X-Men Evolution Has The Perfect Nightcrawler (Almost)

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X-Men Evolution does Kurt extremely well and has this adaptation standing out in particular not only for how often he is present, But just how well his adaptation is handled. X-Men Evolution does a lot of the characters right and Nightcrawler is almost perfect only missing very few things. Overall I love that Fuzzy Blue Elf.
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[@travismiddleton8218]

X Men Evolution's depiction of Nightcrawler is among my favourite next to the recent X Men 97 and the 90s cartoon. His sibling relationship with Rogue in the comics always stands out to me. Its a shame that most cartoons or the Fox films don't draw attention to it since its a big part of Kurt's character besides his faith in God.

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@travismiddleton8218 97 and 90's version is the same character.

[@vetarlittorf1807]

I didn't like the TAS version. He was too pious in that one even though he was a more comical character in the comics.

[@travismiddleton8218]

@@mandalorianhunter1 whoops 😂

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@travismiddleton8218 it's okay people forget or don't care that 97 is a continuation of the 90's show

[@travismiddleton8218]

@@mandalorianhunter1 I just forgot

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

Also an animation detail I appreciate in this show with Nightcrawler is how even in his human disguise his fingers are still drawn spread out like his mutant hands.

[@eaglest0554]

I honestly just love those kinds of details, cause like yeah, he's used to only having three fingers, of course he would still hold his hands like that when disguised, he wouldn't know how to hold them "normally".

[@trixie7759]

Same with the way he walks! The way they commit to him having digitigrade legs and a sorta limping gait and making them a consistent detail made me absolutely adore him

[@Wwillow1992]

He is the definition of “I love you in every universe”

[@kenj0165]

Except Age of apocalypse Nightcrawler

[@onslaught1312]

Saw a pic of Nightcrawler in a Marvel encyclopedia when I was in grade school. The pic was older Kurt with white hair in a ponytail, leaping with a Sabre. Ever since I’ve had a special place in my heart for him. Love the vids.

[@crowgirl9833]

I’m a huge nightcrawler fan, and as someone who isn’t religious really, I do agree it was a missed opportunity to not include his religion. It really adds to his character and motivations.

[@legoking6165]

I got to meet Brad Swaile (Kurts VA in X-men evolution) at a con last year, and he signed a drawing of Nightcrawler I had drawn a few years back!

[@esecretlangel9130]

Evolution had the best understanding of X Men I’ve seen outside of the comics.

[@fangoram29]

Mystique definitely has a bad track record with her kids. Let's just be glad Graydon Creed didn't show up in the show

[@kimeraclan3135]

Professor X talking to Mystique: "He(Kurt) turned out a fine young lad! Not like that other son of yours, with his humanity friendship losers!"

[@spinningtornado4543]

There was also Raze and Charles II. Mystique has a bad track record with her children but an impressive one for child abandonment.

[@essencetune7341]

@@spinningtornado4543 Although at least we can say she abandoned Kurt this time to protect him from Magneto, instead of just being an inconvenience, for once.

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@essencetune7341 True ! Again, it's thanks to X-Men Evolution rewriting and changing comics canon to better fit its show's stories and themes. If it strictly followed comics, it would have been way less interesting and compelling, if not downright repetitive.

[@ankuriboh]

Nightcrawler’s voice actor is also Light Yagami from Death Note.

[@ShadowSonic2]

And L's VA was Gambit in this show!

[@mandalorianhunter1]

Honestly great video my guy Nightcrawler has always been my favorite X-Men. His appearance to his powers but also his need for acceptance is great. His relationship with Kitty mirrors the comice, although Kitty was younger and scared of his appearance but they became closer. His relationship with Rogue started rocky but became more sibling like just like in the 90's show was good. Honestly his relationship with Mystique was great. He didn't know if he could ever truly trust or love his mother, but this show is the only one so far to show that she truly wanted Kurt in her life. Also his relationships with Logan and Wolverine were really done well. One aspect absent that I would come to know is that his religious side is missing. I'm not a religious person but I'm glad the 90's version has that side to him.

