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->''"I feel like I'm drowning in my own blood and I'm terrified to open my mouth because I don't know whether I'm going to breathe or drink. And I'm looking at everyone through an inch of glass. Like they all know exactly where the line is between them and me."''
-->-- '''Jubilee''', ''Wolverine and Jubilee'' #1

''Jubilation Lee'', best known as ''Jubilee'', is a Creator/MarvelComics {{mutant}}-turned-[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]-turned-[[StatusQuoIsGod mutant]] {{superhero}}ine that usually associated with ''ComicBook/XMen'' and its members. She was introduced into Franchise/MarvelUniverse in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #244 (May 1989). She was created by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Marc Silvestri.
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Jubilee started out as a peppy Chinese-American teenager who, following the death of her parents, discovered her mutant power of creating energy blasts from her fingers and was eventually welcomed by the X-Men. She was intended to do for the new fans of the 1990s what ComicBook/KittyPryde did in the 1980s -- serve as a viewpoint character for teenagers. As such, she became ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s {{kid sidekick}}, and spent several years following him around, swinging between sarcastic mockery of his NinetiesAntiHero excesses and mortal terror expressed through TotallyRadical dialogue. Then she got transferred to the junior team, ComicBook/GenerationX, where over time she became the GeniusDitz team strategist.
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When ''Generation X'' got cancelled, it all went a bit south for Jubilee; after her own series failed to attract a significant readership and was swiftly retooled into a limited series, she was sidelined, then depowered.
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She returned for a spell in the (non X-Men) ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' reboot with PoweredArmor, an [[MostCommonSuperpower enormous rack]], and her first proper CodeName: '''Wondra'''.
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After ''New Warriors'' got cancelled, Jubilee drifted back towards the X-books, was turned into a vampire during the ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants'' storyline, and adopted a baby to become the X-Men's first [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative teenaged vampire single mom superhero]].
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She worked as the personal assistant/shenanigan-enabler of the title character in ''ComicBook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'', but left the role to lead a team in ComicBook/GenerationX2017. At the end of that title, she was cured of her vampirism by a Phoenix Force-powered Quentin Quire and regained her original mutant power set.
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As of 2022 she is a former member of ''ComicBook/Excalibur2019'' and is currently starring in ComicBook/XTerminators2022.

