[51], Scott had no idea the woman he loved had been replaced by a cosmic being while the real Jean rested in a cocoon at the bottom of the bay. [12] Byrne worked with Claremont to effectively remove Phoenix from the storyline, initially by removing her powers. Under the name of Ariel, she was a founding member of the X-Men and in love with their leader, Havok. The overarching plot focused on the team assuming the roles of teachers to a new generation of mutants at the Xavier Institute while navigating their personal relationships and dealing with newly emerging pro- and anti-mutant political sentiments. The Phoenix Force, as Jean Grey, emerges in a new costume and adopts the new codename "Phoenix", with immense cosmic powers. Jean and Scott went to check on her, fearing for her safety. Jean then set out to become not only queen of Britain but of the entire world. Initially possessing the ability of telekinesis, the character was later granted the power of telepathy,[4] which would be retconned years later as a suppressed mutant ability.[5]. [18] Claremont expressed dismay that Jean's resurrection ultimately resulted in Cyclops abandoning his wife and child, tarnishing his written persona as a hero and "decent human being", and the "untenable situation" with Madelyne was dealt with by transforming her into a prolicidal demonic villain and killing her off. Jean and the rest of the X-Men were the primary response team to all matter of worldwide threats and danger. Jean doesn't remember her old life at first, so Sinister manipulated her to create a new team to fight the X-Men, the Sinister Six. [161], With the help of Jean Grey and M, Trinary coordinated the communication between team members and the X-Men base in Krakoa. Weapon X, and Jean leave the X-Men and join forces with the Human High Council. The rift between Jean and Scott began to be filled by Emma Frost. The Phoenix tried to return the borrowed fragments of Jean's life-force. When the ship was invaded by Orchis, Monet got Jean into an escape pod to preserve communications between the two teams. [19], The time-displaced X-Men disbanded and went their separate ways in the wake of the M-Pox crisis, caused by the Terrigen Clouds roaming the Earth's atmosphere. [66] The Shi'ar track the Phoenix Force and make an alliance with Storm to find her and defeat her. Now certain of their inability to return to their time, the young X-Men looked forward to the new future they could build, which was no longer tied to that of their present selves. "Phoenix Unleashed! Scott's visions nearly led him to kill Jean before it was discovered they were actually holograms created by Cameron Hodge, trying to destroy them. She did not join Bishop's new team of X-Men, but has assisted the team when needed, often butting heads with Cyclops over when to help and when not to help. Jean was added to the Gold Team beginning in Uncanny X-Men #281 (October, 1991). [142], Scott returned to the X-Men, but his association with Apocalypse had given him a grimmer, more serious personality than ever before. Famke Janssen portrayed the character as an adult in the X-Men films while Sophie Turner portrayed her as a teenager and young adult. [36], After Jean officially graduated at Xavier’s school, her parents transferred her to Metro College. [26] Jean also made minor appearances in other titles during the New X-Men run, such as Chris Claremont's X-Treme X-Men, occasionally lending support to the characters. The group opted to keep their discovery on a need to know basis, although they soon included Jean on their findings via telepathic scan. Afterward, Adam disappeared and Jean decided not to reveal her encounter to Scott. She can use her telekinetic abilities on herself or others to simulate the power of flight or levitation, stimulate molecules to increase friction, create protective force fields out of psychokinetic energy, or project her telekinetic energy as purely concussive force. [127], In the tenth-anniversary limited series, it is revealed that Jean was the one that stopped the nuclear attack from the Human High Council with the last of her powers. Scott went back to Alaska to look for them. [89] Scott and Jean finally learned that Rachel was actually their adult daughter from an alternate timeline. [129], In the timeline known as the Days of Future Past, Jean dies when Mastermind detonated a nuclear device at Pittsburgh, after she had given birth to her and Scott's daughter, Rachel, a few months before. While revealing himself to the X-Men, members of the X-Tracts and Danger Room prison attacked the gathered group, forcing the X-Men to protect Nate until matters could be sorted. Jean expressed her concern, but insisted they shouldn't jump to conclusions. As she reclaims the power from Vulcan it's revealed that it was Jean that had helped Rachel and Havok escape from the Shi'ar Empire by opening a teleportation portal to Earth before the Empire's fall at the hands of Vulcan, and it was her that prevented Vulcan from fully accessing the Phoenix Force in Krakoa. The Shi'ar just wanted her dead. Empathy: On many occasions, Jean has shown to have incredibly strong empathic powers that enable her to control, manipulate and alter the feelings, sensations, and emotions of others. Powers. 