Dead Girl (comics)
| Dead Girl | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Force #125 |
| Created by |
Peter Milligan Mike Allred |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Moonbeam (surname unrevealed) |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations |
X-Statix X-Force |
| Abilities | Acclerated healing factor, Telepathy with the dead, Superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes Intangibility |
Dead Girl (Moonbeam) is a fictional character, a mutant superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appeared primarily in the X-Statix series. She is a mixture of ghost and zombie. Her civilian name has never been fully revealed, but she admitted after some cajoling that her first name is/was "Moonbeam." Dead Girl's mutant gene allows her to return to semi-life after dying; she is also able to become intangible and communicate with other dead people.
Dead Girl starred in the miniseries X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl. The series ran for five issues and focuses on a vengeful dead villain, The Pitiful One, intent on gathering other residents of Hell - such as Miss America, Kraven, Mysterio, The Ancient One, and Dead Girl's previous teammate The Anarchist - to bring himself to life once more.
There has been some question as to whether the series is connected to the rest of Marvel continuity, and yet several intriguing things occur; among them is Dead Girl's pseudo-romantic involvement with Stephen Strange. She revealed in the fifth issue that her first name is Moonbeam. Eventually, she and her assembled team of heroes stop the Pitiful One.
Dead Girl has few memories of when she was still alive; she believes she was a young actress who was murdered by her co-star/lover, who then sealed her body inside a mausoleum. The dead heard her cries and lured the killer back to the crypt in which he had buried her. Dead Girl awoke and took her revenge on him. Eventually, X-Force (soon to be renamed X-Statix) hires her and invites her to join them.
Her abilities are put to good use for the team. She is able to take machine gun fire and other deadly weaponry that would kill her allies. Her first discovery of being able to read a corpse allows her to save the life of the Anarchist, with whom she would later become romantically involved.
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