X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer Breakdown - 14 Things You Need To See

4. Nightcrawler Returns

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Nightcrawler
20th Century Fox

Perhaps the most underused mutant in all of Fox's X-Men films is Nightcrawler, who was portrayed by Alan Cummings in X2: X-Men United, and is currently being played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.

McPhee reprises his role as Nightcrawler from Apocalypse, and can be seen teleporting various characters at different parts of the trailer. Given the aforementioned still released by IGN as well, it looks as though he too will have a crisis of loyalty - one that potentially occurs during the nighttime rendezvous between Charles' shrinking group and Erik's growing one.

In any case, it's great to see Nightcrawler back. Let's just hope that, unlike Cummings, he's given the appropriate amount of time to shine as everyone's favourite fuzzy blue elf, and not just one stellar introduction.

Advertisement
Content Producer/Presenter
Content Producer/Presenter

Resident movie guy at WhatCulture who used to be Comics Editor. Thinks John Carpenter is the best. Likes Hellboy a lot. Can usually be found talking about Dad Movies on his Twitter at @EwanRuinsThings.