Lila Cheney
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Lila Cheney
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | New Mutants Annual #1 (1984) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod |
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| Alter ego | Lila Cheney |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations |
X-Men X-Force New Mutants Gladiators |
| Abilities | Teleportation |
Lila Cheney is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a mutant with the ability to teleport, but only over vast intergalactic distances.
Lila Cheney was created by Chris Claremont and first introduced in New Mutants Annual #1 (1984).
The character next appears in The New Mutants #25 (March 1985) – which features a brief description of her powers in the "Private Journal of Professor Xavier," after which she has popped up in a variety of other titles, mainly in the X-family of books.
Lila Cheney received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #2, and in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A–Z #2 (2006).
Born in England, Cheney is mostly known on Earth as a musician. Another singer with mutant abilities, Dazzler, has performed with Lila in the past. Previously, Lila also used her powers for personal gain as a thief. By chance, her power enabled her to find a Dyson sphere, which Lila came to use as a home away from home.
Lila met the New Mutants when Sunspot took them to one of her concerts, where they subsequently foiled an assassination attempt made upon her by an alien race called the Vrakanin. At that time, Lila had attempted to "steal" the Earth and sell its population on the intergalactic black market as slaves, just in order to prove that she was "the best thief of all". After the New Mutants followed her to her Dyson sphere and saved her life from the Vrakanin, who intended to betray her, Lila retracted her selfish intentions, and also developed a relationship with the New Mutant Sam Guthrie, also known as Cannonball, to whom she subsequently dedicated a love song.
The New Mutants would become fans of Lila's, which ended up with them invited to an Earth-based party with which she was involved. A jealous admirer of Lila would drug and then attempt to kill Sam in the skies outside. Lila's blossoming romantic relationship with Sam included a proposal for a music video with the New Mutants and plans to visits Sam's home to meet his mother and siblings. Sam was worried as Lila's far-reaching, dramatic lifestyle was very different from his family's Kentucky farm-life. They meet beforehand, but things are soured when Sam accuses her of stealing the gift she had planned to give to Sam's mother. An argument ensues and the gift, a crystal statue, slightly cracks due to the negative emotions. Sam flies off. Before the two can later reconcile, Lila's plane crashes in the mountains. Nobody is killed, but Lila had been knocked out, making her unable to rescue anyone. Sam and his brother Josh work with Dazzler, who was touring with Lila, to free everyone. Dazzler berates Sam, revealing Lila had spent a month mining the crystal and even longer shaping it; the slightest mistake could have demolished it. Later, the two reconcile on the front porch of the farm, Lila with the still-flawed gift and dressed in a simple black dress and blue jacket, because she recognizes that this image was what Sam desired.
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