He is from Winzeldorf in the German state of Bavaria (in the TV animated series it was Neuherzl) and was once a performer in the Munich circus. With a bizarre, almost-demonic appearance, and often dubbed 'elf' and 'changeling' in the ...
it was his family's bestate/b. i had no bank books, no jewels that weren't heirlooms, nothing squirreled away. i was barely able to hold my changes, and i was still too weak to find work, even when i tried my luck as a man. several men. ...
nightcrawler tells cyclops he is quitting the team because he feels the x-men don't need him. he decides to go to the opening of a nightcrawler museum in bwinzeldorf/b, germany, the place where prof. x had saved him from a mob. ...
