"John" also has a close friendship with Werner (Angel) who only learns her true gender after she sacrifices her life for her comrades, during their battle against Otto Von Doom (Doctor Doom). They remained together for several years. [26] These therapy sessions lead to a "psychic affair" between Scott and Emma. Named "Madelyne Pryor", the unaware clone meets Cyclops in a situation engineered by Sinister and the two fall in love, marry, and have a child, Nathan Christopher Summers. In a final act of desperation Jean finds Hulk and locks away Bruce Banner's mind, leaving only the Hulk in control so he can fight Onslaught unencumbered. Now, I don't think the story would end there. Scott, who felt he couldn't get through to his angry and hurt wife, subsequently left the X-Men to mull over what was happening in his life.[145]. public affection) concerned her as a "leap backward". When she re-surfaced, Jean was working together with Sinister and Apocalypse to recruit the aid of Havok's new team, the Six, against an evil Xavier. The group was led by Carlos Javier (the Charles Xavier of the 1602 universe). Now, its power was enough to sustain Jean's form without her actual body. Meanwhile, Scott and Madelyne's marriage had become strained. Her first death was under her guise as Marvel Girl, when she died and was "reborn" as Phoenix in "The Dark Phoenix Saga". Scott was hit hard by this news but hid it from Madelyne and began packing. [77] Old Man Logan is able to make Jean Grey remember her true life and she learns about the fate of her family and several of her friends, among them Cyclops. [51], Scott had no idea the woman he loved had been replaced by a cosmic being while the real Jean rested in a cocoon at the bottom of the bay. [133][134] Banished from her own universe, she ended up on Earth-998, where she pretended to be a reincarnation of the recently deceased Queen Madelyne. It seems at a young age she has a thing for Cyclops but tells him to wait 20 years. Her mutant abilities of telekinesis and telepathy manifested when she was a young girl, much to the concern of her parents. She was taken to the hospital as a Jane Doe. They joined the Askani-inspired Clan Rebellion to undermine Apocalypse's empire. Rather than watch Jean die a slow painful death, Wolverine tried to kill Jean, but he awoke the Phoenix Force within her. This storyline is one of the most well-known and heavily referenced in mainstream American superhero comics, and is widely considered a classic, including Jean Grey's suicidal sacrifice. Xavier found Jean Grey while she was in a mental hospital, having problems controlling her telepathy and having troublesome visions of a Phoenix raptor. [137], New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of the Jean Grey, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternative reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King. But he promised himself he would bring her back as soon as possible, which he did in issue 97 when he became the sole writer of the title. Cyclops, Jean, Xavier, and Domino convinced Stryfe to expel himself from Cable's mind. [42], Along with her teammates, Jean was captured by the mutant island Krakoa which led Xavier to recruit a new team of X-Men. Jean subconsciously saw through the Phoenix's farce, and caused psychic incidents back in the real world as cries for help. Jean and Nate volunteered to "sift through the psychic energy" of the rifts and report back to wider group. [volume & issue needed], Jean kills many members of the Hellfire club in a fit of Phoenix powered rage before Xavier calms her down. [25], Warned that the Phoenix Force was coming to claim her as its host by the ghost of her older self, Jean refused to share her older self's fate and took steps to prepare for its arrival by consulting its prior hosts -- Rachel Summers, Hope Summers, Magik, the Stepford Cockoos and Emma Frost -- as well as deific beings like Odinson, powerful psychics like Psylocke, and mages like Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch. [82], Following Madelyne's funeral, X-Factor was attacked by Nanny and Orphan-Maker, but X-Factor rescued Jean's niece and nephew. Although the full scale of Jean's powers currently are unclear, she stated that the Phoenix Force had been holding her back while she was its host. Rachel had taken them to the moment right after Scott's young son Nathan, the boy who would one day become Cable, had first arrived