History Characters / NewMutants

A tribal Cheyenne girl raised by her grandfather after her parents were apparently killed by a giant demonic bear (though what really happened to them turned out to be much more complicated). Was taken in by Xavier after her grandfather's death. Initially, her powers were creating illusions (often using a person's greatest fears or desires as a template, but not always) and animal telepathy. These and other abilities have fluctuated over the years, as Dani has served as a Valkyrie of Asgard at times.

The son of a coal miner from rural Kentucky, and felt obliged to take his place at the mine himself after his father died. After his powers emerged during a cave in his employer Donald Pierce gave him a new job as a bodyguard, but left and joined the New Mutants after it became clear the man was a murderer. Despite being a salt-of-the-earth and often naïve young man he is quite intelligent and well-read by ordinary standards. Comes from a large farm family, and all of his many siblings are also mutants. Cannonball releases extremely powerful blasts of chemical energy from his feet and arms that allow him temporary flight and invulnerability and energy blasts.

* NighInvulnerability: When he's blasting, he's enveloped in a protective force field, which he uses for both defense and offense (hence his moniker). It's also one of ''the'' most powerful force fields seen in the entire MU, as it was strong enough to completely NoSell Gladiator's blows and ''redirect them back at him''. Gladiator, whose power levels depend on his confidence level, was so thoroughly shocked that he was almost completely depowered and was subsequently beaten with virtually no effort on Sam's part. Unfortunately, this has its limits, as [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan X-Man]] demonstrated with a ''brutal'' OffhandBackhand in ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 X-Men: Disassembled]]''.

* TrueCompanions: Unlike most of the main adult X-Men roster, they notably lack their older counterpart's DysfunctionJunction in their interactions with each other and their FamilyOfChoice relationship is considerably stronger and much more visible than most X-Team, with them at their prickliest with each other still being relatively friendly VitriolicBestBuds. While individually they might have strained relationship with their fellow X Men members from time to time, the New Mutants as a whole are always portrayed as being "ride or die" for each other and a lot more relaxed with each other. The fact that they are notably a much better MoralityChain for [[TokenEvilTeammate Illyana]] [[SociopathicHero Rasputin]] than even her older and former best friend just shows how powerful their friendship is.

* BodyHorror: When she's possessed by the Shadow King, during the time she was initially thought dead, he engaged in his favorite physical pastime--eating--and becomes morbidly obese as a result. Xuân is ''not'' happy when she gets her body back.

* InterspeciesRomance: Her longest-standing relationship has been an on-and-off affair with Hrimhari, an Asgardian entity who is a shapeshifting, magical, sapient wolf and one of the sons of Fenris himself. Eventually, she became pregnant by him and gave birth to his son, Tier Sinclaire.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Crushed hard on Hrimari the minute she laid eyes on him.

* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Side-effect of being a wolf is that when wolf-y she acts like... y'know, a ''wolf''. A wolf with some human intelligence in the driver's seat, but a wolf nonetheless. When she and Hrimari reunite, they scamper around like playful puppies (and little love hearts bubbling around them), much to Rahne's extreme mortification.

* [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]]: Receives a ''brutal'' one from [[spoiler: [[CharactersMarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]]]] when the two square off in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''.

* {{Scotireland}}: She's canonically from Scotland, so, as a Franchise/MarvelUniverse character, this comes with the territory.

-->''"Bo-ring. Tick, tick, tick -- '''[[StuffBlowingUp BOOM]]'''."''

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler: Nate Grey a.k.a. ComicBook/XMan]] is depicted as this to David in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'' - he's saner (albeit possibly CrazySane), a more skilled {{Telepath}}, a better planner, and ultimately, a more powerful RealityWarper. This leads to an absolutely ''brutal'' curbstomping when David finally gathers up the courage to confront him - [[spoiler: Nate]] delivers a cold [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] and effortlessly body-jacks him.

* BadassBoast: In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', he gives a rather good one to [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]]]], who he'd trapped inside his head. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: Nate]] being a monstrously powerful {{telepath}} (and arguably ''the'' strongest telepath in the Marvel Universe at the time), it didn't quite work.

* BigGood: Shaping up to be this for Krakoa along with Warlock and the island itself. [[spoiler:They've been spying on Xavier, Magneto and Moira from the start and know all there secrets, they've since shown such acts of undermining the Quiet Council as exiling a recently depowered Moira from the island after stopping Mystique and Destiny from killing her, giving the pit inmates there own simulated reality, and informing Legion about Moira's secret undetectable No-Space's.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Both of his canon love interests -- Shatterstar and Wolfsbane -- are redheads.

