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Warning : arrest Major Spoilers for Dark X - Men # 5The demonic mutation Azazel has been getting moreX - Menattention in recent weeks than he has in years , andDark X - Men#5- the conclusion tothe spine - tingling Madelyne Pryor adventure- sees Azazel unleash the truly gory voltage of Nightcrawler ’s teleportation abilities . Azazel has always been a force for wickedness , a benighted mirror to who Nightcrawler could be in his worst nightmare , and his role inDark X - Menexemplifies this .
Dark X - Men , from writer Steve Foxe and artists Jonas Scharf and Frank Martin , has seenMadelyne Pryor and her team of brutal variation fighting against the forces of Orchiswhile hear to keep the residents ofthe Limbo Embassysafe
Dark X - Men#5 reveals the concluding opposition between Madelyne and her Dark X - piece , and Orchis and their " secret weapon,“the evil Goblin QueenfromSecret Wars . Orchis speedily realizes they are recede , and are not in control of the Goblin Queen , so when Agent Vallens essay to get away the slaughter , Azazel brutally murders the occultist with a BAMF !
Azazel Is A Dark Mirror Of Who Nightcrawler Could Have Become
For more than a decade now , Azazel has been known as Nightcrawler ’s biologic father , a diabolic mutation who manipulated Mystique when she was in a vulnerable state . This led to year of difference of opinion between Azazel and Kurt , and a reckoning within Nightcrawler about his Catholic faith and " hellish " derivation . Thankfully , the recent acclaimed one - shotX - human being Blue : Originsretconned this lineage , revealing thatNightcrawler was a pawn in a plan by Destiny to foreclose Azazel from ruling the worldand that Destiny and Mystique are Kurt ’s unfeigned biologic parent .
Dark X - Men#5 sees Azazel using Nightcrawler ’s teleportation power to savagely dispatch Agent Vallens , enthral her midway through a wall and then leaving her there , in effect encasing her organs in brick and killing her instantly . While Vallens was flagitious and may have deserved her fate for her actions while with Orchis , it isa grim admonisher of how violent and crashing Kurt ’s great power could be if he need . However , it also serves as a reminder of how compassionate and hopeful Nightcrawler remains … even when he is being hunted and almost murdered , he would never unthinkingly kill as Azazel does .
Azazel Is Not The Only X-Men To Use Teleportation For Murder
In fact , Kurt has explicitly operate fabulously intemperately toneveraccidentally teleport someone into an objective , knowing how frightful a death it would be . Unlike Nightcrawler , there are other X - Men who have used similar abilities in moments of not bad strife or conflict , murder others with the same ease that Azazel does inDark X - Isle of Man . splendidly , Magik used her abuse disks to decapitate the vile Dark BeastinUncanny X - Men(2019 ) # 20 , to the shock of her peers . The iconic Kate Pryde also recently used her phase - shifting to murder multiple Orchis agents in a similar mode , inX - Men(2021 ) # 20 , discombobulate them into the reason or each other to shoot down them instantaneously .
While the X - Men try their hardest not to obliterate , many will do so when push come to shove , beg the interrogative of whether Nightcrawler need to fight with more brutality . Nightcrawler has always been the centre and soul of the X - gentleman’s gentleman , and they have often become lost without his wisdom and guidance , so while some might need him to habituate his powers in a gorier style , his real weapon is his hope , compassionateness , and love . By the end ofDark X - MenAzazel has been murdered by a satanic variation of his former " son " Nightcrawler , a meet end for one of the vilestX - Men"heroes " to ever spoil a funny panel .
Dark X - Men#5from Marvel Comics is useable now in stores .
