Miss Martian
Miss Martian is a female extraterrestrial comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
M'gann M'orzz
It was noted that she was born different from other members of her kind and per custom her parents should have killed her for being kind and docile. However, they refused to do so and instead taught her to lie and pretend in order to hide her true nature from others. (Teen Titans v3 #58) She was a toddler when the civil war was fought between the Green Martians and the White Martians. M'gann was dispatched on a rocket from Mars and sent towards the Vega system to escape the conflict. (Brightest Day v1 #8)
Teen Titans
When Robin and Wonder Girl investigated her, she demonstrated her powers during a sparring session. She shifted her body into a monstrous shape to showcase her shapeshifting skills, then used her telepathy to link the Titans’ minds together. During a training exercise, she defended herself against Cyborg’s energy cannons by turning intangible and counterattacking with powerful telekinetic blasts, showing she was more than capable of holding her own against seasoned teammates. (Teen Titans v3 #37) Joining the Teen Titans, M’gann participated in her first combat mission as part of the team. She fought against the new incarnation of the Doom Patrol alongside the Titans. Using her telepathy, she scanned enemy positions before the fight began and relayed tactical information to Robin. Once combat broke out, she physically engaged by stretching her limbs into massive, bludgeoning weapons and tossing multiple adversaries aside with her strength. She also created a psychic link that allowed her team to coordinate attacks silently, ensuring the Titans stayed several steps ahead during the battle. (Teen Titans v3 #38) Whilst on the team, she came to reside at Titans Tower where she met Rose Wilson for two days. One day, Miss Martian threw a pie at Rose's face after seeing a similar such joke done by The Three Stooges. This led to Rose going on a rampage and a temper tantrum over the incident where she called Miss Martian many insulting names that led to the Martian crying as a result. Afterwards, she came to the decision that it was a mistake to had joined them and that she had broken one of the rules given to her that forbid her from making friends with humans. At first, she thought that the rule was wrong and that the Teen Titans were a place where young people could come together as friends but found that all they did was argue. It was this reason that led to her leaving the ranks of the Teen Titans. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
By a year later, she had relocated to Australia to the Tanami Desert region as she found that it reminded her of home. She was responding to an incident at the city of Brisbane caused by the armored supervillain called Gunshot. After apprehending the villain, she was visited by the Teen Titans where Robin asked for help in finding their missing teammate Raven. Miss Martian revealed that she had met with raven who had asked her to use her telepathy to scan the minds of the Titans to search for a particular 'secret'. However, she refused as she believed violating the minds of others was against her personal code of ethics. She was unable to provide any information on Raven's location but directed the Teen Titans to the next person on her list which was the new hero Bombshell. (Teen Titans v3 #39) Soon after the Titans had left however, Megan violated her own rules and began scanning the minds of a number of former Titans. Having scanned Bombshell's mind, she discovered that the neophyte hero was actually a mercenary in search of a computer disk, which housed the life essence of a deceased Titan named Jericho. Megan tried to warn the Titans, but Bombshell attacked her with an incendiary device, revealing her true White Martian heritage to the other Titans. (Teen Titans v3 #40) Miss Martian proved to be a valuable asset to the team, and aided them in bringing Bombshell down. Following the incident, Cyborg declared that she was once again a member of the Teen Titans. (Teen Titans v3 #41)
Shortly afterwards, Megan encountered a future counterpart of herself with this being an older, evil version of Miss Martian who embraced her more predatory White Martian instincts. Calling herself the Martian Manhunter, the older Megan was a member of the so-called Titans Tomorrow. (Teen Titans v3 #50)
M'gan by this point simply wanted to live a normal life as a human where she attempted to enrol herself in school under the name of Megan Morse. However, she had an issue with documentation where initially she asked Robin to help her but when he refused she tried to embark on this task herself. (Teen Titans v3 #58)
Soon after, Megan and her fellow teammate Kid Devil were abducted by the Terror Titans and taken to the Dark Side Club in Manhattan. Though Kid Devil was manipulated into participating in trials of combat, Miss Martian used her telepathy to try to free the minds of other brainwashed prisoners. After being freed, Megan helped Kid Devil to shake off the lingering effects of being brainwashed. (Teen Titans v3 #60)
She then spent a great deal of time infiltrating the Dark Side Club where she posed as a new incarnation of the Star-Spangled Kid. (Terror Titans v1 #1) She won the tournament, and used her psychic abilities to overpower many of the young heroes' indoctrination at the hands of Clock King. Under her leadership, the freed heroes overthrew both the club's resident staff, and the Terror Titans, who had been attempting to start a brainwashed metahuman army. (Terror Titans v1 #6)
An army of Earth's heroes, including Miss Martian and the Teen Titans, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn't at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he'd be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy's death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible foir boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime. (Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime v1 #1)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events. To protect her, Miss Martian was sent to Thanagar Prime to be raised in safety under the tutelage of the elderly Martian Keep. (Justice League v4 #14)
Tim Drake was once considering M'gann as a potential candidate for one incarnation of the Teen Titans. (Teen Titans v4 #1)
After the Dark Multiverse crisis, the Source Wall was shattered leading to cosmic energy creating various threats on Earth. Nightwing was charged with heading a new Titans team that was sanctioned by the Justice League and was based at the Hall of Justice. Miss Martian was assigned to the team as a chaperone the group though there was some resentment as it was felt that she was sent to spy on their activities. (Titans Special v1 #1)