X-Man is an Omega-level mutant genetically created by Mr. Sinister from the Age of Apocalypse timeline. He is somewhat an alternate-reality counterpart to Cable, although Nate was made from the DNA of Jean Grey and Scott Summers whereas Cable was born naturally to Scott and Madelyne Pryor (Jean's clone). After returning from the dead Nate has joined the New Mutants and started a relationship with Dani Moonstar.

* FaceHeelTurn: Twice, first when she's possessed by Hela and second for much of the X-Force series Dani is a member of the MLF (averted as she was undercover for ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}).

** With ComicBook/XMan. Unfortunately, Sam ''was'' on the receiving end.

** Also, in ''X-Men: Disassembled'', he attacks [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] head on. [[CurbstompBattle This quickly turns out to be a very bad idea.]]

* NighInvulnerability: When he's blasting, he's enveloped in a protective force field, which he uses for both defense and offense (hence his moniker). It's also one of ''the'' most powerful force fields seen in the entire MU, as it was strong enough to completely NoSell Gladiator's blows and ''redirect them back at him''. Gladiator, whose power levels depend on his confidence level, was so thoroughly shocked that he was almost completely depowered and was subsequently beaten with virtually no effort on Sam's part.
** Unfortunately, this has its limits, as ComicBook/XMan demonstrated with a ''brutal'' OffhandBackhand in ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 X-Men: Disassembled]]''.

* ImAHumanitarian: In one particularly horrifying example, [[spoiler:her [[SinisterMinister father]] hypnotized her into attacking Archangel but accidentally [[HoistByHisOwnPetard triggered her programming himself]]. When the rest of her team found them, all that was left of her father was [[GoryDiscretionShot "some torn clothes and a lot of blood"]].]]

Illyana is the baby sister of Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and Mikhail Rasputin, and just like her brothers, she is UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n. Illyana was an adorable little girl whose innocence drew the attention of the evil sorcerer Belasco. During a time when she was living with the X-Men, Belasco kidnapped her and made her his apprentice so that she might free his EldritchAbomination patrons. She spent 7 years in a realm of Hell known as Limbo while only seconds passed on Earth, during which she learned sorcery and discovered her mutant teleportation power. She joined the New Mutants as Magik and served as a member for some time, though the nature of her abilities and AntiHero attitude unnerved her more religious teammates. Then, during ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' she was de-aged back into a 7 year old and was later killed by the Legacy Virus. Then she later came back as a demon. It's very confusing.

In ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', Illyana is chosen as one of the "Phoenix Five", a group of X-Men granted additional powers by the Phoenix Force. After ComicBook/MsMarvel is defeated by Rogue, Magik appears and gags the Avenger before teleporting her into Limbo, trapping her and terrifying Rogue. Following the defeat of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, she and ComicBook/EmmaFrost have gone on the run (other members of Phoenix Five, Colossus has rejoined ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s [[ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics team]], and [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere has gone home to Atlantis]]). She joined [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen Cyclops' team of X-Men]] at the New Xavier School. In their quest to recruit new mutants to their cause, Illyana continued to aid ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and Cyclops. As a result of the Phoenix Force being used in conjunction with the ComicBook/ScarletWitch's powers to bring back the mutants, she began experiencing changes to her powers. Unlike the others, she gained more power than she had prior to the Phoenix force, and she was now able to conjure energies directly from Limbo. Eventually, she came to realize that her power was broken as well, as she inadvertently brought her teammates to Limbo where they were forced to fight the demon Dormammu. She defeated him, but realized she needed help with her powers and teleported back in time to find a past version of ComicBook/DoctorStrange to teach her a greater understanding of magic as her mutant powers were linked to magic.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Poor Rusty was [[spoiler:killed by the time-displaced [[ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse Holocaust]].]]

* EnfanteTerrible: They usually aren't ''malicious'' but their use of their powers is abusive ''at best''. They had Beak forget how his parents were killed by terrorists to "help" him get past his grief, instead giving him the memory of them dying in their sleep peacefully.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[spoiler: Nate Grey a.k.a. ComicBook/XMan]] is depicted as this to David in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'' - he's saner (albeit possibly CrazySane), a more skilled {{Telepath}}, a better planner, and ultimately, a more powerful RealityWarper. This leads to an absolutely ''brutal'' curbstomping when David finally gathers up the courage to confront him - [[spoiler: Nate]] delivers a cold BreakingSpeech and effortlessly body-jacks him.

