| Super Name: | Amanda Sefton |
| Real Name: | Jimaine Szardos |
| Aliases: |
Daytripper Magik Magicienne |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | # |
| Appears in: | 98 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
- Blonde
- White
- a Boy
- Homosexual
- African American
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Amanda is the current ruler and Sorcerer Supreme of Limbo. She is also the former girlfriend of Nightcrawler from the X-Men. She has been a member of Excalibur. Edit
HISTORY
In America, Jimaine took on the identity of Amanda Sefton, became a flight attendant, and eventually began dating Kurt. She did not reveal her true identity to him, wanting to find out if he truly could have been responsible for her brother's death. Eventually Margali and Amanda discovered that Kurt had killed Stefan in self-defense.
Dr.Strange cast a spell to force himself and Margali into the astral plane. Margali warped the spell so that all the would-be apprentices were also forced into the astral plane with them. Strange and Margali battled with all their mystic forces. Strange soon realized that Margali's powers came from her wand Strange tricked Margali and took the wand from her. Margali immediately regained her true mortal form, that of an old woman. She explained to Strange that the wand was an evil entity that took over its owner's mind. Margali revealed that the wand had hoped to gain control over Strange. Upon returning everyone to the physical plane, Strange destroyed the wand.
Recent stories with the return of Illyana Rasputin and Belaco, both the former rulers of Limbo have called into question Amanda control over Limbo .
SUPERNATURAL POWERSAmanda is a sorceress following the path of the Winding Way. Her power does change in its levels, it waxes and wanes over time, allowing her to summon such powers as teleportation, illusions casting, shape changing, mystical force bolts, hypnotism, and the manipulation of other complex mystical forces.
There's a range of spells Amanda is capable of doing, but what restricts her is the amount of power available, and her own personal issues with magic and using it when it's not needed. Amanda's magical repository consist of largely defensive spells and illusion casting. The other thing is that the spells she does reflect the power source, the urban environment; there are elements of the city in the manifestations or processes. The spell-craft she knew, everything taught to her by various people... none of that applies. Spells either fail entirely or have unexpected results, often inconsistently different. Many spells from before - the levitation, the aura stuff, the spirit summoning, the potions and sleep spells are gone irretrievably. Others such as summoning the elements, for example, have been twisted to the point they're actually became more harmful than good.
Amanda can still heal, that being her family's supernatural legacy, but there are many more limits than she previously had. The first being that healing of any kind takes power directly from living things; the greater the injury the greater the power demand. So healing will require Amanda to have to decide and possibly consult with those around her as to whether they accept that cost. The second is there's only so many times that Amanda can heal someone before it stops working. The more serious the injury healed, the shorter that time frame is.
As the Sorceress Supreme of Limbo, Magik wields much more vast magical power inside the pocket dimension she once ruled. However on Earth, Magik's abilities are limited to a different capacity, detecting magical auras, entering the astral plane, and summoning the powerful Soulsword.Paraphernalia
Magik wields the mystically powerful Soulsword, the physical manifestation of the magical might of Limbo that can disrupt any spell and cause intense damage to any magical creature it strikes. The Soulsword has no physical effect on a non-supernatural creature or object. The Soulsword can come and go as the wielder wishes, when it comes the wielder is surrounded by parts of mystical armor, when not in use it reappears in Limbo.
Alternate Realities
- Earth-811 or Days of Future Past
Amanda and Nightcrawler had a daughter named Blue. They were among the first to die when the United States outlawed mutants.
- Evolution
The Evolution version of Amanda has yet to show any powers or gifts.
- Marvel Mangaverse
In the Marvel Mangaverse setting Amanda Sefton is a dark sorceress, who uses Rogue to battle the electromagnetic demon Magnus.
TELEVISION OTHER MEDIA
On the television cartoon show,X-Men: Evolution, Amanda Sefton appears as Nightcrawler's love interest, though she didn't have the background of her comic counterpart. Although her mother's name's is still Margali, but the Seftons look like a normal black American family. She is portrayed as a normal human girl of African-American heritage, with knowledge and interest in Nightcrawler's powers and looks. Amanda nevertheless accepts Kurt completely despite his mutancy and the two begin a relationship. In her first episode, "Shadow Dance", Amanda asks Kurt to be her date for the school dance and tells him that she did have a crush on him for months but was too shy to tell him, and that her feelings remained after she once accidentally saw him turn off his image inducer.
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