#margali

[su-whisterfield]

Nightcrawler Week day five Family. Three wicked mothers is definitely over achieving…

[heckcareoxytwit]

In order to save Nightcrawler, Pixie, Jackie Chopra and Doctor Nemesis who had been held captive by Orchis; the mutants - Legion, Blindfold and Banshee seek help with Mother Righteous even though Legion doesn't trust her. Then, Legion and Mother Righteous set off to Orchis space station where Legion breaks the captives out while Mother Righteous holds Nimrod off by using her magic and talking down to him. The rescue mission goes well for Legion until he encounters Margali who beheads him with a sword before throwing Legion, Doctor Nemesis, Pixie and Jackie Chopra out of the airlock. Margali tries to take back Nightcrawler until Mother Righteous appears and sucks the magic/soul out of Margali. After a brief fight, Mother Righteous brings Legion and the mutants back from the orbit.

X-Men: Before the Fall - Sons of X #1, 2023

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the entire part about destiny being the sole reason why margali and azazel ever got involved in this scenario gets funnier the more you think about it because the writer genuinely doesn't seem aware of these two knowing each other and being in contact with one another. so destiny's whole "really wanna have a specific baby-no wait don't actually want baby-get someone else to raise him" plan literally relies on margali and azazel not talking to each other ever while they were in the same area during the same period of time. a conversation which would go

azazel : "oh margali, it's been a while! i was surprised when i sensed you here of all places. what brings you to germany?"

margali : "interesting deals really."

azazel : "deals ? i thought it was our thing. well i guess i couldn't be the only one expanding contacts. i heard quite an interesting deal recently too from a new one. may i ask who you made your deals with ? maybe i could-"

margali : "nonono. i don't share my contacts. especially an unusual case like this one... don't give me that look. alright, let's say a mysterious blind lady came out of nowhere and cryptically gave me indications to something interesting that will come to me in about 9 months. i know what you'll say but making business with mutants never disappointed me-"

azazel : "wait. a blind lady. came out of nowhere... gave you cryptic indications... for something in 9 exact months... that you want."

margali : "yes. what's the issue with tha-?"

azazel: "margali. did she look like this by any chance ?" *shapeshifts into/creates an illusion of destiny when he met her*

margali : "... yes... exactly like that... same face, height and demeanour...."

azazel : "... margali."

margali : "...?"

azazel : "i think we got into a pyramid scheme."

and thus destiny's whole plan fails as nightcrawler not longer exists or remains unattended for at a park in the freezing cold november (yes mystique left him "very quick" in a park in these new origins. not a forest, not a river, not a mountain. a plain-ass park. cuz the writer had to suck out any bits of danger and mystic out of nightcrawler's new origins i swear)

lmao why aren't you writing X-Men instead of these shmucks they got working at Marvel? this was hilarious AND in character.

I have also decided we need to start demanding a retcon for Azazel and Margali to later be revealed as Kurt's bio parents as part of a plot to trick Mystique and Destiny into thinking he was falling for their trick.

[scarletwitchpanels]

Spellcasters in Maximum Security #3

[marvelman901]

Excalibur 76 (1994) . Written by Scott Lobdell and Richard Ashford Penciled by Ken Lashley Inked by Randy Elliott Cover by Ken Lashley and Jason Temujin Minor . Britanic was going on a mission and D'Spayre had captured Margali, and now Nightcrawler had to save her... . #excalibur #xmen #superhero #comics #90s #nightcrawler #kittypryde #shadowcat #kenlashley #britanic #lockheed #dspayre #margali #amandasefton #britain #ahab https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxAQRJB-dY/?igshid=16dj9dvcwz7ty

[bamfoftheundead]

Honestly the nicest I'll ever be to Amanda sefton is completely wiping away the whole dating Kurt and being gross and writing her as his actual sister, I wish they could've been portrayed in a healthy sibling relationship the same way Kurt and Stefan were. I think id like Amanda more if she were a sister to Kurt, but she isn't, especially not like rogue is. It could've been cool for Kurt to have a sorceress sister he could always count on but no, we just a gross wicked witch. But she does make a good villain that's for sure

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okay I'm putting my tinfoil hat on and calling it now :

the only reason margali got bastardised this badly for the past year and treated Kurt so horribly out of the blue after being MIA for nearly 10 years (she last showed up in his 2014 series so yeah, about a decade) is just so mystique appears better as a parental in comparison when the new origin story drops. (... gonna throw destiny in there too because we're at a point where the plot getting this stupid is 100% an option)

if i'm way off, I'll rejoice. if not...

would that even be a win?

Anon stop reminding me that the early 2010s was 10 years ago! Time is not real!

Lol, still though its surreal to me how much time has passed. I feel less connected to marvel as a fan really, I haven't actually felt super connected to the fans for many years now beyond a few of my friends I made through Marvel and DC fandoms but we don't even really talk about marvel anymore.

Yeah honestly I think Margali may always be written badly to make Mystique look better even though Mystique's characterisation is less consistent than the quality of food from a restaurant in kitchen nightmares. Seriously I don't understand the motivations of Main universe Mystique. Is she a well intentioned extremist? Does she want to make things better for Mutants? Is she just selfish? Does she care about her children? Or does she just use them for her own ends?

I know some may make the argument that the lack of consistency makes her so mysterious but personally I don't think it works for a story like X-men. We don't need Mystique to be the Joker, we need to have her show another side of the Mutant Extremist ideology. Honestly for all the faults of the Fox X-men films I feel like their reboot take on Mystique was a lot stronger characterisation of her than most of the comics. I also think Evolution Mystique is another good incarnation of her.

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Retconing Azazel as Kurt's father would go as badly as it did with the Magneto retcon, if not worse as it would screw over a total of 5 characters (Destiny, Mystique, Nightcrawler, Margali and Azazel) instead of 3 (Wanda, Pietro and Magneto). From an editorial pov, there's no gain in going down the road of retconing parentage. But seeing how they went ahead and recently did it for Shaw being Shinobi's father I have low expectations and lots of disappointment in waiting for this kind of topic.

It's just ironic how fans hate retcons yet they want to retcon something that doesn't need fixing and will only appease a small group of fans. From my observation its only really older X-men fans that want this parentage retconned even though at this point most X-men fans have it cemented in their head that Azazel is his father....

Technically it screwed over more than just the 3 as it impacted Tommy, Billy, Luna and Polaris too who were all portrayed as being related to Magneto and the Maximoff twins for decades, altering that relation fractured the family into Magneto and Polaris and the Maximoff twins and their children which was only done for the sake of a movie and nothing else.

So really there would be just as many characters impacted by this retcon, its also just funny that fans are this dedicates to some idea Claremont came up with and didn't put much effort into as evidenced by the fact he wanted Nightmare to be Nightcrawler's father to begin with, Azazel is actually the best father figure in my opinion as it gives Nightcrawler a proper nemesis of his own and demonstrates just how he could use his powers for evil. People are entitled to hate Austen's run of X-men as much as they want but at least he tried and in some ways succeeded in doing more with both Nightcrawler and Polaris and I'll always have some level of respect for him over other writers who took them out of the story to focus on Cyclops, Emma Frost and Wolverine over and over again to the detriment of everyone else.