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Origins[]

Heather and Davis Cameron were a lifeguard and a surfer, respectively, living in Surfer's Paradise in Australia. Unbeknownst to them, their father was an underworld crime lord known as Viceroy, and upon his death, they were attacked.[3]

Heather Cameron (Earth-616) from X-Treme X-Men Vol 1 9 cover 001

Heather as the mutant hero Lifeguard.

Together with Storm and Thunderbird, they managed to defeat their attackers. Heather discovered she was a mutant with the power to manifest whatever was necessary to save the life of someone in danger around her, including her own. Heather soon joined the splinter team of X-Men, and formed a romance with Thunderbird.[4]

During a mission to infiltrate the ship of the intergalactic warlord, Khan, Heather's appearance changed to resemble the alien Shi'ar race, and it was theorized that she and Davis had some Shi'ar heritage. Her brother, unable to see past her new, alien appearance, left the team, and both Lifeguard and Thunderbird went in search of him.[5]

After M-Day[]

Lifeguard and Thunderbird turned up in Mumbai, India, helping out with the local X-Corporation, until the catastrophic events of M-Day and attacks on X-Corporation offices in Paris led Cyclops to call for the disbanding of all branches.

Heather was one of a handful of mutants to have retained her powers.[6]

She was still involved with Thunderbird, and both were presumed to be still on the trail of Davis at the time of the Second Coming.[7]

Following the X-Men's Schism, she joined the Utopian X-Men's Street Team in San Francisco, but was never witnessed in action.[8]

Krakoa[]

Heather resurfaced in Krakoa as one of the many citizens of the mutant nation. She was seen hanging out with Jamie Madrox at the Green Lagoon bar.[9]

When Krakoa was teleported out of our plane of existence to the White Hot Room, her brother Davis elected to stay and was planning to get married, whereas Heather, had stayed to take care of their stepmother, who had gotten worse due to the loss of Krakoan medicine and developed mysterious rashes.

Readjusting to the world without Krakoa with hesistance of new fears and hatred of mutants occuring, Heather went back to the workforce, assuming her human form (at the recommendation of her stepmother). Hitching a ride from an old friend to an interview, she started to get agitated and worried due to biggoted comments, reverting to a new uncontrollable, spiked gold form in defense of her fears and percieved danger of humans. It was revealed then that her body also was causing anyone human who was her vincitiy to develop dangerous and fast spreading rashes and boils all over their body to protect her.[2]

Heather Cameron (Earth-616) from X-Men From the Ashes Infinity Comic Vol 1 21 003

Heather's new form as a living island.

An an acquaintance from Krakoa, Steve (better known as Ugly John), convinced Heather to stop resisting her powers. Following her instincts, Heather retreated to the ocean and transformed into a small, living mutant island, in emulation of her lost homeland.[10]

Attributes

Power Grid[12]
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Powers

  • Danger Detection Response: She has the ability to register danger to human life in the vicinity and this automatically gives her the powers necessary to save those lives, be they her own or others.
  • Situational Biomorphic Adaptation (Nemesis Form): According to the type of danger in the current situation, she automatically obtains the powers necessary to save those lives, be they hers or others. These powers and the forms she takes are determined by the situation she is in and adapts accordingly to the situation at hand. The variety of Lifeguard's power manifestations appear to be almost limitless. Heather becomes aware of how to use any power(s) she manifests after a few seconds. She can also manage more than one power at a time. Some of her displayed uses of this power are:
    • Growing Wings for Flight
    • Extra Arms for carrying and super-strength.
    • Skin turning into a sort of golden metallic armor
    • Gills for underwater breathing.
    • Legs into fish tail for better swimming ability
    • Upping her strength level from normal to Superhuman
    • Infecting perceived threats with poison and disease.[2]
    • Transforming into a living island.[10]
  • Shi'ar Abilities: Heather possesses some powers constantly after her royal Shi'ar half emerges. These include golden skin, claws, and the ability to grow wings, all when no-one is in danger.

Abilities

  • Heather is a trained lifeguard and an excellent swimmer.
  • Other abilities may appear as a result of her changing form. After being in space her shapeshifting DNA brought out her natural Shi'ar heritage, granting her clawed hands and wings along with the Shi'ar eye markings.

Notes

  • It is presumed her mother was a royal Shi'ar due to distinguishing royal marks seen when encountering aliens led by Khan.

Trivia

  • Recently, when Heather assumes her human form, the transformation is slightly painful.[2]

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