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Jean Elaine Grey / Marvel Girl / Phoenix

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"Everybody thinks the Phoenix Force is turning me into some kind of cosmic destroyer, but it's not like that. I have trouble with the rushes, but I'm okay, really. I think I can make things right here." Art by Russell Dauterman.

Notable Aliases: Jean Grey-Summers, Dark Phoenix, White Phoenix of the Crown, Redd Dayspring

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #1 (September, 1963)

"I don't want you to get hurt, but you have to understand... The more you annoy me the more I can't help thinking about deconstructing you, molecule by molecule, memory by memory... until there's nothing left but screaming, traumatized atoms."
— Jean Grey, New X-Men #120

Jean Grey, also known with the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and the White Phoenix of the Crown, is a Marvel Comics character and one of five original members of the X-Men in Marvel Universe. As such, she is first introduced in the very first X-Men comics, that is Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #1 in 1963. She was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Her power set is simple: telekinesis and telepathy. Her look is simple, but dynamic—her hair is red and voluminous, her suit is emerald. She has a place as Professor X's particular protegee, and (prior to the appearance of her time-travelling/reality jumping children) the only telepath whose potential surpasses his. And when that potential is tapped, you have one of the most powerful X-Men of all.

She was the center of attention throughout many of the X-Men's early adventures, being the only woman on the team at the time, and also one of the most potentially powerful. Eventually she settled into a relationship with Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops; however, her burgeoning psychic potential along with some brain-washing caused her to develop an incredibly malevolent Split Personality with the power to destroy planets. She made a Heroic Sacrifice during a moment of being in control of herself so that she wouldn't cause any more destruction at the climax of The Dark Phoenix Saga. However, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. But Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond with her still-lifeless clone, Madelyne Pryor, instead. The phoenix cocoon, containing Jean’s psyche, is discovered and retrieved by The Avengers and Fantastic Four. Jean emerges with no memory of the actions of the Phoenix or Dark Phoenix. She is reunited with the original X-Men, and convinces them to form the new superhero team X-Factor.

She also initially accepted that Scott has moved on, married to another woman named Madelyne Pryor. However, things got complicated when Madelyne returns during Inferno (1988)— her powers are awakened by demonic pact and she introduces herself as Goblyn Queen. The revelation that Madelyne is actually Jean's clone drove her completely insane and she plans to sacrifice the infant Nathan to achieve greater power and unleash Hell on Earth. Jean and Madelyne confront each other, and Madelyne attempts to kill them both. Jean manages to survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from the Dark Phoenix Saga.

After Madelyne's death, Jean helps Scott care for Nathan, since he's genetically her son as well. When X-Factor rejoins the X-Men, Jean no longer uses her codename. She initially rejects Rachel Summers (who goes by the codename "Phoenix" as well and is also able to tap into the Phoenix Force) because her 'Phoenix' association reminds Jean of one of the most painful times of her life and because she feels like the universe is trying to railroad her into marrying Scott, though she immediately regrets it. Some time later, Nathan is kidnapped and infected with the Techno-Organic Virus by Apocalypse. The virus was rapidly spreading through his body and, if not stopped, would kill him. To help him, Jean and Scott are forced to let him be taken by a woman named Sister Askani from a distant future who claimed her clan had technology in that might be able to save Nathan. However, Askani could only risk one time jump without destroying herself. So, Nathan could not return to the present timeline right away.

Unbeknownst to them, though, a mysterious cyborg-mutant soldier called Cable who appeared to lead the New Mutants and later found the X-Force, was actually their son Nathan, who has grown up into an adult man, much older than his own parents, and has returned from the future.

Jean eventually accepts Rachel as her daughter, who also requests Jean take the codename Phoenix. After some time, she also accepts Scott's marriage proposal (which she previously rejected) and during their honeymoon, they undergo Mental Time Travel to the distant future, which allowed them to raise young Nathan. During this time, Scott and Jean used fake names, Slym and Redd Dayspring, respectively, to hide their identity. It's revealed that Rachel was responsible for the time travel by using her powers because she wants them to protect and raise Nathan. Back in the present, Jean and Scott revealed to Cable that they had raised him in the future. Cable had known for some time and was waiting for them to be ready to tell him. They were pleased to be reunited as a family again. During Onslaught, Jean also met her other alternate reality child, Nate Grey a.k.a. Marvel Comics: X-Man (essentially a younger Cable), who accidentally resurrects Madelyne in a subconscious attempt to reach out to his "mother", Jean. Despite being responsible for bringing her rival back into her life, Jean parted with her son on good terms.

Scott is later possessed by Apocalypse while trying to protect Nate and apparently killed but Jean believes he may be still alive. She's helped by Cable in rescuing and freeing Scott from the possession. But, during the events in New X-Men, Scott isn't feeling very well due to Apocalypse's possession and this is when their marriage begins to fall apart, especially after the "psychic affair" between him and Emma Frost, fellow member and reformed supervillainess. Ultimately, though, Jean realizes that Emma truly loves him. When Emma was shot and literally shattered in her organic diamond form by Esme Cuckoo, Jean helped repair Emma at the molecular level, displaying incredible telekinetic power. Later, she's tricked by Magneto impostor, Kuan-Yin Xorn, along with Wolverine, who has a long-time one-sided crush on her. They ended up trapped on Asteroid M, drifting closer to the Sun. The Phoenix Force within Jean is reawakened when Wolverine tries to Mercy Kill her. Jean and Wolverine returned to Earth to face Xorn. But Xorn managed to (physically) kill her with an electromagnetic pulse which causes her to have a planetary-scale stroke. An enraged Wolverine soon avenges her by decapitating Xorn.

