Illyana Rasputin

And the way that him and it's like a back and forth between Nightcrawler and Colossus, which I think is really great.

And we see Colossus, he joined this group there, and we see that his sister, Magic, she died during Genosha, during that whole thing that happened.

Which in the comics, when the Genosha genocide moment happens, Magic is the big death.

So in the first

seems super in character the way it happens yeah he overrides it and makes this makes a sacrifice for everybody else against their wishes but it's i feel like it's exactly what he would do

and that moment happens and then like so rogue she kind of goes it's like the celestial she's talking to yeah And then makes a deal and says, OK, well, I'll trade my life for Gambit's life.

But then, like I said, Nightcrawler comes in and goes like, I'll give my life for my sister Rogue.

And so she could be with that.

Number two, Adrian Roy, New Teen Titans, Batman, Detective Comics, and Batman and the Outsiders.

And number one always on our list, Glen Riswine, New Mutants, Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Fantastic Four, Cloak & Dagger, and Magik.

Just crushing it like she does as always.

I put in a couple letterers that there's just a few that really run away with it.

And she is trying, she is, As the weapon Extremis, one who has augmented herself through Technomancy, is trying to find the Phoenix Force and unleash it to save or destroy the world.

And she's up against Illyana using magic, who is trying to stop her and maybe also get the Phoenix.

I was a little unclear on that.

And then the third member of...

Why couldn't...

Yeah, why couldn't Ashley Allen just have, like, an X-book that has five characters, Magik, Colossus, Madelyne Pryor, Juggernaut, whatever, and then, and then she can write, she can write something for...

Have they thought about doing 12 issues of a book? Like-

Whoa, slow down

More.

But, like, they got me so excited when Magik showed up, and then I'm like, "Magik is here." Oh.

No.

She's dead.

Polaris and Bishop follow her, and Xavier uses his positive memories of Magneto to encourage Polaris to embrace her power and defeat Danger.

With the US government banning the X-Men, Xavier decides to base his team at Genosha and establish X-Corp. [laughs]

So this is where, yeah, they, they gave it and they took it away where [laughs] they, where Magik shows up.

Um, and, and then, and I did have, like, she showed up, and I was like, "Oh, no, this is Genosha before the fall.

Uh, just as a reminder, the war captains are kind of like the heads of defense.

It was Cyclops, Magik, and Gorgon, I believe.

Yeah.

Uh, Gorgon hasn't been doing well since, uh, X of Swords.

stuff.Yep.

Uh, the captains made this decision on their own.

Little bit of pushback of like, "Well, what about the Quiet Council?" [laughs] Magik's like, "Well, what about you?"

Uh, yeah.

Professor Xavier's next recruit takes him deep into Siberia, where a powerful and close-knit Rasputin family works on a collective farm in the Soviet Union.

There, a young man named Piotr Rasputin lives a simple life alongside his parents and his younger sister, Illyana.

Wink, wink.

Extra reminder on Illyana.

Everything changes when disaster strikes.

One day, a runaway tractor barrels towards young Illyana, putting her life in immediate danger.

Without hesitation, Piotr rushed to save his sister.

In the moment of desperation, his mutant ability manifests for the first time.

14-year-old Ileana Rasputin reflects on the years she spent trapped in limbo.

After Belasco kidnapped her as a child, shortly after her abduction, an older Aurora and grown-up Kitty Pryde, now calling herself Cat, manage to rescue Illyana from Belasco's Citadel, but not before Belasco corrupts part of Illyana's soul, creating the first of five blood gems that could eventually allow his demonic masters to conquer reality.

Ororo takes Illyana to her sanctuary and begins teaching her magic.

hoping she can resist Belasco's influence and one day defeat him.

Cat strongly disagrees and believes Ileana should be killed before she suffers the same fate as the others.

Um, I was just listening to the episode that dropped Saturday of ours.

And, uh, somebody makes a comment that Illyana calls her chief.

So it's, it's kind

of, yeah, it's just like a nickname they gave her.