Jean grey (616)

NAME Jean Elaine Grey-Summers CURRENT ALIAS Phoenix[1] ALIASES Codenames: Marvel Girl[2] Dark Phoenix[3] White Phoenix[4] Nicknames:

Jeannie[5] Red,[citation needed] Red Riding Hood[6] Cute Tomato[6] Ms. Psyche[citation needed] Other Aliases:

Firebird[7] Marvel Le Fey[8] Redd Dayspring[9]

Parents:

Elaine Grey (mother, deceased) John Grey (father, deceased) Clones and Donors:

Madelyne Pryor (clone) Siblings:

Sara Grey-Bailey (sister) Julia Grey (sister, deceased)[11] Roger Grey (brother, deceased)[11] Liam Grey (brother, deceased)[11] Spouses:

Scott Summers (ex husband) Children:

Nathan Summers (stepson/genetic son) Stryfe (stepson/genetic son's clone) Rachel Summers (alternate reality daughter) Rachel Summers (Mother Askani) (alternate reality daughter, deceased) Nate Grey (alternate reality son) Descendants:

Tyler Dayspring (step-grandson, deceased) Hope Summers (adoptive step-granddaughter, deceased) Other Relatives: Family-in-Law:

Katherine Summers (mother-in-law, deceased) Christopher Summers (father-in-law) Paul Bailey (brother-in-law) Alex Summers (brother-in-law) Gabriel Summers (brother-in-law) Adam Neramani (half-brother-in-law) Aliya Dayspring (stepdaughter-in-law, deceased) Hope Summers (stepdaughter-in-law, deceased) HOST OF Phoenix Force

Formerly:

• Unnamed Symbiote MARITAL STATUS Married PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS[581] GENDER Female HEIGHT 5′6″ (1.68 m) WEIGHT 130 lbs (58.97 kg) EYES Irises:

Green HAIR Red ORIGIN AND LIVING STATUS ORIGIN Omega-level mutant[12]; later as the "one true Phoenix"[citation needed] LIVING STATUS Alive; formerly deceased REALITY Earth-616 PLACE OF BIRTH Annandale-on-Hudson, New York CAUSE OF DEATH

PERSONAL INFORMATION IDENTITY Public CITIZENSHIP American, Krakoan OCCUPATION Adventurer politician

Formerly:

cosmic host of White Phoenix of the Crown[30] acting headmistress teacher fashion model laboratory assistant mutant activist student[31] EDUCATION College-level education, some courses at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and Metro College. BASE OF OPERATIONS Treehouse, Seneca Gardens, Central Park and 86th Street, Manhattan Krakoa, Pacific Ocean

Formerly CREATORS AND APPEARANCES CREATORS Stan Lee, Jack Kirby FIRST X-Men #1 (July, 1963) (As Marvel Girl) Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4 (June, 1994) (As Phoenix)[32]

Jean Grey is an Omega-level mutant telepath and telekinetic, intimately associated with the ancient cosmic entity known as the Phoenix.[15] Following the premature emergence of her psychic powers, fellow telepath Professor Charles Xavier saved her and mentored her for years.[33] Recovering, she enrolled at his new school for mutants as Marvel Girl, one of his first class of X-Men, a group that fights for a world that hates and fears mutants.[2] She nurtured romantic feelings for a fellow teammate, Cyclops. Unexpectedly, she and her four teammates were drawn into the future,[34] where Jean unlocked her vast potential and faced the threat of the Phoenix, which she believed sought to possess her.[35] Eventually returning to her proper time, Jean has since become one of Xavier's most trusted pupils and close friends, often acting as his right hand.[36]