At some point, M'gann began a somewhat casual relationship with fellow titan Superboy. (Action Comics v1 #1057)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Miss Martian in her Martian form had green skin, red hair, and often wore a blue cape with a white top featuring a red “X”-shaped sash across her torso, reminiscent of the Martian Manhunter’s costume design. (Teen Titans v3 #37) In her human guise, she came to operate as Megan Morse who seemed to be an everyday red-haired American teenager with pale skin, bright red hair, and green eyes. (Teen Titans v3 #58) Using her shapeshifting powers, she once posed the Star-Spangled Kid in order to infiltrate the Dark Side Club and its underground Metahuman fight arena. (Terror Titans v1 #1)
In personality, Miss Martian was initially depicted as cheerful, eager, and somewhat naïve. She admired Earth and human culture, wanting to fit in and be accepted as a hero. However, beneath her optimism lay an undercurrent of fear and insecurity, stemming from her White Martian heritage and the destructive legacy it carried. While she preferred compassion and cooperation, she sometimes resorted to her darker instincts in combat, and she struggled with her identity throughout her early appearances. This duality gave her both vulnerability and depth—she wanted to be kind and heroic, but she was constantly aware of her hidden capacity for violence. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
Since her youth, she had rejected the principles of ruthlessness taught to her by her war-like society. Instead, she had opted for a life of fun, hope and kindness. It was these traits that saw her attempt to reject a path of vengeance. (Teen Titans v3 #58)
She was taught to hide her White Martian heritage and though she hated doing so she ended up lying practically her entire life. (Teen Titans v3 #58)
Miss Martian had a strict code that prevented her from reading the mind of a good person regardless of the reason. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
She once claimed that she did not understand Earth's sense of humour. (Teen Titans v3 #37)
Miss Martian was a fan of television and watched comedy shows like The Three Stooges which she found funny. However, this caused her to attempt to recreate this jokes on her friends which caused arguments from them as a result. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
Prior to coming to Earth, there were certain rules given to her that prevented her from making friends with human beings. She had been warned about humans where she was told that they lied, cheated and betrayed one another. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
The desert of Earth's Arizona region were said to remind her of her home on Mars. (Teen Titans v3 #58)
Powers and abilities
In powers, Miss Martian possessed a range of Martian abilities similar to those of J’onn J’onzz, though her White Martian lineage amplified certain aspects. She had vast telepathic powers, which she used for mind-reading, mental communication, psychic shielding, and offensive psychic assaults. She was a powerful shapeshifter, capable of altering her size, appearance, and even mass distribution, allowing her to mimic others, create monstrous forms, or extend her limbs as weapons. She could become intangible by phasing through matter, or turn invisible to the naked eye. Her body absorbed solar energy, giving her superhuman strength, flight, and durability. Additionally, she wielded telekinesis, enabling her to move objects, throw enemies, or create force barriers in combat. These combined abilities made her one of the most versatile and dangerous young heroes on the Titans roster. (Teen Titans v3 #38)
As a Martian, she had telepathic powers allowing her to read another person's mind. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
She could also project beams from her eyes that could burn her target. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
M'gann was capable of using her invisibility to gain an advantage over her opponent and strike them without them able to hit her in turn. (Teen Titans v3 #58)
Miss Martian had the power of flight allowing her to travel across the sky. (Teen Titans v3 #39)
Notes
- Miss Martian was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel where she made her first appearance in Teen Titans v3 #37 (August, 2006).
- In an interview on Newsrama, Geoff Johns commented on the characters creation, "Originally we wanted Supergirl on the team, but she was in Legion and they didn’t want to confuse people. And she was also going through some kind of “rebellion” phase or something, so we thought — oh, we’ll just make up our own alien character. And if we would have made Supergirl up, maybe we would have made her more like this. And we just came up with the idea — a hero with a mysterious background as a White Martian, but making her a very delicate character who got her feelings hurt really bad.... So Tony and I would talk for hours about these characters we might not even see — like, Miss Martian — we didn’t even know how much we would use her. And then when we started to work on her, and I wrote her in #39, we really liked the character. So we were like, let’s put her on the team! She’s a lot of fun. And she’s a lot of fun in Titans East too, because she’s a little girl who’s really kind of timid, but if you pick on her friends, the White Martian in her comes out and she’s going to kick your ass. And that’s been a highlight of late, working on the book."
- According to writer Sean McKeever, the character was set to return to Teen Titans during his run as part of a larger story.
Alternate Versions
- In Teen Titans v3 #50 (2007), Miss Martian appeared in an alternate future timeline known as Titans Tomorrow where she became more ruthless alongside the other Teen Titans and adopted the name of Martian Manhunter.
- In Smallville Season 11 Special v1 #1 (2013), Miss Martian appeared in the alternate universe set in the world of Smallville in Season 11.
In other media
Television
- In Young Justice, Miss Martian was a lead character in the animated television series voiced by actress Danica McKellar.
- In Supergirl, Miss Martian appeared in season 2 of the live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Sharon Leal. A White Martian who could not stand the horrors her race committed against the Green Martians, M'gann tried helping prisoners escape. She failed, fleeing to Earth, where she hid for 300 years under the identity of Megan Morse. When M'gann meets J'onn J'onnz, she attempts to stay away from him and constantly refuses to share her thoughts, out of shame for what her people did to his. When Parasite fatally drains J'onn, M'gann is coerced by Alex to give him some blood; she does so regretfully, knowing that it will eventually turn him into a White Martian.
Films
- In Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Miss Martian appeared in the 2019 animated film where she was voiced by actress Daniela Bobadilla
Video games
- In Young Justice: Legacy, Miss Martian was a playable character in the video game where she was voiced again by actress Danica McKellar.
Appearances
- Teen Titans v3: (2006)
- Terror Titans v1:
- Brightest Day v1:
- Titans Special v1:
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