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. [volume & issue needed], In the original Marvel Mangaverse X-Men and X-Men Ronin stories, Jean is a powerful telepath and telekinetic and calls herself Marvel Girl, but she also has access to the Phoenix Force. Without the Phoenix, Jean has potentially limitless psionic powers of … They bury the bodies of the various deceased X-Men on the estate's remains. [volume & issue needed], Jean kills many members of the Hellfire club in a fit of Phoenix powered rage before Xavier calms her down. [3][112], Accompanying Scott to Alaska to check on his grandfather in the hospital, Jean happened upon Adam-X and sensed that there was a connection between Adam and the Summers family. She returned to Earth and threatened to kill everyone, but Professor Xavier was able to keep Phoenix under control and helped her will herself back to normal. The energy required to perform this, as well as the blood loss caused by the stab wound, killed her. Mr. Sinister appeared and informed Cable that Stryfe had been wrong about their origins. However, she could only risk one-time jump without destroying herself. [volume & issue needed], The past of Jean Grey of Earth-9997 mirrors that of her Earth-616 counterpart. Learn all about Jean Grey both on screen and in comics! Nate was Jean and Scott's genetically-engineered son from an alternate reality. Jean is generally a polite and well-spoken member of the X-Men. Jean Elaine Victoria Elizabeth Grey was born the daughter of Dr. John Grey and Elaine Grey. 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. Jean's new responsibilities, along with her growing powers, forced her to put her attention elsewhere, leaving Scott feeling ignored and his trauma from being possessed trivialized.[143]. The powers seem to reveal themselves when Jean gets angry. Biography [edit | edit source] Codename: Phoenix Jean Grey was an average teenager until her telekinetic and telepathic abilities manifested themselves. Unsure what to do about Maddie and the baby and Jean, Scott only felt useful when commanding his team. Jean lost her telekinesis but her telepathy increased greatly. Nick Fury reveals that Jean is using her telekinetic powers to make the brothers believe she is in Tian in order to have an "inside man" when she is really in America. [105] After this incident, Scott took a leave from the X-Men to meet with his grandparents in Alaska. [169][170] By birth, Jean is among the most powerful telepaths,[171][172][173]telekinetics,[141] and psions. She is also the favored avatar of the Phoenix Force, and while acting as its avatar she is one of the most powerful Cosmic entities in the Earth-616 universe. Scott finally proposed to the Phoenix before they were teleported away by the Shi'ar. Fearing that Jean could not contro… Jean feels even less taken seriously when Beast begins examining her for signs of delusional hallucinations. [139] Using her unimaginable powers, she brings Apocalypse to his knees and melts his armor. Scott had already revealed he was in love with Jean in, This is actually a change from the original Claremont-Byrne storyline that was proposed. As Jean faces the Phoenix Force, she is finally able to convince the cosmic entity to stop bringing her back and let her go. Jean served on the "Gold Team" under Storm's leadership while Scott became leader of "Blue Team". [28] Despite not having been a Phoenix host, Jean found herself in the White Hot Room, where the Phoenix attempted to destroy her using manifestations of its past hosts. Death explained that her hunger scared the fundamental forces of the universe, because she was a human mutant with unlimited potential for growth. X-Factor finally revealed the truth of their mutant origins and shed their disguise of mutant hunters. [134] Jean and the other recruits stopped the Stranger's plan to make himself the sole survivor of a new universe from the ashes of the old universe. After feeling the love from the X-Men, the Phoenix relents and returns with Jean back to the White Hot Room. After twelve years, Nate, Slym, and Redd stopped Apocalypse from killing Stryfe and destroyed him once and for all. [10] The emotion that Jean felt as she held her dying friend awakened her own latent telepathic powers and she experienced Annie's own emotions as she died. After finding the corpse of a young redhead in a river, Scott believed his wife was dead and buried her by himself. Jean and Scott battled Nanny and Orphan-Maker for Scott's son. The children, however, could not remember her. It was later learned that Sara had been murdered by mutant-hating fanatics, likely acting on orders from Cameron Hodge, X-Factor's public relations manager. Rachel was shocked to discover that, unlike her own timeline, Jean Grey had died and Scott Summers was married to another woman instead. Jean is the only member of her immediate family with mutant abilities (her niece and nephew, Joey and Gailyn, are also revealed as mutants). Shortly after she joined the team, Jean fell for Cyclops, aka Scott Summers, but was too shy to make a move. The team learns that in this world Jean actually is the Dark Phoenix, and they participate in the Shiar trial by combat, disguised as representatives of the world she destroyed. To support her in this goal, she assembles a team including Nightcrawler, X-23 and Namor, but is unaware that her actions are being observed by Cassandra Nova. Jean finally confronted Psylocke on her constant flirtation with Scott, demanding to know if Scott was cheating on her. However, after the younger Jean begins to ignore her, she possesses the time displaced Jean and uses her as a means to ambush Emma Frost. Her perceptions and imagination had influenced the Phoenix and that it belonged to her by right and would one day come to her children. [14] In the School for Gifted Youngsters, the original X-Men were tutored by Professor X and trained in the use of their powers in the Danger Room. [160] Xavier and Magneto then tasked the X-Men (Archangel, Cyclops, M, Husk, Marvel Girl, Mystique, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler) with destroying the Mother Mold and preventing the creation of Nimrod. [117], Jean discovered the powerful time-tossed mutant teenager known as Nate Grey. [43] Jean formed a close friendship with Storm and began living with the private investigator Misty Knight. In other versions, she had not been shown possessing any types of empathic abilities except for telekinesis and telepathy.