Cloak and Dagger (characters)

Cloak and Dagger
Cloak and Dagger taken from a print ad promoting the characters' 1983 eponymous comic book mini-series
Art by Rick Leonardi.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearancePeter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64
(March 1982)
Created byBill Mantlo (writer)
Ed Hannigan (artist)
In-story information
Alter egoCloak
Tyrone "Ty" Johnson
Dagger
Tandy Bowen
SpeciesBoth
Human mutate
Team affiliationsBoth
X-Men
Dark X-Men
Secret Avengers
Runaways
The Assembly of Evil
Dagger
New Warriors
Secret Defenders
Marvel Knights
PartnershipsMayhem
Notable aliasesCloak
Cloak
Demon of Darkness
Dagger
Dagger
Lady Light
AbilitiesCloak
  • Teleportation via the Darkforce
  • Insanity and paranoia inducement
  • Darkness manipulation
  • Darkforce Telekinesis
  • Can see and manipulate the fear of others
  • Flight and Levitation
  • Cloak manipulation
  • Darkforce Tendrils/Appendages
  • Transportation to the Darkforce Dimension via his cloak
  • Drawing strength from the fears of those he touches
  • Physic and Telepathic link with Dagger
  • Density manipulation and Intangibility
  • Invisibility

Dagger

  • Only living generator of Lightforce and can generate a limitless amount of it endlessly.
  • Light-speed movement and reflexes.
  • Can manipluate the very concept of Light to do things like bending light around her body to render herself invisible and even bend lasers.
  • Can Create constructs made of light like Daggers, weapons, chains, armor, and much more.
  • Use her daggers of Lightforce to cleanse addictions and corruption from people
  • Create a barrage of daggers of Lightforce to dazzle opponents from a distance
  • Use her Lightforce daggers to inflict physical pain from a distance
  • Use her Lightforce dagger to pacify Cloak's darkness
  • Purifying Blast via her Lightforce
  • Can see, steal, and manipulate hope of other people typically by touching them
  • Physic and Telepathic link with Cloak
  • Healing light

Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a superhero duo appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Ed Hannigan, the characters first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982). Cloak and Dagger started out as two teenagers who both ran away from home and ended up meeting each other at a fateful bus stop in New York. After being kidnapped and experimented on, they now found themselves now both possessing the twin superpowers of Light and Darkness control. Cloak can teleport, manipulate Darkness, and alter his body's density from impenetrably solid to intangible, while Dagger can heal people with her light, manipulate light, create daggers of light and other light based constructs that can either heal or harm people. They can also both draw power from the emotions of those they touch, Dagger through hope and Cloak through fear.

Marvel Television produced a two-season self-titled live-action television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Aubrey Joseph as Ty Johnson and Olivia Holt as Tandy Bowen. Additionally, Joseph and Holt reprised their roles in the third season of Runaways following the former series' cancellation.