in the future infected with a techno-organic virus after Scott had sent him there to find a possible cure. She feels guilty over the incident for weeks, but after a while, she manifests signs of the Phoenix, beginning to draw upon more and more of the residual Phoenix energies buried within her mind to help the X-Men on several occasions, combating Magneto and the deceptive and manipulative Magician. It's revealed that she broke up with Scott after he lost faith in Xavier's vision when Xavier and the Avengers proposed self-policing of mutant and superhero kind with the Avengers to prevent the Superhuman Registration Act. [50], Learning of her true identity and purpose as a clone created by Mister Sinister drove her completely insane and she plans to sacrifice Nathan Christopher to achieve greater power and unleash literal Hell on Earth. Jean Grey/The Phoenix. The Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook detailed Jean's telepathic abilities: Jean is also one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high intelligence, such as dolphins,[108] dogs,[109] and ravens[110]). [132], A counterpart of Jean Grey from Earth-9575, who had most of her powers taken away for crimes unknown and for that reason it is not clear whether she had access to the Phoenix Force. She is also an Omega-Level Telepath & Omega-Level Telekinetic. In reality, Jean was saved by Apocalypse and Magneto, and hidden from Professor X who was capturing all the telepaths in the world for his evil plans. [185] After her absorption of Psylocke's specialized telepathy, Jean's own telepathic skill and power was increased to a level at which she could create psionic firebirds capable of inflicting mental and physical damage. [citation needed], Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix appears in the sequel to Marvel Zombies, now a member of the Zombie Galactus, or rather Galacti, alongside other heroes. Storm was concerned about the mental well-being of Professor X. Xavier had been pretending to lose control in order to uncover a traitor he had sensed in the ranks of the X-Men. Her powers first manifested when she saw her childhood friend being hit by a car. [207][208] The Phoenix Force also allows its avatars to manifest additional powers, especially in terms of Jean as its "host, house, and self". [164] Jean helped draft the basic tenets of the new mutant nation and was part of the unanimous vote to exile Sabretooth into the depths of Krakoa. [144] Her flirtations with Logan are explored more in-depth in the first few issues of the title, and she confesses shortly after Logan's death that she loved him. 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In the end Magneto is defeated when Jean downloads Nick Fury's memories into Magneto, which reveals that mutants are not the next stage of human evolution, but rather a super-soldier experiment gone wrong. Jean encompassed him in her fire. Jean Grey has been a cornerstone of Marvel comics and of the X-Men for more than 60 years and is one, if not the most iconic character in that franchise. Jean Grey has expressed jealousy over the. and knocked the Phoenix to the ground. Jean pilots the shuttle back to Earth, but is exposed to fatal levels of radiation. [180][181] Jean's telepathy was activated when she was transported into the future where Xaview was dead. She eventually falls in love with fellow student, Weapon X. Jean is later kidnapped by Mr. Sinister, who offers her a place among his team. After twelve years, Nate, Slym, and Redd stopped Apocalypse from killing Stryfe and destroyed him once and for all. In recent history, Jean had once again lost her telepathic abilities— the circumstances behind her loss of this ability are as yet unrevealed. Because Charles Xavier was not present, the mental blocks he placed on her telepathy were destroyed. Jean assured the officers that none of the crowd had been psychically manipulated, although the revolutionaries translation of thought into action (i.e. In the initial plotline of the Phoenix being a manifestation of Jean's true potential, these powers are considered her own,[43] as part of Claremont and Byrne's desire to create "the first cosmic superheroine". The title consisted of a smaller team featuring Jean, Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Emma Frost, and Charles Xavier. Jean Grey is the strongest and complete host of Phoenix Force and as such, she is even capable of forcibly ripping