Lorelei Travis (comics)

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Lorelei

Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	District X #1
Created by

Characteristics
Alter ego	Lorelei Travis
Species	Human Mutant
Affiliations	The 198
Abilities	Prehensile hair

Lorelei Travis is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in District X #1.

1 Fictional character biography
2 Powers
3 Notes
4 Bibliography
5 External Links

[edit] Fictional character biography

Lorelei Travis is the name of a young girl who has "living" hair. Lorelei is an exotic dancer at the mob leader Daniel Kaufman's Wildkat Klub in Mutant Town located in New York City. Lorelei had managed to become one of the Wildkat Klub's household names through the artistic use of her genetic mutation.

During a recent investigation into Kaufman's businesses by Lucas Bishop and Ishmael Ortega, Lorelei survived a bombing of the Wildkat Klub perpetrated by Kaufman's enemies, sustaining minor injuries.

She is one of the few mutants to retain her powers after the effects of M-Day, although a group of militant Purity members cuts all of her hair out of vengeance. Unlikely help comes in the form of Toad who, after saving her, escorts her to the X-Mansion to join the other members of the 198. Her hair is restored by the healing powers of Mr. M whom she starts a relationship with not long after.

[edit] Powers

Lorelei has prehensile hair, which allows her to animate her hair through mental control.

[edit] Notes

Other Marvel characters known as Lorelei have been:

The Asgardian sister of Amora the Enchantress. Lorelei was a former pawn of Pluto and succeeded in briefly seducing Thor by tricking him into drinking golden mead and she first appeared in Thor vol. 1 #337
Mantis briefly took the name Lorelei as revealed in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Avengers 2005.
Lorelei is also the codename/possible real name of one of the Savage Land Mutates and former member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She first appeared in X-Men vol. 1 #63.