Shadow Lass

Her real name is Tasmia Mallor and her homeworld is Talok VIII. She has the power to project darkness. Like all Talokians, she has blue skin and pointed ears. She and her cousin Grev (Shadow Kid) received their powers from their ancestors, whose spirits reside in a cave on Talok VIII (Talokians practice ancestor worship). As her ancestors before her from the past thousand years, Tasmia is the hereditary shadow champion of Talok VIII. Her 20th century ancestors, Lydea Mallor and Lyrissa Mallor, were also shadow champions and members of the interstellar police force L.E.G.I.O.N.

Her cousin Grev, who also wielded the shadow power thanks to his bloodline, went on to join the Legion Academy as Shadow Kid, though aware that he could never join the team whilst she was an active member (Due to the LSH rules regarding duplication of powers), he hoped to be better prepared to protect Talok in Tasmia's absence.

Shadow Lass joined the Legion after her homeworld was invaded by the Fatal Five. She helped the Legion to defeat them. After joining, she became romantically involved with Lar Gand and eventually married him after he was mortally wounded fighting the Time Trapper as part of the conspiracy to avenge Superboy's death at the Trapper's hands. Their marriage was rocky for many years despite their strong feelings for each other, and Tasmia went into mourning when Gand died. The mourning was temporary, as he returned to her, inhabited briefly by the Time Trapper's essence, until a cataclysmic battle erased the Trapper from existence and completely rewrote reality.

1994 Reboot

In 1994, after the Zero Hour event, the Legion of Superheroes continuity was restarted. In this storyline, Shadow Lass used the codename Umbra and exhibited a much more aggressive and businesslike attitude. While Umbra never became involved with the Post-ZH reimagining of Lar Gand, she did make several attempts to garner his attention, only to be rebuffed.

Umbra.

Empowerment

Tasmia Mallor was the latest in a long line of Shadow Champions of Talok VIII. At birth she was taken from her mother, the then-current Champion, in a bid to ensure that no single accident or attack could ever claim both of them, and saw her only seven times during her lifetime, all at solemn ceremonies in which they were forbidden to speak. As she grew up, she was raised by priests and was trained in combat and drilled in the order of her bloodline. She loved it.

Finally, one day, her mother was killed in battle and she was brought before the leaders of Talok VIII's twelve tribes - the only time they would ever congregate peacefully - before entering the Shadow Cave, where she met the spirits of her mother and the other prior Champions. After they chastised her for never wondering how her mother died, she took to heart their counsel to protect Talok VIII (but not their warning against egocentrism) and they told her to Go In Power.

On leaving the cave, she found the inhabitants of Talok VIII on their knees, waiting for a sign - which she provided when she let the Shadows loose. After that, she became the Champion, using her position to give orders to leaders and priests, all in maintenance of the Old Ways. This lasted until the ship came.

The United Planets ship came in peace, prosyletizing the benefits of U.P. membership. Sent to greet the "invaders," she understood none of it , and she set about dismantling the "hideous" ship and crew. Despite their best efforts, she caused an explosion that caused the ship's landing gear to collapse. After that, the priests (who had already been harboring doubts about the "zealot") kept her drugged until UP entry negotiations were complete. Profoundly disturbed by the cultural influx and Talok's "captitulance", she was eventually "dismissed", and told to study the galaxy to "open her mind."

Umbra in her original costume, by Steve Lightle

Legion

She eventually made her way to Earth, and entered the Legion tryouts and was accepted as Umbra, although her curt attitude irritated Sensor.

As part of the Legion, she fought Mordru, and later played a key part in saving Wildfire - despite, after her initial fierce compassion, being disgusted at the thought of the forcible integration of his two original souls.

Blighted

Far later, the Blight enslaved most of Earth, including all but a few of the Legionnaires. Umbra was not among these escapees. When she was freed, she began to have a mental breakdown, prompted not only by the fact of her enslavement and what she'd been forced to do, but by the fact that the Blight's touching of her mind had meant that she'd enjoyed it. Shortly thereafter, she became one of the Legionnaires lost through a space rift and catapulted into another galaxy.

There, she became harder and colder than ever in lieu of breaking down completely and showing the fear that now guided her, while the voices of her ancestors from the shadow became faint and hard to understand. Then Saturn Girl tried to telepathically calm her, and it all went wrong - a telepathic matrix over a whole planet interfered with her powers, and the result left Saturn Girl in a coma, a shadow-creature fueled by Umbra and Saturn Girl's combined pain and fear loose on the ship - and an Umbra completely without pain or anxiety, leaving only anger and arrogant self-confidence.

