Jean Grey
Jean Grey is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Jean Grey was the red-haired daughter of John Grey and his wife Elaine Grey where she had an older sister named Sara Grey. (X-Men v1 #136)
In her childhood, one of her best friends was Annie Richardson with the two regularly playing together. When Jean was 10 years old, she was playing with a frisbee with Annie. During the game, the frisbee went out on the road with her friend looking to get it but did not see a speeding car. Annie Richardson was fatally injured from being hit by the vehicle with Jean by her side in that moment. It was then that her latent telepathic abilities first manifested where she went into her best friend's mind at the moment of her death with the traumatic event scarring her mentally. Jean had felt as if a part of her died during that encounter where she came to be a more withdrawn, serious and almost haunted child. Her parents began to worry for their daughter and started to take her to psychiatrists though she began more withdrawn from people by the time she was 11 years old. Unknown to anyone, the reason for her self-imposed isolation was because she started to hear the thoughts of everyone around her and was unable to block the thoughts from entering her mind with these overwhelming her to the point that she could possibly die from her newly activated abilities. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
From time to time, Xavier would temporarily remove Jean’s mental blocks to see whether she was able to handle her telepathy yet. On one of these occasions, Jean established mental contact with a teenager living in an orphanage several hundred miles away. At the time, neither Jean nor the professor could have known that this boy by the name of Scott Summers would eventually hold a very special place in their hearts. (Classic X-Men v1 #42)
Marvel Girl
Jean came to be officially enrolled at Xavier’s school and joined the X-Men under the codename Marvel Girl. This school served as a cover for the X-Men, a team of young mutants being trained by Professor Xavier in order to fight for a dream of peaceful racial coexistence. The team acted in the shadows combating threats posed by evil mutants who used their powers against humanity. Jean Grey completed the group with four more students, code named Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. Joining the team as Marvel Girl, they made their public debut fighting Magneto. Inexperienced as they were, the X-Men were unable to capture him, but they at least managed to thwart his plans. (X-Men v1 #1)
Later when the mutant teleporter known as the Vanisher began stealing government secrets, Professor X offered the X-Men's aid to the government to stop him. Xavier himself defeated the Vanisher by using his mental powers to cut off his access to his powers, allowing the X-Men to easily capture him and his minions. (X-Men v1 #2)
About this time, Scott began to develop feelings for Jean Grey, but kept his feelings secret because he feared that his powers might someday harm her. Jean also began developing feelings for Scott, but likewise kept silent hoping that Scott would someday express himself to her. It was about this time that Xavier soon located another mutant, the immovable Blob who was working as part of a carnival freak show and sent the X-Men to recruit him. However the X-Men soon learned the error of welcoming the Blob in with open arms when he turned out to be uninterested in joining the X-Men and later attacked the school. While the X-Men kept the Blob and his army of carnies at bay, Xavier completed a device that allowed him to wipe out all memory of the X-Men's headquarters and secret identities from the mind of the Blob and his cohorts. (X-Men v1 #3)
Cyclops stepped up and took a leadership role later when the X-Men were lured into a trap by Magneto and were taken aboard his Asteroid M headquarters. Under Scott's leadership, the X-Men managed to escape without the aid of Xavier. Charles later revealed to his students that he feigned his lost powers as a final test to see if his students could handle themselves without his aid. (X-Men v1 #5)
Time-Displacement
Matters came to a head when the adult Cyclops arrived at the school to offer any mutant present an alternative, and a place in his New Xavier School. When Angel accepted, Jean tried telepathically to force him back into the mansion against his will. This led to a psychic battle between Jean and the departing Stepford Cuckoos, who easily dismantled the young Jean's mental defenses. After Angel left, Jean ran off on her own and Kitty Pryde sought her out. Jean apologized and explained how she just felt like everything was slipping away and beyond her control since she came to the future. Kitty understood and sympathized with Jean, but also warned her that, if she continued abusing her telepathy like she had done, the X-Men would shut her down entirely, no matter who she was supposed to grow up to be. (All-New X-Men v1 #11)
