OMG. I love emo-boy model-esque pretty-pretty doe-eyed Nightcrawler in Wolverine and the X-Men. Him and his fabulous homosexual tendencies combined. I've been watching really homoerotic comic-cartoons all last night and today being sick and what-not (I was so sick last night that I was crying, oh goodness D:), and it's made me realize why people have been complaining since the 1930s about superheroes and their fantastic tight-tights that are 'influencing the children of America to have subconscious sexual tendencies'.
Apparently it was a big fear throughout parents in the 1930s that their children would have boy-crushes on Batman. And become influenced to live the 'same path as Batman' and believe that 'Batman's ways of living (homoeroticism, sleeping in the same beds as a child one third of your age, living without any female romantic interest what-so-ever, frequent bemusing interest in a man three times your age without any feeling of paternalism, and of course, wearing dressing-gowns) would make children believe that they were the norm'. I find it interesting that so many people seem to believe or even outright encourage (though mostly it's with a 'I guess it's unavoidable to think so, what with that
Robin and all' opinion) that Batman is gay or at least ambiguosly homoerotic. Actors laugh about vaguely sexual poses they've had to do when playing Batman and Robin. Reviews of Batman call Joker and Batman 'the Homosexual Nightmare' and many of the comic-writers admit that it's a reasonable idea.
I don't know why I know all of this, or why I spent hours researching this all, but I do find it all very intriguing. And all of this happens and Cartoon Network still shrugs it's shoulders and plays the episodes where Batman enfolds Dick Grayson into his arms and such. And that makes me incredibly happy, you know.
But besides that, Nightcrawler in X-Men is totally fabulous. I'll just pretend that the movies don't exist, at least not the ones with him in it, and just watch ignorantly Wolverine and the X-Men on TV. In which Nightcrawler has an emo-boy hair-cut and speaks, like, fan-boy German (and really the only German thing he says is 'UND' instead of 'and' which both bothers me incredibly so and makes me want to giggle), and has an angsty German!past and makes Wolverine travel, like, hundreds of miles across oceans to rescue him and comfort him and they constantly touch each other and glare at Kitty whenever she touches them.
Also I watched an episode of Batman where Robin got infected with fear!spores and had panic attacks a lot and couldn't fight or do anything except for cry and whine and Batman held him.