 AKA: Marvel Girl, Redd, Jeannie
Family: Cyclops, husband; Elaine Grey, mother; Dr. John Grey,
father; Sara Grey, sister, deceased; Phoenix (Rachel Summers) daughter from alternate
future; Cable, step-son; Havok, brother-in-law; Corsair, father-in-law; Madelyne Pryor,
clone; X-Man, clone spliced with Cyclops
Lover: Cyclops, husband
Affliation: X-Men
Former: X-Factor
Appearances:
Dark Phoenix Saga
Excalibur 8, 96
Phalanx Covenant: Final
Sanction
Generation X 55, 56
Uncanny X-Men 375, 376, 377
X-Men 1, 28, 30, 95
Powers: Phoenix is one of the most powerful telepaths on the
planet, possible second only to Professor X. She can read minds, force others to act, and
broadcast her thoughts. Phoenix is also a powerful telekinetic, which allows her to move
objects with her mind, including the ability to fly and create protective shields. There
have been times when she has also had one power or the other, including recently (when she
only had telepathy) and early in her career (when she only had telekinectics). Her powers
were amped to the extremes by the Phoenix Force, granting her unlimitless power, including
the power to generate the Phoenix-raptor.
Origin: A young child, Jean Grey never expected to life anything
but a normal life. But one day, she was playing outside with her best friend. After
throwing a ball into the street, Jean's friend ran after it and was struck down by a car.
Jean ran to her side, and suddenly, she was inside her friend's mind. She was there when
the lights in her mind blinked out and her best friend died. Her sudden emergency of
telepathy caused Jean great pain and she was slowly going insane. That was when her
parents found Charles Xavier. Secretly using his own telepathy, he shut down that part of
her mind, allowing her to grow into her powers. Charles became Jean's teacher, and Jean,
his first pupil.
History: Xavier began to dream about the X-Men, his team of
mutants fighting to bring peace to the world. Jean was a large part of inspiration for
him. After saving the life of Scott Summers, Xavier began to gather three other teen
mutants to train. Finally, he added Jean Grey as the final X-Man, with the codename of
Marvel Girl.
From the first moment, it was easily seen that Jean and Scott, alias Cyclops, were meant
for each other. She was the only the girl on the team, and he was the shyest, but their
was a love their hidden behind they did.
The X-Men trained, fighting Magneto and his Brotherhood, and Marvel Girl grew more
powerful with her telekinectics (Professor X's binding was still in place.) When Xavier
was forced to hide, Jean served as his connectiont to outside, and the two of them were
closer then ever. Jean and Xavier developed a father-daughter bond that has never been
severed.
The original X-Men grew up, and Scott and Jean finally admitted their feelings for each
other. The storybook romance started to grow. But when the X-Men faced the Living Island,
Krakoa, everything changed. Only Cyclops escaped, and when he entered, there was a whole
new team of X-Men. The original members lett, all with the exception of Cyclops. Jean was
no longer an X-Man, but she stayed in close contact with the team.
Months later, Jean was captured by an insane scientist and taken to the moon, on a base
full of the mutant-hunting Sentinels. The X-Men arrived to save her, but their space-ship
was damaged and it would not survive re-entry. Jean decided to use her powers to get the
others back to Earth alive.
During the flight however, the radiation overpowered her. Just before she died, she
approached by the cosmic being called the Phoenix Force. Offering Jean life, the Phoenix
saved her, but took on her form and her mind. When the craft plummeted into the icy
waters, it was not Jean that sprung from the depths, but Phoenix.
Phoenix rejoined the X-Men. Her most crucial most came during the fight with the alien
Shi'ar. There, Phoenix did what she had to. Taking the M'Kraan crystal from the mad
emperor D'Ken, the Phoenix had saved the world. Without her, the universe would had been
ripped usunder. That is why the Phoenix Force had saved Jean: to use her mind to save
reality.
Phoenix remained with the X-Men after that, including during a time where she was
seperated from the team, believing them dead. But slowly, Jason Wyngarde, known to the
X-Men as Mastermind, was corrupted her. Mastermind and the Hellfire Club wanted to control
Phoenix, using her powers to rule the world. In the end, it would be their undoing.
Phoenix's mind was assualted by images of what she thought was a past life, and slowly,
she became the Hellfire Club's Black Queen. During a fight with the Hellfire Club, she
turned on the X-Men, becoming the Black Queen in mind and body. But Phoenix was never
truly theres, and with Jean's overpowering love for Cyclops, Phoenix defeated the Hellfire
Club and escaped.
