X-Men ditching Nightcrawler because?

[adstrinity]

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.

Yeah, but, Gambit, isn’t really a practicing Catholic.

There’s also some female. She’s a lesbian, but, also Catholic (at least she grew up as such).

Henry McCoy is either Catholic or High Episcopal.

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. "

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VERY interesting and in-depth background. Thanks.

Yeah, I had a moment when I read that Nightcrawler was ‘half-demon.’ I thought Mutants were human.

They are!! But, see, when Mystique threw him over a bridge in Germany, the people there saw that he had three fingers (two & thumb) on each hand, was blue, and had a pointed tail, so, they said he was a demon. He’s had this appearance his whole life and is rather scary looking, which contrasts his faith.

Will read the article after work!

 

[musicgal4jesus]

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.
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Which sucked, cause he would have owned that teleporting chick in X3**.

LOL!

 

[adstrinity]

celticsfan1983, are you talking about Shadow Cat? Kitty Pride is Jewish, you know.

Anyway, I should also explain for Sailor Kenshin and everybody else who wasn’t into The X-Men, that Nightcrawlers dad IS a demon from hell. He and Mystique copulated, so, he IS half demon, and when he teleports, and leaves behind the smell of sulfur, it is because he goes through another demention (we later find out it’s Hell, I think). This explains his blue skin, which he inherits from his mother and his looks, which are paternal.

…Orignally the idea was somebody else would be his mother, and Mystique (who is bi) turned into a man and who would be his father. Not only was this idea found too controversial, but, for a comic book dealing with mutants, and different space-time continuums, and all kinds of science fiction elements, suspention of belief only goes so far…

reads the article …So, they are not retiring the character altogether, then?

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

Ewwww.

not the fact that a character is Jewish… the ‘other’ stuff

 

[celticsfan1983]

celticsfan1983, are you talking about Shadow Cat? Kitty Pride is Jewish, you know.

Not Kitty, she could walk through walls, close, but not the same as teleportation. The Wikipedia entry calls the woman I’m referring to Psyclocke (played by Meiling Melançon), but the movie never calls her by name. She could teleport all over the place, which made me wish Nightcrawler was there to open up a can on her.

Odd that they call her Psylocke, when the movie character and comic book character have nothing in common.

 

[musicgal4jesus]

Not Kitty, she could walk through walls, close, but not the same as teleportation. The Wikipedia entry calls the woman I’m referring to Psyclocke (played by Meiling Melançon), but the movie never calls her by name. She could teleport all over the place, which made me wish Nightcrawler was there to open up a can on her.

Odd that they call her Psylocke, when the movie character and comic book character have nothing in common.

Ohh I remember her… if i’m not mistaken, she didn’t actually teleport, she could just move really really fast. (In the movie, I mean. I’m not too familiar with the comic book version of Psylocke.) Either way, Nightcrawler could totally pwn her!

 

[jediliz]

In the 90s animated series, Nightcrawler only appeared twice (‘Nightcrawler’ and ‘Blood Ties’) and I thought they did his faith really well. In that animated show, the father was an aristocrat. So, they must have changed it from the comic?

They should rename the new animated series that airs on NickToons: Nightcrawler and the X-Men after that awesome episode that focused on him helping those other mutants.

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

In the 90s animated series, Nightcrawler only appeared twice (‘Nightcrawler’ and ‘Blood Ties’) and I thought they did his faith really well. In that animated show, the father was an aristocrat. So, they must have changed it from the comic?

They should rename the new animated series that airs on NickToons: Nightcrawler and the X-Men after that awesome episode that focused on him helping those other mutants.

AMEN to that!

I’m actually enjoying that new series. Never had the pleasure of seeing the 90s one, but there was another, more cartoonish X-men series that Nightcrawler appeared in. I think the mutants were attending a public school, or something like it.

 

[benedict_x]

Not Kitty, she could walk through walls, close, but not the same as teleportation. The Wikipedia entry calls the woman I’m referring to Psyclocke (played by Meiling Melançon), but the movie never calls her by name. She could teleport all over the place, which made me wish Nightcrawler was there to open up a can on her.

Odd that they call her Psylocke, when the movie character and comic book character have nothing in common.

Psylocke wasn’t teleporting. The only time you saw her power was when she confronted Dr Rao and Warren Worthington II. Since she’s a telepath she prolly was using her powers to hide herself by making them think she wasn’t there…

Big fan of the X-men here. 13 years and counting!

 

[benedict_x]

In the 90s animated series, Nightcrawler only appeared twice (‘Nightcrawler’ and ‘Blood Ties’) and I thought they did his faith really well. In that animated show, the father was an aristocrat. So, they must have changed it from the comic?

The father was a “demon” from a “hell” dimension. In the comics he came to Earth and disguised himself as a human before seducing Raven (Mystique).

 

[benedict_x]

The foster mother you’re referring to is Margali Szardos (she who walks the winding roads). She’s a gypsy/witch and has a son (Stefan, deceased) and a daughter (Jimaine, also called Amanda Sefton aka Daytripper aka 2nd Magick).

Will post more info on Kurt soon!

 

[benedict_x]

Nightcrawler grew up with Margali’s children and promised Stefan that should he ever take an innocent life Nightcrawler must stop him which he did much later when they grew up.

Stefan killed innocent children in the small town of Winzeldorf and Kurt, trying to stop him, accidentally broke his neck. Incidentally the town blamed Kurt for the killings (based on his demonic appearance) and it was when they were chasing him the Prof X came along and recruited him to the X-men. Stefan’s death made Margali angry and she chased after Nightcrawler when he joined the X-men but upon realizing that it was an accident, forgave him. It wasn’t until very late in his life when he returned to the city when Turns out that Stefan was possessed by the demon Hive (who told him of a war that is about to come) when he went on his murdering spree.

When Kurt was celebrating his birthday recently Mephistopheles stopped time to talk to Kurt and showed him a vision of hell opening and demons being unleashed into the world causing great destruction. Mephisto promised that all the X-men would be spared if he promised not to interfere when it does. Kurt responded by punching him/it in the face saying that he will never listen to the Prince of lies.

As for Jimaine, she grew up to be Kurt’s on/off again girlfriend and was part of the European X-men; ExCalibur with Nightcrawler. She’s had a difficult relationship with her mother, with the latter tricking her tonnes of times and on an occasion, switching minds. Turns out when the Mother/Daughter switch happened the body of Margali (mind of Jimaine) was captured by Belasco (Lord of Limbo) and tortured while Jimaine (with the mind of Margali) asked Nightcrawler for help in performing a ritual to descend to Limbo and save her daughter from Belasco. With that done and the minds swapped back Margali apologized for all the hurt she caused and left and since Belasco ran away there was no one to rule the Limbo and thus Jimaine took up the role as ruler of the realm at the protest if Nightcrawler. Jimaine is also herself an accomplished sorceress.

Hmm looks like I covered as much as I could. Hope it gave some insightful information.