I read New X-Men #16

Ever notice that everytime the X-Universe does an alternate reality storyline they always bring back Ilyanna? I saw her in Exiles, Age Of Apocalypse, Shattershot and the Cross-Time Caper. I was excited the first few times but this time around in House Of M, Magik's return has left me cold.

In House Of M we are given a world where all the characters are given their heart's desire. For Magneto that means he rules the world and there are no X-Men to oppose him. So... if there are no X-Men then they never had to go fight him on his island in the Bermuda triangle. And since they were never on that island, Ilyanna was never there to fall through that portal into Belasco's Limbo where she grew into a young teenager as his apprentice until she freed herself. She also never would have forged the soulsword.

Yet here she is in House Of M as a teenager complete with sword and no explanation of how this happened. I talked this over with a friend and he argued that perhaps it was Peter's heart's desire to have his family back. While I can agree that this is something Peter would want, it also seems to me that he would want the younger version of his sister that never suffered those years in Belasco's realm. As a matter of fact I find it hard to believe that any X-character who endured Inferno would wish for an Ilyanna with any ties to Limbo.

I want to believe they will address this in a panel or two in future issues but understandably there is a bigger story that needs to be told. It just feels so cheap this time around that I'd rather they had never bothered to bring her back at all if they weren't going to do it right.

I suppose none of this will matter once House Of M is over anyway...