Jean also read the mind of future Hank and discovered he had once been in love with her, meaning young Hank felt that way about her now. Jean confronted her Hank and got him to admit his feelings, which he had suppressed since she seemed to prefer Warren and Scott. Now, however, Jean was feeling trapped by her future choices and desperately wanted to make a different choice just to show that fate it wasn't the boss of her. Jean and Hank kissed each other, but neither of them were sure what it really meant. (All-New X-Men v1 #15)
To Jean's disappointment, Cyclops decided to stay behind in space. He had just learned his father was alive as Corsair, captain of the Starjammers, and wanted time to get to know him again. Jean felt lost and abandoned with Scott gone, and was comforted by the unlikely presence of adult Cyclops. The two of them had deliberately avoided each other up until then, but they had a comfortable talk about Jean's feelings. When Jean reached out for adult Scott, however, he made very clear what the boundaries were between them. (All-New X-Men v1 #26)
The training sessions began uncomfortably enough, as Emma used the opportunity to torment the younger self of her former rival. Jean was hard to provoke, however, since she had no problem with Emma and knew Emma's issues were with her other self. In order to provoke Jean into fighting back, Emma forced Jean to see her psychic affair with Cyclops, and the adult Jean catching them in the act. Still, after a psychic match with each other, the two women actually starting laughing and became friends. (All-New X-Men v1 #30)
Jean continued training with Emma Frost, spending time in Madripoor fighting the Blob as 'on the job' practice. (All-New X-Men v1 #37)
Return to the Present
After the festivities, Charles showed Cyclops the secret chamber where he had completed his first version of Cerebro. He then revealed that he was embarking on a secret mission and had selected Cyclops to run the school in his absence. Although Scott was reluctant to take the position, he agreed to do so. Without Xavier, Marvel Girl and the X-Men succeeded in stopping the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from recruiting the Blob into their ranks. (X-Men v1 #7) In Xavier's absence, the Beast was attacked by an anti-mutant mob and quit the team. Soon the X-Men faced a new evil mutant named Unus the Untouchable, who could erect an impenetrable force field around himself. The Beast soon returned to his freinds developed a device that boosted Unus' force fields so that he could not even touch food. Believing that the Beast was trying to help Unus, Jean and her teammates tried to stop him, but they failed. They soon realized that Beast hadn't betrayed them when his device made it impossible for Unus to touch food forcing him to surrender to have the effects reversed. (X-Men v1 #8) Jean later joined the X-Men in an investigation of a supposed mutant calling himself the Menace and his Mutantmen army. With the aid of Spider-Man, the X-Men revealed that "Menace" was really a group of criminals exploiting anti-mutant hysteria to commit robberies, pinning the blame on mutants. (Untold Tales of Spider-Man v1 #21) Later the X-Men joined the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man in battling the super-powerful Sundown. (Untold Tales of Spider-Man Annual v1 #1997) Charles soon contacted his students and revealed that he was searching for the alien Lucifer, who was responsible for crippling him. Charles called for his X-Men to join him in Europe. Quickly captured, Charles learned that Lucifer had armed a bomb that could blow up all of Europe and that it was specially rigged to his heart, so that the bomb would go off if his heart was stopped. When the Avengers later arrived to investigate the scene. Charles had Cyclops and the X-Men hold the Avengers at bay until he was able to incapacitate Lucifer with a mental bolt. Charles then stopped the first between the two teams and explained the situation. Satisfied that the X-Men had the situation under control, the Avengers then departed. Guiding Cyclops' optic blast, Charles was able to disarm the bomb. When Lucifer revived shortly thereafter, Xavier allowed him to go free as he had been thoroughly defeated. (X-Men v1 #9)
Satisfied with Jean's added maturity and her years of practice, Xavier released the psychic barriers preventing Jean from using her telepathic abilities. When Professor 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. Xavier ordered Jean to keep his secret safe, even after the Changeling was killed in battle, leading the other X-Men to believe their mentor had died. (X-Men v1 #41)
Phoenix
