Magik (Illyana Rasputina)

Magik (Illyana Rasputina)

Illyana Rasputin is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a member of a fictional species of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. She first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1, though her first name was not given until The Uncanny X- men #145.

About Magik (Illyana Rasputina) in brief

Summary Magik (Illyana Rasputina)Illyana Rasputin is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a member of a fictional species of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Illyana first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1, though her first name was not given until The Uncanny X- men #145. She also sporadically appeared as a guest star in UncannyX-Men. She was absent from regular publication for most of the 1990s, though she does appear as a time-traveler in New Mutants: Truth or Death #1-3. She returned to regular publication in 2007, in New X-men #38-41 and AVX: Consequences # 1-5. Anya Taylor-Joy portrayed IllYana Ras putin in the 2020 film The NewMutants. The character is depicted most often in relation to the X- Men, but has also appeared in several other comic books, such as X-Factor and X-Force. She appears in Strange Academy #1 and as a teacher in Dr. Strange’s Sorcerer School. Her natural mutant power is the ability to teleport, and she also is a capable sorceress. She has two older brothers, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputina and Colossus, both of whom are also mutants. Her younger sister is the younger sister of the Russian X-Man Colossus, and is known as Magik.

She appeared in the limited series Magik #1 in December 1983, chronicling her years in Limbo. The limited series also chronicled her years as a sorceress in the dimension of Limbo, in which she ages seven years while in a paranormal dimension called Limbo 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. Other than flashbacks and alternate realities, she appears in All-New X-Doctors, Uncanny x-Men, Extraordinary X-Women and New Mutant: Dead Souls as a regular character. She died of the Legacy Virus in Uncanny x-Men #303, but was resurrected by Belasco in New Mutants #1-29. In Uncanny X-Women  #303, she dies of the Legacy Virus and returns to regular  publication in New  Mutants  #1 -29 as a member of Cyclops’ Extinction Team. She appeared in New Munants #1 as a member  of Cyclops’ extinction team, and in AVX vs Avengers #3 and AVX: Consequences  #3 as a regular character in New Mutants. In The New Mutanted #77, she returns to her family in Russia after having reverted to childhood.