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87-628: Murderworld may refer to: Murderworld (comics) , a series of fictional theme-parks in Marvel comics run by the character Arcade Murderworld! , a role-playing game adventure for the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game "Murderworld", a song on the White Zombie album Make Them Die Slowly Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

174-414: A prehensile tail . In Nightcrawler's earlier comic book appearances, he is depicted as being a happy-go-lucky practical joker and teaser, and a fan of swashbuckling fiction. Nightcrawler is a Catholic , and while this is not emphasized as much in his earlier comic book appearances, in later depictions he is more vocal about his faith. He was originally stated to be from a small village called Witzeldorf in

261-590: A bond with the pupil Scorpion Boy. While attempting to reunite with Amanda Sefton , he was duped by her mother Margali Szardos to grant her sanctuary at the school, where she forcefully extracted the knowledge about the Beyond from Beast and Storm to open a portal to the Afterlife. Nightcrawler and Amanda managed to foil Margali but at the cost of Amanda getting stranded in the Void. Afterward, Nightcrawler and Scorpion Boy engaged

348-553: A brush with Mephisto , and a romantic fling, before he returned to San Francisco to aid the X-Men against a foe they struggled with, lacking his help. In the 2008 storyline " Secret Invasion ," Nightcrawler fought alongside the X-Men when the Skrulls invaded San Francisco. He came across a Skrull bible and, after studying it, gave it to Beast , who figured out how to deal with the Skrulls. In

435-476: A castle-dungeon role playing situation. Most notably Gwenpool and her friends Batrock the leaper, MegaTony, and the Terrible Eye (a.k.a. Sarah), a group of mutant-frog mercenaries Batroc worked with once (much to his chagrin), and Deadpool (referred to as "The Unkillable beast" and wearing a green Robinhood style cap). Things went downhill quickly however since Gwen was a geek back in her home world and thus knew all

522-485: A facsimile of the hell from Dante's Inferno in which to punish him years later. Through the use of Doctor Strange 's all-seeing Eye of Agamotto , she learned the truth, and she and Wagner were reconciled. Wagner was happily reunited with his foster sister Jimaine, who had moved to the United States and changed her name to Amanda Sefton , later becoming Kurt's girlfriend. Sometime later, Nightcrawler fought Shagreen

609-466: A fictional subspecies of humanity known as mutants , who possess an X-gene that can cause possible physical mutations and in many cases grants some form of superhuman ability. Nightcrawler possesses superhuman agility , the ability to teleport , and adhesive hands and feet. His physical mutations include indigo-colored velvety fur which allows him to become nearly invisible in shadows, two-toed feet and three-fingered hands, yellow eyes, pointed ears , and

696-432: A final, dying effort to rescue the mutant-messiah Hope, he teleported them both from Las Vegas , Nevada to the mutant safehold Utopia, just off the coast of San Francisco , California , a distance of more than 410 mi (660 km). Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is also affected by direction—north-south along Earth's "magnetic lines of force" is easier than east–west against them. His effective teleport range

783-577: A light beam to remotely capture his targets who would be recreated in a virtual Video Game environment. On the one instance that these machines were depicted, Arcade was attempting to abduct the X-Men, but instead, unknowingly abducted four of the Micronauts , a team with whom he was unfamiliar but nevertheless regarding it as an opportunity to test his video murder machines. Arcturus Rann, Devil, Microtorn, and Nanotron were digitally transported to an individual virtual world which resembled popular video games of

870-399: A male form to conceive him, with Destiny being the one who experienced the pregnancy and gave birth to him. Since his inception, Nightcrawler has had a regular presence in Marvel comic books. He has been featured in many video games , and a small number of the 1990s X-Men animated series episodes and was a regular on its successors, X-Men: Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men . He

957-453: A new Nightcrawler ongoing title commenced, written by Chris Claremont. This was also canceled with issue twelve. Nightcrawler starred in an ongoing book titled Way of X , written by Si Spurrier and illustrated by Bob Quinn. It was announced in January 2021 for an April 2021 debut as part of the X-Men line's Reign of X , following the conclusion of X of Swords crossover. It is billed as

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1044-529: A new chapel at Graymalkin Industries, the X-Men's new home and base of operations. During a training session in the Danger Room , he revealed he was trying to keep himself distracted because whenever he had time to think, he couldn't help but think of Kitty, how the X-Men didn't need him, and how Pixie was a better teleporter than he was. After battling (unsuccessfully) several simulated villains, he reprogrammed