Upon Jean’s sacrifice to save her loved ones, the Phoenix bonded with and resurrected her, while secretly restoring her original body in a cocoon.[37][15][38] The Phoenix’s corruption into Dark Phoenix and its acts of destruction[3] caused her Jean Grey aspect to sacrifice herself to stop the destruction.[39] Following Jean's return[38] and reunion with the X-Men as X-Factor,[40] Jean confronted such threats as her insane clone Madelyne Pryor, who had replaced her in her absence,[41] and eventually married her teammate Cyclops,[42] raising Pryor's son Nathan as their own in a far future.[43] Later, Jean took the Phoenix mantle at the request of her alternate-future daughter Rachel,[1] but Xorn murdered them,[18] sending them to the White Hot Room to rest. As the White Phoenix,[30] Jean resisted the Phoenix's attempts to prematurely revive her.[44] When it finally resurrected her again, she rejected it[45] and moved on with her life.[46]

On the mutant-exclusive nation of Krakoa, Jean played a role[12] in the governing body known as the Quiet Council,[47] as well as part of the intelligence sector X-Force[48] and in the

] and in the revival of the X-Men as a super hero team.[49] However, Moira of Orchis murdered her.[27] In the White Hot Room, Jean reconnected with the Phoenix.[50] Thanks to the sacrifice of Hope Summers, the Phoenix was created anew and Jean returned.[51] Jean Grey took to the cosmos to defend the universe from such threats as Thanos and the Dark Gods.[52] However, she has since returned home to her loved ones on Earth.[53]

Jean Grey was the youngest daughter of Elaine Grey and Professor John Grey. She was raised with her older sister, Sara,[54] on a farmhouse near Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where her father taught history. Born a mutant, Jean Grey was gifted with latent, though limitless, psionic powers. While growing up, she and her older sister Sara were close.

When she was still a young girl, Jean Grey witnessed her closest friend, Annie Richardson, be struck by a car while they played. The shock of the tragic episode prematurely triggered Grey's mutant telepathic powers, involuntarily creating an empathic link to her dying friend and causing her to experience her death firsthand. This traumatic experience plunged Grey into deep withdrawal and desolation. Unable to master her newly awakened telepathic abilities, she isolated herself from social contact to preserve her mental stability

A psychiatrist recommended her parents to consult Professor Charles Xavier, a specialist who was secretly a mutant with telepathic abilities of his own.[33] Xavier disclosed Jean Grey's nature as a mutant to her, but did not inform this condition to her parents. Concerned for her safety, he suppressed her overwhelming telepathic abilities by erecting psychic barriers that blocked them so that she could develop them naturally. Alternatively, Xavier assisted Grey in developing her telekinetic abilities, teaching her to levitate and manipulate objects through focused psionic force.[56]

Under Xavier's tutelage, Jean Grey employed her powers to assist him in calibrating Cerebro, a mutant-tracking machine.[57] During this period, she established psychic contact with the mind of the young orphan Scott Summers, sparking the creation a lasting bond that would manifest as a psychic rapport.[58] After years of treatment, Jean Grey made a full recovery.[33] Xavier advised John and Elaine Grey to enroll their daughter at his recently founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and, through his influence in Washington, D.C., persuaded the Greys to allow her to relocate to his institute

Xavier's School served as the headquarters of the X-Men, a team of mutants trained by Professor Xavier to fight for a dream of peaceful racial coexistence between mutants and humans. Operating out of public view, the group combatted threats posed by evil mutants who turned their powers against humanity. Jean Grey completed the first class alongside other four students: Cyclops – the mutant alias of Scott Summers –, the magnificent Angel, the brute Beast, and the whimsical Iceman. Adopting the codename Marvel Girl, Jean Grey relied on her telekinesis to move a wide range of objects during field action.[2]

As an X-Man, Marvel Girl faced hostile mutants, including Magneto[2] and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,[60] the Vanisher,[5] and the Blob.[6] Although Jean Grey was initially harassed by her flirtatious male teammates,[2] the group gradually developed a sound friendship through their shared adventures and rigorous training in the facilities of the Danger Room at Xavier's School. Over time, Marvel Girl expanded the scope and efficiency of her powers by moving increasingly heavier objects with greater ease.[5] After graduation, Cyclops was appointed team leader. Secretly, he and Jean Grey nurtured romantic feelings for one another; however, as both youngsters were shy and reserved, their potential love story took no shape.[61][62]

The following section addresses stories featuring the X-Men stranded in the future. For the continuation of the historical publications, skip to the subsequent section. All-New X-Men

Time Displacement

Unexpectedly, the first class of the X-Men was approached by a future version Beast who had traveled to their time to inform the mutant race faced an imminent doom and only the original X-Men could help fix it.[34] The X-Men accompanied Beast to an unrecognizable future where Jean Grey was dead and the school had been renamed after her as the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, an institution run by the savage killer Wolverine.

