LILA CHENEY

 

LILA CHENEY

Real Name: Lila Cheney

First Appearance: The New Mutants Annual (Vol. 1) #1, November 1984

Powers: Lila Cheney was born with the mutant power to generate a transmutation effect for intergalactic teleportation. Lila apparently converts matter into tachyon (faster-than-light) particles and then provides them a direction to travel in. Because her power, once activated, will already have carried her hundreds of thousands of miles in distance before she can will it to stop, Lila's power is only useful for extremely long distance travel. In order to move from one place to another on a planet, she must first teleport to some distant planet or locale (her Dyson sphere) and then bounce back on a second jump. Lila is capable of carrying nearby people and objects with her as she teleports, and apparently does this through a general radius effect rather than pinpoint specific targets to transport, since people have accidentally walked into her teleportation effect before, being transported without her intending to take them.

Lila Cheney is an expert thief and also a talented self-taught musician highly skilled in performing guitar-driven rock and is talented in singing as well.