Hela Fact — October 31, 2026

Today's Fact

Checked against independent sources — the issues are cited below.

HELA RESTORED DANI MOONSTAR'S VALKYRIE POWERS — AND BANKED A FAVOR FOR LATER!

The Featured Fact

Danielle Moonstar lost her mutant powers on M-Day, but her older bond with Asgard had once made her a Valkyrie, complete with the winged horse Brightwind. When a crisis demanded god-level strength against Ares, the depowered Dani did something desperate: she went to Hela and asked the Goddess of Death herself to give the Valkyrie gifts back.

Hela agreed, on the only terms she ever offers. Dani regained her Valkyrie powers — and a restored Brightwind — but the price was service: she became Hela's own Valkyrie, a chooser of the slain who would gather the dead for Hel rather than Valhalla, owing the queen a favor to be collected whenever Hela chose.

The debt shaped Dani's double life for years afterward, torn between the X-Men and Hel's claim on her, as retold when Dani joined the new Valkyrior in Fearless Defenders #2 (2013). Death, in Hela's bookkeeping, never gives a gift; she issues a loan and keeps the paperwork forever.

Why It's Obscure

A depowered mutant needed a goddess's strength for one fight, and death charged her by the year.

M-Day

Powerless, not harmless — Stripped of her mutant gifts, Dani still carried an Asgardian past that gave her exactly one dangerous door to knock on.

The ask

Ares set the deadline — Needing divine power to stand against the god of war, Dani bargained directly with the ruler of the dead.

The price

Service, not silver — Hela restored the Valkyrie gifts and Brightwind, and in exchange Dani's soul-gathering duties now answer to Hel.

The ledger

Favors accrue interest — Hela later called the debt in, proof that her bargains are written to be collected at the worst possible moment.

Gallery

Comic art of Hela and the figures named in today's fact.

Hela wearing her antler headdress and green black costume comic art — **The queen's antlers**Hela in her towering antler headdress and green-black regalia — the headdress is unmistakable in this portrait.

Hela wielding a sword against Thor comic art — **Death presses Thor**Hela drives her blade against Thor himself, the ambition behind every bargain she strikes.

Hela holding her sword amid the legions of the dead comic art — **Mistress of the legions**Hela with her Nightsword raised among the restless dead she commands — the sword and her skeletal-patterned costume are both on full display.

Dani Moonstar drawing a bow in her X-Men uniform comic art — **The borrower**Dani Moonstar with her bow drawn, the mutant who mortgaged her afterlife loyalties for one fight's worth of divine power.

Sources

Every claim above checks out against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

A Major MCU Villain Just Gave One of the X-Men a Huge Upgrade — ScreenRantScreenRant recounts that Hela agreed to restore Dani Moonstar's Valkyrie powers in exchange for a favor she later called in, with Brightwind restored alongside them.
Dani Moonstar Raises Hela in Fearless Defenders — Comics BlendComics Blend's Fearless Defenders #2 preview notes Dani bargained with Hela to summon her mystical powers to defeat Ares.