Moreover, a corrupted Cyclops was responsible for the death of Professor Xavier while the former was possessed by the Phoenix Force, and led his own faction of X-Men as an ally of Magneto, while Beast was a victim of the deadly evolution of his powers. Without Xavier, Jean Grey's mental barriers were instantly deactivated and her telepathy ran unchecked, engulfing her with stranger thoughts. Wolverine and the X-Men were immensely dissatisfied with the Beast, but he collapsed before their eyes. Meanwhile, the X-Men from the past took the commotion to run away, with Jean Grey using her newfound telepathy to track future Cyclops and meet him by themselves.[63] The encounter with Cyclops and Magneto was extremely distressing to Jean Grey

Recomposed, Grey returned to the school with her teammates,[64] where she used her telepathy to assist the past version of Beast save his future self from dying. During this experience, Jean asked how she died, but Beast’s question “Which time?” unsettled her. He shared with her all his detailed memories about the uncanny life Jean Grey had had. The revelation motivated Jean Grey to refuse to return to her timeline, at least temporarily. Headmistress Kitty Pryde was charged with supervising and training the team of time-displaced X-Men.[65] Pryde established a connection with Grey, helping her deal with the struggles that emerged from her precocious telepathic awakening and appointing her to lead the team. Simultaneously, a very disappointed Jean Grey witnessed her special connection with Scott Summers erode. Emotionally, he learned and shared that their adult versions had been married before her demise.

Angel was particularly disturbed about being stranded in the future and crashed out. Jean Grey telepathically subdued him,[67] worrying past and present X-Men about the reckless use of her psychic powers and the consequences of not being morally instructed by Professor Xavier. Another demonstration of Grey's inattentive use of her telepathy was drawing from Cyclops' mind he had met Mystique,[68] a terrorist who had been performing crimes posing as the original X-Men for a mysterious agenda. The X-Men faction led by future Cyclops approached the Jean Grey School to offer a position within their ranks to those interested.[69] Angel accepted, prompting Jean Grey to once again control his free will. This time, however, Cyclops' psychic ally, Emma Frost, retaliated with the help of her pupils, the Stepford Cuckoos. The frustrated and embarrassing battle had Jean Grey reconsider her recent attitude and understand the responsibility that should come with her great power.[70]

Under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s director Maria Hill's recommendation, the original team was tasked to intercept Mystique.[70] During their mission, they crossed paths with the Avengers Unity Division, an uncanny group of Avengers formed to carry on Xavier's dream. One of its members was the Scarlet Witch, who had been responsible for the mutant decimation. Accidentally accessing her mind, Jean Grey was horrified to learn about her acts against mutantkind and unleashed her rage upon her. Pryde and Wolverine de-escalated the conflict.[71] The X-Men found Mystique as she planned to make a deal with Hydra to gain control over the nation of Madripoor. The ordeal was intercepted by the X-Men, and Grey was targeted by the illusionist Lady Mastermind, being forced into confronting the possibility of getting corrupted.[72] As a strong developing psychic, Grey countered the mental attack and learned how to cast powerful illusions as well in the process. Mystique was defeated crucially due to Jean Grey's actions,

With difficulty, Jean Grey had to cope with her degrading relationship with Cyclops, being stressed by the apparently inevitable nature of their connection. She found solace in the Beast after accidentally learning from his future self about his hidden love for her as a teenager.[74] While in action, Cyclops almost got killed, prompting the X-Men to determine the interlopers from the past should return to their proper time to protect history. However, when activating the time machine, a future team of X-Men emerged, instead, claiming the arrival of the original X-Men had disastrous consequences to the timeline and that returning them was an urgent task.[75] Unable to telepathic gather these future mutants' true intention, Jean Grey immediately became suspicious. She reached out to Beast for support, but he hesitated. Instead, she turned to Cyclops, who instantly trusted her, and she psychically cloaked their escape. Aboard a Blackbird, the young Jean Grey and Scott Summers went on a run. One of the travelers from the future was Xorn, the adult version of Jean Grey who had never returned to the past

