Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler
Real Name: Kurt Wagner History: Kurt spent his formative years in a traveling carnival with his foster-mother and -sister, but then left to explore the world. Unfortunately, due to his appearance he was branded a demon, and was almost lynched by a mob when Professor X saved him and recruited him into the new X-Men. Nightcrawler became a charter member of the team, and soon learned to expand his abilities to carry first objects with him and then other people. Unfortunately, people who travel with him tend to get nauseous. Nightcrawler also learned to teleport multiple times in few seconds, allowing him to attack foes from unexpected directions with uncanny accuracy. On rare occasions, he could also teleport more than one person at a time, but it strained him tremendously.
Affiliation: X-Men
Previous Affiliations: Excalibur
Relatives: Raven Darkholme (Mystique, mother), Margali Szardos (foster-mother),
Amanda Sefton ( Daytripper, foster-sister), Stefan Szardos (foster-brother, deceased),
Graydon Creed (half-brother, deceased)
Powers:
Nightcrawler has blue fur, yellow eyes, fangs and a prehensile tail. He has three fingers and toes on each appendage and can stick to walls. He is a line-of-sight teleporter and is also a master swordsman and acrobat (his boyhood - and adult - idol is Errol Flynn). His teleportation, which smells of brimstone and sulfur and makes his signature "BAMF!" noise, takes him through another dimension, although he only actually saw it once. Generally, though, his teleportation is instantaneous. The opening to the dimension travels with Kurt at all times, distorting light and leaving him in shadow when it's light out, and rendering him nearly invisible when he's in shadow. He also has an infallible spatial awareness, which is necessary for him to teleport, because if he does not judge distances accurately, he could end up teleporting into solid matter, which could cripple or kill him. As a result, Kurt generally only 'ports to places that he can see, or to those that he knows very well.
Then, when the Marauders attacked the Morlocks and the X-Men went to stop them, Kurt was severely injured by Riptide and went into a coma. When he finally woke up on Muir Island, it was to hear that the X-Men had died in battle with the Adversary. Kurt also found that he could not teleport anymore, at least not without life-threatening strain. However, Kurt still banded together with Shadowcat, Phoenix II, Meggan and Captain Britain to form Excalibur, based off the coast of England. Though the team was in theory led by Captain Britain, Nightcrawler ended up being the defacto leader on many occasions. Finally, after months with the team, Kurt regained his ability to teleport during a battle in Limbo. Later, when Excalibur split up for "vacations" and Kurt was home with a broken leg, he took in the members of the Technet and trained them as the "N-Men." Then Excalibur returned and though Roma revealed that Cap hadn't led the team because of a "blunder factor" she had given him, Kurt remained the leader. Eventually, though, Kurt and the others discovered that the X-Men were indeed alive, and after Brian and Meggan's wedding he and Colossus and Shadowcat returned to the States to rejoin their friends.
In the last six months, though, Kurt, who had always been a devout Catholic, left the team to study to become a priest. Unfortunately, he was ambushed and shot by the Neo, which led him to Dr. Cecilia Reyes, who saved his life, and back to the X-Men team.