It was a pig in a poke, anyway.

But did you buy the rights?

If he could survive being written by Ron Zimmerman, he can survive anything.

Well, except for Groucho glasses. See Thor 357.

I thought all those alternate covers were just a form or artistic expression.

And appear invisible to electronic scanners, except when everyone forgets that.

He actually did come back as a cyborg in Lethal Foes of Spider-Man back in the '90s, but then died again.

You shut your foul mouth!

No, she's in Ultimates2.

They're only mostly dead.

Or Mar-Vell. Marvel has faked fans out before (first Civil War, for instance), but I'm skeptical that they would bring him back. Mostly because his death from cancer remains tragically relevant, but also because his death is pretty much the only interesting thing about him. I mean really, except for fighting Thanos,…

Bet-Ray Bill walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Why the long face?"

I think my favorite alien encounter with humans is Sphere (novel, not the movie). Humans encounter a device from an alien civilization that bestows amazing powers but have no idea how to handle it. At the end, tow of the survivors assume that it must be a weapon, designed to either kill humans or test their…

Beware the mighty Septopus
What a dandy guy
He lives on top of the submarine
And he's always eating pies

He'd dress his ass in the latest fashion, get a font door key to the Playboy Mansion, date a centerfold who loves to blow his money for him.
(Does this make me look fat?)

Watch out for his velocipede!

Plus the movie has to appeal to the Chinese market.

There's always Outlaw of Gor.

When I was a boy an eldritch book informed me I'd inherited the Innsmouth look/
I'd gills and wide-spaced eyes, you see, and I flicked at the bottom of the deep blue sea/
I went to the ocean's depths so willingly, and now I am a tentacled monstrosity.

Nightcrawler is special, though. He isn't just blue. His body is constantly covered by the dimensional portal he uses to teleport. This absorbs light, which is why his body disappears in shadows.