In desperate need of support, Jean Grey contacted the revolutionary X-Men led by future Cyclops,[77] who decided to help them by fighting the future X-Men.[78] Frost and the Cuckoos joined Jean Grey in a telepathic battle against Xorn. As a result, Xorn ended up convincing her younger self, Jean Grey, to surrender.[79] However, it was revealed the future X-Men were, in fact, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and that their claims were absolutely false.[80] Having been unmasked, Xorn put Jean Grey out of commission,[81] but the Brotherhood could not activate the time machine and accomplish their plan[82] and kidnapped the original X-Men instead, taking them to Santo Marco.[83] All factions of X-Men, past, present and future, joined forces against Xorn and the Brotherhood. Consumed by her frustration and unstable powers, Xorn perished in battle. Jean Grey suffered with witnessing her own death as well as with facing her potential for darkness. No longer trusting Wolverine and his X-Men, the original X-Men permanently turned to Cyclops' team, being supported and accompanied by Pryde

Relocated to the New Xavier School, in the remote and frigid mountains of Canada, the original X-Men resumed their training with Pryde. In this setting, Jean Grey's complicated relationships with Cyclops and Beast got worse, being exacerbated by her empathic powers.[85] From the X-Men's base, Jean Grey was captured by the Shi'ar to be put on trial for crimes perpetrated by the Phoenix.[86] Majestor Kallark announced the judgement to occur before a tribunal for the Shi'ar Empire and its Imperial Guard. In Chandilar, the psychic Oracle was chosen to counsel Jean Grey and exposed the genocidal actions of Phoenix and the interest of the Empire in executing her as a prevention, even though she had not actually been responsible for her future self's actions in the past.[87] Grey was shown to a legion of alien and deemed a force of uncontrollable destruction.[88] During the trial, she learned the Shi'ar had exterminated her lineage, killing every member of her family. This prompted her to escape, but in extreme turmoil she found herself alone in the Shi'ar Throneworld. The X-Men found allies in the form of the space bandits of the Guardians of the Galaxy and of the Starjammers for a rescue mission and battled Kallark and the Imperial Guard.[89] Weaponizing her hurt, Jean Grey gained the capacity of channelling ambient psychic energy while combining telepathy and telekinesis to enhance her powers. She was able to best Kallark in combat. Pointing out that she should not be held responsible for a future she may no longer be a part of, Jean Grey forced the Shi'ar to retreat

Back to Earth, Cyclops declared he would leave to outer space with the Starjammers, irritating Jean Grey.[89] She related to his older self, understanding his perspective on their tumultuous lives after avoiding his presence. He informed her Emma Frost would train her in psychic combat from then on.[91] Contrary to the expectation of many, being mentored by Frost was a beneficial and interesting experience for Grey. The two telepaths bonded during their training sessions.[92] For one of those, Frost took Grey to Madripoor, which had been transformed into a twisted haven for mutants by Mystique with the use of the Mutant Growth Hormone drug. In the field, Frost blocked Grey's telepathy, instructing her to resort to telekinesis only. Grey was guided by her mentor to one of the drug distribution centers, run by the Blob. A challenging fight ensued between the frail Jean Grey and the gigantic Blob, but she managed to knock him out. Afterwards, Emma Frost promised to be a help for Jean Grey whenever needed.[93]

With the emergence of the empowering item known as the Black Vortex in the darkest corners of the galaxy, the X-Men joined the Guardians of the Galaxy once again to address the crisis.[94] Cyclops reunited with his teammates.[95] Jean Grey avoided his presence initially, but they soon rekindled their connection.[96] To solve the issue, Jean Grey contemplated submitting to the Black Vortex to gain power, but was talked down by Peter Quill.[97] The crisis was averted[98] and the X-Men returned to Earth. At home, Jean Grey privately shared with Iceman she was aware of his sexual orientation and offer her support.[99] Considering so many adventures and dangers were distracting, Jean Grey declared she wished to leave the X-Men. Before departing, she shared with Beast the feelings she had nurtured for him and they embraced in a kiss.[100]

M-Pox Crisis

The Inhuman catalyst roaming the atmosphere in the form of Terrigen Mists proved to be hazardous to mutants.

