Pre-Crisis version of the character. Interior artwork from Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 3) #17; art by Greg LaRocque.
Dawnstar (her real name, she has no Legion code name) is from the planet Starhaven. Starhaven was colonized by the Pueblo 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 planet Venus, 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 financier R. J. Brande to attend the 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 Legionnaire Wildfire. Wildfire had been turned into an antimatter 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 with Mordru,[7] Dawnstar is possessed by an evil entity called Bounty, 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 in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! (1994) and by the ensuing reboot.[9]
Dawnstar, with her wings and original appearance, appears in The Lightning Saga, where she works with the other Legionnaires in the 21st century to resurrect Bart Allen.[10] Although Dream 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.
Dawnstar is a metahuman 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]
Other versions
Several alternate universe variants of Dawnstar appear in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #105.[13]
An ancestor of Dawnstar, known as Wildstar is a member of the 21st-century hero team R.E.B.E.L.S., and has the combined powers of Dawnstar and Wildfire.
↑ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p.164. ISBN978-1-4654-8578-6.
↑ Waid, Mark(w),Gardner, Chris(p),Andersen, Justine Mara(i),McCraw, Tom(col)."End of an Era, Part One: History Lesson"Legionnaires,vol.1,no.17(August 1994).DC Comics.
1 2 3 "Dawnstar Voices (Legion of Super Heroes)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 26, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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