
Its magics affect the team, drawing them into another dimension. The other New Mutants wait for her in the hospital and are tracked down by the Bear. One night, she attacks the entity and is taken to the hospital. Her fear over the entity causes her to contemplate suicide. While with the New Mutants, Moonstar starts to have nightmares again about the Demon Bear, who until then had been kept from her due to Black Eagle's protective spells. There, she develops a deep friendship with Wolfsbane. She joins his group of students called the New Mutants, and shortly afterwards becomes the co-leader of the group, together with Cannonball. Xavier, who had been a close friend of Moonstar's father, offers to teach Dani control over her powers. He had already contacted Professor X to take care of Dani.

The Hellfire Club attempt to capture her, and in the melee, her grandfather is killed. Shortly afterwards, her parents disappear and Dani is taken in by her grandfather, Black Eagle. One of her first manifestations is a vision of her parents' death, killed by a demonic bear. As with most mutants, Dani's mutant powers manifested during puberty. 4 (2019).įictional character biography Origin ĭanielle Moonstar is a teenage Native American (specifically, Cheyenne ), and was born in Boulder, Colorado. After several years as an infrequent supporting character, Mirage is again featured prominently in The Uncanny X-Men vol.
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Moonstar appears as a regular team member in the all-female 2013 series The Fearless Defenders. She was also briefly a supporting character in Avengers: The Initiative (2007) and can be seen sporadically as a background character in The Uncanny X-Men and related X-Men titles. She appeared for a portion of the initial run of X-Force (1991), first as an infiltrator to the Mutant Liberation Front and later as a regular X-Force team member. 1982), part of the line Marvel Graphic Novel, and appeared as a feature character in The New Mutants (1983), New Mutants vol.

She regained her powers after being infected with, then cured of Warlock's transmode virus by Dark Beast. She was also a member of the X-Men, Young X-Men and Fearless Defenders.

She was a member of the X-Men's 1980s junior team the New Mutants and, after a long absence, its reincarnation X-Force. She also developed some magical abilities after a series of adventures in Asgard. She later developed a wide range of psionic and energy manipulation powers. The character is usually depicted as associated with the New Mutants.Ī mutant, Moonstar originally possessed the psionic/ psychic ability to telepathically create illusions of her opponents' fears or wishes.

1982), created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod. She first appeared in the graphic novel The New Mutants (Sept. Ability to create solid objects out of psionic energyĭanielle " Dani" Moonstar, originally codenamed Psyche and later Mirage, is a fictional Northern Cheyenne superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Ability to sense impending death in others.Superhuman strength, speed, durability, stamina and agility.Psyche, Mirage, Moonstar, Spellbinder, Dark Raider Dani Moonstar on the variant cover for The Fearless Defenders #4.
