New Mutants Movie: 10 X-Men Characters We Want To See
10. Moonstar
Danielle Moonstar, aka Mirage, aka Psyche, aka plain old Moonstar, is a founding member of the team, and its longest-serving leader, so its hard to imagine an adaptation of New Mutants without her. Dani was also the second Native American character to appear the X-Men books, the first being the short-lived Thunderbird, who was basically created so that Marvel could show how edgy they were by killing off a character. Moonstars original power set was pretty unimpressive, possessing the ability to telepathically create illusions of her opponents' fears or wishes. Over time, these developed into a wide range of psionic and energy manipulation powers that were generally ill-defined. Moonstar has also previously served as an Asgardian Valkyrie complete with flying horse and magical abilities. More recently, Moonstar lost all her powers, but continues to lead the team and generally win at life with nothing but her own ingenuity and a bow and arrow. For a group commonly used as stand-ins for real life minorities, the X-Mens cinematic counterparts remain dominated by white, straight men. To set the new team apart from previous films, and from superhero films in general, New Mutants needs to bring some diversity into its team roster. Its a theme that will crop up a lot in this article. Giving the team a strong, independent female leader would be a good start, to say the least. The only real problem with Moonstar is her power set. Theres something distinctly unheroic about a character that makes their opponents hallucinate their worst fears and then kicks them while theyre distracted.
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