Does anyone know where it was stated Kurt has an enhanced sk

Born Blue · Post by **Born Blue** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:48 pm

I know Marvel used to list it under their website for powers, but as far as comics goes, does anyone know any particular comic issue(s) where something similar is stated?

Entropy · Post by **Entropy** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 5:58 pm

well his skeleton is mentioned in excalibur somewhere during 65-70 i think (cannot remember exact issue). it's were Crawler and company are prisoners with the warpies (during alan davis run).

littlebamf · Post by **littlebamf** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 9:26 pm

it was in #63 in Cloud Nine (headquartedr of R.C.X) and they were testing Nightcrawler because of this disese thing that was effecting mutants there as he was the only fully mature mutant in the place (it had somethig to do with reverting to human, then dying when they hit adolesance or something) and this little bald scientist dude was getting all excited about Nightcrawlers powers and abilities and stuff.
In case you're wondering, i read it out of the issue that's right infront of me now.
thank me kindly, it took me all of two minutes to find it:LOL:

Bamfette · Post by **Bamfette** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:14 pm

ya mean this?

http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/image.php?iid=350
http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/image.php?iid=351
http://nightscrawlers.com/forum/image.php?iid=352

tho it has an x-ray of his skeleton there, it doesn't actually say much about it...

Garble · Post by **Garble** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 10:16 pm

It's also been described on his bio in "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe"
Vol. 1, No. 8, August, 1983
Page 5.

"His spine is more flexible than an ordinary human's, allowing him to spend much of his time in a semi-crouched position without damaging his posture."

Nandireya · Post by **Nandireya** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:50 am

I always figured his skelton was kinda like a cats...really flexiable...which is how he's so agile...

Phil Hunn · Post by **Phil Hunn** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:06 pm

Silly question here: I've seen Kurt drawn with his legs bending like a cat's hind legs (with the knee at the rear of the leg, as in Kia Asimaya's concept sketches for Kurt's new costume), and with normal human legs (with the knee at the front, obviously).

Which do you guys prefer? I'm quite partial to the cat-legs look, myself, since it makes Kurt look a little more demonic, and thus enhances the contrast between his somewhat frightening appearance and his huggable/kissable/wanna-hold-him-all-night-long personality (Bacchus, the god of wine and song, had goat-like legs, just like the classical rendition of Satan), but I also don't mind the normal-legs look (which gives him a more iconic appearance).

What's the verdict? Cat-legs or human legs?

Bamfette · Post by **Bamfette** » Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:51 pm

i think the only one where he REALLY had the backwards bending legs is in Evo, i am pretty sure he was merely leaning forward and standing on his foes in Kia's drawing. as he was walking perfectly normally with his feet flat on the ground in 416

i liked his feet the best as drawn by Alan Davis, personally...they looked... i dunno, real, plauseable and functional. Davis put a lot of thought into how they were put togehter and how they functioned, and it showed...

weapon x · Post by **weapon x** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 5:15 pm

cat legs in evo? nah, isnt it just his feet who are extremely large?

Garble · Post by **Garble** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 7:02 pm

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking....

See? his thighs go forward and his knees connect to his calves wich go back like a regular person's. His legs look like they are separated into three parts, but it's actually just because his feet are so long and he walks on his toes. Like Disney's Gargoyles do...(did

)

Chicken's knees go backward and it looks like this...

Bamfette · Post by **Bamfette** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 7:25 pm

well. technically the legs of a chicken or a cat, for that matter, are essentially the same. ALL vertebrate animals, regardless of species, from humans to birds to crocodiles to horses to whales have essentially the same bones in ther limbs, just that some of them have certain parts longer/shorter than others and/or fused together. a cats legs have all the same bones as a human, but a cat walks on their toes.

check out the book Cyclopedia Anatomicae by György Fehér. quite interesting comparisons between skeletons and muscle structure of many animals, including humans.

Phil Hunn · Post by **Phil Hunn** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 3:04 pm

Originally posted by Bamfette
check out the book Cyclopedia Anatomicae by György Fehér. quite interesting comparisons between skeletons and muscle structure of many animals, including humans.

Ah, okay. Fair enough. Blame it on my failing eyesight, then...

*pops his glass eyeballs out and gives them a clean*

Bamfette · Post by **Bamfette** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:15 pm

i was actually sorta agreeing with you Phil :p Kurts legs in Evo ARE like a cats and bend backward... it's jsut that that is not his knee but his heel. but a cat's hind leg what appears to be it's knee is really its heel as well...

but i still like them best as Alan Davis drew them

weapon x · Post by **weapon x** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 8:32 pm

garble! the fact that you just put a kurt schematic and a chicken in the same post....... ...its just......
....aw man..... .....MAN!!!!!!!

words cant describe this......

your a sinner garble! and your gonna burn in (that dimension where Kurt ports in evo with the baby t-rexes)

Broadsword · Post by **Broadsword** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 3:44 pm

Hmm. I used to think that Nightcrawler has two different joints on his legs.

Guess I was looking at the elf wrong.

But with Kurt's porting, fur, funkey skeleton and missing didgits, is there any part of him that isn't unique?

Garble · Post by **Garble** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:39 am

His spleen is downright boring.