Mirage (DC 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)
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Detective Comics #511 (February 1982) |
| Created by | Gerry Conway (writer) Don Newton (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Mike |
| Abilities | Can create powerful illusions |
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.
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[edit] Batman foe
The first Mirage was a man named Mike and appeared in Detective Comics #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. Following the Infinite Crisis, 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] Miriam Delgado
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The New Titans #79 (1991) |
| Created by | Marv Wolfman |
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| Alter ego | Miriam Delgado |
| Team 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. She had to deal with Killowat's intense crush on her and the more malicous intents of another man. Mirage was raped by her former lover Deathwing and became pregnant with his child. For a while she deceived her friends, using her powers to make it seem as if she had lost the 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. During this time, her powers fluctuated. She experienced uncontrolled illusions. She found she could project an image to a spot where she was not and remain hidden all the same.
Eventually, she gave birth to a daughter, Julienne, and left the Titans to spend time with her.
She helps the Titans to save former Titan Cyborg in the Technis Imperative storyline. During a confrontation with the Justice League during this incident, she tricks the Martian Manhunter with an image of his dead wife and is violently subdued. She reappears 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 one of the Titans that battled Superboy-Prime near Smallville, Kansas in Infinite Crisis #4 and Teen Titans vol. 3, #32. She also rejoined the Titans for a brief period during the "one year gap".
[edit] Other version
Teen Titans Go #48 features a version of Mirage (who resembles Raven) as a member of the Teen Titans in another reality.
