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Elaine Grey (mother; deceased),
Brian Grey (paternal uncle),
Phyllis Dennefer (maternal aunt),
Roy Dennefer (maternal uncle); Scott Summers (boyfriend; ex-fiancé), Nathan Summers (son);
James Howlett (former lover)
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History
Okay, so you already saw me using my powers, right? Heh... Wait 'till you see me when I unleash the Phoenix onto you, ya' red-foreheaded freak...
- — Jean Grey
- — Jean Grey
Early Years
Born around mid-February of the year 1984, Jean Elaine Grey was the daughter of Professor John Grey of the History Department of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and his wife Elaine Grey. Since Jean's childhood, she manifested mutant powers and abilities that were beyond all known limitations, something that first ignited when she witnessed her neighbor and friend, Annie Richardson, being accidentally hit by a car outside their community. Fearing that Jean could not control her vast psychic powers due to her trauma and depressive state, fellow telepath and mutant pacifist Professor Charles Xavier visited and approached Jean's parents for their permission, and explained that he would be taking Jean under his good care, along with her free access to education in his mansion and academic institution that was Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. As he took Jean under his wing, he had put psychic blocks around her subconscious mind to keep Jean's abilities in check.
As a result while growing up, Jean supposedly developed a dual personality, with one being her usual self and the other was her vastly strong, powerful, and uninhibited side that called itself the Phoenix Force, which in reality was a dormant cosmic entity that often emerges whenever she feels enraged and overwhelmed by her own powers, something that she would eventually use and train as her last resort in battle against adversaries. Despite of Xavier's telepathic blocks, Jean would still grow up developing strong telepathic, empathetic, and telekinetic abilities, in which Xavier helped her control it as she grows up into adulthood, joyfully living and studying at the mutant haven, the X-Mansion.
The X-Men
In her training days, Jean Grey became an official member of the X-Men in her adolescent years, when she was first dubbed by the popular title of Marvel Girl, right after the modern reawakening of the mutant messiah figure Apocalypse in the late 1990s, when Jean first fully unleashed the Phoenix onto her mighty enemy and defeated him. Marvel Girl was a cryptonym that Jean originally hated being called that, although she would eventually start appreciating it depending on her mood. During her years as a student in the Xavier Institute, Jean served as a practicing physician at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters before eventually taking medical classes at Metro College to become a licensed doctor.
When Jean was in her junior years, she would start and later develop in a long-term relationship with her classmate and fellow X-Man, Scott Summers, the mutant hero who would eventually be known as Cyclops. However, despite being an X-Men, she often have some instances where nightmares have caused her powers to go unstable and tremble the whole school, scaring her fellow teachers and students. Thankfully, Jean has since being helped and supported by her teammates in helping her control of her immeasurable powers from time to time, in which her closest friends included Storm, Beast, Iceman, Colossus, Shadowcat, her would be former lover Logan, her long-time boyfriend Scott, and her oldest mentor Professor Xavier himself.
Prodigal Son
At some point later on, specifically before the traumatic and life-changing events of Ultimate War, Scott and Jean have started professing their great and undying love for each other to the point once more, through thick and thin, where Scott eventually proposed to Jean, marking another great step towards their fruitful relationship, a relationship that has lasted for several years by then. When they suddenly meets the unexpected, Jean later became pregnant and had a son whom they named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, "Nathan" came from a random telepathic suggestion as she listened to some of the residents across the Westchester County through the Cerebro, later to be revealed as a Mister Sinister in disguise, who was still in hiding in preparation for the Movement, "Christopher" from Scott's father, and "Charles" from both Scott and Jean's father figure and mentor, Professor Xavier.
Unfortunate to Jean, Scott was away helping the X-Men during a mission when she was having her painful labor at the mansion. Because of this, one of the X-Men's greatest adversary, Sinister himself had paid to visit Jean inside the mansion undetected, disguising himself as one of its residents. As Jean immediately detected of Essex's hostile presence, she tried to warn everyone else inside the mansion, only to be single-handedly overpowered by Sinister as he counteracted most of Jean's telepathic attacks at him. Painfully asking Essex why he came into the mansion, Sinister maniacally ridiculed her question, telling her that he came to give her his late gift for not attending her baby shower. Screaming with pain, it triggered a disturbance into Professor X, who immediately hears her cries telepathically after their mission, causing for Scott to extremely worry as they returned into the mansion.