* BreakingSpeech: Receives a ''brutal'' one from [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]]]] when the two square off in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''.

** He ends up on the receiving end of one of these when he tries trapping [[spoiler: ComicBook/XMan]] in a simulated version of the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse inside his head, without his powers. All this ultimately results in is a ''very'' angry [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/XMan Nate]]]], who - once he figures it out - crushes Legion in the five seconds it takes to deliver a ''brutal'' BreakingSpeech and pulls a GrandTheftMe.

* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler:In finale of ''Legacy'', David merges with Weaver, becoming basically a god and starts fixing damage done by evil Xavier and himself. But then he realizes if he doesn't stop, he'll have to take control of the world and change it in his image. Which would go against all he believes in.]]
* GondorCallsForAid: [[spoiler: Losing his final fight with Evil Xavier, David realizes his manipulative behavior alienated people from him so there is no one he can call for help now. Then it turns out he subconsciously sent his cries for forgiveness to all those people. And in response they came to help him.]]

** He ''tries'' this in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'' as part of trying to stop [[spoiler: ComicBook/XMan]], but his desperation, lack of communication/lack of trust, and just being too late mean that he fails miserably. He then tries it on [[spoiler: Nate]] himself, with a bit of telepathic trickery. It works for five minutes of real time, and only succeeds in absolutely enraging the more powerful and more skilled telepath.

* MentalAffair: [[spoiler: Has one with Ruth at the end of his solo series.]]

* RealityWarper: The most powerful of Legion's personalities, including the ones that are more or less cohesive amalgamations of his shattered psyche, have the ability to change reality itself in wide-sweeping ways, to the point of creating an entire ''alternate universe'' during ''ComicBook/AgeOfX'' storyline. Indeed, it turns out that he was conceived for this very reason. However, as he finds out to his cost, there's AlwaysSomeoneBetter - [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]]]].
* RetGone: [[spoiler: In the end of ''Legacy'' he wiped himself from existence in the 616-world, the sole person remembering him being Blindfold.]]

** This is exploited and developed by [[spoiler: Nate Grey]] in his BreakingSpeech when the two face off in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, coldly deconstructing the idea that there is an original David at all. Cue GrandTheftMe. Given [[spoiler: Nate's]] track record, this could have just been psychological warfare (and if it was, it worked like a charm), but it has a disturbing plausibility.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: When he becomes Apocalypse's apprentice, he becomes pretty sycophantic and admonishes other mutants for not believing in his vision. He's preaching this to people that Apocalypse had terrorized in the past, including [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] [[ReforgedIntoMinion into being his Horsemen]] with still lingering consequences that the man himself [[TheUnapologetic justifies to them]] when called out, while also ''currently" manipulating them to his ends. Needless to say, his words fall on deaf ears at best.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: After his defeat from the "New Mutants", Legion became their supporting character and unofficial member of the team.

* FatalFlaw: In his solo series it's lack of trust. David is unable trust anybody but himself, so he manipulates people around him. [[spoiler: As it turns out he is unable to trust even himself - this is why he personalized parts of his mind as alien beings and needs to fight to control them.]]

* StickyFingers: On occasion, has had the tendency to take things without asking, which caused Sam no end of concern in their dating.
* {{Teleportation}}: Lila has the ability to teleport across great interstellar distances. Her powers do not allow her to teleport any distances under a light year so she must use her Dyson Sphere as a midway point on shorter travels.

* YouKilledMyFather: Held a grudge against Cable because of this, even after the [[CloningBlues truth]] came out.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ah'm nigh-invulnerable when ah'm blastin'", and any possible linguistic variation thereupon.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Some of her outfits are little more than sleeveless bathing suits, surprisingly revealing outfits for such a conservative woman, though there is the justification that all-covering outfits and a body covered in thick fur aren't a good mix.

!!!'''Nationality:''' Technarch

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* TrueCompanions: Unlike most of the main adult X-Men roster, they notably lack thier older counterpart's DysfunctionJunction in thier interactions with each other and their FamilyOfChoice relationship is considerably stronger and much more visible than most X-Team, with them at thier prickliest with each other still being relatively friendly VitriolicBestBuds. While individually they might have strained relationship with thier fellow X Men members from time to time, the New Mutants as a whole are always portrayed as being "ride or die" for each other and a lot more relaxed with each other. The fact that they are notably a much better MoralityChain for [[TokenEvilTeammate Illyana]] [[SociopathicHero Rasputin]] than even her older and former best friend just shows how powerful thier friendship is.

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