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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

    Moon Girl 

Moon Girl

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Alter Ego: Lunella Louise Lafayette

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (November, 2015)

Lunella is an Inhuman girl with a genius-level intellect who befriends Devil Dinosaur.


  • Appropriated Appellation: "Moon Girl" is a pejorative nickname given to Lunella by her classmates, which she eventually learns to embrace as her superhero identity.
  • Blessed with Suck: Lunella considers being an Inhuman this; even before going through Terragenesis, she lives in constant fear the Terragin mist will reach her and cause her to drastically change, making her no longer human. He opinion doesn't improve once she does go through Terragenesis, as her "Freaky Friday" Flip ability is uncontrollable and causes her to regularly switch body with Devil Dinosaur, which from her classmates' perspective cause her to randomly go in Wild Child mode on regular basis, with her having to deal with the consequences when she gets back to her body. One of her primary motivations is to find a cure to her condition.
  • Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: To Devil. She'll often berate him, call him a dummy, and often treats him like he's a nuisance to her. But she does really love him and as the series goes on she starts to show it more and more openly.
  • Catchphrase: "I don't have time for this foolishness!"
  • Child Prodigy: Lunella is nine years old and the smartest person in the Marvel Universe. According to her she first found out about her inhuman gene when she sequenced her own genome at four years old.
  • Declining Promotion: At the end of Secret Warriors Karnak reveals that he wants Lunella, with her unsurpassed intellect and sense of compassion for others, to become the new leader of the Inhumans. She immediately rejects him, but in the final issue of the series she claims she might be interested in the role one day when she's older.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: At the start of the series she has no friends at all nor wants any. She hates her school so much that she spends much of her free time trying to apply to the Future Foundation to escape it. She gets her first real friend when Devil Dinosaur shows up, and slowly as time goes on she starts to open up and makes friends with Eduardo and Zoe, Kid Kree, and the SAD SAKs. She never stops being withdrawn, but does come out of her shell more and more as the series continues.
  • Extendo Boxing Glove: One of her primary weapons is an extendable boxing glove that comes out of her right hand.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Moon Girl is an Inhuman, but starts out the story as pre-Terragenesis, and her power, when finally revealed, doesn't really have much use in combat, so she relies mainly on her skills as a Gadgeteer Genius to fight.
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: Lunella's Inhuman ability.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: What Lunella is known for by her family and peers. She even has her own secret mad scientist laboratory!
  • Giant Woman: On one occasion, Dr. Strange shrank Devil Dinosaur with a potion called 'the tincture of tininess' to make him easier to watch over while Lunella was unconscious. The effects of the potion wear off after a few days, but he also gives Lunella the 'gravy of giant sizing' to grow Devil back immediately. Later, during a fight with some doombots, Lunella does indeed decide to use the gravy of giant sizing— on herself.
  • Insufferable Genius: Lunella has elements of it, grown largely as a response to people talking down to her.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: Lunella isn't very popular with her young peers, and is not only frequently bullied by her classmates but also called a 'know it all' by some of her teachers. She spends all day sitting in class hearing lectures on things she not only already knows but often knows more about than the teachers themselves.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Karnak, of all people. Unlike a lot of adults, Karnak has the highest respect for Lunella’s genius and her willingness to value the lives of other people over her own pride. He sees so much value in her, in fact, that he tried to launch a plan that would involve her becoming the new leader of all the Inhumans. Lunella, meanwhile, is far more polite to Karnak than she is to most other adults, and even after his big plan is foiled and he becomes reviled by the rest of the Secret Warriors, she holds a big party to try to soothe the tensions that remain between all the team members and especially all the antipathy that remains towards him in particular.
  • I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: In Secret Warriors Daisy's father threatens to have Vision kill Devil Dinosaur if Lunella and Daisy don't surrender. While Daisy initially claims they'll never surrender to him, Lunella cuts her off, pointing out that while Daisy may not have anyone other than herself to care for, she does and isn't willing to risk Devil's life for Daisy's revenge.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's not particularly friendly and, by her own admission, doesn't like being around other people a lot of the time. With that said, she does care about the wellbeing of others and was partly inspired to become a superhero so that she could help people the same way her mom and dad do at their jobs.
  • MacGyvering: Most of her gear and weapons are made with whatever she's able to get her hands on using her limited resources. She's been able to build some pretty impressive devices all the same, including an interstellar Moon Mobile.
  • Meaningful Name: Eventually, Lunella figures out a pattern to her powers besides emotions: she always switches with Devil Dinosaur during a full moon.
  • Not Now, Kiddo: A major frustration for Lunella with adults is their tendency to dismiss her in spite of her genius. She's not as mature emotionally as she is intellectually, so there is some justification, but even other underaged heroes can underestimate her, if not ignore her input entirely.
  • Open Secret: Moon Girl's real identity is meant to be a secret. Except nearly everyone figures it out almost immediately, and the only people who bother pretending it's a secret are Lunella's friends, for the sake of politeness.
  • Superhero Sobriquets: After the Banner BOX indicates she's the smartest person in the Marvel universe and further tests at Rockefeller University confirms the fact, she starts going by the title of "The Smartest There Is."
  • Tricked-Out Shoes: Her shoes can both turn into roller skates and spring coils.
  • Uninvited to the Party: She acts very coldly around Mr. Fantastic when he comes to her lab to get a peek at her tech, and later reveals that she’s actually hurt that she and Devil weren’t invited to the big Fantastic Four reunion, since she and Devil were both temporary members of the team during a fight with an entity named Omnipotentis and she feels like their contributions were forgotten about.
  • Wild Child: When Lunella and DD swap bodies for the first time, this is how DD behaves in Lunella's body — much to the horror of her classmates.
  • World's Smartest Man: Amadeus Cho gives Lunella a test meant for super geniuses called a Banner BOX, created by Bruce Banner himself. The test is so impossibly hard that no one has ever been able to solve it— not Reed Richards, not Tony Stark, not even Amadeus himself. Lunella completes it before he can even finish explaining what it is, causing Amadeus to declare her the smartest person in the world.

