Jubilee vs Vampire

[angelophile]

Back in the 1998 Generation X Annual, the Gen X kids came into conflict with the granddaddy of all vampires - Dracula. (Possibly because Dracula was pissed at Chamber for being a descendant of his old enemy, Apocalypse, but that's another story entirely.) Anyway, they didn't fare great - Chamber was plagued by nightmarish visions, Paige gets stalked in her underwear (just so you know it really is a Dracula story, presumably) and Jubilee, well, it wasn't her finest hour...

This might possibly prove to be relevant.













Later there's a trip to the theater, where Jono gets tackled by a vampire in the rest room (although why he even needs to go there is a mystery), leaving Paige and Jubilee alone in the school.







Which means sneaking up on the blonde while she's wandering around in her underwear and kidnapping her, in good Dracula tradition. The rest of Gen X mount a rescue mission, but Jono's distracted by Dracula attempting to sway him with visions of his face and body restored and winds up being a snack, while Jubilee tries for a rematch.

It's brief.









Good to see Jono was raised on the Hammer Horror classics.

Comments

[protogarrett]

I like Jubilee out of her character. But let's admit it, she didn't know how to use her powers and for the most part they were useless in a fight. "Look out! They're bright litle lights that cause very tiny explosions. I swear, these things can sorta kinda mess up a paint job on a kid's trike."

Only Synch knew how to REALLY use them. I mean, her power, technically is to explode matter at the subatomic level. She could wipe out cities. Yet she kept it at the level of dime store bottle rockets.

[angelophile]

Well, that was established that she was consciously and unconsciously holding back for fear of doing anyone permanent damage. When she doesn't hold back, the results were more... impressive. Leveling one of the school buildings impressive, if memory serves.

[rhythmbandit]

So Jubes could actually do some damage with her powers? Didn't know that; I assumed they kept her around for her witty remarks.

[jlbarnett]

Jubilee has blown up plenty of stufff. She and Wolverine have talked about her giving people strokes. But she prefers to go non-lethal. It's intentional. She's not that kind of person.

[psychopathicus_rex]

They work in this instance, though, since they're evidently enough to break Drac's concentration.