it out of another host and forcing its status upon herself. [74] After a string of bizarre encounters with familiar enemies, many of them considered deceased, the X-Men come to one conclusion: the Phoenix Force is back on Earth. [124] While on leave, Scott called the original X-Men together to reassess Professor Xavier's dream of a peaceful co-existence between mutants and humans. Depictions of Jean's childhood and her relations with her family have shown a stable, loving family life growing up. She confronts Weapon X, then leaves him to try to stop the attack with the aid of Cyclops. In New Excalibur #24 she was stabbed in the shoulder with a broadsword by Petrie, one of Albion's Shadow Captains (de-powered mutants given ability-enhancing suits). [155], Later at a team meeting, the X-Men were conflicted over how to respond to the revolutionaries; Jean understood the more radical and less pacifistic view, but thought they were blowing things out of proportion. Jean excels at astral combat. Derry Campbell (niece, deceased);Julian (nephew, deceased);Joseph "Joey" Thomas Bailey (Shatter-Box) (nephew, deceased);Gailyn Bailey (Shatter-Box) (niece, deceased);Bekka Wallis (niece, deceased);Mary-Margaret (niece, deceased);Kindra (niece, deceased);Terry Maguire (relative, deceased); Summers and Grey Family Tree (more relatives). Upon arriving, the house exploded. As a founding member of the X-Men, Jean Grey has been fighting for the peaceful coexistence of mutants and humans, as Marvel Girl and later Phoenix, most of her life. [47] After defeating Lang, the X-Men had to escape back to Earth aboard a space shuttle during a solar radiation storm. Essentially, Nate was a younger version of Cable. Jean was personally asked by Storm to join her team, and she accepted, even though she had spent the previous months building a normal life and going to college. Prof. Xavier was left powerless after Onslaught's defeat and was arrested for his role in the events. The Force arrived on Earth, discovered that Jean's body was dead and went to her grave. [12] During one particular session, an aspect of young Jean's mind reached out in the form of a Phoenix flamebird to touch young orphan Scott Summers' mind as he slept. After she initially refused, Onslaught showed her Prof. Xavier's hidden memories, where Jean was shocked to learn her father figure and mentor had once believed he was in love with her. [86] Later, Scott proposed to Jean only to be turned down. She soared through the universe, where she devoured an entire star and the five-billion inhabitants of one of its planets. In June 2001, X-Men was retitled as New X-Men under writer Grant Morrison. [26] The Cosmic Cube, Kobik, sent her back in time to meet with the older Jean Grey - or rather, the Phoenix Force's manifestation as Jean Grey - just prior to her abduction by Mastermind, and Phoenix displayed the overwhelming power of the cosmic firebird by flying them into space - casually disregarding the laws of physics in the process - and picking a fight with Galactus and his herald Terrax the Tamer. Jean and the rest of the X-Men had no idea that Bishop had once been a part of their team, his position and house filled by X-23. The X-Man, Xorn revealed himself to be a traitor who claimed to be Magneto. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963). [79][80][81][82] After N'astirh attacked, X-Factor and the X-Men combined efforts to defeat him. She was born with telepathic and telekinetic powers. [53] Meanwhile, her psychic and telekinetic abilities begin to grow and she begins using the iconic green and gold Phoenix costume again. [83], The Goblin Queen attempted to sacrifice baby Nathan atop the Empire State Building to permanently open a gateway between Earth and Limbo to spite Scott. Sinister allowed Stryfe to gain control of Cable's body. Her telekinetic abilities prove her to be an incredibly formidable superhero. Apocalypse made him question not only their relationship but his life as a whole. [135], Investigating rumors he was alive, Jean and Cable found Scott in the birthplace of Apocalypse in Akkaba, Egypt, struggling to reassert his mind over the villain's psyche. Jean's teen past self is going to be one of the protagonists of the All New X-men magazine of the MARVEL!NOW event. Fully returned, Jean renounced the Phoenix once and for all, deciding to live life with the pain and loss that naturally comes with it instead of giving in to the