Ultimate War
By the time Scott and the X-Men has arrived to occupy during her child birth, they were late, Sinister had already left without everyone else knowing and she had already given birth to her child with the help of some of the mansion's residents. However, it was already too late for them, since Sinister has secretly infected the child with a mysterious pathogen known as the Techno-Organic Virus, that was rapidly spreading through his body and, sadly enough, it already did kill the child before they could have save him, as he was born in the world.
Stricken with grief and loss for losing their first and only son, Scott and Jean had vowed vengeance against Essex, as they did, during the eventual finale of Ultimate War after using all their fullest and mightiest powers at Essex in order to defeat the cynical and sadistic villain, incinerating the villain into ash and apparently killing him with the Phoenix's fiery blast, successful into avenging the "death" of their son Nathan, once and for all. Nathan's infant body (which was later revealed to be just a dummy) was eventually buried, along with all the other fallen heroic mutants who have risked their lives at the newly-established memorial garden of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (behind the X-Mansion), as an act of honoring those who have passed away for the sake of the greater good. Sadly, Jean decided to call off the engagement, right after their son was buried, believing that everyone she loved would just ended up getting in danger, or even worse, all because of their closeness to her.
On the bright side of it all, it was not necessarily the end for their son's life, revealing that Nathan, has survived his birth, though due to the devastating effects caused by being infected with the Techno-Organic Virus as a newborn, has made the infant Summers to be in a catatonic state. This was only revealed after the, where Essex had decided to take the catatonic infant from the morgue, as he replaced his place with a bio-organic dummy in his own design, that even the best known telepaths such as Xavier and even Jean herself, wouldn't have detected its ingenuity.
Essex would have planned to raise and build him as a biological weapon, but his post-defeat scheme was eventually prevented when a mysterious figure has unknowingly infiltrated his hidden laboratory, located in the underground dungeons of Genosha, after his temporary death during Ultimate War, where she took and saved the infant into her home reality the late 37th-early 39th century. For some time, both Scott and Jean had no way of knowing that their son had turned out to be alive, was raised and had already grown up, living in an alternate future reality of their home reality. In the aftermath of the war brought by Mister Sinister, Jean painfully ended her blooming relationship with Scott, deciding it would be the best for them to grieve their loss on their own.
The Shadows
Only a few weeks since the Ultimate War, most of the X-Mansion's residents, including some of the X-Men, has been unknowingly possessed under the influence of the mutant growth hormone and addictive drug, called the "Banshee," all for the sake of desperately trying to fastening their recovery from the traumatizing experience, albeit despite the fact that it gives off secondary, or even tertiary mutations to its users, once regularly taken. Originally, the drug was only an experimental substance previously discovered at the X-Man scientist Beast's laboratory by Cyclops and Emma Frost, though he then revealed to the Professor later on that the Brotherhood Mystique had secretly given him a sample of the drug, and was begging him to make an antidote in order to save her comrades, who were close into dying from addiction to the Banshee.
Beast was successful in formulating and developing for an antidote, giving it to Mystique afterwards, though he started on secretly experimenting with the remaining sample of the drug, hypothesizing that he may able to get rid of the negative side-effects, but retain the mutant growth hormone as its empowering effects, only before he could have started his research and experimentation. Along with the negative side-effects of the Banshee, it was also shown to be a psionic passageway to the realm of the powerful mutant entity mostly known as the "Devil with the Yellow Eyes" by those who frequently sees him in their nightmares, the Shadow King.
