Andre’s Reviews > X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler #1 (X-Men Origins > Status Update

Belief it or not, but with their lack of head scarfs and the few hints of christianity these gypsies here are probably the closest to reality that have seen from Marvel so far, yet still, they are portrayed as being somewhere out in the wilderness and dressing in nothing like beggar clothes and being overtly superstitious and in the case of Kurt's family, unable to help themselves.

Ok, since I could not find pictures online on how the "gypsies" were portrayed here, but they look kind of like this:


However, German Sinti in the 1980s and 90s looked like this:

Well, funny thing: That 1975 snipped from Kurt's first appearance not only has more realistic clothes, but it has him howling. And he still doesn't teleport away... for some reason.

That "the man Kurt Szardos died in the fire is dead" so he is called Kurt Wagner is totally stupid and unnecessary, not only is "Wagner" a name that a German Roma family could easily have, heck there is a guy who actually has that name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJNR...

So Professor X compelled Getmann to be nice to Kurt's family... is this supposed to explain that he basically abandoned them? Writers, if he is actually a "Roma" he probably would not do that here, or just a decent person in general would not just go and just accept anything the Prof said, especially since Kurt knows what the Prof can do.

So this time his name is Kurt Szardos... well it makes more sense than the 1997 version were we had no idea why he was called Kurt Wagner.

Oh my god, the houses.... Look there are houses preserved in the old style, but they do not look this shitty.

Great, more random Bible verses to sound cool, this was dumb when they wanted to show Kurt's "transformation" but here its even dumber.

Ok, it is realistic that the church has candles, albeit not for main illumination, but the banks look really simplistic and Kurt's bed seems to be made out of wood and straw. Seriously? That is completely impossible in the 1980s and 1990s.

Kurt apparently wanted to die, so why did his teleportation power kick in? Was it subconscious that he actually wanted to flee?