She went down to the planet, where she began to fight Singularity (a Superman-like being), for whom the telepathic illusion which had caused the trouble was being maintained (to keep him from causing trouble on his race's real planet). When Ultra Boy and Monstress went down to get her, she began to fight them too. Finally, she was knocked out by Singularity while the Legion, having captured the shadow-creature and realized what it was, knocked out the illusion causing Singularity to go looking for his original planet. Then Brainiac 5 managed to restore Umbra and Saturn Girl's minds, and Umbra finally broke down in a crying heap.

Recovery

Umbra challenges the mad Grev

After this she finally began to heal from everything that had happened to her - until, after they managed to return to UP space, her power mysteriously cut out. To find out what had happened, she finally returned to Talok VIII for the first time since her dismissal. There she found a planet completely cloaked in shadow, and a shadow which knocked her out. Shadow Maven, one of the priests who had trained her, found her and told her that after her loss in the rift, they had believed her dead and managed to empower her "distant cousin Grev" with the shadows through the use of technology, and had him cloak the planet completely, withdrawing from the United Planets.

Angry at the thought that just as she had accepted the galaxy Talok had turned away from it, she went to confront Grev. The shadow gradually leeched back to her, until she split open the suit Grev used to control the shadow - and found a withered corpse inside, as he had been unable to withstand being a conduit for the Shadow, while the suit ran on its last programmed directives. She cast the shadow-cloak from the planet, and spent some time there before returning to the Legion.

Powers and abilities

Umbra can cast darkfields preventing all light from reaching an area from outside. These can either be complete, effectively rendering useless all light sources within the area, or hollow to allow the interior to be lit. She can also solidify these fields, to use as a more direct weapon.

She is also an expert hand-to-hand combatant, and can see in complete darkness (both her own and otherwise).

2005 Reboot

In 2005, the Legion continuity was again restarted. Shadow Lass has appeared in this reimagining, however little has been revealed about this version of the character. She is portrayed as a very aggressive warrior. At one point, she was in a relationship with Karate Kid, but they had broken up by the time the series started. She is currently dating Ultra Boy.

When the Legion visited Talok VII, they were surprised at the degree of favour Shadow Lass commanded, including a large banquet in her honour. Tasmia explained that if the Shadow Champion did not accept such gifts, people would see her as aloof. Nonetheless, this inspired Atom Girl to suggest Shadow Lass run for Legion leader on a hedonism platform.

Tasmia also has a friendly rivalry with Grev, who in this continuity is her brother, rather than cousin.

Post-Infinite Crisis

The events of the Infinite Crisis miniseries have apparently restored a close analogue of the Pre-Crisis Legion to continuity, as seen in "The Lightning Saga" story arc in Justice League of America and Justice Society of America, and in the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" story arc in Action Comics. Shadow Lass is included in their number, and is among the group of Legionnaires who help Superman defeat the villainous Justice League of Earth in the "Action Comics" storyline.

During the Justice League of Earth's xenophobic reign, Night Girl and Shadow Lass worked with Timber Wolf and Lightning Lass to help thousands of extraterrestrials escape Eath to their home planets via an "underground" interstellar portal zone. Shady also debuts a reworked version of her classic Grell-era bikini in the Action Comics arc, and uses her shadow-casting powers in tandem with Night Girl's only-in-darkness super strength.

Shadow Lass is shown prominently in the teaser image for the "Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds" mini-series, using her powers to keep Mordru and Saturn Queen in the dark.^[1]

Mon-El has not yet been shown in this continuity, except in flashback, but a statue of him is among those shown to be in Superman's Fortress of Solitude in "The Lightning Saga" story arc. Whether he and Shady will reunite in the forthcoming "Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds" mini-series remains to be seen.

Dream Girl

Nura's home planet is Naltor, where virtually all the inhabitants possess precognitive abilities. After she foreseeing the deaths of several Legionnaires, she crafted an elaborate plan to save their lives. As part of that plan, she used Naltorian science -— of which she was an expert -— to change Ayla Ranzz' powers from lightning casting to the ability to make objects super lightweight. For many years thereafter, Ayla -- who had been known as Lightning Lass -- became Light Lass (However the Legionnaires she foresaw dying were actually robot doubles). Having joined the team under false pretenses, she left the Legion temporarily and became a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes. There she was reunited with Star Boy, with whom she had become romantically involved. Star Boy had previously been expelled from the Legion for the self-defense killing of Nura's former love, Naltorian Kenz Nahor, who had tried to kill Star Boy over jealousy of his relationship with Nura.

