Kurt Wagner born of the German decent was shunned at birth because of his blue skin, fangs, pointed ears, and long pointed tail.

Abandoned by his mother Raven Darkholme, also know as Mystique, Kurt was adopted into a family of gypsies. Margail Szardos founded Kurt and raised him as her own. She would tell Kurt that she found him lying next to his dying mother and his father Eric Wagner. Yet this revalation of events prove to be untrue. Kurt sometime ago came face to face with his mother. For many years the fact of Mystique being Kurt's mother was kept a secret. Leeks into the world of Marvel would keep the veiwers thinking that Kurt and Mystique were siblings.

As the story goes Raven live in Germany with a Bavarian count. The Count died of a mysterious cause. Unfortunately, that left Raven along and with a child. The local people did not take to Kurt to well, calling him the "Devil child", and that Raven praticed witch craft. Fearing her life, she managed to get through town as a local townsman and plunged "Devil child" to his death.

How the child survived the long fall no one knows. It is said that Szardoz was near and used her magic to bring the baby to safety. Kurt live with the sorceress for years and became a part of the family, there he found friends and loved ones. He along with his brother and sister...Stefen and Jemaine were part of acrobatics and tumbling acts in the circus.

Amos Jardin a Texas billonaire brought the circus and wanted to make Kurt the side show. A freak, however Kurt was unsatisfied with the choice and fled the circus life. Kurts adopted brother went mad in his absence and started killing the local townsmen children. Falsely accusing Kurt of the murders they began to riot against Kurt and swooped down upon him.

Charles Xavier also known as Proffessor X, intervened and saved Kurt from the angry mob. Proffessor X convinced Kurt to become part of his school of the "Uncanny X-men" so that he would later learn to master his mutant power of teleportation. After many adventures, Kurt was severly wounded during the Mutant massacre by the marauder called Riptide.

He was taken to Muir Island where he would recuperate, and discover that he could no longer teleport as he originally could, and that the teleporting of others caused him great strain. After hearing of the death of the X-Men during the "Fall of the Mutants", he, along with Shadowcat, Captain Britain, Meggan, and Phoenix became the founding members ofExcalibur.