    Devil Dinosaur 

Devil Dinosaur

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Alter Ego: Devil, Devin Dinosaur

First Appearance: Devil Dinosaur #1 (April, 1978)

A rather huge, intelligent red dinosaur who originally hails from Dinosaur World. He started out being the partner of an early hominid named Moon Boy, and after a series of adventures was accidentally transported to New York City with a device known to the early humans as the 'Nightstone', in reality a piece of Kree technology called the Omni-Wave Projector. There, he befriends a girl named Lunella Lafayette and joins her as a crime fighting partner.


  • Animal Talk: He speaks in a series of grunts, growls, "roo"s and "mroo"s that some animals seem able to understand. Depending on the Writer Lunella is able to understand some of what he says while other times she requires someone who Speaks Fluent Animal to translate for her. He also says some things fairly close to English, like "Groo-Reh-Ra" for Lunella and "Rah ruv roo" for 'I love you'.
  • A Pet into the Wild: After awhile, Lunella comes to believe that Devil would be happier back in his home of Dinosaur World, and uses the Kree Omniwave Projector to go back to the moment before Moon Boy's death, saving him and then leaving Devil there, despite his protests. However, Lunella soon comes to realize she was wrong and brings Devil back.
  • Action Pet: He does most of the heavy lifting and direct fighting when he and Moon Girl engage with bad guys.
  • All Animals Are Dogs: He has shades of this, displaying his affections with nuzzles and licks, spending most of his day sleeping, and wagging his tail and even doing tippy-taps when he's excited.
  • Berserk Button: Threatening to hurt Lunella. In fact, the only time he's ever shown eating a human being in the comics is when he chomps down on Deadpool during Secret Warriors after he threatened to kill her.
  • Bond Creatures: At first his partnership with Lunella was a mundane one like he had with Moon Boy. Then Lunella underwent terrigenesis and developed the ability to switch minds with him, forging a psychic connection.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Several times, most notably by Stegron, the High Evolutionary, and OMG Olivia.
  • Breath Weapon: DD can breathe fire because he's a mutant dinosaur who was burned by the Killer-Folk. It's also why his coloring changed from olive green to bright red.
  • Catchphrase: He makes a variety of grunts and growls, but "Mroo" tends to be one he's particularly fond of making, to the point that he's even depicted saying it on the cover art of issue 44 volume 1.
  • Death Glare: While he doesn't try to stop her, he does give Lunella quite a few of these after putting them both through a series of extremely uncomfortable failed experiments in an attempt to stop their mind-swapping from happening.
  • Dinosaurs Are Dragons: DD is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus rex, which is justified by the fact he was mutated. He also develops a crush on a female dragon while in Valhalla that the dragon seems to reciprocate.
  • Domesticated Dinosaurs: He's as much Lunella's pet as he is her crime fighting partner, and is utterly devoted to her.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: With his original Beast Man sidekick Moon Boy, who helped him escape the fire pits of the Killer-Folk, and his new, non-prehistoric partner Moon Girl who also helps him out against the Killer-Folk. Back in the day, he was also this with Marvel's version of Godzilla, teaming up with the Monster King after an attack by... the Lizard People. What? It's not all Killer-Folk on Dinosaur World, you know.
  • Friend to All Living Things: In the first issue of his Marvel Infinity comic, he goes to great lengths to protect a bird nest while a supervillain battles Moon Girl nearby, even after the birds in the nest had previously shown to be afraid of him.
  • Gentle Giant: For such a large scary apex predator, he's very gentle around most people. He's rarely ever even shown hurting most of the villains he and Lunella faces.
  • Glowing Eyes: Whenever he's angry his eyes will glow with a fiery light, whether its in the heat of battle or because he's annoyed with the experiments Lunella puts him through.
  • Humanity Ensues: One failed experiment of Lunella's ends up turning him into a nine year old red headed human boy. She ends up taking him to school for a few days under the name 'Devin' until the transformation wears off.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: To Lunella. While she never directly calls him a sidekick its abundantly obvious that she's the one in charge between the two of them, not that Devil seems to mind.
  • Only the Pure of Heart: Issue 37 of volume 1 reveals that he's pure enough of heart to lift Mjolnir, turning him into 'Thunder Lizard'.
  • Smarter Than You Look: He's near or at a normal human's level of intelligence. Despite frequently calling him a dummy when she's annoyed with him, Lunella herself has Lampshaded this on several occasions.
  • Super-Strength: He's incredibly strong even by the standards of a a huge dinosaur, so much so that he was able hold his own in a fight against Amadeus Cho, the Incredibly Awesome Hulk. He was also able to burst the Super Skrull's forcefield just by stepping on it.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: He's most often seen munching down on hot dogs from street vendors.
  • Undying Loyalty: He immediately latches onto Lunella from the moment he takes his first steps in Manhattan, and from then on spends every waking moment keeping her safe.
  • Unwitting Test Subject: He is clearly not having a good time when Lunella puts the both of them through a series of experiments to try to remove Lunella's psychic connection to Devil, with one failed experiment even setting him on fire.

