Illyana Rasputin: Magik Appreciation 2019

[Maestroneto]

I doubt that's Magik.

[sunofdarkchild]

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.

[mogwen]

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.

Looks like a lot of eras merged together, the baby Havok is one of Mojo's X-Babies, and the character on the right looks like an "amalgam" of Dani Moonstar, Illyanna and Colossus.
But the best question is who's the woman on the bench?

[CellarDweller]

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.

[LoganAlpha30X33]

The Phoenix has the face hound marks so it's Rachel...the view is that its Moira on the bench beside Charles and Magneto...

[G0RM]

Looks like a lot of eras merged together, the baby Havok is one of Mojo's X-Babies, and the character on the right looks like an "amalgam" of Dani Moonstar, Illyanna and Colossus.
But the best question is who's the woman on the bench?

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...

[Havok83]

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.

there's actually 3 Wolverines. New X-men era, Weapon X and 80s Logan

[pandafarmer]

I doubt that's Magik.

I agree, I feel like people are missing that it's Dani Moonstar's head on that body. Not even saying it's her, but people are quick to jump at the Magik Sword and Pitor steel skin and don't see the braids.

[sunofdarkchild]

I agree, I feel like people are missing that it's Dani Moonstar's head on that body. Not even saying it's her, but people are quick to jump at the Magik Sword and Pitor steel skin and don't see the braids.

There's more than just the sword that's taken from Magik. One of her arms is clearly covered in her armor and not Colossus' skin, and other details of the costume of taken from Magik as well. But the Moonstar influence is also there.

[Havok83]

Thats a new character. She's neither Magik nor Dani

[comicbookfan5878]

Thats a new character. She's neither Magik nor Dani

So what do we think becomes of both Magik and Dani moving forward? Do we expect them to remain in Uncanny X-Men?

[Daedra]

sigh......I guess my hope to never see again that ugly Bachalo soulsword/paddle was all in vain

[pandafarmer]

So what do we think becomes of both Magik and Dani moving forward? Do we expect them to remain in Uncanny X-Men?

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.

[G0RM]

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.

[Maestroneto]

I think it's Kitty and Colossus' daughter.