Upon the death of her physical form, Jean spends time in the The White Hot Room doing "Phoenix work". The Phoenix Force can also restore Jean's body to life, although there appears to be some unknown limitation to how quickly it can successfully accomplish this following her death. Around this time, she's also somehow seen aiding the X-Men, such as collecting the missing fragments of the Phoenix Force; she took some of them from Rachel Summers and the Stepford Cuckoos after the events in Phoenix Warsong when they wield the powers. She even helps Emma (again), when the latter is mind raped by the resurrected Madelyne Pryor into psychic static. She also helps Scott, who became Dark Phoenix of Phoenix Five, to let go of the Phoenix Force during Avengers vs. X-Men.

After a period of haunting her younger self, she was brought back to life once again (and told the Phoenix very politely, but very firmly, to leave her alone), and led her own team of X-Men. After confronting Nate Grey, after he'd apparently pulled a complete Face–Heel Turn and come to see himself as a god (the truth was a little more complicated) in Uncanny X-Men (2018), she tried to talk him down and he revealed that he was dying and desperately trying to do something good before he died (like save the world, whether it wanted it or not).

After that, like all the other X-Men she was pulled into his new reality - the Age of X-Man. After identifying the inconsistencies and confronting him, Nate accepted his mistakes and released her and the other X-Men (some of whom felt he had a point), she became a key part of the X-Men's new status quo - a member of Krakoa's Quiet Council. However, after a short time of this, Jean and Scott stood down from the council, feeling they could do better as X-Men once more.

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Jean Grey provides examples of:

