For many years, it has been accepted that the X-Men villain Mystique was the mother of Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner. X-Men Blue: Origins #1 challenges this history. However, rather than retconning the ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains minor spoilers for X-Men: Apocalypse. If you haven’t seen the film yet, and don’t wish to know any details, please click away to another one of our ...

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 ...

Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their queer family, this week it righted the ...

So Jason Flemyng has been cast as Azazel, Nightcrawler's father, in the upcoming X-Men: First Class movie. And I understand he's been made fully aware about the range of disdain to outright hatred ...

We have two pieces of X-Men: First Class casting news to report tonight. First up, Jason Flemyng told a crowd at BFI's Movie-Con III [via ComingSoon] that he would be playing the minor role of Azazel.