[183]. She had an older sister, Sara Grey-Bailey. After a massive battle against Jean and the rest of the X-Men, Onslaught escapes to carry out his plans. Immediately after, Emma was shot while in her organic diamond form by the Cuckoo Esme, and shattered all over the mansion's kitchen. He has the power to control mutants and brings former X-Men Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Rogue, and Toad to NYC for a giant survival battle royal. However, a recent meeting between Karen and Zorn implies that she may be double crossing Fury, as she is physically in Tian as well as revealing her real identity as Jean Grey. She was forced to reintegrate the portion of herself that Phoenix had given to Madelyne. He left Jean with an image of his name upon her brow. [45] Meanwhile, the cocoon containing the real Jean Grey sinks to the bottom of the bay, unnoticed. [95] She goes to the rest of the X-Men to warn them about her vision but as there haven't been any Phoenix sightings since the X-Men went to war against the Avengers to decide the fate of the Phoenix, she has a hard time getting Beast, Captain Marvel, and Kitty Pryde to accept that her vision was real even though they assure her that if the Phoenix ever does return then the X-Men and Avengers will come together and do all they can to stop it. [149], She was ranked third in Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list.[150]. public affection) concerned her as a "leap backward". After some back and forth between the group over what they were returning to and the ramifications upon its inhabitants of dismantling the utopian reality, the X-Men eventually all decided to leave the manufactured reality and returned home. 0. When she reaches her destination, the Silver Surfer arrives to warn her but she pushes on to find Heaven. As a result, Wolverine flatly insulted and fought Scott,[148] Beast stated that he no longer liked him,[147] and Rachel Summers, in particular, felt hurt and angry by her father's lack of remorse for the psychic affair that Jean discovered before her death, and Emma's part in it. [5] She begins a relationship with teammate Cyclops, which persists as her main romantic relationship, though she also develops a mutual secret attraction to a later addition to the team, Wolverine. She was able to defeat a group of ninjas with the only use of telekinetic weapons. [131] Only Jean and Cable refused to believe Scott had perished, at which time Cable joined the X-Men to honor his father. Using her incredible powers, Phoenix/Jean returned with Logan to New York City to face "Magneto". Jean would reconcile with Wolverine, however, the two would remain apart. [78], After returning to New York, Jean and Scott were reunited with X-Factor and fought countless demons. Tricked by the Magneto impostor, Jean and Wolverine ended up trapped on Asteroid M, drifting closer to the Sun. Jean Grey's powers and abilities. [96] Jean stopped going by her codename Marvel Girl, preferring her real name, Jean Grey. [volume & issue needed], The exact nature of the Phoenix in the Ultimate Universe has not been revealed, but very often Jean is haunted by visions and hallucinations of the Phoenix early in the Ultimate timeline. At the time of the Dark Phoenix's creation, Byrne felt that, "If someone could be seen to corrupt Jean, rather than her just turning bad, this could make for an interesting story. Although they developed a more peaceful approach to confronting Nate, tensions spilled over at their meeting and the X-Men attacked Nate head on. Following Cyclops's possession by the mutant villain Apocalypse and disappearance in the conclusion of the crossover storyline "Apocalypse: The Twelve",[23][24] Jean lost her telekinetic abilities and was left with increased psychic powers, the result of the "six month gap" in plot across the X-Men franchise created by the Revolution revamp. 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. It seems at a young age she has a thing for Cyclops but tells him to wait 20 years. The Phoenix Force was reconstituted before its time and was assaulted by a Shi'ar warship, splintering a great deal of its power across the galaxy. This leads him to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school together. Not wanting to disturb Cyclops’ marriage to Madelyne, Rachel kept her true relation to him secret. 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. [145] She has, recently, been acknowledged as the field leader of the team during Cyclops' leave of absence. In recent history, Jean had once again lost her telepathic abilities— the circumstances behind her loss of this ability are as yet unrevealed. [68], Though she had yet to fully return, the Phoenix Force and Jean continued to manifest themselves, particularly the Phoenix through the red-haired, green-eyed "mutant messiah" who slightly resembles Jean named Hope Summers,[69] and Jean briefly appears in a vision to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room, warning the X-Men to "prepare". [97] Meanwhile, a mysterious soldier called Cable had reorganized the New Mutants, Xavier's junior mutant team, into an outlaw team called X-Force. Meanwhile, Scott and Madelyne's marriage had become strained. When Wolverine would refuse to help the heroes defend New York from the Skull and his army, Jean would leave Wolverine in disgust, telling him that she was really Madelyne Pryor to rankle Wolverine even more.