How does nightcrawler die

In this ambiguous territory, Amanda reminded Kurt that he still had work to do, explaining his hesitation to die. Indeed, Nightcrawler still had to save some young mutants from the Crimson Pirates. After some reassuring words from Amanda, Jean Grey and Wolverine , Nightcrawler found the will to live.

Kurt's second resurrection was much more positive than his previous one, as Nightcrawler realized he had much to offer in life. Kurt also probably found resurrection easier because he was only dead for a brief moment. Nightcrawler's most recent trip between life and death took place in 's House of X by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz.

Kurt was part of a mission, where he, along with several other mutants, sacrificed themselves to destroy the Mother Mold Sentinel. During this mission, Nightcrawler and Wolverine shared a touching moment, where Kurt reassured Logan that, when they left the mortal realm, Nightcrawler be waiting for Wolverine on the other side.

Although the X-Men perished on their mission, they returned shortly thereafter, in a moment that introduced Krakoa's Resurrection Protocols. After the Five brought Kurt and his teammates back to life, Storm held a big ceremony, honoring the X-Men as heroes of Krakoa. Overall, Nightcrawler seemed perfectly content with his death and resurrection here. The X-Men died as heroes. When they returned, it was to the welcome of a grateful mutant nation. In the end, Margali learned the truth and Kurt was allowed to leave.

This lead to the creation of Exiles, a series about a group of characters from various different Marvel universes, who had been displaced from time and space. They were formed together as a team and sent on missions to various different points in reality.

It was their job to stop anything that might damage the multiverse as a whole. One of the members of the original Exiles lineup was Nocturne. She is the daughter of Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch from an alternate universe. She looked like a female version of her father but had powers similar to those of her mother. Nocturne could fire Hex bolts and possess the minds of others.

Nocturne became popular with Exiles fans. As such, she was allowed to leave the team and become part of the main Marvel continuity.

She would go on to join the X-Men and New Excalibur. The X-Men once fought Dracula. The concept alone is pretty ridiculous, but the details of the fight are downright silly.

Chris Claremont had a bizarre fixation with making villains fall in love with Storm. Dracula also desired her, to the point where he almost transformed Storm into a vampire, in order to become his new bride.

The X-Men hunted Dracula down and engaged him in battle. Due to the sheer amount of vampire movies in existence, the team were aware of all of Dracula's weaknesses. In order to capitalise on this, Wolverine unsheathes his claws into the shape of a cross. This does not work, however, as he lacks faith. Due to his fervent belief in God, Nightcrawler puts two sticks together and brandishes them at the vampire.

This badly wounds Dracula, forcing him to rely on his magical ability to summon lightning, in order to keep the team and Kurt's cross at a distance.

Nightcrawler's main mutant ability is teleportation. He can travel over small distances, but the amount of times he can do it depends on his stamina. Repeatedly teleporting drains Kurt's health. Doing it with another person is possible, but this will strain him even further. Kurt can safely teleport anywhere that he can see. It is possible for him to teleport into areas that are outside of his vision, but this is riskier.

If he messes up the distance, then he could end up fused into a wall. As Kurt's powers carried a certain level of risk, he never over-used them outside of an emergency. He never learnt the true extent of his powers until his own death. Bastion puts his arm into the space where he knows that Kurt will teleport. Nightcrawler is the son of Mystique. She abandoned him as a child, due to his demonic appearance. Mystique's shapeshifting ability allowed her to blend in with society.

Her baby presented a liability and she left him to be found by the Romani. The two would reunite during the "Days of Future Past" storyline, where the connection between the two was first teased.

Mystique was not always intended to be Nightcrawler's mother. She was going to be his father , with Destiny another member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants , being his mother. Mystique was supposed to have impregnated Destiny while in the form of a man.

A relationship between Mystique and Destiny had long been hinted within the X-Men comics. It was Chris Claremont's idea, but it never came to pass. Marvel might have been reticent about confirming a homosexual relationship between two main X-Men characters, at least at that point in time. The question of the identity of Nightcrawler's father was not answered until It turns out that Mystique entered into a relationship with Azazel, a demonic mutant from the days of the Bible.

