Lila Cheney

Born in England, Lila was mostly known on Earth as a musician, often performing with the band Cats Laughing. (Another singer with mutant abilities, Dazzler, performed with Lila in the past.) Lila has also used her powers for personal gain as a thief. Lila made her home in a Dyson sphere, a colony-like enclosure by a star that used the star as its power source. The New Mutants first met Lila when Sunspot took them to one of her concerts, where they subsequently foiled an assassination attempt made upon her by an alien race called the Vrakanin. At that time, Lila had attempted to "steal" the Earth and sell its population on the intergalactic black market as slaves.

Lila was romantically involved with Sam Guthrie, also known as Cannonball for some time. The two maintained an on-again, off-again relationship. The mutant Strong Guy, aka Guido Carosella, worked as her bodyguard, but after Lila was gone from Earth for an extended period, he left to become a member of the government sponsored X-Factor.

Lila was performing a concert in a nightclub in Valle Soleada one night when a young woman named Marie D'Acanto attempted to detonate a bomb to avenge the deaths of her parents at the hands of mutants. Cannonball and Rogue foiled this murder attempt and took Marie D'Acanto into their custody.

Lila retained her mutant powers after M-Day, and was considered a significant threat by O*N*E. She was among the British mutants invited by David Haller (Legion) to form a team to follow Xavier's dream. Legion was making a complex manipulation causing Wisdom and other British mutants to think they refused to cooperate in his plan when in fact they were. After having them attack Wisdom, he managed to cut off the mutants from Legion's control by severing the psychic connection, using Blindfold's "sight", only to be revealed to be an illusion. Legion finally had to explain a false plan about them seemingly tearing apart Britain in order 'to wipe mutophobic Britain off the map', but it was revealed the whole plan was only constituted of good actions to prove the work of human-mutant coexistence. Lila's fame was part of the plan to widen its impact.

When the mutant nation of Krakoa was formed Lila Cheney became one of its mutants citizens. Lila worked as a musician at the Green Lagoon tiki bar alongside Dazzler and Shark-Girl.