Eventually, his nightmarish and haunting plot to possess every single life on the planet were finally foiled to kill Professor X, Jean looked for the help of Xavier's omega level son Legion along with Emma, eventually defeating the Shadow King inside their minds and causing him to yield in a painful loss and free them from his own dimension. Upon waking up from their comatose, all the previous users of the shockingly terrifying drug was comforted by the rest of their teammates after having the antidotes applied to them, proving that they'll always be on each other's sides and to never be lost in their own emotions, never again. Upon waking up, the recovering Banshee users were comforted by Jean and teammates, especially Scott whom she mutually apologized to for not being there with him when he was greatly grieving their son's death. Unfortunately, after seeing the news reports on the television regarding a newly-implemented legislative bill, realizing that they still have to handle another, much larger issue that was about to happen next.
Secret Invasion
Jean Grey as Prestige, her new momentary identity after the trauma of Ultimate War
A stealthy invasion secretly planned by the ruthless Skrull race comes to fruition, as the Ultimates (both the 50-State Initiative of Iron Man and the Anti-Registration Forces of Captain America), S.H.I.E.L.D., the Thunderbolts, the Dark Avengers, and most of the Earth's super-powered individuals must unite to stop the conquering villainous extraterrestrial race, aided by the cosmic heroes, the Guardians of the Galaxy and the entire Ravager Network. In the climatic battle against the Skrull forces, Jean and the X-Men persistently fought off the hostile shapeshifters across the many mutant bases across the world.
In one instance, Prestige was with the portion of the team in the Savage Land where they consistently take down the incoming fleet of Skrulls from orbit as they keep on landing in the lost land. However, one Skrull general was suddenly filled with horror when Jean unleashed only a small part of her cosmic power to take down a small but strong fleet of his allies, making Jean feel utterly confused by her reaction, especially when the general horrifyingly called her as the "World Destroyer," implying that he and his people were aware of the Phoenix Force's almighty and deadly power. As Jean and her teammates had apprehended the defeated general, the former angrily questioned her what else she knows about the Phoenix, only for the general to be accidentally crushed by a damaged Skrull warship, killing her, before she could have answered to her perplexing question, much to Jean's dismay.
Nevertheless, the fighting eventually ended when a seemingly reformed Norman Osborn, who was going by the heroic ironed persona of the Iron Patriot, killed the escaping Veranke, the Skull Queen, which ended the war and the attempted invasion, once and for all. The legislative bill, Superhuman Registration Act, remained implemented right until the aftermath of the Secret Invasion, where both leaders of both sides demanded the United Nations to finally abolish the act, after both sides reunited into saving the Earth from the Skrull's invasion, ultimately ending the superhuman civil war, once and for all. Having to failed their attempted assault to invade Earth, the Skrulls decided to flee, believing that the certainty of the universe's condition from getting into a greater peril has only gotten much worse, since according to them, the "beginning of the end" of this reality has only just began, and they have no other way of stopping it, besides their failed plan to invade Earth.
In the aftermath of the Secret Invasion, Jean, Scott, along with a few of their teammates have conclusively decided to come with Ms. Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy in the meantime, in their space mission to travel to the stars to find more answers regarding the questions she has for the mysterious power growing within her. Before leaving Earth, Jean and the team with their fellow loved ones, with Professor X still giving Jean the same advice not to use the Phoenix too much to the point that she might lose control of herself and unintentionally cause harm to her friends and allies, other than the threats she'll be dealing with.
Space Xpedition
Soon after the Secret Invasion, Jean unexpectedly became the center of attention for the very worst of reasons when she had found herself being tracked down and abducted by the extraterrestrial Shi'ar Empire as she was to be put on trial in their throneworld Chandilar for the catastrophic crimes perpetrated by the Phoenix countless of millennia ago, being remembered as the World Destroyer. Being more unfortunate at the same time, she was also being hunted by the fanatic Shi'ar Church of Enlightenment, who aimed to separate or at least manipulate the Phoenix, their primary deity, into overthrowing the Empire and rebuild their society in a "purer" image, even if it means dissecting Jean piece by piece. After her main teammates and the Guardians of the Galaxy had teamed up on a on a cosmic mission to rescue Jean and escape the borders of the Shi'ar, they got into a battle with the fortified and aggressive Imperial Guard.
