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Real Name: Desmond Charne
Occupation: Holography technician, professional criminal
Identity: Public
Legal Status: U.S. citizen (deceased)
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Body Suit: Although Mirage had no special powers of his own, the suit which he wore made him a powerful adversary and endowed him with a variety of abilities.
Illusion-Casting: This Monstrous power enabled him to develop the following Power Stunts (all of which are based on his appearance):
- Disguise himself and up to eight other individuals within 1-area.
- Affect light waves so as to make himself and the surrounding vicinity appear to be empty space. Maximum area of effect is 75 square feet.
- Mirage could create up to eight simultaneous duplicates of him self within a 1 area diameter.
Talents:
Mirage had Incredible Reason in the field of holography and was skilled in the use of Handguns.
Contacts:
Mirage controlled his own gang of street thugs.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mirage suffered from an incredible delusion of grandeur. He was brilliant in his chosen field but was unable to recognize either his limitations or ways of increasing his power. Perhaps he subconsciously ac knowledged his basic inferiority in that he never allied himself with other, probably more powerful, supervillains. His criminal goals were to pull off basic heists and gain notoriety by battling solitary adventurers.
History:
Desmond Charne was a holography technician who wanted to become a costumed criminal whose methods would be as impressive as the super human abilities of the masked crime- fighter Spider-Man. In pursuit of this goal, Charne spent years studying electronics and the use of laser technology to produce three-dimensional images called holograms. Charne not only mastered existing holographic techniques but also secretly made further advances in the field himself. As a result, he designed a costume containing miniaturized equipment that enabled him to project holographic images. Dubbing himself the Mirage, he hired some accomplices and embarked on a series of major robberies.
The Mirage and his accomplices intended to rob the people attending the six weddings being held one day at a New York City hotel. The criminals successfully robbed the attendees of three of the weddings and then broke into the celebration of Edward “Ned” Leeds and Elizabeth “Betty” Brant, at which Spider-Man was present in his secret identity of Peter Parker. After changing into his costumed identity, Spider-Man defeated the Mirage’s men, but he found himself unable to strike the Mirage. Not only was the Mirage using his holographic devices to make himself appear to be in a different place than he actually was, but he was also using them to make him self invisible at the spot where he really was. Moreover, the Mirage was somehow preventing Spider-Man from locating the criminal’s true whereabouts with his extrasensory “spider-sense.” Finally, realizing he was being deceived through illusions, Spider-Man caused an enormous chandelier to fall from the ceiling, which struck down the invisible Mirage in his true location. The metal in the Mirage’s costume shielded him from being seriously injured by the impact, and the Mirage and his men were taken into custody by the police.
Years later, the Mirage and new accomplices invaded a hospital with the intention of abducting the Thing, who was recuperating from injuries. The Mirage planned to auction the captive Thing off to the highest bidder. However, the kidnapping was prevented by the masked crimefighter Daredevil, who, being blind, could not be deceived by the Mirage’s holographic trickery. Again the Mirage served a short jail sentence and was released.
The Mirage was invited by Gary Gilbert, the criminal formerly known as Firebrand, to attend a meeting of costumed criminals to discuss the menace posed to them by the mysterious vigilante Scourge. The meeting was held at the Bar with No Name in Medina County, which is one of several such establishments that serve as secret meeting places for costumed criminals. However, despite Gilbert’s security precautions, Scourge showed up at the meeting disguised as a bartender and killed the Mirage, Gilbert, and all the other criminals who were present. A day later, Captain America donned the Mirage’s costume in a ploy to flush Scourge out of hiding by making him think one of his victims survived. The ploy worked and Captain America subdued Scourge, although the criminal-killer was killed before he could be turned over to the authorities.