Nightcrawler (Inhumanoids)
Nightcrawler is a male cartoon villain who features in Inhumanoids.
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Biography
Dr. Herman Manglar was a male human scientist who began a career as a geneticist with him secretly engineering monstrous creatures in his laboratory. He was eventually discovered and arrested leading to his imprisonment at the Glades Penitentiary. At some point, he came to share a prison cell alongside Blackthorne Shore who had been arrested for siding with the Inhumanoids. During this time, a sentient computer known as the Cypheroid decided to free Blackthorne with Manglar participating in the prison breakout. The pair escaped the prison but whilst fleeing through the swamp waters Herman accidently fell into a pool of illegally dumped toxic sludge leading to his horrific demise. Despite his death, his remains were recovered by Blackthorne who took the decaying body with him as he formed an alliance with D'Compose who agreed to use his powers to reanimate the dead Manglar. Through a simple touch, his powers led to the resurrection of Manglar who was transformed into a twisted monstrous body as he took the name Nightcrawler. With his new body, he proceeded in aiding D'Compose by creating a formula that was designed to make him immune to sunlight. This led to the creation of the Cult of the Undead with Blackthorne operating in the guise of Brother Druid who brought to him the disenfranchised and disaffected youth to his banner where mind control gas was made to make them suggestable. They were then exposed to D'Compose whose touch turned them into powerful undead minions that gathered the chemicals needed for the formula.
After being resurrected as the monstrous Nightcrawler by the Inhumanoid D'Compose, the former Dr. Herman Manglar immediately resumed his life of villainy, but with a new, mutated purpose. His first major task was to use his geneticist knowledge to create a formula that would protect D'Compose from the sun's lethal rays, aided by chemicals gathered by Blackthorne Shore's 'Brother Druid' cult. In this time, Nightcrawler was successful in making himself sunlight-immune and provided the formula to D'Compose. However, Blackthorne and Nightcrawler were captured and taken in by the authorities where they were set to appear in court. Before judgement could be made, D'Compose broke into the court house from below where he was angered as the formula Nightcrawler had provided was a failure as the sun still burnt the undead Inhumanoids flesh. Enraged, he looked to take out his anger on Blackthorne and Nightcrawler who he intended to crush but the pair managed to escape. Fearing of being pursued by D'Compose, the two looked for a means at combating the Inhumanoid with Shore deciding that they needed an ally. From old records, he decided to uncover an ancient monster that they could control and use against D'Compose. Travelling to a remote volcano, the site contained dangerously high levels of radiation that was needed at a nest for the Gagoyle. A cluster of the eggs wee then ready to hatch where the ever hungry creature consumed all its siblings until it grew to massive size. The ferocious beast was perfect for the task needed by Blackthorne and Nightcrawler who looked for a means to control it.
Recognizing the raw power of the brutish and insatiably hungry beast, Nightcrawler domesticated it and saw an opportunity for a power play. In a ruthless act of betrayal, he hurled Blackthorne into the Gagoyle's feeding pit to force his subservience, though Blackthorne ultimately managed to escape during a conflict with the Redwoods. With the Gagoyle now under his control, Nightcrawler marched on Metlar's realm of Skellweb in a plot to challenge D'Compose for control, but his bid for dominance was swiftly crushed when Metlar refused to be intimidated. The monstrous leader of the Inhumanoids fought the creature in a fierce battle and toppling it into a massive chasm of magma, seemingly killing it. Nightcrawler was forced to flee, and Blackthorne's desire for vengeance eventually led him to a new and even more powerful Inhumanoid ally, Sslither.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Herman Manglar was a male human being with ordinary features. This changed though when he died and was resurrected using the power of D'Compose. His overall appearance was a skeletal grotesquerie, the exposed bones of his former human self, Dr. Herman Manglar, showing through. The most disturbing detail was the way his chest had rotted away to reveal not only his skeleton but also a sinister, pulsating heart still beating within his undead form. However, the most distinctive feature of this reanimated geneticist was his right arm, which had been transformed into a long, menacing tendril. This arm was a spine-like appendage that he could extend and manipulate like a tentacle. His head was just as monstrous, possessing a dinosaur-like quality, and his hands ended in a single, decrepit claw. Overall, Nightcrawler's resurrected body was a nightmarish parody of its former self
One of the most defining aspects of Nightcrawler's personality was his insatiable and treacherous ambition, a trait that was present in his life as Dr. Herman Manglar and only intensified after his monstrous resurrection. Before his death, he was a morally bankrupt geneticist imprisoned for creating monsters, proving his willingness to perform unethical acts for his own ends. This inherent malevolence and lust for power did not diminish in his undead form; in fact, his new existence as a rotting monster seemed to deepen his cruel and cunning nature. His betrayal of Blackthorne Shore was a prime example of this: after Blackthorne had gone through the effort of resurrecting him, Nightcrawler wasted no time in attempting to establish his own dominance, seizing control of the Gagoyle and callously trying to have his ally devoured. This demonstrated a cold, self-serving opportunism, as he saw every alliance not as a partnership, but as a stepping stone to greater power. Nightcrawler's actions throughout the series were consistently driven by this desire for control and dominance, whether it was formulating schemes to weaken D'Compose or later using his knowledge for even more destructive plots. His intellectual capacity for scheming, combined with his undead ruthlessness, made him a particularly dangerous and untrustworthy villain.
Powers and abilities
In his original state, Manglar was a gifted and experienced geneticist with it noted that he had created monsters in his laboratory. He retained these traits even after his transformation where he could create a range of formula and serum.
As Nightcrawler, he was much stronger with him able to match those in power suits. His right arm had been transformed into a long tendril that could extend allowing him to whip people from a distance.
Notes
- Nightcrawler was created by Flint Dille where he was voiced by actor William Callaway and featured in the setting of the Inhumanoids universe.
Appearances
- Inhumanoids: (1986)
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