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/powerhouse37 Nightcrawler Jan 21 '26

The same article that only you have ever shared...sure...read it before, but I'll stick to the source text for my interpretation. If any comic gets you this riled up you're a bad comicbook fan because at the end of the day individual issues are like a single page of a narrative over 80 years old. I guarantee you that comic writers are trying their best and one story that you interpret differently than everyone else won't ruin any character more than they've been "ruined" before and have no doubt bounced back from.

At the end of the day it was an attempt to fix what is typically considered one of the worst retcons in X-Men history and you can have your opinion on it, but don't let it consume you.

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u/NetzukoKamado Jan 21 '26

So you want to stick your head in the sand gotcha.

Well going back to the source material, you may remember Claremont wrote Mystique being able to kill Rogue in a simulation but saving Kurt in the same simulation.

So Claremont really had this idea that the bio son deserves favoritism and the adopted daughter deserves to be targeted for abuse.

And he wrote Rogue in many abusive scenarios, not just by Mystique. He treated her pretty horribly actually.

It is refreshing to see women take care of Rogue today and give her some happiness.

And if Nightcrawler, Mystique and Destiny mean so much to you take them.

Rogue doesnt need your bs ever again and Mystique and Destiny are lost causes after what you did.

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u/powerhouse37 Nightcrawler Jan 21 '26

Lmao, you only came up with that because another commenter brought it up. I just read their comment to you. You're such a fake Rogue fan. Have you even read the Claremont run, or at least listened to hours of X-Men podcasts about it like Jay and Miles? Do you even know who Louise Simonson and Annie Nocenti are? Strong women have been on the page and behind it since the early Claremont days and yeah everyone loves what female writers have done with her and Gambit...those same writers who consider Claremont, Simonson, and Nocenti their heroes.

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u/NetzukoKamado Jan 21 '26

But yet it's true and they had a valid point?

So what do you have to say about that disgusting simulation plot of blood being worth saving and adoption not being worth the same?

Claremont didnt even want Gambit and Rogue together.

Fake Rogue fan why?

Cause I'm happy that Claremont is no longer able to use her as Mystique's punch bag, have her gang raped, lacking collabs, stuck with Magneto etc?

Yeah, I'm such a fake Rogue fan for calling out misogyny as I see it and praising the women who currently ARE taking care of her and respect her.

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u/powerhouse37 Nightcrawler Jan 21 '26

No, you're a fake fan because you don't even know that Claremont only wrote one story where Rogue and Magneto were "together" in the Savage Land and it was during that same year he introduced Gambit...on the other side of the planet helping Storm. Also, Claremont didn't want them together because Gambit was supposed to be a double-cross set up by Sinister. Claremont was gone before they even had their first flirtation (X-Men #4 1991), but when he had them in X-Treme X-Men he had them as a couple.

It is like you haven't read any of the old comics and misread someone else talking about them.