I doubt that's Magik.
I doubt that's Magik.
There's a lot that's weird about that picture, like baby Havok and 2 Wolverines. Looks like Magik and Colossus might be combined into 1.
It looks like there are two different Nightcrawlers as well, unless one is a character I don't know. All the way on the right is a red-skinned character wearing an outfit that resembles Nightcrawlers, and then there is Nightcrawler by Professor X.
Also, I see Marvel Girl, and Phoenix. Is it Jean Grey as Phoenix, or Rachel as Phoenix?
Two Storms as well....I see Mohawk Storm, and then young Storm by the red Nightcrawler.
The Phoenix has the face hound marks so it's Rachel...the view is that its Moira on the bench beside Charles and Magneto...
The ’amalgam' theory seems correct to me, since Colossus, Dani, and Magik are nowhere else to be seen, and the combined character is one of the largest & most distinct illustrations.
I hope very much that ”War of Realms” doesn't have Magik as a casualty, with the SoulSword and powers passing to Dani like they used to go to Kitty.
Between the ”What If?", Rosenberg's fondness for her, and ”The New Mutants” movie coming out, I doubt Illyana will be dying in anything smaller and less dedicated than ”Inferno II”, but I worry, given her last long, long death...
I worry...
Thats a new character. She's neither Magik nor Dani
sigh......I guess my hope to never see again that ugly Bachalo soulsword/paddle was all in vain
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
With any kind of teaser art like this, it's made to create excitement and discussion. So really, it's likely nothing happened to either of them. For all we know there is an appearance of this character in 5 pages of an issue showing some hypothetical alternative future character that we never see again.
I hope it's not a Sapna thing...
Officially, either Sapna is inside it (and Illyana could make her a new body, like she did with Xian's brother), or the World Eater pretending to be Sapna is.
Presumably, if she really wanted to, Illyana could eat people's power & attach them to her SoulSword, like stepping disks are attached to it, and other people holding the SoulSword can use them.
Given that a cross time version of Colossus died with a SoulSword, extra armor powers might be attached in addition to the SoulArmour, and if Dani dies holding the SoulSword, or Illyana does...
(Given that SoulArmour & Intimidating Gaze have been powers Illyana has shown many times, and time travel is associated with the SoulSword, it would be a weird and self-consistent BackStory to the mysterious SoulArmour if it's related to her brother's power eaten & sent backward in time to protect her, Kitty etc.)
(Regarding linked powers, it occurred to me recently that the link to Kitty might be because Kitty pulled her out of Limbo that first time back in UXM v1 #160.
I think it's Kitty and Colossus' daughter.