Chris Claremont toyed with the idea of making the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare into Kurt’s dad. But he preferred his second option for Nightcrawler’s origin. His idea was that Mystique had ...

In X-Men Blue: Origins #1 we learn that the previous Nightcrawler story – Mystique playing the wife of Baron Christian Wagner, only to have an affair with the mutant immortal Azazel and birth ...

So Jason Flemyng has been cast as Azazel, Nightcrawler's father, in the upcoming X-Men: First Class movie. And I understand he's been made fully aware about the range of disdain to outright hatred ...

AZAZEL is a demonic-looking mutant and leader of the Neyaphem, he was banished to a dimensional void due to his appearance. Becoming bitter at what he considered "Normal-looking" mutants, AZAZEL began ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She eventually came to the attention of Nightcrawler, who was similarly stranded away from his allies. Ever compassionate, even to ...

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created X-Men, but many of the storylines and most beloved characters stemmed from Chris Claremont during the 1970s and 1980s. Claremont’s original story for Nightcrawler and ...

X-Men Origins: Blue published today from Marvel Comics does just what it had been threatening, rewrites the already repeatedly rewritten origins of Nightcrawler, as the child of Mystique. It has been ...

Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their queer family, this week it righted the ...

Jason Flemyng has signed on to join the cast of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. The news was revealed at Movie Con in the UK (found on ComingSoon), where it was revealed that Flemyng will play ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Now this is mainly for the hardcore comic fans. Empire caught up with Jason Flemyng at the "Movie-Con" the other day and got confirmation from the actor himself that he'll be appearing in X-Men: First ...

The new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer has arrived, and viewers are convinced they have spotted a familiar face from X-Men: First Class: Azazel. While the first official trailer only contained teases of ...