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	Primary character
Turanga Leela
Age	49
Date of birth	(estimated) January 19, 2975
Species	Human (Mutant)
Planet of origin	Earth
Profession	Space captain at Planet Express
Relatives	See family section.
First appearance	"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)
Voiced by	Katey Sagal

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Turanga Leela is one of the most important employees of Planet Express. She occupies the position of the ship's captain and pilot and therefore is the head of the regular delivery crew consisting of her, Philip J. Fry, and Bender Bending Rodriguez. She is known as the most competent of the three main characters.

Biography

Early Years

Leela as she was found in the Orphanarium

Turanga Leela was born as the only child of a married couple of mutants in the sewers of New New York. Her parents are Turanga Morris and Munda. As Leela is probably the least mutated mutant ever born (as described to her parents by a medical professional), and looked almost like a normal child, her parents decided that she should not share the fate of her people living in the sewers. They instead chose to give her a life as normal as possible - a "real" life - by giving her up to the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium, though it was a tough decision and they suffered greatly by giving her away. Attached to the basket she was found in was a note in an alien language written by her mother Turanga Munda, who has a Ph.D. in exolinguistics. She meant for the note to convince the finder of her daughter that she was an alien and thus accept her into the orphanarium. The plan worked, and Leela was taken in by the head of the orphanarium, Warden Vogel.

Leela grew up in the orphanarium unaware of her true roots, believing that she was indeed an alien. She had a hard time there, as she was relentlessly picked on because of her unusual appearance, and was always a lonely outsider. As a child she wore a monocle and, later, braces. Nevertheless, or maybe because of this, she managed to develop a strong and caring personality. As an outlet for her deep frustration, she trained in Arcturan Kung Fu to the level of a black-belt by a master of this martial art, Fnog, despite being a victim of his obvious sexism.

Leela as a teenager

Hired at Planet Express

Further information: Season 1

After leaving the orphanarium, she began a career as Fate Assignment Officer at Applied Cryogenics, assigning defrostees to their permanent careers and providing them with the proper career chips. Then one day a defrostee named Philip J. Fry came along and inspired her to quit her job. Ultimately, she ended up being hired by Fry's many-times-great-nephew Hubert Farnsworth as the new captain for his interstellar delivery service, Planet Express. In that position, she acquired her beloved pet Nibbler, after saving him from the implosion of Vergon 6. She also rescued Fry from the Trisolians, attempted to destroy the giant ball of garbage, escaped from the Titanic and helped save the world from the Omicronians in the First Omicronian Invasion of Earth in the same year that she was hired.

Another Cyclops

{{further|Season 2}] From going on the Internet, Leela believed to have found another cyclops, and would finally find out her true home planet. The cyclops turned out to be Alcazar, who took her to Cyclopia, where she supposedly was born. Leela decides that she must marry Al to continue their species. When Al tried to marry Leela, however, it turns out that Al was really a shape-shifting grasshopper, who was going to marry four other women of different alien race. She leaves the planet disappointed, but hopeful.

That same year, she almost lost Nibbler to El Chupanibre, but he was saved by Bender, after Leela learned to be selfish. She was briefly named Miss Universe at the Miss Universe Pageant 3001 by Zapp Brannigan by accident. She discovered Popplers but was almost killed by Lrr when they found out they were the Omicronians' babies. She also served in the DOOP Army in The Battle of Spheron 1.

Helping the Nibblonians

{{further|Season 3}] After having her pet Nibbler named Dumbest Pet in Show at a pet competition, Leela is shocked to learn that Nibbler is actually the ruler of an entire alien species. They tell her that their old enemy, the Brain Spawn, is making everyone on Earth stupid, and that Fry is the only one that can stop them, due to his lack of the Delta Brain Wave. She gets Fry to fight the Big Brain, and Fry wins. The brains leave Earth for no "raisin," and Nibbler blanks Leela's memory. Later, she gets a second eye crafted in, but removed it because of her new boyfriend's insensitivity. She also got married briefly to Fry, joined the New New York Mets and traveled back in time and caused the Roswell incident.

Leela's real homeplanet

Further information: Season 4

Leela was captured by the Sewer Mutants, along with Fry and Bender, who wanted to punish them for dumping toxic waste in the sewers. They were rescued by two mysterious strangers who got the Head Mutant to change their punishment into a banishment, instead of an execution. Leela, curious about the strangers, jumps back into the sewers and chases the two back to their house, threatening them with a gun. The two tell her that they were the ones who killed her parents, and Leela, in an uncontrolled rage, almost killed them, but was stopped by Fry. It is revealed that the two were actually Leela's parents, and Leela rejoices. Leela also impregnated Kif Kroker, became a superheroin called Clobberella, was stung by a Space Bee, and sold her hand in marriage to the Robot Devil in exchange for some mechanical ears.

Meets Lars Filmore

Further information: Bender's Game

Planet Express is "back on the air," after the Box Company canceled them for two years. Hermes' head is chopped off in an accident at the party, and Leela meets Lars Filmore at the Head Museum. Planet Express is stolen by the Alien Scammers, and the secret to time travel is found on Fry's ass, but Leela and Lars' relationship grow undisturbed.

Leela and Lars both get laid off from their jobs, due to the scammers scamming people out of their possesions, but Lars still proposes to Leela. Leela agrees. At the wedding, Hermes' head is chopped off a second time, and it is revealed to Lars that a Time paradox duplicate is always doomed to die. Lars calls off the wedding and leaved Leela to sadness.

Family

Turanga Morris, Father
Turanga Munda, Mother
Due to an accident, and because of the reproductive process of Amphibiosans, she has several dozen offspring from Kif Kroker, currently living in an immature "tadpole" form in the swamp of the Kroker clan birthing grounds on Amphibios 9. About half of these have only one eye each, like her.
In Bender's Big Score she almost married Lars Fillmore.
In The Beast with a Billion Backs, she married Yivo, along with the rest of the universe, against her will.
In Time Keeps on Slippin', she was briefly married to Fry due to the time skips, but then they got divorced during another time skip because she believed he tricked her into marriage. At the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder, she shares a kiss with Fry, after having admitted that she has 'waited too long' to let him know that she loves him. It would appear from that interaction (however brief), that should the crew survive the wormhole, she may be about to embark on a serious relationship with Fry. Time, however, will tell. (see Fry-Leela relationship for more info)

Additional Info

Leela's Contact Lens

Trivia

Her name can be interpreted in several ways: "Leela" sounds exactly like the term for "purple" in several languages, including German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish (lila) and Hungarian (lila). A further possibility is that the name is a parody of the heroine from The Fifth Element, Leeloo - the perfect woman. Lastly, she might have been inspired by a character from the British Sci-Fi series Doctor Who bearing the same name (Leela). "Turanga" may be derived from the symphony "Turangalila" by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). The term derives from Sanskrit and means, alternately, "Song of Love" and "Hymn to Joy". Alternately, Turanga may derive from Taronga Zoo, the name of which is an Indigenous Australian word for "beautiful view".
The designers kept trying to make Leela's nose smaller, because it was larger than they thought appropriate for a female character, but Matt Groening insisted it stay the larger size.
Unlike Fry, who is frequently chopped to pieces in the series, Leela tends to lose the use of her senses instead, namely sight and hearing.
As Fate Assignment Officer, her code number was 1BDI (or "one beady eye").
Books read by Leela include "True Stories of Courageous Animals" (Parasites Lost), "A Child's Garden of Space Legends" (Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles), "Dances of the ancient Bronx" (Jurassic Bark) and "Great Machete Battles" (Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch), plus the magazine Nosy Inquirer, headline: Bigfoot turns 80! (The Farnsworth Parabox)
Tends to snore.
Always uses lipstick, mostly pink, and is rarely seen without it.

Leela applying lipstick

Used to brew her own beer at the orphanarium.
Can do the Robot Dance like no one else.
Owns her own harpoon.
Tends to fill her day with humdrum activities.
Is camera-shy.
Usually prepares her dinners in advance for one month and then freezes them.
For obvious reasons, no one can give the evil eye quite like her.
Adept in the use of weaponry like laser guns or machetes.
Used to play the drums.
Tends to play with her hair when upset or nervous.
Frequently accused of poor hygiene (sweaty boot rash, etc), but may be at a disadvantage due to her mutant physiology and energetic lifestyle.
Usually, Leela only wears jewellery on special occasions. The exception from this was the ring in Space Pilot 3000 that Bender stole; it was never seen again. She also wears a bracelet made by her father at all times.
Apart from Fry and Bender, she is the only character that appears in every episode of the show and in every comic.
Has had four weddings; three were called off, and the other was quickly followed by divorce. Reverend Lionel Preacherbot performed the first three of these, Father Changstein El-Gamal performed the fourth. A fifth proposition was made, but the wedding never took place.
- To Alcazar, "A Bicyclops Built for Two" (2ACV09)
- To Philip J. Fry, followed by divorce, "Time Keeps on Slippin'" (3ACV14)
- To Robot Devil, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (4ACV18)
- To Lars Fillmore, Bender's Big Score - "Bender's Big Score Part 3" (5ACV03)
- To Yivo, no wedding, The Beast with a Billion Backs - "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" (5ACV08)
Can wield a gun with her foot, and hides one in her boot for easy access.
May very well be the second-most important person in the universe behind Fry (though she doesn't know it).

Leela's elbow talons close-up

Leela, like her parents, has a second mutation. She grows skin covered spikes, called "elbow talons", down from her elbows. However, she usually trims these.
Became a centaur in Bender's Game
.
Actually continued to legally work at Applied Cryogenics until 2ACV11
At the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder, Leela reveals that she is in love with Fry and they finally kiss properly.

Quotes

"I guess you never outgrow being an eyeball... oddball."
"Fry, you're wasting your life in front of that TV. You've got to get out and see the real world."
"I don't care how hilarious your apron is, we're not cooking him!"
"OK, if everyone's finished bein' stupid."
"That's stupid."
"Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible."
"For a split second, my common sense was overwhelmed by pity."

Catchphrase?

While not entirely a phrase, her most prominent shout close to a catchphrase is "Hi-yah!".

It seems as if a half-hearted attempt was made to give Leela a sort of catchphrase, where she uses old musical references, turning the first word into a verb and applying it to the last word as a noun. The only two examples are:

"This toads the wet sprocket." (3ACV21) A reference to the band, Toad the Wet Sprocket.
"This wangs chung!" (3ACV03) A reference to both the band Wang Chung, and their hit song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" which includes the line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight".

Bender later uses this formula when referring to Leela's attraction to creative and musically-talented men, saying, "Musicians really Roger your Hammerstein." This is a reference to the famous composers Rogers and Hammerstein.

She also says "Oh, Lord!" quite a lot, usually just before a previous action comes back to haunt her.

Two-Eyed Leela

"Amazon Women in the Mood"

Leela has been seen with two eyes several times, though each time it appeared different:

When Aliens Attack — To portray the role of Jenny MacNeil, a plastic eye is taped to the side of her face (which Zoidberg later eats). This is clearly the least-convincing appearance of a two-eyed Leela.
Amazon Women in the Mood — When the Amazonians are approaching, a puddle ripples, causing Leela's reflection to distort, showing her briefly with two eyes. Her eyes appear to be rounder than the others.
The Cyber House Rules — A second eye is grafted onto Leela's face. She later realizes she's better off being different, and has it removed. Her eyes are more narrow.

Appearances

While Leela appears in all episodes, films and comics, these categories may be of interest:

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-'''Turanga Leela''' is one of the most important employees of [[Planet Express]]. She occupies the position of the ship's captain and pilot and therefore is the head of the regular delivery crew consisting of her, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]. Her most noticable features are that she is a cyclops, possessing only one huge eye, and that her natural hair colour is a violent purple. Also her skull is higher than average, probably in order to accommodate the oversized eye, although this is hardly noticable because of her impressive hairdo. Apart from that, she is very shapely and can almost pass for normal - until people take a look at her face, that is.
+'''Turanga Leela''' is one of the most important employees of [[Planet Express]]. She occupies the position of the ship's captain and pilot and therefore is the head of the regular delivery crew consisting of her, [[Philip J. Fry]], and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez]].  She is known as the most competent of the three main characters.
-[[Image:Leela-LeSpa.jpg|thumb|left|Leela enjoying a rare moment of pleasure at [[Le Spa]]]]
+==Biography==
-Her default clothing consists of big grey boots, black stretchpants and a white tank top. She mostly wears her plentiful hair in a ponytail, but has been seen with other hairdos on special occasions. A further major feature is the [[Wristlojackimator]] or, as she usually calls it, "that thing I wear on my wrist", which seems to be a device of multiple uses around the house. On formal occasions and in private she likes to wear tones of blue, red, purple or pink to match her hair colour.
+===Early Years===
-[[Image:Leela_promo.png|thumb|left|Turanga Leela]]
+[[Image:Baby_Leela.jpg|thumb|Leela as she was found in the [[Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium|Orphanarium]]]]
-Leela is by far the most competent and responsible crew member of [[Planet Express]]. Being captain and pilot of the [[Planet Express Ship]], she frequently has a leading role in the developments, and as she is a very well trained fighter and does not hesitate to use force if necessary, she is useful in difficult situations. It is usually her job to rescue her other crew members from distress, which she has done countless times, especially [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]. Likewise, she stops her co-workers from doing things that are stupid, dangerous or both. She wears a contact lens and a reading monocle, and as she has only one eye, she is denied the benefits of good depth perception and stereoscopic sight.
+Turanga Leela was born as the only child of a married couple of [[Sewer Mutants|mutants]] in the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] of [[New New York]]. Her parents are [[Turanga Morris and Munda]]. As Leela is probably the least mutated mutant ever born (as described to her parents by a medical professional), and looked almost like a normal child, her parents decided that she should not share the fate of her people living in the sewers. They instead chose to give her a life as normal as possible -  a "real" life - by giving her up to the [[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]], though it was a tough decision and they suffered greatly by giving her away. Attached to the basket she was found in was a note in an [[Alien Languages|alien language]] written by her mother [[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Munda]], who has a Ph.D. in exolinguistics. She meant for the note to convince the finder of her daughter that she was an alien and thus accept her into the orphanarium. The plan worked, and Leela was taken in by the head of the orphanarium, [[Warden Vogel]].
-As a [[Sewer Mutants|mutant]], Leela has a peculiar metabolism different from that of standard humans. Mutagens cannot harm her, and she seems resistant to many poisons, enviromental hazards and illnesses. Her special condition may have helped her fight off the threat by the [[The Sting|Baby Space Bee Queen's poison]], and it proved instrumental for finding the cure against the [[The Cure For The Common Clod|common cold]] that had New New York in its clutches. Also, it might explain why Leela is so fond of sports and well muscled. As a recruit of the [[Earth]] forces, she surpassed every other recruit on the training ground, even well-trained males, and has shown extraordinary strength, dexterity and stamina on numerous occasions.
+Leela grew up in the orphanarium unaware of her true roots, believing that she was indeed an alien. She had a hard time there, as she was relentlessly picked on because of her unusual appearance, and was always a lonely outsider. As a child she wore a monocle and, later, braces. Nevertheless, or maybe because of this, she managed to develop a strong and caring personality. As an outlet for her deep frustration, she trained in Arcturan Kung Fu to the level of a black-belt by a master of this martial art, [[Fnog]], despite being a victim of his obvious sexism.
-[[Image:Sex-Leela.jpg|thumb|right|Leela had impulsive sex with Fry in a "What If?" scenario]]
+[[Image:Teenage_Leela.jpg|thumb|left|Leela as a teenager]]
-Despite her troubled past, Leela is friendly, smart and self-reliant, yet sometimes impatient and quick to anger. She cares deeply for her friends and loved ones, plus issues she feels she must stand up for, like freedom, the enviroment and cute animals, but she does not hesitate to use force if she believes the recipient deserves it. A definitive liking for withering sarcasm and violence also resides within her, but she nevertheless seems to have developed strong maternal instincts at times. She is engaged in a constant low-intensity feud with [[Amy Wong]], the only other female at [[Planet Express]], who more or less accuses her of not being ladylike enough to be a true woman, despite Leela having a strong sensitivity for cuteness and romantic issues. Leela is almost completely unimpulsive.
-There have been several instances when Leela is overwhelmed by her emotions, which causes her to become hesitant or irrational, and she is usually inconsolable during these periods. These mood swings are often gradual; her confidence and mindfulness slowly dwindle if she is initially at her peak in these situations.
+===Hired at Planet Express===
+{{further|Season 1}}
+After leaving the orphanarium, she began a career as Fate Assignment Officer at [[Applied Cryogenics]], assigning defrostees to their permanent careers and providing them with the proper [[Career Chip|career chips]]. Then one day a defrostee named [[Philip J. Fry]] came along and inspired her to quit her job. Ultimately, she ended up being hired by Fry's many-times-great-nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Hubert Farnsworth]] as the new captain for his interstellar delivery service, [[Planet Express]]. In that position, she acquired her beloved pet [[Nibbler]], after saving him from the implosion of [[Vergon 6]].  She also rescued Fry from the [[Trisolians]], attempted to destroy the giant ball of garbage, escaped from the [[Titanic]] and helped save the world from the [[Omicronians]] in the [[First Omicronian Invasion of Earth]] in the same year that she was hired.
-Leela is a huge [[Blernsball]] and [[New New York Mets]] fan, but has almost no skill whatsoever due to her bad depth perception, which soon ended [[A Leela of Her Own|her professional career]]. She seems to have a soft spot for men with creative musical talent, like [[Shawn]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], but she is strongly opposed to any form of sexism, which regularly arouses her anger, as several people learned to their disadvantage, including [[Fnog]].
+===Another Cyclops===
+{{further|Season 2}]
+From going on the [[Internet]], Leela believed to have found another cyclops, and would finally find out her true home planet.  The cyclops turned out to be [[Alcazar]], who took her to [[Cyclopia]], where she supposedly was born.  Leela decides that she must marry Al to continue their species.  When Al tried to marry Leela, however, it turns out that Al was really a shape-shifting grasshopper, who was going to marry four other women of different alien race.  She leaves the planet disappointed, but hopeful.
-Leela lives alone in a somewhat underfurnished apartment (Apartment 1i) somewhere in the city of [[New New York]]. She only shares her loneliness with her alien pet, [[Nibbler]]. However, in light of the final moments of [[Into the Wild Green Yonder|their most recent adventure]] (supposing that the crew survives), this may change, as she has 'finally' admitted her love for [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]].
+That same year, she almost lost Nibbler to [[El Chupanibre]], but he was saved by Bender, after Leela learned to be selfish.  She was briefly named Miss Universe at the [[Miss Universe Pageant 3001]] by [[Zapp Brannigan]] by accident.  She discovered [[Popplers]] but was almost killed by [[Lrr]] when [[Second Omicronian Invasion of Earth|they found out they were the Omicronians' babies]].  She also served in the [[DOOP Army]] in [[The Battle of Spheron 1]].
-==Biography==
+===Helping the Nibblonians===
-[[Image:Baby_Leela.jpg|thumb|Leela as she was found in the [[Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium|Orphanarium]]]]
+{{further|Season 3}]
-Turanga Leela was born as the only child of a married couple of [[Sewer Mutants|mutants]] in the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] of [[New New York]]. Her parents are [[Turanga Morris and Munda]]. As Leela is probably the least mutated mutant ever born (as described to her parents by a medical professional), and looked almost like a normal child, her parents decided that she should not share the fate of her people living in the sewers. They instead chose to give her a life as normal as possible -  a "real" life - by giving her up to the [[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]], though it was a tough decision and they suffered greatly by giving her away. Attached to the basket she was found in was a note in an [[Alien Languages|alien language]] written by her mother [[Turanga Morris and Munda|Turanga Munda]], who has a Ph.D. in exolinguistics. She meant for the note to convince the finder of her daughter that she was an alien and thus accept her into the orphanarium. The plan worked, and Leela was taken in by the head of the orphanarium, [[Warden Vogel]].
+After having her pet Nibbler named Dumbest Pet in Show at a pet competition, Leela is shocked to learn that Nibbler is actually the ruler of [[Nibblonians|an entire alien species]].  They tell her that their old enemy, the [[Brain Spawn]], is making everyone on Earth stupid, and that Fry is the only one that can stop them, due to his lack of the [[Delta Brain Wave]].  She gets Fry to fight the [[Big Brain]], and Fry wins.  The brains leave Earth for no "raisin," and Nibbler blanks Leela's memory.  Later, she gets a second eye crafted in, but removed it because of [[Adlai Atkins|her new boyfriend's]] insensitivity.  She also got married briefly to Fry, joined the [[New New York Mets]] and traveled back in time and caused the Roswell incident.
-Leela grew up in the orphanarium unaware of her true roots, believing that she was indeed an alien. She had a hard time there, as she was relentlessly picked on because of her unusual appearance, and was always a lonely outsider. As a child she wore a monocle and, later, braces. Nevertheless, or maybe because of this, she managed to develop a strong and caring personality. As an outlet for her deep frustration, she trained in Arcturan Kung Fu to the level of a black-belt by a master of this martial art, [[Fnog]], despite being a victim of his obvious sexism.
+===Leela's real homeplanet===
-[[Image:Teenage_Leela.jpg|thumb|left|Leela as a teenager]]
+{{further|Season 4}}
-After leaving the orphanarium, she began a career as Fate Assignment Officer at [[Applied Cryogenics]], assigning defrostees to their permanent careers and providing them with the proper [[Career Chip|career chips]]. Then one day a defrostee named [[Philip J. Fry]] came along and inspired her to quit her job. Ultimately, she ended up being hired by Fry's many-times-great-nephew [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Hubert Farnsworth]] as the new captain for his interstellar delivery service, [[Planet Express]]. In that position, she also acquired her beloved pet [[Nibbler]], who is still with her. She was briefly named [[Miss Universe]] by accident, and was also named ''Orphan of the Year'' in her old orphanarium. After a lifetime of searching, she learned of her true heritage as a [[Sewer Mutants|mutant]] and was finally reunited with her parents. For a short time, she was a professional [[Blernsball]] player with the [[New New York Mets]], being the first woman to play major league Blernsball. When she got hold of genuine [[Dr. FlimFlam's Miracle Cream|Miracle cream]], which temporarily causes super powers in humans, Leela briefly became a member of a team of super heroes named [[The New Justice Team]], consisting of her, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] (also under the influence of the miracle cream) and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]. Her secret identity was the super heroine [[The New Justice Team#Clobberella|Clobberella]].
+Leela was captured by the Sewer Mutants, along with Fry and Bender, who wanted to punish them for dumping toxic waste in the sewers.  They were rescued by [[Turanga Morris and Munda|two mysterious strangers]] who got the Head Mutant to change their punishment into a banishment, instead of an execution.  Leela, curious about the strangers, jumps back into the sewers and chases the two back to their house, threatening them with a gun.  The two tell her that they were the ones who killed her parents, and Leela, in an uncontrolled rage, almost killed them, but was stopped by Fry.  It is revealed that the two were actually Leela's parents, and Leela rejoices.  Leela also impregnated [[Kif Kroker]], became a superheroin called [[Clobberella]], was stung by a [[Space Bee]], and sold her hand in marriage to the [[Robot Devil]] in exchange for some mechanical ears.
-As a cyclops, Leela has always had difficulties in relationships with others, especially men. Because of this, she is jealous of [[Amy Wong|Amy]]'s constant successes with the opposite sex. All of Leela's romantic engagements have so far proven to be short-lived. On her list of past relationships are: [[Shawn]], [[Doug]], [[Zapp Brannigan]] (''see [[Zapp-Leela relationship]] for more info''), [[Adlai Atkins]], [[Chaz]], [[William Shatner]], [[Alcazar]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], and [[Lars Fillmore]]. She made the mistake of sleeping with [[Zapp Brannigan]] when, for a split second, her common sense was overwhelmed by pity - a deed she has regretted many times, as Zapp has developed an unhealthy obsession for her, and she, in reaction to this, has developed an overwhelming hatred for him. Apart from him, her most persistent admirer to date has been [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] - they were even briefly married during a time-skip, but Leela believed he had tricked her into marriage, and divorced him during the next time-skip. Fry was frequently rejected by her, but did not give up, and his patience seems to have been be rewarded - at the very end of [[Into the Wild Green Yonder]], Leela admitted her love for him.
+===Meets Lars Filmore===
+{{further|Bender's Game}}
+Planet Express is "back on the air," after the Box Company canceled them for two years.  [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes']] head is chopped off in an accident at the party, and Leela meets [[Lars Filmore]] at the Head Museum.  Planet Express is stolen by the [[Alien Scammers]], and the [[Machine Language Time Code|secret to time travel]] is found on Fry's ass, but Leela and Lars' relationship grow undisturbed.
-[[Kif Kroker]], Zapp's luckless First Officer, also holds her in high esteem for various reasons. Firstly, she treated him well during his brief employment at [[Planet Express]], which must have seemed like heaven to him after enduring Zapp's humiliations; secondly, she is the [[Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch|biological parent of his offspring]], and helped defend them until they reached the safety of the water in the birthing grounds on [[Amphibios 9]].
+Leela and Lars both get laid off from their jobs, due to the scammers scamming people out of their possesions, but Lars still proposes to Leela.  Leela agrees.  At the wedding, Hermes' head is chopped off a second time, and it is revealed to Lars that a [[Time paradox duplicate]] is always doomed to die.  Lars calls off the wedding and leaved Leela to sadness.
 ===Family===