Supporting Characters

    Adria and James Lafayette 

Adria and James Lafayette

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First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (November, 2015)

Lunella’s mom and dad who live with their daughter in their apartment on the Lower East Side. Adria is a life counselor at a maximum-security prison, while James works in a high-risk disease unit at a hospital.
  • Dangerous Workplace: Both of their jobs are quite dangerous, and Lunella often fears that something bad might happen to one of them while at work. They also both end up helping a lot of people doing what they do, which was one of the things that inspired Lunella to use her brains, powers, and partnership with Devil to do good for others as well.
  • Good Parents: While they do sometimes struggle to get Lunella to open up to them, they ultimately want what's best for her and do their best to raise her well and protect her.
  • Mama Bear: When Mrs. Lafayette comes across the Killer Folk attacking Lunella, she beats them away from her daughter with a rolled up newspaper despite being outnumbered.
  • No "Police" Option: They do not trust the police getting involved with anything having to do with their daughter, especially after super heroes end up getting banned.
  • Open-Minded Parent: While concerned that their daughter kept her friendship with a big red mutant dinosaur from another dimension a secret from them, they don’t forbid her from keeping him when they find out, instead being far more concerned about her super hero life given that super heroes had recently been outlawed. While they do forbid her from continuing to be a superhero, they do allow her to do things with other inhuman kids, leading to Lunella creating the Support Alliance Derby for Sensationally Abled Kids (SAD SAKs).

    Moon Boy 

Moon Boy

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First Appearance: Devil Dinosaur #1 (April, 1978)

A young boy from a clan of early human beings called the Small-folk, as well as Devil Dinosaur’s original partner. He and Devil had series of adventures in their home of Dinosaur World in their original comic run before being killed by a rival band of early humans called the Killer Folk for interfering with their ritual involving a powerful artifact they call the ‘Nightstone’. Later, Devil’s new partner, Moon Girl, travels back in time to just before this moment and prevents his death.
  • Badass Normal: He has no powers, but is quite capable in hand to hand combat and brave enough to take on the dangers of his home in Dinosaur World.
  • Changing of the Guard: Downplayed. Long after she takes his place by Devil’s side, he and Moon Girl meet after she unintentionally saves his life. There’s little indication that either of them have any clue who each other is or any idea of the long shared history each has with Devil.
  • Dying to Be Replaced: He gets killed in the very first issue of the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur comic series, although this death is undone in a later issue. Moon Girl takes his place as Devil’s partner.
  • Last Request: His final wish to his long time dinosaur friend and partner is to stop the Killer Folk from obtaining the Nightstone and to avenge his death.
  • It Has Been an Honor: As he lays dying, he reminisces about all the adventures he and Devil had together before giving Devil his final command to stop the Killer Folk from obtaining the Nightstone.
  • Put on a Bus: After being saved by Lunella from his death at the hands of the Killer Folk, he more or less disappears from the story. Presumably he still lives in Dinosaur World.