* ACupAngst: She has had this throughout her history, but she has gotten bigger as she grew up. In ''Generation X'', which focused on the younger and less well-known of Xavier's students, her modest figure was used to contrast her against the model-esque [[AlphaBitch Monet St. Croix]]. Sometimes Kitty Pryde takes this role, too. But much like Swift above, when Jubilee transitioned into the ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' relaunch, she lost her mutant powers, but gained two cup sizes in the bargain. (Granted, she was 13-14 for most of her comic history.) [[http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5717/002b4g7c.jpg Entertainingly lampshaded]] in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #268 -- Jubilee is listening in to a conversation between Wolverine and the [[MostCommonSuperpower more commonly-endowed]] Psylocke and Black Widow. She glances up at the two women in their skintight costumes, peers down her vest to see how she matches up, and then drops her head in her hands with a frustrated expression.
* ActionMom: In ComicBook/XMen2013, Jubilee becomes one after adopting a baby which she names Shogo.
* AdoptivePeerParent: Jubilee becomes one after she finds and adopts an abandoned baby she names Shogo. This despite only being 17, and thanks to being turned into a vampire she'll be the same age even as her kid grows up. This eventually becomes a non-issue when she is turned back into a human.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Jubilee wanted Synch in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', he wanted Monet (and thinks of Jubilee as a friend).
** She turns Skin down when he asks her out, saying she didn't want to ruin the friendship. [[spoiler:Then the two are crucified. Skin doesn't make it]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: She has had mostly male love interests, but is also very close with ComicBook/{{X 23}}, including some blatantly sexual overtones during the period where Jubilee [[LesbianVampire was turned into a vampire and bit Laura]]. She was also remarkably unfazed after being kissed on the mouth by Bling!, one of her female students. In the 2013 ''X-Men'' series, Jubilee recalled the first time she saw ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} back when she was a child, and claimed this was her mental reaction:
-->'''Jubilee:''' ...Total rock stars. I wanted to have all their babies.
* ArchEnemy: Hunter Brawn, the man who killed her parents.
* AsianAirhead: While not stupid, she suffers dyscalculia, averting the "[[AsianAndNerdy Asians as math geniuses]]" stereotype.
* AtomicSuperpower: Jubilee can detonate matter at a subatomic level. Since she is a pacifist she usually settles for using her powers in a more harmless manner -- but give her a big enough target, with no risk of collateral damage? [[spoiler:Dear Collector, say goodbye to your city-sized starship.]]
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Jubilee stole Kitty's position as this in the 90s (since Kitty was PutOnABus to [[ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics England]]). Jubilee was very immature compared to her older teammates and often got special treatment i.e. coddled by Jean, Storm, and Rogue as well as being frequently rescued by Wolverine and Gambit. Unlike Kitty, Jubilee has never truly outgrown this trope (despite [[StatusQuoIsGod several attempts]]), still being treated like this in ''ComicBook/Excalibur2019'' despite being a mother herself.
* BadassNormal: Jubilee, outside her particular mutant power, has no enhanced abilities beyond good human athleticism and yet is still '''far''' [[BroughtDownToBadass more badass than most regular people]], being able to kick around Shi'ar warriors when she was just a teenager.
* BadassLongcoat: Jubilee has a yellow one.
* BatmanGambit: ComicBook/Jubilee was actually able to pull off one of these in an early issue of ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', the first time the team dealt with Emplate, the demonic mutant brother of the M-Twins, who could [[VampiricDraining feed off the genetic material]] of other mutants and assimilate their abilities. Emplate managed to capture and subdue the entire team (even Emma Frost, believe it or not) and had them at his mercy. So Jubilee suddenly decides to spend the time ''insulting'' him. (The best one? She parodies David Letterman with "The Top Ten Reasons Emplate is a Loser", number one being that despite all he's doing, he's ''still'' not as annoying as his sister M.) After enduring one and a half issues of this, Emplate loses his temper, and uses his draining power on her, only to find out that Jubilee was trying to make him angry on purpose, because ''she'' has been known to lose control of her powers when she's angry. Because she succeeds in tricking Emplate into assimilating her powers when he's enraged, well, the results are ''explosive'', and the team is able to fight back.
* BashBrothers: After a rocky start, she and X-23 became close friends and have teamed up on multiple occasions.
* {{Bifauxnen}}:
** In her very early appearances, she had short hair and a flat chest that she could be mistaken as an effeminate boy depending on the art.
** On at least two occasions she was required to go undercover as a delivery '''boy'''. Since the other two women on the team were undercover as hot women in slinky dresses, she found this rather annoying.
** In a side-story in ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, she's fully mistaken for a boy by a tribe in the Savage Land and engaged to one of their princesses. In a slightly odd turn of events, the dinosaur-riding tribe who made the mistake actually had her half-way to the altar with a choice bride standing by before the misunderstanding could be cleared up.
** In her very early appearances, she had short hair and a flat chest that she could be mistaken as an effeminate boy depending on the art.
** On at least two occasions she was required to go undercover as a delivery '''boy'''. Since the other two women on the team were undercover as hot women in slinky dresses, she found this rather annoying.
** In a side-story in Wolverine, she's fully mistaken for a boy by a tribe in the Savage Land and engaged to one of their princesses.
* BettyAndVeronica: For Synch's Affections she was the Betty, with Monet as the Veronica.
* BookDumb: Jubilee isn't dumb ''per se'', but her dyscalculia did her no favors academically.
* BoyishShortHair: Ever since her debut she has had very short hair along with a punkish tomboy attitude especially back in the 90s. Though she does [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak have a girly side]]. After using her powers at their max level in ComicBook/XTerminators2022, she's now bald.
%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Comes with the Vampire thing.
* BrattyHalfPint: She was the epitome of this trope in the '92 animated series, being the LittleMissSnarker KidAppealCharacter.
* BreakTheCutie: She goes through a bit of this after being vampirized, as shown by the quote above.
* CaptainEthnic: Jubilee, the young X-Man of Chinese descent whose mutant power was to... shoot fireworks. On the other hand, she was BookDumb and especially bad at math, so she definitely wasn't a stereotypical Asian-American.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: After losing her powers after the events of M-Day, she began to use a high-tech outfit gave her super strength.
* ComicBookTime: Jubilee was about fifteen when she was introduced in 1989 and then spent the thirty years of real time that followed struggling to reach her late teens. By the time of the "ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants" arc, she had only been allowed to officially age ''two years'' (making her 17) despite having lived through a decent amount of MU history as a veteran member of the Claremont-era X-Men, and despite being a peer of the aforementioned Kitty, who can't be more then five years older then her and yet was a young adult at same time that Jubilee became a vampire in said arc without even leaving college age. The vampirism could've given her an out via no longer aging, but she was subsequently cured a few years later and now it's not really clear ''what'' age she's supposed to be. She seems to have been allowed to age up to adulthood, as she is now written pretty firmly as if she is in her early twenties, older then most of the 2000s era X-Men but slightly younger then people like Kitty or Spider-Man. How this works with her being a vampire for a couple years is anyone's guess.
* CommonKnowledge: People who aren't familiar with Cypher usually cite Jubilee as the most useless X-Man, on the grounds that her powers are just sparkly lights and therefore useless. In fact, Jubilee's powers are devastatingly powerful -- she's just [[WillfullyWeak extremely reluctant to use them to harm people]]. On the rare occasions where she's pushed to cut loose, large buildings tend to cease to exist. And then she stops to give first aid to her enemies. It's also been noted by Wolverine that she could easily set off a small explosion ''inside a person's skull''; thus far she's only done this once, to a Prime Sentinel, but there are very few characters who could shrug off having their brain explode.
* CoolBigSis: To X-23, although canonically she wasn't much older than Laura before she was turned into a vampire, she's nonetheless an experienced X-Man, and much like Gambit offers Laura support and help, particularly by trying to break her out of her shell and teaching her to enjoy life.
** Many of the new mutants look up to her. Except for [[{{Jerkass}} Surge]]. The relationship becomes ironic when many of them begin to catch up to her age — if not ''pass'' her as X-23[[note]]and by extension the rest of the Academy X generation with whom she is peers[[/note]] did — because during her time as a vampire, her vampirism froze her at 17 years old.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: On the surface, she's a somewhat ditzy, ''very'' [[TheNineties 90s]] [[TotallyRadical mallrat]], and ''especially'' for those who only know her from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' her ''pafs'' [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway come across as a joke]]. And it certainly helps that Jubilee never really learned to develop her powers to their full potential. But then you read ''why'' she didn't: Jubilee is capable of manipulating and ''detonating'' matter at the ''sub-atomic'' level, and once ''leveled The Mandarin's castle'' when she cut loose because she thought ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} had been hurt. And that ''still'' wasn't the full extent of her powers. ComicBook/EmmaFrost more or less likened her to ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction a walking fusion bomb]]''. Keep in mind she manipulates plasma. As in ''the'' most pervasive state of matter ''in the universe''. The sun is a ''big ball of plasma''. It's what ''outer space'' is made of. And Jubilee can potentially control ''any of it''.
** In ComicBook/XTerminators2022 she ''finally'' cuts loose by [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/e/ec/Jubilation_Lee_%28Earth-616%29_from_X-Terminators_Vol_2_5_001.jpg turning herself into an atomic bomb]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext to get revenge on the Collector]].
* CursedWithAwesome:
** For 13 years she didn't have any mutant powers, but was instead a vampire which includes the typical powers of super strength, super speed, {{healing factor}}, the ability to turn into vapor, and being eternally 17. Of course she also had a thirst for human blood and could potentially have lost control one day and killed everyone around her. Plus all those silly vampire weaknesses.
** Even her original powers, which she largely used just to create fireworks effects, would actually rank her as one of the most powerful mutants alive: she detonates matter on a subatomic level, and the resulting annihilation creates flashes of light as a side-effect. She's basically a walking Matter-To-{{Antimatter}} converter, and when she cut loose has destroyed [[spoiler:a spaceship the size of a city]]. With enough focus, she could have destroyed large tracts of land, continents, planets... even star systems to upwards of galaxies, theoretically. Emma Frost even said Jubilee had the potential to be one of the single-most powerful mutants she'd ever encountered, and given that she's met Xavier, Magneto, Apocalypse, and Phoenix, that's saying something.
* CuteLittleFangs: Gets them after being turned into a vampire, which is often revealed when she smiles. This turns her into a CuteMonsterGirl, ''especially'' when Sana Takeda draws her.
* CuteMonsterGirl: After being turned into a vampire. Her appearances in X-23's solo title under artist Sana Takeda placed extra emphasis on the "cute".
