| White Phoenix of The Crown |
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| Name: | Jean Grey-Summers |
| Gender: | Female |
| Place of Birth: | Annadale-on Hudson, New York |
| Age: | 28 |
| Aliases: | Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Lady Jean Grey, Dark Phoenix, Black Queen, Red |
| Origin: | Mutant |
| Origin Earth: | 616 |
| Present Location: | New York |
| Occupation: | White Phoenix of The Crown |
| Team: | X-Men |
| Alignment: | Hero |
| Significant Other(s): | Scott Summers |
| Powers and Abilities: | Telekinesis, Telepathy, Empathy, One with The Phoenix Force |
| Portrayed by: | Sophie Turner |
Jean Grey is the youngest of two daughters of John Grey, Professor of History at Bard College, and his wife, Elaine Grey. One tragic day Jean was playing outside with her best friend, Annie Richardson, and Annie ran to the road trying to catch a frisbee, only to be struck by a speeding car. Jean rushed to her friend's side, held Annie in her arms, and despite being a mere 7 year old, she was so distraught that her powers manifested.
The young Jean Grey found herself inside the mind of Annie as she was dying. She could feel her pain, she could feel death taking hold, and she couldn't do anything to make it stop or help her friend. Realizing that her friend was dying, Jean was trying to pull her back to the world of the living, to no avail.
Unbeknownst to Jean, trying to toy at such a young age with life and death first brought her to the Phoenix Force's attention. That experience, however, traumatized her tremendously and she became catatonic for three years.
When she finally snapped out of her catatonic state, John and Elaine were distraught to find their daughter withdrawn from the world, she'd sit in her room for hours and refuse to come out. She would not eat, not dress and not come out of her room unless forced to.
Her parents decide to go for professional help and were eventually advised to seek Professor Charles Xavier by Jean's psychiatrist. At age 11, Jean was taken by her parents to Xavier's Mansion in Westchester, NY. It was there he informed them that Jean was a mutant, and that it was imperative she stay in his School for Gifted Youngsters, so he could both treat her and guide her to prevent any future catastrophes. One of the things Xavier did to help Jean was placing psychic barriers to limit her telepathy.
Under Xavier's tutelage, Jean Grey had come to master her powers, to the point she could function more or less normally and with her therapy complete, she soon became a founding member of the X-Men, Professor Xavier's team of mutants with the chief ambition of promoting understanding between humans and mutants, to one day accomplish the dream of peaceful coexistence.
Jean Grey was a founding member of the X-Men along with fellow students of Professor Xavier: Scott Summers, Henry McCoy, Warren Worthington III, and class clown Bobby Drake. They all got to choose their respective codenames, Jean choose Marvel Girl for herself.
The X-Men were very thoroughly drilled by Professor Xavier in the use of their powers, in team work, and in their ultimate goal of achieving Xavier's dream. They fought against many villains, some mutants with other ideas about humanity, and some humans with strong prejudice against mutants. They've been through many ordeals and soon grow to bond as more than just friends, they became a family.
As can be expected with teenagers, there were some awkward experimentation with love, and while Warren showed some interest in Jean, she ultimately fell in love with Scott, the team's field commander.
When the first class of X-Men graduated from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Jean became a swimsuit model and maintained her relationship with Scott. During the Z'Nox alien invasion of Earth, Xavier left to deal with the threat, and in leaving the X-Men with a doppelganger to mask his absence, he removed the barriers from Jean's telepathy, so she could aid the X-Men in his stead.
Over time there were many adventures and a second X-Men team forming, of the new members, Jean became fast friends with Ororo Munroe. But several months later, events took place that would change Jean's life forever.
Steven Lang, an anti mutant activist, managed to capture a few of the X-Men, Jean Grey among them, and brought them to the Starcore Space Station. Lang took over the space station and had a new generation of Sentinels there, which he planned to test drive on the captive X-Men.
Unfortunately for Steven Lang, a solar flare of tremendous magnitude appeared dangerously close to Earth, prompting Starcore to send Dr. Peter Corbeau, a space shuttle pilot and leading authority on solar flares and radiation, along with his team to the Space Station to investigate.
When Dr. Corbeau and his team boarded the Space Station and found Lang, a battle ensued, during which the X-Men broke free and fought Lang and his Sentinels. During the battle the Space Station was highly damaged, and the X-Men and Dr. Corbeau's team just managed to escape moments before the station blew up in spectacular fashion.
While in the shuttle making their escape from the exploding space station, the heroes had to deal with tremendous radiation due to the inexplicably huge solar flare. A special solar flare probe within the shuttle, was able to keep everyone safe, but someone still needed to pilot the shuttle back to Earth.
Jean Grey volunteered, because she could copy Dr. Corbeau's training to pilot the shuttle, and use the telekinesis to shield herself from the radiation. The only problem was that Jean forgot that on re-entry, her power will be taxed twofold upon breaching the atmosphere. Her telekinetic shield shattered, and she began to die from the radiation that washed over her. Helpless, and having the will power to cling to life to see her team to safety, she send a loud telepathic cry for help.
She was heard by the same Phoenix Force that took note of her last time she tried to cheat death, attempting to save her dying friend Annie. It's been years, Jean was stronger, and Phoenix revealed herself to Jean, offering a deal: Phoenix would take from the essence of Jean, give Jean from the essence of the Phoenix, and while Jean would recover in time, Phoenix would save the X-Men and Dr. Corbeau's crew. Jean took the deal in a heartbeat, not realizing what it entailed.
The Phoenix teleported Jean Grey's body into a special healing cocoon, while creating a copy of Jean's body to serve as a host. The solar probe containing the X-Men and Dr. Corbeau's crew was ejected during the shuttle's crash into Jamaica Bay in New York City, while the rest of the shuttle blew into debris and sank. The healing cocoon was buried there, before the Phoenix in Jean's body rose flew straight out of the water, in her new green Phoenix costume, announcing to the X-Men of her new codename: Phoenix.
