BIOGRAPHY - Page 4
Meanwhile, Kurt began to grow a little too close to Meggan for Captain Britain's comfort. Brian was suffering from a "blunder jinx" cast on him by Roma to keep Excalibur together, but its effects were creating a rift between him and Meggan, prompting her to see Kurt for comfort. This all came to a head when Excalibur reluctantly allowed the Technet to bunk with them in the now-crowded lighthouse. Already at his boiling point after a series of innocent (but annoying) mishaps with the bounty hunters, the Captain chanced upon Kurt and Meggan in what appeared to be a compromising position. The resulting skirmish trashed the lighthouse and left Nightcrawler with a broken leg. [Excalibur (1st series) #43]
At this point, the various Excalibur members went their separate ways for various reasons, while Kurt stayed behind with the Technet to heal his wounds and supervise their activities. Kurt involved the aliens in the investigation of a series of robberies in order to keep them occupied and even took to giving them Xavier School-style uniforms and calling them his "N-Men." They made new allies with F.I.6 agent Micromax, the extra-dimensional Kylun and the extra-terrestrial Cerise. The Technet left Earth just prior to Excalibur's reunification, claiming the planet had only a few hours left. [Excalibur (1st series) #45-47]
Nightcrawler, Excalibur and their new members soon learned for themselves about the peril when they encountered Necrom and his Anti-Phoenix. This was the mission Excalibur had been gathered for in the first place by Roma and Saturnyne: the salvation of the Omniverse itself. To accomplish this, a convergence of realities gave Excalibur the once-in-a-lifetime power to "phase" into each other as a single being. Nightcrawler and the other four original members each brought something to the gestalt, enabling them to properly align the energy matrix which supported the Multiverse. Following the defeat of Necrom and the foiling of Merlyn's own personal plot, Excalibur relocated to Braddock Manor with the destruction of their lighthouse. It was around this time that Nightcrawler clearly assumed the role of team leader, though he had acted as such unofficially for quite some time. [Excalibur (1st series) #50]
Kurt also took it upon himself to initiate Cerise in the ways of Earth. When the alien had materialized at the lighthouse in the midst of 
Nightcrawler, Kylun and the Technet, asking which one of them resembled Earth's dominant lifeform, Kurt had to confess that, of them all, ironically, Cerise herself looked the closest to a human being. The Shi'Ar was totally unfamiliar with Earth culture, so Kurt helped her getting settled in and began a personal relationship with her. She especially liked the Earth custom of "lip massages." [Excalibur (1st series) #55]
At his old friend Jutta's request, Kurt returned to his hometown of Winzeldorf to investigate some strange incidences in the surrounding countryside. During his investigation, he learned of a race of monstrous-looking humanoids called the Neuri who hid amongst the humans in peace — and that these were the same creatures his adoptive brother Stefan had been murdering before his death, having pierced their disguise. Kurt learned that Stefan had been killing them without cause, and that his friends in the circus were now continuing the genocide in his stead. Teaming up with Wolverine, Nightcrawler tried to prevent the villagers from exterminating the last of the strange race of humanoids, but could not convince either party that there were resolutions to the conflict that did not require the extermination of the Neuri. [Marvel Comics Presents (1st series) #101-108]
While a prisoner/guest of Nigel Orphington-Smythe and his Cloud Nine facility, Nightcrawler received an extensive research on the working mechanisms of his power. The staff of Cloud Nine claimed that a strange illness had befallen the Warpies and, with the test on Nightcrawler, they wanted to find a cure. However, Excalibur soon found that they had been lied to. After the following battle, one of the liberated children repaired Nightcrawler's torn costume, though the Warpie Silkworm made a few alterations. [Excalibur (1st series) #63-64]
Shortly thereafter, Excalibur began to fall apart. Captain Britain was lost in the timestream during a return trip from the future and Meggan fell into a comatose depression because of this. Other members also drifted away on a variety of personal matters. Worse for Kurt was the revelation that Cerise was a mass murderer, wanted by the Shi'ar for war crimes. Cerise proved guilty of the accusations (though she had just cause) and nobly accepted responsibility for her actions. She was relocated to the Shi'ar Empire to serve out her sentence as an emissary for Lilandra. With galaxies between them, there was no way to continue their relationship. [Excalibur (1st series) #68-70]
With only Shadowcat and Phoenix left, Nightcrawler moved the team to the Muir Island Research Center, where they would attempt a more proactive approach to "super-heroing." Excalibur would increase its membership in the following weeks, including the return of Amanda Sefton — Nightcrawler's long-time ex-girlfriend, who had taken the codename Daytripper. Kurt and Amanda made peace and began attempting to rekindle their romance. Soon after, Nightcrawler was involved in a conflict with Mystique and Graydon Creed, which led to the shocking revelation that she was his mother. [Excalibur (1st series) #75, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #4]
Kurt barely had time to process this before having to deal with his new teammate, Douglock, 
and his progenitors, the Phalanx, the revelation that Moira MacTaggert was the first human to become afflicted by the Legacy Virus and the W.H.O's splinter agency, Black Air, roping Excalibur into becoming involved in the Genoshan situation. Excalibur's time in Genosha led them unwittingly into the shadow world of Black Air and other secret agencies, especially once Pete Wisdom, the team's liaison to Black Air, quit his organization to join Excalibur. Kurt dealt with the repercussions of Wisdom's arrival, as well as the fallout from a mentally unhinged Colossus finding his way to Muir Island. Nightcrawler began to adapt a more fierce outlook, which was reflected in his new costume, buzzcut, goatee, and ever-present pair of swords. [Excalibur (1st series) #97]
Kurt and Amanda's relationship came to an abrupt end when she left the group all of a sudden to pursue her own goals. [Excalibur (1st series) #108] Nightcrawler carried Excalibur through a number of conflicts, including the Dragons of the Crimson Dawn, Sidri Hunters and a resolution to the team's private war with Black Air and their allies in the London Hellfire Club.
When Nightcrawler accompanied Pete Wisdom to Germany, they were attacked and captured by an operative of Black Air, who had an old score to settle with Wisdom. Not really interested in Nightcrawler, 
Black Air delivered the fuzzy mutant to someone who had a real hatred for him. In Venice, Italy, Kurt came around and found himself face to face with a group of Sidri... mutant Sidri. They happened to be the aliens from the ship that Kurt and Kitty had tried to help all that time ago, the attempt having misfired and caused the aliens to mutate. The mutant Sidri no longer accepted by their race and treated as outcasts, wanted to exact revenge upon Nightcrawler. Fortunately, Excalibur tracked them down in time and, during the battle, the aliens' contact with Douglock's technological components provided them with the means to reverse the mutation. As such, they decided to no longer pursue their vendetta and returned home, into space. [Excalibur (1st series) #116-117]