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Jean Grey
 Real
name: Jean Grey
Group affiliation:
the Empire, formerly X-Factor, X-Men, the Resistance
Height:
5'6"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Eye color:
Green
Hair color: Red
Powers:
A telepath, Jean Grey can read minds, project
thoughts and illusions into others' heads, and discharge mind-numbing
mental bolts. Her telekinetic abilities allow her to levitate herself,
other living beings and inanimate objects.
Upon being taken on as host for the Phoenix force, all of her abilites
were amplified into demi-god-like proportions. Since the events of the
Order of Phoenix, Jean has been without the Phoenix Force, and has also
seemingly lost her TK and TP abilities completely. She is now powerless.
Weapons: None
History: When Jean
Grey was 10 years old, she watched helplessly as her best friend was
struck by a car. The strength of Jean's emotions awakened her latent
telepathic powers, and she experienced the dying girl's feelings.
Withdrawn and deeply depressed, Jean discovered she could not control her
newly awakened mental powers and was forced to isolate herself from others
to keep hold of her sanity. Jean had been an average teenager; now, she
could hear thoughts louder than voices and lift weights with her mind.
Jean's parents were referred to Professor Charles Xavier, secretly a
mutant with similar telepathic and telekinetic powers. Xavier treated Jean
for several years, erecting psychic shields in her mind so she would not
be able to use her telepathic abilities until she achieved the maturity
necessary to control them. When Jean had attained a certain level of
mastery, Xavier recommended that her parents enroll her in his newly
established School for Gifted Youngsters. Adopting the guise of Marvel
Girl, Jean became the fifth member of the X-Men -- a handful of troubled
teenagers learning to control their strange powers...and fighting to
preserve Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants.
Jean harbored strong feelings for fellow student Scott Summers -- alias
Cyclops, whose uncontrollable optic beams would fire whenever he opened
his eyes. For years, both were too shy to express their emotions.
Hated and feared by humanity, Jean and the X-Men honed their strange
abilities while standing in defense of a world on the brink of genetic war.
Following the removal of Xavier's psychic shields, she proved highly adept
at using her telepathic powers. When the mutant island known as Krakoa
held Jean and several of her teammates captive, Professor X assembled a
second squad of X-Men. Led by Cyclops, the new recruits rescued Xavier's
original students. Jean left the X-Men soon after, but continued her
romantic relationship with Scott.
However, her unique genetic gifts would not allow her to lead a normal
life. The government created a new breed of mutant-hunting Sentinels, and
the androids abducted Jean and the other X-Men. Imprisoned in an orbiting
space station, the team was forced to escape back to Earth in a space
shuttle through a lethal solar-radiation storm. The pilot's cabin lacked
sufficient shielding, but Jean insisted on flying the craft. Already
succumbing to the agonizing effects of radiation poisoning, she was
touched by the cosmic being known as the Phoenix Force. The entity created
a body for itself that was identical to Jean's, duplicated her memories
and personality, and absorbed a portion of her consciousness. It then
guided the shuttle to a crash-landing in Jamaica Bay off New York City.
The Phoenix Force placed the real Jean in suspended animation within a
cocoon-like pod resting on the bottom of the bay. The Phoenix Force
eventually was corrupted by its own power, becoming a threat to all
creation. But Jean's persona was dominant, and her psyche caused the
entity to sacrifice itself to save the universe. Subsequently, the
Avengers -- Earth's Mightiest Heroes -- discovered the pod and turned it
over to elastic inventor Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. Finally
breaking through the cocoon's psi-damping, the real Jean released herself.
Fully healed, she reunited with Scott and the original X-Men; together,
they founded a new team, X-Factor. Later, the members of X-Factor rejoined
the X-Men.
(the following cannon information is from
hem.passagen.se/hggblom2/phoenix/)
Scott and Jean married, and on their honeymoon Jean and Scott were
abducted into the future (2000 years into the future to be
exact). They soon found out that it was there Rachel had ended up, forming
the Clan Askani, the same ones who had saved Nathan Christopher. Jean and
Scott arrived mere moments after Nathan Christopher had arrived there, and
they were now able to spend time with him -- twelve years to be precise.
They were also able to defeat the evil Apocalypse. Unfortunately they also
witnessed the death of their daughter Rachel. Rachel, who had also wielded
the Phoenix force, asked Jean if she could not take the name Phoenix again
-- Jean was happy to do this, and was once again called Phoenix!
After this, came Onslaught!
Jean refused to accept Xavier/Onslaught's new 'Dream', and left the X-men
and Scott behind to help the Resistance, along with several other X-Men.
It was during this time that she was again made the host of the phoenix
force, though the reasons the Phoenix Force had for this were never
revealed. Onslaught/Xavier knew about Jean's power boost, and determined
to get the Dark Phoenix to surface. He used his powers to cloud Jean's
mind enough to get her to join with the X-Corps, and subtly mold the Dark
Phoenix into emergence.
Then came the Skrull wars. Jean fought alongside former teammates and
enemies to prevent their plant's conquest. After the Skrull wars, the
Order of Phoenix was formed by the members of the Resistance who had been
marked by the Crimson Dawn. They were able to 'exorcise' the phoenix force
from Jean's body before it could do her complete and lasting harm, and
also took means to prevent it from returning to this solar system again.
Jean collapsed into an apparant coma, and has been there ever since. She
was placed on a med-bed, and now resides in the Infirmary in Castle Doom,
completly comotose. While she is certainly not brain dead, she has also
showed no tendicy to come out of her coma, save a small spike in her brain
waves when Scott was nearly killed by Venom. Since that time, there has
been no change in her condition.
Jean Grey has recently regained
conciousness and found out that her powers are gone... but are they really
gone?
 Update:
November 2002
Jean has since woken up from her coma, and her powers appeared to be gone
completely. She spent several agonizing weeks re-orienting herself with
the world while residing at Castle Doom. However, her powers were not gone,
simply lying dormant. They have since come about and manifested themselves
on a subconscious level. She has been manifesting the raptor of the
phoenix when using her powers; though whether or not this is a conscious
decision on her part, or some outside manipulation of the phoenix force
remains to be seen.
The moment Scott came to Castle Doom, brought there at his brother’s
command, Jean sensed his presence through their psionic rapport. She came
to him just in time for Roma to teleport her to NY to witness the
transportation of several of her friends to the future. She then flew back
to Castle Doom to be with Scott.
Her first conscious use of her powers was in waking Scott from his coma,
though right before hand her telekinetic powers manifested themselves in
reaction to her emotions. Scott and Jean talked, and decided that somehow
they had to get Alex back and restart the Dream. It was the only way that
they could make amends for the wrong that had been done to the world.
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