Magik (comics)
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This page refers to the first Magik, Illyana Rasputin. For the second Magik, see Amanda Sefton. Template:Superherobox Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputina (often mistakenly written as Illyana Rasputin), the first Magik, was a fictional character, a mutant and sorceress in the Marvel Universe, and the younger sister of Colossus.
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Biography
Magik was born in the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to Nikolai Rasputin and his wife Alexandra Natalya Rasputina. She had two older brothers, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin and Piotr "Peter" Nikolaievitch Rasputin. Both were mutants. The X-Men suspected came Illyana to be a mutant as well, but they figured that years would pass until her adolescence and the emergence of any possible powers. They were wrong.
Illyana was kidnapped by the extra-dimensional demons Belasco and S'ym at age six. She was raised and corrupted by Belasco, who taught her black magic and sought to claim her soul. She eventually rebelled, and managed to return to Earth, years older, although no time had passed on Earth between her kidnapping and return. She subsequently joined the New Mutants. She was integral to the happenings of the "Inferno" crossover; at the end of Inferno, she was regressed back to childhood, and the Soulsword was passed on to her friend, Shadowcat. Several years later, she died of the Legacy Virus.
Alternate universes
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During Excalibur's "Cross-Time Caper" storyline, the team encountered a fully demonic version of Illyana, who was very powerful, but not sufficiently so to withstand the assault of Phoenix.
An Illyana from yet another timeline was also a member of the team know as The Exiles. Illyana replaced Blink when the Timebroker apparently sent her home. This universe's Magik was much more temperamental and bloodthirsty than the Earth-616 Magik, and clashed with the team from the very beginning. Shortly after the Timebroker returned Blink to the team, the Timebroker decreed that half the members of the combined Exiles and Weapon X group had to die. Magik was the only Exile to die, her neck snapped by King Hyperion.
Powers and abilities
Magik had the ability to create "stepping discs", which allowed her to teleport via the dimension of Limbo. Unlike most other teleporters in the Marvel Universe, Magik could teleport through time as well as space. Especially early on, she had difficulty modulating this ability and would often inadvertently travel through time and space when intending to teleport only through space. She was also capable of generating a magical armor and sword from her own soul; the sword, called the Soulsword, was the focus of this ability, and could break various magical effects.
Magik was also a world-class sorceress, whose mystical abilities were second only to Doctor Strange.
External links
- UncannyXmen.net Spotlight on Illyana (http://uncannyxmen.net/db/spotlight/showquestion.asp?faq=10&fldAuto=85)