The X-Men chased her, but found that the Hellfire Club had completely destroyed her. The
Phoenix within her had became insatiated with the desires of mortal beings, and the idea
of life and death fascinated her. Taking to the stars, Phoenix devoured a sun, destroying
five billions sentinent being in a few moments. The Shi'ar were alerted, and they came to
destroy the Phoenix.
But Xavier had already managed to bind the Phoenix's powers. And so, the X-Men stood by
the Phoenix's side, fighting off the Imperial Guard. But the Guard was too much for the
X-Men, and they lost. In the end, Phoenix was losing herself again, becoming more and more
like the Dark Phoenix. To save the universe from destruction by her hand, Phoenix
sacrificed, setting off a powerful blaster gun that she had set up the day before.
The X-Men returned home, and Cyclops left the team. Mourning, he found comfort in the arms
of Madelyne Pryor, who looked astonishingly like Jean. They had a son named Christopher
Nathan Summers. Cyclops moved on, but his heart still ached for Jean.
Deep under a bay, the real Jean Grey rested. The Phoenix Force had placed her wounded body
there and allowed it to heal. The Avengers stumbled across the pod, and soon, Jean Grey
was restored to life. Cyclops came running to her side, leaving Madelyne, now his wife,
behind. With the re-emergance of Jean, the original five X-Men gathered again, and formed
the government sponsered X-Factor.
Madelyne had found her way to the X-Men, and was there when they sacrificed themselves to
stop Adversary. By this time, Cyclops had taken his son back. And such, Cyclops believed
his wife was dead and turned to love over to Jean, once again. But Madelyne was not dead.
The X-Men were resurrected by the goddess Roma and placed in Australia.
While there, Madelyne became obessed with getting back both Cyclops and her son. Madelyne
was soon tricked by the demon S'ym into becoming the Goblyn Queen, and set of the events
known as Inferno.
During the battle, Madelyne revealed the truth: she was truly Jean Grey's clone, created
by the evil Sinister, made to deliver the child of Cyclops. When she awakened when Jean
Grey regected the Phoenix Force after it had sacrificed itself. Jean's lifeforce gave
Madelyne life. But during the battle, which Madelyne was going to sacrifice both Jean and
her son, Madelyne lost control. As she died, Jean absorbed the part of her that the
Phoenix had stolen, which gave her memories of both what the Phoenix did and what Madelyne
did.
Jean went back to her life with X-Factor. Back soon, more trouble came. Cyclop's son was
infected by Apocalypse with the techno-organic virus. With the help of the future warriors
called the Askani, the child was sent into the future to be saved.
When Professor X returned to Earth after a lengthy stay in space, X-Factor dissolved and
the original X-Men became X-Men again. Jean was a part of the Gold team, under the
leadership of her best friend, Storm. Cyclops had asked Jean to marry him several years
ago, and they finally set a date.
The wedding of Jean Grey and Scott Summers was a monumental occasion. Jean's daughter from
the future, Rachel, was there, and for the first time, Jean and Rachel became close. Jean
was still comatose when Rachel arrived in this time, and never had the chance to get to
know her.
During the honeymoon, Jean and Scott were pulled into the future, where they met the
future incarnation of Rachel: Mother Askani. She told them that Nathan was going to be
raised here, by them. Jean and Scott, posing as Slym and Redd, raised Nathan to fight
Apocalypse, who ruled the world in that future. In the end, Jean and Scott were there when
Rachel died, and Rachel passed on the name Phoenix to her mother. Soon, Cyclops and
Phoenix returned to the real world and rejoined the X-Men.
They remained with the team, facing even the dreadful being called Onslaught, who was for
the most part, their mentor and teacher Professor X. Cyclops and Phoenix left the X-Men
for a time, after Cyclops was implated with a bomb after Operation: Zero Tolerance.
Staying in Alaska, the two lived the peaceful, quiet life, for perhaps the first time.
They were happy.
During the gathering of the Twelve, Phoenix and Cyclops were forced to return. In the
battle with Apocalypse, Cylcops threw himself at the X-Man, to stop Apocalypse from
possessing him. Instead, Apocalypse merged with Cyclops. The X-Men escaped, believing
Scott to be dead. Only Phoenix remained hopeful.
With Cable, the man Nathan had became after he returned to the present, Phoenix tracked
down Apocalypse. She freed Cyclops from Apocalypse, and the two returned to the X-Men once
more. But the event had changed them. Phoenix had never lived without Cyclops before and
Cyclops had become more reserved and withdrawn then ever. Phoenix found that she was
throwing herself on Wolverine, a man who had always harbored feelings for her, and Cyclops
nearly had an affair with the White Queen. But the two have remained together, and their
love is still true. |
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