Nearing the conclusion of this journey, Jean's realization in her meditative unconscious state had further amplified her powers, combining her telepathy and telekinesis to have a more symbiotic relationship and concentrated state with the Phoenix as she came face to face with the Gladiator and managed to easily knock down the usually overpowered and invulnerable Shi'ar warrior. Submitting to her state as the physical embodiment of the Phoenix Force, the latter itself wrathfully declared to the Shi'ar that is would no longer wish to be affiliated with their race's affairs, revealing to the X-Men and the Guardians though Jean how the ancient Shi'ar among other hundreds of empires had once captured, abused, and weaponized to fuel their pursuits for conquest and colonization. Since the incident was finally concluded on a more diplomatic approach to avoid further destruction from both sides, Jean felt lost yet just as empowered, as Scott and her teammates comforted her on their way back to Earth.
Return of the Lost Son
As the great and savage X-Man Wolverine battled the mysterious time-traveler that was Cable, engaging in a brief but brutal fight outside the Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children. Wolverine then threatened to kill Cable for "attempting to kill" Professor X, only to be told by Cable that he tried to save him, followed by giving him the same treatment, beating Logan down until he went unconscious. Little did Cable know, Wolverine unknowingly called both of his back-ups before he was taken down, Jean and Scott to deal with the mysterious Cable. Cable's ally turned situational enemy Deadpool even swooped in the battle for a moment, trying to distract Cable, with him humorously telling Cable that his intentions were nothing personal, before Cable single-handedly knocks Wade out into the air.
In the end of the battle, Cable and engaged in an uncontrollable psionic duel, only to end in a sudden tie, proving that they're telepathic abilities are just as equal and just as powerful. In the wake of the battle's aftermath, a weakened Jean still approached the lightheaded Cable, whereupon she counteracted Cable's psionic shields and successfully reads his mind, painfully revealing her and Scott as well, the entirely of Nate's life. Both Jean and Scott was in the realization of shock and awe, after discovering that all their previous years mourning for the great loss of the one they preciously created, their son was alive and well, all along. The three of them embraced as they all shed a tear, now that they have finally been reunited by fate itself.
X-t(In)ction Event
Dark Phoenix Cometh
Jean transforms into the Dark Phoenix after succumbing to the manipulations of Mister Sinister and the Hellfire Club
With the defeat and death of Stryfe at the hands of Cable and the X-Force, the heroes' success seemingly thwarted the time-travelling pirate's reality-altering plan to converge his home timeline with the present by reawakening the dormant Apocalypse and restore his glory on Earth as the "mutant messiah," only for them to discover later on that another global threat was also emerging from the darkness which unwittingly turn some of Stryfe's goals into reality. The threat was none other than a reborn Mister Sinister, returning with his new scheme to "balance all life" on the planet with his "experiment of survival," subjugating millions of Mutants, Inhumans, Atlanteans, Mutates and any other sentient species on Earth through his new series of protocols of causing a global extinction event, with Sinister and his secret and discreet associates unleashing a deadly strain of genetically-engineered, techno-organic virus among Sinister's later strategic methods which were just as fatal. While the foreseen threat of Apocalypse has been dealt with, Sinister's premature return to power was something Cable and his future group have not expected since their reality's Essex, known by Lord Sinister, was already defeated in the future after a long-lasting rivalry with Apocalypse.
In the first hour when the Legacy Virus was only beginning to spread fear, panic, and slow death to all of humanity across the world, Mister Sinister had his other plans towards various groups and individuals concurrently set in motion through his clones and sentient creations, most especially with the heroic mutants X-Men and Brotherhood, something that Essex had been keeping an eye on thanks to his connections with his secret associates from the mostly neutral evil Hellfire Club, who helped transmit the Legacy Virus to some of the X-Men, including Jean. Due to the manipulation of the Hellfire Club, with member Mastermind being the one to put her in a trance, Jean was driven mad as her symptoms from the virus worsened overtime, prompting the enraged Phoenix Force to slowly consume her out of her state of despair. The Phoenix Force slowly took control over the mentally and emotionally weakened Jean as their connection slowly gave rise to the Dark Phoenix. Jean's new state of berserk as the Phoenix has led her to wreaking havoc across the Hellfire Club's headquarters until she was rescued and momentarily incapacitated by her teammates.