1131-518: A part of the Fall of X , in which he would become the latest Spider-Man (Spinnenmann). Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge until puberty. Margali Szardos , a sorceress and a Manouche Roma queen, allegedly found Kurt an hour after his birth, in a small roadside shelter in the Black Forest with his father lying dead on

1218-595: A pawn in escaping his prison. Later , Nightcrawler served as the new leader of the Uncanny X-Men team alongside Wolverine, Bishop , Psylocke , Cannonball , and Marvel Girl . In the last mission against the Foursaken , Nightcrawler took his team (except for Wolverine) to Central Park. He later helped Storm liberate Africa from her uncle's control. Afterwards, Professor X recruited him, along with Darwin , Havok , Marvel Girl, Warpath , and Polaris , to participate in

1305-416: A picture of Angelina and Peter appearing in assorted tabloid newspapers. The three of them traveled to Russia , where they visited the cemetery where Peter's family is buried. Afterward, 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

1392-569: A ruse to infiltrate the Orchis base, and they freed Warlock , who had earlier been captured by Nimrod , and whose Technarchy virus had been used by Vulture to create the Hounds. Nightcrawler defeated Vulture and had Warlock purge him and the captive mutants of the Technarchy before they escaped, and Mystique parted ways with him once more to find Destiny. Kurt Wagner is a mutant whose primary mutant power

1479-572: A single location, Murderworld is the name given to the fairground/amusement park style deathtrap used by the assassin-for-hire Arcade . Utilizing sophisticated robotic and holographic systems, Arcade has frequently pitted various superheroes against Murderworld, sometimes for money and sometimes merely for the challenge. Arcade has built Murderworlds under Manhattan , on a Caribbean island, in Antarctica , in England , and numerous other locations around

1566-450: A smart, psychedelic tale about faith, science, culture, love and law. The series featured the return of Legion and the threat of Onslaught to the mutant nation. A one-shot titled X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation served as the finale of the first chapter of the series. In April 2023, it was announced that Wagner would star in a 5-issue miniseries entitled Uncanny Spider-Man , written by Spurrier and illustrated by Lee Garbett as

1653-468: A space mission to stop Vulcan from laying waste to the Shi'ar empire. During the battle with Vulcan, Nightcrawler helped get the injured Professor X and Darwin back to their spaceship. While there, trying to save Professor X, Lilandra sent the ship on its way back to Earth, leaving half the team behind. Kurt was still part of Professor X's team, helping Charles find Magneto before the government did, while

1740-548: A tactic designed to disable the super-Sentinel Nimrod backfired, and Kurt found himself at the mercies of an angry mob without his teleportation ability. He was rescued by Shadowcat, Colossus , and Magik but feared he had lost his ability for good. His power returned but left him drained and vulnerable when he used it, again leading to self-doubt about his value to the team. During the Mutant Massacre (the Marauders' assault on

1827-516: A toy store in New York City with Impossible Man where he sold lethal toys to unsuspecting customers. The Human Torch , Franklin Richards , and Leech battled Arcade's toys and closed his store. After realizing he was a joke among the super villain community and hitting rock bottom, Arcade decided to build massive island arena underground in Antarctica with the assistance of Miss Coriander. With

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1914-467: A virtual reality/dream realm Murderworld as long as Hercules would also be a prisoner. Together they created a labyrinth, but Deadpool was able to awake from the dream state by plunging a knife into his head severing the two hemispheres of his brain. To demonstrate his Murderworld arsenal to potential clients and to restore his reputation, Arcade captured the students from the Avengers Academy and

2001-445: Is a first-person shooter video game designed by Arcade and the source of his fortune. In the Age of X reality, Alcatraz Island was a prison for dangerous mutants . Governor Harcourt Teesdale served as the director-governor. Known to his inmates as Arcade, he created mutant-themed attractions to torture and punish prisoners, which earned Alcatraz the nickname "Murderworld". A mutant named

2088-471: Is subsequently attended by all the X-Men, including Cyclops' branch of the team. Despite the tensions between them, Nightcrawler stated that he wanted all of his family to be present. Nightcrawler later left the party to confront Mystique when she was successfully freeing Azazel. With Storm 's and Rachel 's encouragement, Nightcrawler accepted a teaching position at the Jean Grey School, where he formed

