| “ | When I first came here, I ran away, just like you. The team had saved me from Sentinels at the mall. But this place, a place where I could be me, where a foster brat belonged, that was scarier than any killer robot. Sure, Cyclops still won't let me fly the jet, but this isn't some weird school. It's a family. | „ |
| ~ Jubilee to Sunspot |
Jubilation Lee, better known as Jubilee is one of the main protagonists of X-Men: The Animated Series and it's sequel series, X-Men '97, as well as a guest character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. She's the youngest member of the X-Men with the power to create pyrotechnic energy blasts from her hands.
She was voiced by Alyson Court in X-Men: The Animated Series, who also voiced Megan Clark from The Amazing Spies, and by Holly Chou in X-Men '97.
Appearance[]
Jubilee is a young teenage girl of Chinese-American descent with short black hair. Jubilee is usually seen wearing a pink sweater tucked into a pair of short jeans. She also wears a yellow trenchcoat on top of that along with a pair of yellow gloves and blue boots. She normally carries around a pink set of sunglasses on top of her head as well as a pair of earrings.
Personality[]
Like her comic counterpart, Jubilee is a spunky, upbeat, and cheerful person who has moments of being overconfident. When she first joined the X-Men, she was somewhat naive and too trusting, as shown when she unlocked Sabertooth's arm restraint after he promised her he wouldn't try to escape or hurt her if she did so. Despite her naiveness and occasional overconfident attitude, she's still a kind and well meaning person who's loyal to her friends and teammates and considers them her family, willing to do whatever is needed to help them out.
Biography[]
X-Men: The Animated Series[]
Jubilee grew up in an orphanage, where of the other girls taught her how to pick locks, until she was adopted by two loving foster parents. However, after living with them for a whole year, they all discovered Jubilee was a mutant when she accidentally destroyed the family VCR with her powers, this caused her foster father to register her with an organization called the Mutant Control Agency, believing it to be for her good and get her help, despite her foster mother's protests about it. As she overheard her foster parents talking about her one night, Jubilee expressed sadness about what she is going through, then sneaks out and went the mall to play in the arcade. However, her powers cause her to accidentally destroy the arcade game she was playing, the manager of the arcade begins to suspect she is mutant and Jubilee runs out the arcade, where she bumps into the X-Men members Rogue and Storm. However, she was then attacked by a giant mutant hunting robot called a Sentinel, that followed her from home. Storm, Rogue, and another of member of the X-Men, Gambit protect her from the Sentinel until it was destroyed by the field leader of X-Men, Cyclops. Later, Jubilee was brought to the X-Mansion, where she was formally introduced the X-Men and their leader, Professor Charles Xavier, and told their mission to fight for the rights equality for mutants. After Jubilee went home to make sure her foster parents were okay, but she was captured by two more Sentinels and a member of the Mutant Control Agency, Henry Peter Gyrich. She then woke up in the Mutant Control Agency headquarters in Detroit to be interrogated Gyrich about the X-Men. However, the X-Men managed to track down where she was being kept and rescue her. After this, Jubilee choose to join the X-Men and live at the mansion for help on controlling her powers, as she said goodbye to her foster parents Jubilee promised them she will still come visit them, whenever she can.
During the course of the first season, as Jubilee settles into her new home at the X-Mansion and Xavier's School for the Gifted, when word comes of the country of Genosha becoming mutant-friendly, Jubilee decides to check it out with Storm and Gambit, only to fall into a trap as the island was actually the new home of Master Mold, the Sentinel boss, and Jubilee and her fellow X-Men are among the various mutants forced into slave labor to built a hydroelectric dam to provide power to Master Mold. After Jubilee attempts a mutiny, but is double-crossed by Gambit, she's thrown into solitary confinement, joining Storm, who thanks to the small space, has nearly lost her sanity due to her claustrophobia. However, Gambit is freed by Cable, and together, they manage to free the other mutants, including Storm and Jubilee, and see to destroying the dam, flooding out Master Mold and the Sentinels. Later, Jubilee is part of the team as they head to rescue Senator Robert Kelly from Master Mold at his new hideout in an abandoned mine where Master Mold was powered by wind turbines. Though they rescue the senator, it is ultimately Professor X and Magneto who see to Master Mold's destruction by ramming a Blackbird loaded with explosives into him. Grateful for the rescue, Senator Kelly changes his election platform to try to support those mutants that wish to protect humanity, later earning him election as the new President of the United States.
In the second season, Jubilee now deals with the threat of the Friends of Humanity, alongside Mister Sinister and his Nasty Boys. During a visit to the mall to complain about her powers frying her CD player, Jubilee is framed by an undercover Friends of Humanity agent for infecting the store clerk with a virus of some sort. Storm rescues her from the angry mob the agent rallies against her, and later joined by a returning Bishop from 2055 AD, they attempt to investigate the Friends of Humanity, only to discover that the genocidal Apocalypse is behind the virus. When they destroy his lab, Apocalypse is so furious that he vaporizes the X-Men in retaliation. This is prevented when a time-traveling Cable from 3999 AD joins them and causes Wolverine to be infected with the virus, allowing his mutant powers to create antibodies to it, and preventing Apocalypse from retaliating with a forcefield, forcing the psychotic mutant to retreat in frustration.
Jubilee was captured by the Friends of Humanity at one point, but is rescued by Wolverine, and they destroy any threat the Friends of Humanity pose to them by revealing that their leader, Graydon Creed, is actually the human son of Sabertooth, destroying his reputation and support from his own organization.
