Here's one Mirage I wish would disappear!
If you don't remember Mirage... well, good for you. She comes from the New Teen Titans Annual #7 (1991); note that, as a general rule, any character introduced in any Annual is either slapdash, cheezy, or just plain wrong.
Let's send her to Marvel where she'll be fine. Why, you ask?
She grew up a street urchin in Brazil. I bet she even picked a pocket or two; sound familiar?
Instead of having a name tangentially evocative of her power (like say, "Gypsy" or "Spellbinder"), she is named, in the Marvel tradition, directly after the power itself: Mirage.
She was created only to complicate the social dynamics of Wolfman's Marvelesque New Teen Titans, where, in a typical Marvel "supergroup as dysfunctional family" plot, she fell for Nightwing and impersonated Starfire in order to be with him (didn't Mystique do that?). A sleeper agent like Terra, she found herself torn between good and evil. Oh, and she's a single mother (of course).
Another morally ambiguous, self-tortured, self-conflicted imperfect person with a one-note power, family difficulties, and unrequited love = Marvel. Danielle Moonstar, move over!
Joe Quesada, Mirage is in the mail!
as a general rule, any character introduced in any Annual is either slapdash, cheezy, or just plain wrong.
ReplyDeleteYou mean, like Vibe, who first appeared in Justice League of America Annual #2?
Now here's a choice I can get behind. I look forward to seeing Mirage impersonate Emma Frost and jump into bed with Cyclops.
ReplyDeleteThere are exceptions to every rule.
ReplyDeleteVibe is an exception to MOST of them!
P.S. I have re-programmed an Ivoid, totaltoyz, and it knows where you live...
Fittingly, The New Mutants have a character named Mirage.
ReplyDeleteI have re-programmed an Ivoid, totaltoyz, and it knows where you live...
ReplyDeleteAh, but if I am destroyed, you lose your source of custom HeroClix!
Ah, well, Amazo will be coming with it to absorb your super-customizing powers before the Ivoid strangles you.
ReplyDeleteWe supervillains always have a plan, you know.
Tommy Monagham and Rogue were both introduced in annuals. Psylocke was introduced to te American audience in an annual. I would consider those characters some exceptions. Generally, however, it's a good rule.
ReplyDeleteI think you're onto something with this "introduced in an annual" theory. Godiva was also introduced in a Teen Titans annual, and jesus god does she suck as a character.
ReplyDelete"Godiva"?
ReplyDeleteWhat's her power?
Super-chocolatizing?
Godiva had prehensile hair; always a classic. Useless, but classic. She was supposed to be England's biggest superhero in the DCU, so I guess it sucked to be an English person with supervillain problems.
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