Azazel is a Neyaphem. These are a group of demonic mutants that opposed an angelic society of mutants, known as the Cheyarafim. The Neyaphem were banished to another dimension by their enemies. The only one who could escape was Azazel, due to his mastery of teleportation. He would travel to Earth for brief periods of time, in the hope of impregnating a woman. He hoped that their children might have the potential to free his people.

Azazel actually fell in love with Mystique, who shared his affections. He was forced to abandon her and their son, in order to protect them from the Cheyarafim. He has the same teleportation powers as Nightcrawler, though no connection between himself or Mystique is made in the film.

Nightcrawler spent most of his life with adopted families. Years later, the Texas millionaire Amos Jardine, who ran a large circus based in Florida , heard of the circus Wagner worked for and bought it. Jardine intended to move its best acts into his American circus. However, he demanded that Wagner be placed in the circus' freak show. Appalled, Wagner quit and made his way towards Winzeldorf , Germany , where Stephan was.

Kurt discovered that Stephan had gone mad and had brutally slain several children. Two nights after leaving the circus, Wagner found Stephan and fought him, hoping to stop his rampage. In the course of the struggle, Wagner unintentionally broke Stephan's neck.

Then the villagers of Winzeldorf, who assumed him to be a demon who was responsible for the child killings, discovered Wagner. They were about to kill him, when they were all psionically paralyzed by Professor Xavier, who had come to recruit Wagner into the X-Men. Xavier went to the Bavarian circus so that Wagner could explain to Margali about Stephan's death.

However, Margali was not there and she held Wagner responsible for murdering Stephan. Wagner helped Prof. Xavier and Cyclops rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa. The second group of X-Men were mostly adults and required no tutoring from Professor X, but trained in the use of their powers, in the Danger Room. Kurt met Amanda Sefton and the two began to date. Investigating the murder of an old friend, Eric Hoffman, Kurt briefly battled Spider-Man and The Punisher until the real killer, Jigsaw , was revealed and the trio defeated him.

While meeting Amanda at an airport, Kurt recognized the plane of Arcade and overheard that he had been contracted, by Arnos, to kill Spider-Man and refused. After arriving at Arnos' circus, Kurt impersonated Spider-Man, to draw-out the new assassin, and the duo battled Cutthroat. There, he faced Margali Szardos, who held Kurt responsible for the death of Stephan. When Nightcrawler convinced Margali that Stephan had gone insane, she forgave Kurt and departed.

Jimaine revealed that she had been at Nightcrawler's side, magically disguised for months as Amanda Sefton, Kurt's girlfriend. When Nightcrawler encountered Mystique for the first time in his adult life, he was shocked to discover how similar in appearance they were and that she knew his real name. Mystique only told him to ask his foster mother, Margali Szardos, about it, leaving Nightcrawler confused.

Kurt began a close relationship with Wolverine and Colossus, even taking a dare from Wolverine to walk down the main street of Salem Center undisguised, in his natural shape. Doom to rescue Arcade. Kurt took over leadership of the X-Men after Storm had seemingly lost her powers forever. Having recounted an adventure to his teammate, Kitty Pryde Shadowcat , Kitty, excited by the story, attempted to create a simulacrum of the Well at the Center of Time inside the X-Men's Danger Room based on Kurt's description.

Instead of crafting a simulated hologram of the Well however, Kitty inadvertently opened a doorway into the Well itself. Kitty's pet dragon, Lockheed , flew towards it to investigate, when an alien, green tentacle reached out from beyond and dragged him inside of the vortex. Nightcrawler dove in after to save Lockheed and found himself instantly transported to a bizarre, alien world.

At the close of each encounter, he found himself drawn back into a spiraling vortex, only to be literally spat out into a new foreign land. After a great deal of trial and error, Nightcrawler finally succeeded in navigating through the Well and returning home.

When both Cyclops and Storm returned to the team, Kurt was more than willing to step down and let them sort out leadership of the X-Men themselves. After battling Nimrod with the Hellfire Club as allies, Nightcrawler was gravely injured and was lost after he teleported. Kurt was sent to recover on Muir Island and when he awoke from his coma, Shadowcat informed Kurt of the X-Men's apparent deaths during the time he was out.

