Magik Real Name: Illyana Rasputin Affiliation: Exiles Height: 5'5" Weight: 120 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Blonde Origin Timeline: 037 Universe Magik is both a mutant and expert sorceress. She is able to teleport herself and others through time and space by creating stepping discs of an unknown energy. Illyana is an adept sorceress who carries with her one of the Soulswords of Bata's Circle.

Appearances: 22, 26-32, 35-37, 43-45, 51

From the very start of her term with the Exiles, it was apparent that the mentality of Magik was different from that of her teammates with her morals more akin to those belonging to their reality-hopping counterparts Weapon X. Illyana was more brutal than she had to be, adamant on solving problems to move the Exiles on even if her solutions were by the way of pain or death of others.

Magik would justify her wicked actions against others by stating she did what needed to be done to them in that reality so that their counterparts in millions of other worlds would be able to survive. However, this mentality appeared to be taking a change when the Exiles were instructed by the Tallus to exterminate the Avengers, an Avengers team that included an alternate version of her brother Colossus. Faced with having to kill her older sibling, Illyana became hesitant, thus jeopardizing the mission that she took upon herself when the other Exiles had already abandoned their task. She explained her situation to the remaining Avengers, but they would deem her a liar. Fortunately, the great love of Colossus for his sister, alternate reality or not, let him believe in her and, because he believed she deserved her chance to get back to her reality, Colossus killed himself and his teammates so Illyana could move one step closer to home.

The psychological repurcussions of this traumatic event would act to bolster Illyana's previous cutthroat frame of mind. Her aggressive actions would continue to ostracize her from the rest of her teammates, until a rift in the team was created after Mimic caused the death of Sunfire. An angered and upset Morph distanced himself from the rest of the team to cope with the loss and Magik would follow him to try and offer her condolences. However, Morph was not receptive, calling Magik a killer worse than Mimic. At this point, Magik finally reveals why she has been so unyieldingly vicious. If her reality is not repaired, she will go back to her reality and kill everyone she loves as she slaughters her entire family in her broken timeline. Opening up to Morph would be the first and only time she would feel normal since she first arrived.

On this same world, the Exiles were told by the Tallus that, of the the twelve people from Exiles and Weapon X that had convened in this dimension, only six would move on and the rest must die. True to form, Magik became overly obssessed with abiding by the instructions of the Tallus in order to move on and repair her timeline. As a result, Magik drew her Soulsword and inflicts Sasquatch with a fatal wound in a failed attempt to kill Nocturne. Guessing that her chances to move on to the next world are better with Hyperion, the de facfo leader of what remained of Weapon X than with her teammates, she teleports to his side and informs him of the mission. However, Hyperion is skeptical of Magik and believes he is being tricked. To see if she is telling the truth or not, Hyperion snaps her neck and waits to see if anyone is sent by the Timebroker as a replacement for her.

001)		Nocturne's Timeline References: 41 Colossus sacrified his soul which merged with Limbo in order to save that dimension and the life of his sister Illyana Rasputin, mistress of that realm.
036)		Legacy (Prologue) References: 20 Magik is one of the first to succumb to the Legacy Virus on this world as well.
616)		Mainstream Universe In our reality, the sorcerer Belasco brought Illyana and the X-Men to his extra-dimensional realm which he called Limbo. Although the X-Men escaped back to Earth, Belasco seized Illyana's arm and held her captive in Limbo. Belasco turned a portion of Illyana's soul demonic in nature, giving that part of her a strong tendency towards what humanity considers evil in addition to granting her considerable sorcerous power. Illyana would master the magic in Belasco's books drive him from Limbo. Illyana then returned to Earth at a point only seconds after the X-Men's escape from Limbo. She would later somehow revert to the age she had been before she first went to Limbo, losing her magical abilities and partly demonic soul in the process, while helping to thwart a demonic invasion. Sometime later, Illyana contracted the Legacy Virus and she eventually died from it. The guilt of his inabilty to prevent her death would send her brother, Colossus, into the folds of Magneto and later drive him to inject himself with a serum that would cost him his life, but cure the Legacy Virus.