LILANDRA

 

LILANDRA

Real Name: Lilandra Neramani

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #97, February 1976

Powers: Lilandra was a member of the extraterrestrial race known as the Shi'ar. The Shi'ar have both avian and mammalian characteristics: Although the Shi'ar are outwardly humanoid and mammalian in form, they have feathers instead of hair. At an earlier point in their evolution, the Shi'ar had fully-developed wings attached to their arms, enabling them to fly. Shi'ar females have mammary glands and are oviparous.

Lilandra possessed the conventional attributes of a Shi'ar, which give her enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and durability. The average Shi'ar possesses strength level in the 800 lbs. to 2 ton range and 20 times better endurance than a human. Lilandra also may have possessed minor telepathic powers, but these mostly seem to be the inexplicable psychic link that has always existed between her and Charles Xavier.

Lilandra was an excellent starship pilot and, as Empress Majestrix of the Shi'ar, she wore Shi'ar Imperial armor, employed various Shi'ar weaponry and a ceremonial staff. She was also an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained in Shi'ar methods of armed and unarmed combat.