Amazing X-Men #5

[lordultimus]

Comments

[commodus]

I love Nightcrawler. He's such a brilliant character, and always comes across as one of the compassionate and decent Marvel characters.
Though I am a little iffy on the idea of him selling his soul, when he literally punched Mephisto in the face just for looking at him funny.

[zachbeacon]

Yeah that strikes me as really out of character for Kurt.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

In fairness, he's doing it to save the lives of others. That's pretty Kurt

[icon_uk]

He traded his most valuable possession, his soul, to save countless lives... I hesitate to make a Christian metaphor here, but it's sort of hard to overlook in a sotry about the most prominently and overtly Catholic hero in the MU.

[commodus]

See, I wonder about this. If you sell your soul to do something good and noble - in a Universe where Heaven is an established fact - wouldn't the whole deal be worthless anyway? If there is a benevolent God, wouldn't they step in when you died and cancel out the whole deal because you did it as a result of their inaction?
I mean, if a guy as decent and pious as Nightcrawler is making Faustian deals in the first place, clearly God isn't doing something right.

[icon_uk]

There's a significant difference between selling your soul for personal gain, as Faust did, and sacrificing your soul for the lives of others, which is a fairly standard heroic trope.

Personally yes, I would believe that any deity worth the worship would recognise that difference and make the appropriate allowances, but Kurt can't be sure about that, because a core concept of Catholic faith is that God gave us all free will, any choice we make is ours, for better or worse. If God removed free will, then we'd be puppets, and that would be even creepier.

And of course, it's hard to quantify what a soul actually is or does. (Piers Anthony in his Xanth books has a golem-like creature worry about whether it has a soul or not and after many trials is rewarded, not with a yes or a no, but with the answer that only something with a soul would worry about whether or not they had one in the first place.) So the fact Kurt worries about not hacing one any more doesn't mean he doesn't, only that he believes he doesn't.

[beyondthefringe]

And just think... those bamfs became his body. -all- of his body. If you get my drift.

[icon_uk]

Given the way they act, I imagine some of those little kurts were queuing up for the chance to be his... ummm... little kurt.

And well...



Okay, that's one's a plush... but...

Oh, and he did it again after this



Which includes both the plushie and an a actual crowd of hard drinking, randy little Bamfs....

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Are these the same Bamfs we saw hanging around the Jean Grey school?

[icon_uk]

At least some of them, he was accompanied by a cluster of them in later issues IIRC.