Alongside Scott, she went to see her parents where she revealed herself to be a Mutant and her transformation into the Phoenix. (X-Men v1 #109) Two years ago, her sister came to also learn about her mutation and was worried about whether her own children were Mutants. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
X-Factor
Jean was greatly disturbed to learn of the current wave of anti-mutant sentiment that had risen in her absence. She was also stunned that the X-Men were working alongside Magneto, the original X-Men's greatest foe. Jean decided that the original X-Men should do something as she believed the X-Men had strayed from Professor Xavier's dream. The five original friends founded a new organization to help other superhuman mutants. X-Factor intended to seek out and aid other mutants under the pretense of hunting them down as menaces to society. The public assumed they were humans hunting mutants, when in fact, they were training young mutants in the use of their powers at the X-Factor Complex. (X-Factor v1 #1)
Unsure what to do about Maddie and the baby and Jean, Scott only felt useful when commanding his team. Scott attempted to contact Maddie, but the number was disconnected. At first, Scott tried to keep his marriage and son from Jean. Meanwhile, Jean was plagued with dreams of herself becoming the Phoenix. She also sensed that Scott was being distant about something. She assumed he had fallen for Phoenix while she was asleep in the cocoon. Finally, the truth came out. Jean noticed that Madelyne looked exactly liked her. (X-Factor v1 #7)
Jean learned that her older sister Sara Bailey had begun speaking on behalf of mutants in her absence. Jean and Scott went to check on her, fearing for her safety. Upon arriving, the house exploded. 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. (X-Factor v1 #12)
Feeling bad about abandoning his family, Jean suggested that Scott goes home to check on them. Scott went back to Alaska to look for them. Scott and Jean were both still unaware of Sinister's influence on their lives. Sinister sent the Marauders to kill Madelyne Pryor and collect Nathan Christopher for him. She was shot multiple times and fell into a coma. She was taken to the hospital as a Jane Doe. Sinister erased every record of Madelyne and the baby. After finding the corpse of a young redhead in a river, Scott believed his wife was dead and buried her by himself. (X-Factor v1 #15)
Gold
Stryfe was a madman and rival of Cable. Torturing Jean and Scott, Stryfe claimed that he was Scott's son Nathan returned from the future and seeking revenge for being abandoned. Stryfe claimed that Cable, who shared the same face as Stryfe, was a clone of Nathan. On the lunar surface of the Moon, Cable and Stryfe both vanished into the timestream after a temporal device exploded. Jean and Scott thought they had lost Nathan a second time. (X-Force v1 #18)
Jean finally confronted Psylocke on her constant flirtation with Scott, demanding to know if Scott was cheating on her. Psylocke used her psi-knife on Jean, rendering her unconscious. Their confrontation was interrupted by the arrival of Kwannon, who informed everyone that Psylocke had been influenced by her darker persona. (X-Men v2 #20)
Cable came to find his way back to the present where in an encounter with Mr. Sinister he learnt the truth which was that Stryfe had been wrong about their origins. Namely, that Stryfe was the clone whilst Cable was the real Nathan Summers. 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. Cable believed Stryfe had been killed, however, Stryfe had actually survived as a consciousness in the back of Cable's mind. Sinister allowed Stryfe to gain control of Cable's body. (Cable v1 #6) Tyler and Stryfe both learned their true origins, but the knowledge was too much for Stryfe to handle and he refused to believe it. Cyclops, Jean, Xavier, and Domino convinced Stryfe to expel himself from Cable's mind. Tyler escaped in the confusion. When Cable was himself again he asked Scott about his mother before leaving. Scott finally had most of his answers at last, and father and son began repair their relationship at last. (Cable v1 #8)
On Thanksgiving, Jean decided to propose to her love Scott Summers. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #308) This led to her marrying her long-time love in a ceremony attended by her fellow X-Men. (X-Men v2 #30) Jean had told Rachel Summers that she hoped she would be born soon in this timeline. However, on the other side of the world and away from Jean's notice, Rachel Summers came to sacrifice herself to exile in the timestream to save her Excalibur teammate Captain Britain. (Excalibur v1 #75)
