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Nightcrawler

posted 8 years ago by arennie77
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Jonas is referred to as a Nightcrawler. I've never understood this line. What does it mean?

[–] solidsnake-90928 8 years ago

Means a night storm chaser.

[–] TomServo23 8 years ago

I was going to put in the trivia section, that in 2014 Bill Paxton played a Nightcrawler himself in that movie

[–] Dionysus481 (148) 2 years ago

Funny enough, in the 2014 film "Nightcrawler", Bill Paxton plays a character very similar to Jonas. I've seen "Twister" many times, and just noticed this line and it was like an a-ha moment.

[–] tub51461 8 years ago

A nightcrawler is an earthworm that comes to the surface at night and is used for fishing bait. Bill called him a nightcrawler that as a loaded term, mainly because he feeds off everyone like a creature in the night, because his occupation too, and he acts like a royal creep every chance he can to hide the fact that he's a weak minded despicable person without a clue to what he's doing.