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I have not read Age of Apocolypse, but I know the general story. :aoa

I believe if Darkholme joins UXF, it would really add depth. Wolverine & Kurt would have to develop a completely new relationship, which would be hard for Wolverine since there is always the still lingering shadow of Nightcrawler 616. Also, AoA is a perfect neutral piece for Deadpool (who always needs to crack jokes) and Fantomex (who is a black humorist even without trying to be sometimes). Kurt is a good funny, even if he isn't 'telling jokes'. So I'm pumped...
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This entire undertaking has almost the majority of Elf fans teeming and cuddling with anticipation. TOM BREVOORT YOU BEST BE wathing this!!
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This entire undertaking has almost the majority of Elf fans teeming and cuddling with anticipation.
Majority? Really? I visit other forums and what I am mostly seeing is sorta pissed Nightcrawler fans that understand that this means that 616 Nightcrawler may never return. Some are happy to have Kurt back in any form but will readily admit he's not really an adequate substitute. Just accept that not all Crawler fans agree this is a good thing.
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Ult_Sm86 wrote:TOM BREVOORT YOU BEST BE wathing this!!
Why him? It's not like he edits the X-titles. Nick Lowe's the one who needs the beating with the happy-swashbuckler-Kurt-fans-need-love-too stick.
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Indigo_Lady wrote:
This entire undertaking has almost the majority of Elf fans teeming and cuddling with anticipation.
Majority? Really? I visit other forums and what I am mostly seeing is sorta pissed Nightcrawler fans that understand that this means that 616 Nightcrawler may never return. Some are happy to have Kurt back in any form but will readily admit he's not really an adequate substitute. Just accept that not all Crawler fans agree this is a good thing.
I have to agree there - not everyone is excited because it isn't the original Kurt and there are going to be several obvious differences as the storylines progress. I can totally see not everyone would be happy and to be honest I'd find it weird if everyone was, as it is kind of a contraversial move.

Personally, it's going to be really interesting to see Darkholme in the comics and I am looking forward to it, but he's not the original Nightcrawler so I'm not WOO Kurt is back, I'm WOO AoA Kurt is going to be here. I liked his character in general, the X-Calibre mini was about the only thing I actually enjoyed in AoA and I think he'd be a really interesting fit to X-Force.

But, is it the same as getting the real Elf back? Sadly not, but as I've been loving this book and I enjoy the treatment of the characters so far, I'm going to trust the writer. I do just hope the original 'Crawler still comes back to us one day.
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I'm sure the original 616 Nightcrawler will be back...someday. It's just the way of comics. However, for now, replacing him with AoA Nighcrawler is preferable to a resurrection, IMO. Not just because AoA is my personal favorite, but because we're still too close to all the baggage and weirdness and such that happened in the years before they killed 616 Nightcrawler off.

Basically, I feel that Nightcrawler needs a "reroll" in order to come back in a way that allows for original and interesting stories. Like we were saying over in the X-Force thread, shedding the baggage and overly complex history, concentrating on the character's core, and rounding characters out makes for excellent storytelling, and this is an opportunity to do it with Nightcrawler by using one that already doesn't have all that stuff.

This version gets to start fresh. I think that's the best idea.
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I agree, C.

I think an interesting way for Kurt to come back too would be what was mentioned earlier (for get who) with replacing Wagner's spirit within Darkholme's body. I imagine anyone from Magik to Hope could pull that off. It'd be nice if it was later down the road.

In my head, I imagine Darkholme and Wagner walking by eachother and having a friendly exchange in some plane-of-non-existence and Darkholme just saying thank you to Wagner for letting him learn how to be happy again and how to embrace new friends and Wagner thanking Darkholme for being there for his friends when eh couldn't.

And then, over time, Darkholme's eye-wound would heal as a sort of physical-metaphor of Wagner's soul/character healing within as well.

That's jsut me though. :blush
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The mark over Darkholme's eye is a tattoo, not a wound. And I can't imagine anyone being ok with just giving up their body....
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It is a tattoo? Strange I was explained it was a scar.


You know what, it technically is if it's a cheap enough tattoo ;)


And I don't think it's a matter of "giving up his body". I would think maybe some kind of brain injury or something and Magik does her thing to escort one soul to the beyond and bring in the other who is ready to return.
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A lot of AoA characters had similar tattoos. And how would moving another soul into his body repair a brain (or any other type) injury, exactly?
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Like I said, it would be a metaphor. Mostly so people could get their old Kurt back.

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I would like to have AoA in UXF as much as possible, but once that ship has sailed, a "soul transfer" makes sense as a rebirth of the Nightcrawler we've all grown to love and admire. I'm fine with him staying dead though; I believe bringing characters back from the dead makes death's meaning mute point.
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Fraction said as much after the initial death as well. He made the point that "if death makes sense, then why is it sad?"

If Kurt dies and doesn't come back, it gets the right effect. I suppose.

But you're right, they should use Darkholme as much as possible. Maybe even outside of UXF. I'd love to see him go up against some villains side-by-side with Wolverine.
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I'm not going to take anything Fraction has to say about Nightcrawler's death too seriously, given how he (as well as many other people at Marvel) came across as treating Nightcrawler's death way too flippantly. If the death means so little to them, why should it mean anything to us?

That being said, keeping licensed characters dead is a poor business move all around, which is why they shouldn't kill them off in the first place. Except Jean, but that's because dying and coming back is what Phoenixes do. Even then, they should do that very sparingly instead of stuffing her in Cyclops' refrigerator every year.
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I don't see how anyone treated Nightcrawler's death flippantly. He's had more mentions and been more active in stories DEAD than he was alive. Wolverine specifically seems to mention and think about him very very often.

