JIMAINE SZARDOS
Earth-92131
Real Name: Jimaine Szardos
Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-92131) human
Occupation: Circus artist
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
Enemies: None
Known Relatives: Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler, adoptive brother)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: mobile throughout Germany
First Appearance: X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Nightcrawler" (May 13, 1995)
Powers/Abilities: Jimaine Szardos possesses no superhuman abilities. She is a skilled acrobat and performer, trained through years of circus life, displaying exceptional agility, coordination, and physical control during performances.
Height: 5'6" (presumably same as her 616 counterpart)
Weight: 110 lbs. (presumably same as her 616 counterpart)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Strawberry blond
History:
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Nightcrawler" - BTS) - Jimaine Szardos was raised in a traveling circus, where she worked as a performer alongside her adoptive brother Kurt Wagner. Living on the margins of society, the circus became her home.
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Nightcrawler" (fb)) - During one performance, Jimaine appeared alongside another girl and the evening's star, Nightcrawler. She was seen performing on the trapeze before reappearing on the ground, prompting the crowd to cheer for the star. It was during these performances that the blue mutant did not feel like an outcast. Not long afterward, Kurt left the circus to join a monastery in a Swiss abbey.
Comments: Created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum;
adapted by Len Uhley and AKOM Productions. (see Appearances list for full list of artists)
The wonderful X-Men The Art and Making of The Animated Series book from 2020 by Julia and Eric Lewald revealed that the circus performer working with Nightcrawler was in fact his adoptive sister Jimaine Szardos.
When, in 2015's Secret Wars, the Multiverse was destroyed following the incursions of planets it appeared as if Reality-92131 was drafted onto Battleworld as the Westchester domain. However, this has since been debunked. As such the reality seen in the two volumes of X-Men '92 (2015 and 2016-2017) now have their own reality-designation of Earth-15730. The X-Men '92: House of XCII (2022) series was inspired by both the animated series and Hickman's House of X run but is its own separate reality. The limited series X-Men '97 (2024), however, is Reality-92131 and bridges the gap between the original X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon and the new X-Men '97: The Animated Series cartoon.
Profile by MarvellousLuke
CLARIFICATIONS:
Jimaine Szardos has no known connections to
images: (without ads)
X-Men The Art and Making of The Animated Series book, p203 (main image, digitally colored by MarvellousLuke)
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Nightcrawler" (with Nightcrawler)
Appearances:
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Nightcrawler" (May 13, 1995) - Len Uhley (writer), Frank Brunner, Mark Lewis (model design), Darrel Bowen, Russell Chong, Mark Lewis, Steve Olds, Frank Squillace (prop design), Cesar Magsombol, Frank Squillace, Wayne Schulz, Zhaoping Wei (layout design), Trish Mendelson (color key), Philip Kim, Dennis Venizelos (color backgrounds), Patrick Archibald, Francis Barrios, Romeo Francisco, Curt Geda, Greg Garcia, Adrian Gonzales, Rick Hoberg, Larry Houston, Jim Janes, Dough Murphy, Tom Nesbitt, Frank Squillace, Michael Swanigan, Dan Veesenmeyer (storyboards), Patricio Aganasin, Abel Laxamana, Mark Lewis, Romeo Lopez, Tec Manalac, Andre Nieves, Phil Stapleton (storyboard cleanup), AKOM Animation. (animation), Sharon Janis (editor)
First Posted: 06/30/2026
Last Updated: 06/30/2026
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