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  • The Ace: Jean is brilliant, and insanely powerful. She’s the best telepath in the world with a cosmic entity as her other half. And even without that she can regular kick the asses of gods like Nightmare. Charles Xavier has even called her a “Prodigy beyond imagining.”
  • Action Mom: Oddly enough Jean fits this despite never having actually carried a child. All her offspring, Rachel, Cable, and X-Man are from alternate universes or timelines (although Cable was actually born in the present, but he had to be sent to the future as mentioned above. Oh, and his mom is Jean's clone). That said, she considers all of them to be her children, despite having got off to a rocky start with Rachel due to her own traumas (Phoenix related issues, discomfort with memories of being married to Scott from Maddy Pryor, and feeling like the universe is railroading her into marrying him).
  • All-Loving Heroine:
    • Most of the time, and particularly since her return in Phoenix Resurrection, with the emphasis of X-Men: Red (where she leads the titular team against Cassandra Nova) being on the power of compassion. Indeed, she's at least a rival for Superman or Wonder Woman in this department. However, like them, as she also reminds people, 'compassionate' most definitely does not mean either 'weak' or 'stupid'.
    • While her clone Madelyne Pryor has deeply resented Jean, Jean has generally responded by trying to forgive and spare her.
  • Almighty Mom: She's just about the only one with any control over Nate Grey - or at least, the only one he's really willing to listen to for more than 10 seconds when he's in a real mood. While this has its limits, it's been exploited in the past by Mystique (granted, he was disoriented at the time and found out in short order - he was not pleased).
  • Anti-Hero: She's this in the new X-Force run, though she eventually leaves the team after Beast crosses a line.
  • invokedAngst? What Angst?: Jean Grey seems totally fine about her mother, father, niece, nephew, aunts, uncles, and cousins all being mass murdered while she was gone - though considering that as the White Phoenix of the Crown, she was seen ushering them into the White Hot Room, and that she has a very unique perspective on death, perhaps this isn't so surprising.
  • Animal-Themed Superbeing: The Phoenix, as avatar of Phoenix Force. Her costume as Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and White Phoenix also has the golden firebird emblem on her chest.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the White Hot Room after her physical death by Xorn in New X-Men, to gather fragments of the Phoenix Force.
  • Back from the Dead: Once... for one quite permanent example.
    • For not-so-permanent examples, she has undergone this repeatedly in Phoenix Endsong (See Death Is Cheap below for details). But each time she's resurrected, it's always Came Back Wrong, so she finally decides that she’s not yet ready to come back to life, instead returning to the White Hot Room to continue gathering the fragments of Phoenix Force.
    • Finally, she returns for good in Phoenix Resurrection.
  • Battle Couple: With Cyclops, combining his optic blasts with her potent psychic abilities. Many stories featured them charging into battle together, hand-in-hand, and blasting their way through opponents.
  • Because Destiny Says So: Classic X-Men has a pretty creepy moment when it's suggested Jean's entire life was manipulated so she'd wind up in the right position to be approached by the Phoenix Force.
  • Been There, Shaped History: X-Men: First Class has a story claiming it's Jean who inspired Black Widow's famous Spy Catsuit look.
  • Betty and Veronica:
    • In early days she had to choose between Angel and Cyclops, and later Cyclops and Wolverine.
    • She was briefly the Betty to Psylocke's Veronica for Cyclops' Archie.
    • She's become the Betty for Cyclops while Emma Frost is the Veronica.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She's sweet, motherly and level-headed, practically overflowing with compassion. Unless you wrong her or her loved ones seriously. Then, you're in for a world of psychic pain.
  • Big Good: Like her husband, she is The Paragon of mutantkind to whom everybody looks up, also post-mortem. Her teenaged self finds it alternately intimidating and irritating, on the grounds that people tend to see either The Paragon or the Apocalypse Maiden and don't bother to look further - this irritation extends to when adult Jean's ghost (understandably annoyed at being stuck as a ghost) starts haunting her, though the two come to an accommodation and get on just fine once adult Jean has her own body again (and teen Jean bullied the Phoenix into resurrecting her).
  • Blessed with Suck: She used to have great difficulty controlling her powers. Her telekinesis wasn't so bad, but her telepathy was a huge hassle because she couldn't shut it off. It went From Bad to Worse when she became the host of the Phoenix — she had even more power, but less control since the Phoenix isn't always content to stay in the passenger's seat.
  • Brainwashed: Has been a victim of mind control several times.
  • The Chosen One: For the Phoenix. An afterlife talk with a cosmic entity (who may or may not be the One Above All) has him explain that it's an Excalibur thing; the Phoenix would never have answered her call and offered Jean her power if she wasn't meant to have it.
  • Civvie Spandex: In New X-Men.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Jean is capable of getting very jealous, especially where Scott is concerned.
  • Combat Tentacles: Late in the Claremont days, Masque temporarily turned her arms into tentacles (because he's a dick). This being Claremont (who kind of likes tentacles), Jean got used to it pretty quick.
  • Continuity Snarl: The Phoenix Force with all the RetCons (or in some instances, continuity gaffs) surrounding it.
  • Costume Evolution: Her first two changes, along with the rest of the teams, were all designed by her.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Jean as Phoenix can be quite witty and sarcastic when she wants to be. This character trait lingers.
  • Death-Activated Superpower: Something the Phoenix Force seems to do. However, how this works is very much Depending on the Writer.
  • Death Is Cheap: Though wrongly assumed to be her main trait, or wrongly singled out for it, she is still a comic book superhero.
    • Presumed dead piloting a space shuttle through a solar radiation storm, re-emerges as the Phoenix.
