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Madame Mirage's creator, Paul Dini, likens her to pulp hero The Shadow taken a step further. Mirage employs various degrees of superpowers including mind control, magic, and shape shifting in order to confound and defeat her enemies. (It is worth noting that the visual appearance of Madame Mirage is based on magician and illusionist Misty Lee.) Mirage also has a younger sister named Harper, who acts as backup on her missions against the A.S.I.

Who exactly Madame Mirage is and why she's embarked upon her campaign of revenge are the central questions at the heart of the series. While the "who" would be revealed in a timely fashion, the question of "why" is of greater import. Dini has said, "Revealing Mirage's identity is just the tip of the iceberg. There will be clues, and the more astute readers will be able to fit them together pretty quickly. One clue comes in the form of Harper, Mirage's younger sister. Mirage and Harper have a relationship not unlike Batman and Robin. Mirage is the one out dispensing justice, while Harper is her backup. They both have a personal stake against A.S.I. and have devoted their lives and abilities to bringing down the evil corporation."

It was revealed in Madam Mirage #3 that Madame Mirage is in fact Harper in disguise. Several years before, when the sisters were working with their struggling technological enterprise, they were approached by executives from A.S.I. who sought to buy the sisters' technology, including their top secret government project, the Ellison Project. Negotiations soured, however, and both sisters were shot. Shortly afterwards, their father was betrayed by a colleague who turned him in to the government for her own freedom and then went to work for A.S.I. Only Harper escaped to develop the Ellison project into a tool crafted around the likeness of her dead sister Angela and to exact revenge on those who hurt her family.

Description
Madame Mirage's creator, Paul Dini, likens her to pulp hero The Shadow taken a step further. Mirage employs various degrees of superpowers including mind control, magic, and shape shifting in order to confound and defeat her enemies. (It is worth noting that the visual appearance of Madame Mirage is based on magician and illusionist Misty Lee.) Mirage also has a younger sister named Harper, who acts as backup on her missions against the A.S.I.

Who exactly Madame Mirage is and why she's embarked upon her campaign of revenge are the central questions at the heart of the series. While the "who" would be revealed in a timely fashion, the question of "why" is of greater import. Dini has said, "Revealing Mirage's identity is just the tip of the iceberg. There will be clues, and the more astute readers will be able to fit them together pretty quickly. One clue comes in the form of Harper, Mirage's younger sister. Mirage and Harper have a relationship not unlike Batman and Robin. Mirage is the one out dispensing justice, while Harper is her backup. They both have a personal stake against A.S.I. and have devoted their lives and abilities to bringing down the evil corporation."

It was revealed in Madam Mirage #3 that Madame Mirage is in fact Harper in disguise. Several years before, when the sisters were working with their struggling technological enterprise, they were approached by executives from A.S.I. who sought to buy the sisters' technology, including their top secret government project, the Ellison Project. Negotiations soured, however, and both sisters were shot. Shortly afterwards, their father was betrayed by a colleague who turned him in to the government for her own freedom and then went to work for A.S.I. Only Harper escaped to develop the Ellison project into a tool crafted around the likeness of her dead sister Angela and to exact revenge on those who hurt her family.