Present-day Cyclops and his X-Men immediately planned to protect mutants from it, but the leader of the X-Men fell victim to its effects and died. This caused mutantkind to struggle in a poisonous world while having a silent war with the Inhuman leaderships.[101] The X-Men suffered with such a loss, that was added to the previous death of Wolverine.[102] Jean Grey wished to have no contact with mutant affairs, setting an ordinary life as a college student at the Empire State University and cutting ties with all the other X-Men. Storm reformed the X-Men in the protected realm of X-Haven to face this new threat to her people, personally asking Grey to join her initiative. She rejected the offer, but informed Storm that Logan, a version of Wolverine from a dystopic future had arrived to their timeline

Subjected to extreme prejudice for being a mutant, Jean Grey realized she could never have a normal life. She decided to contact Logan by herself to convince him to be part of Storm's X-Men.[104] Through telepathy, she had access to the horrors Logan had lived in his world, forming a bond between them. Initially, Logan rejected the offer arguing Jean Grey was destined to tragically die as an X-Man. She replied that the only predetermined fate she accepted was her alliance to the X-Men. Together, they rejoined the team[105] as they were targeted by the vile Mister Sinister and his Marauders. As one of his twisted experiments, Sinister produced an Inhuman clone of Cyclops. Grey confirmed the creature was mindless, which led to its destruction. Mister Sinister was defeated, and the X-Men announced their return to the planet as heroes for humans, mutants and Inhumans alike

As the team's psychic, Jean Grey assisted those in need as she could. She guided Nightcrawler in getting over the panic he had experienced when dealing with the effects of the Terrigen crisis[107] and freed Logan from a malicious symbiote that had bonded with him in a futuristic world designed by Apocalypse.[108] The Terrigen contamination became unsustainable, prompting the X-Men to go to war against the Inhumans.[109] Jean Grey was assigned to deal with Karnak, throwing him in a mental trap[110] in the controlled environment of the World.[111] He managed to find a crack in her fabricated scenario,[112] and she joined the advanced cyborg Fantomex in battling Karnak, but they failed, resulting in Karnak's escape.[113] The toxic Inhuman substance in the atmosphere was neutralized in the end[114] and the X-Men left X-Haven, marking the dissolution of the Jean Grey School.

Reunited with her time-displaced comrades, Jean Grey learned from the young version of Beast that the past had no place for them as it had readjusted itself with duplicates of the original X-Men. Certain of their inability to return home, the X-Men looked forward to an open future independent from their alternate selves.[116] As such, Grey proposed they should no longer be tied with the present version of the X-Men, assuming the position of the team's leader.[117] Parallel to this, she forged an alliance with Magneto, seeing the benefit the heroic all-new X-Men could have for his mission of saving mutantkind after being granted access to the hidden secrets of his mind. At a new X-Mansion in the secluded streets of Madripoor, the X-Men started a new chapter with Magneto as their mentor. Secretly, Magneto considered sending the X-Men back to their proper time.[118] With resources provided by Magneto, the X-Men performed missions across the globe to help mutants and put an end to the actions of their enemies.[119] Parallel to her activities with the X-Men, Jean Grey also explored the world by herself, accompanied by the teleporting Bamf, Pickles

