Who is Nightcrawler's family?
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:44 am
Here is a brief rundown of Nightcrawler's presntly known relatives:
Raven Darkhölme (Mystique, biological mother)
Margali Szardos (foster mother)
Azazel (biological father)
Amanda Sefton (Magik II, alias Jimaine Szardos, foster sister)
Stefan Szardos (foster brother, deceased)
Graydon Creed (half-brother, deceased)
Rogue (foster sister)
and now more in depth info on them...
<b>Azazel</b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/kurtsdad.jpg" align="left">
this is Nightcrawler's biological father, as revealed inUncanny X-Men #428...
http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1677
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<B>Raven Darkhölme - Mystique</B>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/mystique.jpg" align="left">Mystique is Nightcrawler's biological mother. She gave birth to kurt while married to a German nobleman, possibly named Eric Wagner, who died under mysterious circumstances. She abandoned Kurt shortly after birth, for reasons which have as of yet not become entirely clear. The most likely explanation seems to be she was attempting to save her own life from villagers angered over the birth of a 'demon' by thier esteemed 'countess' by sacraficing that of her infant son, who she threw over a waterfall, adopting the guise of a villager to throw them off her trail.
Shortly after, she encountered Sabretooth, who offered her free passage to Canada in exchange for...'favours'... Mystique, desperate to begin a new life, agreed. She then quickly manipulated the situation to her own ends, which resulted in Sabretooth's capture. But not before she became pregnant with Graydon Creed.
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<b>Margali Szardos </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/margaliszardos.jpg" align="left">A soceress of the highest caliber, and protector of the Winding Way, whose origin and early history have yet to be completely revealed. Szardos lived in a gypsy community in Germany and central Europe. There, she had a son, Stefan, and a daughter, Jimaine. Szardos also took in the orphaned young mutant named Kurt Wagner. Szardos raised the children in a small Bavarian circus, where she pretended to be a simple fortune teller. Whilst Wagner worked on becoming a circus performer, Szardos trained Jimaine in the arts of magic. The brooding Stefan eventually left the circus to make his own way in life.
Margali blamed Wagner for Stefan's death. on Kurt's 21st birthday, she put an enchantment on him which sent him to a pocket dimension resembling Dante's description of Hell. Jimaine, who had been watching Kurt while in the guise of Amanda Sefton, managed to convince Margali of Kurt's innocence and Margali forgave him.
Margali is a practitioner of the magical discipline known as the "Winding Way", a mystical path of power that grants those who follow it periods of supreme power and extreme weakness. Margali sought to ascend through its ranks quickly. She learned of an ancient demon buried beneath the city of London, England, and sought to claim its power for herself. To that end, she joined the Inner Circle of the London branch of the enigmatic Hellfire Club as its Red Queen, and manipulated them into unleashing the demon. The Hellfire Club were thwarted by Excalibur.
Amanda, who had gained posession of the mystical Soul Sword, entrusted it Margali, bonding it to her for safekeeping, unaware that Margali would then use the sword to kill the sorcerers ahead of her on the Winding Way. In a period of weakness on the Winding Way, Margali was captured by Limbo's then-ruler, Belasco, who took the Soulsword. From within her mystic prison, Margali was still able to switch her mind with that of Amanda's. With the help of Nightcrawler, Margali, in Amanda's body, rescued Amanda's mind in Margali's tortured body. The three then defeated Belasco and his demonic servant S'ym, the Soulsword was seemingly lost in the encounter. Feeling his time of weakness on the Winding Way beginning, Belasco fled. Margali apologized to her daughter, reversed the mind switch, and teleported away. Amanda was subsequently left in charge of Limbo.
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<b>Amanda Sefton aka Magik II, alias Jimaine Szardos </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/daytripper.jpg" align="left">Jimaine Szardos is the second born of Margali. Growing up in her mother's circus in Bavaria, Germany, it was there she first met young Kurt Wagner, a young orphaned mutant who had been adopted by her mother. Whilst Kurt was trained in acrobatics, Jimaine was trained in magic. The pair fell in love, but were separated when Kurt was recruited to join the X-Men. Eventually, Jimaine moved to the states and started calling herself Amanda Sefton, an airline stewardess. Hiding her true identity from Kurt so she could learn the truth regarding the death of her brother, Stefan. Her romantic relationship with Kurt has been on again off again since then, they are currently not together. As a member of Excaliber she used the code name DayTripper. Now as protector of Limbo she has taken on the mantle of Magik.