* DaddysGirl: Played with, as she is the most disrespectful towards Xavier and considered him "bald headed geek", Jubilee generally acts more like a Daddy's Girl with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} whom she adores. Though Jubilee does warm up to the "Prof" and is delighted when he gives her rollerblades as a present.
* DarkActionGirl: Not by choice. Though still bubbly, her vampirism has given her a darker edge, and she's just as capable a killer as Laura. It's her own efforts to control these darker impulses that grant her such a close perspective on Laura's own troubles.
* DarkIsNotEvil: As noted above, She's ''supposed'' to be a violent and blood-thirsty killer due to her vampire affliction and has certainly evolved into a formidable killer who could sometimes be downright scary, but Jubilee is still the bubbly and adorable mall rat.
* DeadpanSnarker: While most of her abilities have been subject to many changes, one power she has always maintained is near-superhuman levels of sass. Whether it's mocking Wolverine's macho posturing, puncturing Xavier's pompousness, laughing in the face of frickin' Dracula himself, or engaging in an epic takedown of Emma Frost's attempts at moralising, you can always expect her to have a comeback.
* DemotedToExtra: Jubilee. Like many characters born in the '90s, from time to time since the early-2000s. Occasionally the character gets a sudden boon, especially after she became a vampire and adopted a kid, but otherwise isn't nearly as prominent as she once was. Averted in ''ComicBook/Excalibur2019'' where Jubilee is a central character, although she and her baby Shogo still get less focus than Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, the Braddocks, and Apocalypse.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Jubilee is ''usually'' depicted as short, petite, and flat-chested. [[MostCommonSuperpower Under]] [[AuthorAppeal Paco]] [[http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/extrememakeover/jubilee-newwarriors4-2.jpg Medina]], however...
* DiscardAndDraw: Jubilee was one of the numerous Mutants who lost their power after M-Day. While serving with the New Warriors, she took on the name "Wondra" and used advanced technology that granted her super strength. She was turned into a vampire during the ''Curse of the Mutants'' storyline, granting her superhuman strength, speed, healing and the ability to turn into vapor. She has since cured of her vampirism, regaining her original powers in the process, when Quinton Quire used his Phoenix Shard to save Jubilee when M-Plate tried to kill her by tearing away a special medallion that protected her from the sun and tried to fry her.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: She once thought it was a good idea to taunt a pack of hungry dinosaurs from the safety of the far side of a forcefield wall. Then the flying dinosaur riders turned up...
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: She broke off her escape from "Operation: Zero Tolerance" to [[SaveTheVillain give first aid to a villain]] she had [[PowerIncontinence accidentally injured]]. This led directly to her being recaptured for another round of torture.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Jubilee had an entirely different design in debut wearing [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/roTzpeWfR7ThSvwTVoWVaGTSXxO0Md72NX9PJuX4ouN-KcUtPjC4m131SjLvBGWV550UYKyeXTuq=s1600?rhlupa=MjAwMTo4MDAzOjE2NDA6ZTEwMDpiODMxOjg5ZmQ6YzQwYjoxY2Mx&rnvuka=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKGlQaG9uZTsgQ1BVIGlQaG9uZSBPUyAxNl80XzEgbGlrZSBNYWMgT1MgWCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNjA1LjEuMTUgKEtIVE1MLCBsaWtlIEdlY2tvKSBWZXJzaW9uLzE2LjQgTW9iaWxlLzE1RTE0OCBTYWZhcmkvNjA0LjE= a blue jacket, black shirt and blue skirt]]. It wasn’t until until issue #257 that she got her yellow trench coat that’s stuck with her decades as well as her shades, though the blue shorts and gloves wouldn’t come until later on when she joined the X-Men proper as [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/6CT7WtmxMFBomIe3dlbOk15BoHxXtF5dBdfCPPxdUWb7xV9UkWvoe4GtzTRBOn3kF2bveqCmAMEl=s1600?rhlupa=MTIwLjE1OC4zMC4xOTY=&rnvuka=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKGlQaG9uZTsgQ1BVIGlQaG9uZSBPUyAxNl80XzEgbGlrZSBNYWMgT1MgWCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNjA1LjEuMTUgKEtIVE1MLCBsaWtlIEdlY2tvKSBWZXJzaW9uLzE2LjQgTW9iaWxlLzE1RTE0OCBTYWZhcmkvNjA0LjE= they were green]] making her similar looking to ComicBook/{{Robin}}.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: She prefers to be called Jubilee.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer:
** Creator/BrianWood's run has a subplot where Bling!, one of the female students at the Jean Grey School, once [[TeacherStudentRomance tried to put the moves on Jubilee]].
** When [[ComicBook/{{Hellcat}} Patsy Walker]]'s magic sneezes put her in a Grandpa Munster costume, ComicBook/AmericaChavez immediately started checking her out.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Justified -- turns out she has dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia.
* FanNickname: Boobilie[=/=]Boobilee, Wondra Bra. The Decimation event making her lose her superpowers seemingly granted her the MostCommonSuperpower in exchange by the time she appeared in the latest ''New Warriors'' revamp as "Wondra", hence the name.
** Vampilee--Vampire Jubilee, her post-Wondra status quo.
* FashionDissonance: She is easily one of the most unmistakably 90s characters of the team with her pink armour/yellow trench coat wardrobe being considered gloriously tacky nowadays. Thanks to her inclusion in the immensely popular ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' (despite only being a relatively new member in the comics at the time) she gained enough of fanbase to survive past the decade, although modern comics generally give her less garish outfits.
* FemmeFatalons: As a vampire, she has claws.
* FireForgedFriends: Gambit introduced Jubilee to X-23 thinking she could help Laura overcome her issues. Laura immediately attacked Jubilee thinking she was an enemy and was jealous of how Wolverine treated her. However, they eventually bonded over their shared issues with controlling their bloodlust.
* FirstNameUltimatum: Other characters tend to do this to her when they are getting frustrated with her behavior.
-->'''Jubilee''': Why does everyone say my name like it means "shut up"?
* {{Flight}}: She was able to fly when she was a vampire.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: As a vampire she suffered from bloodlust but has learned to cope with it.
* GeniusDitz: A lazy academic underachiever who serves as the team [[TheStrategist strategist]].
** "They probably know we're coming, right? So we gotta do what they think we ''won't'' do. They know we know where they are. We know they know we know that. So since they know we know what they probably know, we know what to do."
** This is sometimes justified by saying she has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia dyscalculia]], which would naturally make it difficult to succeed academically.
* GenkiGirl: Although she ''can'' be serious when the situation calls for it, Jubilee's bubbly and carefree demeanor stands in stark contrast to Laura's stoicism.
* GirlsNightOutEpisode:
** In a 1989 ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' comic, the female X-Men, namely ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} (whose body is taken over by ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]]' personality) all teleport for a day of shopping to a Los Angeles mall. Unbeknownst to them, a young mutant runaway named Jubilee follows them back through the portal to their hideout in Australia.
** ComicBook/{{X 23}} and Jubilee have one in the former's self-titled series by Marjorie Liu. Jubilee takes Laura out clubbing after her breakup with Hellion, and the night ends with Laura on a bloody rampage tearing apart a sex trafficking ring operated by members of her [[ComicBook/{{NYX}} ex-pimp's former gang]].
* GloryDays: Did you know she was an X-Man? She never let her Generation X teammates forget it.
* GoodParents: Jubilee, despite her enduring 90s punk attitude, is a loving adoptive mother to her human infant son Shogo and fiercely coddles him and fiercely kicks the ass of anyone who threatens him.
* HandBlast: Jubilee can shoot pyrotechnic energy plasmoids, or "fireworks" as she calls them, from her hands.
* HavingABlast: Jubilee has the potential to detonate matter at a subatomic level, which in theory is the equivalent of a nuclear fusion bomb. The reason she doesn't use this power often because of her refusal to kill.
* HealingFactor: Before Wolverine lost his healing factor, Jubilee received a regular supply of Wolverine's blood to ingest which granted her certain immunities including Regenerative Healing Factor.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: What Jubilee's power set ''really'' is, on the very rare occasions when she cuts loose and used them to their full potential. See PersonOfMassDestruction below.
* HiddenDepths: She actually turns out, surprisingly, to be a very good mother to Shogo.
* HonorBeforeReason: She takes the superheroic [[ThouShaltNotKill code against killing]] to a foolish extreme in one story. While escaping from Operation: Zero Tolerance (who had been torturing her for days), she seriously injured one of the guards -- and broke off her escape to perform CPR on him.
-->'''Jubilee:''' You wanna go around killing people? That's your choice. But don't think for a fraction of a second you're gonna make a murderer outta me.
** Jubilee may have justification for her stance. In an earlier issue of ''Wolverine'', Logan talked her out of killing the thugs who murdered her parents, asking her if she'd like to sit up at night with him talking to all the people he'd killed himself. She took it to heart, and would view killing someone as a betrayal of Logan.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Jubilee would likely show nothing but hate for Xarus if he ever showed up again, seeing as he only converted her to use her as bait for ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. (Currently, Xarus is presumed dead, but honestly, that's rarely anything but [[DeathIsCheap a minor inconvenience]] for the X-Men or their enemies.)
* IconicOutfit: Her bright yellow trench coat and pink sunglasses.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Played straight in one issue of Wolverine's self-titled comic, when confronting Reno and Molokai, hitmen who had murdered Jubilee's parents. Jubilee settles for a GroinAttack on both of them.
---> '''Wolverine''': Heck, they killed your parents. It's a good killin', ain't it? Ain't it?\\
'''Jubilee''': You kill people! You've killed so many, and...\\
'''Wolverine''': Yeah. You wanna sit up some night with me and talk to all of 'em?
** Wolverine inverted the usual technique once when he defeated his old teacher, the {{ninja}} Ogun, held him helpless, and called on ComicBook/KittyPryde to avenge herself on the man who kidnapped her, brainwashed her into nearly killing Wolverine, and tried to over-write her mind with a duplicate of his own. She grabbed a sword, charged, but in the end could not go through with what boiled down to outright murder... proving to all present that her soul remained her own.
--->'''Kitty''': It was very close. I wanted to so much -- Logan, what if I had...?!\\
'''Wolverine''': *wordlessly [[ShootTheDog retracts his claws]]*
** In a later issue of ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', Jubilee learns that the grandfather of one of her classmates ordered the killing of her parents, and goes after him. The rest of the team go after her, prepared to cite this trope at her, when they discover that she never intended to kill the guy.
--> '''Synch''': We were afraid that, hanging with Wolverine, you would have wanted to...\\
'''Jubilee''': You guys don't get it, do you? It's '''because''' of Wolverine that I won't kill.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Wolverine, being one of his many foster daughters.
* KidAppealCharacter: Particularly in the 90s: young, fun-loving, sarcastic, one of Wolverine's many sidekicks, and (appropriately) known for wearing a ''lot'' of yellow.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: When ComicBook/KittyPryde grew up and became too old to tag along with Wolvie, Jubilee became his new sidekick. She eventually grew up and was replaced by either Armor or ComicBook/{{X 23}}, depending on the series.
* KidSidekick: She started out as a sidekick of Wolverine, before joining ComicBook/GenerationX.
* KryptoniteProofSuit: When she became a vampire, she used a special medallion to protect her from the sun.
* LIsForDyslexia: She has dyscalculia.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: She has been hit with this a few times over the years, much to her chagrin. Notable incidents include when she had to go undercover at a boat party with [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]] and the ComicBook/BlackWidow. They went as partygoers in slinky dresses; Jubilee was disguised as a delivery boy. A little while later, on a visit to the Savage Land, she encountered a local tribe of dinosaur riders; after she defeated one of them in combat, they welcomed her as a male warrior and attempted to marry her to one of their young women.
