Alan Cumming is back for “Avengers: Doomsday,” revising his role as the blue-skinned, sword-wielding, teleporting Nightcrawler. While Cumming famously didn’t love his time on “X2” (the character did not return for “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the actor said his second turn in the pointy ears was a healing experience.

Alan Cumming is opening up about how playing Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday was actually "really healing" after his "terrible experience" in 2003's X2: X-Men United. The actor recently told People at the Televerse 2025 conference that he "just finished" filming the Russo brothers' highly anticipated Doomsday film,

Or, maybe there’s some kind of intense, gory scene he’s involved in. The only spoiler Cumming let slip about Doomsday was that he hits Pedro Pascal’s Reed over the head with something. Whatever Nightcrawler’s role is in the new MCU movie, I’m all for it!