# X-Men Movie Costumes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692 "2000-02-11T00:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692/21 "2000-02-12T05:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Gr8Kat: > **Can anyone answer me this? I saw it once in the cartoon but never saw it even alluded to in the comic books: Is Mystique really Nightcrawler’s mother? Mystique’s name is Raven Darkholme, Nightcrawler’s is Kurt Wagner, Mystique has blue skin but Nightcrawler has blue fur, 3 digits on each hand and foot, and a tail, Kurt is German but I’ve never read that Raven was supposed to be, if Mystique could adopt Rogue then why couldn’t she have kept her own son if she had one, etc., etc. Please tell me it was just more crap invented by the cartoons and/or post-Clairmont writers. (I hung on after Clairmont left but just couldn’t stomach “Age of Apocalypse.” Between that and the cartoon, I decided I was tired of seeing my favorite characters fucked with. Again, I won’t be seeing the movie.)** Gr8Kat, hate to break it to you, but yes, according to the comics, Mystique is Nightcrawler’s mother. His father was some German nobleman, and after she had a blue furry baby with a tail, she messed up and shifted to her natural form, ran away and tricked the mob chasing her by shifting into a peasant who threw the baby over a waterfall(?). Said baby was found by a traveling circus and that’s where he got his name from. In the Age of Apocolypse fiasco, he went by Kurt Darkholme. My big question is how the heck Mystique and Sabretooth can have a fully human son together (Greydon Creed). ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692/22 "2000-02-12T05:32:00Z")
Phouka, thanks for clarifying. Yes, that statement was a bit ambiguous. I meant Prof X is American. I really do dig Patrick Stewart, but I haven’t seen him lose that gravelly english accent in anything so far. If he can’t do it, I think he’ll make a great Prof X. * * * “Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around.” -TMBG ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692/23 "2000-02-12T05:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > If he can’t do it, I think he’ll make a great Prof X. can, CAN, **CAN** do it! Blame it on Dirty Devil, he brought home the friggin’ Old Milwaukee! * * * “Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around.” -TMBG ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692/24 "2000-02-12T21:05:00Z")
As far as the nude Mystique, I’m sure it’s for one scene only. I’m guessing she’s demonstrating her shape-shifting for Magneto, and, the detached scientist that he sometimes is, he simply wants to see everything when she makes herself change. The picture is aiming for a PG-13 rating, like _Titanic_, and that had a topless Kate Winslet in it. I just wanna know who had the “task” of painting Rebecca Romijn-Stamos blue? Where do I apply for a job like that? _drool_ * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-movie-costumes/13692.md?page=1)