2175-753: Is the ability to teleport himself, his clothing, and a certain amount of additional mass from one point to another virtually instantaneously. He does this by displacing himself through an alternate dimension briefly and reappearing in a desired, pre-selected location. He has been shown to be able to teleport distances of up to two miles (3 km) under optimal conditions, although this is usually his outer limit, and he can become severely fatigued if he tries to teleport that distance; he has exceeded this limit on multiple occasions. In one case, he teleported somewhere over 50 mi (80 km). Via coordinates received telepathically from Professor Xavier, Nightcrawler has teleported an unknown (but presumably large) distance. In

2262-630: The Basilisk was used as an unwilling executioner for years until he was able to escape, murder Arcade, and free the mutants imprisoned there. When Deadpool started a superhuman killing spree, he captured and forced Arcade to build him a new Murderworld with deadlier traps than ever in order to kill the X-Men . Nightcrawler (comics) Nightcrawler is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , commonly in association with

2349-507: The Crazy Gang , Arcade kidnapped Courtney Ross because she escaped from his previous Murderworld. Arcade created a theatre and Wonderland inspired Murderworld called The Doorway to Destiny . However, Courtney Ross was rescued by Excalibur . Captain Britain and Shadowcat continued to have multiple run-ins with Arcade and his Murderworld. To kill Rictor and destroy X-Factor Investigations ,

2436-559: The Crimson Pirates , who acted on behalf of Tullamore Voge, over the custody of a young mutant named Ziggy Karst, who subsequently joined the Jean Grey School. Soon afterward, Nightcrawler and Bloody Bess were forced to fight against their fellow Crimson Pirates and X-Men, all mind-controlled by the resurrected Shadow King . The fight ended with the Pirates kidnapping Ziggy and Scorpion Boy and fatally stabbing Nightcrawler; but on his way to

2523-515: The German state of Bavaria . In 1994, it was revealed that Nightcrawler was the son of mutant supervillain Mystique / Raven Darkhölme , and for many years after a 2003 storyline, it was believed that he was born out of her short affair with Azazel . However, 2023's X-Men Blue: Origins revealed that his parents were actually Mystique and her wife Destiny / Irene Adler ; Mystique having shapeshifted into

2610-525: The Hellfire Gala . His activities as Spinnenmann are tracked by an Orchis facility run by Vulture , now calling himself Director Vulture after he upgraded his suit with a sample of the Technarchy. In addition, Kurt also became a target for Silver Sable and the Wild Pack . Kurt later battled Rhino , who was under the same mind-control technology that was used on him. Despite Silver Sable's interference, Kurt

2697-651: The Massacrer Casino where wealthy individuals can engage in a game of kill or be killed. This lasted until some of the survivors of Arena Murderworld tracked him down, and Hazmat killed him (this was later revealed to have been a clone of Arcade that was created by the Masters of Evil while the real Arcade was imprisoned in Bagalia by them). Realizing that mercenaries have less to fight for than heroes who always escape his traps, Arcade put out an ad for them and lured them into

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2784-638: The Morlock tunnels), this exhaustion left him vulnerable to an attack from Riptide , which injured him into a coma . While he recovers from these injuries, his fellow X-Men were apparently killed on a mission in Dallas . Not long after, Nightcrawler and teammates Shadowcat and Rachel Summers left to join Captain Britain in an adventure in the UK . They fought Gatecrasher's group of inter-dimensional mercenaries known as

2871-459: The Soulsword inside Nightcrawler's body. For a time, Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler express some resentment over the X-Men's failing to contact them after their supposed deaths. Following the wedding of Captain Britain and Meggan, Excalibur disbands and Nightcrawler returns to the X-Men with Shadowcat and Colossus. Yet, as soon as they return, they face a group of impostors following Cerebro , in

2958-550: The Technet . The heroes worked together so well, they decided to form a group they named Excalibur . Captain Britain originally assumed leadership of the group, but Nightcrawler gradually took over the responsibility. When Captain Britain's and Meggan 's relationship went through a rocky time, Nightcrawler became interested in Meggan, a feeling that was reciprocated but never consummated. During his time with Excalibur, he took charge of

