Nightcrawler (comics) Returning to the X-Men When did Nightcrawler return to the X-Men? Excalibur disbands and Nightcrawler returns to the X-Men with Shadowcat and Colossus. Yet,
Why did Excalibur disband?
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For a time, Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler express some resentment over the X-Men's failing to contact them after their supposed deaths. Following the wedding of Captain Britain and Meggan, Excalibur disbands and Nightcrawler returns to the X-Men with Shadowcat and Colossus. Yet, as soon as they return, they face a group of impostors following Cerebro, in the guise of Professor X.  Wanting to devote more time to priesthood, Nightcrawler shares team leadership with Archangel. However, his work as a priest is retconned to be an illusion; he had, in fact, never attained priesthood. He has also met his half-brothers Nils Styger, alias Abyss, and Kiwi Black. With them, Nightcrawler defeated his father Azazel, who had tried to use him as a pawn in escaping his prison.  Later, Nightcrawler served as the new leader of the Uncanny X-Men team alongside Wolverine, Bishop, Psylocke, Cannonball, and Marvel Girl. In the last mission against the Foursaken, Nightcrawler took Marvel Girl, Psylocke, Bishop, and Cannonball to Central Park. He later helped Storm liberate Africa from her uncle's control.  Afterwards, Professor X recruited him, along with Darwin, Havok, Marvel Girl, Warpath, and Polaris, to participate in a space mission to stop Vulcan from laying waste to the Shi'ar empire. During the battle with Vulcan, Nightcrawler helps get the injured Professor X and Darwin back to their spaceship. While there, trying to save Professor X, Lilandra sent the ship on its way back to Earth, leaving half the team behind.  Kurt is still part of Professor X's team, helping Charles find Magneto before the government does, while the rest of the team search for the Morlocks. CANNOTANSWER
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Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur.

Excalibur may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities
 Excalibur (comics), a superhero group in Marvel Comics (see below for comics featuring the group)
 Faiza Hussain, later codenamed Excalibur, a Marvel Comics superhero
 Excalibur, a talking sword character in Soul Eater
 Excalibur, the sword used by Saber throughout most of the Fate series
 Excalibur, the sword which was broken into seven different swords in High School DxD
 Excalibur, the right arm of Capricorn Saint from Saint Seiya
 Excalibur, a sword in the video game Sonic and the Black Knight (2009)
 Excalibur, a sword in the manga The Seven Deadly Sins (Nanatsu no Taizai)
 Excalibur, an obtainable sword in the video game Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
 Excalibur, a playable character from Warframe
 Excalibur, an obtainable sword in the video game Terraria

Literature
 Excalibur (comic book), several comic books featuring the Marvel Comics group
 Excalibur (L. Ron Hubbard), an unpublished 1938 manuscript composed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
 Excalibur (novel), a 1973 fantasy novel by Sanders Anne Laubenthal
 Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur, a 1997 novel by Bernard Cornwell in his series The Warlord Chronicles

Music
 Excalibur (Grave Digger album), 1999
 Excalibur (rock opera), a 1998 rock opera written and directed by Alan Simon
 Excalibur (Tom Fogerty album), 1972

Rollercoasters
 Excalibur (Funtown Splashtown USA), a roller coaster at Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco, Maine, United States
 Excalibur (Valleyfair), a roller coaster at Valleyfair amusement park in Shakopee, Minnesota, United States
 Excalibur, a former roller coaster at Six Flags AstroWorld

Television
 "Excalibur", a 1985 episode of the cartoon G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
 Excalibur, a BBC Two television ident first aired in 2000 (see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents)

Video games
 Excalibur (video game), a 1983 video game 
 Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, a 2007 first-person shooter video game
 Excalibur 2555 AD, a 1997 action-adventure video game

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Excalibur (film), a 1981 film about the legend of King Arthur
 Excalibur (newspaper), the community newspaper of York University, Toronto

Brands and enterprises
 Excalibur (nightclub), a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, United States
 Excalibur, a brand of non-stick surface
 Excalibur Airways, a defunct UK airline
 Excalibur Hotel and Casino, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
 Excalibur series, an electric guitar built by Vigier Guitars
 HTC Excalibur, a smartphone manufactured by High Tech Computer

Computing and technology
 Apache Excalibur, a project to produce a set of software components for the Java programming language
 DARPA's Excalibur program, an attempt to apply phased-array optics to laser weapons
 Excalibur, a prehistoric axe made of red quartzite found at the Archaeological site of Atapuerca, Spain
 Excalibur BBS, a Windows-based GUI BBS client
 Project Excalibur, an initiative to develop an orbiting nuclear-bomb-pumped X-ray laser

Places
 Excalibur (Arizona), a summit in Arizona, United States
 Excalibur Estate, a housing estate in Catford, South London, England
 Excalibur Pot, a cave/pothole in the North Yorkshire Moors, United Kingdom

