X-Men ditching Nightcrawler because?

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It sounds like the story involves Nightcrawler leaving the X-Men to become more involved in Catholicism.

I haven’t read the X-Men in years, anyway, though. I stick mostly to the black and white Essential Guides to read the old comic books from the good days.
 
Lujack said:
It sounds like the story involves Nightcrawler leaving the X-Men to become more involved in Catholicism.

I haven’t read the X-Men in years, anyway, though. I stick mostly to the black and white Essential Guides to read the old comic books from the good days.
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In the X-Men comic books, correct me if im wrong, but nightcrawler leaves to became a Catholic Priest for the Mutant Community.

I heard this somewhere.
 
Some history from the Marvel website: Spoilers Warning

Soon after, the ever-devout catholic Kurt left the team to pursue aspirations of becoming a priest. During his studies, Kurt was attacked and wounded by Rax, the hunter of the group of evolved mutants known as the Neo. Fleeing, Kurt encountered mutant doctor Cecilia Reyes, and together the two faced the Neo until the X-Men arrived to swing the tide of battle.

Kurt subsequently rejoined the X-Men while continuing his priesthood studies, but soon after took a leave of absence to mourn the death of his friend and team mate, Colossus. When he returned to the X-Men, it was as a fully ordained priest after apparently undertaking a ceremony at St. Michael’s Church in Brooklyn which was overseen by Kurt’s mentor, Father Whitney. Kurt even took to wearing a priest’s collar as part of his X-Men uniform.

Feeling uncomfortable after his longstanding Catholic training as a result of Kurt’s feelings of unrest due to molestations by Catholic leaders, which were only exacerbated after the mutant ex-prostitute Stacy X joined the team and made advances towards him which he could not reciprocate due to his vocation. Ultimately it came to light that Kurt had never been fully ordained, rather he had been telepathically coerced into believing so as part of a plan by the Church of Humanity’s Supreme Pontiff to bring down the Catholic Church by installing Kurt as the next Pope then revealing to the world that he was “satan”. The X-Men subsequently defeated the Church of Humanity and prevented their plan for world domination.

marvel.com/universe/Nightcrawler

I’m not sure what to make of Nightcrawler’s impending disappearance, but Daredevil and Gambit are/were Catholic. Are they still in circulation?
 
That is such a pure comic book plot right there. Anyway, Daredevil still has his own comic book. Gambit might, but he’s still in comic books, even if he doesn’t have his own

As for other Catholic superhoes, one particular version of the Hulk (from the Marvel Ultimate line of comic books) was explicitly Catholic, even being shown with rosary beads and writing a detailed note about his view on the afterlife.

Then there’s Banshee, an Irish X-Man whose Catholicism they make obvious but never make a big deal of. Finally, the Punisher, also a Marvel character (I don’t really know any DC ones), was an Italian Catholic and for a while, the writer had him going to confession regularly.
 
colliric said:
In the X-Men comic books, correct me if im wrong, but nightcrawler leaves to became a Catholic Priest for the Mutant Community.

I heard this somewhere.
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Nightcrawler had every intention of becoming a priest, but as another poster already 'splained, he fell victim to a hoax.

At least they saved the REAL Church!
 
Lujack said:
That is such a pure comic book plot right there. Anyway, Daredevil still has his own comic book. Gambit might, but he’s still in comic books, even if he doesn’t have his own

As for other Catholic superhoes, one particular version of the Hulk (from the Marvel Ultimate line of comic books) was explicitly Catholic, even being shown with rosary beads and writing a detailed note about his view on the afterlife.

Then there’s Banshee, an Irish X-Man whose Catholicism they make obvious but never make a big deal of. Finally, the Punisher, also a Marvel character (I don’t really know any DC ones), was an Italian Catholic and for a while, the writer had him going to confession regularly.
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DC:
Batman is occasionally portrayed as a Lapsed Catholic. His Mother was Catholic, his father Protestant, but he learns his religious values from his mother.

John Constantine is the more obvious one, in the movie version with Keanu Reeves he was a Catholic(to clarify in the comic book it is not so).

and Catwoman is a practising Catholic.
 
I always wondered about Nightcrawler. After his ordination, wouldn’t he have gotten an assignment from his bishop…at the very least parochial vicar somewhere? Wouldn’t it get in the way of his X-Men duties?

“Sorry guys. I can’t go with you to fight Apocalypse. I have the 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Masses this morning.”

Pager goes off in the middle of a battle with Magneto. "I gotta go. I have to give last rites to an old lady who is having an operation. "

Or the ever popular: “Wolverine. What are you doing tonight, I am doing a slideshow on German Eucharistic Miracle shrines for the Catholic Daughters. Want to go?” <And thought bubble appearing over Wolverine’s head: “Oh no. Not the pilgrimage pictures again.”>

I stopped reading around the time of the Acts of Vengeance. At that time, Nightcrawler was a member of Excalibur.
 
Lol!

I’m not a fan from way back, but I saw the (second?) X-Men movie and was really thrilled about the character of Nightcrawler, especially when he prayed before teleporting. And the fact that he took sanctuary in a church—and that the filmakers did not mock his religious beliefs.

So I saw the new cartoon series and just did a bit of research.
 
VERY interesting and in-depth background. Thanks.

Yeah, I had a :confused: moment when I read that Nightcrawler was ‘half-demon.’ I thought Mutants were human.
 
I suppose demons could mutate the flesh if they possessed someone long enough.
 
For everyone on this board hoping to not waste an inordinate amount of time on something other than legitimate work/study/interaction with family and friends,

I apologize in advance.

adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html

Seriously, this is one of the better time-wasters out there, and if knowing that The Thing is Jewish and Cyclops is non-denominational Protestant doesn’t in some small way make you a better, more functional member of society, well, then you’re probably right.
 
Sorry if this was already cleared up, but I wanted to mention that I don’t think Nightcrawler was removed from the movie series because of his religion. (I heard that it was a logistical thing; the actor didn’t like sitting for 4 hrs having makeup applied!)

Anyway… I just had to comment. I’m a huge fan of the X-Men movies!😃
 
musicgal4jesus said:
Sorry if this was already cleared up, but I wanted to mention that I don’t think Nightcrawler was removed from the movie series because of his religion. (I heard that it was a logistical thing; the actor didn’t like sitting for 4 hrs having makeup applied!)

Anyway… I just had to comment. I’m a huge fan of the X-Men movies!😃
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Yeah, and Nightcrawler wasn’t going to have a big part. In one of the stories that fills in the space between the movies, it was stated that he didn’t like the violent lifestyle the X-Men had to endure and went his own way.

Which sucked, cause he would have owned that teleporting chick in X3.
 
musicgal4jesus said:
Sorry if this was already cleared up, but I wanted to mention that I don’t think Nightcrawler was removed from the movie series because of his religion. (I heard that it was a logistical thing; the actor didn’t like sitting for 4 hrs having makeup applied!)

Anyway… I just had to comment. I’m a huge fan of the X-Men movies!😃
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I wasn’t referring to the movies but to the comics.
 
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