3045-402: The X-Men . Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum , he debuted in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975). By the time of his creation, there was already another Marvel character with the same name, but with a hyphen (Night-Crawler), which was later changed to Dark-Crawler to avoid confusion. Nightcrawler, the superhero identity of Kurt Wagner , is a member of

3132-485: The Young Allies from New York City and pitted them against his Murderworld. Fortunately, by working together, the young heroes were able escape. Following the events of Necrosha , Arcade was hired by Mortis to capture her sister, Dazzler . To capture her, Arcade designed a concert hall and attacked her with robots versions of powerful supervillains. Although Arcade escaped, Mortis was captured. Arcade once opened

3219-417: The 2008 miniseries X-Infernus , Pixie summoned her Souldagger and stabbed Kurt in the chest, knocking him out. When Pixie removed her Souldagger, Magik's Soulsword emerged from his chest. Magik teleported away after taking out Pixie, Mercury , Rockslide , and Beast. Kurt woke up and stopped Pixie from going after her, and Pixie broke down and apologized for stabbing him. Later, the X-Men gathered and Kurt

3306-523: The Bavarian nobleman Baron Christian Wagner. Destiny, pretending to be Mystique's maid, eventually gave birth to Nightcrawler before Mystique fled with him to the nearby woods to escape attacking villagers. Azazel later found Nightcrawler, believing him to be his from an affair with Mystique, in the woods and gave him to his lover and crony, Margali Szardos, to raise him. This is retconned slightly in 2023's X-Men Blue: Origins , where Mystique hid Nightcrawler in

3393-475: The Danger Room to show Kitty. He confessed he was sorry he wasn't there for her and hugged the simulation and cried. The simulation of Kitty replied that she missed Kurt, too. Nightcrawler briefly believed that he no longer had a role with the X-Men, especially due to Pixie's abilities in teleporting. A trip back to Germany renewed his conviction through an encounter with a boy cursed by gypsies into demonic form,

3480-454: The Elder Gods, but not without losing four of the five Bloodstones. Furious at losing another part of her soul, Pixie fled. Being told by Illyana to let her go, Kurt consoled Magik about the theology of a soul, before she teleported them back to Earth. Kurt, along with Colossus, Cyclops, and the former New Mutants team, convinced her to stay with them and join the X-Men. After mutants rose from

3567-668: 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 US and rejoined the team, now living in San Francisco. Kurt, along with Wolverine and Karma ambushed the Hellfire Cult after a series of mutant related hate-crimes happened around San Francisco. He also took it upon himself to build

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3654-538: The Sorcerer and became lost in various dimensions, including the manifestation of a fairy tale his teammate Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) had once told to Illyana Rasputin (Magik). It was there that Nightcrawler first encountered the Bamfs , strange creatures that resembled miniature versions of himself and who would occasionally appear during some of his future adventures. Shortly after this, and once he had rejoined his teammates,

3741-497: The Technet, renaming them his 'N-Men', and he became romantically involved with his teammate Cerise before she left to stand trial before the Shi'ar . Later, his former girlfriend, Amanda Sefton, joined the team and the two continued their previous relationship. She left the team to take control of Limbo , a task that kept her away from Earth, but the two remained close friends. Fearing it would be stolen from her, Amanda magically hid

3828-591: The UAE (United Arab Emirates) to Antarctica , and again traveling over 2,900 mi (4,700 km) from the Czech Republic to Egypt . He possesses a limited unconscious extrasensory " spatial awareness " ability which prevents him from teleporting into solid objects within his immediate vicinity, but this ability diminishes the greater the distance he teleports. Because teleporting into other solid matter would cause severe injury or death, he will only teleport to an area he

3915-579: The X-Men traveled to Westchester when Cable and Hope were detected there. Nightcrawler's discovery of the lethal methods used by X-Force led to an argument between him and Cyclops. While teleporting during a battle with Bastion , Bastion extended his arm into the space in which Nightcrawler would materialize. Nightcrawler rematerialized around Bastion's arm, fusing with it. Though mortally wounded, he managed to teleport Hope to Utopia, telling her before expiring that he believed in her. Despite his death, Nightcrawler continued to aid his friends. When Wolverine

