Diamond Lil (comics)

Diamond Lil
Diamond Lil in X-Force, vol. 3 #23 Art by Clayton Crain
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Alpha Flight #1 (Aug 1983) (identified) Alpha Flight #11
Created by	John Byrne
In-story information
Alter ego	Lillian Crawley-Jeffries
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	The 198 Gamma Flight Omega Flight Alpha Flight
Notable aliases	Creepy Crawley
Abilities	Superhuman physical resistance (via homeostatic bio-aura)

Diamond Lil (Lillian Crawley-Jeffries) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer and artist John Byrne for the ongoing comic book series Alpha Flight. Since her debut, Diamond Lil has been portrayed as both hero and villain.

Little is known about Lillian Crawley before she joined Canada's Flight Program, though it is known that she was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and that she later worked as a waitress. Given the nature of her powers, she was a prime candidate for Alpha Flight, but was put in the third-tier training group known as Gamma Flight. When the government lost funding and closed the Flight programs, Lil dropped off of the map without a trace.

Soon after, a man named Jerome Jaxon—an old rival of Alpha Flight's leader Guardian—gathered up the former members of Gamma Flight and formed a team of his own with the hopes of crushing the Canadian superhero team. They were called Omega Flight. Lil was easily able to defeat Snowbird, but Shaman found that her weakness was her mind. She may have even been defeated if not for an unfortunate turn of events. During the battle, Guardian's suit malfunctioned and exploded, supposedly killing the man.

Jaxon's android assistant, Delphine Courtney, reassembled Omega Flight shortly after her creator's death with the purpose of finally crushing Alpha Flight. Lil and her teammates battled Alpha Flight in West Edmonton Mall and succeeded in defeating the heroes. However, in another unfortunate event, Delphine Courtney turned Shaman's medicine bag inside out, creating a vortex that consumed all of reality. Omega Flight tried to run, but their escape was blocked by Madison Jeffries. After dismantling the robotic woman with his mechanical melding powers, Jeffries told Omega Flight that even though their behavior had been modified by a computer chip in Delphine's body, they were still accomplices to murder. This resulted in all members of Omega Flight being incarcerated.