Magus (Technarchy)
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Magus (of the Technarchy)
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New Mutants (vol. 1) #18 (Aug 1984) |
| Created by |
Chris Claremont Bill Sienkiewicz |
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| Alter ego | Magus |
| Team affiliations | Technarchy |
| Abilities | Techno-organic being, shape shifting, superhuman strength and flight |
The Magus is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
The Magus is a techno-organic patriarch of an alien civilization, and should not be confused with another character called Magus who is associated with Adam Warlock.
The Magus first appeared in the New Mutants (vol. 1) #18-19 (August-September 1984). He was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz. The character and his son, the New Mutant, Warlock, were intended as an homage to Jim Starlin's characters: the original Magus and Adam Warlock.
The character subsequently appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #192 (April 1985), and The New Mutants #46-47 (December 1986-January 1987), and #50 (April 1987). The character did not appear again for many years, until Warlock #7-9 (April-June 2000), and X-Force #2 (May 2008).
The Magus received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #8.
The Magus is the ruler of the extraterrestrial Technarchy. Due to a bizarre custom wherein Warlock was expected to kill his father, Warlock instead fled to Earth and joined the New Mutants. He did this to escape having to kill or be killed by his father and to escape the potential responsibility of being ruler of a world of depraved robotic fiends. The Magus followed him, arriving on Earth the following winter in the form of a meteorite impacting near the X-Mansion. Only three X-Men (Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Rogue) were then on the mansion grounds to oppose the Magus, yet still inflicted upon him a painful and humiliating setback which prompted Magus to hide himself on Earth in human guise in order to study the mutants of Xavier Mansion incognito. Magus eventually did battle with Warlock and his New Mutant teammates resulting in Magus being sent back to his point of origin.
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