Mirage (comics)

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For the Marvel Comics character who used the same codename see Danielle Moonstar

For the Marvel Comics villain see Mirage (Marvel comics)

Mirage is the name of two DC Comics characters. The first was a minor villain of Batman. The second is a heroine who is affiliated with the Teen Titans.

Mirage I

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Detective Comics vol.1 #511 (February 1982)
Created by	Gerry Conway (writer) Don Newton (artist)

Characteristics
Alter ego	Mike
Abilities	Can create powerful illusions

1 Mirage I
2 Mirage II
- 2.1 Character History
  - 2.1.1 Appearances

[edit] Mirage I

The first Mirage was a man named Mike and appeared in Detective Comics vol. 1 #511 (February 1982). He used a gem that caused people to see elaborate illusions and committed crimes while his victims were occupied fighting against these illusions. This crime wave brought him to the attention of Batman. Batman faced Mirage several times before coming up with a strategy to beat him. During the encounter, Mirage's gem was destroyed. Batman was able to defeat him and sent him to jail. While in jail, Mirage managed to create contact lenses from fragments of his jewel. He proceeded to create the illusion of himself in jail and escaped to the circus he once worked for. Starting another crime wave, Batman was once again alerted to his actions. This time Batman easily beat him and sent him back to prison. One Year Later, Mirage was free from prison again. He was killed in 52 # 25 (2006) by Bruno Mannheim. Mannheim bashed Mirage's head into the “Crime Bible” and sent his body to the kitchen to be prepared for Mannheim to eat.

[edit] Mirage II

Mirage II

Mirage

Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	New Titans #79 (1991)
Created by	Marv Wolfman

Characteristics
Alter ego	Miriam Delgado
Affiliations	Team Titans New Titans
Abilities	able to project illusions, and use a wall of illusion to alter her appearance

Mirage (Miriam Delgado) is a fictional character owned by DC Comics. She is a former Teen Titan.

[edit] Character History

She was originally one of the Team Titans who came from the future to kill Donna Troy before she could give birth to her son, who, in Mirage's future, became the evil dictator Lord Chaos.

After Donna sacrificed her powers to prevent that future from becoming real, Mirage and the other Team Titans relocated to Donna's farm in New Jersey. Mirage was raped by her former lover Deathwing and became pregnant with his child.

During the Zero Hour crisis, she found out she wasn't from an alternate timeline, but from this one. She was, in fact, a runaway street urchin from Brazil, whom the Time Trapper had kidnapped and implanted with false memories. Mirage remained a member of Arsenal's Titans team.

Eventually, she gave birth to a daughter, Julienne, and left the Titans to spend time with her.

She helped the Titans to save former Titan Cyborg in the Technis Imperative storyline. She reappeared again, alongside other former Titans, to help the new incarnation of the Titans defeat Dr. Light in the 3-part Lights Out storyline. Mirage was also one of the Titans that battled Superboy-Prime in Infinite Crisis #4 and Teen Titans vol.3, #32.