Upon their return to the X-Men, the team was under attack by the alien Phalanx. Fighting the members of this techno-organic collective, the Mutants learned what Jean had long feared namely that her sister Sara had been murdered by enemies of the X-Men. Shortly after her disappearance, Sara had been assimilated by the Phalanx, but she never became truly one of them due to her will being too strong for the aliens. (X-Men v2 #36) When the techno-organic collective was destroyed, the last remnants of Jean’s sister perished as well. A few days later, Jean visited her parents to inform them of the sad news. Her father informed Jean that, on some level, he had already known that Sara was gone. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #322)
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. Adam allowed Jean to transfer memories of his days as a Shi'ar combat pilot to Phillip. Afterward, Adam disappeared and Jean decided not to reveal her encounter to Scott. (X-Men v2 #39)
Jean was confronted by Onslaught on the Astral Plane, who claimed he could give her the power of the Phoenix Force once again if she joined him. 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. However, Jean still refused Onslaught. He left Jean with an image of his name upon her brow. (X-Men v2 #53)
A frightened Juggernaut came to Jean for help. Jean attempted to remove the mental blocks Onslaught had instilled in him to prevent him from revealing Onslaught's true identity. When Jean learned Onslaught was Xavier himself, Onslaught psionically muzzled him. After Onslaught defeated the X-Men, she sent out an SOS message to the other X-teams warning them that the X-Men had been betrayed by one of their own. Fragments of this message survived to Bishop's future. (Onslaught: X-Men v1 #1)
Although the X-Men defeated the evil entity and freed Prof. Xavier, most of Earth's heroes were lost for a time. Prof. Xavier was left powerless after Onslaught's defeat and was arrested for his role in the events. Jean and Scott were left as leaders of the X-Men and co-headmasters of the school. (X-Men v2 #57)
During the Onslaught incident, the X-Men had also met Nate Grey, another child of Scott and Jean from an alternate timeline. Sensing that he was in trouble, Jean tracked him to the Swiss Alps and found him in the company of Madelyne Pryor. Nate had unwittingly resurrected Jean’s rival, by given her psionic ghost a corporal form. Immediately, Madelyne attacked Jean, and Nate was unsure what to do. When he learned of the full story, he sided with Jean and even tried to set things right by uncreating Madelyne, only to find that he could not. After she angrily left, Jean comforted Nate and offered her friendship. She even asked him to come back to the X-Men with her, but he wasn’t ready to make that decision yet. (X-Man v1 #25)
Scott and Jean returned to the X-Men some time after at the request of Storm. 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. (X-Men v2 #92)
New X-Men
Afterwards, Professor X came to be outed as a Mutant to the world due to the secret influence of Cassandra Nova. This saw the Xavier School opening its doors to the Mutant population at large. (New X-Men v1 #117) Afterwards, Professor Xavier left to visit Lilandra in the Shi’ar Empire leading to Jean became acting headmistress of Xavier’s school. She was alone with the school’s many students when the mansion was attacked by the U-Men, a radical group who dissected mutants to gain their organs and powers. In her battle with them, Jean displayed incredible telekinetic powers - both when it came to raw power as well as fine motor control. She managed to catch the U-Men’s projectiles in mid air and arranged them in a beautiful pattern, before moving the content of their stomachs up and down until they had to throw up. Tapping into the Phoenix Force, she came to burst into flames. Disarmed, beaten and humiliated, the U-Men ran away screaming, just as Wolverine returned from the mission he was on. When he saw Jean, he could not help but recall Dark Phoenix and wondered whether the woman he secretly loved was headed down the same road. (New X-Men v1 #120) Scott returned to the X-Men, but his association with Apocalypse had given him a grimmer, more serious personality than ever before. As a result, many of his relationships became strained, including his marriage to Jean. Apocalypse made him question not only their relationship but his life as a whole. Jean, confused by the change in their relationship, confided in Logan and the two kissed in the woods outside the school, but Logan walked away, telling Jean it would never work between them. 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. (New X-Men v1 #122)
Feeling empowered, Jean became less insecure about her relationship troubles with Scott, while ironically her growing power actually troubled Scott even more. Jean’s abilities seemed to increase on all fronts, from heightened sensitivity to immense power stunts. For example, she stored the dying Xavier’s memories and personality in her own brain, before making use of Cerebra to split and store it in every mutant brain on Earth. This action provided the means to defeat Cassandra Nova, for when she attempted to use Cerebra still controlling the professor’s body, Xavier’s mind put itself back together again, enabling him to cast Nova out and reclaim his body. (New X-Men v1 #126)
