Lunella Lafayette

## Moon Girl

* Civilian
* Superhero

*"It's just me, myself, and science"*
―Lunella Lafayette
**Lunella Louise Lafayette**, known as **Moon Girl**, is the protagonist of *Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur*. A gifted young girl, Lunella protects the Lower East Side community as a gadget-wielding superhero known as Moon Girl with her partner, Devil Dinosaur.

## Biography

Lunella Lafeyette is a 13-year-old black girl, who is the daughter of Adria Lafayette and James Lafayette Jr, as well as the granddaughter of Mimi Lafayette and Pops. She lives in the Lower East Side of New York City, and is a gifted young girl smart at school subjects. (especially Science and Technology) She has also won a Spelling Bee in 1st Grade.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Lunella is a young, thin, brown-skinned African-American teenage girl with black eyes, small eyelashes, and bushy dark brown hair with golden-brown accents, kept in large afro-puffs with gray-colored hair ties. When posing as Moon Girl, she keeps her hair in a single puff.

### Clothing

Lunella's clothing features a pair of round, periwinkle-blue framed glasses. She wears a long-sleeved grayish-white shirt under a short-sleeved black T-shirt with red and light pink accents, followed by a purplish-gray belt with a circular-shaped light pink buckle, holding up her simple pink miniskirt. Under her skirt, she wore baggy blue jeans with a circular-shaped cyan patch sewn on the right knee, followed by a pair of large black tennis shoes with red, pink, and grayish-white accents.

As Moon Girl, her superhero attire consists of a yellow skate helmet with a large cyan stripe on the front, as well as a pair of cyan-colored goggles with hot-pink and black lenses that form certain symbols and expressions depending on how she feels. She wears a matching yellow vest and shorts, with her vest featuring short violet sleeves, cyan trim on the collar and sleeves, and a small crescent moon printed on the chest, along with her shorts having violet stripes on the sides. Under her vest and shorts, she wore a full-length, black spandex undersuit with blue accents, complete with a red utility belt around her waist, a set of matching red gloves, blue elbow and knee-pads, and a pair of large, black knee-high skating boots, featuring blue accents, three yellow X-shaped cutouts, and turquoise-colored soles. In addition, she carries a cyan backpack that can transform into a jetpack.

## Personality

Lunella is a friendly and energetic girl, being described as one of the most intelligent people in the universe. She loves her Lower East Side community, protecting it in her Moon Girl alter-ego from whatever danger lurks.

She has called Casey "her best friend" but she refers to Devil with similar terms of endearment like "my number one" and "the best" indicating they both are very important people in her life.

She is highly competitive in several areas, such as playing board games, which has caused her several problems. In "The Borough Bully", she becomes obsessed with besting an online troll named SYPHØN8TR. At first, she tries to counter the negative comments with facts, but after he twists them into new attacks on her, she decides to confront him in person and discovers he is an actual troll living under a bridge. As Moon Girl, she fights him, watching him get physically stronger until she realizes the way to defeat him is to starve him by not letting his comments affect her any longer.

In "Check Yourself", she challenged Devil to a skate race, where he raced with titanium-reinforced taxis strapped to his feet, and she celebrated triumphantly. Later that night, she hears through a monitor displaying the family's living quarters that they are about to start a party. When she hurries up to join them, she discovers they were planning on having a family game night and didn't tell her because she is obsessed with winning and this prevents her from just having fun playing. After demanding evidence, she is confronted with her competitiveness while playing Contortion (Twister), Word! (Scrabble) and Spades, where she breaks the table slamming down the ace of spades.

This obsession continued when the East Coast Science Institute brings their chess-champion supercomputer LOS-307 to demonstrate its capabilities. Lunella immediately volunteers, despite Casey's misgivings due to Lunella grousing to her just moments before about the family game night. Following some light verbal sparring, Lunella states she will checkmate the computer in ten moves, but after many hours, it remains a stalemate as she calculates what her tenth move will be. Principal Nelson carries Lunella out the door so they can both go home, leaving LOS-307 to wonder who she is as it recharges overnight.

Lunella spends the night in her lab, neglecting playtime with Devil in favor of running chess simulations until 12:38 a.m., where she starts hallucinating that her fingers and hands turn into chess pieces. She then heads to the school, prepared to break in, when the door suddenly unlocks itself. LOS-307 is waiting for her, happy that she came back and quickly disappointed that Lunella only wants to play another chess game.

Despite multiple warnings from LOS-307 that running the chess simulation too long while they are charging will result in them overheating, Lunella is still obsessed with winning and won't quit. LOS-307 does overheat and threatens to expose her as Moon Girl, which they had discovered while searching the internet during the recharge cycle. The confrontation turns physical as LOS-307 uses their connection with networked electronic devices to attack her. The battle ends when Lunella uses the school's sprinkler system to disable the computer and both come to realize that they took things too far. They reconcile and LOS-307 is saved by using rice to absorb the moisture inside its case. Later, LOS-307 is given the vacant guidance counselor position after downloading the entirety of Harvard's Developmental Psychology coursework and offering to work for free.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

Unlike Inhumans, mutants, or mutates, Lunella does not possess any superpowers as she is a normal human being. However, her genius intellect enables her to create inventions she uses to fight crime.

### Abilities

* **Smart**: Lunella has a genius intellect, which has led her to build and design anything she sets her mind to, being described as one of the "smartest people in the Marvel Universe."
* **Clarity and focus**: Even when the situation around her is very chaotic and noisy, she is able to tune out external input to focus on technical problems to find a solution.
* **Skilled roller skater**: She is a very skilled roller skater and is able to hop, jump and dance in her skates with the same precision as she has wearing shoes.

### Equipment

* **Bubble Blaster**:

## Quotes

* "Although, I am the smartest thirteen-year-old I know."

## Trivia

* In the comics, **Lunella Lafayette** is an Inhuman and the smartest person in the Earth, often called "The Smartest There Is". After Devil Dinosaur is transported through Kree technology to the modern era, she took him in and later saved him from captivity under the name **Moon Girl**, which is how her bullies called her, which she later embraced as her superhero name as part of a duo with Devil. Shortly after, Moon Girl was exposed to the Terrigenesis Cloud that was spreading through Earth, resulting in her Inhuman genes activating and giving her the ability to change minds with Devil.
* Moon Girl is the first black female lead character in a Marvel superhero show.
* In Lunella's room is a sign and a pillowcase that have three rectangles with numbers and two-letter abbreviations that approximately spell out her name: 71 Lu, 10 Ne, 57 La. These are from the Periodic Table of the Elements for Lutetium #71, Neon #10 and Lanthanum #57.

## References

1. ↑ Disney Television Animation [@disneytva] "Cast announcement". (Tweet) *Twitter*.
2. ↑ Jeffrey M. Howard, Kate Kondell (writers) and Trey Buongiorno, Christine Liu (directors) (February 10, 2023). "Moon Girl Landing". *Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur*. Season 1. Episode 1. Disney Channel.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Halima Lucas (writer) and Trey Buongiorno (director) (February 11, 2023). "The Borough Bully". *Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur*. Season 1. Episode 2. Disney Channel.
4. ↑ "Marvel’s ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Cartoon Headed to Disney Channel". *The Hollywood Reporter*. (August 24, 2019).
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Diamond White Leads Cast of Disney Channel's Highly Anticipated Animated Series 'Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur'". *Disney General Entertainment Press*. (February 10, 2021).
6. ↑ Holub, Christian (February 7, 2022). "Take a first look at the cast of *Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur* cartoon". *Entertainment Weekly*.

## External links

* Moon Girl on Wikipedia
* Moon Girl on Marvel Database