Curated playlist
Marvel Comics characters who use magic
- Thor (Marvel Comics)Donald Blake, the surgeon who became Marvel's Thor, was never a real person. Odin invented him to teach Thor humility.
- Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Wanda Maximoff, the character played by Elizabeth Olsen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, spent two days buried in the rubble of her family's apartment in Sokovia, a country in Eastern Europe. A missile had just killed her parents. Her…
- MagikMagik, born Illyana Nikolaievna Rasputina, appeared for the first time in the pages of Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975. Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum created her. For the next eight years, almost nobody noticed. She turned up now…
- Adam WarlockAdam Warlock begins life with no name at all. Scientists on Earth who called themselves the Enclave built him as a perfect being, the next evolution of humanity, and he knew himself only as Him. Then he learned what his makers intended,…
- Doctor DoomDoctor Doom is a comic book villain who answers to no court outside his own country. He rules the fictional eastern European nation of Latveria, and his status as head of state has historically shielded him from prosecution for crimes…
- Ned LeedsNed Leeds is a Daily Bugle reporter in Marvel Comics, and the husband of Betty Brant. In 1987, readers learned that he had secretly been the supervillain Hobgoblin. By then he was already dead. That order of events shaped everything that…
- Scarlet WitchJack Kirby considered at least five names before the Scarlet Witch became the Scarlet Witch. Jinx, Witch Woman, The Sorceress, Evil Eye and Miss Witch are all listed on the back of a splash page in The X-Men issue 4. Writer Stan Lee and…
- Mephisto (Marvel Comics)Mephisto first appeared in Silver Surfer #3, cover dated December 1968. Writer Stan Lee and penciler John Buscema created him for Marvel Comics. They modeled him on Mephistopheles, the demon of the Faust legend, who is sometimes called…
- Black Knight (Dane Whitman)Dane Whitman, the Marvel Comics hero known as the Black Knight, began his career by being attacked by the very team he hoped to join. In his first outing in costume, the Avengers took him for his own uncle, a villain who had used the same…
- Madelyne PryorMadelyne Pryor first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168, cover-dated April 1983, and nobody planned for her to become a villain. Writer Chris Claremont once summed up her opening storyline with a single exchange. Scott Summers, the X-Men's…
- Doctor StrangeDoctor Strange, the sorcerer of Marvel Comics, began life with a lukewarm review from the man who edited him. In a 1963 letter to Jerry Bails, Stan Lee described a five-page filler for Strange Tales and admitted that "The first story is…
- Ghost RiderGhost Rider is a Marvel Comics character whose first supernatural form was a stunt motorcyclist named Johnny Blaze. Blaze makes a desperate trade. To save the life of his foster father, he agrees to give his soul to a being called "Satan."…
- Juggernaut (character)Juggernaut, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is Cain Marko, made his debut in X-Men #12, dated July 1965, without ever showing his face. For most of that issue he was an unseen force tearing through the X-Men's headquarters.…