1. Fictional character biography
    X-Treme X-Men  The Xavier Institute  Utopia 

2. Powers and abilities

3. Other versions
    X-Men: The End 

4. Reception

5. References

6. External links

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(as Lifeguard)
X-Treme X-Men #7.

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is primarily associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Salvador Larroca, she first appeared in X-Treme X-Men #6 (December 2001).

She is a mutant, gaining whatever superhuman abilities are needed in a life-threatening situation. She and her brother Slipstream were briefly members of the segment of X-Men featured in the series X-Treme X-Men.

Fictional character biography

X-Treme X-Men

Heather and Davis Cameron were a lifeguard and a surfer, respectively, living in Surfers Paradise in Australia. Unbeknownst to them, their father is an underworld crime lord known as Viceroy, and upon his death they were attacked. Together with Storm and Neal Shaara (the new 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. Her power enabled her to manifest wings, golden armor, the ability to breathe underwater, and many other less noticeable adaptations. Heather soon joined the splinter team of X-Men, and formed a romance with Thunderbird.^[1]

During a mission to infiltrate the ship of the intergalactic warlord, Khan, Heather's appearance changes to resemble the alien Shi'ar race, and it was theorized that she and Davis had some Shi'ar heritage. Jean Grey notes that the cranial markings on her head and the crest of feathers she had manifested indicated Heather is of Shi'ar royal ancestry. Also, an entry from Destiny's diary seems to imply that Heather and Davis were "Mothered by War," or Deathbird. The entry shows a picture of Deathbird and some of the X-Treme team.^[2] Her brother, unable to see past her new, alien appearance, leaves the team. Lifeguard and Thunderbird travel in search of him.^[3]

The Xavier Institute

Months later, Lifeguard and Thunderbird returned to the X-Men, apparently not locating Slipstream. Together with Thunderbird, she joined the X-Corporation. However this only lasted weeks, as there was a synchronized attack on several of the X-Corporation offices after the catastrophic events of M-Day, leading Cyclops to call for the disbanding of all offices.{{Issue|date=August 2009}}

Heather is one of a handful of mutants to have retained her powers in the wake of House of M. Still involved with Thunderbird III, she wasn't active in any X-Men roster, though the 198 Files verified her location as residing at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

Utopia

Heather later resurfaces after the events of Schism as a member of Cyclops' street team with Boom Boom and Dazzler in San Francisco and Utopia.^[4]

Powers and abilities

Heather's mutant power allows her body to react to any threat by transforming or manifesting a power to deal with the situation (similar to that of the X-Men's Darwin). In all of her appearances, she has only been shown to use this ability while defending herself and others.^[5] It is as yet unknown if she's able to use this ability for her own protection. She has a moderate level of control over this power and has sometimes been able to trigger it at will, although she has not displayed any control over the transformations or powers she manifests. Heather has mostly manifested physical changes such as extra arms, armored skin, wings, and a mermaid tail. However, in her first appearance, she also demonstrated hydrokinesis.^[6] The full extent of Lifeguard's abilities have yet to be revealed.

In her most recent appearance with the emergence of her inherent Shi'ar genome, she appeared to be locked into her final transformation of gold skin, wings, and claws, still unable to control her powers and possibly unable to transform any further or reverse the change.

Other versions

X-Men: The End

Lifeguard appears in X-Men: The End as a protector of Aliyah Bishop in the Shi'ar Imperium.{{issue|date=March 2013}} She is ultimately killed sacrificing herself for Aliyah.{{issue|date=March 2013}}

Reception

References

External links

• Lifeguard
• Character Gallery Lifeguard
• Lifeguard on the Marvel Universe Character Bio Wiki
• UncannyXmen.net Character Profile on Lifeguard

• Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade - Men's Decathlon
• Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade – Men's decathlon
• Athletics at the 2009 Summer Universiade – Men's Decathlon
• Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games
• Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Results
• Athletics at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 10,000 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metres (T46)
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 1500 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 1500 metres (T54)
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 5000 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 800 metres
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's decathlon
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's discus throw
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's hammer throw
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's high jump
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's javelin throw
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's long jump
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's Marathon
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's marathon
• Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's pole vault