Phoenix's temptations of a perfect life. Jean Grey appears in various media, such as animated programs, video games, films, and is sometimes referenced in pop culture. The series was written by Matthew Rosenberg with art by Leinil Francis Yu. She urged Scott to live. Madelyne bore Scott a son named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Charles Xavier II, the new leader of the displaced Brotherhood, attempts to attack the team using a psychic illusion of Xorn, but this deception is exposed by the young Jean. After beating him, she used her power to gain the knowledge necessary to deactivate the device Albion had used to nullify London's supply of electricity. After some time, she makes up with Rachel, welcoming her into her life, and proposes to Cyclops and the two marry. Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook. Attempting to save human lives, Jean was forced to kill the Morlock MeMe by switching his mind off. Recognizing that there has been a sudden surge in anti-mutant sentiment, to the point where there are plans to abort pregnancies if the mutant gene is detected, Jean announces her plans to establish a more official mutant nation, making it clear that she will not establish a geographic location for said nation as past examples make it clear that doing so just makes mutants a target. It placed Jean within a cocoon while her injuries healed. [volume & issue needed] Jean can also connect people's minds to the feelings of others and make them feel the pain they inflicted. Jean lost her telekinesis but her telepathy increased greatly. Matt Fraction (w), Greg Land (p), Jay Leisten (i). It ended badly when Trevor Fitzroy's Sentinels crashed the party, resulting in the deaths of the Hellions. [125] Scott began to worry that the Phoenix had returned until Jean lost her psi-powers as a result of the Psi-War. Jean released herself from the cocoon. She assumed he had fallen for Phoenix while she was asleep in the cocoon. One day those like her could grow to replace the fundamental forces of the universe. Quentin Quire found the Phoenix, but it rejected him and this leads to the Phoenix coming to the conclusion that the entire world is "sick" and plans on burning the sick world to destruction as it "would not work". However, Sinister was necessary for the birth of Nathan Dayspring, the Askani'son, who Madame Sanctity worshiped. The Phoenix Force responded to Jean's anguish and telepathic calls for help. Famke Janssen portrayed the character as an adult in the X-Men films while Sophie Turner portrayed her as a teenager and young adult. The children, however, could not remember her. "Fan the Flames", Louise Simonson (w), Walter Simonson (p), Dan Green (i). Madelyne had been a failed experiment of Mister Sinister. Realizing that Department X was not enough to combat the revolutionaries, Jean called for the X-Men to make a stand for "evolutionary rights" and meet the rebels head on at the holiday gathering. Jean is broken free of the bubble when Professor X, able to walk, uses his telepathy to free her and the other reserve X-Men, leaving her to subdue the other team of X-Men and the Morlocks. Jean and the rest of the X-Men were the primary response team to all matter of worldwide threats and danger. As a result of the power switch, Jean temporarily displayed a shadow astral form with a Phoenix symbol over her right eye.[133]. [14] Busiek, a fan of the original five X-Men, was displeased with the character's death and formulated various storylines that would have met Shooter's rule and allowed the character to return to the X-Men franchise. As a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, Jean Grey appears in various alternate plot lines and fictional universes. However, she doesn't recall her life as a mutant and an X-Man, and terrible visions from her previous life have left Jean unsure of the difference between reality and fiction. [112] Scott offered Cable and X-Force a home at the mansion. When she reaches her destination, the Silver Surfer arrives to warn her but she pushes on to find Heaven. Both Jean and Emma Frost, the White Queen, fell into comas. [volume & issue needed] Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full and at a far stronger level than before. Unknown to Mr. and Mrs. Grey, this school served as a cover for the X-Men, a team of young superhuman mutants being trained by Prof. Xavier to combat the threats posed by evil mutants who used their