* TheLancer: To Night Thrasher, after she joined the ComicBook/NewWarriors.
* LegacyCharacter: She is technically the second to have the name and the power set. She seems to be a "we wish we could use that character but can't, so let's make a new one" case: the first Jubilee was part of the Bratpack, a group of kids brainwashed, empowered, and turned into adults by Mojo. They haven't been seen since pulling the plug on the plan reverted them to normal kids and the de-aged ComicBook/CaptainBritain (and some others) to his true adult self. Some time later, the X-Men encounter an unrelated girl in a mall with the same powers and code name, and she even introduces herself similarly. The original one, while using her 'fireworks' to attack, said her name was Jubilee, whose every move is a celebration. The more familiar one, while using her 'fireworks' to show off, said her name was Jubilee because with her, every day is a celebration.
** The code name for the more familiar one is also justified in that her full name is Jubilation Lee, and Jubilee happens to be her nickname.
* LessEmbarrassingTerm: ComicBook/JeanGrey once asked ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} if she still has nightmares. Jubilee responds that nightmares are for babies; she has "traumatic evening episodes".
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She could do so much more with her power, but she's afraid of killing someone.
** The first time she did cut loose with her powers (because she thought Wolverine was dead) she blew up half of The Mandarin's castle!
--->"Did I just do that? And, like, do I want to do it again?"
** She blows up Proudstar Hall in order to defeat Emplate.
** Her powers tend to be more destructive when she's emotional and unable to focus and control her abilities as well as usual. She's used this to her advantage before. In Generation X, Emma Frost states that Jubes has the potential to detonate matter at a sub-atomic level, which she actually does in ComicBook/XTerminators2022, after being excited at finally having a big enough space to do it in.
* LittleMissSnarker: Anyone who can sass Emma Frost definitely qualifies as this.
* LookBehindYou: She uses this trick to sire ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} in the ComicBook/XMen story arc ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants''.
* MamaBear: When her adoptive son Shogo is threatened; while she can control her vampiric bloodlust most of the time, this proves nearly an exception, and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, of all people, has to reason with her. Do '''not''' take her [[https://i.imgur.com/Z6MOCT5.jpg son Shogo!]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Jubilee's foremost concern during Laura's solo series is getting her to lighten up and actually ''enjoy'' life. Whether that means dragging her out shopping at an expensive Paris boutique, hitting up the nightclubs in New York City, or base jumping sans-parachute off the Eifle Tower.
* MeltingPotNomenclature: Jubilation Lee (second-generation Chinese-American): English given name, Chinese family name.
* MostCommonSuperpower: A "superpower" that [[http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/extrememakeover/jubilee-newwarriors4-2.jpg appeared]] when she was drawn by Paco Medina in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors''. She was flat chested before. Given that averagely-endowed ComicBook/{{X 23}} received a similar makeover from Medina in ''ComicBook/{{New XMen|AcademyX}}'', it verges on outright AuthorAppeal.
* TheMunchausen: She expected her experience to give her more clout when she was transferred to Generation X. It didn't take long for her new companions to grow tired of it and refuse to hear anything starting with the words "When I was with the X-Men..."
* MurderByMistake: Her parents were mistakenly killed by hitmen who had actually been sent after their neighbors, who were also named Lee. This was later retconned as merely being Jubilee's inference in an issue of Wolverine. A later issue of Generation X reveals that the murder of her parents was quite deliberate, with the grandfather of one of Jubilee's current classmates being responsible.
* MustMakeHerLaugh: A gender-flipped version. She made it her mission to get Bishop to lighten up. Played straighter with X-23, with Jubilee out to [[ManicPixieDreamGirl get Laura to lighten up and start enjoying her life]].
* NaiveNewcomer: She started as one.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: One ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' comic involves Jubilee going back in time. Her past self temporarily disappears.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: She has the dubious honor of reaching adulthood three times. When introduced she was fifteen-year-old in 1989, but aged down to ''thirteen'' when she was added to the cast of the ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' title. When Generation X ended she reached adulthood, the first time, and moved out to Los Angeles to start a film career. She later joined X-Corps and The X-Men along with her former teammate, and best friend, Husk. Husk at the time was in a relationship with Angel with was a source of Squick for readers. Marvel tried to placate fans by stating that Husk was 18. However, as Husk was canonically two years older than Jubes, this knocked her down to sixteen. This was confirmed in her short-lived self-titled series in 2004. After M-Day she became an adult again as well as a political activist [[note]] This wasn't outright stated, but heavily implied as minors can't rent an apartment, obtain a business license or operate a halfway house without being emancipated or parental consent. Part of the reason why she goes to live with her "aunt" in the 2004 series is she can't legally live on her own. [[/note]] However, this turn was widely hated and ignored by later writers. However, everything was ignored and in her 2011 miniseries was said to be seventeen. Making her a minor again...Sharp-eyed readers have observed that this means that, due to other screwing around with the continuity of the X-Men comics, Jubilee is now younger than ''Pixie'', who was the youngest of the New X-Men when introduced in ''2004''. Furthermore, the subject of the 2011 miniseries was Jubilee having come to terms with her new vampirism and thus never aging again, even though under Marvel's officially-stated time system says she should have been 22.[[note]]Marvel officially says that 3 years real time is 1 year in the Marvel Universe. In practice, this example is more of a rule than an exception.[[/note]] Despite her vampirism, the character did turn 18, but due to said vampirism, she continued to functionally still be a minor. However, her vampirism was eventually cured and she was allowed to age again, mostly so she could legally adopt Shogo. [[note]] minors can't legally adopt in the United States. [[/note]] That said VagueAge is enforced as she should be in her mid-twenties, but as a result of being a vampire for a decade looks 18-19.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Jubilee and Laura realize they have much in common, with X-23 having to struggle with finding herself and the trigger scent and Jubilee struggling to control her newfound bloodlust. They get along [[HeterosexualLifePartners really well though]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She is pretty much always known by her nickname. Wolverine, who is a kind of father figure to her, is the only one who’s called her by real name Jubilation and gotten away with it.
* OneSuperOnePowerset: She was one of the many mutants {{depowered}} by the ''Decimation'' event in 2006, and lost her original power set of pyrotechnic energy blasts. She returned as a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman tech-based hero]] named Wondra who worked with the ComicBook/NewWarriors, and then in 2010 she became (of all things) a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire]] in the ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants'' storyline that lasted a good eight years. Then, at the beginning of 2018, her original power set and mutant status were restored. Many here were happy with it, mainly because turning her into a vampire was mostly done to cash in on the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fad more than anything else and it made little sense to keep her the same after said series faded from public consciousness.
* OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow: This happened to Jubilee in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}''. In her youth, there was an incident where she was in a car with her friends, who suddenly asked her why she momentarily disappeared into thin air. Not remembering doing so, she dismisses it as her friends acting crazy. Years later, she briefly falls into the time portal belonging to Gateway, appearing in her parents' house, at the exact same time she "disappeared" in her friends' car. It is explained that two of her couldn't exist at the same point in time, so her younger self simply vanished until the older version returned to the present.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Prior to getting her powers back Jubilee had the standard vampire package of fangs, nigh-uncontrollable bloodlust, eternal youth, superhuman strength, durability, and agility, the ability to transform into mist, and a strong aversion to sunlight.
* OutdatedOutfit: Jubilee is the most extreme example of this that comes to mind. Although semi-possible as an outfit that a young girl would think is "cool" in the 1980s, the bright yellow trench coat and wrap-around sunglasses became just plain painful as the '90s continued. She did have a more modern costume during her time with the ComicBook/NewWarriors.
* OutOfFocus: Like many characters born in the '90s, from time to time since the early-2000s.
** In the movies, it's the thing she's most known for, because every film, her fans get excited that she's actually going to do something (especially when she gets recast)... and it always always always turns out that that one shot from the trailer that made her ''look'' important is her only scene, as an extra who doesn't say or do anything. And then it turns out she ''was'' intended to do more but her scenes were deleted. (However, the scenes were just her getting to say a few lines to the leads, nothing that would involve her in the plot -- expendable enough to be the first thing to hit the cutting room floor to bring down the runtime.)
** She was a member of Excalibur for a while but her characterization seemed to mostly be her worrying over Shogo, and she's shown to be leaving the team the first chance she gets in the ''Knights of X'' storyline (and meanwhile Shogo gets a big chunk of the limelight).
* PersonalityPowers: A cute, bubbly party girl with the ability to shoot fireworks (when she still had that power).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: On the surface, her fireworks seem [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway kind of useless]], but then you remember she's generating ''plasma''. Emma Frost once stated that should Jubilee exercise her powers to their fullest potential, she could detonate matter at the ''sub-atomic'' level, making Jubilee a ''walking fusion bomb''. It was only Jubilee's own fear of hurting someone that led her to hold back and not utilize them to their full extent -- and when she eventually found herself in a situation where collateral damage wasn't a concern, she was able to completely destroy [[spoiler:the Collector's city-sized spaceship]] in a single nuclear-sized explosion.
* PluckyGirl: Life hasn't been kind to poor Jubilee yet she's arguably one of the most upbeat and optimistic X-Men in spite of it.
* PoweredArmor: She started wearing powered armor to [[RePower compensate]] for her [[BroughtDownToNormal lost abilities]] in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors''.
* PowerIncontinence: She can lose control of her powers if she's angry. (In fact, she once [[BatmanGambit used this to her advantage]] when she and the rest of ComicBook/GenerationX were being held hostage by the mutant criminal Emplate. She insulted him to the point that he was so angry, he used his powers to drain a large portion of her life energy, gaining her powers in the process... which he could not control, because he was so angry. Suffice to say it turned the situation around.)
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: ComicBook/{{Sabretooth|MarvelComics}} once had Jubilee pinned and asked if she had any last words. Her response was too tiny to read, even with a magnifying glass...
-->'''Sabretooth''': Wussat? Ya gotta beg louder!\\
