This is "Never Gonna Be the Same Again," a feature where I look at how bold, seemingly "permanent" changes were ultimately reversed. This is not a criticism, mind you, as obviously things are always going to eventually return to "normal." That's just how superhero comic books work. It's just fun to see how some of these rather major changes are reversed. This is differentiated from "Abandoned Love," which is when a new writer comes in and drops the plot of the previous writer. Here, we're talking about the writer who came up with the idea being the same one who resolved the change. This is also differentiated from "Death is Not the End," which is about how "dead" characters came back to life, since this is about stuff other than death.

Today, we look at how Jubilee was cured of being a vampire and got her mutant powers back!

As you likely know already, Jubilation Lee was a young orphan mutant who lived in a mall in California. One day, when the female members of the X-Men were visiting California on a shopping trip courtesy of their teleporting friend, Gateway (part of a bit where Claremont had one issue showing the male members of the X-Men on an adventure and one issue spotlighting the female members). The X-Men did not realize it but when they returned to their Australia base, Jubilee came along for the ride and then hid at their base and just lived off of their extra food and clothes. When the X-Men disbanded, Wolverine returned to the base not knowing that the former owners of the base, the villainous Reavers, had returned to their old home and were waiting for him. He was crucified. Jubilee, though, managed to free him and the two escaped to freedom and became good friends, with Jubilee basically being Wolverine's sidekick. She had the ability to create colorful explosive plasma "fireworks"....

She became a member of the X-Men when they reformed, but then the X-Men re-opened Xavier's school (albeit at a different property) and Jubilee became an inaugural member of that new team of young mutants known as Generation X. When that team folded, she just sort of bummed around, mostly, while actually having her own series briefly by Robert Kirkman before he became super famous.

Then, House of M happened. Scarlet Witch was manipulated into altering reality with her powers so that mutants were now in charge. When she realized what she had done, she decided that mutants were the problem and so said "No More Mutants." Doctor Strange was close by and he used his powers to save as many mutants as he could (mostly those that were around him, which is presumably why so many notable mutants retained their powers) but in Decimation: House of M Day After #1 (by Chris Claremont, Randy Green, Aaron Lopresti and a bunch of inkers), we see that Jubilee was one of the mutants who lost her powers...

She even gets her own spotlight in the issue, where she inexplicably quotes Mary Hopkin's "Those Were the Days"...

She still ended up hanging out with the X-Men, but then she was turned into a vampire by the son of Dracula as part of a vampires vs. mutant storyline. She tries to turn Wolverine, too, in X-Men #3 (by Victor Gischler, Paco Medina and Juan Vlasco)...

The X-Men are unable to cure her, but they do get her back to the side of the good guys. She also got a special amulet to allow her to walk in the sun.

She was missing for a while but then showed up in X-Men #1 (2013 - by Brian Wood, Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales) with an orphan baby that she had taken under her wing after the orphanage the baby was in was destroyed...

Jubilee officially adopted the kid. Okay, so that was her status quo for quite a while, until....

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Jubilee was put in charge of a special new version of Generation X that involved mutant youngsters who don't seem like they'll be future X-Men but also aren't the exact type of "mutant ambassadors" that you would like to put out there (as they might not be as sociable or perhaps they have frightening appearances, stuff like that). One of Jubilee's charges was Quentin Quire, who alternates between being a hero and being a villain seemingly every other day. Quire is also super powerful, though, and during a guest spot in The Mighty Thor, he became a host for the Phoenix Force!

Being the jerk that he is, though, it seemed like he would be kicked out of school and he didn't want that, as he would miss his friends. Jubilee promised to help him, but then they were attacked by Jubilee's former Generation X teammate, M, who had been possessed by the energy vampire, Emplate!

Well, in Generation X #86 (by Christina Strain, Amilcar Pinna and Felipe Sobreiro), Quentin realizes that the only way to save Jubilee's life is the use up the last of the remaining Phoenix Force he had in him to turn her back into a mutant!

The series was ending with the next issue, but Strain made sure she went out with a bang (not a fireworks pun, honest!) by bringing the classic Jubilee back! Awesome!

My pal Nevets sort of kind of suggested this one. Okay, folks, there are tons of examples of major changes being made to characters, seemingly "forever," that were then reversed, so feel to write in with suggestions for future editions of this column to brianc@cbr.com!