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Jubilee (Jubilation Lee) is a Fictional character, a Marvel Comics Mutant Superhero. Created by Chris Claremont, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #244, August, 1989.
Jubilee was sent to an orphanage, but she ran away and hid in a Hollywood shopping mall, stealing food to survive. When she discovered her mutant powers to create energy "fireworks," she realized she could earn money by using her powers to entertain customers in the mall.
Mutant hunters tried to capture her, but she was rescued by X-Men members Dazzler, Psylocke, Rogue, and Storm who happened to be shopping at the mall. Curious, she tracked them for a while and later followed them into a portal.
She found herself in the X-Men's temporary base deep in the Australian outback. She stayed in hiding until the X-Men had abandoned the base, and their enemies the Reavers had captured Wolverine. Afterward she teamed with Wolverine as they travelled the world and is often referred to as his unofficial sidekick.
She has been a member of the X-Men and Generation X.
A notable continuity error is that she was 15 when she first appeared and 13 and a half when she joined Generation X.
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In the recent House of M series, Jubilee is one of the mass numbers of mutants who have lost their powers due to the magics of the Scarlet Witch.
Jubilee once had the mutant power to generate bright bursts of energy from her fingertips. She refered to these globules as fireworks. The globules obeyed her mental control, travelling where she directed them, arranging themselves in balls, streamers, and other shapes, and exploding when she wished. The strength of the energy could range from a multitude of colorful sparkles capable of temporarily blinding a person to a powerful detonation capable of smashing objects and destroying property. Jubliee could absorb the fireworks back into her own body without harm.
In her early appearances Jubilee also displayed an apparent immunity to telepathy, but this was rapidly forgotten.
Jubilee is a talented gymnast, and while living rough she used her skills to evade capture while stealing to survive, first from the various shops in the mall and later in the X-Men's Australian base. She has also displayed above average hand-to-hand combat skills, sufficient to survive combat with the Hand.
The character made brief appearances in both films, though in X-Men she was portrayed by Katrina Floerece and in X2 she was played by Kea Wong (who is on the cast list for X3).
She was also a playable character in the video game X-Men Legends, and makes a cameo in Marvel vs Capcom as an assistant character (again voiced by Alyson Court.)