[@davidbeer5015]

That missing element is something I noticed. I feel, even if they didn’t want to do a full episode like they did in TAS, a speaking shot where it can be seen he has like..a cross necklace or something could be enough to show it’s there without really changing anything? Other than that, this is probably one of my favorite versions of him. I like bits of him in ‘97, but there were some lines he had that had me going “I…don’t think that sounds right from a faith perspective?” But this Kurt hits sooooo many good notes.

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@mandalorianhunter1 I agree with you. I think what helps XME a lot in its characters and the way it portrays them is that it's the show which took the most liberties on them (ex The Scarlet Witch) and their relationships to one another (ex Rogue's crush on Scott, Nightcrawler's crush on Tabatha, ...) for the better. Like, take Mystique and Nightcrawler's relationship in XME since you mentioned it : The reason why it's the only X-Men show to present the idea that Mystique wanted Nightcrawler in her life is because, contrary to the other X-Men adaptations, it barely stuck to the comics as a source material for that plotline and made many things up. Most of the other adaptations are way closer to the comics because in them, especially at the time XME came out and even afterwards, Mystique couldn't care less about Nightcrawler, either in life or death. Her first X-Men story is DoFP and Nightcrawler is one of the first mutants to die because of her and the Brotherhood's assassination attempt on Senator Kelly. Mystique constantly and repetitively used her relationship to Nightcrawler and her knowledge of his origins against him, either to be let go with a slap on the wrist or to get his pity. Mystique in the comics canonically stated she never once regretted throwing Nightcrawler to his death to save her own skin when he was a newborn and was willing to train harder for a combat simulation against the X-Men so that, in the chance of fighting him, she'd kill him in cold blood to save Rogue. There's no hidden warmth to her in regards to him : She only holds those feelings to Rogue. The only versions of Mystique to care about Nightcrawler was in the Age of Apocalypse timeline and that's because she raised him from birth to be like her.

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@spinningtornado4543 mystique really is a devil

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@mandalorianhunter1 The worst writers are those who don't realize this and are willing to throw many good-natured characters under the bus to make her look better in comparison or retcon her misdeeds in the laziest ways possible.

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@mandalorianhunter1 In the same vein as XME being the only X-Men show that portrays Nightcrawler's relationship with Mystique the way it does because it's drastically different from the comics, it is also the only adaptation that has Nightcrawler being in a romantic relationship with Amanda Sefton for that very same reason : The changes made to the characters in the transition from comics to TV helped them and the plot in ways the comics never could. Because here's the funny thing : Mystique was a character first introduced into the X-Men in 1980 while Nightcrawler was created in 1975 and their family relationship was revealed in 1991. That family relationship wasn't set in stone from the start and had evolved until the final product was put on paper 30 years ago which made sense and answered most questions, even if it stopped anything genuine from being built between Mystique and Nightcrawler. Yet Mystique being revealed as Nightcrawler's mother was still adapted in X-Men TAS contrary to anyone or anything else tied to his character. Meanwhile, Amanda Sefton was introduced into X-Men in the 70s not long after Nightcrawler was created and was his girlfriend since then. They were even a couple in Nightcrawler's 2014 solo run. So why wasn't she adapted before XME in X-Men TAS ? Or the movies ? Or after in Wolverine and the X-Men ? Because in the comics, Amanda Sefton is not only Nightcrawler's girlfriend, she's the same girl he was raised with since both were babies by the same woman they call "mother" and the same sibling they call "brother". In other words, Amanda Sefton is Nightcrawler's adoptive sister. This was revealed in 1980 and that never stopped them from still dating each other and using their weird family relationship in their flirts. XME adapted Amanda Sefton as Nightcrawler's girlfriend because it stuck to how her character was from the mid 70s to the 80s and never made the weird decision to have her and Nightcrawler be part of the same family. It's the wholesomeness without the questionable choices.