The rift between Jean and Scott began to be filled by Emma Frost. Their relationship ostensibly began as a series of psychic therapy sessions, but Emma took advantage of this situation to get close to Scott and, under the guise of counseling him, she was able to instigate a telepathic affair. Later on, Jean came to discover the affair between the two. (New X-Men v1 #138) In this time, she came to force Emma to admit her own feelings for Cyclops. Furious at both himself and Jean, Scott confronted Jean and demanded she read his mind and she finally complied. Jean discovered that Scott and Emma never engaged in any physical contact, even though Emma had offered it. Scott, who felt he could not get through to his angry and hurt wife who subsequently left the X-Men to mull over what was happening in his life. (New X-Men v1 #139)
Emma was found murdered soon thereafter, her diamond form split into thousands bits. Jean was but one of many suspects, but pretty soon the true culprit was revealed. In a desperate move, the Beast had collected every single shard of Emma’s body and, sensing that her consciousness still lingered around them, Jean used the Phoenix Force to fuse the pieces of Emma’s diamond form back together. While reviving her rival, Jean acknowledged that Emma could give Scott something she could not. (New X-Men v1 #141)
The X-Man, Xorn revealed himself to be a traitor who claimed to be Magneto. It was later implied he killed her under 'orders' from the sentient RNA Sublime. Tricked by the Magneto impostor, Jean and Wolverine ended up trapped on Asteroid M, drifting closer to the Sun. Rather than watch Jean die a slow painful death, Wolverine tried to kill Jean, but he awoke the Phoenix Force within her. Using her incredible powers, Phoenix/Jean returned with Logan to New York City to face "Magneto". Xorn's last act was to kill Jean with an electromagnetic pulse. As she was dying, Scott apologized for hurting her, but Jean instead told him that she understood and had never seen him more alive and urged him to live on. (New X-Men v1 #150) The death of Jean was devastating to Cyclops who considered leaving the X-Men once more. (New X-Men v1 #155) However, the Jean of an alternate future telepathically intervened in an attempt to prevent her dark future from coming to pass. She urged Scott to live. This led to Cyclops and Emma formalizing their relationship. (New X-Men v1 #154)
Jean remained in the White Hot Room for many years after that. She occasionally reached out to the living world when the Phoenix took another human host, briefly speaking to Hope when she reversed the Decimation. (Avengers vs. X-Men v1 #12)
Resurrection
Strange psych occurrences around the world, which include a large bird flaring out from the sun and an explosion on the moon, raise red flags for the X-Men, who quickly launch an investigation of these events. (Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey v1 #1) 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. (Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey v1 #2) The X-Men also discover that psychs are going missing or falling ill, which prompts the team to investigate the grave of Jean Grey. As they find the coffin of their long-dead teammate empty, they race to locate the Phoenix before it can find a suitable host. As it turns out, with the time-displaced teen Jean Grey out of the Phoenix Force's way, the cosmic entity has already resurrected the present adult Jean Grey. However, she does not 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. (Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey v1 #3) As she lies inside of what appears to be a Phoenix Egg, the X-Men theorize that the strange psych occurrences are subconscious cries for help made by Jean Grey and that they must try to stop the Phoenix from merging with their old friend. (Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey v1 #4) She was resurrected by the Phoenix who created a pocket of reality that resembled Jean Grey's home town and people from her life with her being a waitress at a diner. Jean was subsumed in this reality and unaware of events around her as she came to believe herself to be a normal person. This was until Old Man Logan went in and killed one of her friends in the diner which was actually a manifestation of the Phoenix that was masquerading as a human. Upon regaining her memory, she confronted the Phoenix Force and rejected the power it was giving her. This led to Jean convincing it that her and its path were not the same with the cosmic entity reluctantly agreeing with her decision. Thus, it departed Earth and gave Jean Grey a new lease of life on Earth with her being among the X-Men once again. (Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey v1 #5)
