https://twitter.com/davizlopez/statu...58920654127104
I haven't seen a ton of commission art in her new costume so I love this.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
My husband is playing Midnight Suns and I absolutely LOVE Magik's depiction in the game.
They did such a great job with her. Very impressed!
Something that's easy to miss since it only comes up once in one of the random conversations you can have in the game, but Midnight Suns Illyana has a no-killing rule like she had back in the Claremont days because of bad experiences with killing in Limbo. It doesn't go as far as her risking losing herself to the darkness forever if she kills even once the way the comics depicted her before Louise Simonson screwed everything up, but in this way it is an improvement over how she's been depicted in the comics for over 30 years.
It's during the conversation where she talks about eating tofu and being vegan. If you do the right responses she talks about how she vowed to never kill again after first returning from Limbo and her becoming vegan is part of that. Just keep choosing the dark responses with her.
Strange Academy Finals #4 Magik Jay Anacleto
https://twitter.com/RPHutch1975/stat...39946237382657
From Sins of Sinister 1
And of course Illyana's 'starring' in the Midnight Suns Honest Trailer is a Glados Portal joke.
Crossposting some discussion from the WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BENDIS' X-MEN STUFF NOW? thread that is relevant to Illyana. In short, is there a particular creative that you credit with making MAGIK a breakout character from the cast of the NEW MUTANTS?
(I tried to merge the discussion in an order that is understandable, if not necessarily chronological. Fingers crossed it makes some measure of sense.)
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YES Capes. YES Masks. YES Secret Identities.
Putting the question directly to Magik fans on Twitter, the vast majority, regardless of age, became fans from reading the original Magik mini and Claremont's New Mutants. The sample size is small in the grand scheme of things, but the results are still instructive. Of those who became fans because of stories written from 2007 onward, a few became fans in the Quest for Magik-X-Infernus-Zeb Wells era, a few became fans during the general AvX time, with the only person who went into specifics giving the 'on behalf of all mutants, die' panel as what made him a fan. Gillen was mentioned by name exactly once, as part of "the Zeb Wells/Gillen/Bendis stuff." Not a single person mentioned the 'there are no snowflakes in hell' moment or anything specific from the Gillen run, and I made sure to include that moment in my original question to get people thinking about as they answered. Five people specifically cited Bendis, not including the one who grouped him with Wells and Gillen and those who grouped him with AvX. 1 person said it was the issue where she absorbed Limbo.
1 person cited her death. 1 person cited the many letters to the editor calling for her to be brought back in the 90s. 1 person cited Vita Ayala. 1 person cited her 'f- or fight' line from Hickman's New Mutants issues. 1 person cited the New Mutants movie. And 1 person cited the Midnight Suns videogame. And the hotpants/giant sword look was cited twice, one of which included a mention of Bendis.
The main takeaway is the credit for Illyana breaking out rests with Claremont's original work with her, particularly the Magik miniseries. Most of the people who cited something from after Inferno also said that the thing that drew their interest made them go back and read the mini and the OG New Mutants. Of the modern writers, Bendis is cited the most, followed by Kyle/Yost and Wells. Gillen emerges as less of a factor than Vita, Hickman, or even the New Mutants movie and the hotpants costume. It would seem of the people who are big enough Magik fans to want to discuss being Magik fans on Twitter, no one became such a big fan from reading Gillen's Uncanny X-Men. It would seem that the people who were impressed by 'there are no snowflakes in hell' did not become fans in the long term, or at the very least those who became fans during the Bendis run became bigger fans. Even I was surprised at how non-relevant Gillen turned out to be in this survey. I wasn't expecting 0 mentions of his big moment.
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Spoilers for X-Terminators #5
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Illyana has her own Lockheed in the form of what looks like a cute purple demon rabbit which X-23 gave her as a bribe for helping the X-Terminators. Going by the dialogue it's a baby, though it's bigger than Lockheed. And it doesn't look like it has any eyes. So after wanting to keep the land shark and one of the puppies, she finally has a pet she can keep, and she's thrilled. I'm taking suggestions on Twitter for a fan-name for the little guy.
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And then nobody else bothers to make it appear and it's forgotten about in less than 2 years...