'''Jubilee''': Yu-yeah sure... I s-said... "EAT HOT PLASMA BURSTS"!
* PromotionToParent: By virtue of finding an orphaned infant in Europe that she's now taking care of and names Shogo. She didn't even object to Sublime calling him her son and further issues show that she considers herself to be his mother.
* RaceLift: Infamously done in the 1996 Generation X film. Since neither the director nor the writer read the comics, they weren't aware Jubilee was Asian. As a result, they assumed she was white and cast a Caucasian actor for the role. Fans were not pleased.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: If she loses control of her bloodlust her eyes glow red.
* RePower: Jubilee, who originally had the power to produce explosive balls of light, gained super strength through advanced technology. After her stint as a New Warrior, Jubilee became a vampire and has now gained superstrength and other vampire powers.
* RollerbladeGood: In her early appearances, she was a mall rat who got around on rollerblades.
* RummageSaleReject: Jubilee's costumes, before she got depowered, were probably inspired by the anime look, but she's the comic-book example that jumps out as having WAY too many accessories. Her most infamous attire is a bright yellow trench coat, huge ''hot pink'' wrap-around glasses, large, round earrings with her name on them, and what looks like giant dishwashing gloves, and this was worn over shorts and a red shirt. Given that she debuted in TheEighties... WordOfGod is that the outfit was deliberately designed to look like a ComicBook/{{Robin}} costume made out of actual clothing. Wonderfully {{Lampshaded}} in the Marvel vs DC {{Crossover}}: ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} appears out of nowhere in front of Jubilee and she just replies (paraphrasing) "Nice outfit." They end up as potential love interests [[spoiler:before battling.]]
* SarcasticDevotee: Towards Wolverine, for a while in the '90s.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: The usual sound effect for [[Characters/XMen90sMembers Jubilee]]'s fireworks was "Paf." There was one occasion when she cast some of them to provide light in a dark area, saying, "Let me 'Paf' some light on the subject!"
* ShipTease: She's had this with Chamber for a while, and the two became a couple in ComicBook/GenerationX.
* ShoutOut: She originally wore the yellow trenchcoat with a red shirt and green shorts. Anyone who didn't think "ComicBook/{{Robin}}" never read classic ComicBook/{{Batman}}.
** This was taken to the logical conclusion in the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse: she becomes Sparrow, sidekick to Dark Claw (Batman and Wolverine merged).
* SpecialPersonNormalName: Jubilee's "codename" is actually just her childhood nickname. But then, when your parents named you "Jubilation", what can you do?
* StakingTheLovedOne: Defied in ''ComicBook/XMen'', where the team flat out rejected this as an option after Jubilee was turned, although Blade tried to convince them there wasn't any other. She handled herself okay until she was eventually cured.
* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler:It took thirteen years, but she ''finally'' got her original powers back and was cured of her vampirism by Quentin Quire in ''Generation X'' #86]].
* StoryBreakerPower: Having long been theorized by Emma to be able to detonate matter at a subatomic level, Jubilee had always had the ability to effectively become a nuclear bomb but never used it due to the overwhelming damage it would cause to the surrounding area. She was finally able to use it in ''X-Terminators'' #5 when aboard a ship in isolated space with the only other occupant being The Collector, and Magik able to safely bring her back to Earth. The only damage it did to herself was burning off her clothes and hair.
* StreetUrchin: After the murder of her parents. She spent a few years living on the streets of L.A., doing fireworks shows with her abilities, before being picked up by the X-Men when the X-women at the time (Dazzler, Rogue, Storm and Psylocke) went for a shopping spree in a L.A. mall.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Her powers have been described as "sparkles" or "fireworks". When she gets good and pissed they can make explosions, making her an energy-blaster to rival Cyclops. They ''still'' look like cute fireworks.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Finds and adopts a baby in Europe despite (permanently, due to being a vampire at the time) being 17.
* SwordOverHead: Jubilee faced this choice after she hunted down the men who killed her parents. In a slight variation, Wolverine -- the only witness -- told her exactly how she could use her powers to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident make the deaths look like natural causes]]. She let them live, of course.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Jubilee is even more tomboyish than Rogue but she's more girly than she lets on, having some ACupAngst, and is pretty fashion conscious. ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} notes amused that despite her being bored at the wedding Jubilee was still ''suspiciously'' quick to line up for the aforementioned bouquet throwing and was very ticked off when Rogue "cheated".
* TotallyRadical: In the 1980's and 1990's, She was guilty of this just about anytime she spoke. She even says "totally like radical" in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #247. It's so much worse in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', where pretty much all the teens on the team were guilty of speaking this way.
* VagueAge: Jubilee's age has frankly been a roller-coaster due to her being a ReplacementGoldfish for Kitty Pryde as Wolverine's KidSidekick. As a result, she inherited the editorial staff's unwillingness to age her and move her on from that role. When she was introduced she was 13 and seemed to bob between 13-15 depending on the artist. However, when she was placed in Generation X, she went OutOfFocus and was separated from her role as a Wolverine's sidekick. This had the effect of freeing her from the editorial time vortex and she aged with the rest of the group. When the series ended her age varied depending on the book she was in. In back-up stories and in non Uncanny X-men books she was written as an adult. However, during Chuck Austin's run in the early to mid 2000 she was 17-19. Jubilee was written to be twoish years younger than Husk, who was 19 during Austen's run but 13-15 during Generation X. However, in her 2005 solo series she was back down to 15. She seemed to hit mid-twenties right around when the editorial staff decided to mix vampires in with X-Men to capitalize on the popularity of Twilight. However, the editorial staff didn't know her age and decided for the 2010-2013 series that she was 17. As a result, she was either de-aged or aged up to seventeen, and stuck there until recently. Partly justified because she got turned into a vampire at age 17, and spent several years at that age; long enough for even the Academy X generation to pass her![[note]]All are roughly the same age as X-23, who is described as 20 years old as of 2018.[[/note]]
** Finally, even other writers seemed to forget Vampires can't age, and as such so she seemed to age into adulthood again over the course of the 2010's. Only for later writers to drop her back down to 17, and subsequent writers treating her as an adult.
** Current writers seemed to have recognized this error but can't seem to decide her age and some ether go with mid twenties like the rest of Generation X or have her still as a teenager. She is effectively like the Power Pack kids (either they are all still kids or all teenagers/adults) depending on what comic they are featured in.
* WalkingTechbane: Happens in the '90s X-Men cartoon.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Downplayed. Thanks to the healing factor from Wolverine's blood she regularly ingests, Jubilee can withstand a small amount of sunlight every day. However, too much sunlight can be toxic to her much like other vampires.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway:
** A very long-standing criticism of Jubilee is how silly and pointless her "fireworks" appear to be on the surface, especially when there are other seemingly ''far'' more powerful mutants on the team. Her ability to shoot firework-like plasmoids from her hands rarely ever proved useful. Sure, they kinda burned like fireworks, but at the most they were only good as a signal flare or as a quick distraction. Also, since birth, her brain has always generated a natural psionic shield, which made her naturally invisible to telepaths unless they knew exactly what to look for when searching for her. She eventually lost her firework powers as a result of [[ComicBook/HouseOfM the M-Day]] and left the X-Men. As a member of the New Warriors, she used PoweredArmor to give her super strength. This made her rather useful and effective in combat, but she eventually gave that up just to move on with her life. She would later be infected by a virus that turned her into a vampire. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent This gave her all the strengths and weaknesses typical to vampires]]: Enhanced strength, agility, speed, stamina, reflexes, fangs and claws, and the ability to turn into mist. By regularly feeding off Wolverine's blood, she temporarily gained his healing factor and could withstand limited amounts of sunlight. Whether she can use her fireworks again, after the Scarlet Witch has been brought back from exile and started to rectify what she did, is yet to be seen, though.
*** Ironically enough, Jubilee's original powers were actually a ''subversion'': she limited herself to only using the fireworks because her full power was ''far'' more destructive, and she feared hurting someone with it. And it's a good thing, too, because if she ever ''truly'' cut loose [[PersonOfMassDestruction the results could be apocalyptic]]. ComicBook/EmmaFrost once stated that had she ever utilized them to their full potential, she could detonate matter at the ''sub atomic'' level. This made Jubilee a ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction walking fission bomb]]''.
* VampireRefugee: Jubilee is the most recent example of the Trope, although ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/EmmaFrost, and ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} have not given up on the possibility that she can be cured. She's been cured.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** She and Boom Boom did NOT get along when they had to work together in ComicBook/XTinctionAgenda, barely being able to put their animosity aside. This has mellowed considerably and with the two becoming this. They now hang out as friends but still mock each other even when they are out in danger and fighting vampires in [[ComicBook/XTerminators2022 X-Terminators.]]
** She and X-23 didn't get off on the right foot: when she first arrived in Paris, Laura actually almost took Jubilee's head off, reacting almost instinctively as if Jubilee was a threat, and was jealous of Logan's affectionate behaviour towards Jubilee in contrast to his standoffish attitude towards her. It took a little time for Laura to warm up to her.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Jubilee was a particularly extreme example. Normally she's so firmly opposed to killing that she once abandoned an escape attempt -- effectively giving herself up for another round of torture -- in order to perform CPR on a random mook she had injured. Then during Marvel's ComicBook/SecretInvasion crossover, she was killing Skrulls without even blinking.
** It was pointed out in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' that Jubilee's personality had radically shifted. Never got around to ''why'' before that one ended though.
* WillfullyWeak: She has the power to cause explosions. The main limitation on her powers is that she really doesn't want to harm anybody. Quite aside from her potential for mass destruction on a nuclear scale, it's been shown that, if she wanted to, she could set off a small explosion inside someone's skull; luckily, she really doesn't want to. However, she mostly uses her powers to create flash-bang effects. She's only ever done this to a Prime Sentinel, but it can be safely assumed that most humans would not survive it.
* YourMindMakesItReal: One issue of ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' had the old wives' tale quoted at the start before the team had a slasher movie marathon. The rest of the issue consists of Jubilee in a semi-lucid dream trying to wake up before combinations of movie killers and villains she'd faced in her adventures (ex. ComicBook/{{Sabretooth|MarvelComics}} with [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger's]] outfit) killed her teammates.
* YouFightLikeACow: Can give ''Spidey'' a run for his money. In one issue of Generation X, she actually defeats Emplate entirely by taunting him.

