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{{character infobox
|name=Turanga Leela
|image=[[File:Leela promo 2.jpg|225px]]
|image text=A [[promotional picture]] of Leela.
|species=[[Sewer Mutants|Mutant]] {{small|(posed as an [[Alien]])}}
|type=p
|origin=[[Earth]], [[United States]], [[New New York]] {{small|([[New New York sewers|sewers]])}}
|birth date={{date|July|29}}, [[2975]] {{er|2ACV02|6ACV07}}
|age={{age|2975|7|29}} <!-- do not change this before a debate on the talk page -->
|voiced by=Katey Sagal
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}
|job=Space captain at [[Planet Express]]
|family=''See "[[#Family|Family]]" section''
}}

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

== Personality and abilities ==
During her youth, Leela was often teased because she only had one eye.  She felt very lonely in her childhood after being abandoned by her parents at an orphanarium, and always dreamed of learning who her real parents were. It should be noted that Leela's parents abandoned her in hopes that she would have a better life on the surface. She eventually learns that she is a mutant, rather than an alien, which she had always thought she was.  Leela has been shown to care a great deal about her mutant parents, even stealing a priceless [[Quantum Gemerald]] from a museum along with Bender and Fry, when the Zookeeper threatens to feed them to piranhas.

Despite her troubled past, Leela is friendly, smart and self-reliant, though she is 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 environment and cute animals. However she does not hesitate to use force if she believes the situation demands it. She also has a liking for violence and was often sarcastic, 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 employee at [[Planet Express]], who often takes potshots at Leela’s appearance and ostensibly unfeminine demeanour, despite Leela having a strong sensitivity for cuteness and romantic issues.

Leela lives alone in a somewhat under-furnished apartment ([[Apartment 1I]]) somewhere in the city of [[New New York]]. She only shares her loneliness with her alien pet, [[Nibbler]]. 

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, environmental 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. (Although in [[Cold Warriors]], Leela's metabolism was not involved in finding the cure, but a vaccine was extracted from an experimental virus sample found on Enceladus). Also, it might explain why Leela is so fond of sports and so 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 is also highly skilled in martial arts which has been shown on numerous occasions.

She is also shown to be obsessive at times, and in "[[Möbius Dick]]", this reached a critical level when she began displaying symptoms of multiple personality disorder as a result of the futile efforts of attempting kill a [[Four-dimensional space whale]] that devoured their latest delivery. She also has an [[iPod]] {{et|5ACV14}}.

Leela's single giant eye unfortunately gives her poor depth perception, which has been hinted is the reason she crashes into billboards at the start of every episode. It's also the reason why she was the worst [[blernsball]] player who ever lived. In the episode "Reincarnation" her eye color is shown to be blue.

== Biography ==
=== Early years ===
[[File:Baby Leela.jpg|thumb|Leela as she was found in the [[Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium|Orphanarium]]]]
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 like a normal child except for her one eye, 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]].

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.
[[File:Teenage Leela.jpg|thumb|left|Leela as a teenager]]

=== 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.

=== 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 races.  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 [[Lrrr]] when [[Second Omicronian Invasion of Earth|the crew found out that Popplers were the Omicronians' young]].  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 a high-ranking member of [[Nibblonians|an ancient alien species]].  The Nibblonians 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 "raeson" and thanks to the Brains' psychic attack, she doesn't remember anything about Nibbler or the Brains.  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 helped cause the Roswell incident.

=== Leela's real home planet ===
{{further|Season 4}}
Leela was later 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 convinced the Supreme Mutant to change their punishment into a life-long banishment from the sewers, instead of 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 superheroine 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 Fillmore ===
{{further|Bender's Big Score}}
Shortly after Fry's opera, Planet Express delivery license is canceled. However; either due to the Box network's or the Professor's incompetence, it took two years for the staff to be informed. The true period of joblessness lasted for a few moments before Planet Express was "back on the air," During a party to celebrate the company's renewal, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes']] head is chopped off in an Limbo accident, and Leela meets [[Lars Fillmore]] at the Head Museum.  Ownership of Planet Express is stolen by the [[Scammer Aliens]] who discover the [[Machine Language Time Code|secret to time travel]] on Fry's ass, but Leela and Lars' relationship grows undisturbed.  Fry watches them date with great envy and anger.

Despite both Leela and Lars getting laid off from their jobs, due to the Scammers tricking people out of their possessions, Lars proposes to Leela and Leela agrees.  At the wedding, Hermes' head is chopped off a duplicate of his body that Bender went back in time to pick up for him. The professor inadvertently reveals to Lars that a [[Time paradox duplicate]] is always doomed to die.  Lars calls off the wedding and left Leela to depression.

Later, the entire population of Earth is forced to move to different planets, due to [[Richard Nixon's head|President Nixon]] being scammed out of Earth's remaining land and water.  The crew moves to [[Neptune]] in response.  There, [[Santa Claus]] is unable to attack them, being in a deep depression over being scammed out of his Naughty List.  They team up and plan to defeat the Scammers.  At first, Nixon is skeptical of their chances to succeed, but Santa gets his [[Santa's Workshop|factory of elves]] to build powerful weapons for the army.  The small army that they assembled fought against the Scammer's fleet of [[Remote-controlled solid gold Death Star|Solid Gold Death Stars]], but their first leader, Zapp Brannigan, was taken down.  Leela takes his place, but soon realizes that she can't control so many ships at one time.  Thus, Hermes's head uses his bureaucratic skills to control the other ships and take down the Scammers' fleet.

During the 3008 New Years Eve Party that took place on Earth shortly afterward, Fry sees how sad Leela is without Lars and realizes that if he really loved her, he would care more about her happiness, rather than his own.  He tries to get Leela back together with Lars, but is interrupted by [[Nudar]], who survived the battle and wants to kill them.  Lars sacrifices himself and saves Fry and Leela. After seeing the machine language time code on his butt, Leela realizes that Lars is actually Fry's [[time paradox duplicate]]. The crew all attend Lars's funeral where his video will explains what happened after he traveled back in time and why he decided not to marry Leela.  

Later, Nibbler has Bender go back in time one last time to put the Time Code on Fry's butt to start the entire cycle. After completing his mission, Bender convinces the duplicates of him to return to the present instead of "coming up where they were logically supposed to." The large paradox caused by hundreds of Bender's makes a large rip in time and space.

=== Last tentacle-free person in the universe ===
{{further|The Beast with a Billion Backs}}
When the rip in time and space starts producing tentacles that attach itself to people, Leela and the crew (except Fry), become one of the few isolated pockets of tentacle free people.  The crew try to escape Earth, but are blocked by [[Dr. Ogden Wernstrom|Dr. Wernstrom's]] [[Diamondillium]] shield.  They take cover in the Planet Express Building, along with Wernstrom, but [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] is taken.  Fry tries to get them to come out and join [[Yivo]], but they refuse.  Later, the tentacles infiltrate the building and the Professor, Hermes, and Wernstrom are overcome by the tentacles.  Leela escapes with Amy on a [[Party Board]].

While hiding in an alley, it is revealed to them that Zapp Brannigan was also free.  They all hide together in an abandoned soup cabin in a remote area.  The next day, Leela finds out that Zapp had slept with Amy, but is more surprised at the fact that the tentacles have found them.  Leela manages to escape with a piece of the tentacle, but Zapp and Amy do not.

Leela goes back to Planet Express and examines the piece with a microscope.  She realizes that the tentacles are actually [[Coinage#G|Gentacles]] and that Yivo was actually mating with everyone in the universe.  She pretends to have a tentacle attached and goes into the Church of [[Yivo's Religion]] where she reveals to the world the truth.  The religion is abandoned, but they eventually go on a date with Yivo to make up.  The Earthican council decides to break up with Yivo due to shkler lack of commitment, but Yivo proposes to them before they could say anything. Everyone in the universe moves to [[Parallel universes|Yivo's Universe]], but Leela was forced to go, despite being against it.

On Yivo, Leela was skeptic about the heavenly paradise at first, but when she finally admits to being happy, Bender and his [[Army of the Damned]] invade Yivo and takes them back to their universe.

=== Leegola ===

[[File:Leegola.jpg|thumb|right|Leela as Leegola]]

{{further|Bender's Game}}
Later in 3008, Leela is goaded by [[Sal]] into entering the Planet Express Ship into the [[Space Demolition Derby]].  She leads the crew to a victory, but finds herself in trouble when Zoidberg tattles to the professor about her reckless behavior.  Leela is forced to wear a shock collar, designed to give her and electrical shock if she has any violent thoughts, among others.

After several hopeless attempts to convince Zoidberg, the staff doctor, that she doesn't need the collar any more, Leela grew accustomed with the electrical shocks and even begins to enjoy them.  She, along with Fry and the professor, launch an [[Planet Express' Attack on Mombil "Mine"|attack]] on the [[Mombil]] [[Dark Matter]] mine in [[Alaska]].  She aids the team greatly by using her violence and eventually discovers that the mine was actually a farm that harvested the fecal matter of [[Nibblonians]].  Leela also finds her pet [[Nibbler]] there.

Suddenly, in the middle of the battle, the floor cracks open and Leela is sent to [[Cornwood]], the land created by Bender's imagination.  There, she becomes a centaur named [[Leegola]] (a combination of her name and that of {{w|Lord of the Rings}} character {{w|Legolas}}).  She joins [[Frydo]], [[Titanius Anglesmith]], [[Gynecaladriel]], and the [[Great Wizard Greyfarn]] in forming the [[Fellowship]] and embark on a quest to defeat [[Momon]], queen of evil.  However, halfway through the quest, Leegola realizes that in her rage she had murdered an [[Zoidberg (Cornwood)|innocent monster]].  She vows not to harm another living being again and joins the other, more peaceful [[Centaurs]].

Leegola later finds out that her friends were endangered by [[Momon's Army]].  She returns back to normal and convinces the other centaurs to form their own army and fight against Momon.  In doing so, Momon's Army is defeated and her friends are saved.  She, along with most of the Fellowship, go to the [[Geysers of Gygax]] where Momon destroys Cornwood and sends them back to the real world.  Dark matter then becomes useless as fuel and they temporarily use Nibblonians as transport.

=== The new leader of the Feministas ===
{{further|Into the Wild Green Yonder}}
Leela, along with the rest of Planet Express, took a trip to [[Leo Wong]]'s [[Mars Vegas]], where they meet [[Frida Waterfall]] and the [[Feministas]].  Leela feels concerned about Leo's disrespect for nature in building the city, and adopts the last [[Desert Muck Leech]].

Later, Leela and Amy were allowed into [[Wongminster]], Leo's miniature golf club.  Leo plans on destroying twelve percent of the Milky Way to expand his club, and sends Planet Express to do a scan for life in the twelve percent.  Although they find a life filled asteroid, orbiting a [[Violet Dwarf Star]], Professor Farnsworth ignores it and approves the area for demolition anyways.  Upset at the disregard of the men, Leela joins the Feministas.

Leela was part of a Feminista protest at Wongminster, where, due to an accident, they kill the [[Headless body of Agnew]], and flee, becoming fugitives.  While hiding, Leela encourages the rest to be more forceful in protecting the environment by sabotaging Wong's construction of the golf course.  They gain more and more members, and eventually take over the Planet Express Ship, as well as Hermes, Zoidberg, and Farnsworth.

Later, Fry unwittingly lures the Feministas out of their [[Honeybun Hideout]], and leads to an exciting space chase through the miniature golf course where the Feministas ultimately get arrested by Bender.  They have a trial ([[Earth v. Feministas]]), where they are sentenced to [[Maxi-Padlock]], a prison for women.

After spending a few days in prison, and unsuccessfully trying to break out with Leela's muck leech, they are broken out by Bender, Farnsworth, Hermes, Zoidberg, and Scruffy, although only Leela, Amy, and LaBarbara managed to escape.  They go to the Violet Dwarf, where they manage to stop it from getting destroyed, just in time for it to hatch into [[The Last Encyclopod]].  it is revealed that the muck leech was [[The Last Dark One]], and it is killed after it murders [[Hutch Waterfall]].  The Encyclopod preserves Hutch's DNA, and leaves.  Zapp then chases the Planet Express crew in the Nimbus.  Leela confesses her love of Fry and they kiss before flying into the [[Panama Wormhole]] to escape. 

=== Reborn ===
{{further|Season 6}}
The [[Planet Express]] [[Planet Express ship|ship]] goes through the [[Panama Wormhole]] and exits in [[Earth]] orbit. The ship is shot by [[Zapp Brannigan]]'s flagship [[Nimbus]] and thus loses power and crashes in front of the company [[Planet Express headquarters|headquarters]], killing all the [[Planet Express crew|crew]] except the [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor]] and Leela who was saved by Fry. Saddened by Fry's death, she builds Robot Fry at a [[Build-A-Bot Workshop]]. Unfortunately, due to excess wiring in his stomach, he short circuited killing Leela and wiping both of their short term memories. Then, Robot Fry build a [[Robot Leela]]. When Leela is finally awakened, she fought with the Robot Leela, until the real Fry is reborn. The two robots then leave forever and everything is back to normal {{et|6ACV01}}. She is later send with Zapp to the V-GINY, but they crashed on an unknown planet. It i slater revealed it was a plan of Zapp to seduce Leela {{et|6ACV02}}. Fry discovered her singing boil and published the video on Twitcher, making the whole world laugh of Leela {{et|6ACV03}}.
She went in Rome to discover Da Vinci's secret {{et|6ACV05}}. When Hermes traveled to Mexico, she temporarily became a bureaucrat {{et|6ACV06}}. On her birthday, she went on a date with Fry who was late {{et|6ACV07}}. She switched bodies with Amy who was in the Professor's body, and have sex with Fry in Zoidberg's body {{et|6ACV10}}. After being revealed as a mutant, she was forced to live in the sewers, and led the Devolution Revolution {{et|6ACV12}}.

== Character Description ==

=== Family ===
 
*[[Turanga Morris]], father
*[[Turanga Munda]], mother
*[[Philip J. Fry]], ex-husband{{er|3ACV14}}, boyfriend {{small|(husband in alternate [[timeline]]s)}} {{et|7ACV26}}
*[[Lord Nibbler]], pet
*[[Leela's grandmother|Grandmother]]
*[[Leela's great-grandmother|Great-grandmother]]
*Due to an accident, and because of the reproductive process of [[Amphibiosans]], she has [[Kif's offspring|several dozen offspring]] from [[Kif Kroker]], who lived in an immature "tadpole" form in the swamp of the [[Clan Kroker's Sacred Birthing Grounds|Kroker clan birthing grounds]] on [[Amphibios 9]] before the three survivors emerged in [[3023]]. About half of these have only one eye each, like her, though only one cyclops survived the Winnowing. {{et|4ACV01}} However, due to Amphibiosian cultural beliefs, Amy is considered the "true" mother. {{et|8ACV02}}
*In "[[A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", she nearly married [[Alcazar]].
*In "[[Time Keeps on Slippin']]", she was shown to be 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. 
*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.
*Unnamed son with Philip J Fry {{small|(alternate timeline)}}  <ref> {{cite web |url= https://comicbook.com/anime/news/futurama-fry-leela-child/ |title= Futurama Finale Reveals First Look at Fry and Leela's Child|author=Valdez, Nick|date=2024-10-2|publisher=Comic Book|accessdate=2024-10-03}}</ref>
[[File:Elbowtalons.jpg|right|thumb|Leela's other mutation.]]

=== Mutations ===
As a sewer mutant, Leela has mutations. The most obvious is her only eye making her a cyclops. But she also shown she has a second mutation. She grows skin covered spikes, called "[[Coinage#E|elbow talons]]", from her elbows. However, she usually trims these ([[The Beast with a Billion Backs|TBWABB]]). She later revealed that she has a third mutation which was discovered by Fry in [[3010]], a talking boil on her body named [[Susan]], which she lances every few months {{et|6ACV03}}. According to her, she has 205 bones, making her one less than normal humans {{et|6ACV22}} but this could simply be because she only has one eye. These attributes may be related to the fact that she keeps active, yet it may partly be either minor mutations, or possibly extremely rare and unusual family genes, before Old-New-York was destroyed, and her ancestors there were mutated. She has deep-purple hair, as do her mother and her maternal grandmother; her maternal great-grandmother did too. She also occasionally lays an egg and she also suffered from 'squidification' which caused her to grow suction cups on her hands before her entire body and hair became a mass of tentacles. This mutation was cured by Mom's genetic engineering.{{et|7ACV22}}.
[[File:Leela 2eyes 1.jpg|right|thumb|Two-eyed Leela.]]

===Two-eyed Leela===    
       
Leela has been seen with two eyes several times, though each time it appeared different:    
*"[[When Aliens Attack]]" &mdash; To portray the role of Jenny MacNeal, a plastic eye is taped to the side of her face (which [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Zoidberg]] later eats). This is clearly the least-convincing appearance of a two-eyed Leela.
*"[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]" &mdash; 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]]" &mdash; 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.
*"''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''" &mdash; When the Professor asks if Leela is winking or blinking, Leela wears a pair of two-eyed glasses with a {{w|lenticular printing|lenticular}} "winking" animation to clarify.

=== Alternate Appearances ===

*'''{{es|2ACV17}}''': '''Lee Lemon''': Leela disguises herself as a man in order to enlist in the DOOP Army.
*'''{{es|3ACV15}}''': '''Parallel Leela''': The only difference apparent between Leela and her counterpart in the parallel universe (the ''only'' alternate universe at the time) was that parallel Leela (along with the rest of the parallel Planet Express crew) was wearing a cowboy hat and vest when both crews visited the [[Edge of the Universe]]. Whether this is the norm for the parallel Crew, or was due to some difference in parallel Fry's touristy adventure that day was never mentioned.
*'''{{es|3ACV18}}''': '''Witch Leela''': In Leela's dream, she asked to become the new Wicked Witch.
*'''{{es|4ACV04}}''': '''[[Clobberella]]''': Leela turns into a superhero named Clobberella.
*'''{{es|4ACV13}}''': '''Wedding disguise''': As part of the plan to crash [[Coilette]]' s (Bender) wedding to [[Calculon]], Leela donned a blond wig, shades and a red dress and pretended to be a diamond smuggler.
*'''{{es|BG}}''': '''[[Leegola]]''': In Cornwood, she turns into a centaur named Leegola.
*'''{{es|6ACV20}}''': Leela temporarily becomes a man.
*'''{{es|6ACV26}}''': Leela is drawn in {{w|anime}} style.

=== Relationships ===
:''(In chronological order)''
*[[Sean]]
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] {{small|(see ''[[Fry-Leela relationship]]'' for more info)}}
*[[Doug (humanoid)|Doug]] {{small|(went on a date)}}
*[[Zapp Brannigan|Zapp]] {{small|(see ''[[Zapp-Leela relationship]]'' for more info)}}
*[[Dean Vernon]] {{small|(went on a date)}}
*[[Alcazar]]
*[[Adlai Atkins]]
*[[Chaz]]
*[[William Shatner's head|William Shatner]] {{small|(had a brief fling)}}
*[[Yivo]]
*[[Cubert Farnsworth]] {{small|(in previous universes)}}

At some point, she dated another man named Fry, and got a tattoo with his name on a hidden part of her body. However, this may only apply to one particular alternate universe. {{9ACV10}}

