10 Comic Plot Twists That Were Hiding In Plain Sight

3. Nightcrawler's Real Dad

Rorschach The End is Nigh
DC Comics

It's unlikely that anyone reacted to news that Kurt's real father was a demon with anything but a lack of any real surprise. While you could put it down to simple design differences, it had always seemed surreal that Nightcrawler's design appeared so much more demonic than either of his parents.

The pronged tail, the fangs, the pointed ears - all demonic features that seemed downright odd for him to have gained out of nowhere during the period of time where it appeared as though Wagner's father was human, as Mystique's other child, Graydon Creed, is completely without any of these unusual traits.

While the exact identity of Kurt's father was still a plot twist, many people who weren't paying attention would have presumed that was the case anyway solely due to Nightcrawler's appearance, making it the biggest non-twist in plot twist history.

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