
As the younger sister of Colossus and a member of the New Mutants, she also sporadically appeared as a guest star in Uncanny X-Men. Immediately following the end of the series, she was added to the cast of the New Mutants, appearing regularly in that comic from The New Mutants #14 (April 1984), the first cover appearance of adult Magik in costume, to The New Mutants #77 (July 1989), in which she returns to her family in Russia after having reverted to childhood. 1984) is her first cover appearance as adult Magik.
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1983) is her first cover appearance as young Illyana, her second full appearance and the first time she get the name Magik.
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In December 1983, the limited series Magik (Illyana and Storm) was launched, chronicling Illyana's years in Limbo, which is also her origin story. The means of changing this was set in The Uncanny X-Men #160 (August 1982), in which she ages seven years while in a paranormal dimension called Limbo, becomes a sorceress, and develops the mutant ability to create " teleportation discs." These changes were not immediately explored or explained, and for the next year she remained essentially a background character. For the first eight years of the character's existence, she was an infrequently appearing background character known as Colossus' little sister. Illyana first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975), though her first name was not given until The Uncanny X-Men #145 (May 1981). Her mutant power, which first manifested in that Limbo, is the ability to teleport via stepping discs utilizing that dimension's magic.Īnya Taylor-Joy portrayed Illyana Rasputin in the 2020 film The New Mutants. Due to her time imprisoned in (and later ruling) Limbo, she is a powerful sorceress. She is a member of a fictional species of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Magik is the younger sister of the Russian X-Men member Colossus.

The character is depicted most often in relation to the X-Men, and first appeared in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975).

Magik ( Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina) ( Russian: Ильяна Николаевна Распутина) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Textless cover of X-Men: Return of Magik #1 (November 2008).ĭarkchilde, Darkchild, Lightchilde, Redflag #133, the Darkchilde Archimage