Years later, Dream Girl served as Legion leader (only the second female Legionnaire to do so), with her first mission being perhaps the Legion's greatest challenge: defending the United Planets from an assault by the ancient villain Darkseid. Her sister Mysa, the White Witch, also served as a Legionnaire. Her mother was named Kiwa Nal, who was the High Seer of Naltor (Naltor's leader); the identity of her father was unrevealed.

Dream Girl's mastery of Naltorian science placed her in an elite group. Among the Legionnaires, her scientific prowess was surpassed only by Brainiac 5 and the original Invisible Kid, and perhaps equalled only by Mon-El. Additionally, she compensated for the non-physical nature of her powers by engaging in numerous training sessions with Karate Kid. Eventually, no Legionnaire was more skilled in nonpowered hand-to-hand combat except Karate Kid himself.

Reboot versions

After the events of the Zero Hour miniseries, Legion continuity was completed rebooted. The second version of Dream Girl claimed that her name was Nura Schappin, changing her surname to Nal because, as she put it, "It just says I'm from Naltor y'know." She also claimed to have been the first precognitive to be born on Naltor in seven generations (a claim that was later contradicted by other post Zero Hour Legion stories).

For most of this continuity's duration, Nura was not a Legionnaire (although she was still Star Boy's girlfriend). Additionally, she suffered from narcolepsy, falling unconscious whenever she had a vision. She was no longer the sister of Mysa, who was completely unrelated to her in this continuity. Eventually, Nura gained Legion membership under the codename Dreamer, shortly before the Legion was rebooted again in 2005.

Threeboot

In the 2005 reboot, her codename returned to Dream Girl. In this continutiy, she sometimes loses track of events in the present when tracking a future event (she once failed to get involved in a fight because she thought it had already happened).

Brainiac 5 was initially shown as resenting her ability to simply "know" things that he had to deduce, and he once questioned her abilities. Her response was a prediction that they would be married.

In current storylines she appears to have been killed in battle, however Brainiac 5 placed her body in stasis and worked to revive her. Although he failed to fully resurrect her, she is now a spirit with the ability to appear in anyone in their dreams or daydreams.

She was replaced in the Legion by a male Naltorian named Dream Boy.

Post-Infinite Crisis

The events of the Infinite Crisis miniseries have apparently restored a close analogue of the Pre-Crisis Legion to continuity, as seen in "The Lightning Saga" story arc in Justice League of America and Justice Society of America, and in the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" story arc in Action Comics. Dream Girl is included in their number. In this incarnation, her powers are implied to be linked to the realm of the Dreaming, ruled by Dream of the Endless. It is later revealed that Dream Girl somehow passed on her prophetic knowledge to Thom Kallor.

Powers and abilities

Like all natives of Naltor, Nura has the power to see the future in dreams and visions and she is rated one of the most powerful precognitives on the planet. She was skilled in Naltorian science, specializing in biology, and trained with Val Armorr aka Karate Kid. Her hand-to-hand fighting skills, combined with her ability to glimpse the future, made her a formidable short-term opponent in battle, capable of taking on The Persuader, but the sheer number of expanding possible futures in each second of a battle made it difficult for her to keep the advantage. She is highly charismatic, capable of convincing men and women to do what she wants. Her precognitive abilities also give her an edge in strategic planning

Dawnstar

Publisher:

DC

Gender:

Female

Character Type:

Mutant

First Appearance:

Superboy #226

Is a Member Of:

• Legion Academy
• Legion Of Super-Heroes

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This page covers the DC comicbook hero Dawnstar also known as Bounty . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.

Dawnstar is an American Indian with wings and superluminal flight and tracking powers, and a 30th/31st Century member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

ORIGIN

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Dawnstar is a fictional character in the DC Universe of the 30th Century, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Dawnstar is her real name (she has no Legion code name), and she is from Starhaven, a planet colonized from Earth in the 23rd Century. Her name is derived from the planet Venus, the "morning star." This is why Dawnstar wears an eight-pointed star ornament on her forehead.

