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Nightcrawler’s teleport, X-Men #95 (1975)
BAMF!
— X-Men · 1963
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The compact burst of lettering lets a reader hear the interruption as Nightcrawler vanishes or arrives. It gives his movement a character of its own: sudden, strange and immediately recognisable. The familiar noise can announce him before the next panel shows where he has gone.
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In context
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‘BAMF’ is the printed sound effect associated with Nightcrawler's teleportation in the X-Men comics. Written histories place an early use in X-Men #95 (1975); later stories also use ‘Bamf’ as the name of small Nightcrawler-like creatures, which is a separate use of the word. Here it is the recurring teleportation sound, not dialogue he says aloud. The attribution identifies the effect and the character it accompanies.
Sources (3)
- The Uncanny X-Men #95 — written source 1sound effect (recurs); quotation and sceneReference checked
- The Uncanny X-Men #95 — written source 2sound effect (recurs); quotation and sceneReference checked
- The Uncanny X-Men #95 — written source 3sound effect (recurs); quotation and sceneReference checked
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