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The New Mutants Magik, way back when, was partially transformed into a demon by Belasco.
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So, if following the release order the numbering was dropped by this movie, but by chronological order it was dropped all the way back when Episode IV: A New Hope was titled simply Star Wars.
Source: Film / The Force Awakens - Lampshaded in Kim Newman's superhero pastiche "Coastal City", about a Commissioner Gordon on the point of realising his universe doesn't make sense; way back when the first hyperheroes appeared, Coastal City was New York, and then, one day, it wasn't.
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