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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The revelation that Nightcrawler is Mystique's son sent many fans reeling in the 1990s, and the later clarification that Nightcrawler's father was an ancient mutant named Azazel has been met with ...

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.

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 ...

Mystique is one of the most infamous X-Men villains, famed for her ability to change her appearance and become anybody. However, a new story has revealed that Raven Darkholme is far more powerful than ...