[@vetarlittorf1807]

Nightcrawler has one of the best arcs in this show. If only the show had gone on further. Because they were planning on him to stop using his image inducer altogether and possibly marry Amanda at the end.

[@ScreenLight]

love this kurt so much

[@malcolmroache3854]

As other people have said Nightcrawler is fan favorite and mine as well. His design, powers, and overall his character make you so invested in him. Seeing him in X92 fighting off humans who won't accept him but found religion where it teaches to accept others no matter how different. Him trying to find out his family. Both Xmen series we see the answer to it and how he responds. Nightcrawler can be great if casted right in MCU and show us what he goes through. I'm hoping for an older Kurt so we can see him and Wanda possibly start a relationship. I loved the flirtation between the two in Wolverine and the Xmen. Good video man.

[@BlazorA02]

I think Evolution was the only thing outside the comics to acknowledge the fact that Kurt is cover in fur...even the movies got that wrong!

[@stranger5011]

kurt, scott and spike were always my favorites

[@erinhuggins1779]

Nightcrawler will always be my favorite X-Men, and I think the reasons the creators left Kurt's religion out was to focus on his personality as a young teenager in a new country really coming into his own.

[@axels3188]

I think Xmen evolutions nightcrawler was a good adaptation of him and seeing his realAction with Scott, Kitty and Rogue through the show was cool.

[@eaglest0554]

Nightcrawler and Beast were two of my favorite heroes in general as a kid let alone just among the xmen since I always related to them.

[@WeebGuru6]

Them boys had the best wolverine as well cuz no got dang love triangle

[@CaulkMongler]

SO glad that wasn’t shoehorned in. I always hate love triangle plots

[@lenastorm6280]

X-Men: Evolution‘s Nightcrawler is my favorite Nightcrawler. Not only that, but he’s one of my favorite fictional characters ever! I grew up with this show & Kurt has always been my favorite character from the first episode on.

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

Nightcrawler/Kurt was easily my favorite character in that series along with Scott/Cyclops.

[@maxordman4100]

Great job on this one! Nightcrawler is such a fantastic and underrated character. Definitely one of my favorite X-men! Your videos are really good so far. I look forward to seeing more of them when I have time. Still very new to the channel. I like that you cover a lot of late 90s and early 2000s content!

[@171QA]

Chicks dig the fuzzy dude.

[@Happy_Magician]

thank ya for the video man. If the viewership is what's allowing you to continue making the videos well.. you keep making them and I'll keep watching them.

[@marveler8994]

Xmen evolution is so cool because if you told me that WB was making an Xmen show set in a high school, i would've thought that was stupid. But it's been one of if not my favorite super hero shows since I was a kid

[@monstresswitcher]

Love X-Men Evo Kurt. He’s amazing and this video was great. (I’m so sorry if your first experience of the comics was the old Ultimate comics… I found two collectors volumes in the high school library when I was 16 and was traumatised by those. And yes Spider-Man was the only good thing to come out of that) (also new Ultimate universe is fantastic so far)

[@Riddlerint1202]

I think Kurt and Amanda have a great arc of him finally being accepted by someone who is not an x-man or even a mutant I wish they went a little further with it and had him go out in the world without the imager they could have had an episode where it is stollen by someone or it break somehow in front of the whole school and he has to deal with that and it could have him accepting who he is to the point where he could be offered the imager back at the end but says no because he doesn’t need it anymore

[@robertrowley4929]

I always shipped Kurt and Amanda from the show; they’re like Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson from the original Lee/Dikto run. Their chemistry is so palpable. I love it!

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

I always wondered why toad looked more freaky while in his brotherhood outfit. Made me think Mystique actually messed with him mentally before sicking him on the X-Men, also since his attitude seemed to change heavily even before nearly getting killed at the mansion.