4002-487: The abandoned Murderworld as their base of operation. Together Night Thrasher, Kaz and Grace rebuild and converted the Murderworld mechanics into a new Danger Room for the new New Warriors to train. Years later, Kitty Pryde and Vision were trapped in the remains of this original Murderworld. They were brought there by the Murderworld mainframe, which had gained sentience and wanted to commit suicide. When working with

4089-550: The afterlife he was intercepted by Amanda, Wolverine and the Phoenix , who encouraged him to return. Together with Bess and the Bamfs, he traveled to Voge's interdimensional child slave market and rescued Ziggy and Scorpion Boy, battling Voge's henchmen and the Warwolves . In the end, they defeated Voge, breaking up his slavery racket, and returned the enslaved children, taking those orphaned by

4176-465: The castle, Kurt teleported the X-Men into the throne room. Once there, Witchfire turned Colossus and Wolverine against Mercury and Rockslide. Kurt noticed Illyana chained to a pillar, and she asked him to stab her with Pixie's Souldagger, as it was the only way and he was the only one to do it because he was attuned to magic. He apologized and stabbed her; at that moment Colossus punched Kurt, and Witchfire finished making her fifth and final Bloodstone from

4263-457: The character to be part of a group of characters called The Outsiders (not to be confused with the later team The Outsiders ), set in the universe of DC Comics ' Legion of Super-Heroes series. However, DC rejected the character, resulting in Cockrum importing him to Marvel after he began working on X-Men in 1975. Because editor Roy Thomas wanted the new X-Men to be a multinational group, it

4350-410: The children because he had recognized them as disguised demons.) When they were younger, Stefan made Kurt promise to kill him if he ever took an innocent life. Two nights after leaving the circus, Wagner found Stefan and fought him, hoping to stop his rampage. In the course of the struggle, Stefan was killed. The villagers of Winzeldorf, who assumed from Kurt's appearance that he was the one who killed

4437-447: The children, attacked. They were about to kill him when they were all psychically paralyzed by Professor Charles Xavier , who came to recruit Wagner into the X-Men. Before they left for America, he and Xavier went to the Bavarian circus to explain to Margali about Stefan's death, but Margali was not there . With the codename Nightcrawler, Wagner becomes a member of the X-Men. Margali held Wagner responsible for murdering Stefan and created

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4524-402: The circus' freak show . Jardine drugged him to prevent escape, but a young mutant child with the ability to sense other mutants helped Kurt escape. Appalled, Wagner left and made his way toward Winzeldorf, Germany, where his foster brother Stefan was. He discovered that Stefan had gone mad and brutally slain several children. (It has since been stated that Stefan did not actually go mad, but slew

4611-495: The circus' star acrobat and aerial artist. Circus audiences assumed that he was a normal-looking human wearing a devil-like costume. Years later, the Texas millionaire Amos Jardine, who ran a large circus based in Florida , heard of the circus for which Wagner worked and bought it. Jardine intended to move its best acts into his American circus; however, he demanded that Wagner be placed in

4698-486: The dead and attacked the island Utopia as part of the Necrosha storyline, Cyclops sent Nightcrawler to lead a team of X-Men consisting of Rogue, Trance, Magneto, Husk, Psylocke, Colossus, and Blindfold to investigate Muir Island. It was revealed that Proteus had been resurrected and had taken possession of Blindfold (who had the vision of going to Muir Island in the first place). In the 2010 " X-Men: Second Coming " storyline,

4785-446: The designs of the arena completed, Arcade exercised total control over the environment and terrain of his new Arena Murderworld. As the next part of his plan, he kidnapped sixteen superpowered teens and forced them into a 30-day game of kill or be killed. Unbeknownst the participants, their every move was being filmed. Several individuals died including Mettle , Red Raven , Juston Seyfert , Kid Briton , Nara , and Apex while

4872-801: The end found both Irene and Kurt gone. Years later, after Mystique found her in custody of Anna Marie , Irene revealed that her precognition had made her see Azazel conquering the world and killing all mutantkind, and that he would only be thwarted by a child he would presume to be his blood heir. Thus she told Margali where to find Kurt, to have him raised into the role as a hero. To resume their relationship for Anna Marie's sake, they asked Professor X to erase their memories of Bavaria, though Raven insisted on still being able to remember Kurt as her son. Upon this revelation, Kurt and Raven reconciled. Aware of Kurt and Sable's relationship, Vulture hired Wild Pack's second-in-command Kremer to capture Nightcrawler for Orchis. However, Nightcrawler, Sable and Mystique worked out

