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 ...

We have two pieces of X-Men: First Class casting news to report tonight. First up, Jason Flemyng told a crowd at BFI's Movie-Con III [via ComingSoon] that he would be playing the minor role of Azazel.

• Wolverine and Northstar are defeated and stranded in... Purgatory? • Nightcrawler tries to rally the X-Men to help them and save the after-life from Azazel, but they are outgunned by the demon lord ...

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 ...

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 ...