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<b>Stefan Szardos</b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/stefan.jpg" align="left">Stefan is the first born of Margali, and Kurt's foster brother. The two boys were very close while growing up. Stefan feared turning to the Dark power that was in him, and had Kurt swear a blood oath tho stop him if he ever did anything evil. Stefan left the circus to seek his own way in life shortly after. After the circus was sold to a wealthy American buisnessman who wished to place Kurt in a freak show, Kurt left to find his brother. He found him in Winzeldorf, Germany. Stefan had been killing a local group of children, who he believed where demons. (It would later be revealed that the children were in fact demons. Yet, they were not evil creatures. Stefan consummed by his mad visions did not know this.) Kurt tried to stop his killing spree, and inadvertantly killed Stefan while struggling with him.
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<b>Graydon Creed </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/graydoncreed.jpg" align="left">
Graydon is Kurt's half-brother, related by way of Mystique. Graydon was raised by Mystique until it became aparent that he was not a mutant despite having 2 mutant parents, and she then abandoned him. Graydon developed an intense hatred of mutants and formed the Friends of Humanity. Graydon learned of Nightcrawler's relation to him and lured him to a meeting where he intended to kill him, along with Rogue. Creed taunted Kurt with knowledge of his family before attempting to kill him. the fight went... badly for Creed and Nightcrawler took his place with the help of his image inducer and confronted Mystique, where he learned the story of his abandonment.
Creed was later killed in the Zero Tolerance storyline, aparentlly by Bastion, during his presidential campaign speech by a plasma beam which disintegrated him. It was later revealed that the blast was fired by a future version of Mystique who been sent back in time to ensure her son's death.
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<b>Rogue </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/roguenc.jpg" align="left">She could be considered almost as a foster-sister. Mystique is not Rogue's true mother, she only raised Rogue to add her to the ranks of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. However, Rogue's inability to control her mutant powers soon made her leave Mystique's side and join the ranks of the X-Men. Rogue learned of Mystique's relation to Nightcrawler, and therefore her semi-relationto him at the same time that he did, though they have never been shown to talk about this, strangely enough.
Rogue is currently with the X-Men.
for information on Kurts Alternate Reality children, such as Nocturne, see this thread: http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2217
Raven Darkhölme (Mystique, biological mother)
Margali Szardos (foster mother)
Azazel (biological father)
Amanda Sefton (Magik II, alias Jimaine Szardos, foster sister)
Stefan Szardos (foster brother, deceased)
Graydon Creed (half-brother, deceased)
Rogue (foster sister)
and now more in depth info on them...
<b>Azazel</b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/kurtsdad.jpg" align="left">
this is Nightcrawler's biological father, as revealed inUncanny X-Men #428...
http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1677
<hr>
<B>Raven Darkhölme - Mystique</B>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/mystique.jpg" align="left">Mystique is Nightcrawler's biological mother. She gave birth to kurt while married to a German nobleman, possibly named Eric Wagner, who died under mysterious circumstances. She abandoned Kurt shortly after birth, for reasons which have as of yet not become entirely clear. The most likely explanation seems to be she was attempting to save her own life from villagers angered over the birth of a 'demon' by thier esteemed 'countess' by sacraficing that of her infant son, who she threw over a waterfall, adopting the guise of a villager to throw them off her trail.
Shortly after, she encountered Sabretooth, who offered her free passage to Canada in exchange for...'favours'... Mystique, desperate to begin a new life, agreed. She then quickly manipulated the situation to her own ends, which resulted in Sabretooth's capture. But not before she became pregnant with Graydon Creed.
<hr>
<b>Margali Szardos </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/margaliszardos.jpg" align="left">A soceress of the highest caliber, and protector of the Winding Way, whose origin and early history have yet to be completely revealed. Szardos lived in a gypsy community in Germany and central Europe. There, she had a son, Stefan, and a daughter, Jimaine. Szardos also took in the orphaned young mutant named Kurt Wagner. Szardos raised the children in a small Bavarian circus, where she pretended to be a simple fortune teller. Whilst Wagner worked on becoming a circus performer, Szardos trained Jimaine in the arts of magic. The brooding Stefan eventually left the circus to make his own way in life.
Margali blamed Wagner for Stefan's death. on Kurt's 21st birthday, she put an enchantment on him which sent him to a pocket dimension resembling Dante's description of Hell. Jimaine, who had been watching Kurt while in the guise of Amanda Sefton, managed to convince Margali of Kurt's innocence and Margali forgave him.
