Real
name: Jubilation Lee
Other aliases: None
Identity: Secret
Occupation: (current) Student,
adventurer, (former) Street performer
Legal status: Citizen of the United
States with no known criminal record, still a minor
Place of birth: Beverly Hills,
California
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: Dr. and Mrs. Lee
(parents, deceased)
Base of operations: (current) Professor
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, The Massachusetts Academy, Berkshire
Mountains, Massachusetts, (former) Beverly Hills, California; Los Angeles
County Juvenile Hall; Hollywood Mall, Hollywood, California; Professor
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County,
New York State Group affiliation: (current) Generation X, (former)
X-Men
First appearance: UNCANNY X-MEN
#244
History: Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee
was born and raised in Beverly Hills as the daughter of two prosperous
Chinese immigrants, Dr. and Mrs. Lee. She attended an exclusive Beverly
Hills school where she became an extremely talented gymnast. One weekend
her parents lost their money in the stock market. That same weekend two
hit men mistook Dr. and Mrs. Lee for their neighbors, also named the Lees,
and killed them.
Orphaned and impoverished, with nowhere
to live, Jubilee was sent to the Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall. There
she learned how to defend herself and became rebellious towards authority.
The Juvenile Hall authorities arranged to send her to another orphanage.
Fearing that she might eventually be sent to live with her only living
relatives, who were in Communist China, Jubilee ran away to the Hollywood
Mall.
At first she survived as a petty thief,
stealing whatever she needed. But one day, trapped by mall security police
in a dead end, in her fear and panic she unwittingly activated her superhuman
powers for the first time. Globules of energy, which she would later call
"fireworks," shot from her hands, exploding in front of the police, enabling
her to make her escape. From then on Jubilee led a lonely life, her outwardly
cynical attitude hiding her deeper fear that she could not trust anyone.
She earned a living by creating "fireworks" displays for the mall customers
with her newly emerged abilities.
Then one day, mall security, having failed
to capture her yet again, contacted the novice mutant hunters known as
the M Squad. Luckily, several female members of the X-Men--Dazzler, Psylocke,
Rogue, and Storm--happened to be shopping at the Hollywood Mall that day.
They foiled the M Squad's attempt to capture Jubilee (see Dazzler, Psylocke,
Rogue, Storm, X-Men). Fascinated by these women, Jubilee followed them
until they exited via a teleportation portal provided by the mutant aborigine
Gateway back to the small town in the Australian outback, where the X-Men
were then based (see Gateway). Before the portal closed, however, Jubilee
jumped in.
She emerged in front of Gateway moments
after the female X-Men had left the scene. Gateway verbally welcomed Jubilee,
although he had never spoken to any of the X-Men, led her to a tunnel,
and pushed her down into it. She landed in the vast underground cavern
that stored the bounty of the Reavers, the criminal cyborgs who had previously
been the town's sole residents.
Jubilee created a living space for herself
within the cavern. Although part of her wanted to connect with the X-Men,
she did not trust anyone yet, mutant or otherwise. So she kept her presence
a secret, watching the X-Men from her hiding place. She became a scrounger,
taking food and clothing from the X-Men while they were busy elsewhere.
She finally emerged from hiding after
most of the X-Men had abandoned their Australian base and the returning
Reavers had captured and crucified the X-Man Wolverine (see Wolverine).
After Wolverine succeeded in freeing himself, she helped him escape to
safety. Over the following months Jubilee accompanied Wolverine in his
travels through Asia. He became like a second father to her.
Jubilee finally met Professor Charles
Xavier, the founder of the X-Men, when they were both captured by the alien
Warskrulls (see Professor X). Subsequently, when the X-Men reunited under
Xavier's leadership, she became a full member of the team. She continued
to accompany Wolverine frequently on his solo missions.
After the X-Men defeated the techno-organic
Phalanx race, Xavier decided to found a new school where the various teenage
mutants whom the Phalanx had captured would be trained in the uses of their
superhuman powers. Hence, Husk, M, Skin, and Synch became members of a
new mutant team, Generation X (see Generation X). Xavier assigned Jubilee
to join this new team as well, since she was in their age group. She was
not happy, seeing her reassignment as a demotion. However, Jubilee quickly
became the team player in Generation X that she had been with the X-Men.
Despite her characteristically cynical
remarks, Jubilee came to love and trust the members of her new team as
if they were her new family.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 105 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Stength level: Jubilee possesses
the normal human strength of a girl of her age, height, and build who engages
in intensive regular exercise.
Known superhuman powers: Jubilee is a
mutant with the superhuman ability to generate what she calls her "fireworks:"
energy globules that vary in degrees of power and intensity. The globules
obey her mental control, traveling where she directs them, arranging themselves
in balls, streamers, and other shapes, and exploding when she wishes. These
combinations may result in anything from a multitude of colorful sparkles
capable of temporarily blinding a person to a fairly powerful detonation,
capable of smashing tree trunks or metal objects. She can absorb these
"fireworks" back into her own body without harm to herself.