DE'LILA

Real Name: De'Lila

Identity/Class: Extra-Terrestrial (Skrull)

Occupation: Thief

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Influenced Mr. Fantastic and the Mole Man to aid her

Enemies: Skrull Empire, General Kalamari, Ghost Rider (Dan Ketch), Wolverine, Hulk, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four

Known Relatives:

Aliases: Impersonated the Invisible Woman, Sub-Mariner, Kang Nebula, Ben Grimm, Alicia Storm and Mary Jane Watson-Parker.

Base of Operations: the Skrull Empire, Andromeda Galaxy

First Appearance: Fantastic Four I#347 (December, 1990)

Powers: Like all Deviant Skrulls, De'Lila possesses the ability to shape-shift. She can alter her size, shape and color at will, taking on the appearance of other beings and objects within a volume range of .75 to 1.5 times her original volume. She is also a low-level telepath, able to influence the thoughts of others.

Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 140 lbs.

History: (Fantastic Four I#347) - De'Lila, a renegade Skrull, came to Earth in pursuit of a powerful Skrull weapon, the Inorganic Technotroid, which had landed on Monster Island. Needing the resources of the Fantastic Four to locate it, she entered Four Freedoms Plaza, and appeared to each member of the team as a person they loved, then used her disruptor to knock them unconscious. Then, disguised as the Invisible Woman, she summoned the Hulk, Ghost Rider, Wolverine and Spider-Man to Four Freedoms Plaza, and claimed that the Fantastic Four had been killed by a band of assassins. She supplied them with a device which she claimed would locate the assassins, but was actually set to find the Skrulls which had pursued her.

(Fantastic Four I#348) - Unable to locate the Inogranic Technotroid by herself, De'Lila revived Mr. Fantastic, and forced him to aid her. He led her to Monster Island, where they ran into the Skrulls sent to find her, and the four super-heroes she had dispatched to find them.

(Fantastic Four I#349) - Revealing her true appearance to the assembled characters, she attempted to influence the Mole Man and heroes into killing the Skrulls, but the Ghost Rider, immune to her powers, protected them. Escaping with Mr. Fantastic, she found the Inorganic Technotroid being guarded by Mole Man's monster Giganto, but to her horror, the "egg" hatched, and imprinted itself upon them, as if it were their own child. De'Lila attempted to escape again with Mr. Fantastic, but he stole away her disruptor and defeated her himself. To punish her, Ghost Rider used his "penance stare" upon her, causing her to be overcome by all the evil acts she had performed. De'Lila was then released to the Skrulls for punishment.

Comments: Created by Walter Simonson and Art Adams.

by Prime Eternal

CLARIFICATIONS:
De'Lila should not be confused with:

• Delilah, Dr. Delia Childress, an enemy and former girlfriend of Doc Samson, @ Marvel Team-Up I#102
• Delilah, an assassin and former agent of the Rose, @ Amazing Spider-Man I#414
• Lila Cheney, mutant rock-pop singer and thief, @ New Mutants Annual#1