Dani went on a ride with Brightwind and, after falling into a pond, created a Porsche to return home. He does transform into the shape of the 'Demon Bear' but Dani is not fazed and talks Trauma into a calmer state. Blu Hunt portrayed Danielle Moonstar in the 2020 film The New Mutants. The teams were to be his army against the coming war between humans and mutants. [41], Empathic Illusion Casting: She has the power to create three-dimensional images of certain visual concepts from thoughts and emotional impressions within the minds of herself and others. [4] Later Hela restored her Valkyrie powers,[43] then Danielle was exposed to the Transmode Virus,[44] and was subsequently cured by Dark Beast, which resulted in her mutant powers being restored. Moonstar's telepathic rapport with Wolfsbane was originally sometimes painful to Moonstar because of this fact, but it stopped after a period of time. The team battled the powers of the Brood Queen inside of Professor Xavier that was using Dani's powers to create a horrific landscape. She frees the animal and names it Brightwind, not realizing the creature's nature. This … Ilyanna teleported the X team back to their home base only find it in flames. First appearance. This caused Kevin to quit the school, making Dani question her place at the institute. Shortly t… Having tracked them to the Cloisters in Washington Heights, the rial outfits would engage in furious combat. [citation needed], Moonstar was limited in the use of her power by her need to see the person from whose consciousness she derived her images. She first appeared in the graphic novel The New Mutants (September 1982), created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod. Moonstar was born in Boulder, Colorado.She grew up on a ranch outside of the city and spent most of her time in the wilderness and with animals. Each of these Moonstar's represented a different aspect of Dani - New Mutant, Valkyrie, M.L.F. Dani agreed to work with Prof. Xavier to get her revenge on Pierce. [citation needed], The three-dimensional images that Moonstar caused to appear were similar to holograms, although they were created by psionic energy rather than by lasers, and could be seen by anyone in their vicinity. Cyclops sends her to Las Vegas where she approaches the Norse death goddess Hela for a boon. She could even use this power on fish and certain insects, although not on animals with intelligence any lower than these creatures. [37], During Norman Osborn's attack on the X-Men in San Francisco, Dani was sent by Cyclops to Las Vegas to make a deal with Hela to gain back her Valkyrie powers, in order to fight Ares, the Dark X-Men, and the Dark Avengers. This rivalry is later somewhat cooled when Danielle bonds with the Hellions's leader, Thunderbird. [53], The seeming materialization of the object of his or her greatest fear of desire invariably had immediate emotional impact on the person from whom Moonstar had drawn the image she projected. [11], After her parents' disappearance, Moonstar was taken in by their friends, the Roberts. [49] Moonstar, like the other New Mutants, was killed and then resurrected by the alien Beyonder. [12], Finally, Black Eagle sent a letter to Professor Charles Xavier asking him to provide Moonstar with the training she needed to utilize her powers. 2 (2003), Young X-Men (2008) and New Mutants Vol. Her most prominent ability is to cause people in her immediate vicinity to experience their greatest fears in powerful, surrealistic illusions. To maintain her cover, Moonstar was forced to battle her old friends in X-Force alongside other members of the M.L.F. Manifesting the images at unexpected moments alienated her from everyone in her community, except for her parents William& Peg Lonestar,& her grandfather, the chief& … Danielle Moonstar is a Native American of the Cheyenne Nation. [50], She along with all their old friends would later be freed from the office by remnants of the X-Men after their climactic battle with a recently repowered Nathaniel Grey, the mutant messiah known as X-Man resulting in the deaths of their entire team. [59] But lately she has been gaining greater control over calling her Valkyrie powers at will instead of when the need demands it. [69], As Malekith's war began dying down with the return of Mjolnir to Thor's hand, Mirage was there with Earth's Mightiest as the fallen god Loki used Heimdall's sword to cut his way out of Laufey's greedy gut, ending the frost giant king's life. [25], After a short time as a part-time member of the X-Men,[26][27][28] Moonstar becomes the mentor of a new New Mutants squad at the Xavier Institute (and the legal guardian of Elixir), as well as the Institute's American History teacher. Even in defeat Shinobi Shaw would not go in the night quietly, committing suicide rather than be incarcerated by phasing then solidifying his hand into his face. Following the departure of Karma, Dani and Cannonball became the team's leaders. They are soon met by more of Malekith's forces who were warded off by the arrival of Hrimhari, bringing with him his family and their familial friend Illyana back to the mutant's care. 1 Background 1.1 Abilities 2 Trivia 3 Gallery 4 External links Danielle "Dani" Moonstar is a Native American girl of Cheyenne descent. Their first mission was to subdue a recently returned Legion. Robert Callahan before being infected by a lock