Dawnstar is of American Indian heritage, although no specific tribe was ever linked with her. Her original and long-standing costume is light yellow, with long fringes on sleeves and crotch, a plunging back and neckline, and fringed boots. She has long, straight black hair, full lips, high cheekbones, and brown eyes. Her skin was colored in the salmon hue commonly used for American Indian comic-book characters.

Dawnstar's unique powers include the ability to track life forms and objects across light years of distance and through interstellar space. She can survive in deep space for long periods of time without a spacesuit or oxygen. Dawnstar and other Starhavenites have pairs of large, white-feathered wings that grow out of their upper backs, the result of genetic engineering. In deep space, she can travel at faster-than-light speeds. In an Earth-normal atmosphere or in a sizable gravity well, her speed is diminished. She wears a Legion flight ring to signal for help, for monitoring of her location, and for other non-flight uses.

Dawnstar's parents are Mistrider and Moonwalker, and her younger brothers are Greybird and Greatfire. During her late childhood and early teens, her parents built a thriving business on their daughter's abilities. Dawnstar would guide spaceships through hazardous areas of space.

Dawnstar received an invitation to attend the Legion Academy, and reluctantly accepted the opportunity. She first appeared in Superboy [and the Legion of Super-Heroes] #226 at age 16 as a recent graduate of the Legion Academy. Her tracking and navigation talents earned her membership on her first mission. Her Legion stipend went to pay for enhancing her home world's defenses.

She served in many missions with the Legionnaires, contributing her often underrated talents at tracking and high-speed travel to perform many rescues of her colleagues, as well as investigations of personal disappearances and similar mysteries. She brought these talents into many Legion adventures in other times, especially the 20th Century. Notable here is her early role in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Dawnstar had a lengthy, tragic romance with fellow Legionnaire Wildfire. They each respected the other's defiant, outspoken personality, although they each counseled each other on working with their talents as part of a team instead of acting as individuals. Wildfire was an anti-energy being in a containment suit, and thus had no physical body. When he briefly was able to partially reverse this, they attempted a physical relationship, but were unsuccessful.

In the Legion of Super-Heroes v4 series, Dawnstar was possessed by an evil entity called Bounty who amputated her wings and forced her to use her tracking powers as an assassin. Dawnstar was later freed from the Bounty entity's control. The storyline was never resolved, as her timeline was erased by the events depicted in Zero Hour.

In post-Zero Hour continuity, Dawnstar has not appeared. Before the current rebooted LSH story line (volume 5), a character was depicted called Shikari from another non-human race, the Kwai, who had pathfinding powers of similar scope and insectoid wings. Some Legion fans believed that Shikari was a post-Zero-Hour Dawnstar, but this was denied by various Legion writers.

Legion of Super-Heroes (v5) #15 (February 2006) featured a Barry Kitson cover which depicted Dawnstar alongside classic Legion members Blok and Tyroc. The solicitation for this issue hinted that the Legion would become the "greatest heroes of the Multiverse."

The solicitation and cover turned out to be misleading. The Dawnstar character turns up only in a series of "campfire stories" told by groupie fans of the characters of the current Legion (primarily written by Mark Waid and drawn by Kitson). It was a fill-in issue between larger story lines, and it didn't suggest that Dawnstar will be reintroduced in that title anytime soon.

Saturn Girl

A 30th century native of Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, Imra Ardeen travels to Earth and co-founded the Legion of Super-Heroes with Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad. Imra also became leader of the Legion after solving Proty's riddle in "The Eight Impossible Missions". She offers to sacrifice her life to resurrect Lightning Lad but Proty, Chameleon Boy's shape shifting pet, assumes her identity and perished in her stead.

Saturn Girl possesses, like all the inhabitants of Saturn and its satellites, the ability to perform “amazing mental feats,” including “super hypnotism” (S No. 147/3, Aug 1961: “The Legion of Super-Villains!”; and others),extrasensory perception (S No. 165, Nov 1963: “Beauty and the Super-Beast!”; “Circe’s Super-Slave”; and others) and telepathic communication (S No. 156, Oct 1966: “The Last Days of Superman"; “Superman’s Death Sentence!”; “The Super Comrades of All Time!”; “Superman’s Last Day of Life!”; and others). Saturn Girl also possesses the power to confer “temporary telepathic powers” on other creatures (S No. 176/1, Apr 1965: “The Revenge of the Super-Pets!”).

The adult Saturn Girl is called Saturn Woman. As an adult, Imra wed long time beau Garth Ranzz (Lightning Lad).

