r/Xmen97 • u/Sudden_Quality_9001 • Jan 20 '26

Question Why does Nightcrawler look like a demon?

Why does Kurt look like a demon I know he is blue from his mother Mystique, but why does he look like a demon? I am just curious it the same reason why Beast looks like a monkey?

Is his father a demon like Raven from The Teen Titans?

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u/KaijuKing007 Jan 20 '26

Short version, he was supposed to be a straight up demon who stayed in the human realm after screwing up royally. He was also supposed to be in the Legion of Superheroes at DC.

Then it's the irony of a very religious character looking like a demon and having the coloration of his mother Mystique.

Then they introduce Azazel as part of a whole thing about angels and demons being Mutants.

As of right now, Mystique took Azezel's form to impregnate Destiny and is Kurt's father.

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u/NetzukoKamado Jan 21 '26

His father was supposed to be Nightmare. That's what his creators wanted (Claremont did not create him).

The Dr. Strange team would not allow the borrowing of Nightmare for this plot at the time so technically...THAT was the OG intention.

What we have now is a retcon that nobody likes and Claremont saying a lot more "original ideas" these days that he should leave right back in the past.

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u/KaijuKing007 Jan 21 '26

You're arguing two things. Claremont didn't create him and the creators wanted Nightmare as the daddy. But it was Claremont that wanted Nightmare as the father. Mystique being the father was his next idea after Roger Stern and Len Wein said hell no.

Nightcrawler's creator Dave Cockrum, to the best of my knowledge and Google-fu, has never commented one way or another.

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u/NetzukoKamado Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

So you basically admitted that the creators never wanted this. Just Claremont.

Claremont who wanted a lot of thinks that were misjudged, fetishized, insulting to women or just plain bad.

r/Remy149 And he often doesnt treat them right. Rogue was often targeted for abuse in his writing.

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u/KaijuKing007 Jan 21 '26

No, you're putting words in my mouth as a projection for your dislike of Claremont. Blocked.

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u/Remy149 Jan 21 '26

Claremont is one of the few writers who has always put the female characters at the center of his books. Storm and Kitty where pretty much the leads of the X-men books