Jubilee (comics) - Jubilee (Bratpack)

Jubilee (Bratpack)

An earlier character named Jubilee first appeared in Longshot #4 in 1985. This character was a Caucasian female with strawberry blond hair created by writer Ann Nocenti and artist Art Adams. She is first introduced as a young girl named Darla and she and her friends, a gang called the Bratpack, meet Longshot when he first escapes to Earth. She develops a childhood crush on Longshot. They are later captured by Spiral and given powers by Mojo in New Mutants Annual #2 as part of a new team of captured and artificially aged fighters also called the "Bratpack". Darla was given the ability to produce pyrotechnic displays or fireworks, and was called "Jubilee" because, as she stated, "Every day was a celebration." Under the influence of the similarly brainwashed Psylocke's psychic powers, Darla and her teammates were then sent to stop the New Mutants from rescuing the X-Men who had been regressed in age and turned into the X-Babies. Everyone is freed and returned to normal when Cypher frees Psylocke from Mojo's control.