La Bandera is a fictional character

Fictional character

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, a mutant

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 in the Marvel Comics

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 Universe. Her first appearance was in Wolverine vol. 2 #19.

Fictional character biography

La Bandera was a young mutant with the power to influence groups of people to do whatever she wills. Additionally, La Bandera could fire energy blasts from her staff, the potency of which was determined by the number of people she was "inspiring" at the time.

Wolverine

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 encountered La Bandera in South America

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 whilst he was tracking the Nazi war criminal Geist, and encouraged her and her people to revolt against Geist's oppression.

During the Acts of Vengeance

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, Kingpin

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 sent Tiger Shark to kill La Bandera when she interferes with his drug trade. Wolverine helped her fight him off.

La Bandera was later reportedly slain by the killer of superhumans known as Zeitgeist

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.

Powers and abilities

She had the power to inspire action and courage in others, channel the energy generated by her emotional enhancements into plasma discharge beams.

What If?

She has a brief appearance at the end of What If issue that ask What if Magneto took over the US (a follow-up to "What If Cable Destroyed the X-Men). After the mutant resistance is crushed, she is recruited from a concentration camp by Wolverine to form the new X-Men.