4959-426: The entire New X-Men team, is teleported to Muir Island by Pixie . He took part in the final battle. Still recovering from his injuries, Kurt traveled through Europe along with Wolverine and Colossus. Kurt and Wolverine were currently involved in a "war of pranks," as Peter called it. One of the many pranks involved Logan hacking into Kurt's image inducer to make him look like Angelina Jolie , which resulted in

5046-483: The first mutant since M-Day appeared, Cyclops sent Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Angel, Storm, and Colossus to find former Acolytes for information on the Marauders . It was predicted by Blindfold that Kurt would be seriously injured in the upcoming events, and indeed this came true when he was shot by the Marauder, Scalphunter . Kurt seemed to have nearly fully recovered from his injuries since he, along with Beast and

5133-482: The first visitors to Murderworld. Although they escaped and destroyed a large portion of Murderworld, Arcade vowed to rebuild it bigger and better than before. Hired by Black Tom and Juggernaut , Arcade was able to capture the X-Men off the streets of New York City to have them battle inside Murderworld. With some effort, the X-Men were able to escape and rescue Colleen Wing , Betsy Wilford , and Amanda Sefton , who had been captured alongside them. When Arcade

5220-500: The former Purifiers Mr. Taylor hired Arcade to build a Murderworld inside the closed Power Plant bar in the heart of Mutant Town . Although the members of X-Factor escaped, this Murderworld led to the complete destruction of Mutant Town. Using robot disguised as Kraven the Hunter , Arcade and White Rabbit captured Wolverine and Black Cat and released them on Murder Island where they were hunted by several millionaires who paid for

5307-400: The guise of Professor X. Wanting to devote more time to the priesthood, Nightcrawler shares team leadership with Archangel . However, his work as a priest is retconned to be an illusion; he had, in fact, never attained priesthood. He has also met his half-brothers Nils Styger, alias Abyss , and Kiwi Black . With them, Nightcrawler defeated his father Azazel , who had tried to use him as

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5394-574: The mutant colony of Krakoa was established, Kurt was given a position on the council, helping to shape the laws of this new mutant society. However, Kurt's religious concerns led him to decide to form a mutant religion. During the " Fall of X " in light of Orchis ' attack on Krakoa, Nightcrawler assumed the identity of the Uncanny Spider-Man (Spinnenmann) after he gained a spare suit from Spider-Man following Orchis' previous brainwashing on him to assassinate some heads of state and Orchis' attack on

5481-463: The new base of operations for X-Force . Murderworld provided a secure base and training area underground, but still offered access to Manhattan making an ideal headquarters. Not long after X-Force took up residency in Murderworld, Arcade remotely detonated explosives hidden within it, destroying most of the structure. When Night Thrasher reformed the New Warriors with depowered mutants , he used

5568-501: The now demonic Pixie. The fact, however, that Colossus and Wolverine hadn't killed him made Kurt realize they were not fully under her control. Using Pixie's Dagger, Kurt then pulled Illyana's Soulsword from her and used it to free Wolverine and Colossus of Witchfire's control. However, the demon managed to use the Bloodstones to summon the Elder Gods. Through their combined efforts, the X-Men and Magik managed to banish both Witchfire and

5655-659: The opportunity to hunt the world's most dangerous game. After destroying the Kraven robot and facing many of the island's perils, Wolverine and Black Cat escape and capture Arcade and White Rabbit, and, as revenge, they leave the pair stranded in the Savage Land . Years later, Arcade gave this island to Miss Coriander, who renamed the isle Coriander Island . When Arcade's assassination business began to suffer because of Deadpool stealing his customers, Arcade teamed-up with Nightmare to get revenge. Nightmare agreed to help Arcade create

5742-766: The periphery rather than actually joining the heavenly choir. When Azazel mounted an attack on Heaven using his connection to Kurt as a door, Nightcrawler instructed a few Bamfs to create a portal to Heaven inside the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning , allowing him to summon the X-Men to aid him in his fight. Having gathered his friends, Kurt used the Bamfs and his connection to Azazel to restore himself to life back on Earth, thus preventing Azazel from attacking Heaven again by tying them both together, although this resulted in Kurt sacrificing his own soul to ensure that Azazel would not be able to return to Heaven. His 'Welcome Back' party

