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| Real Name | Kurt Wagner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alternate Identity | Nightcrawler | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Powers and Abilities | Teleportation Blue Skin Tail Wallcrawling | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team Affiliations | X-Men Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family and Friends | Mystique (Mother) Graydon Creed Jr. (Half-Brother) Rogue (Stepsister) Mr. Wagner (Adopted Father) Mrs. Wagner (Adopted Mother) Unnamed Austrian Count (Father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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- For the X-Men episode see "Nightcrawler".
Kurt Wagner is a demonic-looking mutant with teleporting abilities, being known as the soft-hearted X-Man Nightcrawler.
Biography[]
Nightcrawler was a monk living in a Swiss abbey, persecuted by his superior and the townspeople who believed him to be a demon. Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine helped him through his trials. Later, his origin as the son of Mystique was discovered, revealing his stepsister to be Rogue and Graydon Creed Jr. his half brother. In the end, after a discussion, Mystique seemed to have died trying to save both of them from Creed and the Friends of Humanity, but it was later revealed that she survived, crying as she departed. Nightcrawler is told about his biological father (and one of Rogue’s stepfathers) by Mystique, but it is not known whether or not he is aware of his stepfather Sabretooth (Graydon Creed Jr.’s biological father), nor is it known whether or not Sabretooth is aware of his two stepchildren.
Kurt eventually joined Genosha's council as outreach for any communities of faith. He would later save Rogue and Magneto during the Sentinel attacks, and be harmed afterward. Following the attack Kurt would join the X-Men as an official team member.
Powers[]
- Teleportation: Ability to teleport himself, the clothes he is wearing, and within limits a certain amount of additional mass which is in contact with him.
- When he disappears in teleporting, Nightcrawler leaves behind smoke with a stench reminiscent of burning brimstone. His teleportation is invariably accompanied by the muffled sound of imploding air rushing to fill the vacuum left where Nightcrawler's body was, creating his signature *BAMF* sound.
- Nightcrawler's powers automatically displace liquids and gases when he arrives in the course of a teleportation. His powers will not displace solids, however, putting him at risk for materializing inside solid matter, causing serious injury or death. As a consequence, Nightcrawler typically teleports only to places he has been to before or knows the layout of, or line-of-sight teleportation (even though his actual range is much further). Kurt's intuitive spatial awareness allows him to track his movements instinctively and with greater precision than the average person, helping him to pinpoint locations for a "blind" teleport.
- The longer the distance over which Nightcrawler teleports himself, the harder and more exhausting it is for him to make the teleportation "jump".
- The limits to the mass that Nightcrawler can carry with him while teleporting, and the limits to the distance over which he can teleport himself with additional load is unknown. When he transports a passenger over even moderate distances, they both feel weakened and ill, to the point of exhaustion.
- Wallcrawling: Nightcrawler can stick to objects with the surface of his hands and feet. This enables him to scale surfaces.
- Flexible Bone Structure: Nightcrawler's bone structure allows him great flexibility. He can remain in a crouched position for a long time and perform contortionist type feats without causing any damage to his spine.
- Camouflage: He has limited abilities to blend into shadows, both as a result of his indigo fur and his connection to the light-bending attributes of the dimension through which he teleports. This is also the explanation for why he constantly appears in shadow, even in direct light.
- Prehensile Tail: Nightcrawler has a tail allows him to grab onto objects with relative ease. 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 object.
- Night Vision: Nightcrawler's always glowing eyes grant him a marked degree of heightened night vision as well.
- Superhuman Agility: Nightcrawler's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the human body's natural limits.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Nightcrawler's natural reaction time is enhanced to a level beyond the human body's natural limits.
Abilities[]
- Master Acrobat: Nightcrawler is an Olympic-class acrobat thanks to his flexible spine that allows him to perform contortionist-like feats and to go long periods in a semi-crouching position without injury.
- Master Combatant: He is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and a master at fencing, which he can even perform with his tail, which is strong enough to support his entire body weight. Martial arts training.
- Multilingual: Nightcrawler is fluent in various languages due to his youth traveling around Europe as the star performer in a circus and knowing the language of wherever they were that week was very handy.
Background[]
Nightcrawler was voiced by Adrian Hough, who reprised the role in X-Men: Mutant Academy 2. Like George Buza, Hough would cameo in the film X-Men: The Last Stand as Jean Grey's father.
External links[]
- Marvel
- Wikipedia
- Kurt Wagner (Earth-92131) at Marvel Database
- Kurt Wagner (Earth-616) at Marvel Database
| X-Men | |
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| Members | Beast • Bishop • Cable • Cyclops • Forge • Gambit • Jean Grey • Jubilee • Magneto • Morph • Nightcrawler • Professor X • Rogue • Storm • Sunspot • Wolverine |
| Former Members | Angel • Madelyn Pryor • Iceman • Lorna Dane |
| Related | Blackbird • Danger Room • Mutant • Xavier Mansion |