    • After becoming corrupted and turning into Dark Phoenix, she committed suicide on the Moon. It's later explained that it was actually a Phoenix-created duplicate of Jean who died. Jean’s psychic link with the Phoenix was what caused her to sacrifice herself. Real Jean's physical body, on the other hand, was actually in a stasis cocoon underwater. The portion of Jean's consciousness that had bonded with the Phoenix force awoke in a realm called The White Hot Room. The cocoon is later discovered by Avengers and Fantastic Four, then she re-emerges back to life, initially with no memory of Phoenix or Dark Phoenix.
    • She's one of many people who is temporarily erased from existence by Thanos in The Infinity Gauntlet. Along with everyone else, she gets restored later on.
    • Presumed killed by Trevor Fitzroy's Sentinels along with the Hellions, and Emma Frost who fell into coma. Jean instead transferred her psyche into Emma's comatose body. She was eventually transferred back into her own body, which was only brain-dead at the time, by Xavier.
    • Seemingly mercy-killed by Wolverine in the remains of Asteroid M. Her Phoenix Force powers are reawakened and she was able to fly them both back to Earth. Unfortunately, she's shortly after physically killed by Xorn with an electromagnetic pulse that gives her planetary-scale stroke.
    • In Phoenix Endsong #3, a wounded part of the Phoenix Force makes it way to Earth and brings Jean back to life to help heal itself. Feeling the Phoenix power taking control, she asks Wolverine to repeatedly kill her to weaken the Phoenix. Each time, the Phoenix is able to help resurrect Jean almost immediately. Later, she submerges herself in a glacier, even this fails to hold her, though, and she comes back once again. In Phoenix Endsong #5, Jean decides that she’s not yet ready to come back to life, instead returning to the White Hot Room to continue gathering the fragments of Phoenix Force.
    • And then she returns in Phoenix Resurrection, where she apparently puts a stop to this for good by firmly telling the Phoenix to bugger off and leave her alone. However...
    • She's killed by Sentinels in House of X / Powers of X, only to be revived as a demonstration of Krakoa's Resurrective Immortality.
  • Depending on the Writer: The nature of her relationship with the Phoenix. Is it a separate entity? Are they one and the same with the Phoenix being a part of her? Is she a part of the Phoenix? Don’t expect the answer with one writer to be same as it was with the writer that preceded them, EVER.
  • Discard and Draw: Her revival just before X-Factor caused her to lose her telepathy, but gain a boost to her telekinesis she didn't have before the Phoenix.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Her: Her Quesada-mandated death at the end of Planet X had "Magneto" kill her out of spite when he realized he was losing.
  • Dude Magnet: Jean is the object of affection for many male X-Men members, including Professor X himself for a brief period in the old days.
  • Evil Costume Switch: When she becomes Dark Phoenix, the outfit turns red. In a more subtle version, as the normal Phoenix, the size of the phoenix logo slowly grew as time went on and she became more Anti Heroish.
  • Evil Redhead: When she was Dark Phoenix.
  • Expy: Jean Grey has generated some few expies, such as Supergirl's best friend Thara Ak-Var, a.k.a. Flamebird, a female hero who is avatar of a firebird-shaped cosmic force. Ironically enough, Jean herself is an expy of the Teen Titans member Lilith Clay.
  • Fairytale Wedding Dress: When marrying Scott, she wore a mermaid dress with a hooded white cape and High-Class Gloves.
  • Fan Disservice: She is stabbed in the gut by Logan after she stripped down to her bra and pants while on Asteroid M as it's hurtling into the sun in New X-Men.
  • Fiery Redhead: Classic Marvel example. And as the Phoenix, quite literally too.
  • Fiery Sensuality: Jean Grey's phoenix powers are often viewed as a for female desire and sexuality, and how it can cause harm if corrupted.
  • Fire/Ice Duo: Used to contrast her with Emma when she becomes her romantic rival. Jean is constantly associated with fire and heat because of her red hair and her connection to the fiery Phoenix Force, and her personality is known to vacillate between warm compassion and unpredictable fiery temper; Emma is associated with ice and the cold because of her surname "Frost", her all-white attire and her cool temperament, and she resembles an ice sculpture when in her organic diamond form.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: Her revival in Fantastic Four #286 has Jean thinking she's still dealing with Project: Armageddon's Sentinels, since the Fantastic Four have differently coloured uniforms. Later still, she has to learn Magneto's now considered one of the good guys.
  • Flaming Hair: She sometimes has flaming hair when she's all Phoenix-y.
  • Flight: Using psychokinesis.
  • Flying Firepower: As the avatar of Phoenix Force.
  • Foot Popping: When she married Scott, the cover shows Jean doing this as they kiss◊.
  • Forced Transformation: Once got turned into a water-breather along with her sister by Attuma, who wanted them to be his concubines. Jean very emphatically refused.
  • Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her Phoenix costume, X-Factor costumes, and 90s costume, all accentuate her body and Most Common Superpower. Even her wedding dress fit her curves.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: When she is possessed by the Phoenix Force.
  • Happily Married: With Cyclops... for a while.
  • The Heart: Of the X-Men. Having been the only one who could call both Wolverine and Cyclops into line and mediate all their issues, she was the one who kept the team honest, which might explain why they became so much Darker and Edgier after her death.
  • Heroic Build: Depending on the Artist, she has a fairly muscular build.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Knew piloting that space shuttle would kill her, and she still went through with it.
  • High-Class Gloves:
    • Her first appearance in the comic is her in a fancy blue outfit with white gloves (like a debutante about to go on a trip), to show her upper middle class status.
    • Her wedding dress includes long white gloves.
    • And of course forearm-length and over-the-elbow yellow gloves are a standard part of many of her costumes.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Storm. They are best friends and even keep in contact when Storm takes several X-Men and splits off to go search for Destiny’s diaries.
  • High-School Sweethearts: With Cyclops.
  • Human Popsicle: The true fate of Jean while the Phoenix was running around pretending to be her. She was stuck inside a cocoon to regenerate, which wound up in the bottom of Jamaica Bay for years.
  • Hypocrite: She’s pretty furious when she finds out Cyclops and Emma are having an affair via telepathy and even mind rapes Emma for it. While it’s understandable that she was mad, she was also carrying on trust with Logan and had kissed him a few times.

    I-Z 
  • I Hate Past Me: Zig-Zagged. In the latter's book, adult Jean - who, in fairness, might have been grumpy thanks to being a ghost visible solely to her younger self - appears to regard Teen Jean as an immature, whiny brat who can't deal with the fact her life wasn't a painless fairy tale. Teen Jean reciprocates. However, they ultimately get used to each other, with adult Jean becoming something of a mentor to her teenage self, and the two get on much better once adult Jean has her own body again.
    Teen Jean: Stop acting like it's so embarrassing you used to be me.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: At the end of New X-Men, a temporarily dead Jean used her powers to convince Scott to start a relationship with Emma (also to prevent a Bad Future she'd just annihilated).
  • The Lancer: In New X-Men.
  • Levitating Lotus Position: As seen here◊.
  • Light Is Good: Her outfit as the White Phoenix of the Crown, the Phoenix Force at its highest state, is white with gold. However...
  • Light Is Not Good: It's still the Phoenix, capable of burning entire universes to the ground.
  • Lingerie Scene: In Uncanny X-Men #144.
  • Little Black Dress: Has worn such dresses, to show her sense of style is sophisticated, not gaudy.
  • Love Triangle: Scott-Jean-Logan, Madelyne-Scott-Jean and Jean-Scott-Emma.
  • Mama Bear:
    • Usually averted with Rachel, who is a psi of talent close to or exceeding her mother's own. Baby can take care of herself and Mama knows it too well. Plus, Mama's dead a lot. However, it's Played Straight in X-Men: Red when Rachel is controlled by Cassandra Nova and Jean steps in. And on. Hard.
    • Played straight in regard to her students. When the U-Men turn up, looking to harvest the organs of the students, Jean proceeds to humiliate and terrify them without moving, or, indeed, even raising her voice.
    • Played straight in regards to her time travelling son Cable, having raised him as a baby with Scott in the future, protected him as he grew up and taught him how to use the vast telekinetic powers he inherited from her to hold the techno organic virus at bay.
    • Also played straight towards Nate Grey. While he's probably the strongest mutant in the Marvel Universe (possibly excepting Franklin Richards), and a fighter from the start, his powers were unstable and slowly killing him. He was also extremely emotionally vulnerable and a definite Momma's Boy - when he resurrected himself, the first bone he had to pick with Mystique was her making him believe that his then-dead mother was alive.
  • Messianic Archetype: What she has become with time, especially in and after Grant Morrison's run.
  • Mind over Matter: She provides the page image and is one of the most powerful examples in fiction. Her telekinetic strength and skill are both of a supremely high power-level, capable of grasping objects in Earth orbit and manipulating hundreds of components in mid-air in complex patterns. She often uses her telekinesis to lift herself and others, giving her the ability of levitation and flight, create durable shields and energy blasts, sometimes even extending to full on molecular manipulation.
  • Mind Rape: When Jean catches Emma Frost and Cyclops in bed (inside of Cyclops' mind), Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, making her relive her worst memories.
  • Mindlink Mates: with Scott.
  • Mini Dress Of Power: Her second outfit is a green dress with a miniskirt. It didn't age well, so it's now the colour scheme of the Marvel Girl outfit mixed with the style of her X-Men: Red uniform.
  • Modeling Poses: In the very first X-Men issue Jean does a fashion pose when she puts on the uniform.
  • Moment of Weakness: There were a few reasons why Jean called out for the Phoenix and why she accepted, but as she admits one of the biggest reasons, besides saving her friends, is just she didn't want to die.
  • Morality Chain: Conventional wisdom is that she serves as this for Cyclops, with her compassionate and empathetic nature balancing out his jerkish/Well-Intentioned Extremist tendencies. Plenty of Alternate Universe stories (and the mainstream universe once, but we don't talk about that anymore) have shown him going full Magneto without her to reign him in. However, there is some evidence that she needs him as much as he needs her, as he appears to be the only one who can talk down the Dark Phoenix.
  • Morality Pet: She and Scott served as each other's Morality Pets before their relationship went south. She helps him to live life and not brood so much, he helps her to calm down and balance the Phoenix's power with her humanity. Once she dies, the gap between Scott and his teammates widens, as she's isn't there to mediate between them any more.
  • Most Common Superpower: She has very buxom breasts that are d-cup sizes.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Jean is a very beautiful redhead who tends to wear very form-fitting costumes that highlight her body.
  • Nice Girl: Alongside Night Crawler, she is often seen to be the kindest, most nurturing and most compassionate of all the X-Men, and a paragon and symbol of the good that Mutants can do for humanity, not a pushover by any means, though.
  • No One Should Survive That!: The end of Uncanny X-Men issue #100. Through the last few issues, it's been noted a really nasty solar flare is headed for Earth, just as the X-Men wind up in a villain's orbital base, with the only shuttle back to Earth damaged to just the extent someone needs to fly it manually, but due to the radiation this will be certain death. Jean volunteers anyway, and the issue ends with the cockpit being bombarded with radiation. Issue #101 begins with the space shuttle face-planting into the Hudson, but just as the X-Men despair, the water boils and out bursts Jean, very much alive and well.