From that moment Phoenix was a regular part of the X-Men, posing as Jean Grey to perfection, as she copied her memories and all. During her many adventures with the X-Men, she traveled to the Shi'ar Galaxy to restore a torn M'Kraan Crystal, damaged by D'Ken, a Shi'ar Emperor. During this mission, Lilandra, sister of D'Ken and heir to the throne, raised concern about Jean's destructive power.
On a different adventure, a battle with Magneto lead Jean to believe the X-Men were killed. With the loss of her close friends, she moved to Muir Island, as Moira MacTaggart was a close friend of Xavier. There she ran into Jason Wyngarde, a powerful illusionist from the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.
Using his power of illusion, empowered by the telepathic prowess of his partner in crime, Emma Frost, he was able to trick the Phoenix to believe her life was but a dream. She was an English nobility. A lady living in the 18th century. She was sailing to the new world with her lover, Jason Wyngarde, to be married. Wyngarde built up the illusion over months, Phoenix shifting in and out of it, believing reality to be a dream.
Some months later, Cerebro discovered two powerful new mutants. The X-Men split up to try and contact both, Phoenix was on a team sent to New York City night club, to try and recruit Alison Blaire.
Inside the night club, Phoenix was phased into one of Wyngarde's illusions, experiencing her wedding to the man. When she snapped out of the vision during her shared kiss with her husband, she found herself kissing Jason at the club. The X-Men soon came under attack by the Inner Circle's pawns, and after beating them go to help the second team, having learned they were captured by the Inner Circle.
Upon arrival to the Hellfire Club, Phoenix notes their people match those from her vivid illusions. She ignores that for the time being and goes after her friend, Ororo Munroe, whom she finds being tortured by Emma Frost, the White Queen. This ends very badly for the White Queen who gets destroyed in a telepathic battle against a far superior telepath.
The X-Men regroup to Warren's house in New Mexico, to plan their attack on the Hellfire Club. During the down time, Phoenix takes off Scott's visor, telling him she wants to see his eyes. To Scott's surprise, he finds Phoenix is able to keep his optic blast at bay in a tremendous display of telekinesis.
During the attack on the Hellfire Club, Phoenix falls into another illusion, and when Scott goes after her and Jason Wyngarde, who he now recognizes as Mastermind, he gets blasted by Phoenix who declares herself The Black Queen of the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle.
The Inner Circle with The Black Queen's aid make short work of the X-Men and soon have them all captured. The only one still loose is Wolverine. The Inner Circle proceeds to induct Phoenix officially as their new Black Queen, when Scott uses the psychic rapport Jean cemented between them, to try and get Jean to help them.
Instead he finds himself drawn to a telepathic battle with Mastermind, but the battleground constantly shifts to aid Mastermind. When Scott calls him out for cheating, Mastermind explains he has no telepathic control, it is Jean who is helping him defeat Scott. Shocked and betrayed, Scott's guard crumbles and he is soundly defeated.
As Scott collapses in the real world after his losing in a psychic battle, the Phoenix is shocked free of the control of Mastermind. With Phoenix seemingly back on their side, and Wolverine arriving on scene, the X-Men win the day.
A desperate Mastermind, still tries to use his power on Phoenix, but without Emma Frost's aid, it is an exercise in futility. Phoenix shatters Mastermind's illusion both in her mind, and the one he used in the real world to make himself appear handsome, before announcing she's the Dark Phoenix and destroying his mind, effectively killing him.
But Dark Phoenix isn't done with Mastermind, he's not the only one who has been guiding her life, making choices for her…the X-Men deserved to be punished all the same. She does just that, making short work of the X-Men with her tremendous power.
During the battle, Scott asks why Phoenix didn't leave Jean's mind with the M'Kraan Crystal healed. She replies the thrill of human emotions. She then asks him why he cares if Jean lives or not, and Scott says he loves Jean, Dark Phoenix claims it's not a valid answer but when she tries to kill Scott, she finds that the part of her that is Jean denies her, despite all her power.
Distraught that a mere human could control her, Dark Phoenix soared into the vastness of space, and into the sun of the D'Bari solar system. She wound up consuming that sun, before it went supernova and destroyed the D'Bari system, ending billions of lifeforms.
The Shi'ar learn of this and try to attack the Dark Phoenix, only for their ships to be wiped from existence. While the Dark Phoenix returns to Earth, the Shi'ar prepare to end her.
The Shi'ar send their Praetorian Guard lead by Gladiator to destroy the Dark Phoenix, while the X-Men plan to use a mnemonic scrambler to force the Phoenix out of Jean's mind.
Using Scott's rapport with Jean, the X-Men learn Dark Phoenix went to visit Jean's childhood home. The X-Men set a trap and manage to use their device on Dark Phoenix. While the device doesn't function as well as the X-Men hoped, it jarrs Dark Phoenix enough to allow Professor X to revert the Dark Phoenix back into Jean's control.
At that point the Shi'ar Imperial Guard along with Liliandra appear, they demand the death of Phoeinx by Galactic Law for the death of billions in the D'Bari system. Xavier scans Liliandra's mind and invokes "Aran'n Halar", a trial by combat in a battle to the death between the X-Men and the Imperial Guard. They are all teleported to a Shi'ar Cruiser to prepare.
Phoenix begs Scott to hand her to the Shi'ar for all the lives she's taken while influenced by darkness, but Scott asserts she's worth all the lives in existence. Hours later, and they stand on the Earth's moon to do battle. But as the battle starts, Phoenix refuses to let the X-Men die for her, and she commits suicide to end the battle. To everyone concerned both Phoenix and Jean Grey were dead.
