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Nightcrawler and Mephisto

We all know what happened when Mephisto made a bargain with Spider-Man...but what happens when he tries his luck with a certain furry blue elf?
This comes from the final issue of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Nightcrawler series, #12. Art is by Darick Robertson. I posted some pages from this selection a year ago in the InsaneJournal comm, but nothing that's not here, so it still fits in the 1/3 legality.
So basically, Kurt is celebrated with a surprise birthday party from the rest of the X-Men. Suddenly, everyone freezes except for Kurt. At first Kurt thinks that Professor X is pulling a joke, but then he recognizes something far more sinister is afoot.
"Mephistopheles."



Mephisto basically outlines a number of encounters Nightcrawler has had with other demons (presumably earlier in the series) and how it's all leading up to the final war.


Wait, let's see that again...

Oh, snap! He just punched out Mephisto! No pussyfooting around for "one more day", no giving into the devil...just POW!

So Kurt is transplanted back to where he was earlier--with the birthday party--and wonders if the whole thing was fake. But he knows otherwise, and prays that his faith will remain strong once the trumpets sound and the war finally begins.
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maybe his "death" has a loop hole... wonder if that was ever mentioned in the comics before he died.....
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new idea for an event "Suck it Satan Week"
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Then Mephisto was like "AAAHHH!!! PURITY PURENESS BURNS! TAKE IT AWAY!"
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Said devil gave him that courage, as well as supernatural-level regeneration so that he COULDN'T succeed at dying, and said the only way he could die was if Ghost Rider killed him. Which, at the time at least, was the line GR wasn't crossing. After resolving the suicidal urges, and chasing GR around for a while trying to convince him to commit murder, Kid Reconstructo (I think he actually TOOK the 'hero name' of Suicide, which is all sorts of ridiculous) rode off into the sunset as a hero.
That's probably backwards to what you meant, though.
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I confess I never got the "Let's make Kurt a supernatural investigator" notion, it's taking him a direction he really didn't have much reason to investigate (He has his mother and stepsister/girlfriend for that).
Perhaps the only thing that's marginally disappointing, is that this is so clear cut from the outset, there is absolutely nothing about Kurt, past or present, which would lead anyone to think he might consider Mephisto's offer even for as long as it takes to blink
the fact he looks like a demon is technically irrelevant (
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Besides, some stories (not Marvel, sepcifically) make it a point to mention that taking the soul of a believer is a bigger triumph.
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It's actually a heresy, the notion that the Devil is free and striving against God, but a popular one, if only because it's much more interesting to have a Satananic Evil Empire below, at war with the Heavenly Host above. Blame Milton.
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Everything is part of God's plan, save the actions of beings with free will. And the only beings with free will are humans, (sometimes even just Christians).
Chalk it up to mysterious ways.
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Man, the apocalypse is gonna kick so much ASS!
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Conclusion: This movie looks horribly ridiculous and bad and I will watch it a hundred times when it comes out.
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If you'll excuse me, off to stock up on popcorn.
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And where does Mephisto stand in relation to Satan from the Ghost Rider comics?
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Also I believe this is the first Marvel canonical appearance of SHARKTOPUS!
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brother
what?
Also, I notice Mephisto ties together the freakishly large family of Lensherr/Maximoff to Summers to EVERYONE ELSE in the MU.
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Fast forward a few years. Kurt pays his brother a visit, and finds out that Stefan has indeed given into the darkness and has been abducting and murdering children. They fight (with swords, because that's how Kurt rolls). Kurt the X-Man could have taken Stefan without killing him, but this was before then. He kills Stefan by accident, just in time to be caught by an angry mob searching for the child murderer. They find a demon standing over the body of one of their own, and come to the obvious conclusion. They give chase, and that leads into the first scene of GSXM #1. This all comes out in UXM Annual #4, which is a very cool story and also takes place on Nightcrawler's birthday.