Magik (Illyana Rasputina)

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Magik
Textless cover of X-Men: Return of Magik #1 (November 2008). Art by Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	As Illyana Rasputina: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975) As Magik: Magik (Storm and Illyana) #1 (Dec. 1983)
Created by	Illyana Rasputina: Len Wein Dave Cockrum Magik: Chris Claremont Sal Buscema
In-story information
Alter ego	Illyana Alexandria Nikolaievna Rasputina
Species	Human mutant
Team affiliations	X-Men New Mutants Hellions Phoenix Five
Notable aliases	Darkchilde Darkchild Lightchilde Redflag #133 The Darkchilde Archimage
Abilities	Psionic shields Stepping discs: Inter-dimensional teleportation Time-travel Sorcery: Astral projection Binding Energy manipulation Exorcism spell Limbo control Matter manipulation Protection/shield spell Summoning Scrying Eldrich armor: Superhuman strength Deflects and limits physical and magical attacks Summoning Soulsword: Enhances wielder's power level Disrupts magical energies, constructs, and creatures

Magik (Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina) (Russian: Ильяна Николаевна Распутина) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. 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 is the younger sister of the Russian X-Men member Colossus and X-Men enemy Mikhail Rasputin. She is a member of a fictional species of humanity known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Due to her time imprisoned in (and later ruling) Limbo, she is a powerful sorceress.^[1] Her mutant power, which first manifested in that Limbo, is the ability to teleport via stepping discs utilizing that dimension's magic. Following her escape from Limbo, she became part of the New Mutants.

Magik was one of the victims to succumb to the Legacy Virus, which led to her being absent from the majority of regular publication until her resurrection in 2007.

Anya Taylor-Joy portrayed Illyana Rasputin in the 2020 film The New Mutants.