AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Star Alan Cumming Reveals That Nightcrawler Will Fight [SPOILER] In The Movie

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Star Alan Cumming Reveals That Nightcrawler Will Fight [SPOILER] In The Movie

Alan Cumming will reprise his role as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday next year and has now confirmed that the teleporting mutant will clash with this member of another superhero team. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - May 07, 2025 01:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Doomsday

The Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal saw Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), and Deadpool & Wolverine's Channing Tatum (Gambit) all board the movie. 

Characters like Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Storm (Halle Berry), and Rogue (Anna Paquin) are all notable by their absence, as is Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. We anticipate seeing a bigger X-Men team than the one above, perhaps with a few new Multiversal Variants added to the mix for good measure. 

Cumming's Nightcrawler remains one of the most beloved characters from the X-Men franchise, despite only appearing in 2003's X2: X-Men United.

The teleporter's attack on the White House is considered iconic, so the actor reprising the role in Avengers: Doomsday is incredibly exciting (we're sure the Russo Brothers will at least attempt to top that classic sequence). 

In a new interview, Cumming seemingly spilled the beans on a huge moment for Nightcrawler by revealing that he'll square off with Fantastic Four leader Mister Fantastic, played by Pedro Pascal. 

"Right now, I'm doing it again. I'm playing Nightcrawler again and was learning stunts yesterday for some fight scene," he says in the video below. "I'm sort of learning these fights and I'm like, 'What, who am I fighting with?' [They’re like,] 'You're hitting Pedro Pascal against the head.' I can't quite believe [that]."

Assuming the actor hasn't made a mistake, this means we'll see the Fantastic Four battle the X-Men. Chances are it will be a case of mistaken identity and only a brief clash before the teams realise they're on the same side. However, if Avengers: Doomsday is following the comics, it could be that an Incursion between their respective worlds is taking place. 

Many fans already expect Avengers: Doomsday to double up as an Avengers vs. X-Men movie, and Cumming's comments suggest Marvel's First Family will side with Earth's Mightiest Heroes. 

"Isn't it nuts? I'm excited and amazed," Cumming said of his Nightcrawler return last month. "It's been 23 years since I was a superhero. I've had some makeup tests already for the role, but what's great about it was that before it was about 4 and a half hours to apply it, but now it's only 90 minutes."

"Before, all of the tattoos were done by hand. They hadn't decided on them before we started filming. Now, they just stick onto my face. It's a game changer," he continued. "I'm going back to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everyone seems really lovely."

You can hear more from Cumming in the player below. 

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CyberNigerian
CyberNigerian - 5/7/2025, 1:22 PM
The Marvel snipers on alert
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 5/7/2025, 4:10 PM
@CyberNigerian - they don’t exist anymore. Spoilers news are pretty much expected and the norm now. I’m sure studios “leak” more info than actual leakers. The endings of movies are released two months before the movie actually comes out now.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 5/7/2025, 1:22 PM
Title of the article could be "Cumming on Pedro"
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 5/7/2025, 1:25 PM
@AllsNotGood - careful...Pedro may call you out as a loser for that. 🤣
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 5/7/2025, 1:27 PM
@AllsNotGood - you sound like a pedrophile
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 5/7/2025, 1:29 PM
@AllsNotGood - Title of article "SHOULD" be "Cumming on Predro".

Fixed it for you
AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 1:31 PM
@AllsNotGood - Good Luck Haters Disney is worth 196 billion U.S. dollars
SummersEssex
SummersEssex - 5/7/2025, 1:35 PM
@CorndogBurglar - This is the way.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 5/7/2025, 2:02 PM
@AllsGood -
Your worth

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Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/7/2025, 2:20 PM
@AllsNotGood -

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AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 5/7/2025, 3:04 PM
@AllsGood - read the room you have no supporters..... do you ever wonder why?
AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 3:19 PM
@AllsNotGood - read the same Room at Comic Book Movie website, and you only have 3 to 4 supporters. The World is a MUCH BIGGER Place than CBM website. Enjoy all your winning :) Ha Ha Ha Ha

Meanwhile Disney is worth 196 billion U.S. dollars. Much BIGGER than your 3 to 4 people here.