In the aftermath of her resurrection, Jean worked to reconnect with the world that had passed her by. She mourned Scott's death but gave forgiveness to Black Bolt. She reunited with Rachel, touched base with the young Jean and got to know X-23 because of her ties to Logan. Jean was bemused by the 'Jean Grey School' and appreciated that the Institute was now out in the open in Central Park. (X-Men: Red Annual v1 #1) Upon her return, she began to help prevent the persecution of Mutants with some of her fellow X-Men. Jean though felt that divisions of fear and hatred against Mutants were simply growing with her looking to find a new way to solve the problem. To that end, she first enlisted several of her fellow X-Men where she showed her vision of the future telepathically. It was then that she approached various thinkers from different countries including the Black Panther T'Challa over the prospect of forming a Mutant state. She also went to the King of Atlantis Namor over allowing the creation of a Mutant sanctuary deep beneath the ocean. Thus, she helped create the underwater headquarters called Searebro where young Mutants could live in peace free from persecution. Aiding her on this endeavour were her team of X-Men including Namor, Gentle, Nightcrawler, Trinary, Honey Badger and the new Wolverine. Jean then went before the United Nations to petition for recognition of a Mutant state and though there was opposition her allies she made from other nations including Wakanda as well as Atlantis backed her. Afterwards, Grey met with the United Kingdom ambassador Marbury at first seemed cordial before becoming hostile stating that Jean had upset the status quo. Under the control of someone else, Marbury died when her head exploded but the incident was done in a way that made it seem that Jean Grey had killed her. Guards attempted to shoot her but she was protected by her team of X-Men with Nightcrawler teleporting them away but the incident had been public thus staining her reputation to the world. (X-Men: Red v1 #1)
Jean's separate X-Men team was soon reabsorbed back into the Xavier Institute unit. She continued to serve as a field leader for the team, but remained concerned by the failings of peaceful co-existence. One day she was approached in a coffee shop by a mysterious woman who gave voice to many of Jean's private thoughts and concerns about the world. Jean agreed with the woman's assessment that the world was in dire straits, but intended to voice her continued hope for the future. Before she could, however, the coffee shop was assaulted by what appeared to be a sudden outbreak of super-powers in the other patrons. Jean found the woman dead in the aftermath of the attack. (Uncanny X-Men v5 #1)
House of X
After the establishment of the nation of Krakoa, she was one of many Mutants that came to reside on the living island that was the home of their people. Xavier came to greet Jean and welcomed her to their new home. (House of X v1 #1) Grey was later involved with a team of X-Men that were tasked with destroying the Mother Mold station in order to prevent the creation of Nimrod by the anti-Mutant organization Orchis. (House of X v1 #3) With the help of Jean Grey and M, Trinary coordinated the communication between team members and the X-Men base in Krakoa. When the ship was invaded by Orchis, Monet got Jean into an escape pod to preserve communications between the two teams. The X-Men accomplished their goal, but the entire team was killed in the attack. Cyclops and Jean, the two remaining X-Men, tried to mount an escape, but they tragically failed when Dr. Gregor killed Scott in revenge for her husband. Jean's escape pod was later intercepted by Sentinels, and ripped apart with Jean inside of it. (House of X v1 #4) Though killed, the deceased X-Men were resurrected by 'the Five' who were Mutants whose combined abilities allowed them to bring back the dead in newly grown bodies. Reborn, Jean joined the Mutants of Krakoa who proclaimed them to be heroes for their efforts against Orchis. (House of X v1 #5) She was then asked to join the newly formed governing body of the Mutant nation which was the Quiet Council of Krakoa. Joining its 'Summer' faction, Marvel Girl stood alongside her fellow X-Men teammates namely Storm and Nightcrawler in a group that represented the more empathetic and level-headed side of Krakoa. 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 the pit of Krakoa. (House of X v1 #6)
Following their deliberation, Jean and the rest of the Council joined in the festivities taking place on the island, celebrating the recognition of Krakoa as a sovereign nation by the United Nations. Emma and Jean appeared to bury the animosity between the two of them, in particular over Scott, over a couple of beers.