5829-412: The process that not Azazel, but Mystique herself was his father and Destiny his actual mother; his likeness to Azazel came about due to Raven's assimilation of Azazel's genes. When her mutant identity was revealed right after Kurt's birth, she fled with Kurt on Irene's urging, only to find the mob chasing her going back for Irene. Leaving Kurt at the base of a tree, she rushed back to save her love, but in

5916-590: The rest of the team searched for the Morlocks . In the 2005 " House of M " storyline, Nightcrawler was part of Wolverine's S.H.I.E.L.D. team and helped Mystique track him down. After his memory returned, he assisted in the final confrontation against Magneto. Upon their return to the true reality, he rapidly teleported around the mansion to find Wolverine on Cyclops' orders, as both men worried that Wolverine would have lost his powers and therefore be vulnerable to metal poisoning caused by his adamantium skeleton. When

6003-439: The road outside. However, this claim was later called into question, and it was subsequently proven that Kurt was the child of Mystique (also known as Raven Darkholme). In a 2003 story, the mutant Azazel was canonically established as Nightcrawler's biological father. However, this was retconned twenty years later. Instead, Mystique impregnated Destiny but changed her body to mimic the pregnancy's progression in order to fool

6090-713: The slavers into the school. During the 2016 " Civil War II " storyline, both Storm and Magneto were having a conflict on their own to save mutantkind from the Terrigen Mist . Storm and the other X-Men who followed her decision to support Captain Marvel 's side, to require the Inhumans ' help to solve their kinds' extinction from breathing that mist. Nightcrawler decided to join Magneto and Iron Man's side. He later joined Kitty Pryde's mutant school. He eventually developed romantic feelings for his longtime friend and teammate Rachel. When

6177-525: The survivors were left physically, emotionally, and psychologically scared. The survivors vowed to never share the secrets of their experience in Murderworld with anyone. However, Arcade released his footage of Murderworld onto the internet making the survivors reluctant celebrities. After releasing the videos of his Arena Murderworld, Arcade went into hiding in Bagalia as revealed in the pages of Avengers Undercover . To pass time and raise funds, Arcade opened

6264-471: The time. The Micronauts were eventually able to escape when Microtron hacked into the system, although Arcade would himself escape. The method in which they were abducted and the nature of this environment is reminiscent of the then recent 1982 film Tron . Game designer Lawrence Schick referred to Murderworld as "a twisted playground for assassination". In the Ultimate Marvel reality, Murderworld

6351-606: The title Murderworld . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murderworld&oldid=978919028 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Murderworld (comics) Murderworld first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #66 (February, 1978). Rather than being

6438-572: The tricks of working her way through an RPG with record speed, especially after she killed the shopkeeper-robot who offered to sell them dungeon raiding equipment and just took what she wanted, including their own gear. A good thing since Deadpool and, according to Arcade, many other mercenaries had been trapped and died there over a long period of time. After a brief misunderstanding with Deadpool she quickly led him and her team to Arcade's hiding place and took him down. At one time, Arcade experimented with what he called "video murder machines". He would use

6525-435: The woods to go back and rescue Destiny, only to find Destiny gone and Nightcrawler taken upon her return. Destiny likewise implies that she informed Margali of Nightcrawler's location. Margali took the newborn Nightcrawler to a small Bavarian circus named Herr Getmann's Traveling Menagerie where she worked as a fortune teller as a cover for her activities as a sorceress. Nightcrawler was never legally adopted by anyone, but he

6612-532: The world. The first known Murderworld was built underground beneath an amusement park in Manhattan . A large portion of this Murderworld was a large scale pinball machine used as a prelude to shake up his victims, but it also contained trapdoors, mazes, booby traps, and a variety of killer robotics. When the Maggia hired Arcade as an assassin, Spider-Man , Captain Britain and his love interest Courtney Ross became

6699-581: Was able to defeat Rhino. Nightcrawler then took up the name of Creepy Crawler when he was targeted by Orchis Hounds who consist of the Technarchy-possessed Animax, Cloak and Dagger , Fatale, Feral , and Reaper. It was also during this time that he started an affair with Silver Sable, and he also encountered Mystique, whose memory had been warped by Professor X, tormenting her with guilt over her loss of Kurt right after his birth. Nightcrawler managed to restore Mystique's full memory, learning in

