Dream Girl
Dream Girl is a comic book character that first appeared in Adventure Comics #317
Dream Girl is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She has the power to see the future in dreams and visions.
Pre-Crisis
Nura Nal was born on Naltor in the thirtieth century. Naltor's native denizens are genetically inclined to be precognitives, with the ability to see into the future. At a young age Nura became recognized as the most powerful precog among her people, more able to dream with peculiar accuracy, or see a few moments into the future while awake, than any other. Nura's exceptional beauty often hid the fact that she was also exceptionally bright, and once she reached adulthood she had already mastered advanced Naltorian science, putting her among the galaxy's intellectual elite.
Nura eventually left Naltor to act on one her visions in which she foresaw the death of the Legionnaire named Lightning Lass. She introduced herself to the Legion using the code name of Dream Girl. Nura knew from her vision that Lightning Lass's death would be caused by her own super-power, so Nura used her skill with her planet's advanced science to change Lightning Lass's original powers of wielding electricity to that of nullifying gravity. The change prevented the Legionnaire's death, who took the code name of Light Lass to reflect her new super-power.
Though Nura continued to receive constant attention from the unattached male Legionnaires (and even some of the attached ones), Star Boy (Thom Kallor) was the one who eventually managed to capture her heart. Nura became very close to him and she was romantically involved with Star Boy for many years. Partly due to her effective but non-combative power, she also trained intensively in hand-to-hand combat in order to better serve the team on the field. She was a quick study and became a highly skilled martial artist, second on the team in unarmed combat to only Karate Kid.
Leader of the Legion
Dream Girl soon rejoined the Legion and continued serving as a highly-valued member. After Lightning Lad's term as Legion leader went horribly awry, the team decided it was time to elect a new leader, and Dream Girl announced that she was officially running for the position. The other candidates initially scoffed at the idea of the Legion's glamour girl winning the job, until they realized to their dismay that she would not have announced her candidacy had she not already foreseen herself winning. Sure enough, Dream Girl was elected leader, becoming only the second female Legionnaire ever to do so (after Saturn Girl).
Shortly after she assumed leadership the Legion was faced with one of the most dire challenges in their history -- the Great Darkness Saga. The ancient super-villain Darkseid appeared in the 30th century and attempted to conquer the whole of the United Planets. He very nearly succeeded, but the Legion, with Dream Girl's able leadership, finally managed to thwart him after an epic and costly struggle. During this time Nura's sister, Mysa Nal, arrived to aid the team with her mastery of the magical arts. Afterwards Mysa became a Legionnaire, calling herself the White Witch.
Legion Threeboot
Dream Girl returned in the third and most recent reboot of the Legion, commonly known as the "Threeboot." She first stopped an assassination attempt on the United Planets delegates by a spy. Brainiac 5 had compiled data for three days and sent Dream Girl, Karate Kid, and Element Lad to stop the assassin. The Legionnaires looked like they were beaten, until Karate Kid woke Dream Girl from a daydream and she took down the assassin down with ease, saying that she thought they had already defeated him.
Afterwards, Brainiac 5 announced that Dream Girl's precog power frustrated him to no end because there was no rationality to it and it was not scientific. Dream Girl then interrupted Brainy, talking about a conversation they had not had yet, frustrating him even further. Later, Dream Girl, Karate Kid, Shadow Lass and Brainiac 5 were all sent to Dream Girl's home planet of Nltro to investigate why no one under the age of 18 was able to sleep.
On Nltro, the Legionnaires briought a crazed teen before the high council and Dream Girl demanded to know what was being done to fix the problem. She also explained that without dreams, Naltorians could not interpret their visions and would eventually lose their precognitive abilities. The high council of Nltro claimed that the lack of sleep was a disease and not to worry, since it would work itself out. After it was discovered that it was actually the adults committing the crime against the children, Brainiac 5 took off, leaving the other three Legionnaires to fight the Precommandos (Precog Cops). The cops lay a beating on Karate Kid and Shadow Lass, until Dream Girl distracted the police so that they focused their attention solely on her. Taking advantage of the distraction, her teammates took the cops down. Dream Girl knew that more precogs were on the way, but she also knew that there was something the high council did not want the kids to see. She tried to get Karate Kid to knock her out but he refused, so Shadow Lass blindsided her with a mean right hand. Dream Girl then viewed the Destruction of the Universe by an unknown enemy and his army. When she woke up she said one word... 'Brainy'. Dream Girl lead the team to the public service broadcaster ,where they found Brainy "attacking the problem" as he put. It came down to Dream Girl having to choose either to let the youth know what she saw and how little time they had left, or security and comfort. She chose the former.
When the team returned to Legion headquarters, Brainiac 5 explained to Dream Girl how all it would take was one person, one casualty to have the willpower to break destiny; that the universe was more unpredictable then they gave it credit for and her visions did not have to be infallible. Dream Girl told him he would feel differently once they were married.
After this the Legion's true enemy was revealed: The terrorist group called Terra Firma, lead by the super-powered Elysion and Lemnos. Terra Firma attacked the planet Helegyn. During this attack Dream girl had a vision but could not see past one hour; after that, all she saw was black. After Elysion was captured, Dream Girl took out her frustrations on him. As she did so, Dream Girl expressed faith, something unheard of for precogs. Brainiac 5 and Dream Girl had a romantic moment while he tried to figure out her problem. Then Terra Firma made their move, just as Dream Girl had foreseen. They suicide-bombed Legion Tower and the plaza where teens had gathered to support the Legion. Brainiac 5 and Dream Girl headed there. Elysion escaped and, using his earth-controlling powers, brought down Legion Tower on top of everyone around. Amid the chaos, the answer to Dream Girl's problem was answered... she could not see past her own death. Dream Girl was crushed in the rubble of Legion Tower.
Return of the Pre-Crisis Legion
During the JLA-JSA storyline "The Lightning Saga," the original (Pre-Crisis) version of the Legion mysteriously returned in the present time period, including the original Dream Girl. Members of the team were scattered and trapped in different places throughout the universe. Dream Girl herself had been captured and imprisoned by the nightmarish villain Dr.Destiny in Arkham Asylum, where her precognitive powers were manipulated into giving her horrific illusions. She was rescued by the Justice Society and reunited with her longtime love Thom Kallor (formerly Star Boy), who had been flung back in time to become the new Starman. In this revised history the relationship between the two is more tragic, since Starman suffered mental damage after being hurtled back through time unprepared. She feels terribly for him and believes that the 21st-century methods of treating his mental illness are barbaric. Dream Girl now seems to have some connection to the realm of 'The Dreaming.' She also correctly predicts the threat of Superboy-Prime in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds, the recent storyline which unites all three versions of the Legion together.Television
The animated version of Dream Girl first appeared in Superman: The Animated Series, in a non-speaking cameo role in the episode "New Kids in Town."
| Super Name: | Dream Girl |
| Real Name: | Nura Nal |
| Aliases: |
Nura Nal Dreamy Dreamer Miss Terious |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Alien |
| 1st Appearance: | Adventure Comics #317 |
| Appears in: | 242 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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