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Originally Posted by The Destroyer Alan Cumming apparently didn't want to go through the makeup process again for what was apparently going to be a very minor role, so he decided not to come back. Not Toad, basically. Just some nameless mutant with similar powers who ended up getting depowered during the attack on Worthington Labs.

Actually, Alan had it on his website for awhile that he was ready and eager to get to work on the next movie. He signed a contract to appear in two films, they simply decided to axe Nightcrawler from the script this go around.

Of course, I think it was because they were trying this whole "Matrix mass mediam" thing. Ya know, when they had the movie, the Animatrix, and the game all come out around the same time, and they all fed into each other? Kind of like how the X3 game is supposed to explain why Nightcrawler isn't in the movie.