The Phoenix being an entity of death and rebirth, the suicide during the trial by combat was not the end. In fact it had a cleansing effect. Regaining it's celestial form and memory of time endless, she needed to atone for stealing Jean Grey's life force. But when she tried to return the essence she stole from Jean to the woman who was still in the healing cocoon, Jean rejected it. Being responsible for the deaths of billions was not something she was willing to accept.
Thus the essence stolen from Jean Grey, along with a fragment of the Phoenix Force, found the closest thing to Jean, the lifeless body of Madelyne Pryor, a Jean Grey clone that Mr. Sinister was creating in his Nebraska lab.
Shortly after, Scott met Madelyne in Alaska, and fell in love with her, the two got married and had a son, Nathan, who disappeared. Scott and Madelyne went to the X-Men for help in finding their missing son. Eventually Madelyne made a pact with demons and became the Goblin Queen.
A few years after Jean's assumed death on the Moon, in the trial by combat, the Avengers discovered the healing cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. The cocoon was brought to Reed Richards for study, before Jean emerged from it in the Baxter Building lab. But she could only recall that fateful space flight under duress of massive radiation, and nothing beyond that.
However, with the help of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, she is able to gradually recover her memory. Another lasting effect from her down time seemed to have been the loss of her telepathic powers, while her telekinetic powers increased tremendously.
With Madelyne discovering Jean's return, she made sure to hide the information from the X-Men. In the meantime, Madelyne and Scott were able to retrieve their son, Nathan, and through her pact with the demon, Madelyne brought demonic Limbo into Manhattan.
Meanwhile, Jean recovered her telepathic power just in time for a telepathic show down with Madelyne. Jean was able to defeat and kill Madelyne, putting an end to the Goblin Queen. This caused Jean's essence and the Phoenix fragment within Madelyne to return to Jean, unlocking all of her missing memories, bringing back years taken from her life.
With her memories restored and realizing Scott had married Madelyne while she was gone, there was much disquiet between Jean and Scott, and she even refused his marriage proposal.
But then Rachel Summers stepped into their lives, and Jean realized her marriage to Scott was inevitable on a universal scale. Shortly after Magneto started trouble again, and the original 5 X-Men were called upon by Professor X.
Being reunited, fighting together, living together, made everything seem normal again. It wasn't long before Jean extended a marriage proposal of her own to Scott, and he accepted. At long last the romantic saga of Jean Grey and Scott Summers came to a climax, only for the two of them to be whisked away into a future time stream by Rachel, who became Mother Askani of a future time line, she brought them to raise the son of Scott and Madelyne, Nathan, as he was destined to defeat Apocalypse. Jean and Scott agreed, and lived as Slim and Red Dayspring, while raising Nathan Dayspring as their son, ensuring Cable's safety.
When their task in the future was resolved and Nathan Dayspring was a man in his own right, Jean annd Scott were returned to their own timeline. Jean resumed using the codename Phoenix, at the request of Rachel from the future, and donned the green annd gold Phoenix costume, she also took to manifesting the fire raptor when using her powers. The idea was to wash away the bad that Dark Phoenix did, with all the good she'll do as Phoenix.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, there's no rest for the X-Men, and upon their return from the future they had to contend with Onslaught, a destructive entity that was created by merging the mind of Professor X and Magneto.
Onslaught taunted Jean by revealing all of her mentor's secrets, including how Xavier had fallen in love with her when she was his first female student. Onslaught further tantalized Jean with restoring her Phoenix Force. Jean proved to have an indomitable will power, and Onslaught was soon defeated, Jean staying on the X-Men's side throughout.
While the X-Men were busy dealing with Onslaught, Apocalypse has been regathering his strength. His new plan was to steal the powers of the twelve most powerful mutants on Earth. Jean Grey was one of the twelve. Apocalypse managed to succeed in ensnaring the tweleve and meant to use Nate Grey, another child of Jean and Scott from 295 universe.
Scott Summers was able to interfere with the process, and Apocalypse merged with him instead of his son. Later, through combined forces of Jean and her son Cable, Scott was successfully restored, separated completely from Apocalypse.
Following the incident of the Twelve, Psylocke wound up with the Shadow King trapped inside her mind, and asked Jean for help in containing him. The two switched powers, Jean absorbing all of Psylocke's telepathy and becoming a telepathic powerhouse, while Psylocke absorbed Jean's telekinesis, and became a telekinesis powerhouse. With no telepathy to access, the Shadow King was truly trapped in Psylocke's mind. In time, Jean's telekinetic power returned, as strong as ever.
When Xavier's school reopened under a new brand, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Jean and Scott served as co-Headmasters. For the duress he suffered while merged with Apocalypse, Scott began telepathic therapy with Emma Frost. Sessions soon turned into a telepathic affair, and unfortunately, it's hard to hide from a different more powerful telepath.
Needless to say Jean was not a fan, but when Esme Cuckoo shattered Emma in her diamond form, Jean didn't hold a grudge. She put Emma together again on a molecular level, and restored her to life, a very Phoenix Force-like feat.
Months later, in confrontation with Xorn under the guise of Magneto, Wolverine and Jean Grey were trapped in a Weapon Plus satellite created of the remnants of Asteroid M, and they were being cast uncontrollably into the Sun. Jean was unable to withstand the heat, and asked Wolverine to kill her, which he did. But in killing her the Phoenix Force manifested, and Jean came back to life. Using her reawakened Phoenix Force, she created an air bubble around Wolverine, and guided them to safety so they could confront Xorn.
While facing Xorn, Jean was struck with a massive electromagnetic pulse, which has been described as experiencing 200 strokes at the same time. While Wolverine managed to behead Xorn, Jean Grey was dying in Scott's arms while telling him to live with her last words.