Knowing about the dangers of the Phoenix's future from Cable and the Clan Askani, the heroic mutants agreed to have her locked inside the Brotherhood's Asteroid M, a station located around the Earth's orbit, until they find a way to calm Jean down and try communicating with the Phoenix. However, the Dark Phoenix easily broke free from the reluctant custody of her own allies, as she soared through the universe light years away from Earth, sensing an overwhelming amount of "irredeemable evil" on a nearby star system. Arriving to where she sensed such a tormenting presence, the Phoenix devoured the nearby star and the five-billion inhabitants of one of its planets, D'bari IV. She tried to vanquish the faction of her fellow X-Men who followed her through a spaceship thanks to the assistance of the Starjammers, but Emma Frost was able to keep the Phoenix under control. Cyclops talked to Jean to carefully bring her out of the Phoenix's influence and helped her will herself back to normal, before they were teleported away by the Shi'ar, the X-Men's former enemies turned situational allies.
The Shi'ar Empire had witnessed Dark Phoenix consuming the star and the X-Men but after a rough clash with its Imperial Guard, they were forced to cooperate with each other through the Starjammers' interference who helped the X-Men explain the details of Sinister's ongoing machinations back on Earth, discussing over the Phoenix's fate on the Blue Area of the Moon. This faction of the X-Men who went after Jean finally knew the reason to why they ended up off-world, with Cable figuring out that they were being distracted by Sinister and the Hellfire Club to keep someone as cosmically powerful as Jean from unleashing the Phoenix and potentially destroying his plans. With Jean slowly recalling her state as Dark Phoenix while they returned to Earth, she was ridden with tremendous guilt and trauma, despite the Phoenix and even the Imperial Guard's justifications for her actions on how D'bari IV was a hopeless civilization, ran by a never-ending state of crime and anarchy long before she decimated them. Under the Phoenix's nigh-omniscience, Jean sensed that even in a world full of greedy tyrants and menaces, she sensed every single innocent and good-hearted life which she also took on that very planet.
A Great Inferno
The rest of Mister Sinister's simultaneous plans on Earth would constantly face its challengers after he and his followers were eventually stopped by the heroic forces composing of the rest of the X-Men and Brotherhood faction, S.H.I.E.L.D., Apocalypse and his newly-formed Horsemen (Death, War, Famine, and Conquest) after the former was revealed to have been betrayed by Sinister and chose to help the heroes and other mutant-supporting groups across the globe. Under the influence of the Dark Phoenix, Jean endured through the agonizing pain caused by the Legacy Virus' worsening symptoms. During her return to Earth with her group, Jean got closer with a valiant yet oddly familiar ally named Tanya Anodyne, a member of the Clan Askani, the same freedom fighter group that raised Cable and was now helping him with their mission to stop the Chronic Convergence by helping Jean control the Phoenix Force.
Unfortunately, Jean and Cable would become dismayed to discover that "Anodyne" was a double agent for the Hellfire Club's inner circle as its new Red Queen, leading for the traitor to kidnap an enfeebled Jean. Bringing her to one of the laboratory strongholds of Mister Sinister, Anodyne would reveal herself as Jean's distant nefarious clone from the future named Madelyne Pryor, and has been impersonating her since she followed Cable and the Askani in the modern timeline, where she secretly offered her services to the modern Mister Sinister, assuring that the Phoenix could be harnessed in order to complete the final phase of his "X-t(In)ction" experiment and ensuring the Chronic Convergence of this reality winning over the favor of Mister Sinister's victory since Apocalypse had already given the last of his life and powers to help the heroes bring down Sinister. Jean was eventually tracked down by the Cyclops and the young New Mutants, who sensed the supernatural essence of "ravenous hunger" within Pryor.
