Nightcrawler is Catholic (X Men 2)

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Nightcrawler: You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn’t hate them. I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
Storm: Well, I gave up on pity a long time ago.
Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.
Storm: Sometimes anger can help you survive.
Nightcrawler: So can faith.

“Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.”
That quote always haunted me, and made me think about religion though I am not sure weather he was talking about faith, or his mutant stuff… I just imagined it worked, for faith.
 
If I remember right, he also said he had a tattoo for every sin he had committed.
 
kaid100 said:
If I remember right, he also said he had a tattoo for every sin he had committed.
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I don’t remember that line in the movie. I was at the theatre two days ago and noticed a floor ad for a new x-men movie subtitled first class. I’m not sure if night crawler is in that one, but crossing my fingers. Other catholic heros off the top of my head ghostrider, daredevil, and the punisher. First class is obviously a prequel here is imdb link

imdb.com/title/tt1270798/
 
Not just a Catholic, he was also a seminarian for a time and sort of a priest.

I say sort of a priest because while he believed himself one he was actually mind-wiped by a psychic mutant into believing he had been ordained as part of long crazy scheme to bring down the Catholic Church and forcefully bring about end-times, but hey thats comics for you. Hard to keep your stories from sounding ridiculous when any guy with a good head on his shoulders can build some sort of device to grant them super-powers.
 
I think X-Men was the most diverse of the Marvel Comic Books, there was a lot of religion in it from Magneto’s Judiasm, to

I read that Angel, Phoenix, Emma Frost, Marvel Girl and The Beast were Episcopalian.
Cyclops was Protestant.
Other Christians included Jubilee.
Rogue was Southern Baptist.
Yukio, Sunpyre and Sunfire were Shinto.

Other Catholics in X Men include Havoc, Siryn,
Gambit was also Catholic from what I read, with that very Southern Cajun Catholicism.

Storm was supposed to be a God herself!!! Or well, worshipped as a Goddess by tribesmen.
 
My hubby is a big comic books guy (specifically X-Men, and one of his favorites is Nightcrawler). Awhile back, I stumbled upon this website that you all might find interesting.
And no, I don’t think Kurt Wagner will be in the First Class.
 
Nightcrawler is my favourite member of The X-Men and him being a devout Catholic adds to it so much!
 
I’m so glad Nightcrawler is a devout Catholic:D. Even though I doubt writers would write about it, I REALLY wish that Nightcrawler is what you call a Marian Catholic like Saint Louis de Montfort and Saint Alphonsus. It’d be the most awesome thing ever.

Also, Daredevil is Catholic, an so is helloboy. In fact, he’s the only traditionalist Catholic superhero I know. I heared that the Church accepted him for what he is publicly (in the comics not in real life you idiot!) and I’m glad that there are non-catholics and not so devout ones who do show our church in a positive light.
 
I’m so glad Nightcrawler is a devout Catholic. Even though I doubt writers would write about it, I REALLY wish that Nightcrawler is what you call a Marian Catholic like Saint Louis de Montfort and Saint Alphonsus. It’d be the most awesome thing ever.
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When Professor X locates Nightcrawler in the Cerebro machine, he’s praying the Rosary and is in the middle of the Our Father, which he also prays later on in the climax of the film.
 
Blood_Angel said:
“Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.”
That quote always haunted me, and made me think about religion though I am not sure weather he was talking about faith, or his mutant stuff… I just imagined it worked, for faith.
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See my above post, he’s talking about faith…
 
Nightcrawler: You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn’t hate them. I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
Storm: Well, I gave up on pity a long time ago.
Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.
Storm: Sometimes anger can help you survive.
Nightcrawler: So can faith
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This is one of the reasons I never was too attached to the X-men comics/shows.

It seemed the mutants most capable of hiding within society were the most angry with it.

Look at Storm: “Oh woe is me! I have the ability to control the weather, and look like an attractive woman.”