6786-520: Was captured by Doctor Doom , the reserve X-Men Iceman , Havok , Polaris and Banshee travelled to Murderworld to rescue several hostages taken by Arcade's aide Ms. Locke. Despite Ms. Locke and Mr. Chamber's efforts, the X-Men were again able to escape. Mystique later made a deal with Arcade to use Murderworld as training ground for her Brotherhood of Mutants . Shadowcat and Colossus found themselves trapped in Murderworld once when Arcade recruited them to save his life from Doctor Doom. However, Doom

6873-473: Was decided to make Nightcrawler German. Although an X-Men character for years, Nightcrawler did not get his own comic book title (written and drawn by Cockrum) until November 1985. In the four-issue limited series Nightcrawler , along with Lockheed , accidentally travel to several alternate dimensions , meeting strange beings such as the Bamfs . After various adventures, Nightcrawler and Lockheed manage to get home safely. A second four-issue limited series

6960-549: Was extended after his revival both due to outside assistance and a later enhancement to his powers, thanks to a deal he made with a demonic race of Bamfs loaned to him by Azazel. Nightcrawler can warp greater distances by locking onto them as a form of waypoint marker to teleport longer distances, even trans-dimensional ones. Beyond the use of his own demonic companions Kurt can now seemingly transport himself longer distances without tiring, be they local or continental in range, having teleported over 7,800 mi (13,000 km) from

7047-518: Was portrayed by Alan Cumming in the feature film X2 (2003), while Kodi Smit-McPhee played a younger version of Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018) and Dark Phoenix (2019). Dave Cockrum originally created Nightcrawler while he was in the United States Navy , stationed at Guam . He recounted: "I sat up one night in the middle of a typhoon because it

7134-485: Was possessed by Hellverine , Nightcrawler entered his friend's mind to help him drive out the invader. The other X-Men who entered Logan's mind to help him assumed that Nightcrawler was just a manifestation of Wolverine's mind, rather than the real one. Nightcrawler spent his sojourn in Heaven alongside Professor X, but despite enjoying paradise, Nightcrawler continued to feel as though he had unfinished business, remaining on

7221-478: Was published in November 2002. Written by Chris Kipiniak and penciled by Matthew Dow Smith , it focuses upon Nightcrawler's decision to become a priest and his attempts to fight a group of slave traders. In September 2004, the first Nightcrawler ongoing title was published by Marvel, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa with covers and pencils by Darick Robertson . The series was canceled with issue twelve. In 2014,

7308-402: Was put in charge of a team of X-Men to go help save Magik. Upon entering Limbo, Kurt, Mercury, Colossus, Rockslide, Pixie, and Wolverine fought their way through many demons. Pixie, Mercury, and Rockslide were horrified at how brutal the older X-Men were towards the demons. An octopus-type creature attacked Kurt until Pixie jumped in and killed it with her Souldagger. Hearing the screams from

7395-445: Was raised by all the members of the circus, who had no prejudices against mutants, except for the ringmaster, Herr Max Getmann. However, Margali took up the role of Nightcrawler's unofficial foster mother. Kurt grew up happily in the circus, and his two closest friends were Margali's son Stefan and daughter Jimaine. Long before his teleportation power emerged, Wagner had tremendous natural agility, and by his adolescence, he had become

7482-645: Was revealed to a robot controlled by Miss Locke, who was allowed to try and kill Arcade on his birthday. Nightcrawler had to infiltrate Murderworld once when Arcade abducted and trapped Judith Rassendyl, the heiress to the royal throne of Ruritania . The original X-Factor had to brave the hazards Murderworld once to save the mutant son of Arcade's therapist. Courtney Ross was later again trapped in Murderworld, but she managed to escape death thanks to Excalibur's help and her own newly discovered talent at improvised comedy. After leaving Camp Verde , Cable and Domino decided to use Arcade's abandoned Murderworld as

7569-485: Was too noisy to sleep, so I stayed up and thought up this character. Originally, Nightcrawler was a demon from Hell who had flubbed a mission, and rather than go back and face punishment, he decided to stay up here in the human world. He was supposed to be the sidekick of another superhero character that I had created named The Intruder." At this point Nightcrawler wore trunks instead of a full costume, but otherwise looked identical to his final version. Cockrum submitted

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