Transport
 Excalibur (automobile), an American specialty car introduced in 1963 with bodywork similar to a 1928 Mercedes-Benz
 Excalibur (racing yacht), an Australian racing yacht
 Excalibur, one of three Sikorsky VS-44 flying boats
 Excalibur Aircraft Excalibur, an ultralight aircraft
 Excalibur 800, an aftermarket conversion of the Beechcraft Twin Bonanza twin-engined aircraft, originally developed by Swearingen Aircraft
 Excalibur Queen Air, a similar aftermarket conversion of the Beechcraft Queen Air twin-engined aircraft, also originally developed by Swearingen
 HMS Excalibur, a ship in the British Royal Navy
 Lockheed Model 44 Excalibur, a cancelled four-engined airliner

Weapons
 Excalibur rifle Mark-I, a modified version of the INSAS assault rifle  
 M982 Excalibur, 155mm GPS-guided extended range artillery projectile

Other uses
 British Columbia Excalibur Party, a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada
 Excalibur (wrestler), wrestler for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 Excalibur Primary School, a school in Alsager, United Kingdom

See also
 King Arthur (disambiguation)
 The Sword in the Stone (disambiguation)
 Xcalibur (disambiguation) Marc Letzmann (born July 16, 1980), better known by his ring name Excalibur, is an American former professional wrestler and current color commentator for All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is one of the six founders of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he continues to work as the company's "Liaison to the Board of Directors". After retiring from in-ring competition in 2007, he became the company's lead play-by-play commentator.

Professional wrestling career

Early career
While writing for a wrestling video game website, Excalibur met Super Dragon online. Through chatting online, the two became friends and it helped spark the beginning of Excalibur's career. After spending a year in college, Excalibur chose to move to California to begin his wrestling career and also get work in his full-time profession, graphic design. He cited having an "in" to Revolution Pro Wrestling as the reason he decided to leave his hometown of Detroit. After moving to California in late 1999, Excalibur spent six months living in Super Dragon's garage, until finally renting a place of his own.

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2003–2008)
Excalibur is one of the six owners of Southern California-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and is collectively known as one of the "PWG Six", in reference to his partial founding of the company. On PWG's debut show, he defeated Chris Bosh. Soon after, Excalibur became a member of the stable SBS with Super Dragon and Disco Machine. While with SBS, Excalibur and Super Dragon won the company's Tag Team Championship from Quicksilver and Chris Bosh. They became the first team in PWG's history to successfully defend the title, but they eventually lost them to Joey Ryan and Scott Lost.

At All Nude Revue, someone dressed as Super Dragon attacked the real Super Dragon after a match. On May 13 at Jason Takes PWG!, it was revealed that Excalibur was the mastermind of the attacks on Super Dragon and that Kevin Steen was the attacker, resulting in Excalibur becoming a heel. After subsequently turning on Super Dragon, Excalibur defeated him in a Guerrilla Warfare Match. After the match, Disco Machine made his way to the ring to aid Super Dragon. On June 11 at Guitarmegeddon, Disco Machine teamed with Super Dragon in a losing effort to Excalibur and Kevin Steen. After the match, Disco turned on Dragon and united with Excalibur and Steen, with the three now calling themselves the "new" SBS. On July 9 at Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza, the new SBS defeated Dragon, El Generico and Human Tornado in a six-man tag team elimination match. At part two of the event the following night, Excalibur and Disco were unable to win a number one contender's four-team elimination match after Generico pinned Disco. At Zombies Shouldn't Run on August 10, Excalibur and Disco gained an "apprentice" in Ronin, and stated that he would face a test to see if he would be allowed to join the group. After the SBS's scheduled opponents, Los Luchas, did not appear, the SBS and Ronin instead competed against and defeated the team of Top Gun Talwar, Hook Bomberry and Mr. Excitement. At the first-ever Battle of Los Angeles event, the SBS and Chris Sabin lost to Talwar, Bomberry and Human Tornado. However, the SBS won at part two of the event the following night, as they and Ronin defeated Sabin, Bomberry and T.J. Perkins. At part two of All Star Weekend 2: Electric Boogaloo on November 20, 2005, the SBS faced Super Dragon and Davey Richards for the World Tag Team Championship, but lost the match. On the first night of Battle of Los Angeles on September 2, 2006, Excalibur took part in a four-way elimination match for the World Championship that included Petey Williams, Human Tornado and then-champion Joey Ryan. After eliminating Williams, Excalibur was eliminated from the match by Ryan after Williams hit Excalibur with a piledriver. In May 2008, at the end of the DDT4 Night One event, Steen's then-six-month-old son appeared in a segment with Excalibur, in which Excalibur called him "ugly" and it prompted Steen to perform three consecutive package piledrivers on Excalibur before placing his son on top of Excalibur for the pin.

