FIRST APPEARANCE U-icarny X-M«n *34[> iJun® 199-') REALNAME Japheth
OCCUPATION Farmer X-Man BASE Mobrfe
HEIGHT GttSm WEIGHT 350 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Black
SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Two sem.-semten! siugs can leave and ro-enter Maggoli s body They food on anythmg and use it to
nounsh him He can replay m mmd s eye post evenłs in local area
FIRST APPEARANCE New Muljnts *8 (Octobor 1983) REALNAME Amora Aquilla OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE Mobile HEIGHT fl 6 m WEIGHT '24 Ibs EYES Brown HAIR Bionde
SPECIAL POWERS/ABIUTIES Project* bursts of heat my! moflen rock. and cnuses shifts In tho teclonic plates beneath the surfaco of the Eartti to produce vo4canic aruptfon*.
A siekły child. unable to eat ‘ęTTIl^*E- solid food, young Japheth felt
f V \ l^at "as nolbing but .i
4.i burden to his poor South
ml r *§r *f Afriean family. Heading into
• the dcserc to die, Japheth encountcred Maonfto who
acdvated his mutation. allowing two siugs to lcave his body and feed on his behalf. Now calling himsclf Maggott, Japheth -.\cMii m bing for Magneto. In Antarctica, he lirst eiu-ountcred the X-Men, and brieflyjoined the mutant team. Unfortunatcly. Maggotts lite was not to end happily: captured by the Weapon X facility. he became an inmaie at the Ncverland
* oneentration cainp and was eventually exccutcd Iw the authoritics there. AD
■f Raised in the hidden city of Nova Roma in the Amazon jungles of Brazil. Amara was selectcd for . saerifice by Selene. a nigh-immortal i mutant who drains the lito essencc* jr of others. Hurled into an active
j volcano. Amara s mutant ability to \ * j control moltcn rock surfaccd, and
^ she was rebom as Magma. Magma was reseucd Irom Selene by the Nfw Mutants. students of Pkofessok X. and she becainc a longtnne member of the group. Questions f abont ber past—for a timc, she believed
^ herself to be Allison Crestmcre, daughter of an English Ambassador—caused her KSlfc C to part ways with the New Mutants, but she still reappears in the eireles fretjuentcd by the X-Mfn. TB
lllyana Rasputin is the younger sister of / Piotr Rasputin, the X-Man known as
pr CoiOSSUS. A tcw years after Piotr leli their
home in Russi.t and joined the X-Mł N. lllyana was W kidnapped by Miss l.oeke. assistant to the assassin I Ar<al>i. Reseued In the X-Mcn, lllyana dccidcd to st.n with her brother ,it Puori v>ok X\ school for mutants in New York State.
Luter, the sorcercr Belaseo brought lllyana and the X-Men to his extradimensional realni, I imbo.Thc X-Men escaped froni Limbo, but Belaseo managed to keep lllyana there as his captivc. He turned a portion of her soul evil. which she callcd her darksouI.1'his change gaw her powers of son ery. Belaseo hoped ^ ,1
eeemually to turn lllyana complctely evil. . . (*K; K^M
lllyana eecntualły mastered the magie in B. l.;-. ■ - 1 ■
FACTFILE
REAL NAME
lllyana Ntkolievna Rasputin
OCCUPATION
Student
BASE
Professor Xavter‘s School for Gifted Youngsters. New York; the extradimensionaJ realm. Limbo
Magik
Metryk) rołnoci her t*other Ptotr (coda nomu
for mutants. wtxre ihny bocamo X-Mc<i
Magik ts both a mutant with s»450rhuman powws onef an oxport sorcaross. She eon tetoport horsałf and others through trne. portorm astral profocton. and sonse the presenco ol magie.
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