The former Fox X-Men Universe (which remains alive through Kevin Feige’s sheer bloody will) was and is confoundingly inconsistent. Half the movies are great, the other half are garbage. Characters show up, die, come back totally unrelated, sometimes even die again. It’s a mess, in often the best way. But occasionally, really great characters played by really great actors just didn’t recur because they thought it wasn’t fun. That is the case for Alan Cumming , who played Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United from 2003. He’s returning to the character for next year’s Avengers: Doomsday and he’s called it “really healing.”

In a new People interview, which we saw at Deadline , Cumming says his initial experience playing Nightcrawler for X2 was miserable. “I just came back. It was

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