AMANDA SEFTON

'Amanda Sefton' (real name 'Jimaine Szardos') (also known as 'Daytripper' and the second 'Magik') is a fictional character, a witch in the Marvel Universe. She is the foster sister and former lover of Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler of the X-Men.

Contents

Publication history

Fictional character biography

Other versions

Days of Future Past

Marvel Mangaverse

In other media

Television

Footnotes

External links

Publication history

As Magik, Amanda had her own four-issue limited series. The series focused on her taking-over Limbo. The series also featured her adopted brother/lover, Nightcrawler.

Fictional character biography

Jimaine and her mother Margali are witches. When Nightcrawler joined the X-Men, Jimaine followed him, assumed the identity of 'Amanda Sefton', took a job as a flight attendant, and became Nightcrawler's girlfriend. When Margali attacked the X-Men, believing Nightcrawler to have been responsible for the death of Stefan Szardos, her son and Jimaine's brother, "Amanda" revealed herself as Jimaine, convinced her mother to let Kurt live and resumed her on-and-off relationship with him.
Years later, Jimaine having fully anglicized her name to Amanda joined an interim team of "X-Men" that was organized at Moira MacTaggert's Muir Island facility, and eventually came to join Excalibur under the codename 'Daytripper'. During this time, she obtained the Soulsword from Shadowcat. It was later revealed that it was not Amanda who had taken the Soul Sword but her mother who had used it to kill all those ahead of her on the Winding Path. Margali later switched bodies with Amanda who was later captured by Belasco. Later Nightcrawler and Margali defeated Belasco and rescued Amanda and switched their bodies back. Afterwards, Amanda decided not to return to earth with Kurt but instead agreed to rule Limbo Magik's Limbo (not to be confused with Immortus' Limbo) and took the title of 'Magik' for herself. She managed to gain control of stepping disks and even created a soul sword, which may not necessarily be original

She remains an ally of the X-Men, particularly Nightcrawler and even choose Kurt to be the vessel in which Illyana's soul self could be kept due to the fact that his soul was the purest she could find.
Amanda recently resurfaced in ''New X-Men'' when she plunged out of a dimensional portal in a blast of flaming energy and landed in a small German village. She was quoted as saying ''"Help me...someone please...He's back."'' It was revealed that Amanda was driven out of Limbo after being overwhelmed by an invasion led by Belasco, and that she was no longer in possession of Illyana's Soulsword^[1]. She assisted New X-Men Hellion and Surge as well as O
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★ E sentinel operative (and former mutant) Lex in finding students that were kidnapped by Bilasco. The students were saved due to Illyana Rasputin usurping control of Limbo. Once the heroes were teleported back to Xavier's school though, Amanda found limbo to be sealed off.^[2].

Other versions

Days of Future Past

★ In the Days of Future Past timeline, Amanda had a daughter Blue who inherited her father Nightcrawler's appearance, and similar teleporting powers. As seen in ''Uncanny X-Men #188'', Amanda and Nightcrawler, along with that timeline's version of Illyana were gunned down by a government strikeforce deployed to destroy the Xavier Institute after Senator Robert Kelly was assassinated.

Marvel Mangaverse

★ In the Marvel Mangaverse setting Amanda Sefton is a dark sorceress, who uses Rogue to battle the electromagnetic demon Magnus.

In other media

Television

In '', a character named Amanda Sefton appears as Nightcrawler's love interest, though she didn't have the background of her comic counterpart. She is portrayed as a normal human girl of African-American heritage, with knowledge and interest in Nightcrawler's powers and looks, who nevertheless accepts Kurt completely despite his mutancy. 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. She was played by Moneca Stori.

Footnotes

1. ''New X-Men'' vol. 2 #37
2. "New X-Men" vol. 2 #41

External links

★ UncannyXmen.net Spotlight on Amanda