After having the same continuous dream, Nightcrawler and Kitty realized that Rachel might have been trying to telepathically reach them. After being attacked by Gatecrasher and the Technet , who were hired by Saturnyne to eliminate Phoenix , Shadowcat and Meggan Puceanu were captured and Kurt went to Captain Britain , who was in a drunken state after the loss of his sister, Psylocke.

At the urging of Rachel to continue Professor Xavier's dream, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat became founding members of the British-based team Excalibur. Kurt found himself attracted to Meggan, but unable to act, due to her relationship as Captain Britain's girlfriend.

Later, Kurt attempted to rescue Shadowcat, who was posing as Rachel, from her plan to find the remaining Warwolves, but Kitty was captured. After saving people from a subway train, Kurt followed a mysterious police officer to the Warwolves' hideout and Excalibur rescued Shadowcat, who's intangibility saved her life, then placed the Warwolves on display at the zoo.

After battling the Juggernaut and a group of escaped prisoners, the team addressed Captain Britain's drinking problems, while moving into their new headquarters, Captain Britain's Braddock Lighthouse.

Following a trail of forfeit money, Excalibur traveled to Murderworld and battled the Crazy Gang , to rescue Captain Britain's ex girlfriend, Courtney Ross. After Kitty entered a virus into the Murderworld computers and sent Arcade into Murderworld, Courtney restored everyone to their respectful bodies.

While battling the Goblin Princess, Kurt also rescued Rachel from the marriage to the demon, Crotus , while she had been transformed into a mannequin.

After the demonic invasion, Kurt left to get the X-Men's old stratojet. Moira Mactaggert. After returning to the exchange of Dr. Wagner finally learned that his mother is Mystique. Kurt eventually became team leader and moved the team to the Muir Island Research Center where he briefly reunited with Amanda Sefton, who had taken the codename Daytripper, and his former X-Men teammate Colossus joined the team as well. When Kurt faced Astra, the creator of the Magneto clone Joseph, she stunned him with the revelation that she had some part in his birth or some past connection to Mystique.

Astra escaped and Nightcrawler was left wondering. Nightcrawler ended up taking a few leaves of absence from the team, one to enroll in a seminary and become a priest, [42] and the other to mourn for Colossus. Azazel claimed to be Wagner's true father, spawning a number of mutants with dimensional powers to help him in his mad quest.

It was unclear if Kurt or any of the others believed Azazel's claim. Kurt was a part of Storm's X-Men squad. When not on missions, he taught Drama to students of the reopened Xavier Institute. Kurt traveled to Russia along with Wolverine and Colossus where they visited the cemetery where Peter's family was buried. Afterwards they went to a local bar, where they discussed the recent loss of Kitty Pryde and the destruction of the X-Men. A fight occurred in the bar, during which their cover was blown.

Soon after, the three of them were captured by the Russian government which demanded to know why all their mutants were depowered and why Colossus, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler retained their abilities. After a battle with Omega Red , the three heroes returned to the U. He took it upon himself to build a new chapel at Graymalkin Industries , the X-Men's new home and base of operations. Nightcrawler soon quit the X-Men for a short time, feeling he wasn't needed since Pixie was a better teleporter than him, and planned to return to his homeland Winzeldorf.

Another motive for leaving was when the denizens of Winzeldorf invited him to visit the new Nightcrawler Museum dedicated to him. He soon learned that the local townsfolk tricked him and needed Nightcrawler's aid in defeating a monster called the Vielfras. Nightcrawler fought with the creature, but quickly discovered that Vielfras was actually a sixteen-year-old boy named Henrik Weber, who was cursed by a Romani woman.

After hearing Weber's tale, Nightcrawler sympathized with him, reflecting upon his own mistreatment at the hands of town villagers many years ago. Nightcrawler defended him when the townsfolk tracked them down, but was injured in the fight. Vielfras killed all of his attackers, then himself being unable to endure this monstrous lifestyle. Mephisto appeared to collect Weber's soul as well as the souls of the twelve men Weber had killed earlier, and Nightcrawler returned to the United States and rejoined the X-Men.

While on the run from Bastion, Kurt used his ability to get Hope as far across the country as possible. Bastion caught up with them, and anticipated one of Kurt's 'ports, putting his arm through Kurt's chest.

Praying to God to give him one last jump of his life, Kurt brought Hope to Utopia, dying on its shore. His cremation and eulogy took place on Utopia.