Then there is nightcrawler who can remain pious and saintly even when he can’t hide the fact he is a mutant to the world.
 
adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html
This site has quite a comprehensive list. Characters like Cutey Honey, Punisher, Venom, the Magdalena, Daredevil and Zorro I already knew were Catholic, but I’m surprised by many other characters listed as Catholic, such as Catwoman, Lois Lane, Betty Ross, Ghost Rider, the Darkness, Powdered Toast Man(!), and Lizard.
 
If Catwoman is Hispanic, they could at least have cast a Hispanic or at least a Spanish actress to play the role instead of a white one in the next Batman film:shrug:.
 
I have nothing to add. Just popping in to say I am very much enjoying this thread!!!🙂
 
Reviving this thread …

I am greatly concerned about the invisibility of the Catholic Church in media.

I used to love American comics when I was younger.

Would love to hear more from anyone about Catholicism in the comics.

Someone in this thread mentioned that a character called Hellboy (never read any of this0 was not only Catholic, but traditional Catholic.

Can anybody clarify/amplify that?

Thank you for any responses, whether about Hellboy or just Catholicism in the comics.
 
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Reviving this thread …

I am greatly concerned about the invisibility of the Catholic Church in media.

I used to love American comics when I was younger.

Would love to hear more from anyone about Catholicism in the comics.

Someone in this thread mentioned that a character called Hellboy (never read any of this0 was not only Catholic, but traditional Catholic.

Can anybody clarify/amplify that?

Thank you for any responses, whether about Hellboy or just Catholicism in the comics.
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Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, is Catholic as well.

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/h/Hellboy.jpg

I can’t remember specific cites from the comic books, but in the movie and comic he carries a rosary (how much more Catholic can you get!?!), and there is a statue of St. Michael in the BPRD headquarters. His step-father explicitly refers to himself as Catholic at the beginning of the films (unfortunately adding “among other things”).

The director of that film, Benicio Del Toro, describes himself as a lapsed Catholic but says his Catholic roots are unescapable and continue to exert a strong influence on his films.

Marvel did a comic featuring another Catholic super-hero by the way, with the super-power of bringing down evil empires and being infallible on matters of faith and doctrine:



As well as this one:

 
I posted an earlier thread:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=624818

…about Treasure Chest Comics, a long-running comic book published by the Catholic Church that was distributed through the parochial school system and which is fondly remembered by many of my generation (go, Chuck White!). There are links in that thread where you can look at complete runs of the back issues.

Comic books (ahem, Graphic Novels) have obtained a new respectability as a teaching medium. Comic books are used for adult-themed stories, they’re used to teach (the U.S. Army got hip to this early on, with the help of the late, great Will Eisner, who created P.M. magazine, a long-running monthly comic that taught soldiers the principles of preventative maintenance of equipment using a comic book format. Nowadays, comics books are used to teach history, business principles, statistical analysis, you name it. something about sequential panel art works very well for teaching.

The Catholic Church was doing this back in the 1950s, but we dropped the ball.

I would love to see someone in the Church start doing this again as a method of evangelism, as a way of teaching apologetics to the young and strengthening them in the faith, of explaining theology, of promoting a better knowledge of Church history, of providing examples of great Catholic saints, as well as scientists, authors, and artists who were Catholic, of helping young people with life problems…this would be a fantastic tool for the Church. Kids and young people who would never pick up a book or read an article on this subject would pick up a comic book with good art and read it just to see what it’s about. Comic books have that kind of pull.

Why isn’t anyone doing this? (I would, except I am completely talentless.)

Or are they and I just don’t know about it?

Any talented artists and writers out there who want to promote the Faith? Are there any sources of funding from the Church or other sources for a way to print and distribute this kind of thing within a diocese (to begin with)?
 
I can so relate what you’re talking about… I’ve lived in this country all my life but it never made sense to me how totally ignorant most people here are about what “Hispanic” even means despite how the word gets thrown around so much these days. For one thing they seem to think it’s a whole separate race like black and white. As far as I know no other country is like this either.

Something I get a lot in some form is that a person who has known me for a while finally hears my last name and notices it’s a Spanish name. “Wait, so are you Hispanic then?”

me: yeah (obviously, hence the name :rolleyes:)

“Oh, I thought you were white!”

SMH
 
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