Danielle Moonstar

Danielle Moonstar
Dani Moonstar on the variant cover for Fearless Defenders #4.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982)
Created by	Chris Claremont (writer) Bob McLeod (artist)
In-story information
Full name	Danielle "Dani" Moonstar
Species	Depowered Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Hellions The Initiative Mutant Liberation Front New Mutants S.H.I.E.L.D. Valkyrior Xavier Institute X-Force X-Men Young X-Men
Notable aliases	Psyche, Mirage, Moonstar, Spellbinder, Dark Rider
Abilities	Former Abilities: Limited psionic abilities Empathy Telepathy Creating illusions Psionic arrows Psionic bullets Psionic bolts empathic/telepathic link with animals Ability to sense impending death in others Ability to create solid objects out of psionic energy Superhuman strength

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Danielle "Dani" Moonstar, originally codenamed Psyche and later Mirage, is a fictional Cheyenne superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as associated with the X-Men.

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

Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Mirage first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982), and appeared as a feature character in New Mutants (1983), New Mutants Vol. 2 (2003), Young X-Men (2008) and New Mutants Vol. 3 (2009). 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. She was also briefly a supporting character in Avengers: The Initiative (2007) and can be seen sporadically as a background character in Uncanny X-Men and related X-Men titles. Moonstar appears as a regular team member in the all-female 2013 series Fearless Defenders by Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney.