Lum

Lum, also known as Lamu, Lamu Invader and Lamu the Invader, is the main female protagonist from the Urusei Yatsura series.
== Charactah Account ==
Lum is a beautiful Oni alien who is capable of flying and generating electrical shocks. She is extremely popular and is famous for ending her sentences with ~datcha. Except when in her school girl's uniform, she usually wears a sexy outfit consisting of a tiger-striped bikini and knee-high go-go boots.
While generally good-natured, sweet, and innocent, Lum also has a very hot temper. Her dream in life is to live in a "Sweet Home with Darling" in which she keeps house and raises babies while Ataru works. Unfortunately, Lum's idea of "cooking" is to take very spicy ingredients like jalapenos, cayenne peppers, and Tabasco sauce and irradiate them with an alien energy bazooka until they carbonize into inedible, crystallized nuggets.
As an alien, Lum has an access to many bizarre gadgets whose use she really doesn't understand all that well, leading to comedic results. Differences between human and "Invader" physiology also drive many stories, like the time Lum's horns begin to grow larger after she is bitten by a cow, or the time she becomes drunk by eating pickled plums.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly*Shounen Sunday
* Urusei Yatsura
* Urusei Yatsura (2022)
* Urusei Yatsura (2022) 2nd Season
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 1: Only You
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 4: Lum The Forever
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 5: The Final Chapter
* Urusei Yatsura Movie 6: Always My Darling
* Urusei Yatsura OVA
* Urusei Yatsura Special: It's Spring! Take Off!
* Urusei Yatsura x Onitsuka Tiger Collaboration CM
* Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet
=== Manga ===
* Urusei Yatsura
=== Video Games ===
* Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friend
* Urusei Yatsura: Endless Summer
* Urusei Yatsura: Find Miss Tomobiki!
* Urusei Yatsura: Koi's Survival Party
* Urusei Yatsura: Lum's Wedding Bell
* Urusei Yatsura: Stay With You
== Trivia ==
* Lum's name comes from a bikini model called Agnes Lum.
* Lum is often believed to be the protagonist of the series due to her popularity. However, Rumiko Takahashi has stated on many occasions that she had always meant for Ataru to be the protagonist.
** Originally, Lum was not supposed to be a main character. She was meant to be a one time character and Shinobu was to take her place as the main love interest. However, fans loved Lum so much, that Lum became a main character; which is why Lum was absent for some of the first chapters of Urusei Yatsura.
* When Lum's horns are removed, her electric and flying abilities disappear and she becomes a regular girl.
* Lum's Zodiac Sign is the Tiger Striped Unicorn.
* Lum drinks Tabasco as if it were juice and the food she cooks is violently spicy. Eating umeboshi causes her to get drunk and she dislikes garlic.
* Lum is immune to any form of electricity, as a result she can store any extra electricity in her body to power up her attack. However, if she has too much electricity stored in her body, her body and clothes grow blue and anything she touches, she electrifies it.
* Lum likes the taste of electricity, she claims it taste like candy.
* Whenever she delivers divine retribution to Ataru, she sometimes adopts the pose of Ultraman preforming his Specium Beam attack.
* One of Lum's more infamous gags is her tendency to electrocute Ataru Moroboshi whilst happily embracing him. In the 1981 anime, this is even given the name "expression of love", and in Episode 5, one of the complaints that prompts Ataru to run away from home is a local electrician complaining about how much overtime he has had to work due to Lum's "expressions of love" shorting out the local transformers, implying she does this quite frequently. However, the gag is short-lived; in the manga, she only consciously does it 5 times - three times when she returns in Chapter 3, and once each in Chapter 4 and Chapter 27. She then does it whilst drunk on umeboshi in Chapter 112 and whilst under the effects of the Soul-Snatch Sugar/Heartstealers candy in Chapter 354, which also marks the only time where it is called "expression of love" in the manga. It only appears marginally more frequently in the first 42 episodes of the 1981 anime; after episode 42, its last appearances are in one of Ataru's imagine spots in Episode 60 and in the Catch the Heart (OVA).
* Ataru and Lum kiss a grand total of three times in the 1981 anime, not counting Ataru kissing Lum in the final moments of the ending theme Open Invitation and do not kiss at all in the manga.
** In Episode 5, Lum kisses Ataru against his will.
** In Episode 59, Lum catches an explosion-thrust Ataru and pulls him into a kiss he is implied to return.
** In Episode 194, Ataru deliberately kisses Lum whilst they are trapped together, the only time he initiates a kiss.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lum at Urusei Yatsura Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:Urusei Yatsura