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Miss Martian
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceTeen Titans vol. 3, #37 (2006)
Created byGeoff Johns
Tony Daniel
In-story information
Alter egoM'gann M'orzz
SpeciesWhite Martian
Place of originMars
Team affiliationsTeen Titans
Notable aliasesMegan Morse, Star-Spangled Kid
AbilitiesFlight, superhuman strength, invisibility, telekinesis, intangibility, shapeshifting, optic force blasts, telepathy.

Miss Martian (real name M'gann M'orzz, alias Megan Morse) is a superhero in the DC Comics Universe. Miss Martian was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel and first appeared in Teen Titans #37 (2006). Miss Martian is named "Megan Morse" after Marvel Comics associate editor Ben Morse's wife, Megan. Morse is a friend of Johns.[1]

Character biography

Miss Martian is a White Martian known as M'gann M'orzz. She serves as a member of the Teen Titans during the year between the events depicted in Infinite Crisis and the "One Year Later" stories. On Earth, she simplifies her name to Megan Morse.

M'gann M'orzz was originally sent by rocket from Mars to the Vega system, to escape the civil war between the Green Martians and the White Martians.[2] To date, it is still unknown when she came to Earth from Vega.

Initially, M'gann pretended to be a Green Martian, like the Martian Manhunter, and joined the Teen Titans. After her feelings were hurt through insensitivity and misunderstanding with her teammates, M'gann left the Titans to be a hero in Australia. Though the Titans suspected she might have been a traitor, it turned out that her accuser, Bombshell, was the actual traitor. After helping the team defeat Bombshell and proving her loyalty, she was accepted as a full member of the Titans.[3]

Miss Martian of the future, with an apparition of Martian Manhunter. Art by Alé Garza.

M'gann and Cyborg travel to Belle Reve to interrogate the depowered Bombshell. M'gann, using her telepathy on Bombshell, discovers the existence of Titans East (Bombshell is seemingly murdered by a mind-controlled Batgirl soon thereafter, but eventually recovers).[4] M'gann fights Sun Girl, who claims to be from a future in which Martians are slaves because of something that M'gann will do (Sun Girl also claims that in the future M'gann will be her slave). Unable to convince Sun Girl to tell her what she will do in the future, M'gann dives into the ocean and then hits Sun Girl with a mass of water, dousing her flames.

The Titans Tomorrow appear with Miss Martian as a member.[5] She has a different look, having embraced her White Martian heritage. Having changed her name to Martian Manhunter, she is beheaded by her present-day counterpart. As a result of this encounter, the consciousness of her future self has taken refuge in Megan's own mind.[6] An epilogue to the "Titans of Tomorrow: Today!" storyline depicts Miss Martian eight years in the future; she colludes with Lex Luthor and Tim Drake, the Robin of the time and with whom she is having an affair, to clone several deceased Titans, including Superboy and Kid Flash.

Megan is attacked by Disruptor of the Terror Titans, whose weapons almost separate her from her future self.[7] Megan is captured and thrown into a room with Kid Devil, who has been savagely conditioned into a mindless beast. She attempts to calm his mind with her telepathy but unfortunately a reincarnated version of Granny Goodness has found a way to inhibit her Martian abilities.

Megan finally manages to restore Eddie's rational mind, and the two escape.[8] Back at Titans Tower, Megan implies that the encounter with Disruptor has allowed her to subdue her future self's consciousness. Her future counterpart seems still able to communicate with her, but M'gann shushes her effortlessly by the simple threat of siccing the cute puppies on her, e.g. feeding her images of cuteness and love.

Recently, however, Megan has begun showing signs of being unable to subdue her evil self, such as appearing before the team having chalk-white skin as opposed to her usually preferred green skin. She seems as surprised at this as the rest of the team, and later finally comes to the conclusion to leave the Titans for an unknown period of time. Before leaving, however, she says goodbye to the Titans and admits to Eddie that she will miss him the most, to which he questions if she is comparing him to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz.

Teen Titans writer Sean McKeever has stated that Megan's departure from the Titans is part of a longer story he is working on and that she will return to the team at a later time.[9]

Megan appears in the final issue of the Terror Titans miniseries, having been posing as Star-Spangled Kid in The Dark Side Club's metahuman fights. She had been using her immunity to Clock King's mind control to slowly free the other brainwashed metahumans.[10]

Megan is briefly seen as part of an underground resistance cell in Final Crisis #5 (Dec. 2008). She rejoins the Titans in the aftermath of their failed recruitment drive, bringing new members Static and Aquagirl with her. In the same story, Megan hints that she has rid herself of her future counterpart's consciousness from her mind.