While Jean's physical body was being buried in her funeral, her spirit merged with the Phoenix, and she watched it all from the White Hot Room, the center of creation in the universe within the M'Kraan Crystal.
After Jean Grey shifted to the White Hot Room, the Shi'ar Empire thought to take the battle to the Phoenix Force, creating a device that would force the Phoenix Force to come together, and it did form the fire raptor, without Jean.
Coalescing into the fire raptor form without a host was confusing for the Phoenix Force, it usually was formless without a host, and now suddenly coming together without a host, the Shi'ar attacked with an Eleka'an Event Horizon and splintered the Phoenix Force. A fragment reached out for help, seeking Jean Grey's physical body.
Brought up from her grave, once again returned to life, Jean argued with the Phoenix Force that it was wrong. Jean claimed they were in the White Hot Room, but Phoenix said they had already left. Before Jean could argue any further, Phoenix asserted she is life incarnate, and Jean was fully back to life, back with the Phoenix, and not in the White Hot Room but rather Xavier Institute.
Logan sees the fiery discharge when Jean is resurrected and reunited with the Phoenix on the physical realm, and rushes to Jean's grave, where he finds a naked Jean Grey. He refuses to believe she's returned, because she's only naked in his dreams, at which point she materializes the green Phoenix costume on herself.
Logan reminds Jean she once told him the Phoenix has a role, that she encourages what's right, and burns away what's wrong. So he asks what is it she came back to burn. Her reply is visual, changing the green Phoenix costume into the red Dark Phoenix one. Turns out premature resurrection drove the Phoenix insane.
Logan who grew tired of constantly finding himself having to kill Jean, asks her to bother Scott next time, at which point she states that Jean is struggling with her, but she remembers, she needs Scott and then she flies away.
Wolverine goes directly to gather the other X-Men and warn them, they recall last time Jean wore red and yellow, billions died, and decide to put a stop to her. Beast devises an Phoenix Egg containment device that supposedly would trap the Dark Phoenix.
Quentin Quire returns and desires to bring Sophie Cuckoo back to life, he realizes the Phoenix Force brought Jean Grey back, and intends to use her to resurrect Sophie. His return flags an Omega Level mutant for the Shi'ar, and they decide to attack to prevent the Phoenix from getting a host. In the meantime, Wolverine locates Jean, and they begin to fight while the other X-Men are en route with the Phoenix Egg that Beast created.
Phoenix toys with Logan, meaning only to use him as bait to get to Scott, but before the X-Men arrive on scene the Shi'ar open fire with another Eleka'an Event Horizon, however, even as they fire Phoenix teleports Wolverine and herself to the North Pole.
At the North Pole, Phoenix is once again in her green costume. Wolverine asks her if she's messing with his mind, if she's Jean or Phoenix. Her reply is that she's always Jean, and always the Phoenix. She explains the attack of the Shi'ar, that she's scattered in trillion directions. Not being whole brought about the Dark Phoenix, and so she asks Wolverine to kill her again.
Wolverine proceeds to do what he was always willing to do for Jean, what others always failed to do, he stabs her with his claws to kill her. But the Phoenix just stands up again, once again as Dark Phoenix, mocking him. Wolverine just keeps at it, killing her again and again.
Eventually she brings herself back to life so many times in such small intervals, that Jean Grey finally assumes full control. Jean thanks Logan and submerges herself 50 feet down in the ice. That only lasted until the X-Men got to the North Pole themselves, as soon as the Phoenix detected Scott Summers, the fire raptor manifested and she was released from her short lived frozen prison.
Just as the Phoenix tries to get Scott to shoot her with his optic blast, having a hard time facing all X-Men for her weakened state, Quentin Quite arrives with the dead Sophie and intervenes. This allows Phoenix to force Scott to shot at her full blast, charging her with more power.
Nightcrawler joins in the fray, and catching Quentin off guard, he's able to free Emma to deal with the Phoenix. Emma tells the Phoenix that Scott no longer loves Jean, so she needs a new host if she wants him, offering herself as a new host.
Just as Phoenix takes over Emma's body, Scott grabs Emma and throws the two of them into the Phoenix Egg that Beast created. No energy can escape the egg, and so Phoenix using Emma now, convinces Scott to let go and he showers her with his optic beams. But as Phoenix grows more powerful, Emma finds her body is not strong enough to contain it.
Making matters worse is Quentin who manages to break the egg, releasing the Phoenix, who asks him to show her what fuels his passion. He points to Sophie's dead body, and Phoenix brings her back to life, only for Sophie to reject Quentin before Phoenix takes her life again.
Phoenix announces the world is sick and she needs to repair it, which prompts Scott to blast Jean Grey free from deep in the ice, where she entombed herself.
When Jean flies up from the ice, after being released by Cyclops, she immediately attacks the Phoenix in Emma's body and brings her down. Shocked, the Phoenix asks how Jean was able to strike her down without her power, to which Jean answers: "I am you, don't you remember? Get out of that stupid body."
Jean then proceeds to perform a feat that hasn't been done before her, she literally pulls the Phoenix Force out of Emma, saving Emma's body from being destroyed by the Phoenix's power.
Jean suggests to Phoenix that they should return to the White Hot Room and come together, all of their pieces together, so nothing is missing and they understand everything. But Phoenix continues to struggle, she wants to burn the world and purify it, while Jean maintains they need to coalesce in the White Hot Room.
While Jean and Phoenix were arguing, Scott had Emma Frost and the Cuckoo sisters telepathically link the X-Men together with Jean, showering her with love, the one thing the confused Phoenix was actually yearning for when she sought Scott as Jean. Just as they were doing that, the Shi'ar arrived and prepared to attack with another Eleka'an Event Horizon.
Before the Shi'ar could decimate all the X-Men with their attack, Jean and Phoenix have reached an unprecedented fusion of Phoenix Force and host, as Jean became the White Phoenix of The Crown. They were all about to die when Scott found himself in the White Hot Room with Jean. She asked to see his eyes one more time and then parted. When Scott next opened his eyes, he found himself back in the North Pole, no sign of the Shi'ar's Event Horizon attack, and all of the X-Men alive.
Jean was once again considered dead, though in reality, she was in the White Hot Room, calling all fragments of Jean Grey and Phoenix Force back to her. She was building herself back together to a whole from the shatters left by the likes of the Shi'ar Empire, Mr. Sinister, Phoenix, Inner Circle, and all who had meddled with her through the years.
While gathering back her pieces, Jean happens to place her daughter, Rachel in grave danger, when she winds up taking Rachel and Korvus' Phoenix Force fragments in the midst of a battle.
During her time in the White Hot Room as the White Phoenix of The Crown, Jean held timelines and universes in her hands. She learned about the actual duties of the Phoenix which she dubbed Phoenix Work. She saw timelines going to disaster, she saw universes verging on extinction, and she saw how to repair them.
The key, however, proved more often than not to let sentient beings make their own fate. It is the lack of balance in controlling and overpowering everything that brought about the Dark Phoenix after all. That insatiable hunger for more power. The White Phoenix was a transcendent state, and all was clear to her. She was going to do things right this time.
Eventually when she gathered all of the Jean Grey essense back to her, and most of the Phoenix Force fragments, Jean had left the now mostly whole entity in the White Hot Room, while she returned to Earth, to see the X-Men again with but an echo of the Phoenix Force. She was not going to command the path of life on Earth, but she was going to nudge things as Jean Grey, she was still going to press for Xavier's Dream, and see if she could make the world a better place, much like she managed to balance the Phoenix.
From the onset, Jean Grey has been a standout amongst the X-Men, for her ability to meet a person for the first time, and genuinely care for them. As a mutant, hated and prejudiced against, she was able to love the very ones the X-Men were standing up against. Jean always believes there is an endless potential for any living being to love, to learn, to improve, and do good. She will never give up on anyone. Even when Onslaught spilled all of Professor Xavier's darkest secrets to her, it didn't sway Jean from believing in her mentor, and accepting and loving him with all his faults. This is not the casual sense of the term. Jean wants other to do well, and she will give them every opportunity to do so. Emma Frost had an affair with her husband, and even so, Jean brought her back to life when she was destroyed in her diamond form. Jean loves life itself, and the opportunity it presents. It may well be one of the traits that drew the Phoenix to Jean in the first place.
Jean Grey has always surprised the X-Men with her ability to speak her mind, and stand up for herself, even from a very young age. If she believes in something, it takes an otherworldly effort to convince her she's wrong. No matter who stands before her, she will address them as equals, as she's done to a supremely more powerful Onslaught while she was without the Phoenix Force. Even with in the X-Men, not many would dare stand up to Scott Summers or Logan, and she has done both without blinking. In a world that often defers to men by manner of tradition, Jean served as a wonderful educator to show some traditions have no place in the modern world.
Jean Grey is a very firm believer in Xavier's Dream, the hope that one day mutants and humans will co-exist in perfect harmony. It's the very concept around which the X-Men were founded, and as a founding member, it is a value of the utmost importance for Jean. She may well have been one of Xavier's finest students when it comes to this concept, as she remains steadfast by the dream, even when told how foolish the notion is when one considers what is happening in the world.
They say most people who do something for others, expect something in return. That is not Jean Grey, she helps because she can, and expects nothing in return. Jean cannot stand to see the suffering of others. She will make sure all others are cared for before she sees to her own needs, which is a trait that made her such a fine choice for a headmistress during the time she was left in charge along with Scott. Anyone can rule with an iron fist, but to see to it that students are allowed to blossom, and that both student body and faculty have their needs provided and an attentive ear when needed is special. It may well be a very defining reason for the general dislike between Jean and Emma, beyond their past as rivals, Jean is a true altruist while Emma can be quite selfish.
Jean Grey will give her all to protect her family, her teammates, her students. She will also go out of her way to help any who are bullied by those more powerful than them. But when it comes to family and friends, Jean is like a mother bear looking after her cubs. She will do everything in her power, and if not be, even give her life, which she actually did do on several occasions. Turns out someone most commonly called Phoenix can prove harder to keep dead.
There's a side of Jean that isn't just as perfect and loving as she's most famously known, there's a side of her that is attracted to Logan, there's a side of her that likes the thrill of non-conformity and bending the occasional rule if not outright breaking it. There's a side of her that likes to go for a joyride on a fast car or motorcycle. It's a tie between this and her sense of duty as to how she somehow finds herself front and center in the X-Men's most dangerous missions.
Jean has quite the history, both as Jean and the Phoenix, the two being mostly inseparable as the Shi'ar Empire had gone as far as eliminating the Grey family, primarily because they identified Jean Grey as the heart of the Phoenix Force. But Jean also knows better, having bonded with the Phoenix to the level of transcending into White Phoenix of The Crown.
She knows the Phoenix is not a destructive force, but a life force. It is mortals coveting its power that have spiraled it out of control. She finds this a curious parallel to Xavier's Dream. She knows it is attainable, she knows mutants and humans can live in peace with one another. But the like of the Purifiers will always be there to ensure that views are askewed.
As such, it is Jean has made it her goal to try and get people to understand one another. To show and teach the importance of breaking through lies and striving for truth. She want to make the world a better place not by a Phoenix-like brute force of changing reality around her. She wants to make the world a better place by making the people who live in it better. Fixing one little flaw at a time. A single soul enlightened against hate and prejudice makes the world a better place, and she intends to help as many as she can find the courage to believe in a better world.