  • Not Quite Flight: She possesses telekinesis whereby she manipulates atoms with her mind, enabling her to effectively fly by moving around her own atoms.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: The Shi'ar won't forgive Jean for having been possessed/replaced by a cosmic entity and later corrupted by two psychic villains; every so often, Inspector Javerts from the Shi'ar Empire come to try to kill Jean (and did kill her entire family) because apparently merely being capable of hosting the Phoenix equals "may wake up one morning and decide to end the universe any day now."
  • The Phoenix: Depending on the continuity, or even the writer at the moment in the main continuity, she was either the Phoenix itself (later Dark Phoenix), possessed by it, or replaced and impersonated by it at some point. She keeps an equally variable connection to it from her return onwards. The Phoenix wasn't even originally intended to give her an ability to come Back from the Dead. Becoming the Phoenix in the first place was considered her "death and rebirth". None of this helped her overall reputation much, and by now she has become the poster child for Death Is Cheap even by comic book standards.
    • Finally, at the end of Phoenix Resurrection, she kindly but extremely firmly tells the Phoenix to go away and leave her alone, as it's not good for either of them.
  • Playing with Fire: Her Phoenix powers give her cosmic pyrokinesis, essentially magic fire.
  • Power at a Price: The Phoenix did warn Jean going in that there was a great risk, and that once she agreed they would be forever linked. It even admitted it was a Deal with the Devil for her.
  • Power Incontinence: When she was a child, she couldn't control her telepathic ability and ended up in a catatonic state. Later on she had a similar problem with the Phoenix Force.
  • Polyamory: In recent times, it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband Scott Summers, and teammate Wolverine may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms◊ on Krakoa are next to each other◊, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors◊.
  • Primary-Color Champion: Jean has red hair and in the 90s wore a yellow and blue costume. Usually her outfits contain some gold-yellow in there somewhere, and often red.
  • Pretty in Mink:
    • In the 70s, she has a blue winter coat trimmed with gray fur.
    • In the early 90s, she buys a white fur coat after she lost her coat coat the previous issue, and she's so excited that she didn't even want the salesman to wrap it up. She just wore it out of the store, gushing about how soft it felt.
    • The first time we see her mother, Elaine, she's wearing a brown mink coat. Even a 90s retelling of the X-Men's early years still showed her wearing the coat.
  • Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: X-Men: First Class gives her and Wanda Maximoff one, spending lots of time just hanging out doing stuff (Wanda being the only other known girl Mutant at the time).
  • Psychic Powers: Her main powers aside from Phoenix Force, which mainly include Telepathy and Telekinesis.
  • Punny Name: Perhaps merely by coincidence, Jean has mutant powers because she possesses the X-gene.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In an issue of Bizarre Adventures, Jean and her older sister Sara are kidnapped from a boat by Namor villain Attuma. He intends to use them for breeding purposes. They escape using Jean’s powers, but it’s implied this isn’t the first time Attuma has done this. Nor the last.
    • Then there are the separate times where Mastermind or Mesmero had Jean completely under their control before other X-Men intervened.
  • Redhead In Green: Some of her costumes have been green. She even designed her first two costume changes, the second being a green Mini Dress Of Power (with gold-colored accessories).
  • Restraining Bolt: As a young girl, Xavier placed mental blocks in Jean's mind to keep her telepathy from growing out of control. Xavier would later remove these so her telepathy could grow naturally.
  • Rogues Gallery: Mesmero, the Morlocks Masque and Bliss, Madelyne Pryor, the Mastermind family and sometimes the Shi’ar Imperial guard.
  • Secret-Keeper: Being one of Xavier's first students, he burdened her with many secrets throughout the existence of the X-Men. Some examples:
    • Xavier "dies" fighting a creature named Grotesk in X-Men #42. He is not dead, obviously, because he goes into hiding to prepare for an upcoming Z'Nox invasion (issues #65-66).
    • In X-Men Hidden Years (an in-continuity series between the original title and Giant Size X-Men #1), Jean, Scott and Hank meet Ororo for the first time. Beast comments that they should report her existence to the Professor, but Jean explains he knows about her already.
  • Secret Public Identity: The name "Marvel Girl" didn't age well and was dropped decades ago (then brought back, to mixed reactions), and (usually; Depending on the Writer) she only uses the name Phoenix when actually supercharged by the cosmic critter. This leaves her as just plain "Jean Grey" the majority of the time, even during action. It's been Lampshaded more than once; Jubilee once even referred to her as "Miss I'm Too Sexy For A Codename, Too Sexy For A Codename," and in the X-Men: Evolution tie in comic, when Nightcrawler asked why Rogue was just Rogue, Cyclops said "The same reason Jean's just Jean," and they were interrupted before Nightcrawler could get finished asking about that.
  • Sensual Spandex: Her Phoenix costumes (green, red, or white) are the least modest compared to her other costumes.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Has red hair and green eyes.
    • Her mother was retconned into one (She was a brunette at first).
  • Simple, yet Opulent: Her dress when she arrives at the mansion, in the first issue, wouldn't look too out of place at a high class party.
    • She has several evening dresses when she attends high class events (although usually undercover).
    • Her wedding dress was also grand and simple.
  • Supernaturally Young Parent: All of her children are from the future or alternate realities, or both - Nate is ten years her junior (or less, considering how long she was dead for), Rachel is only a little younger than she is, and Cable is considerably older thanks to all the time travel. Though, only Cable she actually helped raise, thanks to Rachel's Mental Time Travel related assistance. None of this stops her from loving them dearly, rocky start with Rachel aside, and being just about the only person who can reliably control any of them.
