Lourdes Chantel is a Marvel Comics

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 supporting character, specifically in the X-Men

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 comics, created by Chris Claremont

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 and John Bolton.

Fictional character biography

Lourdes Chantel was a mutant

Mutant (Marvel Comics)

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 teleporter and the lover of supervillain

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 Sebastian Shaw

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, before he became the Black King of the Hellfire Club

Hellfire Club (comics)

The Hellfire Club is a fictional society within the Marvel Comics Universe that often comes into confrontation with the mutant superhero team, the X-Men...

 New York

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 Branch. The two met when Lourdes' company hired Shaw to oversee one of its projects. She tried to sway Sebastian away from the Hellfire Club and its leader Ned Buckman

Edward Buckman

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, fearing the Club might corrupt her lover. It was Lourdes' death at the hands of Sentinels financed by Buckman which led Shaw to take over the Hellfire Club.

Character development

Claremont is known for using people he knows in his stories, and Lourdes Chantel was based on Lourdes Ortiz, his translator at the 1985 Barcelona Comics Convention.