[@tytheaniman497]

Nightcrawler is my favorite and legit a certified overall talent who deserves the respect he has gotten. The man is just like that!🤩✊🏽💙⚔️

[@DirtHutCaver]

This will be fun to watch!! :D

[@estermagdali]

Great video man keep it up, also could you do more night crawler videos

[@dragonman969]

In the finale he does say hello mother

[@765craven4]

I've genuinely never understood the idea that Kurt is supposed to have a frightening appearance. He's a blue fuzzy dude with pointy ears and a tail.

[@AyosDesignz]

Clicked on this cuz xmen evolutions was my fav Nightcrawler growing up🥰

[@mshartj15]

I liked the kiosk at mc donalds but the employee's ignored me when i asked them a question

[@kimeraclan3135]

I remember reading that part where Kitty said the Hard R! I ground at the page, even if she said it to a character who beat up Professor X. It's even worse considering Kitty relationship with Storm! As for Kurt in X-Men: Evolution, he was quite endeering and fun.

[@Venxous]

I like to pretend she didn’t….just it never happened 😔

[@spinningtornado4543]

X-Men Evolution is, hands down, the perfect time capsule for many of the characters, especially Nightcrawler. Because I, sincerely, will never forgive Marvel Comics for what they did to his character especially during the Krakoa period (2019-2024). It's surreal how the teenage version of Nightcrawler from XME is somehow wiser, smarter and more mature than the adult one from Krakoa, who's in his mid 30s.

[@davidbeer5015]

I’m…still admittedly perplexed around lWay of X” and the intent/result of it. I remember the summary mentioning him exploring his beliefs in light of the resurrections in Krakoa, and when I finished it I went “Huh? What…just happened?”

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@davidbeer5015 I think I can answer you on this one but just bare with me because it pretty much boils down to this being *an editorial mess* . What happened was that WoX got cancelled before Inferno started from how low the sales were on that Nightcrawler run. To have that storyline end around the same time as Inferno and make it seem like Nightcrawler did something during Reign of X (after getting sidelined and doing absolutely nothing during all of Dawn of X), the writers threw in a long time X-Men enemy, Onslaught, as the big bad that required a fake "new" mini series (Onslaught: Revelations) to be defeated. To make it seem like WoX was a bigger deal than it was, they had Nightcrawler easily defeat Onslaught in that mini. Why did the writers have to have WoX happen and end right before Inferno ? Because Inferno was supposed to be the end of Krakoa and, like I just told you before, without WoX (and Onslaught: Revelations), Nightcrawler would have done *absolutely nothing* during all of Krakoa even though he was part of the main cast, part of the mutant government, ... The end of WoX through Onslaught : Revelations was the writer blatantly telling the readers what great things Nightcrawler did during Reign of X and how many amazing things he brought to the table for all mutants on Krakoa... *Which included him making his mutant religion and a police force for it* . This trend of "throwing in a well known character into Nightcrawler's Krakoa runs to increase the sales and make it last longer than it should" kept happening after Inferno to an absurd degree like... Legion of X had the Spirit of Vengeance (Ghost Rider) and Doctor Strange (faker) show up into the run for no reason. On top of that, the only reason that run went on for as long as it did (less than a year still) was because it took place around the same time as ALL of the events that kept dropping during Krakoa (AXE, Sins of Sinister). The last chapter of Krakoa literally had Nightcrawler go around dressed up as Spider-Man and avoid his responsibilities while Mutantkind was being hunted down in the streets, that's how low the sales got. *Nightcrawler required a mantle swap with Spider-Man to stay relevant* and, just like for WoX, make it seem like he did anything that mattered during a chapter of Krakoa since he was part of the main cast but was pretty much useless and a doormat.

[@samueldimmock694]

The way I read House of X/Powers of X, it seemed like Krakoa was a giant cult created by Xavier's telepathic brainwashing. If they had stuck to that, it could have been a great story and a critique of some of the ways in which the X-Men have gone wrong over the decades, but I think the person who wrote the end of the Krakoa era didn't get the memo, so it was just a huge mess and it's probably best to forget it ever happened.

