Roulette (Marvel Comics)

Roulette
Roulette from New Mutants #16. Art by Sal Buscema.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	New Mutants #16 (Jun 1984)
Created by	Chris Claremont Sal Buscema
In-story information
Alter ego	Jennifer Stavros
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Hellions
Abilities	Roulette can create discs of psionic energy which alter the probability field around the victim at whom she throws the disc. Her black energy discs create "bad luck" while her red energy discs bestow "good luck."

Roulette (real name: Jennifer Stavros) is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.

Roulette was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema in New Mutants #16-17 (June–July 1984) for the antithesis to the New Mutants: the Hellions.

The character subsequently appears in The Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985), Firestar #2-4 (April–June 1986), The New Mutants #39 (May 1986), #43 (September 1986), #53-54 (July–August 1987), #56 (October 1987), #62 (April 1988), The New Warriors #9-10 (March–April 1991), and died in The Uncanny X-Men #281 (October 1991). The character made a posthumous appearance in The New Warriors Annual #2 (1992).

Roulette appeared as part of the "Hellions" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #5.

Jennifer Stavros was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As a teenager, Jennifer was recruited into the Hellions and enrolled at Emma's Frost's Massachusetts Academy where she was covertly trained in combat as one of the Hellions, the teenage enforcement squad of the HellFire Club. One of the team's first missions was to confront the New Mutants, who were attacking the Massachusetts Academy in an attempt to retrieve their kidnapped schoolmate, X-man Kitty Pryde. The Hellions met with mixed success against the New Mutants in their first conflict. Roulette was able to neutralize New Mutants Sunspot and Wolfsbane in this initial meeting by making Sunspot's back muscles go into spasm and a bookshelf to crash on to Wolfsbane.