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I'm well aware one was "attempted" before but it just wouldn't be a respect thread without my charming ramblings, so ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I present onto X-Men Fans and all our KMC users alike. The Official Nightcrawler Respect Thread. Scans Lie Ahead, and while your waiting for this one, enjoy my Captain Atom and Breach Respect Threads Respectively. Enjoy Folks.

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Character History

Nightcrawler was created by Dave Cockrum, and attempted to sell his demonic character to DC, to be placed on the then popular Legion of Superheroes back in the mid 1970's, having been turned down, he turned to marvel, where they placed Nightcrawler on the X-Men, having been revamped after a failed series in the 1960's.


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Bio From Marvel.com
Born in Bavaria to the blue-skinned shapeshifting mutant later known as Mystique, Kurt Wagner was shunned at birth due to his having blue skin, pointed ears, fangs, and a long pointed tail. At the time disguised as the Baroness Wagner, Mystique's true identity was revealed after she gave birth to Kurt, and the pair were chased by an angry mob. Fleeing to the nearby falls, Mystique threw the infant Kurt over the edge and fled. Kurt was saved by his natural father, the enigmatic being known as Azazel, and given into the care of Margali Szardos, a sorceress and gypsy queen.
Margali took baby Kurt to the small Bavarian circus where she worked as a fortune teller as a cover for her activities as a sorceress. Kurt was never legally adopted by anyone, but was raised by all the members of the circus, who had no prejudices against "freaks". Kurt grew up happily in the circus with his two closest friends, Margali's natural children Stefan and Jimaine. Stefan feared that his magical heritage may one day corrupt him, and so he had Kurt promise that if he ever killed without reason for Kurt to stop him. During his formative years Kurt exhibited tremendous natural agility, and quickly became the circus's star acrobat and trapeze artist with audiences assuming that he was simply a normal human dressed in a demon costume. Kurt worked closely with Jimaine, and the pair soon became involved in a romantic relationship.

Years later, the Texas millionaire Amos Jardine, who ran a large circus based in Florida, heard of the circus Kurt worked for and bought it. Jardine intended to move its best acts into his American circus. However, he demanded that Kurt be placed in the circus's freak show, where he was imprisoned against his will and drugged in order to remain complacent. Eventually, a young boy would free Nightcrawler, who would threaten Jardine in order to make him remain a better owner to his circus friends. Nightcrawler then ran away and made his way back to Germany where he discovered that Stefan had gone mad and had brutally slain several members of a lost race of half-human creatures. Kurt found Stefan and fought him, hoping to stop his rampage, but in the course of the struggle Kurt unintentionally broke Stefan's neck. The villagers of the nearby town of Winzeldorf discovered Kurt and assumed him to be a demon who was responsible for the killings. They cornered Kurt in the town and were about to kill him when they were all psionically paralyzed by Professor Charles Xavier, who had come to recruit Kurt into his team of mutant super-heroes known as the X-Men.
Kurt agreed to join the group, but before they left for America, he and Xavier went to the Bavarian circus so that Kurt could explain to Margali about Stefan's death. However, Margali was not there, and for years she held Kurt responsible for murdering Stefan. Later, she learned the truth and she and Kurt were reconciled. Kurt was also happily reunited with Jimaine, who had been living in the United States under the assumed name of Amanda Sefton.

After many adventures with the X-Men, including a clash with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants during which Kurt first met his mother Mystique (although he didn't know it at the time), discovering his ability to be invisible in shadow, traveling through dimensions with Kitty Pryde's dragon Lockheed, and more, Kurt was finally severely wounded during the attack on the underground colony of mutants known as the Morlocks by Riptide, a member of a team of mutant assassins named the Marauders. Kurt was taken to the mutant research facility on Muir Island off the coast of Scotland where he recuperated, but discovered that he could no longer teleport as he originally could, and that teleporting others caused a great strain. After hearing of the apparent "death" of the X-Men in Dallas when the team fought the Adversary, Kurt, Pryde, Rachel Summers, Captain Britain, and Meggan became the founding members of the British super-team Excalibur.

After an encounter with the monarch of Latveria, the armored despot Dr. Doom, Kurt's powers were fully restored after Doom used an electromagnetic scrambler in an attempt to disrupt Kurt's teleportating abilities which instead accidentally realigned them.

Following a misunderstanding with Captain Britain over his relationship with Meggan that resulted in a broken leg, Kurt reformed the team of alien bounty hunters known as the Technet into a team of costumed superhuman adventurers dubbed the N-Men. Following the Technet's departure, Kurt became Excalibur's leader after the team gained several new members, including the alien Shi'ar named Cerise. Kurt helped Cerise become accustomed to her new life on Earth, which led to the pair forming a romantic relationship. This was to be short-lived, however, after Cerise was found guilty of war crimes and returned to the Shi'ar Empire.

