Dead Girl
| Dead Girl | |
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| File:X-Statix12.jpg X-Statix #12, Art by Mike Allred | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | X-Force #126 |
| Created by | Peter Milligan Mike Allred |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Moonbeam (surname unrevealed) |
| Team affiliations | X-Statix X-Force |
| Abilities | Mutant power triggered by death; could become intangible and communicate with the deceased; fully functional body parts even when severed; manipulation of her fingers to become sharp |
Dead Girl is a fictional character, a mutant superhero in Marvel Comics' X-Statix series. She is a mixture of ghost and zombie. Her civilian name has never been revealed, but it is known that her mutant gene allows her to return to semi-life after dying. She also has the power to become intangible and communicate with other dead people. Dead Girl was formally the girlfriend of the Anarchist.
Origin
Dead Girl has few memories of when she was still alive; she believes she was a young actress who was murdered by her co-star/lover, who then sealed her body inside a mausoleum. The dead heard her cries and lured the killer back to the crypt in which he had buried her. Dead Girl awoke and took her revenge on him. Eventually, X-Force (soon to be renamed X-Statix) hired her and invited her to join them.
Along with the other members of X-Statix, she was killed in the series-ending issue #26.
X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl
Dead Girl is currently starring in the mini-series X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl. The series will run for five issues and focuses on a vengeful dead villain, The Pitiful One, intent on gathering other residents of Hell - such as Miss America, Kraven, Mysterio, The Ancient One and Dead Girl's previous teammate The Anarchist - to bring himself to life once more, with only Dr. Strange and Dead Girl, with the aid of her dead friends, to stop them. Peter Milligan writes, with Mike Allred on inks and coverart and Nick Dragotta pencilling. Allred also pencils and inks the interior art for all the former X-Statix members that make appearances in the miniseries. A number of deceased Marvel characters make appearances, including Gwen Stacy, Mockingbird and Moira MacTaggart revealed as the "sisters" Dead Girl spoke of throughout the previous series.[1]
She revealed in the fifth issue that her first name is Moonbeam.