Upon hearing and witnessing thousands and thousands more casualties piling up by the minute because she wasn't alerted enough of Sinister's return, Jean blamed herself for the many losses of innocent lives and, in her great sorrow, embraced the darkness of the Phoenix one last time and ended up helping the New Mutants with their battle against the entirety of Pryor's Hellfire Club, finally obliterating their secret headquarters and killing most of Hellfire, including Mastermind and eventually Pryor herself who failed to merge with the Phoenix since she couldn't fully comprehend its cosmic weight. When the X-Men and Brotherhood caught up with the New Mutants and confronted the Dark Phoenix before she could've caused more destruction outside Hellfire, Jean learned enough how to control her emotions better as she slowly sedated the Phoenix within her, reminding herself that her rageful outburst was rooted from her deep love and care to protect her allies, family, and the innocent without having to accidentally harm them in the process. At that moment, everyone realized that the moment Jean took control out of love, she had once more momentarily tapped into the state of Phoenix far greater than the Dark Phoenix: the White Phoenix of the Crown.
While the heroes were overall victorious against Mister Sinister, the devastation of the skirmish costed them millions of casualties, with deaths due to the Legacy Virus from across the world reaching more than approximately nine hundred thousand lives, among of them were their closest allies in exchange of saving billions more innocent lives from the brink of death with the strange virus' newly-synthesized cure and vaccines. Jean's heart couldn't be more broken and her spirit couldn't be more fragile when she would find out how her parents and other relatives have unfortunately perished amidst the chaos, with her father and some unnamed relatives succumbing from the Legacy Virus while her mother among others were caught in the crossfire between both heroic & armed forces and Mister Sinister's mutated clones.
Recalling the deaths she had caused across the galaxy and the lives which she thought she could've saved if she stayed on Earth, Jean used her own psionic powers along with reluctant assistance from Psylocke, Emma Frost, and Professor X to fortify a psychic shield within her mind, keeping the Phoenix Force from interfering with her memories and tempting her to harness its powers again just to fuel her rage and negative emotions. The experience encouraged Jean to take a leave from the X-Men to have a time to reflect and hope for a way to heal herself not just from the Legacy Virus, but from the actions she had caused as the Dark Phoenix, questioning whether she truly had control or it was her fate to embrace the entity in her darkest and most desperate state.
The Phoenix Prophecy
Taking place only a few months after the events of the infamous revolutionary X-t(In)ction Event, the cosmic entity Phoenix Force within Jean was still recovering from the deadly and traumatic effects of Mister Sinister's Legacy Virus after the psychic rampage of Jean as the Dark Phoenix had sporadically broken the telepathic barrier — which Professor X had originally placed in her since her youth to dampen her outbursts out of her safety — after having a nervous breakdown when she started perceiving repetitive nightmares caused by psychic entities — notably the Shadow King and the vengeful D'bari survivor Vuk — with the same objective of possessing and killing off the Phoenix Force, since the entity was claimed to be the next universal threat since the events of Infinity War and Crusade as the Phoenix had wiped off the D'bari System, worsening her guilt and condition from time to time which slowly turns her insanely dangerous having still possessed by the restrained yet still powerful Phoenix Force.
After trying to commune with the entity from within her mindscape, Jean was devastated to learn how the Phoenix has now perceived Earth as a hellscape wherein life and peace could no longer resurface and thrive unless it is destroyed and reborn, feeling an outburst of remorse and rage over its actions after it was previously manipulated by the Hellfire Club. Realizing how the Phoenix was somehow "losing her sanity" and faith on Earth, Jean decided to reject the entity and severe their connection using her psychic powers, trying to incapacitate on her own, only for her condition to worsen in the process when the psychic entities used the situation to their advantage by trying to reach and possess the Phoenix until Jean had to make a painful but effective procedure: splitting Phoenix into five fragments scattered across her mind and soul where no psionic entity could easily reach it.
After his innocent students and other people around the X-Mansion were also affected by the countless haunting of the same entities due to the contemporary existence of the cosmic entity Phoenix Force within Jean Grey, Xavier finally joins the fray in helping a small portion of the Avengers and several of his other trustworthy allies through various points, including the essential procedure in finding out a safe way to get the Phoenix Force out of Jean without having to risk her own life in the process. In an attempt to stall the Phoenix Force's possession of Jean Grey, the entity was separated and retrieved out of her mind, soul, and body by the efforts of Stark, Wakandan, and X-Mansion technology, along with Xavier's Cerebro-enhanced powers.
Xavier's Sacrifice
However, although the heroes were originally successful in driving the entity off Jean, the entity's fragments had subsequently possessed Cyclops, Emma Frost, Emperor Namor, Magneto, and Magik. He had also asked his supposedly most trustworthy student and the field leader of the X-Men, Cyclops himself to resist the power and tried to fight the rest of the uncontrollable Phoenix-possessed avatars who went berserk by its unbelievably cosmic power.
After attempting to shut down Cyclops, each of the efforts had failed when he desperately took and absorbed most of it onto himself after defeating the weakened Magneto for the whole power of the Phoenix, turning him into the most dangerous known version of the Dark Phoenix. Realizing that Summers was already losing touch with his own humanity and decides to follow his delusion exterminating the human race instead for avenging mutantkind. With her love for Scott and the X-Men persisting and motivating her to power up, Jean was willing to get through all the pain she went through before just to save them by trying to reabsorb the Phoenix once more from Scott, even if the process would be proven to be fatal for her due to her weak state. However, it was Xavier who now stepped into anyone's way as he absorbed all of the Phoenix Force, promising to Jean that he will finish things himself without risking to lose any of his students' life. He apologized to Jean as he absorbed all of the Phoenix within him, pledging that he would never fail his students or the future of mutantkind ever again by the shadows of his past sins and failures.
Now possessing the Phoenix's full but hostile power, Professor X as the new Phoenix uses the full power of the cosmic entity to vanquish most of the psychic entities that had been worsening Jean's already recovering condition, disintegrating himself and his adversaries out of existence, before struggling to communicate the Phoenix into using its ultimate life-force to resurrect most of the perished every mutant in the world from the previous X-t(In)ction event, rather than destroying the planet as the Phoenix originally intended to. Xavier willingly sacrificed his own life to contain the raging entity within, preventing the Phoenix from unleashing its deadly and destructive wave of cosmic energy, and used all his mighty psionic power against the Phoenix, killing both him and the entity in the process, which ultimately ended the prophecy once and for all.
The New Director
In the aftermath of Xavier's demise a month and a half after the prophetic event, hundreds of thousands of people across the country attended his funeral at the X-Mansion, and remembered him dearly for his unforgettable ideologies and actions of eternally believing in a world of peace and harmony between humankind and mutantkind altogether. During the funeral, the saddened Jean continued to mourn for the passing of the man whom she always saw as a great mentor, and a second father. Jean also professed in her eulogy to Xavier that despite his death, she would always keep the flames that the professor left to his closest people, and build the best future across the world for both human and mutant kind, with both races finally living in a unified and peaceful society.
Additionally, Jean would come to meet face to face with the D'bari Vuk and his fellow group of survivors in their physical form, but not in the manner any of the latter had expected. The remorseful and sincere Jean kept her guard down so she could make amends with one of the last representatives of the D'bari race in the universe, and while it was expected that her actions weren't all forgiven even after the truth about the Dark Phoenix was unveiled, she and her allies still lent every service and assistance they could offer to the survivors to give them a new home across the galaxy, starting with giving them a temporary shelter and a new community located in the lush, mostly undisclosed underground landmass under the Earth's mantle, the Savage Land, specifically in one of the states that was co-founded and still peacefully governed by Polaris over her residents, a territory of the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Weeks have passed since the funeral of Professor X, Jean was encouraged to succeed Xavier's former position in becoming the new headmaster of Xavier's educational institute, taking place as its new director when she was mentally sound and more than prepared to take on the compassionate responsibilities once fulfilled by her great mentor. Moreover, when Cyclops was under interrogation and investigation by the authorities after the incident and sentenced him into a short term of imprisonment, they would conclusively agree to have Cyclops placed under two years of house arrest with the X-Men and Brotherhood. Feeling how selfless and kindhearted her beloved was in spite of him being consumed by retribution, Jean supported and waited for him despite his former disillusioned acts against humanity, believing that he could and would still redeem himself for the better as time passes by.