Sensing the Phoenix Force was coming to her during a fight with the Wrecking Crew in Japan, Jean Grey refused to accept her older self's fate of being damaged by the deadly cosmic creature,[120] but had little support from the X-Men as they could not find evidence for her claims. Using Cerebro, she consulted former hosts of the Phoenix for advice. Her first interaction was with Hope, the mutant messiah, who at the time battled the cyborgs known as the Reavers in Arizona. Others joined them in the fight, namely Colossus, Magik, and Quentin Quire, all sharing the dire after-effects of having contact with the Phoenix.[121] In the depths of the sea, Jean Grey also reached out to Namor, who initially seemed unscathed by his experience with the cosmic raptor, but ended up being no different from the others.[122] Alternatively, she decided to prepare herself for the Phoenix's arrival, seeking for Thor in Jotunheim to learn how to be a warrior,[123] studying how to craft psychic weapons with Psylocke,[124] and exploring her spirituality and astral projection skills with the guidance of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme.[125]

With the X-Men, Jean Grey found the amnesiac Jimmy Hudson, the son of Wolverine from an alternate reality. Lost in the wilderness of Colorado, Hudson had been used as a pawn by the vile Miss Sinister. As the X-Men intervened, Sinister telepathically interacted with Grey, who, back at the X-Mansion, found herself in possession of a mysterious necklace.[126] In Hudson, Jean Grey found an intriguing figure. Simultaneously, in Madripoor, she befriended and allied herself with the band of independent mutants of the Raksha.[127] As Hydra ascended to absolute power in America, mutants founded New Tian, occupying the territory that once belonged to California. Jean Grey noticed the fledgling state to have unfair treatment of mutant criminals and staged an insurrection with her X-Men. The secret ruler of New Tian was Emma Frost, who captured all the X-Men, b

Men, but Grey and Hudson. In a sick scheme, Frost wished to rewrite the mind of the young Scott Summers with her own memories about his deceased older self. Grey engaged in psychic combat with Frost to release Cyclops, disrupting the telepathic control she exerted over the citizens of New Tian and allowing the X-Men to escape. This intervention created a permanent psychic rapport between Jean Grey and Cyclops that interlocked their thoughts.[128] In Madripoor, Jean Grey and Cyclops struggled with the fact of being constantly connected to each other. During this period, the X-Mansion was raided by the Goblin Queen and her Hex-Men,[129] prompting Grey to seek help with the Raksha to fend the threat off. After the fall of Hydra, the personification of the Cosmic Cube, Kobik, caused Jean Grey to time travel. She emerged in Kirinos, Greece, where she found her adult self while the Phoenix Force still possessed her body. The young Jean Grey took the opportunity to gather information for her quest to investigate her connection with the Phoenix. To answer her queries, Phoenix traveled to a distant planet with her younger self to protect it from being consumed by the world-eater Galactus. They teamed up to fend him off, as the Phoenix presented herself as a good force of life. The teenage Jean Grey contemplated informing the Phoenix about her upcoming challenges to change her future, including her being controlled by the Hellfire Club and transforming into the mad Dark Phoenix, but Uatu, the Watcher, convinced her otherwise. Realizing she had made the correct choice and that she had control over her fate, Jean Grey gained her blessing to return to the future

The spirit of the deceased Jean Grey started to appear to her alternate version[125] and they conversed about how to react to the imminent coming of the Phoenix. At adult Jean Grey's behest, the young psychic invaded the mind of Emma Frost to collect a sliver of the Phoenix Force hidden within it.[132] The process knocked Jean Grey out, causing Frost to help her with the assistance of the Stepford Cuckoos.[133] They were interrupted by the arrival of the Phoenix Force. Despite all of her preparations, Jean Grey was immolated by the cosmic entity being reduced to ashes.[13] The murdered Jean Grey surfaced within the White Hot Room, the realm outside reality where the Phoenix connected with its hosts. She was tormented by different manifestations of past wielders of the Phoenix Forces. In her struggle, she realized that she had control over the illusory setting and dismantled it. Her following act was forcing the Phoenix Force to resurrect her, with success. After returning to Madripoor, she was shockingly approached by her resurrected older counterpart

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Jean Grey and the X-Men teamed up with Venom to rescue the Starjammers from symbiote villains. During the mission, Jean was infected by a Poison and transformed into Poison Marvel Girl, but she resisted the Poison Queen's control, destroyed her, and restored herself using her psychic powers. Although she survived, the experience severed her psychic bond with Cyclops.

