Marvel Kills Frivolously

• Illyana Rasputin 2: Note the "2" notation, this is very important and relates to an occurence which everybody else has seemed to forget about everyone's favorite "dead" New Mutant. First off, she was just a child. Killing a child in a horror movie is a big no-no (granted I do it in mine, but this isn't about that), and it should be so for comics as well. It served no purpose other than to turn her older brother into an irational a-hole and throw away everything he had come to believe in. Granted, I hated her introduction in the first place, but it pisses me off even more when Marvel uses her death as a reason for saying Magik won't ever be coming back. Right, see my reason for this being B.S. below.
• Magik/Illyana Rasputin 1: OK. She was easily one of the most popular New Mutants, partially because her powers and their source were the most interesting, partly because she was always a tragic character, anmd especially because of all she had to struggle against. And she "died" seemingly, finally, overcoming her altogether too-real personal demons. Now lets humor Marvel and play along with the Illyanas 1 and 2 are the same, and therefore, Magik is dead. Even if that were so, and it is easily unlikely, last year they proved one way she could come back themselves: via time travel, a power she doesn't have much control over. Marvel has multiple characters from the future creating multiple timelines every minute they exist in present Marvel Universe, why not one from the past as well? Her arrival would only create another parallel universe, just like the arrivals of Bishop, Cable, Rachel Summers, etc. Marvel could also have an Illyana as Magik from a whole different parallel universe cross over to the "real" Marvel universe a la Nate Grey, Evil Beast, Sugar Man, etc. There's bound to be enough multiverse's where Illyana didn't die for this to be feasible.
  But I don't even think we have to go that far, because Magik never died. Reread your Inferno issues of New Mutants. While Illyana was in New York fighting her personal battles against Sym and the other demons of Limbo, her teammates were trapped in Limbo, jumping through teleport disks left and right, going to all different times in the process. Doing this, they visited Limbo's past and saved a 6-year old Illyana from Sym before Belasco could make her into the Darkchilde (thus creating a new parallel universe, by the way). They took this young Illyana with them, back to their correct timeline, and dimension: making it so there were two Illyana's in the "real" Marvel universe. When Magik became the Lightchilde at the end of Inferno and cast her Soulsword away, the young Illyana disappeared, Magik's armor was a burnt, seemingly empty shell, and everyone believed Illyana dead. Until Colossus rescued the YOUNG Illyana from Magik's armor. Where did the teen Illyana go? My guess is she's either in hiding or trapped somewhere due to her own lack of control over her teleportation (personally, I believe she imprisoned herself in her Soulsword, but that's off the point). At any rate, neither Illyana died during Inferno, one was missing, and everyone (especially foolishly on the New Mutants part) mistakenly believed that the young Illyana in Magik's armor was Magik regressed to the age she was at abduction. Balogne, it was the young Illyana that the New Mutants saved in Limbo. If Magik had really died (either as a teen, or as a child if they really were one and the same, which they weren't), her Soulsword should have ceased to be as the piece of her soul that made it should have traveled with the rest of her soul wherever spirits go after death.
  
• Cypher/Doug Ramsey: Great, kill the guy who always had the best story potential in the New Mutants (next to Illyana) because of the highly non-offensive nature of his powers. His personal struggle for self-worth could have filled quality storylines for years; not to mention the wonderful friendships he had with warlock, Kitty and Rahne. At least the repercussions of his passing were well handed. Rahne's and warlock's confusion and grief made for good story. But they should have killed off one of the lamer, more shallow, useless characters like Magma, Moonstar or Rahne (or how about Gosymer for Christ sakes)?
  
• Warlock: Again, another New Mutant, and another highly popular one senselessly killed. Of course there were two reasons for this: 1. Nicieza and Liefield wanted to dump as many of the original team as possible so they could work with different characters and new characters. 2. Warlock was too light-hearted for any comic lead by that bonehead Cable (ie the New Mutants/X-Force). Since he wasn't dark enough, anxst-ridden enough, serious enough, and couldn't be made to be any of these, they chose to off him rather than have him simply leave the team. Marvel folks are a bunch of cheese-heads. And don't even say "Douglock" to me or I'll puke in your cheerios. Dude is neither Doug OR Warlock and never will be; even he says so.
  
• Madeline Pryor 1/Goblin Queen: I have always been extremely pissed at her death. I think she was killed just to make it even easier for Cyclops and Jean Grey to live happily together and marry, and take little Nathan away for themselves (thus creating my all time least favorite Marvel character- Cable). She was an extremely deep character, loved by all the fans; and it was a cheap robbery to turn her evil and kill her off so quickly. Granted, Nate Grey (kind of) brought her back to life, though there's still nothing to substantiate that she's much the same person. However, I do want to see some legal complications towards Cyclops for polygomy, seeing as he now has two living wives.
  
• Blink: OK, I'm not personally griping about this one too much. Marvel made a character and had her die sacrificing herself to save other new characters relatively soon after her own intro so there isn't really much of an attachment to her. BUT. Then they went and made her a relatively big player in the whole AOA storyline, and everyone fell in love with the AOA version of her. Now everyone wants her back (except me). First, you dolts, the Blink that died in Phalanx Covenant and the Blinkfrom AOA were very different types of people, and if Marvel brought the first Blink back from the dead, she wouldn't be like the AOA Blink you love so much. So get over it. HOWEVER< Marvel was really dumb to do that in the first place, because now there's a whole slough of crybabies wanting Blink to come back when they never even got to know the character in the first place. Personally, she should stay dead, but Marvel was still stupid.
  

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