X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer Breakdown - 14 Things You Need To See
4. Nightcrawler Returns
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.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