In August 1961, Saturn Woman and two other adult Legionnaires, Cosmic Man and Lightning Man, join forces with Superman in his battle with Lex Luthor and the Legion of Super-Villains (S No. 147/3, Aug 1961: “The Legion of Super-Villains!”).

In April 1962, Saturn Girl is among the six Legionnaires who play an elaborate hoax on Super man and Supergirl as a prelude to celebrating the anniversary of Supergirl’s arrival on Earth (S No. 152/1: “The Robot Master!”).

In October 1962, when Superman is believed to be dying of exposure to Virus X, an incurable Kryptonian malady, Saturn Girl is among the Legionnaires who are summoned to the 20th century by Supergirl to help carry out the gigantic super-tasks that Superman hopes to fulfill as his final legacy to humanity, including the destruction of a “vast cloud of fungus in distant space, that will some day reach Earth and blight all plant life,” and the melting of the Antarctic ice, “to make Antarctica a fit place for millions to live in the future,” thus ensuring “a home for Earth’s expanding population-..!” Later, it is Saturn Girl who receives an urgent telepathic communication from Mon-El, inside the Phantom Zone, informing her that Superman is not suffering from exposure to Virus X at all, but rather from the debilitating effects of a nugget of Kryptonite that has become accidentally lodged inside Jimmy Olsen's camera. Indeed, once the kryptonite nugget has been removed. Superman is restored almost immediately to perfect health (S No. 156: “The Last Days of Superman!” pts. I-III—”Superman’s Death Sentence!”; “The Super-Comrades of All Time!”; “Superman’s Last Day of Life!”).

In November 1963, with the aid of Proty II, Saturn Woman poses as the enchantress Circe as part of Superman’s plan to defeat the Superman Revenge Squad (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II—”Beauty and the Super-Beast!”; “Circe’s Super-Slave”).

When Metropolis television station WMET-TV inaugurates its new “Our American Heroes” series with a program honoring Superman, “our greatest American hero,” Saturn Girl is among the Legion representatives who journey to the twentieth century to appear on the show and thus help pay tribute to the Man of Steel (Act No. 309, Feb 1964: “The Superman Super-Spectacular!”).

In October 1964, after Superman has been deprived of his super-powers by the baleful radiations of a mysterious green comet, Saturn Girl and two of her fellow Legionnaires— Cosmic Boy and the Invisible Kid —use a “time-force wave carrier” in their 30th century clubhouse to endow Superman temporarily with their various powers so that he can use them in his upcoming battle with Lex Luthor and Brainiac, For a period of “a few hours,” therefore, until his borrowed powers fade and vanish, Superman is equipped with Saturn Girl’s “power of telepathic thought-casting,” Cosmic Boy’s “power of super-magnetism,” and the Invisible Kid’s “power of invisibility” (S No. 172: pts. I-III—”The New Super man!”; “Clark Kent—Former Superman!”; “The Struggle of the Two Supermen!”).

In April 1965, Saturn Girl imparts temporary telepathic powers to Beppo the Super-Monkey, Krypto the Superdog, and Streaky the Supercat, to enable them to communicate telepathically with Superman during a joint adventure in the year 1866

Princess Projectra

Projectra is a true princess, the only child of King Voxv on the planet Orando. Orando is not a full member world of the United Planets, but is under its protection. Orando is not a typical Legion origin world. Instead of being built on 31st century technology, it is a feudal and mystical culture. Hagga the sorceress chose the princess for special magical training. She gave Projectra the power to create incredibly realistic illusions. Hagga felt that, as a future ruler, she needed to understand the universe outside their planet, so she sends young Projectra out to live among the United Planets member worlds.

Projectra finds herself bored and lonely. Hearing of the Legion of Super-Heroes, she thinks that they might make suitable friends and peers. She applies for membership. At the try-outs, she wows the Legion by making them believe they are floating on the bottom of the ocean one moment, and then floating in outer space the next. The effect is dramatic. Very impressed with her power, she gains instant membership. Cosmic Boy says, “Any gal that can throw the whole Legion into a panic gets my vote.”

Trying out and gaining membership that same day was Karate Kid, who was destined to be her husband, and Nemesis Kid, who was destined to kill her husband and be executed by Projectra herself.

Finding the companionship she is looking for, all her Legionnaire friends are soon calling her "Jeckie". She begins to date Karate Kid.