==Additional Info==    
[[File:Leela's Contact Lens.jpg|right|thumb|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 Spanish, [[French language|French]] (''lilas''), [[German language|German]] ("lila"), Danish (''lilla''), [[Sweden|Swedish]] (''lila''), Finnish (''liila''), Romanian ("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. Additionally, in Bungie's 1994 Macintosh game Marathon, there is an AI character named Leela.  Lastly, she might have been inspired by a character from the British Sci-Fi series ''[[wikia:c:tardis:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'' bearing the same name ([[wikia:c:tardis:Leela|Leela]]). "Turanga" may be derived from the symphony "{{w|Turangalila}}" by Olivier Messiaen ([[1908]]-1992). <ref>A record of the symphony appears in "[[Fry and Leela's Big Fling]]".</ref> The term derives from Sanskrit and means, alternately, "Song of Love" and "Hymn to Joy". 
*Even though Turanga is her family name and not her first name, it is said first when pronouncing her full name which may mean [[Leela's parents|her family]] is from East Asia, Hungary, Sri Lanka among other places in which surnames are said first in a personal name. 
*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 [[Philip J. Fry|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") {{et|1ACV01}}.
**In another occular pun, Leela's apartment number is [[Apartment 1I|1I]]. {{et|3ACV02}}
*Books read by Leela include ''[[True Stories of Courageous Animals]]'' {{et|3ACV02}}, ''[[Great Machete Battles]]'' {{et|4ACV01}}, ''[[Dances of the Ancient Bronx]]'' {{et|4ACV07}}, ''[[A Child's Garden of Space Legends]]'' {{et|4ACV09}}, and ''[[World's Bravest Hamsters]]'' {{et|6ACV06}}, plus the magazines ''[[Nosy Enquirer]]'' (headline: ''Bigfoot turns 80!'') {{et|4ACV15}} and ''[[Mu-Teen Magazine]]'' {{et|4ACV09}}.
*Tends to snore.
*Always uses lipstick, mostly pink, and is rarely seen without it.
[[File:Lipstick.jpg|thumb|Leela applying lipstick]]
*Used to brew her own beer at the orphanarium.{{et|3ACV12}}
*Can do the Robot Dance like no one else.{{et|1ACV05}}
*Owns her own harpoon.
*Tends to fill her day with humdrum activities. {{et|4ACV04}}
*Claims to be camera-shy. {{et|1ACV12}}
*Usually prepares her dinners in advance for one month and then freezes them. {{et|2ACV18}}
*Enjoys eating whole chicken and sucking the jelly from a jelly donut {{et|8ACV02}}. Her favorite dinner is chicken-shaped steak (steak cut into the shape of a chicken) {{et|8ACV07}}. 
*Sometimes seen with a lime-green jacket in earlier episodes and Season 2.
*Adept in the use of weaponry like laser guns or machetes.
*Used to play the drums. {{et|1ACV09}}
*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.
**As shown in [[Anthology of Interest I|the very first ''Anthology of Interest'']], Leela does not seem to wear socks under her boots. This may contribute to the 'poor' hygiene of her feet.
*She wears a bracelet made by [[Turanga Morris|her father]] at all times.
*Apart from [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], she is the only character that appears in every episode of the show and in every comic.
*Has had seven weddings; three were called off, two were followed by divorce and one was erased from time. Three of these were made to Fry or a variant of him. [[Reverend Lionel Preacherbot]] performed the first three of these, [[Father Changstein El-Gamal]] performed the fourth. A sixth proposition was made, but the wedding never actually took place. It is unknown who performed her wedding to Cubert in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]". Her sixth wedding was performed by the [[Space Pope]], although he was frozen in time, while her seventh was performed, unwillingly, by [[Zapp Brannigan]].
**To [[Alcazar]] {{et|2ACV09}}
**To [[Philip J. Fry]], followed by divorce {{et|3ACV14}}
**To [[Robot Devil]] {{et|4ACV18}}
**To [[Lars Fillmore]] {{et|5ACV03}}
**To [[Yivo]], no wedding {{et|TBwaBB}}
**To [[Cubert Farnsworth]], in a previous universe, towards the mid [[31st century]] {{et|6ACV07}}
**To Fry {{et|7ACV26}}. This wedding was erased from time {{et|8ACV01}}.
**To Fry, in an alternate timeline {{et|9ACV10}}.
*Can wield a gun with her foot, and hides one in her boot for easy access. {{et|TBwaBB}}
*May very well be [[The other|the second-most important person in the universe]] behind Fry (though she doesn't know it).
*Actually continued to legally work at [[Applied Cryogenics]] until [[2ACV11]]
*Has been seen in a lime-green tank top (instead of her usual white one) once, in "[[My Three Suns]]".
*Apparently wears a large contact lens {{et|4ACV10}}, which she takes out at night to be cleaned by fish. She is unable to read well without wearing her lens {{et|8ACV08}}.
*Wears size 12 boots, which is particularly large for a woman {{et|6ACV01}}.
*Slept with Fry in her what-if scenario in "[[Anthology of Interest I]]" and possibly in real life (see "[[The Duh-Vinci Code]]"). Unambiguously slept with Fry in "[[The Prisoner of Benda]]", while her mind was in the Professor's body and Fry's mind was in Zoidberg's body. She has presumably slept with him many times since. 
*Licks her fingers starting with her pointer and ending with her thumb.
*Her surname is revealed in the episode "[[The Problem with Popplers]]".
*She'd prefer to have the end locker at [[Planet Express headquarters|Planet Express]], but [[Amy]] won't trade with her.
*She has said the last words in all four of the episodes written to be the series finale.
*Was known as "One Eye" and "The Bed Wetter of Building D" {{et|6ACV22}} at the orphanarium where she grew up.
*As a teenager, she drove around town in a mausoleum with nine other teenagers {{et|7ACV02}}. 
*She may suffer diarrhea, which she treats with medicine {{et|8ACV05}}.
*In at least one alternate reality, she suffers psychotic breaks and believes she can control the weather. {{et|9ACV10}}
*She has a "chronic cold butt." {{et|9ACV10}}

