10 Perplexing Comic Book Questions Solved By The Internet

8. How Far Can Nightcrawler Bamf?

The BAMF in question refers not to the devilishly handsome (and handsomely devilish) X-Man's status as a badass mofo - which he most certainly is - but the onomatopoeia which follows each of his teleportations. Amongst his various abilities, including being a bad hand with a rapier and surprisingly good at gymnastics for a dude with four fingers, four toes and a tail, Nightcrawler can disappear and reappear of certain distances, accompanied by a BAMF of purple smoke which is said to smell like brimstone. That's because when he "teleports" he actually disappears to another dimension, runs quickly through there, and then reappears instantaneously in a different place in the real world. Fancy, eh?

Those Marvel guys think of everything. What's never been gotten down on paper, however, is just how far he can teleport. He actually gets pretty pooped by constant jumping of long distances, once 'porting all the way from fictional island Genosha to Florida, a few miles at a time. Once he reached his destination, he was exhausted. It doesn't help either that spending extended periods of time in the weird alternate dimension he uses to make his teleportation work would probably have a negative effect on his health, even if it did let him travel further. In which case he should quit being such a baby and put a hazmat suit on, right? Hm, maybe not. Stick to the couple-of-mile trips at the most, Kurt.