When Beast Boy returns to lead the Titans in the wake of Kid Devil's death, Megan is the only member of the team who is willing to support him. While the rest of the team is busy arguing with him, Megan is attacked and captured by a new villain known as Wyld. After a vigorous battle, Megan is rescued by her teammates.[11]

At some point prior to this, Megan is seen operating on a solo mission where she defeats Brick after he attempts to abduct a young girl and hold her for ransom. Seconds after flooring the kidnapper, Megan is visited by Jay Garrick, who recruits her for some unknown purpose.[12] In the finale of Justice League: Cry for Justice, it is revealed that Garrick recruited her in order to help interrogate Prometheus, who had destroyed Star City. When she attempts to read his mind, Megan is knocked out by specialized mental defenses Prometheus put in place after an encounter with the Martian Manhunter.[13]

Megan later accompanies her fellow Titans to the city of Dakota in order to look for Static after he goes missing. After Wonder Girl, Aquagirl, and Bombshell are kidnapped as well, the remaining Titans track them to an armored bunker. Megan tries to fight off a powerful metahuman gangster named Holocaust, but he is somehow able to resist her telepathic assault and knock her unconscious.[14] After awakening, Megan realizes that she had accidentally struck Raven with a mental barrage, which has now left her comatose. On the way back to Titans Tower, Raven is kidnapped by Wyld.[15]

Brightest Day

During Brightest Day, Megan is asked by Batman to contact Starman after he is captured by a crazed Alan Scott. After coming aboard the Justice League Watchtower, she mentally reaches out to Starman and begins to relay information about his prison, only to transform into her White Martian form and attack the Justice League. Before Megan can injure any of her fellow heroes, she is knocked unconscious by Power Girl, who implies that she had been possessed by the Starheart, the cosmic entity that granted Alan his powers.[16]

Around this time, the recently resurrected Martian Manhunter contacts Titans Tower in order to talk to Megan, and is told by Superboy that she has taken a leave of absence from the team. He heads to Australia to find Megan and see if she has any information about a string of murders that seem to have been committed by a fellow Martian, only to find her tied up and severely beaten.[17] While tending to her, J'onn is contacted by the Entity, and Megan's wounds fully recover. She also senses that there is another Martian on Earth.[18] When J'onn asks Megan who did this to her, Megan says she was attacked by a female green Martian.[19]

After a mission to rescue Raven from Wyld's dimension, Megan is left in a coma. Cyborg and a scientist named Rochelle Barnes take Megan to Cadmus Labs in order to find a way to help her, and Static (who had lost his powers after the battle with Wyld) comes along with her, stating that she should have a Titan by her side while she recovers. The issue ends with a note stating that the story will be resolved in a new Static solo series, which will launch sometime in 2011.[20]

No longer a member of the Titans, Miss Martian is later attacked by a teenaged psychic named Alexander, who kidnaps her and uses her as bait to lure Supergirl into a trap.[21] After defeating Supergirl, M'gann uses her abilities to help brainwash Blue Beetle and Robin into serving Alexander.[22] It is later revealed, however, that Miss Martian was never under Alexander's control to begin with; she had merely pretended to be while using her telepathy to tell Supergirl her plan. Miss Martain then force feeds Alexander's mind with mental feedback, distracting him enough for Supergirl to subdue him.

Along with a number of other former Titans, M'gann returns to assist the team during their final battle against Superboy-Prime and the Legion of Doom.[23] Working together with Solstice, M'gann defeats her old nemesis Sun Girl.[24]

The New 52

Following the events of Flashpoint, history is altered and the most recent incarnation of Teen Titans is presumably erased from existence. Red Robin is shown watching a press conference where Lex Luthor shows off photographs of M'gann as part of a presentation about alien life on Earth.[25]

Powers and abilities

Miss Martian possesses abilities similar to Martian Manhunter. She can fly, shapeshift, turn intangible and fire energy blasts from her eyes. She is a telepath who can read minds, however people know when she is inside their mind. She also has great strength, durability, speed and stamina, as well as the ability to turn invisible. Like all Martians, she can be weakened by fire.

As an adult in the Titans of Tomorrow... Today! storyline, M'gann's default physical form is that of a White Martian having embraced her heritage (and Martian physiology reflecting their state of mind). To compensate for her pyrophobia, adult M'Gann wears a forcefield that protects her from flame.

In other media

Miss Martian in Young Justice.