Come the third season, Jubilee has to remain behind with the Professor and Storm as the other X-Men go into space to prevent a threat from the space station in orbit. This leads to Jean becoming the Phoenix after bonding with the Phoenix Force and saving the Milky Way from certain destruction. Later, when Jean and the Phoenix Force become corrupted and become the Dark Phoenix, Jubilee is among the X-Men who face the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard in an ancient Shi'Ar trial of combat to decide Jean's fate. In the end, Jean sacrifices herself to destroy the Dark Phoenix for good, but the restored Phoenix Force offers to collect a small piece of the other X-Men's life forces to bring Jean back, before returning them safely home to the X-Mansion.
In the fourth season, Jubilee doesn't get involved in many battles, but during the four-part "Beyond Good And Evil" segment, she, along with Rogue and Shard are nearly erased from existence by Apocalypse's master plan to erase the universe and recreate it in his mad image, but are saved by the intervention of Bishop, Cable, and the other X-Men, and Professor X, Jean, and the other psychic mutants see to the end of Apocalypse once and for all.
In the fifth and final season, Jubilee is involved when Rogue and Nightcrawler investigate reuniting with Nightcrawler's biological mother, revealed to be Mystique, but it was a trap by Graydon Creed to kill off all the mutant members of his family to prove he was still loyal to the Friends of Humanity's anti-mutant cause after they threatened to throw him out due to his various failures caused by the X-Men. Jubilee helps to ensure that Creed's plan fails, but Mystique escapes, never to see her children again due to being too consumed by her guilt to ever look them in the faces again. When Professor X is gravely wounded by Henry Peter Gyrich in a final attempt to get back at the X-Men for ruining his plans with the Sentinels, Jubilee joins the other X-Men in saying goodbye to Professor X with Magneto before Xavier leaves with Shi'Ar Empress Lilandra to seek medical treatment on the Shi'Ar homeworld to recover.
Spider-Man: The Animated Series[]
Jubilee has a guest appearance in this series in the season two two-part crossover, "Mutant Agenda" and "Mutants' Revenge", alongside the rest of the X-Men when Spider-Man seeks out Professor X for help on his mutation from the radioactive spider bite that originally gave him his powers. When Professor X can't help Spidey, Jubilee feels sorry for him.
Later, when the X-Men learn of what happened with Herbert Landon, Jubilee joins them in helping to stop his rampage through Manhattan. Afterwards, she and the rest of the X-Men assure Spidey that, if he ever needs help, he can always rely on them.
X-Men '97[]
Jubilee helped rescue Roberto da Costa, and begins a relationship with him shortly after an encounter they have with Mojo.
Bastion, along with Mister Sinister and collaborators in the OZT, create human-Sentinel hybrids known as Prime Sentinels, which are unleashed across the world to capture mutants for processing and - unbeknownst to the general public - planned experimentation, then likely execution. On a visit to Roberto's parents, he and Jubilee are located by the Prime Sentinels; Roberto's mother doesn't object, allowing her son to be taken away. Magneto unleashes a global EMP from the North Pole, which deactivates all unshielded electronic technology, including Prime Sentinels, so Jubilee and Roberto are able to escape to the X-Mansion.
Magneto brings Asteroid M to the X-Men, hoping to recruit them in his renewed war against humanity; most refuse, except for Rogue, who is suffering from grief from Gambit's death, and Roberto, who is resentful for his mother's abandonment. This ends Jubilee's romantic relationship with Roberto, who now goes by Sunspot.
The X-Men split into two teams, one to tackle Bastion's main Sentinel factory on the Galapagos Islands, the other heading to Asteroid M, aiming to either convince Magneto and his allies to cease their war, or at worst, defeat them. Jubilee, angry with heartbreak and disappointment, fights Sunspot, who tries to convince her to join Magneto, although Jubilee rejects his offer out of her loyalty to Xavier's pacifism.
When Magneto is briefly psychologically impaired by Professor X, and the upgraded Bastion invades Asteroid M, the divided mutants join forces to fight the common enemy. President Kelly, out of fear and pressure from advisers, orders the Magneto Protocol, which is a plan to launch ICBMs to Asteroid M; one of the missiles breaches the reactor core, which explodes, and seems to kill Bastion. Without the reactor, the Asteroid begins its plummet to Earth.
The mutants with useful powers work together to decrease the rate of decline, with Jubilee and Sunspot seeming to recover a positive - although not necessarily romantic - relationship, and are able to coordinate their powers well to slow the fall. After Professor X healed Magneto's mind, Magneto himself carries Asteroid M back up into orbit, therefore it became no longer an extinction level eventuality.
A mysterious explosion consumes Asteroid M, fading without any debris; the X-Men are sent to two separate times, with Cyclops and Jean Grey in the future of 3000AD, and the rest of the X-Men - including Jubilee - and Magneto being sent to 3000BC. The X-Men in the past are shocked to meet En Sabah Nurr - a purely organic version of the future mutant overlord Apocalypse.
Powers and abilities[]
• Pyrotechnic Energy - Jubilee's mutant power is the ability to shoot multicolored explosive energy that looks like fireworks from her hands.
However, since she's not as experienced with her powers as the other X-Men's are with theirs, Jubilee has sometimes trouble with controlling her powers. For instance, when she went to the arcade after overhearing her foster parents conversation about her, Jubilee accidentally blew up the arcade game she was playing.
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