Afterward, Jean tried to save the partially infected Jimmy Hudson but failed, and Magneto's ruthless actions caused her to end their alliance. She later concluded that the time-displaced original X-Men had to return to the past to preserve history. Working with both versions of herself and a younger Cable, Jean helped erase the younger X-Men's memories before sending them back to their proper timeline.

Back in her original era, Jean continued developing her telepathic abilities under Professor Xavier, became one of his closest collaborators, and balanced college life with her duties as Marvel Girl. She and Cyclops officially began a romantic relationship while the X-Men faced threats including Factor Three, Mesmero, and the alien Z'Nox. Xavier secretly unlocked Jean's full telepathic potential, and during a mission in space, the cosmic Phoenix Force first made contact with her, foreshadowing her future destiny.

Jean Grey left the X-Men after the Krakoa mission, traumatized by the experience and conflicted over her growing attraction to Wolverine despite loving Cyclops. She moved to New York but remained close to the team.

During a battle against Steven Lang, Jean sacrificed herself by piloting a damaged space shuttle through lethal radiation to save the X-Men. As she died, the Phoenix Force answered her call and merged with her essence, creating Phoenix while preserving Jean's original body in a cocoon beneath Jamaica Bay. Believing herself to be Jean, Phoenix returned with the X-Men, defeated powerful foes like Firelord, and saved reality by repairing the M'Kraan Crystal.

Mastermind later manipulated Phoenix into becoming the Hellfire Club's Black Queen, gradually corrupting her mind. Although she broke free, the corruption transformed her into Dark Phoenix. She destroyed an inhabited star system, killing billions, and became too dangerous to control. The Shi'ar Empire demanded her death, and after a trial by combat on the Moon, Jean realized she could never permanently contain the Phoenix. Choosing to protect the universe, she sacrificed herself by activating an ancient weapon, dying in Cyclops' arms.

It was later revealed that the Phoenix had been a cosmic duplicate, while Jean's real body remained alive in suspended animation. The Avengers and Fantastic Four revived the true Jean, who rejected the Phoenix Force and returned to a changed world. Learning of everything that had happened in her absence, she reunited with the original X-Men, while Cyclops left his wife, Madelyne Pryor, to be with her again, leading to the formation of X-Factor.

Jean Grey helped found X-Factor, a team that posed as mutant hunters while secretly rescuing and training young mutants. She struggled with feeling incomplete after learning the Phoenix had lived a life she could not remember and encouraged Cyclops to reconcile with his abandoned wife, Madelyne Pryor. As anti-mutant tensions grew, X-Factor's public image caused controversy, and during the Morlock Massacre Angel lost his wings.

After Jean's sister Sara disappeared in an anti-mutant attack, Cyclops left to search for Madelyne and their son before eventually returning. Cameron Hodge manipulated Cyclops into distrusting Jean, but the truth was uncovered and the two reconciled. They rekindled their romance while battling Apocalypse and his Horsemen, eventually revealing X-Factor's true mission to the public.

During the Inferno crisis, Madelyne, driven mad after discovering she was a clone of Jean created by Mister Sinister, became the Goblin Queen and unleashed a demonic invasion of New York. Jean confronted her, and when Madelyne died, Jean absorbed the memories and experiences of both Madelyne and the Phoenix, finally reclaiming the missing parts of her life. Sinister was defeated after revealing he had orchestrated both Jean's cloning and much of Cyclops' life.

Jean became a maternal figure to baby Nathan Summers until Apocalypse infected him with the Techno-Organic Virus. Before that, Jean overcame the lingering influences of Dark Phoenix and Madelyne within her mind, freeing herself from both personalities while keeping their memories. She later declined Cyclops' marriage proposal, wanting to define herself beyond fate and the Phoenix's legacy. After helping the X-Men battle Ahab, Genosha, and Cameron Hodge, Jean's telepathic powers fully returned. When Nathan's only hope for survival required being sent to the future, Jean and Cyclops made the heartbreaking decision to let him go, saving his life at the cost of raising him themselves

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