It's hard to imagine anyone other than Alan Cumming playing Nightcrawler, but the X-Men character was nearly played by a How I Met Your Mother star.

Alan Cumming is grateful for his latest turn as Nightcrawler in the new Avengers: Doomsday — especially after describing his initial experience in X2 as “terrible.” It’s been 23 years since Cumming, ...

Alan Cumming called the experience of reprising his role as mutant hero Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday “really healing” after the “miserable” filming of X2: X-Men United. Speaking to People in a ...