Jean has spent quite some time in the White Hot Room, doing what she's come to call 'Phoenix Work'. But as she gathered her broken essence together, Jean wanted to be whole, to be human, to be Jean Grey once again. Her chief motivation is to connect with her humanity, walk the Earth, and if possible guide young mutants the very same way she was guided by her mentor. She doesn't know if she'll ever be allowed a position of Headmistress once again. But she doesn't need titles and position, she can find young mutants all around, some who may not even know what they are, and those who wish to hide it. There are so many she can help, and she feels that ultimately a single life set on a good path, is a universe of possibilities.
An Omega level mutant, Jean Grey is one of the world's premier telepaths. As Emma Frost once described her, "Jean is beyond a regular telepath, she's judge and jury." Jean has been mentored by Professor X sine she was 11, had used Cerebro to learn and control her powers on an amplified level, and was exposed to a cosmic scale increase of power while serving as a long time avatar of the Phoenix Force. She has years of being mentored by the best, years of field experience with the X-Men, and years developing the powers of others. Jean manifests her power in the form of a fire raptor, and she performs many applications with telepathy as described below:
Mental Manipulation: Jean is able to manipulate as well as outright control the thoughts and brain functions of others, going from ensuring desired reactions, creating affinities or dislikes, alter existing memories, outright replacing memories, or even wiping memories. At higher end of use she can assume control of another person, though the focus required leaves her vulnerable as she herself remains motionless while 'pilotting' another person. Should she take control of a powered person, she may not have the same skill with that person's powers as they might have. She would generally avoid the feat altogether, as it not only leaves her vulnerable if not in a safe environment or protected by others, it is also morally wrong.
Paralysis: Essentially a very focused use of mental manipulation, Jean causes one or more targets to freeze in place as if time stood still. The more people she tries to effect the harder the skill, but that said, she is one of the strongest telepaths on Earth. She is able to affect an entire airport terminal worth of people.
Psionic Blast: Jean can unleash psychokinetic impulses to cause varying degrees of pain in a target, from a minor headache, all the way to knocking out the target from immense pain. This attack has no physical toll, aside from any damage taken from a sharp fall if she were to render the target unconscious.
Psychic Illusions: Jean is able to create and manipulate psychic illusions of superb verisimilitude. It can be as simple as making the room seem on fire, or simulating an earthquake, or it can be as elaborate as an attack by a group of superpowered individuals. Illusions can also be used to make herself, and her team members, appear as different people, or even appear as if they are invisible and not there. It's not how elaborate the illusion that makes this power take a greater toll, but how many people she needs to imprint the illusion on. She could probably manage an entire floor of a building, but it would be impossible to affect everyone in a crowded area like Times Square, NYC.
Psychic Detection: Jean is able to sense minds around her, so it's extremely hard to sneak on her. More often than not, she can tell if a person is a mutant or otherwise super capable due to distinct differences in brain wave activity.
Psychic Shields: Jean can form telepathic shields around herself and others against psychic intrusions. Shielded minds are hidden to psychic minds, and will register as humans to mutant detection devices. While shielding herself is easy, the more people on the team she needs to keep shielded, the more focus she invests and the harder it is to use other abilities. Hence, Jean prefers to not use this power, unless she knows it is necessary for a given mission. She tends to prefer not to have to shield more than 10 people, as it takes away her ability to perform other feats.
Psychic Shield Penetration: Jean is powerful enough to shatter psychic shields of lesser telepaths, it's really a select few others who can successfully block her if she means to intrude, such as Psylocke and comparably powered telepaths.
These are talents that specifically deal with communicating with other minds, be it scrying for information, retrieving forgotten memories, or forming communication relays by linking minds together:
Mind Reading: Jean is able to enter the mind of another person, read their thoughts, view their memories, and given enough time uncover buried secrets they may wish to keep hidden. This skill can be used as invasive interrogation, or as a consensual psychic therapy.
Mind Link: Jean can form telepathic links, allowing for silent communication in the form of 'talking' directly in another's mind. She is invaluable in field mission requiring radio silence, as she can mind link the members of the team and serve as a communication relay. One to one mind link is a breeze, but the more people she links, the greater the focus needed to maintain the link.
Jean is able to break her consciousness from her physical body and enter the Astral Plane as a telepathic projection of herself. Her projection can travel great distances and communicate with others via telepathy. Her astral projection is entirely ethereal, and can only be seen by those she reveals herself to, and discerning telepaths. Battles taking place on the Astral Plane allow Jean to unleash higher levels of powers without fear of risking innocents bystanders. A powerful and well versed telepath, Jean is not a fun opponent on the Astral Plane, where she can shape the very environment at will.
Jean can dampen and given enough time and focus outright block another mutant's powers. She mostly uses this ability as a tool to help younger students control their powers at a weaker level first without being overwhelmed. Seeing how a mutant's power is essential likened to another limb, she will seldom rob a mutant of their abilities. She considers it akin to blinding a person. This is an ability best used in consensual teaching situations, or interrogations, the focus required doesn't allow for much else which renders it useless in a battle scenario.
As part of her broad psychic talents, Jean is an empath capable of perceiving and manipulating the emotions and sensations of others, as well as broadcasting her own. Although she is practiced enough not to involuntarily do these things for the most part, intensely felt things are likely to be picked up if she doesn't make a concentrated effort to block them out.