    Killer Folk 

Killer Folk

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First Appearance: Devil Dinosaur #1 (April, 1978)

A group of hostile early humans who often fought Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy in Dinosaur World, lead by their cheiftain Thorn-Teeth. They worship a glowing green orb they call the 'Nightstone'— actually a piece of Kree technology called the Omni-Wave Projector— and are chased to New York City through a portal it creates after killing Moon Boy, adapting to life there and becoming a street gang that comes into conflict with Devil's new partner, Moon Girl, only to later become her occasional ally.
  • Contemporary Caveman: They take to life in New York very quickly, stealing some clothes from some subway riders and then establishing themselves as the dominant gang on Yancy street.
  • Enemy Mine: Lunella gets them join up with her and a bunch of her allies to help fight off an army of doombots, and she does it by threatening to send them back to Dinosaur World with the Omni-Wave Projector if they don't.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Implied. After getting them to team up with her against the doombots they often appear in montages of characters Lunella considers to be her allies, although they've yet to be seen helping her without the need for extortion on her part.
  • Hero Killer: To Moon Boy, although this death is eventually prevented by Moon Girl as she goes back to the moment before the original portal that brought Devil to New York was created.
  • Hulk Speak: They grasp the basics of English almost as soon as they arrive, but they still speak in a disjointed and stereotypically primitive manner.
  • Mineral Macguffin: What they think the Omni-Wave Projector is. To them it's a magical stone that they use in their religious ceremonies, when in fact it's a piece of high Kree technology.
  • Smarter Than You Look: They adapt to New York City extremely quickly, getting a good grasp of English shortly after arriving and rapidly picking up on modern concepts like money and clothing.
  • The Unintelligible: Their language from Dinosaur World sounds like a series of grunts and stereotypical caveman sounds. For several panels they converse with each other in this tongue without it being translated for the audience.
  • Wearing It All Wrong: They end up stealing some clothes from a couple of passerbys in the subway as soon as they come to New York City. While they're able to figure out pants and shirts well enough, they end up thinking that purses and ties are actually some sort of headwear.

    Kid Kree 

Kid Kree

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Alter Ego: Mel-Varr

Notable Aliases: Marvin Ellis

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #7 (May, 2016)

A young Kree boy who originally sets out to defeat Moon Girl and prove his worth to his father and the rest of Kree society, disguising himself as a human to infiltrate her class room and later getting into several fights with her. After discovering he has feelings for Lunella, he becomes her occasional ally.
  • Arm Cannon: He fights with a pair of floating bracelets that can fire energy beams.
  • Appropriated Appellation: He originally wanted to go by 'Captain Kree', but Lunella mocks him with the name 'Kid Kree' in front of a gathered crowd, which ends up being the name he gets stuck with.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: After their initial battle, they team up to stop a train derailment and later become partners in the Lego League competition. Even when Mel-Varr has to return to his home planet with his dad, Lunella still has the means to contact him if she needs him as an ally.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Starts off as one of Lunella's first opponents, but quickly becomes an ally after their first few encounters.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His first scenes involve his father harshly berating him by calling him a lazy underachieving child, leaving Mel-Varr in tears as he swears to show him and everyone else his worth. Even though he calculates that Lunella is the easiest Inhuman target he could take down, she and Devil not only defeat him fairly easily but also coin his demeaning nickname 'Kid Kree' while everybody laughs at him.
  • Love Confessor: To Lunella after revealing his true form to her in her lab. Lunella, for her part, reacts as though it is the single most horrifying thing anyone has ever said to her.
  • Pajama-Clad Hero: His outfit is actually his pajamas, and he thinks by bringing down Moon Girl he'll be doing a heroic deed for his people in the vein of his idol, Mar-Vell.
  • Tragic Villain: While he’s not completely harmless, he’s shown to be a fairly minor threat and only wishes to target Lunella specifically because he doesn’t want to be seen as a failure by his father and his people. Most of his negative qualities stem from the harsh expectations of Kree society rather than him being a bad person, many of which he sheds as soon as he does his Heel–Face Turn.
  • Villainous Crush: He eventually finds out that he has a crush on the girl he's traveled across the galaxy to attack, and its the big reason behind his Heel–Face Turn. Unfortunately for him, while Lunella is eventually willing to accept him as an ally, she does not reciprocate his feelings in the slightest.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: His primary motivation for attacking Lunella is to prove his worth to the rest of Kree society, but especially to his father.

    Doom-Head 

Doom-Head

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Notable Aliases: Doombot, Dr. Doom

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #14 (December, 2016)

A doombot who fought against Moon Girl and was later decapitated by Wolverine. Lunella saved his still-talking head and used it to reverse engineer her Moonbots. Afterwards she still lets him stick around in her lab with her other robots, usually stuck to some random object.


