Mirage (Marvel)

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Mirage is the name used by several characters in the Marvel Universe.

Mirage (Desmond Charne)

Main Article: Desmond Charne

Desmond Charne was in love with Deanna Delaney, but they stumbled across a battle between Fin Fang Foom and Thor and Iron Man. Iron Man rescued Delaney from falling while Charne stood by helpless. After that, Delaney lost interest in Charne and they separated. However, it did give Charne the idea that he could pick up women as a 'bad boy' costumed villain. (Superior Foes of Spider-Man v1 #3)

Mirage and his trio of underlings led a campaign of crime in Morgan's of Malverne, a building which was hosting a number of weddings that day. The quartet robbed several of the weddings, and made their way to one for Ned Leeds and Betty Brant. As they took the guests' valuables, Peter Parker, who was in attendance, changed into his Spider-Man garb and attacked them. Though he quickly defeated the underlings, Mirage was able to elude him using his holographic technology. When Spider-Man realized Mirage's powers, he brought down a huge chandelier on the villain, knocking him out. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #156)

Using the Image Inducers to disguise themselves as ambulance drivers, Mirage and a new trio of underlings entered a hospital in which the Thing was recovering from recent injuries. They shed their disguises, intent on kidnapping the Thing and holding him for a multi-million dollar ransom, but ran afoul of a visiting Daredevil, who easily defeated them when his super-senses let him detect which was the real Mirage and which were holograms. Mirage returned later as part of a large gathering of super-villains, but they were all defeated by the heroes who had gathered to visit the Thing. Mirage was once again defeated in combat by Daredevil. (Marvel Two-in-One v1 #96)

Mirage was one of a number of super-villains invited to the Bar With No Name in Medina County, Ohio by Gary Gilbert. Gilbert was trying to raise awareness in the villain community concerning the vigilante Scourge, who had murdered a number of costumed criminals. While waiting for the meeting to start, Mirage chatted with Letha, but shortly afterwards, Scourge revealed his presence as the bartender as he gunned down Mirage and all the other criminals there. (Captain America v1 #319) Water Wizard arrived late for the meeting and found everyone dead. He then called in Captain America. Captain America contacted the local authorities, who picked up the bodies of Mirage and the others. Later, Cap decided to try to lure Scourge out of hiding by posing as a surviving member of the massacre, and chose Mirage to disguise himself as. The ploy worked, as Scourge returned to finish the job and was caught by Captain America before being himself assassinated. (Captain America v1 #320) Dead Ringer Lou Dexter obtained a piece of Mirage's tissue. Dead Ringer attended a press conference by Captain America in the form of Mirage and cast an illusion of Heinrich Zemo and his Masters of Evil only Captain America could see. Captain America made a fool out of himself in front of the press. Super-Patriot captured 'Mirage', who took on another form of Purple Man when the Black Widow took him away. (Captain America v1 #425) At some point afterwards, Arnim Zola took DNA samples from the corpses of several of the massacre victims, including Mirage, and created proto-husk duplicates out of the genetic material. (Deadpool v1 #0)

Aided by Dormammu's dark magic, the Hood resurrected Mirage along with several other of Scourge's victims to fight the Punisher. (Punisher v7 #5) The Hood addressed the assembled resurrected villains including Mirage, warning them that failure to kill the Punisher would leave them dead again after 30 days, but lying to them that it was the Punisher disguised as Scourge who had killed them. Each one resurrected had been augmented, armed and costumed by the Hood. Soon after, Mirage suggested himself as leader, but the Fly, Basilisk and Death Adder walked out. (Punisher v7 #6) Mirage sat at a table with Mind-Wave, Cyclone and Firebrand playing cards and making jokes about Microchip. Letha and Lascivious then arrived; Letha asserted herself, mocking him and mind-controlling him to demean himself. (Punisher v7 #7) Mirage facilitated the disguise of various resurrected villains to appear like 1980s era Avengers as part of an elaborate masquerade to engage the Punisher, but the vigilante saw past the ruse and incapacitated him, taking him away for brutal interrogation before jamming a grenade in his mouth. Those surviving the Punisher's retaliation found Mirage. Letha safely extracted the grenade and ordered Bird-Man to take Mirage away from the field of battle. (Punisher v7 #8)

Mirage (Unknown)

Main Article: Unknown

A new character named Mirage was a female bearer of the name who had appeared as a Superhuman Registration Act violator. When Mindwave was imprisoned by the Thunderbolts at Thunderbolts Mountain, he began a telepathic conversation with fellow prisoners Caprice, Bluestreak, and Mirage. Mirage informed Mindwave that Penance had a violent dissociative episode and that most of the Thunderbolts were under stress. She also noted that Doc Samson, who was present in Thunderbolts Mountain, had some fascinating thoughts. (Thunderbolts v1 #117) Mirage was ordered not to focus on Samson, but she ignored her fellow prisoners to pry into his mind anyway, and this time he noticed her psychic probing. He used his pent-up rage to send some psychic feedback to her that stunned her painfully and broke the connection. (Thunderbolts v1 #119) Bullseye killed Mirage and her allies in their cells by throwing scalpels into their heads. (Thunderbolts v1 #121)

Mirage (Dani Moonstar)

Main Article: Dani Moonstar

Danielle Moonstar was a female Mutants who after the manifestation of her powers came to join the Xavier Institute. Initially, she operated under the code name Psycke but later came to change it to Mirage when she operated alongside the New Mutants. (New Mutants v1 #22)

Later, Amora the Enchantress kidnapped the New Mutants to Asgard. Dani found herself on Valhalla, where she rescued a winged horse from a group of hunters. The winged horse was one of a herd of such creatures belonging to Odin, ruler of Asgard. The horses were ridden by the female warriors called the Valkyries who guided the spirits of the recently deceased to the Afterlife. Mirage forged an immediate psychic rapport with the horse, whom she named Brightwind after her pony on Earth, and the horse selected her to be his rider. This "bonding" bestowed part of the Odin power upon Mirage, and thus she became endowed with the Valkyries' power to perceive the coming of death. When the New Mutants returned to Earth, Brightwind came with Mirage. (New Mutants Special Edition v1 #1)

In Nova Roma, Dani was thrown under the High Evolutionary's de-powering machine. Two mutants, Bulk and Glow Worm, had just been de-powered and, with their dying breath, reversed the machine on Dani. After being taken off the machine, Moonstar acquired the ability to make her spirit images real, but the images would not go away until a new image was made. Later, Dani also manifested a Spirit Lance, which she carried as a weapon. Dani went on a ride with Brightwind and, after falling into a pond, created a Porsche to return home. Dani was pulled-over and, after she manifested a fake license, the car vanished. Brightwind returned and she fled home, vanishing her fake license for her Spirit Lance. After thinking it was too big, Dani made her Spirit Lance into a necklace, which she constantly wore, as she needed to maintain at least one mirage at all times. Dani decided to keep her new powers and the origin of her necklace a secret from Magneto. *new Mutants Annual v1 #4)

Overview

Notes

• The concept of Mirage was created by Len Wein and Ross Andru where it made its first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #156 (May, 1976).

Alternate Versions

Appearances

• Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1976)
• New Mutants v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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