| Dawnstar | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Dawnstar as depicted inFinal Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #5 (September 2008). Art byGeorge Pérez. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #226 (April 1977) |
| Created by | Paul Levitz (writer) Mike Grell (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Species | Anasazi |
| Place of origin | Starhaven |
| Team affiliations | Legion of Super-Heroes |
| Notable aliases | Bounty |
| Abilities | Light-speed flight Long-range tracking |
Dawnstar is asuperheroine appearing incomic books published byDC Comics, primarily as a member of theLegion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. She was created byPaul Levitz andMike Grell, and first appeared inSuperboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #226 (April 1977).
Dawnstar has made limited appearances in other media, primarily in association with the Legion. She is voiced byLaura Bailey inJLA Adventures: Trapped in Time and Cynthia Hamidi in theTomorrowverse.
Dawnstar (her real name, she has no Legion code name) is from the planet Starhaven. Starhaven was colonized by thePueblo people, who were abducted from Earth by an unknown alien race in the 13th century and transformed into winged superhumans.[1] Her name is derived from the appearance on Earth of the planetVenus, the "morning star", and which is the reason she wears an eight-pointed star ornament on her forehead.
Dawnstar's parents are Mistrider and Moonwalker, and her younger brothers are Greybird and Greatfire.[2] During her late childhood and early teens, her parents built a thriving business on their daughter's ability to guide spaceships through hazardous areas of space.[3] She also worked as a guide to hunters of animals.[4]
Dawnstar received an invitation from Legion financierR. J. Brande to attendthe Legion Academy,[3] and reluctantly accepted the opportunity. She was first introduced to the Legionnaires at age 16 as a recent graduate of the Academy.[5]
She serves in many missions with the Legionnaires, contributing her talents at tracking and high-speed travel to perform many rescues of her colleagues, as well as investigations of personal disappearances and similar mysteries. Dawnstar had a lengthy, tragic romance with fellow LegionnaireWildfire. Wildfire had been turned into anantimatter being in a containment suit, and thus had no physical body, so the two were unable to have a physical relationship.[6]
After the Legion's timeline is "reset" by the Legion's battle withMordru,[7] Dawnstar is possessed by an evil entity calledBounty, who amputates her wings and forces her to use her tracking powers as an assassin. Dawnstar is later freed from the entity's control.[8] Dawnstar vanished shortly before the Legion's timeline was erased by the events depicted inZero Hour: Crisis in Time! (1994) and by the ensuingreboot.[9]
Dawnstar, with her wings and original appearance, appears inThe Lightning Saga, where she works with the other Legionnaires in the 21st century to resurrectBart Allen.[10] AlthoughDream Girl predicts that at least one Legionnaire will sacrifice themselves to bring Bart back, no one is killed and the Legion safely returns to the 31st century.
InDC Pride (2022), Dawnstar is established to bebisexual.[11] Dawnstar's sexuality was previously hinted at during "The Lightning Saga" storyline, where she was shown to be in a relationship with aThanagarian woman.[10][11]
Dawnstar is ametahuman who can fly at light speeds and survive in deep space by generating a self-sustaining force field. As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, she is provided a Legion Flight Ring, which enables her to track her location and communicate with other Legionnaires.[2][3][12]
Dawnstar makes a cameo appearance in theLegion of Super Heroes (2006) episode "Dark Victory".
