With the New Mutants film coming up fast, we thought it would be a good idea to give
you some backstory on one of the main characters and often overlooked but insanely powerful
mutant and X-Men member, Illyana Rasputin.
Illyana is the sister of Colossus who possesses strong magical abilities and often fights
her soulsword, a magical sword that she is very skilled with.
Having been trained in combat by an alternate version of Kitty Pryde, known simply as Cat,
from the Limbo dimension, where young Illyana spent most of her time growing up and imprisoned.
But more on that later.
But while we can assume from her codename Magik that she would be skilled in such things,
there are a few powers when it comes Illyana that people tend to misremember or overlook.
Today we’ll look at some of those powers that new fans may not yet know and even old
fans may have forgotten as we count down the top 10 super powers you didn’t know Magik
had.
Be sure to stick around till the end of this list where I will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Stepping Discs
While many people think of Illyana’s magical abilities and her soulsword, it becomes easy
to forget sometimes that while a powerful magus she is also a mutant.
And that magic itself is not her mutant ability but rather something she was trained in.
Her mutant powers involve teleportation.
She can teleport herself and other people through space and even through time, teleporting
people as far away, distance-wise as another planet.
Her teleportation discs however are connected to limbo, meaning that when you move through
one of her teleportation portals, you must first pass through limbo in order to get to
where you’re going.
It’s still debated as to whether this is an inherent part of her mutant ability or
whether or not it was influenced by her time spent in limbo as a child when she was kidnapped.
9 Mirror Navigation System
Also known as scrying.
It’s like Google Maps but in a mirror.
Illyana can call upon a scrying glass to help her see where she is going, what it looks
like, inside and out and also use it like a map to guide her.
She has done this before while in Limbo.
It’s basically like Google Maps complete with street view.
And she can even use the glass to see the history of a place, learn about how it was
created or made.
8 Queen of Limbo
Due to Magik’s connection to the Limbo Dimension, she is insanely powerful there.
This power comes from years and years of training to harness limbo energy.
As such she basically is the queen of Limbo and is basically at god-level when she is
there.
Limbo is also known as the Otherplace, it is a magical dimension filled with demons
and was originally ruled by the demon Belasco who kidnapped Illyana when she was a child.
She was kind of like his apprentice, slash adopted child, slash potential future love
interest until she overthrew him.
And it’s less like the religious limbo and more like a pocket dimension filled with demons.
To be honest, it’s actually a surprise to me that she doesn’t use this power more
in battle.
When you think about it, she could just teleport you to Limbo if you were fighting her, trap
you there and then just do whatever she wanted with you as punishment for your misdeed.
She really doesn’t even need to use her soulsword most of the time!
But I guess it makes her feel and look cooler so sometimes she prefers it to just doing
away with you in Limbo.
7 Control Over Demons
As the ruler of Limbo, Magik has control of demons within that realm.
Even S’ym, a demon who was originally Belasco’s servant, was converted to her side.
After being sent after Magik to recapture her, she sneakily defeated S’ym with magic
and made him swear allegiance to her.
S’ym even remained loyal to her for a time before attempting to overthrow her rule of
Limbo and control of the domain himself.
But for a time he was a powerful ally.
Even without S’ym though, Illyana has proved how powerful her connection the demon-realm
of Limbo is by summoning demons to do her bidding.
6 Psionic Shields
This was more of a power that was touched on in the older comics and now seems to have
been somewhat forgotten.
It was more of a power that Magik leaned on when she wasn’t as powerful with her magics
or as accurate of a teleporter.
She could use her psychic shields to protect herself against extremely powerful telepaths
including Charles Xavier.
However it has been shown that some of the most powerful telepaths can get through her
psionic defenses.
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5 Eldritch Armor
This power is also one that isn’t as often remembered.
It comes from Illyana’s ties to limbo.
As ruler of limbo she is granted magical armor which can be summoned simply from her using
her magical abilities.
Although it has also been shown to be summoned simply through concentration.
Typically the more that Illyana continues to use magic, the more that the armor will
come to her, eventually covering her whole body, but beginning to be assembled starting
with her left side.
The armor, being magical, is lightweight and it protects her against magic.
As time has progressed in the comics, her armour seems to have also come up less and
less as a power but perhaps she has grown so strong that she feels like it is less needed
or it has just been so incorporated into her look, that it gets skipped over as an ability.
4 Energy Blasts
Illyana can focus and channel Limbo energy through herself and emit in blasts.
Kind of like Cyclops but with magic.
Although really they are both creating blasts through channelling energy from another plane
so not that far off, actually.
She can generally use this energy to shock or blast opponents away.
She can also emit energy blasts from her soulsword.
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3 Astral Projection
An ability often used by telepaths, as a powerful mage, Illyana can also leave her own body,
projecting her astral self out onto earth.
She shares this ability with other powerful mages of the Marvelverse like Doctor Strange.
Illyana often uses this ability to scout out places while in her astral form, which usually
also conceals her from detection unless other telepaths or magic users happen to be around,
of course.
She can also transport herself to the astral plane while projecting and battle there like
most other telepaths.
2 Healing Fire
The cool thing about having magical abilities is that you kinda do almost anything.
For Magik this includes healing.
She has in her repertoire a healing ritual or spell.
When she casts it, it in New Mutants volume one issue 17, it encircles her within a pentagram
of white hot flames.
These flames then engulf her body and can heal her.
Illyana herself is actually known to be skilled in both black and white magic.
And her white magic knowledge actually came from an alternate version of Storm.
1 Can Become Invisible
Training with Doctor Strange made Magik even more powerful.
She already has all of the knowledge imparted to her by alternate Storm and Belesco and
all his magical texts.
So adding in the teaching of Doctor Strange has made her an insane level of powerful when
it comes to her magics.
At one point she used her knowledge to turn herself and a group of other supers including
mutants and some Guardians of the Galaxy members invisible.
In a gambit to buy time when her teleportation powers just couldn’t cut it.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
Who is your favourite mutant?
What do you think is more iconic when it comes to Magik’s powers: magic or teleportation
or her soulsword?
Would you go to Limbo if you could?
Let us know in the comments below.
And speaking of comments, it’s time to turn to some comments from on our latest videos,
top 10 super powers you didn’t know Iceman had.
Oisin Murphy comments, “Yeah that power Molecular Moisture Conversion allows him to
project this consciousness through water, ice etc.
Also do that with other people.
Flow along through a river & reform downstream.”
This is true.
Another insane thing that Iceman can do.
I mean how does he even convert someone else to water, right?
It seems insanely powerful.
Jupiter’s World says, “Honestly I love Storm she’s my favourite mutant.”
I love Storm too!
She is great.
I really wish we saw more of her.
Hoping she’ll get her own movie once the MCU incorporates mutants.
She deserves it.
And she is so powerful!
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