As much as Jean is a powerhouse when it comes to telepathy, she's even better when it comes to telekinesis. When she first started training with Professor Xavier at age 11, he blocked her telepathic powers as part of a therapy. He only allowed her to start working on telepathy after she mastered telekinesis. As a result, she has a few more years of experience with telekinesis compared to telepathy. She can manipulate large matter or minuscule matter, with tremendous or precise force. She can affect her force fields and blasts up to 50 tons with ease, and can probably reach up to 100 ton with strain. Here are some of the applications of her telekinesis:
Force-Field Generation: Jean is able to generate a powerful forcefield, to either block, ward off, or slow down kinetic attacks. She can create the force field at varying distances from herself, or others. She can form one large dome of a shield to cover for her team, or several smaller ones to cover teammates in different locations. Creating shields in different locations, greatly reduces their durability.
Tactile Telekinesis: Jean is able to feel the texture, material and temperature of an object she is manipulating with her telekinesis.
Precision: Jean is able to break apart devices all the way down to individual bolts, as well as put them back together. It is actually one of the exercises Xavier used with her early on with models and toys. She can also use this finely controlled application to pick locks.
Pyrokinesis: Through telekinetic agitation of molecules, Jean is able to mimic the functionality of a mircowave and ignite objects in flames. A softer use is to generate heat by stimulating individual molecules.
Blast: Jean can use her telekinesis like an physical energy weapon, unleashing psychokinetic energy, whether in the form of concussive blasts or waves, pushing targets away or producing blunt damage from powerful collison.
Flight: Jean can fly through use of her telekinesis to push herself off molecules around her, her level of control is such that she can go at subsonic speeds, she can carry a few people with her, though more than 3 people will lower her speed quite a bit.
Molecular Control: Jean's vast telekinetic control reaches molecular level, in a much more refined control than required for her pyrokinesis feat, she alters the very moleculars of an object to change its properties. There are several applications to this, but as Jean Grey feels it wrong, she mostly uses it for an instantaneous wardrobe change. This was what she used when she played with Wolverine, switching from the green Phoenix costume, to the red, and back again.
The Phoenix Force is one of the great cosmic entities on a level that deals with multi-verses. Housed in the White Hot Room inside the M'Kraan Crystal, it is a force of life, death and rebirth. There's very little beyond it's scope, as it alters timelines, fixes and destroys universes, and when wrapped by the Inner Circle of The Hellfire Club, proved it can be immensely destructive. Of the dozen or so hosts it had over aeons of existence, Jean Grey had become it's preferred host. So much so that Jean has achieved what no other host before her, merging with the entity and transcending to become The White Phoenix of The Crown.
Naturally this power is too vast and too dangerous to bring to the grid, it is a cosmic level power and should stay in such levels, as such when Jean Grey decided to emerge from the White Hot Room and return to a human life on Earth, she left the Phoenix Force in a cohesive state, having merged many of its lost fragments back together, and moved on with but an echo.
The power that Jean Grey does have from her status as White Phoenix of The Crown is to strip the Phoenix Force from a different host, as she's done to her daughter Rachel in a most inopportune time and to Emma Frost in a much better time.
Should Jean Grey die, it has been clockwork that the Phoenix Force is bound to bring her back to life sooner or later, so much so that on her last tombstone the engraving was: "She Will Rise Again" and so she did.
Jean Grey is one of the few identified as an Omega level mutant, putting her at the very high end amongst users of telepathics and telekinesis. This could save her potential fights against those who would know better, and might be intimidated just due to her power level. On the other hand, it had also drawn the attention of the likes of Mr. Sinister, interested in her genes, which brought about Madelyne Pryor, nearly ruined her relationship with Scott Summers, and introduced many other complications to her life.
Jean is a founding member of the X-Men, she has been Marvel Girl, has been through many adventures even in space. Became the cosmic entity Phoenix, saved and was saved by her teammates countless of time. There's a special bond there, they are a family every bit as much as a team. Jean has access to the X-Men's resources, the basement level of the Xavier's School, the danger room, and with Professor X's permission, Cerebro.
Jean Grey first drew the attention of the Phoenix Force when as a little girl, she tried to play with life and death, using all her will power to try and pulling her dying friend Annie Richardson back to the world of the living. Years later, she made a deal with the Phoenix Force to save the lives of the X-Men.
What she didn't know is how good of a match she'd be for the Phoenix Force and the link the event would form between them. To date, Jean Grey has been the only host to transcend into White Phoenix of The Crown, as well as one of the few who were able to handle the full Phoenix Force rather than just fragments of it. Emma Frost's body, for instance, was nearly destroyed from being a temporary host before Jean pulled the Phoenix Force out of her.
For better or worse, the Phoenix Force and Jean Grey came to be as one. So when Jean dies, the Phoenix Force has a tendency to bring her back to life sooner or later.
During her time as the avatar of the Phoenix, and more so since she's ascended to White Phoeinx of The Crown, Jean Grey has gained a unique perspective to the universe on a cosmic level. She knows many things beyond mortal knowledge, and has met entities such as Death, who was quite impressed with how she managed to become one with the Phoenix. Generally this gives no apparent advantage on day to day Earthly things, but it did affect how Jean views the world, and made her more sure than ever in her steadfast belief in Xavier's Dream.
If there's one thing that stands out in Jean Grey, which Professor X can be proud of instilling in her, it's her remarkably indomitable will power. Jean Grey had stood up to the Phoenix Force, and was able to wrest control of her body from it while serving as host on multiple occasions, saving the X-Men, sacrificing herself and so on. Actions that went against the Phoenix Force's wishes.
Jean Grey had withstood temptation from the entity Onslaught, a nefarious amalgamation of Professor Xavier and Magneto's psyches. She refused a return of her lost Phoenix powers, and overcame shocking revelations about her mentor, to stand by Xavier's Dream, and remaining Jean Grey, the X-Men, above all else. Coupled with her already considerable telepathic powers, she makes a very difficult person to sway from what she believes in or to try and control telepathically.
Jean is in great shape for a woman of her age and build and can perform strenuous physical tasks — things like swimming, climbing, running, tumbling, and jumping — with a respectable, if not particularly noteworthy degree of competence; she is not going to win any medals in anything anytime soon.