  • Actually a Doombot: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Lunella intially thinks the real Dr. Doom has returned and, after several issues tracking him down and fighting him, it turns out to be a doombot that the real Dr. Doom never bothered to mothball.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: As much as he’s Played for Laughs, he’s still a doombot at the end of the day with the intellect of one of the most dangerous men in the world. In the final issue of the first volume of the series he manages to cobble together a working body and uses it to fight Lunella and Mr. Fantastic. While he is quickly defeated, it shows that he is still not as harmless as he looks.
  • Catchphrase: "And I am DOOM!"
  • Funny Robot: Like all Doombots, he still seems to think he's the real Dr. Doom, but his behavior after getting decapitated gradually starts to diverge from the original Dr. Doom program and into his own unique and amusing personality.
  • The Gadfly: In the Moon Girl Marvel's Voices story he constantly belittles Princess Shuri and Devil Dinosaur while the two try to figure out how to get Lunella out of Lord Zeppelin’s video game. Devil gets so sick of his taunting that he swats him away with his tail and even chomps down on him for a bit.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite being mostly comic relief, he does occasionally provide some more serious commentary on what’s happening in the lab. At one point he tries to convince Lunella to stop trying to get rid of her abilities and accept herself for who she is, Inhuman powers and all. Later, when Moonbot-7 tells him she thinks its sad that robots don't change he says it isn’t, because in his experience no one ever really changes.
  • I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea: After he grows out of constantly lobbing threats at Moon Girl and starts to become accustomed to his new role in the lab, he devotes much of his time to telling Lunella how he thinks her latest scheme or invention is a terrible idea, which she will then always promptly ignore. On more than one occasion he's been proven right.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Without a body all he can really do is go on long winded tirades about his greatness and dish out threats and taunts he can't possibly follow through on. He's seen as such a manageable threat that Lunella continues to keep him in her lab even after he builds a makeshift body out of scrap parts and goes on a rampage.
  • I Shall Taunt You: One of his favorite activities after being decapitated. Lunella largely either ignores him or threatens to shut off his voice modulator if he doesn't stop annoying her.
  • The Leader: To the other robots in Lunella’s lab whenever she and Devil are away.
  • Losing Your Head: After getting decapitated by Wolverine, Lunella keeps his head attached to a colorful variety of objects to act as a makeshift body. Some examples include: a stop sign, a toy rocket, a gumball machine, a Segway, a drone, and a coin operated children's airplane ride.
  • Morality Pet: While he's initially hostile to the real Moon Girl, he ends up being something of a mentor figure to the Moonbots Lunella uses him to reverse engineer — especially to Moonbot-7, who he shares several emotional moments with in her quest to understand her place in the world.
  • Not So Above It All: In the final issue of Moon Girl's Marvel's Voices arc, after spending previous issues mocking everyone’s concern for the situation Moon Girl is in, the doombot blurts out a warning to Moonbot-7 not to shake the console she’s trapped in case it might affect her ability to get back. While he tries to backtrack on this, Devil and Shuri give each other a knowing look, and when Lunella finally returns he participates in the group hug at the end.
  • Worthy Opponent: After his attempt to build himself a new body fails, he admits to Lunella that he’s underestimated her before she stuffs his head in her backpack to be brought back to the lab.

     Illa 

Illa

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Notable Aliases: Girl-Moon

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #19 (May, 2017)

A sentient moon who sent a distress signal picked up by Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. She's the daughter and moon of Ego the Living Planet, and lives in his orbit.
  • Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite Ego's insistence that the natural orbit keeping him apart from his daughter must be maintained, when Moon Girl arranges for the two to finally meet both of them seem overjoyed.
  • Genius Loci: Just like her father, Illa is a sentient planetoid. She has complete control over her surface and can manifest herself in the rocks and soil at her whim.
  • Hates Being Alone: The only time Illa ever got to interact with anyone in her life was the brief moment she and her father were together when she was born. After eons of being away from both him and everyone else, when Moon Girl finally gives her someone to interact with she becomes very possessive of her and is angry whenever she tries to leave her.
  • He Was Right There All Along: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur first come to Illa's surface looking for the source of an alien distress call, only to find out that the call was made by the moon itself.
  • Minor Living Alone: She has the personality of a young girl, and since she orbits behind her father, she's barely ever seen him, or anyone else, for her entire life.
  • Missing Mom: Her "mom" is the comet that knocked off the chunk of Ego that ended up becoming her. When Lunella mentions seeing a comet to Illa she excitedly speculates that it might be her mom, only for Lunella to say that it's unlikely.
  • Parental Abandonment: Ego is aware of Illa's existence, but because she just so happens to have an orbit that always keeps her on his far side, the two have barely ever met, and he feels it would be against the laws of nature for him to try. It takes Lunella tricking him to finally get him to meet his daughter.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: After being so terminally lonely for so long, she refuses to let Lunella and Devil leave once they land on her surface.

