Danielle Moonstar
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Template:Superherobox Danielle Moonstar is a fictional character, a superhero from Marvel Comics. She is a mutant superhero with ties to the X-Men. She first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants. She has also gone by the codenames Psyche, Mirage and Moonstar.
Danielle Moonstar is a Native American (specifically, Cheyenne), and was raised in Colorado by her grandfather, Black Eagle. Her mutant power manifested itself during puberty. The Hellfire Club attempted to capture her, and in the melee her grandfather was killed. Luckily, he had already contacted Professor X to take care of Dani.
Danielle's mutant power allows her to manifest a person's greatest fears and desires in the form of psychic illusions. She also has a telepathic bond with animals. She once became a member of the Valkyries, more or less against her will, and obtained from them a flying steed named Brightwind and the ability to sense the presence of death. At a later point, she refined her psychic ability so that she could cast "psychic arrows", which incapacitate their targets.
Danielle was a member of the New Mutants for several years; after this point, she joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and infiltrated the Mutant Liberation Front. Once that ended, she rejoined her old teammates, who were now in X-Force.
She is currently the mentor of the new New Mutants squad at the Xavier Institute (and the legal guardian of Elixir), and the Institute's American History teacher. She has discontinued the use of the "arrows," preferring once more to simply cast illusions.