"New Mutants" #1 detailed how, as a child, Danielle Moonstar unintentionally used her emergent psychic powers to foresee the deaths of her parents, William and Peg Lonestar, in a vision that showed them being slain by a bear. When the couple disappeared on a hunting trip a week later, Dani believed her vision had come true. However, "New Mutants" #21 would reveal that Dani's vision had been metaphorical; in truth, her parents had been captured and transformed into a demonic bear-spirit. The identity of the being responsible for this transformation was never revealed in-story, but the letters page of "New Mutants" #24 would state that it was the ancient mystical entity, the Adversary.