Margali is a practitioner of the magical discipline known as the "Winding Way", a mystical path of power that grants those who follow it periods of supreme power and extreme weakness. Margali sought to ascend through its ranks quickly. She learned of an ancient demon buried beneath the city of London, England, and sought to claim its power for herself. To that end, she joined the Inner Circle of the London branch of the enigmatic Hellfire Club as its Red Queen, and manipulated them into unleashing the demon. The Hellfire Club were thwarted by Excalibur.
Amanda, who had gained posession of the mystical Soul Sword, entrusted it Margali, bonding it to her for safekeeping, unaware that Margali would then use the sword to kill the sorcerers ahead of her on the Winding Way. In a period of weakness on the Winding Way, Margali was captured by Limbo's then-ruler, Belasco, who took the Soulsword. From within her mystic prison, Margali was still able to switch her mind with that of Amanda's. With the help of Nightcrawler, Margali, in Amanda's body, rescued Amanda's mind in Margali's tortured body. The three then defeated Belasco and his demonic servant S'ym, the Soulsword was seemingly lost in the encounter. Feeling his time of weakness on the Winding Way beginning, Belasco fled. Margali apologized to her daughter, reversed the mind switch, and teleported away. Amanda was subsequently left in charge of Limbo.
<hr>
<b>Amanda Sefton aka Magik II, alias Jimaine Szardos </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/daytripper.jpg" align="left">Jimaine Szardos is the second born of Margali. Growing up in her mother's circus in Bavaria, Germany, it was there she first met young Kurt Wagner, a young orphaned mutant who had been adopted by her mother. Whilst Kurt was trained in acrobatics, Jimaine was trained in magic. The pair fell in love, but were separated when Kurt was recruited to join the X-Men. Eventually, Jimaine moved to the states and started calling herself Amanda Sefton, an airline stewardess. Hiding her true identity from Kurt so she could learn the truth regarding the death of her brother, Stefan. Her romantic relationship with Kurt has been on again off again since then, they are currently not together. As a member of Excaliber she used the code name DayTripper. Now as protector of Limbo she has taken on the mantle of Magik.
<hr>
<b>Stefan Szardos</b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/stefan.jpg" align="left">Stefan is the first born of Margali, and Kurt's foster brother. The two boys were very close while growing up. Stefan feared turning to the Dark power that was in him, and had Kurt swear a blood oath tho stop him if he ever did anything evil. Stefan left the circus to seek his own way in life shortly after. After the circus was sold to a wealthy American buisnessman who wished to place Kurt in a freak show, Kurt left to find his brother. He found him in Winzeldorf, Germany. Stefan had been killing a local group of children, who he believed where demons. (It would later be revealed that the children were in fact demons. Yet, they were not evil creatures. Stefan consummed by his mad visions did not know this.) Kurt tried to stop his killing spree, and inadvertantly killed Stefan while struggling with him.
<hr>
<b>Graydon Creed </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/graydoncreed.jpg" align="left">
Graydon is Kurt's half-brother, related by way of Mystique. Graydon was raised by Mystique until it became aparent that he was not a mutant despite having 2 mutant parents, and she then abandoned him. Graydon developed an intense hatred of mutants and formed the Friends of Humanity. Graydon learned of Nightcrawler's relation to him and lured him to a meeting where he intended to kill him, along with Rogue. Creed taunted Kurt with knowledge of his family before attempting to kill him. the fight went... badly for Creed and Nightcrawler took his place with the help of his image inducer and confronted Mystique, where he learned the story of his abandonment.
Creed was later killed in the Zero Tolerance storyline, aparentlly by Bastion, during his presidential campaign speech by a plasma beam which disintegrated him. It was later revealed that the blast was fired by a future version of Mystique who been sent back in time to ensure her son's death.
<hr>
<b>Rogue </b>
<img src="http://nightscrawlers.com/faq/roguenc.jpg" align="left">She could be considered almost as a foster-sister. Mystique is not Rogue's true mother, she only raised Rogue to add her to the ranks of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. However, Rogue's inability to control her mutant powers soon made her leave Mystique's side and join the ranks of the X-Men. Rogue learned of Mystique's relation to Nightcrawler, and therefore her semi-relationto him at the same time that he did, though they have never been shown to talk about this, strangely enough.
Rogue is currently with the X-Men.
for information on Kurts Alternate Reality children, such as Nocturne, see this thread: http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2217