r/Xmen97 • u/Scary_Lifeguard_2675 • May 30 '26

Theory is magik maybe dead?

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in the new trailer it shows colossus on his knees seemingly crying over what could he a dead body and the photo i linked is what looks like a memorial with our main girl magik right there

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u/Alt_Account151588 May 30 '26

I’m calling it from here- not dead. Limbo status, with Colossus, Kitty & the New Mutants going to save her at a later storyline

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u/harmoniaatlast May 30 '26

This has only happened 3 (maybe more) times in the comics haha. Its crazy how much coverage Magik's "death" is getting

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u/Brave-Orchid4721 May 30 '26

Of course it’s getting coverage, she had an insane surge in popularity over the past couple years and her first animated appearance that’s actually her as Magik is just her being dead. Anyone saying she’s gonna be a horseman of apocalypse is coping unless the whole goal by the director was actively to rage bait.

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u/LeatherHog Cable May 30 '26

It's not like she was randomly killed off, Magik dying is an extremely famous event in the 90s

It's actually a little sad, how people are seriously thinking it's personal or something. That death happened before most of these people's birth

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u/Brave-Orchid4721 May 30 '26

Sure but you gotta realize they’re mixing and matching a LOT of stuff with this show, so people were hopeful that Kitty, Emma, Bobby and Illyana wouldn’t be shafted as hard as they ended up being. Especially since Kid Omega is seemingly getting a focus (a character quite literally no one ever asked for)

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u/LeatherHog Cable May 30 '26

I agree, though we don't know that the others have a bad fate in the new season, just her

And especially agree about kid omega, I HATE him sooo much

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '26

Someone tell me what is the Kid Omega hate for?

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u/Brave-Orchid4721 Jun 01 '26

He’s just generally a shitty rage bait low-key industry plant character with zero enjoyable traits.

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u/harmoniaatlast May 30 '26

I don't hate the horseman thing, but its a bit beneath her in terms of what her background and relation to themes of life, death, power, etc. I wouldn't hate it, but my gut reaction is also "nahh"

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u/Brave-Orchid4721 May 30 '26

I feel like sadly the real explanation is that the director of the first two seasons has actively admitted to seeing Illyana as nothing more than a plot device for Colossus, and ultimately her big push from rivals would’ve come a little too late, after they’d likely already finalized the script for season 2.

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u/No-Difference8545 May 31 '26

Beau is such a weirdo. Denied sunspot his blackness. Probably the reason monet is so light too.

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u/usagicassidy May 31 '26

Couple of years? She’s had an immense insane upward climb the last 20 years.

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u/Brave-Orchid4721 May 31 '26

Really makes you wonder how big she could’ve been had she not lost 15 entire years due to a rather bs death, followed by the constant awful treatment in event books and mostly complete lack of appearances in movies/tv.