===Quotes===    
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<poem>'''Leela''': I guess you never outgrow being an eyeball... oddball.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Fry, you're wasting your life in front of that TV. You've got to get out and see the real world.
'''[[Fry]]''': But this is {{w|HDTV}}, it's got better resolution than the real world.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': I don't care how hilarious your apron is, we're not cooking [[Nibbler|him]]!</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, if everyone's finished being stupid.
'''Fry''': I had more, but you go ahead.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': That's stupid.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Well, you obviously won't listen to reason, so I guess I'll listen to idiotic-ness and come with you.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': For a split second, my common sense was overwhelmed by pity.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': OK, OK. We're not gonna force [[Prof. Farnsworth|you]] until I finish this sentence. Get him!</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': We are not ignorant villagers, we're sophisticated New New Yorkers. Whup his butt!</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': I'm sorry you saw that, Fry. I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.
'''Fry''': Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.</poem>
<poem>'''Leela''': Bender! You should be ashamed of yourself. Legal immigration is one of the cornerstones of our society.
'''[[Bender]]''': Aren't you really a [[sewer mutant|mutant]] pretending to be an alien in order to live on the surface world legally?
'''Leela''': I'll be sitting here quietly if anybody needs me.</poem>
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=== Catchphrases ===
Leela's main [[catchphrase]] is "[[Oh, Lord]]", and also possibly her yell "[[Hi-yah!]]".

She often uses old musical references, turning the first word into a verb and applying it to the last word as a noun. Examples:
*"This wangs chung!" - A reference to both the band {{w|Wang Chung}}, and their hit song "{{w|Everybody Have Fun Tonight}}", which includes the line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight" {{et|3ACV03}}.
*"This toads the wet sprocket!" - A reference to the band {{w|Toad the Wet Sprocket}} {{et|3ACV21}}.
*"Setting Bachman Turners to overdrive!" - A reference to the band {{w|Bachman–Turner Overdrive}} {{et|6ACV13}}.

[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] also uses this formula when referring to her attraction to creative and musically-talented men. Examples:

*"Musicians really Rodger your Hammerstein." - A reference to the famous composers {{w|Rodgers and Hammerstein}} {{et|4ACV18}}.

Her phrase "[[Oh, Lord]]" is used quite a lot, usually just before a previous action comes back to haunt her, and has used variations of the phrase "Good night, sweet prince" from ''{{w|Hamlet}}'' when parting with Fry on several occasions ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]], [[Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences|6ACV11]]).

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

*[[:Category:A plots focusing on Leela|A plots focusing on Leela]]
*[[:Category:B plots focusing on Leela|B plots focusing on Leela]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Athletes]]
[[Category:Bureaucrats]]
[[Category:Captains]]
[[Category:Humans]]
[[Category:Mutants]]
[[Category:Orphans]]
[[Category:Planet Express]]
[[Category:Turanga family]]
[[Category:Articles that reference Fun on a Bun]]
[[Category:Articles that reference A Farewell to Arms]]
[[Category:Articles that reference Naturama]]
[[Category:Articles that reference Zapp Dingbat]]
[[Category:Articles that reference The Butterjunk Effect]]