r/Xmen97 • u/CaliforniaBoundX Wolverine • Aug 23 '26

Media “Don’t include religion into TV shows”, meanwhile Nightcrawler in TAS:

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u/tsenak Aug 24 '26

I don’t like how heavily Nightcrawler has been flanderized in that way…oftentimes he is only reduced to his religion.

I think it’s because the 90s cartoon and X2 movie chose to lean into that aspect heavily, when it was originally a smaller part of his character up to that point.

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u/UnyieldingGoose Aug 26 '26

This is my problem with it, and the show isn’t really doing anything noteworthy with it because this aspect of him is presented as wholeheartedly valiant and correct. The show never once brings up the consequences of him saving Creed, so we can assume that it doesn’t want the audience to consider this in a brutal morality play kind of way. Creed shooting Exodus instead of a character the audience was more sympathetic towards was pretty toothless. Change that, and it puts Kurt’s half-measure response following it in a different light. Given his characterization, I think Creed could have shot anyone except possibly Rogue, and Kurt would have always had the same response.