[@biguy617]

Nightcrawler was great in the few appearances he got in the X-men animated series.

[@srstriker6420]

How about a video on the Brotherhood of Mutants especially the Toad in this series as well as Mesmero also you think since Even left to live with the Morlocks which they never did the Mutant Massacre event. What about Duncan the love rival and Beast of Bayville?

[@firedragonproductions]

I prefer the Wolverine and the X-Men version of Nightcrawler

[@OpticalSorcerer]

My second-fav X-Men was done amazing here--though I do wish we learned more about that stuff with Magneto, as well as including his Catholicism, and give him more time to process Mystique's death instead of a time jump after Rogue "kills" her.

[@Esteinb89]

Everyone loves the fuzzy one

[@leoninx-v3x]

I want him as a playable character in marvel rivals.

[@martinelechi9832]

23:26 she said WHAT!?

[@Venxous]

Yeah we like to pretend that didn’t happen 😔😔😔

[@MarvNARK]

Character wise yes. He's just missing the catholicness and love of swashbuckling adventure & pirate stuff. Also, peak what?

[@vetarlittorf1807]

The catholicness, yes. But he is very much a swashbuckler and adventurous in this show.

[@MarvNARK]

Clearly not ​@@vetarlittorf1807

[@lordrj4203]

23 likes in 31 minutes bro fell off 😔 But yeah your video definitely make me wanna watch evolution Which i was keeping on hold So yeah definitely gonna that now lol

[@dashingdreww1185]

The fuzzy dude

[@obliviousbadger7905]

Where's that video about Professor X? I didn't see it linked 💀

[@Venxous]

I completely forgot 💀 X-Men Evolution: Figuring Out The Past. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZiyYYaha6qYpaM

[@obliviousbadger7905]

@Venxous no worries! Thanks for the video btw. I always look forward to your stuff

[@CawfeeCakes]

I think kurt’s Catholicism isn’t shown here because he’s a kid, and probably hasn’t really *found* god yet. As a teenager i had no idea what i believed, i was too busy trying to find myself. This kurt is still trying to figure out who he is, and once he’s come to terms with that, he’ll probably have more time to figure out what he believes in.

[@morgan.painter]

I think Kurt is cute❤

[@BenDaresAll]

Do a Berzerker video! Or at least the New Mutant side characters. Only Magma got an ep, I thinj

[@coryberger77]

Can you please do a avalanche x men evolution video next please!

[@ADragonNerd]

8:23 people need to stop being so overly sensitive. It's a joke that fits with the fact that the characters are teens. Teenage boys wanting to peak at girls is normal

[@JaeTee-u5p]

So true

[@unfiltered_aries1619]

Can u please do 1 on Storm??

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

His religious side is fascinating, still this nightcrawler is pretty chill.

[@LooseAsADEUCE]

I feel like they were heading towards highlighting Kurt's religion towards the end. Something about the approach he took towards Mystique during the last season felt like someone leaning into a belief system. I agree it could have been more central, but I think I would've liked seeing him grow to be religious rather than it just be a thing.

[@qwefg3]

Don't feel bad... Peter Parker/Spider-Man seems to make everything good regardless of how the rest of the series is. Also Kurt may not have been a main lead, but he was a great character.

[@MilenDaniel]

Do wolverine

[@ansm9933]

I enjoy your video essays. You should speak more confidently. You're awesome.

[@aroccoification]

Peak? What are you an 8 year old who gets their vernacular from tiki tok?

[@Vinicius_2911]

outdated jokes ? eichiro oda disagrees

[@NormanAbizaidDjunaidy-yv2ww]

Don't tell me Ultimate Kurt is homophobic

[@Venxous]

Yeah….unfortunately

[@spinningtornado4543]

@@NormanAbizaidDjunaidy-yv2ww The more you find out about the things 616 Nightcrawler was up to especially during the last X-Men era, the more being homophobic feels like the bottom of the barrel in how contradictory and immoral he gets just because.