Mirage (DC Comics)

Template:For Mirage is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first was a minor villain of Batman. The second is a heroine affiliated with the Teen Titans.

Fictional character biography

Mike

Template:Infobox comics character The first Mirage was a man named Mike (also referred to as "Kerry Austin") and appeared in Detective Comics #511 (February 1982).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He uses a gem that causes people to see elaborate illusions. He commits crimes while his victims are occupied fighting against these illusions.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This crime wave brings him to the attention of Batman. Batman faces Mirage several times before coming up with a strategy to beat him. During the encounter, Mirage's gem is destroyed. Batman is able to defeat him and send him to jail.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

Mirage is later revealed to have been a graduate of the Academy of Crime.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

While in jail, Mirage manages to create contact lenses from fragments of his jewel. He proceeds to create the illusion of himself in jail and escapes to the circus he once worked for. Starting another crime wave, Batman is once again alerted to his actions. This time, Batman easily beats him and sends him back to prison. Mirage also fought Manhunter once using his illusions so successfully, he nearly killed the bounty hunter.

Following the Infinite Crisis event, Mirage is freed from prison again. In 52 (2006), Bruno Mannheim kills Mirage by bashing his head with the Crime Bible. Mannheim orders his minion Lazlo to prepare Mirage's body for consumption, revealing Mannheim to be a cannibal.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref> Template:-

Miriam Delgado

Template:Infobox comics character The second Mirage, Miriam Delgado, is a member of the Team Titans and part of a resistance against the dictator Lord Chaos. After Donna Troy, Chaos' mother, sacrifices her powers to prevent her son from inheriting them, Mirage and the Titans relocate to Donna's farm in New Jersey. She had to deal with Killowat's intense crush on her and the more malicious intents of another man. Mirage was raped by her former lover Deathwing and became pregnant with his child. She uses her powers to deceive her friends, making it appear as though she had had a miscarriage.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Mirage is part of the honor guard that escorts Superman's body to his tomb.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

During Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Mirage learns that she was a runaway street urchin from Brazil who was kidnapped by the Time Trapper and implanted with false memories. Mirage remains a member of Arsenal's Titans team. During this time, her powers fluctuate and she creates illusions uncontrollably. Eventually, Mirage gives birth to a daughter named Julienne and leaves the Titans to spend time with her.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

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 Doctor Light in the Lights Out storyline.

Mirage is one of the Titans who battle Superboy-Prime near Smallville, Kansas in Infinite Crisis. She also rejoins the Titans for a brief period during One Year Later.

In Teen Titans (vol. 3) #99, Mirage is among the former Titans who aid the Teen Titans in their battle with Superboy-Prime.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

Powers and abilities

Both incarnations of Mirage can generate illusions. The Mike incarnation's abilities are derived from a special gem, while the Miriam Delgado incarnation is a metahuman who possesses innate abilities.

Other versions

An alternate universe variant of Miriam Delgado / Mirage appears in Team Titans Annual #2.<ref>Template:Cite comic</ref>

In other media

• An original incarnation of Mirage named Miranda appears in the Static Shock episode "Brother-Sister Act", voiced by Gavin Turek.<ref name="btva">Template:Cite web A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.</ref> This version is a Bang Baby who, alongside her brother Byron, is exposed to mutagen amidst a clean-up effort following the Big Bang, with Miranda acquiring photokinesis that allows her to create illusions while Byron acquires a loudspeaker in his chest capable of firing powerful sound waves. Taking the name "Boom", Byron forces Miranda into helping him steal valuables. Realizing that the mutagen has affected Bryon's mind, Miranda helps Static defeat him. Afterwards, she is taken by child protective services and creates an illusion to protect Static's secret identity from his sister Sharon.
• The Miriam Delgado incarnation of Mirage appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• An unidentified, alternate universe version of Mirage inspired by Raven appears in Teen Titans Go! #48 as a member of her version of the Teen Titans.

See also

• List of Batman family enemies

References

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External links

• DCU Guide: Mirage (Mike)
• DCU Guide: Mirage (Miriam Delgado)