Fraction did a horrific job with the funeral, but that was the one issue. Nightcrawler was still the hero of SC, and his PRESENCE has not left the books in the year he was gone.

You can't expect every issue to be "boo hoo, Kurt is gone. Woe is us," but he's gotten more of that than any other recent death I can think of. If anything, Sack fans should be up in arms. Or fans of Toad's finger. But in all seriousness, his death was felt, and it was poignant, and if you take the time to read the books with an open mind (and not a "They killed my fav, rah!" bitter mind) you will see that.

Oy, can't believe he's dead over a year and this is still a point of contention.

And I'm not sure what the Jean comment is? Stuffing her in Cyke's refrigerator every year? Jean's been dead nearly a decade, I'm pretty sure, and I think before this recent death she'd died only once? MAYBE twice, I really am not 100% sure of this. There's plenty to complain about in comics, we don't have to go making stuff up to be upset over ;).

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I don't think it was poignant. I thought it was a bit corny, way too over the top with the faux-religious parallels, and it was stupid and unnecessary considering Nightcrawler would know better than to deliberately come between an enemy and his target when he could have rescued the girl just as quickly without putting himself in harm's way. I could chalk up a fatal mistake to being tired, but I don't find it particularly heroic.

Plus it was an obvious marketing gimmick that failed to live up to the hype. The death didn't save the world, didn't even save San Francisco, and wasn't even necessary to fulfill the mission.

As for the fallout, it was lacking not because I don't think Kurt should have been mentioned more, but because most of the mention was all talk and no action. Storm should have done much more than just give Cyclops a scolding that took place entirely off panel. And Schism should have started a whole year earlier. But because Nightcrawler is a licensed character sand the whole subject of major character death in comics has become a big joke anyway, the fact remains that he should not have died in the first place.

I was also referring to a point way back when when, if I remember correctly, Jean died and came back often enough that nobody can even quite keep count, and it pretty much became a joke. I will not deny that maybe I'm remebering it wrong, but you don't need to accuse me of making stuff up.
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I'm with Nacht. If anything was a joke it was Kurt as a whole. He became a verse quoting character, and a lot of readers hate to read those.

However; the Marvel people aren't ignorant to a fanbase and just 'cause they kiled a character doesn't mean they disrespect those fans. In fact, I think it's quite the opposite. I think by bringing in Darkholme they're making it very clear that they know what the X-Fans want and that's a swashbuckling, action-packed Kurt, a Nightcrawler everyone is excited to see pop up in a panel 'cause that means shit just hit the fan.
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So Uncanny X-Force #14 came out yesterday. Good stuff. No Nightcrawler...or was there?

At the end of issue 13, AoA Jean cast the team back through the portal into the 616 universe. Immediately, I went "Wait! Did Darkholme come, too?" Then issue 14 came out and...no. He didn't. Probably.

Well, this means one of two things: The team will revisit the AoA reality for some reason within the next few months OR we just didn't see Darkholme come through. The second is possible because he could have 'ported immediately upon arriving on the 616 side of the portal. He is a shadowblender and teleporter, after all.

Plus, on the last page of issue 14, we have this:

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That might be a lamp or something but...
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Rick Remender was sort of curious as to why we thought Kurt Darkholme was the Nightcrawler in the promo.


But Marvel loves to pluck our heart strings with that stuff anyways...
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hm... seems pretty matallic looking to me, but on the other hand there's no real NEED for a lamp or whatever to be in the panel. You never know, i guess. But why would he hide himself if he accidentally got sucked into the 616 universe?
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Pfffft, sort of curious. Of course they're gonna tease and play mind games.

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Yeah...it looks metallic, but like Bamfette said, there no purpose to it. I mean, I can't figure out for sure what it is.

Of course, they may have anticipated this exact conversation, basically, and put a vaguely demon tail shaped lamp in there just to mess with people watching for Nightcrawler. ;)

As for why he might hide himself...well, at first it would've likely been a reflex action, teleporting himself out of danger or even trying to teleport himself back into his own world, etc. Once he was hidden and he saw that he was not noticed...well, those were some BAD. DUDES. Would you hop out of the shadows when you see Wolverine nearly die and the whole team running away? I'm not saying he's a coward, I'm just saying that he's not a dummy.
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Yeah, I agree with Crawler. If he DID come through, the 616 universe is way different to Darkholme's own world and given the nature of his powers it would be reasonably easy to go to ground. It's pretty much an instinct thing. I mean, I know I'd bloody hide if I suddenly popped up in those events and as for why he's in that panel specifically, well out of everywhere else he could hide, I think he's least likely to be killed if he's spotted in that room, well by Betsy anyway. Kind of logical really.

Else, it is just a really conviniently shaped lamp that is doing a spot of foreshadowing (gettit) and hinting at things to come. But really, I'd kind of rather he had come through as I'm not sure I like the idea of them having to hop back and forth between the two worlds. Might dilute it a bit.
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If it is a tail, it's poorly represented. I'm sure KD found his way through, but that's a very odd panel. It's incredibly unclear, and not in a good way.

It sucks that in order to return NC to his greatness they had to kill him and then bring in an AU counterpart. I never understood making him a priest. Worst decision ever.

Hopefully AoA NC is just as lecherous as awesome 80s NC. I wanna see flirtation! At least!
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