  • Superpower Lottery: She gets this, but she went mad with power. Now Jean didn't actually have that much power after she fused with the Phoenix Force, but then she suddenly is more powerful than ever before, and more dangerous: Jean Grey alone can lift upwards of twenty tons with her brain. With limited Phoenix power, she can use external objects as a sense of touch and recompose matter at a molecular level. Unhinged, she can teleport anywhere in the universe at will and devour stars. Then it turns out she has one more level beyond that where she can exist outside of reality proper and has total control over space and time itself. On top of all that, if you kill her she comes back whenever she feels like it. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
  • Talking to Themself: In Jean Grey #7, Ghost Jean holds a conversation with her younger self. Ghost Jean notes with irony her younger self doesn't want to appear she's talking to herself as she's actually literally talking to herself.
  • Team Mom: The oldest example in X-Men. Even when they were still teens, Jean would do things like enforce proper table manners among her teammates. Her solo series indicates that she deeply resented this role at the time, though she's much happier with being this to the younger students. Adjusting to her own bevy of time-travelling/universe jumping children might have helped.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Jean was the only girl of the original X-Men team.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
    • Unleashed one on Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men issue #100, after reaching the end of her tether with him. Worth bearing in mind this was pre-Character Development Wolverine, and that it's only after this he starts having a crush on her.
    • She gives a scathing one to her time displaced younger self in Issue 6 of her solo.
    Jean Grey: You have convinced yourself that I'm the nightmare. That my life - a life you've only glimpsed in other people's heads - was some kind of dark tragedy. Because there was pain. Because it ended in Death. Because that's not the life you envisioned for yourself. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, princess, but that's just life. Grow up.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the early days of the X-Men, Jean was explicitly labelled the weakest member of the team. One little shuttle accident later, and Jean became capable of punching former Heralds of Galactus across Manhattan, grabbing passing asteroids, and restructuring clothing out of nothing. Even once that turned out to be a Phoenix duplicate, most of the levels in badass still remained when the real Jean came back - she was capable of flying through hyperspace, for one thing, and on a smaller scale she can crush bones telekinetically. Teen Jean, meanwhile, has proved capable of going toe to toe with Gladiator and creatures that give Namor trouble.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Jean's telepathy first came in when her best friend was struck and killed by a car right in front of her, with Jean feeling every second of it.
  • True Blue Femininity: Some of her outfits are blue, including the civilian dress she wears in her very first appearance.
  • Uniqueness Decay: She was the first and only human that bonded with the Phoenix. Then it turned out Feron did centuries before, then Avengers vs X-Men introduced Fongji Wu, then a Phoenix host in 1,000,000 BC. However, with the possible exception of Rachel, it is made quite clear that she is its favourite.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Cyclops when they're not together; sometimes with Wolverine.
  • Unstable Powered Woman: She was a heroic member of the X-Men up until the events of The Dark Phoenix Saga, where she is possessed by the Phoenix Force, one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. While she initially handles this new power well, Jean is targeted by the supervillain Mastermind, who shatters her control over them in a mental battle. This causes her to lose it and become Dark Phoenix, an intergalactic menace who casually indirectly kills billions of people by devouring a star, and by doing so paints a big target on her back. This storyline was extremely influential, and many comics storylines parallel or homage this directly.
  • Unwanted Harem: She was the only girl in the group for years. She's also been the target of villain's affections, as well. Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind) wasn't above committing Mind Rape to get her to fall in love with him.
  • Will They or Won't They?: Since 1963, Jean and Scott live in a constant cycle where they're unsure whether a relationship is a good idea or they should stay just friends, they get together, live happy for a while until one of them dies temporarily or something makes them break up, and the cycle begins anew.
  • Winter Royal Lady: Conversed a bit. After she bought her fur, she and Scott had a Snowball Fight with their powers, and Jean jokingly called herself "the Queen of the Icy North!".
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity:
    • Played straight initially as host of Phoenix Force, until it's inverted in New X-Men. It's implied that Jean only lost control because she was afraid of her power before, and repressed it. Now, she's out and proud, and completely in control of herself. Sadly, she's killed there.
    • Also, it's frequently ignored by fans and writers that though she had to fight her anti-heroic urges she was actually in control for a very long time, only becoming Dark Phoenix after Mastermind and Emma Frost put a lot of time and effort into their More than Mind Control of her to get her to join the Hellfire Club. It worked too well and we all know what happened next.