    Devil Girl and Moon Dinosaur 

Devil Girl and Moon Dinosaur

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Alter Ego: Devil Girl: Lunella Lafayette

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #20 (June, 2017)

A parallel version of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur that the duo meet when Moon Girl accidentally sends them to Earth-17885.
  • Anti-Hero: Moon Girl originally believes Devil Girl has to be evil if she's the parallel version of her, but she soon discovers that while she is more aggressive and hot headed, Devil Girl's not all that bad.
  • Evil Doppelgänger: What Moon Girl first mistakes Devil Girl to be.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Just like Moon Girl, Devil Girl fights with gadgets.
  • Glowing Eyes: Like Devil Dinosaur, Moon Dinosaur's eyes glow when he's angry, except his eyes glow blue while Devil's glow yellow.
  • Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Moon Girl tries to mock Moon Dinosaur for his feathers. Devil Girl counters that real dinosaurs have feathers and its Devil Dinosaur that's the goofy looking one.
  • Mirror Match: The two pairs start fighting as soon as they meet each other, each as strong and smart as the other.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Moon Dinosaur has purple scales and is just as strong as Devil Dinosaur. This doesn't stop Moon Girl from saying that it makes him look like Barney.
  • Supervillain: Devil Girl is considered to be one in her world, but one that's mild enough that when Moon Girl talks about putting an 'end' to her, the parallel version of Eduardo and Zoe think its pretty extreme.

    Moonbot-7 

Moonbot-7

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Notable Aliases: Lunella Lafayette, Moonbot

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #20 (June, 2017)

The seventh of ten Moonbots Moon Girl made to act as her body double while she and Devil leave earth to answer an alien distress call. She begins to question her role as an automaton that only follows orders and eventually develops her own personality. Out of the ten, she is the only one that remains active in the lab after Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur return from their trip.
  • Do Androids Dream?: Not long after starting her job as Lunella’s double she begins to question her role of only following the program that was set out for her and has an existential crisis. In a more literal sense she also reveals that she does not dream and that nothing happens when she enters sleep mode, and that she doesn’t feel very lucky or happy about that fact.
  • Grew Beyond Their Programming: She was originally created to just be a stand in for Lunella at school and at home. She was meant to blend in, do whatever Lunella would be expected to do in a given situation, and then return to Lunella’s lab afterwards. Alone out of the ten Moonbots, she begins to question her original programing, disliking doing the same thing over and over again as only a copy of someone else.
  • Robots Are Just Better: The real Lunella is terrible at dodgeball and usually gets pegged by Eduardo during gym class. When he tries to do this to Moonbot-7, she grabs Zoe from nearby to use her as a human shield and then proceeds to pelt everyone in the entire room with dodgeballs until she’s the only one left standing.
  • "Second Law" My Ass!: During a major test at her school, Lunella keeps Devil chained up in her laboratory and orders her robots keep watch over him to make sure he doesn’t cause any trouble. In the middle of the test, she switches minds with Devil. As Lunella struggles to break free while in Devil's body, Moonbot-7 decides to release Devil from his shackles specifically because she’s sick of always getting orders from Moon Girl. Lunella thinks there might be a glitch in Moonbot-7’s programing, but is too relieved to be free to dwell on it.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: As she goes about pretending to be Lunella, she’ll often say:
    Moonbot-7: "I am Lunella Lafayette. And everything I am doing is normal. I am just as I am every other day."
  • You Are Number 6: She’s the seventh out of ten Moonbots Lunella built to fill in for her in school and homelife while she and Devil are away. She openly resents being narrowed down to just being one number out of ten. Doom-Head tries to cheer her up by saying he was originally one out of five hundred and seventy-three doombots and that it isn’t anything to take personally.

    Omnipotentis 

Omnipotentis

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First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #28 (February, 2018)

An all-powerful interdimensional cosmic entity that is older than time and space itself that devours entire universes. Galactus is her herald of destruction just as Galactus once used the Silver Surfer as his own.
  • Cosmic Entity: She is by far the most powerful opponent Moon Girl has ever faced, wielding more power than entire universes. She exists in the omniverse, between all possible dimensions and realities.
  • Dimensional Traveler: She exists between realities, only stepping foot into any particular universe in order to devour it.
  • Doomsday Device: While it would have opened one day on its own, Super Skrull uses a machine to build up the cosmic power needed to open the universe-ending Omnipotentis doorway way ahead of schedule in revenge for the Skrull’s long lost homeworld. It's only by destroying this machine before the portal is complete that Omnipotentis is stopped.
  • Kirby Dots: Her speech bubbles are surrounded by Kirby crackles to show her immense cosmic power.
  • The Omnipotent: According to the Super Skrull, Omnipotentis has complete control over the four fundamental forces of the universe: Gravity, Weak Nuclear Force, Electromagnetic force, and Strong Nuclear Force, making her undefeatable.
  • The Unfought: Omnipotenstis is too powerful to be fought directly, and the struggle for the heroes is to stop her before she’s able to emerge from her interdimensional portal, the Omnipotentis doorway, because once she does there won’t be any possible way to defeat her. Moon Girl and company never end up fighting her, although Silver Surfer and Galactus do for a brief period to buy them some time.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: H.E.R.B.I.E., a robot Mr. Fantastic originally made to track Galactus, ends up being a beacon to draw Omnipotentis to Earth-616.
  • We Will Meet Again: After the Super Skrull's machine is destroyed, she says to Moon Girl that she will return to claim her universe one day, as she is the natural death of all universes. Moon Girl wishes her better luck next time.