powers against humanity. Formerly X-Men Blackbird, X-Men Stratojet, X-Copter, Professor Xavier's Rolls Royce, Sentinel Air Transport, X-Factor Plane, and various aircraft's constructed by Ship. [53], The Phoenix revealed herself as a mutant in front of Jean's parents. Jean was added to the Gold Team beginning in Uncanny X-Men #281 (October, 1991). They bury the bodies of the various deceased X-Men on the estate's remains. Psychic Siphoning: Jean is able to drain others' psychic energy to enhance her psionic powers. [87], Scott and Jean started taking Nathan Christopher with them on missions. [volume & issue needed], Soon after, Jean is in Washington with the remaining X-Men, where Cyclops makes a speech, attempting to bring peace to the anti-mutant hostilities and to ask that all mutants surrender to the government. The X-Men accomplished their goal, but the entire team was killed in the attack. Sentry is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel universe, and although it can be too easy to write him off as another Superman clone like Hyperion, he’s so much more complex than that. event, a teenage Jean Grey and the four other founding members of X-Men are transported across time to the present day by Beast in the series All-New X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis. However, Jean still refused Onslaught. Nate possessed vast telepathic and telekinetic power. After her death, her friends gave her a burial at sea. [132], Jean, now returned to the X-Men, and in order to help Psylocke after the Psi-War, switched powers with Psylocke. Both would put on significant amounts weight and would resort to arguing with each other. The remaining X-Men along with the Fantastic Four, Ultimates, and SHIELD assault Magneto's base, during which they lose several more members including Wolverine, who has his Adamantium ripped from his bones by Magneto. After Professor X's apparent death, Jean has become the headmistress of the school, along with Cyclops. The character was present for much of the X-Men's history, and she was featured in all three X-Men animated series and several video games. Torturing Jean and Scott, Stryfe claimed that he was Scott's son Nathan returned from the future and seeking revenge for being abandoned. [84] Xorn perished during the battle, but in the process the X-Men also found out that there is something preventing the All-New X-Men from returning to the past. According to the Fire and Brimstone story arc, Jean's Phoenix powers come from the Phoenix God, although Xavier does not believe this. [109] Jean told Rachel Summers that she hoped she would be born soon in this timeline. [216] From this display it can be theorized that Jean's maximum telekinetic load without the use of the Phoenix Force is 50 tons, though she could lift Avalon. Scott and Phoenix shared an intimate night together. Nate was Jean and Scott's genetically-engineered son from an alternate reality. After a brief mental battle between Vulcan and his family, Vulcan accepts his defeat by letting go of the rage and hate inside him as he dies. [81], In All-New X-Men, present-day Beast goes to the past and brings a younger version of Jean to the present day along with the other original X-Men in hopes of helping the present-day Cyclops to see how far he's fallen. [88] Nathan Christopher's mutant powers began to manifest as a protective force bubble whenever he was in danger. After a brief skirmish, Nate revealed to Jean and the others images of Cyclops and the other remaining mutants from the mainstream reality, using the images to highlight the pain and suffering caused by their relationships with one another and humanity. Sinister also informed Cable that Tolliver, an arms dealer who Cable and X-Force had had run-ins with, was none other than Cable's adopted son Tyler Dayspring. It appears, due to tests conducted in Ultimate X-Men #71, that the Phoenix is an actual entity and not an uncovered aspect of Jean's own mind. Hans Knoblach (alleged ancestor, deceased);Gertrude Hunter (alleged ancestor, deceased);Gloria Knoblach (alleged ancestor, deceased);Clarity (alleged distant relative);Fiona Knoblach (Dark Mother) (alleged ancestor, deceased);[7]Charles Grey (ancestor, deceased);Malkin Grey (ancestor, deceased);Eleanor Grey (ancestor, deceased);Lady Jean Grey (ancestor, deceased)[7];unnamed great-grandfather-in-law, deceased;Philip Summers (grandfather-in-law);Deborah Summers (grandmother-in-law);Brian