Around early 2027, Jean and her fellow mutant heroes had to face the last in order to ensure the safety and survival mutantkind when the militaristic and anti-mutant Larry Trask was elected as the president of the United States. Jean would officially return to the X-Men as its co-leader and actively participated in rescuing helpless mutants and fighting against Trask's bigoted presidency and his executive Nimrod Sentinel Program which was programmed to hunt every known mutant in their sights — especially the ones who were destitute of privilege, affiliation, and insurance from any group — and/or place them in undisclosed internment camps. Jean was vital and victorious in encouraging allies and advocates across the world to help out each other in exposing and stopping the crimes of Trask in this short-lived conflict which was dubbed as the Sentinels Uprising.
Not long after the fall and impeachment of Trask, Jean helped renovate the newly-expanded X-Mansion and fix various mutant bases and communities throughout the western hemisphere, before reaching and establishing international relations with mutant groups in the other side of the world. Due to her growing public reputation as a vital, Jean was recommended by her teammate and friend, Senator Kate Pryde, to meet with and befriend various prominent mutant figures and supporters, subsequently forming the Quiet Council, founding leaders of the Okkaran Union. The Union was a state in which portals from cities across the world would generate to the sentient living tied islands of Krakoa and Arakko through its native, portal-generating flowers where mutants and other humans, mutate or not, could travel with little but acute authorization and peacefully interact within this natural borderless sanctuary and metropolis.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Homo Superior Physiology: By birth, Jean is a mutant who is among the most powerful telepaths, telekinetics and psionics. She was also one with the Phoenix Force, and while acting as its physical avatar (until she finally rejected it during Phoenix Prophecy) she is one of the most powerful Abstract Entities in the universe. She also was considered to be a Mutant Alpha-Psi, an Alpha Level Telepath, an Alpha-Level Mutant and Psionic of Highest Order. As the Dark Phoenix, she has been stated to be a global and even a universal threat and to manifest cosmic-level powers. Despite the Phoenix finally out of Jean after it left her body, Jean was still able to replicate a strong fraction of the Phoenix's powers and abilities in the most extremes of situations.
- Empathy
- Telepathy
- Telepathic Defense
- Telepathic Cloak
- Cloak Mind
- Psychic Shield
- Telepathic Illusions
- Telepathic Camouflage
- Telepathic Manipulation
- Memory Alteration
- Mind Control
- Mind Possession
- Personality Alteration
- Mental Paralysis
- Mental Amnesia
- Mind Transference
- Heal Trauma
- Mental Sedating
- Neural Jumpstart
- Dilate Power
- Mind Link
- Psychic Blast
- Astral Projection
- Mental Detection
- Telepathic Defense
- Telekinesis
- Psychic Firebird
- Force Field
- Tactile Telekinesis
- Telekinetic Aura
- Matter Transmutation
- Telekinetic Weapons
- Psychic Siphoning
- Telekinetic Aura
- Psychic Resistance
- Psychic Entity Physiology
- Cosmic-Level Telekinetic Blast
- Psionic Bolt Generation
- Psychic Firebird
- Phoenix Force Avatar (formerly)
- Interstellar Travel
- Cosmic Pyrokinesis
- Cosmic Teleportation
- Concussive Force Blasts
- Telekinetic Sensitivity
- Resurrection
- Energy Absorption
- Life-Force Control
- Immortality
- Temporal Manipulation
- Atmokinesis
- Existence Mastery
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Abilities
- Gifted Intelligence
- Master Doctor
- Leadership
- Expert Pilot
- Astral Combatant
- Hand-to-Hand Combatant
- Non-Psionic Combatant
Strength level
- Class 500+
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
Jean Grey's first X-Men suit, often wearing it in her early days as an X-Man
- X-Men Uniforms
- Stylized X-Men Uniform
- First X-Men Uniform
- Cerebro (formerly)
- Cerebra
- Cerebra
Transportation:
- Flight
- Various X-Men vehicles
- Sentinel Air Transport
- X-Men Blackbird
- X-Men Stratojet
- X-Factor Plane
- X-Copter
Weapons: None
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: X-Men Vol 1 15
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Jean Grey (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Jean Grey (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Jean Grey (Earth-61615)
Discover and Discuss
- Search News for: Jean Elaine Grey · Jean Grey (Earth-61615)
Links and References
- None.