She worked as the personal assistant/shenanigan-enabler of the title character in ''Comicbook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'', but left the role to lead a team in ComicBook/GenerationX2017. At the end of that title, she was cured of her vampirism by a Phoenix Force-powered Quentin Quire and regained her original mutant power set.

** Wolverine inverted the usual technique once when he defeated his old teacher, the {{ninja}} Ogun, held him helpless, and called on Comicbook/KittyPryde to avenge herself on the man who kidnapped her, brainwashed her into nearly killing Wolverine, and tried to over-write her mind with a duplicate of his own. She grabbed a sword, charged, but in the end could not go through with what boiled down to outright murder... proving to all present that her soul remained her own.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: She has the dubious honor of reaching adulthood three times. When introduced she was fifteen-year-old in 1989, but aged down to ''thirteen'' when she was added to the cast of the ''Comicbook/GenerationX'' title. When Generation X ended she reached adulthood, the first time, and moved out to Los Angeles to start a film career. She later joined X-Corps and The X-Men along with her former teammate, and best friend, Husk. Husk at the time was in a relationship with Angel with was a source of Squick for readers. Marvel tried to placate fans by stating that Husk was 18. However, as Husk was canonically two years older than Jubes, this knocked her down to sixteen. This was confirmed in her short-lived self-titled series in 2004. After M-Day she became an adult again as well as a political activist [[note]] This wasn't outright stated, but heavily implied as minors can't rent an apartment, obtain a business license or operate a halfway house without being emancipated or parental consent. Part of the reason why she goes to live with her "aunt" in the 2004 series is she can't legally live on her own. [[/note]] However, this turn was widely hated and ignored by later writers. However, everything was ignored and in her 2011 miniseries was said to be seventeen. Making her a minor again...Sharp-eyed readers have observed that this means that, due to other screwing around with the continuity of the X-Men comics, Jubilee is now younger than ''Pixie'', who was the youngest of the New X-Men when introduced in ''2004''. Furthermore, the subject of the 2011 miniseries was Jubilee having come to terms with her new vampirism and thus never aging again, even though under Marvel's officially-stated time system says she should have been 22.[[note]]Marvel officially says that 3 years real time is 1 year in the Marvel Universe. In practice, this example is more of a rule than an exception.[[/note]] Despite her vampirism, the character did turn 18, but due to said vampirism, she continued to functionally still be a minor. However, her vampirism was eventually cured and she was allowed to age again, mostly so she could legally adopt Shogo. [[note]] minors can't legally adopt in the United States. [[/note]] That said VagueAge is enforced as she should be in her mid-twenties, but as a result of being a vampire for a decade looks 18-19.

* OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow: This happened to Jubilee in an issue of ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}''. In her youth, there was an incident where she was in a car with her friends, who suddenly asked her why she momentarily disappeared into thin air. Not remembering doing so, she dismisses it as her friends acting crazy. Years later, she briefly falls into the time portal belonging to Gateway, appearing in her parents' house, at the exact same time she "disappeared" in her friends' car. It is explained that two of her couldn't exist at the same point in time, so her younger self simply vanished until the older version returned to the present.

* OutdatedOutfit: Jubilee is the most extreme example of this that comes to mind. Although semi-possible as an outfit that a young girl would think is "cool" in the 1980s, the bright yellow trench coat and wrap-around sunglasses became just plain painful as the '90s continued. She did have a more modern costume during her time with the Comicbook/NewWarriors.

Post-''Decimation'' he underwent a rather drastic FaceHeelTurn and turned into an EvilCounterpart to Comicbook/{{Cable}}, losing an arm along the way to strengthen the resemblance, and dividing his time between time travel, scheming, and attempting to shoot Cable with very large guns. And a cheeky bit of global-scale genocide. After ''Avengers Vs. X-Men'', he returned to the modern day, where his true allegiances were hard to pin down for quite some time until the ''Krakoan Age'', where he solidified his status as a committed soldier for the mutant cause, serving as one of the island nation's Great Captains and later its Captain Commander.

He got four limited series including the self-titled ''Bishop'' series, where he tracked and fought Mountjoy; ''XSE'', which showcased his past (future); and its sequel — ''Bishop: Xavier's Security Enforcers''. He also teamed up with Comicbook/{{Gambit}} to oppose Stryfe in ''Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom'', where he ended up being possessed by a [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Phoenix]]-like cosmic entity named Bete Noir. He also starred in the series ''Bishop: The Last X-Man'' from 1999 to 2001, in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline. He appeared regularly in ''District X'' from 2004 to 2005, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City. Finally, He also starred in the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in, ''Mutopia''.

* AndShowItToYou: He kills the future version of Cannonball by ''ripping his heart out'' with his cyber-arm's tentacles.

* TheAce: Was this during his X.S.E (Xavier Security Enforcers — the mutant policing force created after the Summers’ Rebellion) days as he was the youngest cadet ever (until his sister Shard broke his record the following year) admitted on the force. He was also in charge of a three man unit that was considered the best on the force.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his timeline, Hope grew up to kill thousands of humans in seconds, which was what led to mutants being placed into concentration camps. He wanted to kill Hope to ensure history wouldn't repeat itself.

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* RummageSaleReject: Jubilee's costumes, before she got depowered, were probably inspired by the anime look, but she's the comic-book example that jumps out as having WAY too many accessories. Her most infamous attire is a bright yellow trench coat, huge ''hot pink'' wrap-around glasses, large, round earrings with her name on them, and what looks like giant dishwashing gloves, and this was worn over shorts and a red shirt. Given that she debuted in TheEighties... WordOfGod is that the outfit was deliberately designed to look like a ComicBook/{{Robin}} costume made out of actual clothing. Wonderfully {{Lampshaded}} in the Marvel vs DC {{Crossover}}: ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} appears out of nowhere in front of Jubilee and she just replies (paraphrasing) "Nice outfit." They end up as potential love interests [[spoiler:before battling.]]

* ActionMom: She has an adoptive son, Shogo.
* AdoptivePeerParent: This becomes a thing after she finds and adopts an abandoned baby she names Shogo. This despite only being 17, and thanks to being turned into a vampire she'll be the same age even as her kid grows up.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with X-23 has shades of this, especially thanks to scenes [[http://i.imgur.com/i1bgT.jpg like]] [[http://i.imgur.com/cppcV.jpg this]].
** She was also remarkably unoffended when Bling! (Roxanne Washington, who is a lesbian) made out with her.
** Reminiscing about her first meeting with the X-ladies, she said "they were total rock stars, and I wanted to have all their babies".

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: After losing her powers after the events of M-Day, she began to use a high-tech outfit gave her superstrength.
* CoolBigSis: To X-23, particularly. Although many of the new mutants look up to her. Except for [[{{Jerkass}} Surge]]. The relationship becomes ironic when many of them begin to catch up to her age — if not ''pass'' her as X-23[[note]]and by extension the rest of the Academy X generation with whom she is peers[[/note]] did — because her vampirism froze her at 17 years old.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: On the surface she's a somewhat ditzy, ''very'' [[TheNineties 90s]] [[TotallyRadical mallrat]], and ''especially'' for those who only know her from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' her ''pafs'' [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway come across as a joke]]. And it certainly helps that Jubilee never really learned to develop her powers to their full potential. But then you read ''why'' she didn't: Jubilee is capable of manipulating and ''detonating'' matter at the ''sub-atomic'' level, and once ''leveled The Mandarin's castle'' when she cut loose because she thought ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} had been hurt. And that ''still'' wasn't the full extent of her powers. ComicBook/EmmaFrost more or less likened her to ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction a walking fusion bomb]]''. Keep in mind she manipulates plasma. As in ''the'' most pervasive state of matter ''in the universe''. The sun is a ''big ball of plasma''. It's what ''outer space'' is made of. And Jubilee can potentially control ''any of it''.

* CuteLittleFangs: Gets them after being turned into a vampire. This turns her into a CuteMonsterGirl, especialy when Sana Takeda draws her.

