Why didn't Nightcrawler teleport everyone to a far place?
At the end of X-Men 2 (2003), when they're trying to escape from the flood, why didn't Nightcrawler, teleport everyone to a far place?
Best Answer
There wasn't time.
Although Nightcrawler's powers aren't really covered very well, in the movies he is limited as to the amount he can carry at anyone time, usually this is one person.
He'd have to grab each person in turn, teleport them away, teleport back, grab the next and continue repeating until they were all away.
This would have taken too long as there were a lot of people to transport and the physical toll would likely have killed him.
Nightcrawler is able to teleport to any place, as long as he knows where he is going. His teleportation gives him the appearance of being vaporized into a very brief puff of blue or pure black smoke or gas wherever he teleports to or from. As a teenager, Nightcrawler could not teleport mulitple people without risk of extreme exhaustion or fatigue.
Of course, out-of-universe, it's because Jean holding back the water is much cooler.
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Can Nightcrawler teleport anywhere?
Under optimal conditions, teleporting only himself and his costume, Nightcrawler can displace himself a distance of about 2 miles east-to-west, and up to 3 miles north-to-south. Making a vertical teleportation upwards is difficult and dangerous.How many people can Nightcrawler teleport with?
Even at his most impressive, Nightcrawler typically can only teleport himself and maybe one other person a couple of hundred miles -- such as when he teleported himself and Hope across multiple states to reach Utopia (despite being fatally wounded) in Second Coming.Can Nightcrawler teleport to space?
His own teleportation powers also amplified by Cortez, Nightcrawler teleports up into space and grabs the plummeting moon. He then proceeds to teleport it - once, twice, a third time, and again, until it is returned to orbit around Mars.What is the farthest Nightcrawler has teleported?
He has been shown to be able to teleport distances of up to two miles (3 km) under optimal conditions, although this is usually his outer limit, and he can become severely fatigued if he tries to teleport that distance; he has exceeded this limit on multiple occasions.Why didn't Lukaku work at Chelsea?
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