During her time off from the X-Men, when Xavier formed a second time after the Krakoa incident, Jean Grey worked as a swimsuit model. She was by no means famous or a supermodel, but her pictures posing in bikinis has appeared in magazines and advertisements, and while she may not be thrilled about it today, someone might have seen some of her modelling work. That aside, she knows how to strike a pose, how to walk a catwalk, and could probably get a modelling job if she was interested in pursuing that again. For the time being, she is more likely to want to work in Xavier's School at some capacity.
Through the years after graduating from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and Metro University, Jean Grey had worked at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, performing roles of teacher, guidance counselor, and eventually even Headmistress along with Scott Summers who was co-Headmaster. She knows how to teach, how to run a school, and how to work with younger and older teenagers.
Jean Grey graduated from the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, and then completed a psychology degree in Metro University. She is college educated and with her powers of empathy and telepathy, makes an exceptional psychologist, although she mostly perfers working at Xavier's and help develop the next generation of mutants.
As a member of the X-Men, Jean has undergone hand to hand combat instruction, practicing regularly in the danger room, as a team that takes to the field Professor Xavier insisted that even Jean who primarily relies on her massive telepathic and telekinetic powers, will continue to regularly train in unarmed combat for such instances where her power may not be available to her. She is by no means a martial arts champion, but she can hold her own in a street fight. Needless to say, she'd stand no chance against those who make hand to hand fighting their bread and butter.
Jean Grey has absorbed piloting and space piloting skills from Dr. Corbeau back when the X-Men went on the fateful mission to Starcore Space Station, which changed Jean's life forever due to her run in with the Phoenix Force. She had since coalesced all the essence of herself while in the White Hot Room, and strengthened her knowledge with Madelyne Pryor's piloting skills as well. She can pilot the X-Men's blackbird if needed, as well as other aerial vessels.
Jean Grey truly believes in Xavier's Dream, she truly was inspired by how he helped her, and she wants to help others in need. Others who feel helpless and vulnerable to everything around them. Problem is, presenting Jean Grey with a mutant in need, a child in need, a person in need, is likely the easiest way to fool her. She really wants to help, and in her rush to aid, she may forego basic checks a discerning X-Men should do.
Due very much in part to her status as an Omega Level Mutant, when Jean draws on the higher end of her powers, she generates a tremendous beacon of power that is clearly visible to other telepaths and people with devices such as Cerebro, easily able to register such power readings. As one of the most powerful telepath on Earth, there are many who will seek to control her, manipulate her, or even plan more nefarious ploys. Whenever she uses her powers she needs to mindful not to pinpoint her location, and try to maintain lower level applications of her abilities.
The Shi'ar Empire has occasionally tried to eliminate the Phoenix Force, all dating back to the time the Dark Phoenix destroyed the D'Brai system, eliminating billions of lives. Unfortunately, they have declared Jean Grey is the Heart of The Phoenix, a term meaning she is the go to host the Phoenix will never give up on and will always wind up reuniting with. To that end, they decided to eliminate the entire Grey bloodline. It took them 24 seconds, as the Grey family gathered in honor of Rachel, Jean's daughter, who proved the sole survivor. Though not without a cost, as Rachel was marked with a Shi'ar death mark. Long story short, the Shi'ar hate everything Phoenix, and consider Jean Grey a prime target. There's no telling if they might come back for another shot at killing Jean or her daughter.
Jean Grey has formed a psychic rapport with Scott Summers when their relationship became serious, meaning the two are more or less permanently mindlinked until Jean will break the rapport. There's upside and downside, however, as through the rapport she saw when Scott 'cheated' on her with Emma Frost telepathically while they were married. So not all that comes across the rapport is good. Returning from the White Hot Room, it remains to be seen whether her marriage with Scott will survive, and whether she'll keep the rapport as a consequence. For the time being, it's been existing, even after she gave Scott permission to be with Emma while she was in the White Hot Room.
When Jean Grey as the White Phoenix of The Crown coalesced all the fragments of the Phoenix Force and those of her essence, she had gained all of her memories, even when she wasn't herself. While Mr. Sinister was creating Madelyne Pryor, a fragment of the Phoenix and the essence of Jean was stored into her, and now once again back with Jean, she has the full memories of Madelyne Pryor, The Goblin Queen, the Phoenix, but worst of all, she also has the memories of The Dark Phoenix. There's enough to traumatize a lesser individual, but Jean truly has one of a kind will power. Even so, she is still oft bothered with nightmares, and has occasional flashes of some very bad things.
In the world of mutants, Jean Grey is known as one of the original founding X-Men, she is known as a steadfast supporter of Xavier's Dream and a champion for the causes of mutant right's, but with the end goal of peaceful co-existence with humans. Those with the ability to read power levels, would know Jean Grey is an Omega level mutant. Telepaths would know she is amongst the strongest simply by the energy signature she leaves in her wake.
Jean is feared in cosmic spheres because of the actions of Dark Phoenix that cost the lives of billions and destroyed the D'Brai solar system. But she is well respected for having attained a transcendent state as White Phoenix of The Crown. She is known to entities such as death, who have come to see Jean and Phoenix Force as one and the same. The problem is at the same token, the Sh'iar has come to see Jean Grey as the Heart of The Phoenix, and in their quest to be rid of the Phoenix Force, they eliminated Jean's family lines, with the exception of her daughter Rachel Grey, who was marked with their Death Mark. So depending on which cosmic culture / entity is involved, Jean may be held in high regard or feared and despised.
Jean holds some regard as an educator and administrator, having garnered some Academic fame for serving as Headmistress of Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning, after Professor Charles Xavier took a break of a few years. She also has exceptional record in Metro University.
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