Contents 1 HistoryEdit 2 Powers and AbilitiesEdit 2.1 Powers 3 ParaphernaliaEdit 3.1 Equipment 3.2 Transportation 3.3 Weapons 4 LinksEdit 4.1 Discover and Discuss 4.2 Footnotes

HistoryEdit

Born in England, Lila was mostly known on Earth as a musician, often performing with the band Cat's Laughing. (Another singer with mutant abilities, Dazzler, performed with Lila in the past.) Previously, Lila had used her powers for personal gain as a thief.

The New Mutants first met Lila 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.

Lila was formerly romantically involved with Sam Guthrie, also known as Cannonball. The two maintained an on-again, off-again relationship.^[1] Lila was performing a concert in a nightclub in Valle Soleada one night when a young woman named Marie D'Acanto attempted to detonate a bomb to avenge the deaths of her parents, at the hands of mutants. Cannonball and Rogue foiled this murder attempt and took Marie D'Acanto into their custody.

The mutant Strong Guy, aka Guido Carosella, worked as her bodyguard, although he often left her to go on various adventures with other mutants, and he was once a member of the government sponsered X-Factor.

Lila made her home in a Dyson sphere, a colony-like enclosure by a star that used the star as its power source.

Lila retained her mutant powers after M-Day. ONE considered her a significant threat.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Intergalactic Teleportation: Lila has the ability to generate a tachyon field about herself with which can transport herself and other people/objects across interstellar distances, even across the "Milky Way" galaxy. The tachyon field converts matter into faster-than-light particles and then Lila provides them a direction to travel in.

Because her power, once activated, will already have carried her hundreds of thousands of miles away before she can even complete the thought of "stop", Lila can't teleport across shorter distances.

Hence, when she teleports from one spot on Earth to another, she actually has to teleport herself to her Dyson Sphere from her starting point, and then teleport herself from the sphere to the other point on Earth. Apparently, she must specifically know any location to which she teleports herself in order to do so.

Power Grid [2]
Intelligence	2
Strength	2
Speed*	7   2
Durability	2
Energy Projection	1
Fighting Skills	3
	* Teleporter

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Guitar, microphone.

Transportation

Teleportation powers.

Weapons

Some type of energy weapon, apparently of Shi'ar design.

LinksEdit

• 64 Appearances of Lila Cheney (Earth-616)
• 19 Images featuring Lila Cheney (Earth-616)
• 5 Quotations by or about Lila Cheney (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Lila Cheney (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Lila Cheney (Earth-616) 
• UncannyXmen.net, Character information of Lila Cheney

Discover and Discuss

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Footnotes

1. ↑ As seen in titles including X-Force (after New Mutants was revamped by Rob Liefeld) and X-Treme X-Men, particularly the TPB Intifada.
2. ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 2