infected Illyana. [52], Moonstar could use her power to derive and project mental images on several people at once. Erasing the very memory of mutation and those who possess powers because of it from the minds of every person on the planet. [86] Able to draw blood from those stuck with them, it is currently unknown if this is an effect of her latent materialization abilities or not. While with her parents, Moonstar ran into her old friend, Pat Roberts, who still hated her. After the M.L.F. Despite the Front's malicious motives, Dani secretly works against them, working with Cable to turn Feral over to law enforcement authorities for past crimes,[18] sabotaging a mission in China,[19] and harboring a resentment towards members of the Front, aside from Forearm, with whom she develops a genuine friendship. [8], This ability extends to Wolfsbane's lupine form. [25], During their encounter with the Damocles Foundation, Dani was transmorphed for a short time by Arcadia, giving her the ability to channel quantum energies, which allowed her to affect matter at a subatomic level. [97] She could tap into the primal mainstream of the universe to channel quantum energy through her natural mutant power, as well as make use of them in other dis-separate ways. "[47][48] Still later, under Charles Xavier's further training, Moonstar learned to use her power to derive and project more specific images from another person's mind that were unrelated to such strong emotional states. Strange returned everything she had damaged to normal. Dani was freed by attacking demons and killed Loca. "Psyche (comics)" redirects here. The next day, Death returned in the form of an old Indian woman who convinced Dani that Pat would live, but in an irreversible diabetic coma. [44] She would feature at the aborted wedding of Kathrine Pryde and Piotr Rasputine as the bride left the groom at the altar. Moonstar's mutant powers emerged at puberty but she could not control her ability to create visible images of people's greatest fears. In her anger, Moonstar unintentionally created an image of Black Eagle's death as he had foreseen it in a prophetic dream. History; Danielle Moonstar is an American Indian of the Cheyenne Nation. This angered Damask, the Pale Riders leader, who killed Moonstar after she refused to stop. Danielle Moonstar is a Native American mutant with multiple psionic abilities. But Magik and Dani instead teleported Lady Mastermind back to X-Haven, where she got treatment for her M-Pox fever and her symptoms started to go away. She and the rest of the X-Men would go in search for more leads running into Scrambler as he was fleeing Callisto after he and his crew had led another Morlock Massacre. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. She was a member of the X-Men's 1980s junior team the New Mutants and, after a long absence, its reincarnation X-Force. Danielle "Dani" Moonstar, originally codenamed Psyche and later Mirage, is a fictional Northern Cheyenne superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Professor X asked her help in finding several mutant children and bringing them to the school, and also asked her to become a teacher. This allows Danielle to see premonitions of death. 5' 8" Weight. She joins X-Force for an extensive road-trip. This friend has become racist and mentally ill during the time she was gone. [12] Danielle gets worse and worse headaches, which causes concern with the team but all this is interrupted by many things, including X-Factor being drawn away in battle. But the Valkryor were all killed in the attack, and now Dani is all that is left of the once mighty slain choosers of Asgard. the X-Men Had Stayed In Asgard? [volume & issue needed], Something Coy Mann spoke to her confidante about in private. Eventually, Valkyrie, Misty Knight, Hippolyta, Dani, Elsa Bloodstone, Clea, and others banded together to form the Fearless Defenders. Upon sensing Rahne's death, Dani chants a mixture of Norse and Cheyenne words and Mister Sinister decides to have her terminated, which is initially shown to successfully take place. Dani challenges Sam to a duel in the Danger Room and the two come to an understanding during their battle; Sam then allows Dani to rejoin his team and vows to treat her as an equal. Danielle and her teammates fought back and revealed Pierce's duplicity to the kids. When Kitty found Danielle, she was in a unique kind of suspended animation, not needing food or wat… [24] She leaves X-Force when they contact Pete Wisdom and take on a more proactive direction. She was depowered after Decimation. Moonstar fell under the sway of Hela and nearly killed Odin. One of her first manifestations is a vision of her parents' death, killed by a demonic bear. [75] Soon she gained the ability to control this and to alternatively manifest a person's "deepest desire", mainly as something or someone the affected person respects. Mirage has a quasi-telepathic talent that allows her to form a rapport with various fauna, including her winged horse, Brightwind, primates, canines, lupines, felines, and avian's. [21], Later, she seeks X-Force's help with a foray into Asgard to help stamp out a take-over attempt by the dark elf Malekith. She also helped the other mutants who were captured during the Younghunt when they were attempting escape from the Gamesmaster's prison. 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