Wind Dancer

Sofia Mantega is a Venezuelan teenager who manifested the mutant ability to manipulate wind, enrolling at the Xavier Institute where she became one of the New Mutants training to control her powers.

Bursting onto the scene in 2004's New Mutants #9 — courtesy of the creative team of Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Carlo Barberi — Wind Dancer is a Modern Age Marvel creation whose story has quietly stretched across more than two decades of X-Men lore. Most at home in the pages of New X-Men, New Mutants, and X-Corp, she shares her adventures with a compelling roster of young mutants including Sofia Mantega, David Alleyne, Surge, and Noriko Ashida, placing her squarely at the heart of Marvel's next-generation mutant scene. With six key-issue appearances to her name, collectors have taken notice, and a presence spanning all the way to 2025 confirms this is a character with genuine staying power. If you're tracing the rich tapestry of modern mutant storytelling, Wind Dancer is absolutely worth seeking out.