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Lifeguard (comics)

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

Lifeguard 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.

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.

During a mission to infiltrate the ship of the intergalactic warlord Khan, Heather's appearance changes to resemble the Shi'ar, leading Jean Grey to believe that she is a Shi'ar hybrid. Her brother, unable to see past her new alien appearance, leaves the team. Lifeguard and Thunderbird travel in search of him.

Months later, Lifeguard and Thunderbird return to the X-Men, having been unsuccessful in 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.[volume & issue needed]

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 was not active in any X-Men roster, though the 198 Files verified her location as residing at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

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.

Heather appears in a groupshot of the Green Lagoon on Krakoa. She appears to be talking to Jamie Madrox and has developed a mermaid-like tail to dip in the water.

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