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Re: NM24 - Process
Traditionally, Nightcrawler's teleportation requires that he see what he is teleporting to. If he can't see where he is going, there is a risk that he will materialize inside of something, the wall which was thicker than he guessed, a wall behind the wall, a person behind the wall, the ground which is higher behind the wall, etc. The second X-MEN movie actually takes a brief moment to explain this when he is teleporting Storm into the mock Cerebro, which was a nice nod to comic readers. If he already knows where he is going, because he was there before or can see footage of it or something like that, then the risk is reduced, but it still remains. And, it would be too difficult to work in a mechanic which accounts for this.
Mechanically it gives Nightcrawler different limitations when teleporting than it does Deadpool, Lady Viper, or Wolverine as Death. It also seems a fair way to balance the added bonus that Nightcrawler carries figures as well.
Further, I'm not sure that the argument that Nightcrawler should be able to teleport beyond what he can see in front of him despite how he is written holds, because it is clearly a well defined limitation which has been repeatedly brought up over the character's history and is not so much an oversight of creative imagination on the part of comic writers.
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