    Princess Fisk 

Princess Fisk

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First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #32 (June, 2018)

A spoiled young girl who transfers to Lunella’s classroom at Public School 20 Anna Silver and forms a rivalry with her. She’s the adopted daughter of the supervillain Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin and mayor of New York City.
  • Adoption Angst: Kingpin — who’s become mayor of New York City — signs her adoption papers and pulls her out of her boarding school in Switzerland to put her into P.S. 20 as a political stunt to show he cares about education. When he tries to explain why its ‘necessary’ that he pulled her out of her old school for this, she shouts about the fact that he isn’t her real dad.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Lunella switches minds with Devil in the middle of a big test and starts to wig out. Princess thinks it’s because she’s trying to act like she’s too cool to care about the important test they're taking — all while Lunella snarls and stomps around like a crazy dinosaur.
  • False Reassurance: She thinks to herself that it's only natural that the kids around her aren't paying attention to her because they're jealous of the fact that she has everything and is therefore special, and that's something to be proud of. The next scene she's in she's in tears saying how much she hates her school.
  • It's All About Me: To the point of paranoia. When everything isn't about her, she becomes extremely self conscious and defensive about her self worth, as well as resentful to everyone around her who isn't lavishing her with praise and attention.
  • Rags to Riches: Implied. Her mother’s dying wish was for the Kingpin to take care of her. It’s unknown if her biological father is still alive, but Kingpin claims that he was a two bit low life, suggesting that she didn’t always live a life of luxury.
  • Spoiled Brat: Kingpin gives her pretty much whatever she wants using his connections, including a dinosaur. She even gets him to use his influence to try to get P.S. 20 attacked by the Wrecking Crew.

    Tasha 

Tasha

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (December, 2022)

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A young Inhuman girl with follicle-kinesis, or the ability to control her hair at whim. She joins Lunella’s Inhuman roller derby team, the Support Alliance Derby for Sensationally Abled Kids (SAD SAKs), and becomes one of Lunella’s allies in the fight against OMG Olivia.
  • Brainwashed: While trying to save Lunella from Olivia’s clutches she accidentally gets snatched in her stead. When the SAD SAKs next see her, Tasha has already been exposed to Olivia’s Sparkle Straight and turned into one of her Cutie Captain minions. It takes Lunella’s modified Moon Bugs to turn her back to normal again.
  • Curly Hair Is Ugly: Played With. Tasha is proud of her natural hair, but is pushed by her mother and society in general to get her hair straightened as it’s seen as more ‘neat’ and ‘professional’, which her mother thinks will make it more likely for her to get into a good school. She clashes with Olivia over this before she reveals her Kree identity, as Olivia makes some comments alluding to Tasha’s hair being ‘messy’.
  • Expressive Hair: Her hair often changes shape and color to match her emotions, like turning into snakes when she’s angry, muscular arms when she’s trying to act tough, or a big X when she disagrees with something.
  • Friendless Background: After she's cured of her mind control, Tasha laments that she ended up having far more friends as one of Olivia's brainwashed Cutie Captains than she ever did as her normal self. The SAD SAKs cheer up by saying they like the real her better.
  • Hate at First Sight: She almost immediately dislikes Olivia for carelessly filming them when they’re supposed to be keeping their meetings a secret, dismissing the history behind the roller rink they stay in, and for making some insensitive comments about naturally curly hair.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: The mind control from Olivia's Sparkle Straight causes her brown eyes to turn blue with a blank expression in them. They return to their normal color and expressiveness after Lunella undoes the Sparkle Straight's effects.
  • Prehensile Hair: Her follicle-kinesis allows her to use her long hair braids as extra limbs, grabbing things and forming makeshift hair whips.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: After getting captured, not only is Tasha turned into a brainwashed minion by being given Sparkle Straight, but it also makes her hair straight and blonde, which is the last thing someone so proud of her natural black hair would have wanted. Thankfully her hair returns to normal and she stops being evil after the nanobots from the Sparkle Straight are neutralized.

    Will 

Will

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First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (December, 2022)

A young Inhuman boy with the power to talk to birds. He joins Lunella’s Inhuman roller derby team, the Support Alliance Derby for Sensationally Abled Kids (SAD SAKs), and becomes one of Lunella’s allies in the fight against OMG Olivia.
  • Feathered Fiend: He’s able to call on flocks of birds to attack people at his whim if he so chooses.
  • Growing Wings: On top of gaining the ability to speak to birds, his arms have sprouted long feathers that make them look like wings. He seems to be able to get some propulsion by flapping them but doesn’t have the ability to truly fly.
  • Head Pet: He’s usually seen with a sparrow perched in his hair.
  • Red Heads Are Uncool: He seems very self conscious and awkward in a lot of social situations, and even seems to be nervous while talking to other members of the SAD SAKs in their first meet up. The longer he spends with them, however, the less anxious he seems while interacting with the rest of the group.
  • Scatterbrained Senior: He’s close to his grandpa, who has memory issues and sometimes wanders off without his family having any idea where he went—Will fears that one day he’ll wander off and never be found again. Lunella ends up inventing a hat with a GPS tracking device in it so Will won’t have to worry about him being lost anymore.
  • Shrinking Violet: He’s the most timid and shy of the SAD SAKs, and is often seen visibly trembling and avoiding eye contact while talking to people or grabbing others around him when he’s freaked out.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: His inhuman power is the ability to talk to birds. He can also talk to Devil to a limited degree, as dinosaurs and birds are closely related.
  • Wild Hair: He has long unkempt orange hair to show his affinity to animals. He’s usually seen with a sparrow nesting in it or pulling on its strands.

