Lila Cheney

She appeared in 8 issues of X-Treme X-Men Vol. 1, and in X-Men: Legacy Vol. 2 as an ally of Legion. She additionally appeared in Captain Marvel Vol. 8, Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace, the 2025 Dazzler limited series, and is set to appear in Concert of Champions.^[2]

Born in England, Lila used her mutant ability of teleportation to adventure across the universe at a young age.^[3] During an adventure, she arrives on the alien planet Aladna, where she becomes engaged to Prince Yan.^[4][5] At some point in Lila's life, she was sold to aliens as a slave, before escaping to tour the galaxy as a rockstar and thief, during which she found an abandoned Dyson sphere, which she would make her base.

Lila had a deal to sell Earth to an alien race called the Vrakanin. Just before she could execute her plan, she met the New Mutants at her New York concert. Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) saves Lila from a falling speaker, and Lila is instantly attracted to him. When the Vrakanin double-cross her and are defeated, she gives up her thieving career and enters into a romantic relationship with Cannonball.^[1][6][7][8]

She later moved to Malibu, and hired Dazzler (Alison Blair) as a backup singer and Guido Carosella (Strong Guy) as a bodyguard. When Cannonball and Magik approached Lila for help, she used her connections to help rescue Sunspot and Magma. She also aided Magneto in battling the Beyonder.^[9][7]

Sam and Lila's relationship faced some trouble, but after Sam saved her from her crashed plane, they got back together and Lila met Sam's mother.^[6]

Lila is captured by an alien slaver known as Spyder during one of her concerts. The New Mutants attempt to rescue her, but Lila appears to sacrifice herself when she teleported large monsters released by Spyder into a nearby sun.^[10]

Lila survived and was recruited by

She assists X-Force with missions before running into trouble with aliens known as the K'Lanti. When she corrects her mistake, the race gives her an active explosive, which Strong Guy jumps on to save her. He survives, but the kinetic energy gives him a heart attack and puts him in a coma, to Lila's dismay.[15] After he recovers, he joins Lila in her touring once again.^[16]

Cannonball and Lila briefly rekindle their relationship, during which he saves her from an anti-mutant attack at her concert.^[17][18] Shortly after they stop dating again.

She retained her powers after M-Day.^[19] She joined Legion in spreading positive mutant campaigns in the UK.^[20]

Eventually, she returned to Aladna to fulfill her marriage pledge, although Prince Yan ultimately chooses another woman as his wife.^[5]

Cheney later becomes a citizen of the mutant nation of

Cheney is a powerful teleporter, capable of transporting herself and others across vast distances of space in short periods of time. She is also able to teleport objects, making her an adept thief. However, she is unable to travel short distances due to the speed of her teleportation, instead using a Dyson sphere as a midpoint to travel shorter distances. She has also been shown to teleport to places where her voice is being played.[5] She is a capable fighter, and has been shown using alien weaponry.

She is also a talented musician, with a vast intergalactic following. She performs electric guitar as well as vocals.

In Days of Future Past, Cheney fights Warlock's father Magus, during which Magik accidentally ends up teleporting her whole team into two alternative future timelines. In one of them, where the Sentinels have destroyed most of Earth's mutants, Cannonball, Mirage, and Lila establish a guerilla operation to take mutants to temporary safety in Lila's Dyson sphere.^[5]

In the