Grey (paternal uncle, deceased);Phyllis Dennefer (maternal aunt, deceased);Roy Dennefer (maternal uncle, deceased); Parents:John Grey (father, deceased);Elaine Grey (mother, deceased), Siblings:Sara Grey-Bailey (sister, deceased);Julia Grey (sister, deceased);[7]Roger Grey (brother, deceased);[7]Liam Grey (brother, deceased)[7]. Jean Elaine Grey was born the second daughter of John and Elaine Grey. Quicksilver then arrives with his newly formed Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy, but is defeated by Jean and her recruits. While flying from rift to rift, Nate revealed to Jean the true nature of the rifts and the painful memories of the past they contained. Jean Grey has been stated to be an Omega Level Mutant. The All-New X-Men team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy to rescue Jean from the Shi'ar homeworld, but Jean would end up awakening a new power that she never had, in which she is able to absorb massive amounts of psionic energy from others and combine her telepathy and telekinesis, which she used to defeat the powerful Gladiator, leader of the Shi'ar. [128], Apocalypse made a bid for cosmic power by assembling the "Twelve" - a group of mutants who would determine the fate of their kind that included Scott, Phoenix, Iceman, Professor X, Storm, Magneto, Living Monolith, Bishop, Polaris, Sunfire, Mikhail Rasputin, Nate Grey, and Cable. [73], Scott saw Madelyne and the X-Men sacrificing themselves in Dallas on TV. After finding the corpse of a young redhead in a river, Scott believed his wife was dead and buried her by himself. [50][49] Phoenix made sure the X-Men survived their return to earth, fulfilling its pledge to Jean. Jean coached Psylocke in the use of her telepathic powers. Using cryptic clues provided by Destiny, Scott and Jean returned to the orphanage Scott grew up in and found an entire laboratory in the basement with many children, including baby Christopher, in incubation pods. [67], Unsure what to do about Maddie and the baby and Jean, Scott only felt useful when commanding his team. Jean held onto the Phoenix Force's arm and fell into a coma. [25] [155], After another successful relief mission in the Bahamas, the team watched a news report broadcast of a speech by the X-Tracts, which in part announced the group's upcoming presence in London on Xavier Day. [41], During an emergency mission in space, the X-Men find their shuttle damaged. A woman from the late 37th-early 39th century appeared calling herself Sister Askani. As a result, many of his relationships became strained, including his marriage to Jean. [123] On the plane ride to Alaska, they briefly battled a battalion of A.I.M. [96] A meeting with Namor helps Jean come to the conclusion that she can refuse the Phoenix and even possibly defeat it. The Fantastic Four intercept Cyclops' team, where Sue Storm traps Jean in a force field, rendering her a mere spectator. [178] According to Prosh, her Comparative Mutagenic Power Register was of 8.9.[179]. Using the Phoenix Force he destroys seven galaxies, the entire Annihilation Wave, the Shi'ar and Kree Empires before travelling to Earth. [87], Jean is later kidnapped by the Shi'ar and placed on trial for the destruction done by the Phoenix Force years earlier in a 2014 crossover story line The Trial of Jean Grey. They believed that they were there to prevent Nathaniel Essex from becoming Mr. Sinister. By the time Scott returned home to the X-Men, Colossus' little sister Illyana had already succumbed to the Legacy Virus, and more deaths were to come. Real Name: David Haller. Cable had known for some time and was waiting for them to be ready to tell him. [54] Phoenix healed the M'kraan Crystal, the nexus of all realities, saving the universe. He had only managed to travel to the past within the timeline they were currently inhabiting and not their own, which led to them finding this timeline's young X-Men in the past they initially believed would be available for them to return. [156], Colossus, Jean, Magneto, and Nature Girl volunteered to attend Xavier Day, keeping an eye out for the X-Tracts and managing the crowd of celebrants. When Prof. Xavier discovered that in order to thwart an invasion of Earth by the alien Z'Nox he had to seclude himself for an extended period of time in order to make preparations, he had the mutant shapeshifter called the Changeling take his place leading the X-Men, and only Jean was allowed to know the truth.