Independent circuit, retirement, and return to PWG (2005–present)
In addition to PWG, Excalibur began competing for various other promotions. In Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), he began wrestling mostly tag team matches with Super Dragon as his partner before splitting. Excalibur soon joined Beef Wellington and the duo became a comedic, yet popular, tag team dubbed Team Masturbation. While still in CZW, Excalibur had a short feud with Larry Sweeney, which culminated at Cage of Death 7, where they had an "interpromotional match", in which they performed promos back and forth between each other before competing in the actual match. In addition to his work in CZW, Excalibur performed at Ring of Honor, where he wrestled Super Dragon at the Do or Die show in 2004, and also Chikara, where he competed until his final match in 2006. After his final professional match in 2007, he returned to PWG and became the "Commissioner of Food & Beverage", which was later renamed to the "Liaison to the Board of Directors", as well as the company's lead play-by-play commentator. In 2011 on an episode of Colt Cabana's Art of Wrestling podcast, Excalibur stated that his reason for retiring was due to fearing that the concussions he suffered through his career would cause him to lose years off his life or that his brain would start to deteriorate at an early age.

On July 13, 2018, it was announced Excalibur would commentate the All In broadcast with Don Callis, Sean Mooney, Ian Riccaboni, Alicia Atout, Justin Roberts, and Bobby Cruise  In December he also was on color commentary for New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

All Elite Wrestling (2019–present)
Excalibur was announced as part of the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announce team during Episode 10 of "The Road to Double or Nothing," which premiered on April 10, 2019. AEW Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes said the first time he saw Excalibur and the mask, "I don't think I really got it, but if you watch All In back, he truly was the anchor of that show. I definitely get it now." Excalibur was part of the live stream of the Double or Nothing Ticket Announcement Party from Las Vegas, then was part of Double or Nothing starting with the Buy In pre-show, where he did play-by-play. Excalibur, along with Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone, provide play-by-play and color commentary for matches on Dynamite. Excalibur also provides play-by-play for matches on Rampage and Dark.

Championships and accomplishments
DDT Pro-Wrestling
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
PWG Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Super Dragon
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked No. 334 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2006
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Best Television Announcer (2020, 2021)

Lucha de Apuestas record

References

External links

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla official website

1980 births
All Elite Wrestling personnel
American color commentators
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Michigan
Professional wrestling announcers
Professional wrestling promoters
Sportspeople from Detroit Excalibur is the name of several comic book titles featuring the team Excalibur and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Excalibur comic book series which debuted in 1988.

Publication history

Excalibur (vol. 1, 1988–1998)
Excalibur's original creative team, writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer Alan Davis, incorporated elements of two Marvel properties: the X-Men and Captain Britain.  The resulting superhero team Excalibur first gathered together in Excalibur Special Edition #1 (1988) and were soon featured in a monthly series.

Davis left with Excalibur #24 (1990) and Claremont with Excalibur #34 (1991), leaving a number of various plot points unresolved before his departure. A year later, Davis returned as both writer and illustrator with Excalibur #42. He rejuvenated the series, returning to the (mostly) lighthearted tone of his original run, while resolving many of the plotlines Claremont had left dangling.

After Davis left again in 1993 (issue #67), Uncanny X-Men writer Scott Lobdell filled in for over a year (issues #68-82). Lobdell stated one of his key goals was to create a foundation for the series beyond being another X-Men spinoff, something both he and editor Bob Harras felt the series was lacking. In addition, the tone of the series changed as well, from a lighthearted, fun comic to a more grim and depressing series.

In 1994, Warren Ellis assumed writing duties (issue #83) and, using his dark sense of humor, helped the book gain its own voice once again.  Ellis left in 1996 (issue #103) and Ben Raab, his replacement (issue #106), failed to find a voice for the series, often borrowing plotlines from other X-books. Sales fell and Marvel canceled the series, which ended with issue #125 (1998).

Excalibur (vol. 2, 2001)
In 2001, a four-issue limited series titled Excalibur was published, written by Raab.  Originally solicited as Excalibur: Sword of Power, the subtitle was absent from the published issues, and, due to an error, the indicia described it as Excalibur volume 1. In addition, the solicited cover to issue #1 was unused.

Excalibur (vol. 3, 2004)
In 2004, Marvel Comics launched a new ongoing series titled Excalibur. Aside from the name and the writer (Claremont), it had no connection to Marvel's previous Excalibur titles. The series' last issue was #14, released in May, 2005.

The letters page of the final issue of Excalibur (vol. 3) announced a relaunch of the title as New Excalibur in November, 2005.

Excalibur (vol. 4, 2019)

Excalibur was relaunched as a part of Dawn of X in October 2019. The initial roster comprised includes Betsy Braddock as the new Captain Britain, Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee, Rictor and Apocalypse.

Roster

Supporting characters
Angel (Warren Worthington III)
Captain Britain Corps
Monarch (Jamie Braddock)
Merlyn
Morgan le Fay
Opal Luna Saturnyne
Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven)
Pete Wisdom and S.T.R.I.K.E.
Psylocke (Kwannon)

Prints

Collected editions

Epic Collections

References

1988 comics debuts
Comics by Chris Claremont
Excalibur (comics)
X-Men titles