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History:
Nightcrawler was born as Kurt Wagner in the Bavarian Alps. His father, Erik Wagner, was a Count. His mother was Raven Darkholme, or Mystique, in disguise. When he was born, his appearance shocked and terrified everyone. To escape, his mother revealed her true form. After being chased, she decided to change into a villager to fool them. She told them that the mutant woman had jumped to her death. However, this was not enough. They wanted the child dead also and so she throw him over a cliff.
{Most of the previous part of the story was told to Nightcrawler by his “half-brother” Graydon Creed in a comic book (I will add the issue and # soon, I own it, but I don’t have it with me at college so I will look it up when I get home ) }
He miraculously did not die, but was found by Margali Szardos. Margali was a part of a group of traveling gypsies. She adopted him and when he was old enough, he joined their circus. There he became an incredible acrobat, working with “sister” and future love Jemaine Szardos (Daytripper). When a new owner asked Kurt to be in the “freak show”, he was appalled and left. He went to Winzeldorf to find friend and “brother” Stefan Szardos. He found Stefan, supposedly insane. Stefan had been murdering children (the children were said to be creatures of some sort in a later issue, I will re-read it to find out for sure). While trying to stop Stefan, Kurt accidentally killed him. He was then alone, upset, and confused.
The villagers, upon seeing Kurt, blamed him for all of the deaths. After being chased relentlessly for hours, Kurt decided to give up, and jump into the crowd. Instead of killing him, the villagers stop, as if they were frozen. There in the middle with Kurt, approached Charles Xavier. Xavier mentally stopped the villagers from killing Kurt. Xavier was in search for mutants to form a new team of X-Men, to save the original team.
Kurt Wagner agreed and accompanied Xavier to the United States, joining the team. Once there, he was mentally taught English and sent to save the original team. On that mission he developed his power of teleportation. Once rescued, the original team joined with the new members. “What are we going to do with 13 X-Men” (I believe that quote was from Cyclops at the end, but I could be wrong, it has been awhile since I have read it)
(The second part was from Giant Size X-Men #1 )
After years of being an X-Men, Kurt was injured during a mission and sent to Muir Island. The rest of the X-Men (minus himself and Kitty Pryde) were soon rumored dead. Nightcrawler and Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) then formed Excalibur with the Pheonix (Rachel, not Jean), Captain Britain, and Meggan. Excalibur became known as the European X-Men and remained so many years after the X-Men returned (not actually dead, as rumored).
(The third part was from Excalibur #1 )
Excalibur has recently disbanded (after the marriage of Brian and Meggan) and Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Colossus (who joined Excalibur later on after his return from being a bad guy) return to help their original team, the X-Men.
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