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AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 5/7/2025, 4:31 PM
@AllsGood - you have nobody
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 5/7/2025, 6:26 PM
@AllsGood -

You're a good person.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 1:29 PM
Good Luck Haters Disney is worth 196 billion U.S. dollars

The Walt Disney Company has total assets amounting to more than 196 billion U.S. dollars as of 2024. Additionally, Disney generated a net income of 4.97 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year of 2024.

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 1:46 PM
@AllsGood - User Comment Image
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 5/7/2025, 1:46 PM
@AllsGood - how much of the company do you own? Who cares. Go outside and play.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 5/7/2025, 1:48 PM
@AllsGood - This is great news. Now I don’t feel guilty for not paying to see any of their movie since endgame.
AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 2:21 PM
@ObserverIO - Disney is Worth 196 billion U.S. dollars.

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AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 2:28 PM
@CAPTAINPINKEYE - Disney

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Lucasberg
Lucasberg - 5/7/2025, 2:50 PM
@AllsGood - lol - why are you picking Disney to defend? I mean, I'm a Marvel and Star Wars fan (still), despite all of the crap they've created over the past 5 years but you gotta call a thing crappy when its being crappy and marvel has largely been crappy for awhile now...as has been Disney.

Why are you proud of Disney being worth 196 billion hahahah
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 5/8/2025, 4:01 AM
@AllsGood - You would take a bullet for Disney. Even though they do not know you nor care, and your only relationship to them is that you worship the company and probably give them a lot of your time and money.

I don’t care about a corporation’s success. They make good stuff and terrible stuff. And I pick and choose. But you worship the shit and the cake, and it’s weird.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/7/2025, 1:31 PM
That sounds like it could be a really fun moment likely due to mistaken identity…

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Given the end credits of Thunderbolts and this bit of info , I wouldn’t be surprised if the FF are with the New Avengers in Doomsday while the X-Men are with Sam’s group.
FrankenDad
FrankenDad - 5/7/2025, 1:47 PM
Does he still have that cologne called Cumming?
MrDandy
MrDandy - 5/7/2025, 1:51 PM
And then he got an irritated call from Kevin Fiege.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/7/2025, 1:53 PM
his name has cum in it
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Goldboink
Goldboink - 5/7/2025, 2:22 PM
@harryba11zack -

And Ming!

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spr0cks
spr0cks - 5/7/2025, 3:31 PM
@harryba11zack -

Also,....his name has 'cum in'.....in it.

Or as his fellow Brits would say,.....innit?
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 5/7/2025, 2:00 PM
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AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/7/2025, 2:35 PM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - More like this.

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OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 5/7/2025, 6:00 PM
@AllsGood - Nah, you're much more like this

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HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 5/7/2025, 2:00 PM
Hmmm so werre getting old man Night Crawler
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 2:07 PM
@HammerLegFoot - The next two movies will be 50% Old Man/Woman Everybody and 50% Young Nobodies.
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 5/7/2025, 2:08 PM
@ObserverIO - sounds great, right?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 2:14 PM
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As long as the reboot is 100% Young Somebodies.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/7/2025, 2:15 PM
(and no, legacy characters do not count as somebodies)
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 5/7/2025, 2:20 PM
@ObserverIO - Ya know what, now that you've made me think about it...
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 5/7/2025, 3:22 PM
@ObserverIO - we're living in a creative black of hole.
Thing94
Thing94 - 5/7/2025, 2:12 PM
Knock off Pedro's mustache, Nightcrawler!
WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 5/7/2025, 2:19 PM
It seems like Marvel is starting to get back on its feet

Just watched the thunderbolts

Pretty good

But most importantly, I left with massive hype about the Sentry
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