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“Meh” Feelings About Illyana Rasputin’s Queerness. “Argh” Feelings About Portrayal of Her Sexuality.

Illyana is way up there on my list of favorites, she can’t stroke Wanda but she basically beats the crap out of everyone else. She has wit, spunk, innocence, darkness, disaffection, and sympathy, she’s a character whose duality and uniqueness is surpassing. I first noticed this during her resurgence in 2009/2010 and I became enchanted by her to the extent that I binge peruse New Mutants Volume 3, New Mutants Volume 1, and Magik: Storm and Illyana (though it really should’ve just been Magik, honestly).

So her potential queerness is not really going to alter that devotion I have to her regardless. But I also hesitate to exclaim “FINALLY!” or partake in the hub-bub because I feel like it’s a facile progress for the nature. I have a lot more questions about her sexuality that aren’t about what rando nature she should be shipped with or who she maybe is fucking already or who she should be fucking or who she is already covertly flirting with. As a matter in fact, I trust there was a strong theme of sexual abuse, disempowerment, and trauma in her introduc

Marvel Confirms Magik is Pansexual... in The Strangest Way

Marvel has confirmed the X-Men's teleporter Magik is pansexual - in the strangest possible way. The last decade has seen the young mutant called Magik become a major player in the X-Men comics. Possessed with the power to open teleportational "stepping discs" that instantly transport her from one place to another, Magik was raised in a Hellish dimension and has struggled to acclimatize to normal life.

Magik has never shown much interest in sex and relationships. While that may simply reflect her unconventional upbringing, readers have often speculated she's completely asexual. Interestingly, though, alternate-universe versions of Magik - such as one seen in Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars event back in 2015 - have tended to be gay. Now, though, Marvel has revealed the mainstream Magik has far more diverse sexual tastes.

Related: Is Recent Mutants Set In The MCU?

New Mutants #5 picks up with Magik and her closest friends on a mission to vacuum. They're essentially stuck in a cosmic version of Game of Thrones, tasked with protecting a member of the House Neramani - Deathbird - as she returns to the Shi'ar Imperium.

EphemeristX wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:57 pm I always read Magik as ace due to childhood trauma but occasionally 'trying out' ways to possibly express her sexuality. She feels like someone who isn't sure what she is, if anything, and is finally reaching a point in her being that she's toying with exploring that side of herself. Things like offering to make out with a bunch of aliens feels like a joke that she's trying out to see if maybe it isn't, you know what I mean?

This. Like… I kind of feel like ‘Yana’s one of those characters where, from a writer’s show of view, she’s always had more than enough going on in the rest of her ethics development (so, being demonic, her brother’s “death”, organism EXTRA demonic and then becoming a child, entity dead, being kind of resurrected but not quite, saving the world from Elder Gods, powers creature wonky but learning more magic) to NEED a relationship to give her character any additional depth. You can measure Illyana’s growth in her personal relationships with her friends more than her relationships with a romantic companion.

I’ve certainly always study her as, if not explicitly ace, certainly a conscious choice to repress her s

X-Men's Kitty Pryde Is Finally Being Allowed To Explore Her Sexuality

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Warning: contains spoilers for Exceptional X-Men #1Queer identity and politics have been an integral part of the X-Men mythos for nearly 50 years. Still, for much of that time, this queerness was relegated to subtext and fan headcanons. Thankfully, in recent years, a major increase in LGBTQ+ representation at Marvel Comics has seen beloved heroes like Iceman, Magik, and Kitty Pryde confirmed as homosexual. While Kitty's queerness was canonized during the Krakoan Age, her new starring role in Exceptional X-Men may finally allow the beloved hero to search her sexuality.

After the fall of Krakoa and Kitty Pryde's murderous time spent as Shadowkat, Kitty decides to formally leave the X-Men and move help to Chicago... where she has begun trying to inhabit a "normal" existence as a bartender.

Exceptional X-Men #1, by writer Eve Ewing and artist Carmen Carnero, sees Kitty getting ready for a date, who she thinks stood her up, before confirming that the love interest she was meeting is a woman, confirming once again that Pryde is at the very least