    Devinder 

Devinder

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First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (December, 2022)

A young inhuman boy with super speed. He joins Lunella’s Inhuman roller derby team, the Support Alliance Derby for Sensationally Abled Kids (SAD SAKs), and becomes one of Lunella’s allies in the fight against OMG Olivia.
  • Affectionate Nickname: His big sister Jayna will call him ‘baby Devi’ in front of his friends, which he hates.
  • Cool Big Sis: Despite immediately sensing that Devinder isn’t being truthful about why he and the other SAD SAKs need angel wire, Jayna lets them have as much as they want, figuring that there’s usually a good reason her little brother gets into messes.
  • Family Business: His sister runs an antique shop that she works hard to maintain. Devinder claims he practically grew up in it.
  • Heat Wave: The AC in his sister’s antique store is often out and the landlord can never be bothered to fix it, sometimes making the place so hot that it turns away customers despite how hard Jayna works to keep the place running. Lunella later modifies the pad on Devinder’s new dance video game to produce kinetic energy while he plays with his high speed footwork and act as a back up power supply to the air conditioner in Jayna's shop.
  • Rollerblade Good: With his power, he can skate the fastest out of everyone on the roller derby team. When being chased, the rest of the SAD SAKs will often hold onto him so he can skate them all away at high speeds.
  • Rhythm Game: He’s a fan of dance-pad based rhythm games as his super speed gives him a big advantage while playing them. When his sister manages to get a hold of a mint condition arcade cabinet from 2006 he momentarily forgets his task of finding angel wire because he’s so excited to play it.
  • Speed Demon: His power has made him a bit of a daredevil, and is often seen idly doing high speed tricks in the background of panels where other people are talking.
  • Super-Speed: His inhuman ability is the power to move his legs at high speeds, which he uses to skate fast, run fast, and play dance rhythm games fast as well.

    OMG Olivia 

OMG Olivia

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Notable Aliases: Olivia

First Appearance: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1 (December, 2022)

A Kree scientist who disguises herself as a member of Lunella's Inhuman roller derby team, the Support Alliance Derby for Sensationally Abled Kids (SAD SAKs), and attempts to use her social network influence skills and Lunella's technology to create an army of brainwashed Inhumans.
  • Affably Evil: While very smug and smarmy about her scheme, especially as it gets going, she is none the less very polite and friendly towards Lunella and shows a great deal of respect for her intellect, which is why she originally tries to get her to join in an alliance together.
  • Bad Influencer: She uses her social media savviness to help her pawn off her brand of Sparkle Racer roller skates and Sparkle Straight hair products to young inhumans throughout the city so she can brainwash them with hidden nanobots.
  • Holographic Disguise: She uses one in her first appearance to hide her naturally blue Kree skin until she can get Lunella alone. It also allows her to build up a large internet following by making herself appear like a normal human girl.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lunella rejects Olivia's offer of alliance, but accidentally leaves behind one of her high tech Moon Bugs as she flees from her lair, which Olivia uses to help create her brain washing hair formula.
  • Old Shame: Her ancestors were the ones who worked on the original Inhumans project, and were not only executed for the project's percieved failure but all of their descendants have become outcasts in Kree society. A big part of her motivation for brainwashing people is to prove her worth to her people despite her bloodline.
  • Online Alias: She goes by "OMG Olivia" while hawking her products to her internet fanbase.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Mel-Varr, another young Kree who disguises himself as a human in order to get close to Lunella and prove himself to Kree society after he didn't get into a Kree military academy. However, while Olivia never tries to directly attack Lunella like Mel-Varr does, she ends up being the far bigger threat.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Of the SAD SAKs. Despite only joining them to get close to Lunella, she later says that she still considers herself to be one of them.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: While disguised as a human she comes off as the stereotypical arrogant blonde of the SAD SAKs with some racially insensitive opinions about hair— particularly naturally curly black hair like Lunella and Tasha has. When she reveals her true form she shows her real intentions are darker than merely wanting people to have straight hair like her own: she wants to use her hair straightener to form an army of brainwashed minions.

Alternative Title(s): Devil Dinosaur

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