* DarkIsNotEvil: As a vampire, she could sometimes be downright scary (such as her MamaBear moment below). But she's still a good girl.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Bling!, one of the female students at the Jean Grey School, once [[TeacherStudentRomance tried to put the moves on Jubilee]]. When Patsy Walker's magic sneezes put her in a Grandpa Munster costume, ComicBook/AmericaChavez immediately started checking her out.

* FireForgedFriends: Gambit introduced Jubilee to X-23 thinking she could help Laura overcome her issues. X-23 immediately attacked Jubilee thinking she was an enemy and was jealous of how Wolverine treated her, but they bonded over their shared issues with controlling their bloodlust.
* FirstNameUltimatum: Other characters tend to do this to her when they are getting frusterated with her behavior.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}}''': Why does everyone say my name like it means "shut up"?

* HandBlast: Her main form of offense is firing pyrotechnic energy plasmoids from her hands.

* KidAppealCharacter: In the '90s cartoon (and the '90s comics, for that matter), she was basically Wolverine's latest sidekick.

* MamaBear: Do '''not''' take her [[https://i.imgur.com/Z6MOCT5.jpg son Shogo!]]

* NotAllowedToGrowUp:
** Supplanted Kitty's role as the token teenaged member of the X-Men. She has since remained a teenager despite the fact that several other characters who were the same age as her have been aged up.
** Also an in-universe example, if there is such a thing -- her vampirism kept her permanently stuck at age seventeen.

* OutdatedOutfit: Jubilee is the most extreme example of this besides [[FadSuper Dazzler]]. Although it's semi-possible as an outfit that a young girl would think is "cool" in the 1980s, the bright yellow trench coat and wrap around sunglasses became just plain painful as the 90s continued. She's since ditched the shorts and T-shirt for a black leather catsuit. Particularly in the 90s cartoon series.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her mutant power set certainly seems rather lame on the surface (see WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway), but then you remember what her "pafs" are ''actually'' made of, and Emma Frost pointing out that should Jubilee exercise her power to its full potential she could detonate matter at the ''sub-atomic'' level. That's right, Jubilee's powers make her a ''walking fusion bomb''.

* PoweredArmor: She temporarily picked up a suit after losing her powers.

* ShoutOut: She originally wore the yellow trenchcoat with a red shirt and green shorts. Anyone who didn't think "Robin" never read classic Franchise/{{Batman}}.
** This was taken to the logical conclusion in the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse: she becomes Sparrow, side kick to Dark Claw (Batman and Wolverine merged).

* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Jubilee, whose powers have been described as "sparkles" or "fireworks."

* TotallyRadical: She even says "totally like radical" in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #247. It's so much worse in Generation X, where pretty much all the teens on the team were guilty of speaking this way.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: A very long-standing criticism of Jubilee is how silly and pointless her "fireworks" appear to be on the surface, especially when there are other seemingly ''far'' more powerful mutants on the team. However she actually subverts the trope, as Jubilee deliberately holds back and refuses to utilize her powers to their fullest potential. And it's a good thing, too, because if she ever ''truly'' cut loose [[PersonOfMassDestruction the results could be apocalyptic]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Boom Boom did NOT get along when they had to work together in ComicBook/XTinctionAgenda, barely being able to put their animosity aside. This has mellowed considerably and with the two becoming this. They now hang out as friends but still mock eachother even when they are out in danger and fighting vampires in [[ComicBook/XTerminators2022 X-Terminators.]]
* WillfullyWeak: As noted above, the main limitation on her powers is that she really doesn't want to harm anybody. Quite aside from her potential for mass destruction on a nuclear scale, it's also been noted in-universe that, if she wanted, she could set off a small explosion inside someone's skull. She's only ever done this to a Prime Sentinel, but it can be safely assumed that most humans would not survive it.

* TheApprentice: Was put under ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s tutelage. Although it was more of a formality, as Bishop was quite trained already, he appreciated it much.

* AngstWhatAngst: Discussed by Jubilee (a [[PluckyGirl sassy orphan]]) and [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Warren Worthington III]] (who's been tortured, mutilated, brainwashed, and had his fiancee murdered, and has since been playing TheStoic).
-->'''Jubilee:''' I'm just a kid -- if I want to pretend nothin' ever bothers me, that's my right as an immature brat. But you -- what's your excuse, [[WingedHumanoid Tweety]]?

A former mutant terrorist. Originally created by a writer with the intention to die in a one on one fight with Storm, it was after some executive meddling and other factors that she was revealed to be still alive. Later she was picked up again as one of three new and unusual recruits to join the X-Men after a crossover (the others were Cecilia Reyes and Maggot).

Afterwards she reappeared in a one-shot as SHIELD sleeper agent, was part of the ill-fated Weapon X series and finally got depowered on M-Day while keeping her mutated appearance. After a brief appearance as enemy in X-factor she was once again absent for several years. She has now returned in the 2014 ''X-Force'' series as a core cast member.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason she is still alive and why someone like her joined the X-Men in the first place.

Joseph was a younger clone of Magneto, created by Astra. He sacrificed himself to repair Earth's magnetosphere, which had been altered by Magneto. He has recently returned to cause trouble for the redemptive Magneto.

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* BettyAndVeronica: During that time when Joseph was introduced, there was a BettyAndVeronica love triangle with Rogue as the center figure, Joseph as the Betty, and Gambit as the Veronica.
* EvilTwin: Joseph was a much younger 'copy' of Magneto. Since at the time Magneto was villainous and Joseph was an X-Man, he counts as a Good Twin.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:Started off as a straight clone of Magneto. He lost his memory after getting hit on the head during a fight with the real deal, and became good. After his death, Astra restored him, and implanted a copy of Magneto's old memories into his mind, making him evil again]].

For most of her history, her body was well-known, but she was not. Revanche is the body that Betsy Braddock was transplanted into, and thus making her one of Marvel's most iconic femme fatales for a long time. Revanche, in the body of Betsy Braddock, was eventually killed at her request by her lover Matsu'o, as she did not want to die of the Legacy Virus. This ensured that Betsy [[LockedIntoStrangeness would remain in her body for many years]]. Kwannon got better, and eventually came back, and she and Betsy finally reverted bodies at long last during ''ComicBook/HuntForWolverine: Mystery in Madripoor''.

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* BareYourMidriff:
** Her default costume, which she often wears all the time.
** Her X-force uniform also keeps this trend.

** For 13 years she didn't have any mutant powers, but was instead a vampire which includes the typical powers of super strength, super speed, {{healing factor}}, the ability to turn into vapor, and is eternally 17. Of course she now has a thirst for human blood and may potentially lose control one day and kill everyone around her. Plus all those silly vampire weaknesses.

* DaddysGirl: Played with, as she is the most disrespectful towards Xavier and considered him "bald headed geek", Jubliee generally acts more like a Daddy's Girl with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} whom she adores. Though Jubilee does warm up to the "Prof" and is delighted when he gives her rollerblades as a present.

** The firsttime she did cut loose with her powers (because she thought Wolverine was dead) she blew up half of The Mandarin's castle!

* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Jubilee, whose powers have been described as "sparkles" or "fireworks" (when she still had the power).
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Finds and adopts a baby in Europe despite (permanently, due to being a vampire) being 17.

* BoyishShortHair: Ever since her debut she has had very short hair along with a punkish tomboy attitude especially back in the 90s. Though she does [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak have a girly side]].
** After using her powers at their max level in ComicBook/XTerminators2022, she's now sporting a BaldOfAwesome look.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Comes with the Vampire thing.