the X-Men by Charles Xavier in 1975. A devout Catholic and swordsman, he led Excalibur in Britain, died carrying Hope Summers to safety, returned from the afterlife, served on Krakoa's Quiet Council as its lawman, and later rejoined the X-Men after Krakoa's fall.
Fox films
A teleporting mutant raised in a traveling circus, abducted by William Stryker, who tortures and mind-controls him into attacking the President. Freed and recruited by Storm and Jean Grey, he joins the X-Men to rescue Xavier and the abducted students, and later returns with them to the White House. His status in the revised timeline is unknown.
Timeline 15 events
- Bronze · Comics: Charles Xavier saves Kurt from a lynch mob in Bavaria and recruits him into the new X-Men, who rescue the original team from Krakoa island.
- Bronze · Comics: Stranded aboard a Shi'ar space station with Kitty Pryde during a throne crisis, Nightcrawler helps win the Imperial Guard over to the X-Men.
- Modern · Comics: Maimed by the Marauders after the Morlock massacre, Nightcrawler is taken into a coma on Muir Island for treatment by Moira.
- Modern · Comics: Believing the X-Men dead, Nightcrawler founds Excalibur with Kitty Pryde, Captain Britain, Meggan and Phoenix at Braddock Lighthouse in England.
- Modern · Comics: Nightcrawler asks Moira to host a new Excalibur at her research facility, moving the team to Muir Island.
- Modern · Comics: After Excalibur disbands, Nightcrawler returns to the X-Men in America with Kitty Pryde and Colossus.
- Modern · Comics: Having renounced the priesthood, Nightcrawler helps the X-Men destroy the Church of Humanity, which had manipulated his ordination.
- Modern · Comics: Nightcrawler dies teleporting the infant Hope Summers away from Bastion to the shores of Utopia.
- Modern · Comics: Nightcrawler leaves the afterlife for a new body made of Bamfs to rejoin the X-Men and defeat his father Azazel.
- Secret Wars · Comics: With the X-Men relocated to X-Haven in Limbo, Nightcrawler helps expose and defeat Apocalypse on Omega World and in Egypt.
- Fresh Start · Comics: A founding citizen of Krakoa, Nightcrawler dies destroying a Mother Mold, is resurrected by the Five and joins the Quiet Council.
- Fresh Start · Comics: During the Onslaught crisis Nightcrawler teleports the moon Phobos back into orbit to save the mutant planet Arakko.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Nightcrawler forms the Legionaries, Krakoa's lawmen based at the Altar, under the motto of keeping the peace and the law.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Framed by Orchis and forced out of Krakoa, Nightcrawler becomes a Central Park vigilante and reconciles with Mystique.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Nightcrawler helps the X-Men destroy Nimrod and Orchis's space station as Krakoa is lost.
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enemy of
Vulture (Adrian Toomes), Apocalypse, Angel (Warren Worthington III), Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Milbury)
allied with
Christine Palmer, Wolverine (Logan), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Professor X, Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Storm, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Moira Mactaggert, Captain Britain, Magik, Pixie, Hope Summers, Jean Grey, Iceman, Jubilee (Jubilation Lee, as Silver Surfer), Juggernaut (Cain Marko, conjectured), Warlock, Lockheed
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