On Deathstrike’s proper is Azazel, one other “X-Males” villain however a much less beloved one. Launched throughout Chuck Austen’s, let’s consider, unpopular run on “Uncanny X-Males,” Azazel is (or was, because it has since been retconned) the daddy of Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler. Like his son, Azazel is a teleporting mutant with a prehensile tail. Whereas Kurt has blue pores and skin, Azazel has purple — for good cause, as a result of he is additionally a millennia-old demon lord with a coronary heart as black as his look suggests.
Sixties-set prequel movie “X-Males: First Class” ditched the magical facet of Azazel. There, he is only a mutant concerned within the Hellfire Membership, a mutant supremacist group making an attempt to show the Chilly Warfare sizzling so the Kids of the Atom can rule the ashes. He is not explicitly linked to Nightcrawler both, however the film being a prequel and their powers being depicted with the identical particular results does suggest a connection. Azazel in “First Class” is Russian, right here, turning his look right into a humorous sufficient joke about purple (as in Soviet) devils and exhibiting how for the mutants, their identification trumps human ideology.
Jason Flemyng usually works with “First Class” director Matthew Vaughn (he hasn’t proven up in “Kingsman” but, however he did seem in “Layer Cake” and “Kick-Ass”). So it is not stunning that when Vaughn left “X-Males,” so did Flemyng; Azazel is killed offscreen within the hole between “First Class” and sequel “Days of Future Previous.” Will “Deadpool & Wolverine” trouble luring the actor again for what’s certain to be a small position? Keep tuned.
“Deadpool & Wolverine” is scheduled to launch in theaters on July 26, 2024.