Of all the names that we had confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday, the one that I couldn’t have possibly dreamed of was Alan Cumming. Cumming only appeared as Nightcrawler, my favorite blue mutant, once in one of the best superhero films ever made, X2: X-Men United. While a far cry from the swashbuckling daredevil that he is in the comics and cartoons, his Nightcrawler was an eye-popping scene-stealer who won us over with his awesome teleportation powers and eager gentleness. But he has never made another appearance since then in any prior X-Men film, and he made it very publicly clear that he would most likely never want to play Nightcrawler ever again. So what happened?
