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| - Actually introduced in 1989, Jubilee was intended to do for the new fans of the 1990s what Shadowcat did in the 1980s -- serve as a viewpoint character for teenagers. As such, she became Wolverine's scrappy kid sidekick, and spent several years following him around, swinging between sarcastic mockery of his Nineties Anti-Hero excesses and mortal terror expressed through Totally Radical dialogue. Then she got transferred to the junior team, Generation X, where she spent some time as the annoying one who won't shut up and then some more time as the Genius Ditz team strategist.
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| - Actually introduced in 1989, Jubilee was intended to do for the new fans of the 1990s what Shadowcat did in the 1980s -- serve as a viewpoint character for teenagers. As such, she became Wolverine's scrappy kid sidekick, and spent several years following him around, swinging between sarcastic mockery of his Nineties Anti-Hero excesses and mortal terror expressed through Totally Radical dialogue. Then she got transferred to the junior team, Generation X, where she spent some time as the annoying one who won't shut up and then some more time as the Genius Ditz team strategist. 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 (in fairness, Nightcrawler and Gambit had series at the same time; neither made it past a dozen issues), she was sidelined, then depowered. She returned for a spell in the (non X-Men) New Warriors reboot with Powered Armor, an enormous rack, and her first proper Code Name (Wondra). After New Warriors got cancelled, Jubilee drifted back towards the X-books and now appears to have been turned into a vampire. Given her previous characterization as sunshine and sparkles, fandom in general seems to have come to the conclusion that Vampire Jubilee is potential comedy gold.
* All Love Is Unrequited: Jubilee wanted Synch in Generation X, he wanted Monet (and thinks of Jubilee as a friend).
* Anti-Hero: Type I
* Asian Airhead: Jubilee, a Chinese valley girl is personified as a flighty, vain mallrat, who also happens to be gorgeous.
* Of course, she herself has a very low opinion of her appearance.
* 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 Wolverine, she's fully mistaken for a boy by a tribe in the Savage Land and engaged to one of their princesses.
* Betty: For Synch's Affections.
* Book Dumb
* Brainwashed and Crazy: Comes with the Vampire thing.
* Bratty Half-Pint
* Captain Ethnic: Only this because of her powers.
* Cool Big Sis: To X-23 particularly. Although many of the new mutants look up to her. Except for Surge
* Cursed with Awesome: She no longer has any mutant powers, but she's now a vampire which includes the typical powers of super strength, super speed, Healing Factor, the ability to turn into vapor, and is eternally 19. 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.
* Cute Monster Girl: Since being turned into a vampire. Her appearances in X-23's solo title under artist Sana Takeda have placed extra emphasis on the "cute".
* Embarrassing First Name: She prefers to be called Jubilee.
* Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
* Genius Ditz: A lazy academic underachiever who serves as the team 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."
* Genre Savvy
* Glory Days: Did you know she was an X-Man? She'll never let you forget it.
* Healing Factor: A part of her Vampire powers.
* Intergenerational Friendship: (with Wolverine)
* Kid Appeal Character: In the '90s cartoon (and the '90s comics, for that matter), she was basically Wolverine's latest sidekick.
* Kid Sidekick: She started out as a sidekick of Wolverine, before joining Generation X.
* L Is for Dyslexia: but with math
* The Lancer: To Night Thrasher, after she joined the New Warriors.
* Les Yay: With X-23. Especially thanks to scenes like this.
* Lethal Harmless Powers: She could have done so much more with her power, but she was afraid of killing someone.
* Little Miss Snarker / Deadpan Snarker
* Made of Iron
* Naive Newcomer
* Outdated Outfit: Jubilee is the most extreme example of this. 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.
* Particulary in the 90s cartoon series.
* Pettanko: Served for some years as the X-Men's only notable aversion of the Most Common Superpower.
* In the most current New Warriors series, she filled out and became Ms. Fanservice.
* Powered Armor: She seems to have picked up a suit since losing her powers.
* The Prankster
* Rollerblade Good
* Sarcastic Devotee: Towards Wolverine, for a while in the '90s.
* Shout-Out: She originally wore the yellow trenchcoat with a red shirt and green shorts. Anyone who didn't think "Robin" never read classic Batman.
* This was taken to the logical conclusion in the Amalgam Universe: she becomes Sparrow, side kick to Dark Claw (Batman and Wolverine merged).
* The Munchausen: "When I was with the X-Men..."
* Totally Radical
* Walking Techbane: Happens in the '90s X-Men cartoon.
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