She was among the Omega-level Mutants that participated in the endeavour of terraforming Mars that was turned into planet Arakko. (Planet-Size X-Men v1 #1)
She joined the new X-Men team which came to reside from their headquarters called the Treehouse which was situated in New York City. Their first mission involved combating an extraterrestrial mech that had crashed into the city and attempted to kill everyone. The X-Men at first struggled in defeating their foe but then formed their own mecha that defeated it with their efforts leading to them being hailed as heroes. (X-Men v6 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
As one of the original X-Men, she came to take the code name of Marvel Girl. (X-Men v1 #1) Following her death, she became known as the White Phoenix of the Crown after she resided in the White Hot Room. (X-Men Phoenix Endsong v1 #5)
When she was 10 years old, she was noted to had been a brighter than average tomboy. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
The death of her best friend Annie Richardson was a notable traumatic event for her in her youth. This was not only because she died in Jean's arms but also because her abilities first activated with her being in Annie's mind at the moment of her death. Thus, when her friend died, Jean came to feel that a piece of herself became lost as well with this scarring her for many years. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
A house rule maintained by her was that she did not mindscan the people she loved. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
Not only were she and Sara sisters but they were also best friends. The two would talk about anything with the sibling trusting each other and looking out for one another. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
Powers and abilities
As a Mutant, she had a number of extraordinary powers beyond those of normal humans. This included telekinesis that gave her the ability to move objects through the power of her thoughts alone. (X-Men v1 #1) It was her incredible telepathy that marked her as being an Omega-level Mutant. (House of X v1 #1) According to Prosh, her Comparative Mutagenic Power Register was of 8.9. (X-Men Forever v1 #1)
Her powers first began to manifest when she was 10 years old. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
A problem with being a telepath was that they habitually reacted to what people thought rather than what they said. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
She can control the thoughts and actions of others. (X-Men v1 #113) This power also allowed her to possess the mind of another and use that being's body as her own. (New X-Men v1 #124)
She was able to mask her presence from being detected by other telepaths or devices like Cerebro. Jean was shown to be able to extend this defense to others around her as well. However, this telepathic cloaking was not perfect and powerful psychics were able to notice her or see through this ability. (X-Men v4 #5)
Jean had the power to implant, restore or alter the memory of others. (New X-Men v1 #123) She can alter the minds of others by force of will, thus permanently changing their personality partially or entirely. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #392) She has the ability to erase a person's memories and to heal mental trauma through "psychic surgery", as well as the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a person's brain. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #381)
Grey could control the thoughts and actions of others. (X-Men v1 #113) She could possess the minds of others and use that being's body as her own. (New X-Men v1 #124)
She was capable of creating realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #383)
Jean was shown to had been able to use her telekinetic abilities through time by projecting her astral form in different points in the timestream. (X Deaths of Wolverine v1 #4)
It was shown that her telekinetic aura allowed her to survive a high-speed collision from Gladiator, which would have normally resulted with her death. (Guardians of the Galaxy v3 #13)
Her telekinetic talent automatically adjusted her body's metabolic levels thus making her impervious to temperature shifts. (Bizarre Adventures v1 #27)
Jean was shown to be capable of resurrecting herself by reconstructing her body out of psionic energy after it was vaporized. (Venomized v1 #5) Jean was even able to fully resurrect herself after being clinically dead and independent of the Phoenix Force after encasing herself in a glacier of ice. (X-Men Phoenix Endsong v1 #5)
After being taken in by Professor X, she came to be one of the founding members of the original team of X-Men. (X-Men v1 #1)
At one point, she established her own team of X-Men that were headquartered in an underwater installation beneath the Atlantic ocean with this facility called Searebro. (X-Men: Red v1 #1)
Notes
- Jean Grey as Marvel Girl was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where she made her first appearance in X-Men v1 #1 (September, 1963).
Alternate Versions
- In X-Men: Alpha v1 #1 (1994), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Age of Apocalypse reality set on Earth-295 in the Multiverse.
- In Mutant X v1 #1 (1998), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Mutant X reality set on Earth-1298 in the Multiverse.
- In Ultimate X-Men v1 #1 (2000), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Ultimate Marvel reality set on Earth-1610 in the Multiverse.
- In Marvel 1602 v1 #1 (2003), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Marvel 1602 reality set on Earth-311 in the Multiverse. She was one of the Witchbreed where she disguised her identity and gender by pretending to be male with her going by the name John Grey in order to attend Carlos Javier's school.
