Chris Claremont toyed with the idea of making the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare into Kurt’s dad. But he preferred his second option for Nightcrawler’s origin. His idea was that Mystique had ...

Nightcrawler, whose real name is Kurt Wagner, made his first appearance in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. Born in Germany, Kurt was orphaned and raised in a circus, ...

X-Men Origins: Blue published today from Marvel Comics does just what it had been threatening, rewrites the already repeatedly rewritten origins of Nightcrawler, as the child of Mystique. It has been ...

In X-Men Blue: Origins #1 we learn that the previous Nightcrawler story – Mystique playing the wife of Baron Christian Wagner, only to have an affair with the mutant immortal Azazel and birth ...

When it comes to Marvel Comics, no origin story is safe. One issue and one retcon can change everything we know about a character, and the X-Men are especially vulnerable to such tinkering. The ...

The X-Men films have featured no shortage of iconic Marvel Comics characters, from Wolverine to Storm to Magneto. However, there’s one fan favorite mutant who’s never gotten much time in the spotlight ...

“What we’ve got here is a spectacular new beginning — which, yes, iscode for ‘perfect jumping-on point’ — which leans hard into heroic,joyful, street-level action,” Spurrier said when announcing the ...

Marvel Comics has finally made good on an idea that’s over 40 years old. In the recent X-Men Blue: Origins one shot, the true origin story of longtime X-Man Nightcrawler was revealed. And it’s what ...