After Captain Britain and Meggan were married, Kurt along with Shadowcat and Colossus decided it was time to return to the X-Men. Kurt once more served as a dedicated member of the team until after the battle with the mutant despot Apocalypse that resulted in the seemed death of the first X-Man, Cyclops. 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.
Soon after, Kurt found himself unable to resist the compulsion to travel to the Isla des Demonas off the coast of Florida. There, Kurt was manipulated into a ceremony with other teleporters like himself that opened a dimensional portal through which came an army of mutant demons. The X-Men arrived to recover their teammate and clashed with the army. During the battle, Kurt was forcibly removed from the ceremony which collapsed the portal, trapping all present into the other dimension. There, Kurt learned that the leader of the army, Azazel, was his natural father and the father of the other teleporters present. A mutant from biblical times, Azazel sought to use his children's combined powers to return to Earth and enslave humanity. However, Kurt rejected him and, with the aid of his newly-found half-brothers Abyss and Kiwi Black, Azazel was defeated.

Nightcrawler has since gone on several missions of an occult nature, culminating in a battle against the demonic Hive who was revealed to be responsible for Stefan's rampage. Nightcrawler would be visited by Mephisto on his birthday shortly after that event, who told Nightcrawler that a war was brewing, and if Nightcrawler would take Mephisto's side, he could have any reward he wanted. Kurt rejected the offer, however. Recently, Nightcrawler has also met the dimensionally-stranded Nocturne, daughter of a Nightcrawler from an alternate timeline, who has taken to calling him "dad."
Retrieved from "http://www.marvel.com/universe/Nightcrawler"




Scans will be in the rest of the upcoming posts. I just felt the need to shark a bio, for people unaware of the character. I should have done that in the CA Respect thread as well, but ke sera sera.

Strength Feats

Dangles a man over a cliff

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Bashes Sentinel Skull in

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Changes momentum in midair, and throws a man.

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Picks man up with his tail

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Controls the arms of a troll who smashes cement

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Punches out a 40 foot troll

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Kurt does not have the physical strength when he's a "human" to do nearly half as much as he can when he's a "mutant." So Nightcrawler isn't just a very fit human, but does have strength beyond that of a physically fit human

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Speed and Reflexes

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From the next page of that fight, here's Nightcrawler flexing some raw speed. Notice how Cyclops is STILL trying to dodge out the way and in that time Nightcrawler has already moved to three different spots.

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Nightcrawler v.s Spiderman

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Jumping over rapid fire

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Toying with an alternate universe Captain Brittain

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Holding a Full grown woman, while jumping about

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More scans, sorry, this one took so long, my computer shut off on me

Strength of ten men?

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Embarrassing Captain Britain

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Dodges Bullets at Point Blank Range

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Takes on a whole ship

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Avoids a fist from the juggernaut coming right for his face

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uses speed and agility to dodge missiles

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Get's up from a blow from Sebastian Shaw, who knocked Rouge out

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Multiple teleporting punches

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The other X-men stumble, Nightcrawler Rumbles

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Nightcrawler, you old fashioned boy, you.

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Here he is jumping many feat

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Perched on a guy's back as he beats the crap out of him

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Find's a new way to port attack someone every time, o and it's said he can port a guy's head off.

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Swashbuckler

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They'll wake up asking themselves what happened?

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This is one of his more amazing speed feats. Sentinels are attacking the mansion, and Kurt leaves the battlefield to gather some equipment (bombs actually). In total he plants 6 (one on each leg), and in total it takes him 9 seconds to place the bombs and everything. So what's the big deal? It's the fact that he set all the detonators for 10 seconds. So in the time frame of 10 seconds (starting at when he set the first bomb since that's when the clock would have started) he was able to both arm each bomb and port them all to where they needed to be.

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Can see in the dark

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Kicks ass

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Physically fit, yes?

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Dodges Lightning

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Jumping for dear life

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Angry

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Colossus and Rouge are taught a lesson by dear Kurt

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Teleports helmet off a guy

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That is all for now

Phenomenol? I thought he was banned.

Do you have any of his sword fighting feats?

Uncanny X-Men-147

A Nightcrawler 2 mile Teleport
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Uncanny X-Men 163
Another Long Range Teleport this time carrying a passenger.
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its saying the images you posted don't exist..... o_o

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Good thread, only problem is that every time I see the title it makes me think of a certain user who annoyed me to no end.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Good thread, only problem is that every time I see the title it makes me think of a certain user who annoyed me to no end.
That's what I thought of at first. I was wondering if it was some kind of sarcasm thread with quotes of his or something.

RIP Kurt