- In New Excalibur v1 #1 (2005), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the reality set on Earth-6141 in the Multiverse. This version came to be corrupted by the Shadow King after he took possession of Charles Xavier. Becoming a member of his Shadow-X, Grey went by the name of Dark Marvel Girl.
- In X-Men Noir v1 #2 (2009), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Marvel Noir reality set on Earth-Earth-90214 in the Multiverse. This version was a reputable grifter and was known to be very manipulative over men, having a reputation for "controlling" their minds. She was a patient of Charles Xavier, who took a keen analytical interest over her as she could be the true sociopath that Xavier had envisioned in his studies. Because of her manipulations, Grey shared the same traits of her fellow patient Anna-Marie Rankin. She was also the love interest of both her fellow patients Scott Summers and Warren Worthington III, whom the latter eventually learned from Grey about her sociopathy, which this revelation led to his death. Tired of becoming studied by Xavier or exploited by Eric Magnus of the Brotherhood, Grey left the X Men and killed Rankin to assume her identity, taking Rankin's family inheritance to be free. She then faked her death by having Rankin's body disguised as herself by mutilating her body and face to make it appear that her murder was committed by her other lover Captain Logan, dying her hair red, and dumped her corpse north of Welfare Island.
- In Age of X: Historical Log v1 #2 (2010), an alternate version of Jean Grey appeared in the Age of X reality set on Earth-11326 in the Multiverse.
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, Jean Grey appeared in the 1990s animated television series where she was voiced by actress Catherine Disher. she was in a relationship with Cyclops, eventually marrying him while being the target of Wolverine's unrequited affection. For the most part, she was a warm, friendly person who when necessary stepped in and played peace maker between Cyclops and Wolverine. As far as her relationship with Cyclops was concerned, they were very happy and content with each other, in stark contrast to Gambit and Rogue often fighting and bickering. The entire saga of the Phoenix is retold and adapted in season three, subdivided into the five-part "Phoenix Saga" in which Jean acquires the power of the Phoenix and the battle for the M'Kraan Crystal occurs, and the "Dark Phoenix Saga", showcasing the battle with the Hellfire Club, the Phoenix's transformation into Dark Phoenix (voiced by Tracey Moore), and the battle to decide her fate.
- In X-Men: Evolution, Jean Grey appeared in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Venus Terzo.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, Jean Grey appeared as a supporting character in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Jennifer Hale.
- In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Jean Grey guest starred in an episode of the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Venus Tenzo. She was shown to be operating under an alias which was Annie Claremont.
Films
- In the X-Men Trilogy, Jean Grey made multiple appearances in the shared continuity setting.
- In X-Men, Jean Grey made her first live-action appearance where she was portrayed by actress Famke Janssen.
- In X2, Jean Grey appeared in the live-action film sequel where she was once again portrayed by actress Famke Janssen.
- In X-Men: The Last Stand, Jean Grey appeared in the live-action film where she was once more portrayed by actress Famke Janssen.
- In The Wolverine, Jean Grey appeared as a hallucination in the live-action film linked to the X-Men Trilogy where she was portrayed by actress Famke Janssen.
- In X-Men: Apocalypse, a younger Jean Grey appeared in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Sophie Turner.
Video games
- In Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Jean Grey-Summers appeared as Phoenix where she was a playable character in the fighting video game where she was voiced once again by actress Jennifer Hale.
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Jean Grey appeared as a playable character in the setting of the video game where she was voiced by actress Sarah Waits.
- In Marvel Heroes, Jean Grey appeared as a playable character in the MMORPG video game where she was voiced by actress April Stewart.
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Jean Grey as Phoenix appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel: Future Fight, Jean Grey as Phoenix appeared as a playable character in the setting of the 2015 mobile video game.
- In Marvel Super War, Jean Grey appeared as a playable character in the setting of the video game.
Appearances
- X-Men v1: (1963)
- Uncanny X-Men v1:
- Bizarre Adventures v1:
- X-Men v2:
- Uncanny X-Men:
- New X-Men v1:
- Jean Grey v1:
- X-Men: Red:
- House of X v1:
- X-Men v5:
- Planet-Size X-Men v1: (2021)
- X-Men v6: (2021)
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