Television

  • Miss Martian appears in the Young Justice animated series (loosely based on the comic book series)[26] voiced by Danica McKellar.[27] Within the show, she is the niece of the Martian Manhunter, and is 48 in Martian chronological years, but only 16 by human biological standards (she is 48 years old, but that is equivlent to being a teenager based on martian lifespan).[28] She has shown strong telekinetic and telepathic abilities as well as flight. She can shape-shift - which additionally permits her to camouflage (though not to become truly invisible) - but she currently has trouble mimicking men (when she tries they often have female characteristics). She was able to mimic Red Tornado flawlessly (possibly due to his inorganic nature and simplified anatomy). Other comic-based abilities such as super strength, super speed, invulnerability, super senses, healing factor, and laser vision are not indicated, though intangibility, which she calls "density-shifting" is cited by her as an "advanced technique". Her lack of or weaker version of certain powers mirror the notable absence of certain abilities in her teammates (such as Superboy not possessing the power of flight or heat vision). However, in "Failsafe" her mental capacities were stated to be far more powerful that her uncle in terms of raw power and potential growth. Martian Manhunter even goes as far to say that she is the most powerful telepath he ever encountered. She states that she has 12 sisters on Mars, indicating that there is still a surviving Martian society present. Miss Martian's humanoid form and personality, as well as her catchphrase "Hello, Megan!" is based on a character, also named Megan, from an old Earth TV show she enjoyed watching on Mars. In the tenth episode "Targets," she and Superboy start their first day of school and she joined the cheerleading squad. Since meeting Superboy, she quickly developed a crush, blushing when he compliments her in the fourth episode and almost kissing him in the ninth episode. In "Terrors", she and Superboy go undercover as inmates in Belle Reve Federal Prison. After her cover is blown, she is found by Superboy encased in ice. Superboy later makes a telepathic connection with her saying "M'gann, Please. Don't leave me." This seems to wake her and she breaks out of the ice. Superboy then kisses M'gann. Afterwards, they appear to have started a romantic relation as seen in "Homefront" as she and Superboy are kissing once again. However, the two appear to be keeping their new relation a secret from the Team, only being intimate in privacy or talking telepathically about their feelings. However, as "Secrets", everyone but Kid Flash are aware of the relationship. In "Disordered", she reacted in fear when Black Canary informed her she turned white, although she calmed down when she realized she meant Caucasian. In "Secrets" she turns her skin white to pass as a zombie bride at a Halloween party hosted at the school she and Superboy attend. She also turns into a giant, fearsome alien to fool a teen at the party, who is pulling a prank about martians invading Earth, with the prank being similar to War of the Worlds. The episode "Image" focuses on Miss Martian's character and her In "Image" she meets Garfield and Marie Logan on a Qurec animal reserve, the latter of whom is revealed to have inspired Miss Martian's human appearance and her catchphrase on a television show called "Hello Megan!". During an airstrike by Bialyan drones Garfield is severly injured and MIss Martian morphs her blood type into O negative to match Garfield's. Later she again confronts Psimon (whom she met during "Bereft") while infiltrating the Qureci President's home, who make her turn into her White Martian form. Her desperation to hide this from her friends becomes obvious when she knocks out Robin, Kid Flash, and Superboy before they find her. Psimon then makes her see her greatest fears within her mind; the Justice League and Young Justice learn about her true form and openly reject her, Martian Manhunter expelling her to Mars, and Superboy completely rejecting her ("Love you? I can't even look at you!). This drives her over the edge and she defeats Psimon, waking up her teammates and blaming Psimon for knocking them out. The next day she masquerades as Queen Bee, swearing revenge on the Qureci leader and that she will one day rule Qurec (the only way to make her plot public knowledge). Later on, the team confronts M'gann about her real appearance, and Megan exposes her "true" form (in reality she became bald and morphed her skull to match her uncle's). When she visits a recovering Garfield, Queen Bee is waiting for her, revealing that she is aware of Miss Martian's true form and blackmails her with that information. In "Usual Suspects," Miss Martian gets a message from Queen Bee telling her to meet up with her on Santa Prisco. Before heading there, Miss Martian reveals to the Team that she is a White Martian yet their reaction was not what she expected, and Superboy is revealed to have known since the events in Bereft (where the form can indeed be briefly seen during a mind meld between the two). When she, Superboy, and Artemis meet up with Lex Luthor and Queen Bee on Santa Prisca, they are told that they have a job to do. After Lex Luthor manages to quote "Red Sun" to immobilize Superboy, Miss Martian retaliates and manages to knock out Queen Bee as the rest of the team arrives to fight Bane, Blockbuster, Cheshire, and Sportsmaster.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Comic Bloc Forums - View Single Post - Ask Ben Morse
  2. ^ Brightest Day #8 (August 2010)
  3. ^ Teen Titans 37-41
  4. ^ Teen Titans #43
  5. ^ Teen Titans #51 (Vol.3)
  6. ^ Teen Titans #55 (Vol.3)
  7. ^ Teen Titans #58 (Vol.3)
  8. ^ Teen Titans #60 (Vol.3)
  9. ^ [1]
  10. '^ 'Terror Titans #6
  11. ^ Teen Titans (Vol 3) #75-76
  12. ^ Justice League: Cry For Justice #4.
  13. ^ Justice League: Cry for Justice #7
  14. ^ Teen Titans #81
  15. ^ Teen Titans #82
  16. ^ Justice Society of America (vol. 3) #41 (July 2010)
  17. ^ Brightest Day #6 (July 2010)
  18. ^ Brightest Day #7 (August 2010)
  19. ^ Brightest Day #8 (August 2010)
  20. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #87
  21. ^ Supergirl (vol. 5) #62
  22. ^ Supergirl (vol. 5) #63
  23. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #99
  24. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 3) #100
  25. ^ Teen Titans (vol. 4) #1 (September 2011)
  26. ^ Cruz, Eileen (2010-04-21). "Toonzone at the Cartoon Network 2010 Upfront (UPDATED 11:45 AM)". toonzone.net. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  27. ^ Fitzpatrick, Kevin (2010-07-23). "Comic-Con 2010: Young Justice Goes Under Cover". UGO Networks. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
  28. ^ http://www.newsarama.com/tv/nycc201-young-justice-animated-101009.html
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