    Time-Displaced Jean Grey 

Marvel Girl/Jean Grey

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Jean Grey arrives in the future to discover she will fall in love with and marry Cyclops, and also that she is destined to wield the Phoenix Force, go mad, kill one planet worth of people and die twice. She is also confronted with the fact Scott cheated on her even though she was technically faithful. Of all the O5, she is the most reluctant to return home having seen what is to become with her, a prospect she fears immensely. Jean leaves the team during the time skip after Secret Wars and returns to lead the X-Men: Blue team.

  • Action Girl: What she became with time. Jean is highly capable of defending herself and others whenever the time calls for it. She proves to be the most powerful of the Teen X-Men, psychically flattening the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire and several dozen Kree accusers in one shot, overpowering Gladiator and, without her telepathy, wiping the floor with the Blob.
  • Anti-Hero: Jean is more antiheroic than her future self, more callous with her mind-reading and far more troubled. She gets better as time goes by and she gets a better handle on her powers, becoming more like her classic All-Loving Heroine self.
  • Badass and Child Duo:
  • Betty and Veronica: While it wasn't drawn out for particularly long, she was the Betty to X23's Veronica with Teen!Scott, with Jean visibly jealous when she noted that Scott and Laura were mutually attracted.
  • Character Development: She goes from scared kid terrified of her own future and her own powers, barely more than a basic telekinetic and a profoundly inexperienced telepath, to discovering a whole new level to her powers and escaping a supposedly inescapable restraining Shi'ar bubble while taking out about half the Imperial Guard in one shot, before going toe to toe with freaking Gladiator and coming out honours even. As of her solo series and X-Men Blue, she gains the confidence to lead the X-Men, as well as striking out on her own and learning how to take on the Phoenix - which is apparently coming to merge with her whether she likes it or not. To top it all off, she later bullies the Phoenix into resurrecting her after it killed her in Phoenix Resurrection. She also apparently dies again when absorbed by the Poison Hive... which she ends up vaporising from the inside and reconstructing her body from remnants of her genetic material. And after that, she becomes much more comfortable with life, thanks to her worst nightmare having passed her by.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Though she's trying to keep a low profile at the start of Extraordinary X-Men and turned down a chance to join the titular team in favour of going to college, intent on studying and enjoying life with her new boyfriend, she can't let bad stuff pass. In issue 2 when she sees someone who does not look human (assumed by all to be a mutant, but actually an Inhuman) being beaten up by a gang. Her boyfriend, proving to be mutant-phobic, tells her to leave the mutie. Jean informs him that he's in for a nasty surprise and starts kicking butt.
  • Civvie Spandex: Her costume in her solo series and X-Men Blue, though she doesn't always wear the jacket.
  • Death Is Cheap: Deconstructed, because she's actually genuinely horrified that her future self has died more than once.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: After the Phoenix Force kills her she winds up in the White Hot Room and berates the cosmic entity for picking a fight with her, half blackmailing and half annoying it into resurrecting her.
  • Dirty Mind-Reading: Regularly hears how attracted everyone is to her, like her Ultimate counterpart. She's had a conversation with Scott about how irritating it can be.
  • Dude Magnet:
    • This aspect of her character is discussed, with all of the O5 but Bobby practically falling over her (until Angel hooks up with Laura, anyway), and Emma Frost making dry references to her being 'the cute, fresh-faced redhead that turns every man's head'.
    • In the Ultimates universe, she met Miles Morales for only a few hours and he was already crushing hard on her. Also, Ganke, which precipitates Miles's remark that she has apparently seen and heard it all, psychically speaking, and she's comfortable enough to mess with him about.
    • She even gets older Cyclops's attention, though mostly in respect to his nostalgia — she's the way she was when he first fell in love with her — and when she does make a move on him, he shuts it down gently, but very firmly.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: She has shorter hair in her solo series. Supposedly to distinct herself from her future self.
  • Fiery Redhead: As hot-tempered as ever, something often made worse by her Power Incontinence, the trauma of her future self's experiences and all the weight that gets dropped on her shoulders. She gets better as time goes on.
  • Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her original costume and second costume.
  • Future Me Scares Me: She really doesn't want to become her adult self, seeing her fate as a Bad Future. She even makes this very clear to her adult self's ghost, though the two eventually come to terms with each other and actually get on quite well (Adult Jean getting her own body back helped).
    Adult Jean: How do you think I got ready?! How do you think I became me?!
    Teen Jean: I don't want to be you! Why would anybody ever want to be you?!
  • Heroic BSoD: Has one when she sees what happens to her future self. Later she has an even worse one after Teen Angel leaves to join Modern Cyclops.
  • Hypocritical Humor: In her solo series where she finally met Hope, both of them remark how they can't understand why some people consider them identical... while looking more or less identical and speaking in unison.
  • I Am a Monster: She said this when she's prosecuted by Shi'ar Empire for the crimes of the Dark Phoenix.
  • Identical Stranger: To Hope Summers, though both claim that they can't see the resemblance.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Tries living the life of an ordinary college student at the start of Extraordinary X-Men, flirting with a guy in her class. As per usual, Chronic Hero Syndrome means that it doesn't stick, and her would-be boyfriend is mutant-phobic.
  • The Leader: Assumes this role to the O5, especially after Scott travels into space, and even after his return.
  • Love Dodecahedron: Several examples.
    • She and Teen Scott were in love until they got to the future. Now she's not so sure she wants him anymore given what she knows about who/what he grows up to be, while he's still smitten, thinking that their eventual wedding is "proof" they're supposed to be together. Eventually, they hook up.
    • She and Teen Hank kiss. She instigated it on top of that. The events of Battle of the Atom cause a little fallout. At the end of the first volume they give an actual relationship a try, but she ultimately decides they're Better as Friends during the Time Skip.
    • She and Teen Angel have a moment when he catches her when she's falling.
    • She also seems to be attracted to Modern Scott, but he quickly says it can't ever happen. Ever.
    • Jean was visibly jealous of Scott's attraction to X-23, especially when it was subtly implied to be reciprocated by Laura. Her relief when Laura and Warren began dating instead was palpable.
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Jean's telepathy manifests far earlier for her than it did originally because Beast removed her from the influence of Xavier, who had suppressed it until she was older. After that, Jean at first displays difficulty controlling her telepathy, leading to her hearing thoughts ranging from the uncomfortable (such as Teen Hank's feelings for her) to the outright horrifying (what the Purifiers did to Laura). She gets better as time goes on, and more used to people's minds, with Miles Morales explicitly remarking to Ganke (who's horrified at the prospect that she might be reading his mind) when the O5 wind up in the Ultimate Universe that he thought that himself, but "she has apparently seen and heard it all."
    • For a few darker examples, she reads the Purifiers' minds to learn just how messed up they are towards mutants and their hate crimes. She's also left quite disturbed when she reads part of Laura's mind, and learns about the things that were done to her (Kitty did warn her not to read Laura, though).
  • Mind over Manners: Jean's telepathy shows up unexpectedly due to the stress of seeing the future and knowing her future self dies (more than once). Kitty has to repeatedly remind her it's considered extremely impolite to read minds without permission. Jean apologizes, but her curiosity gets the better of her quite a bit. Sometimes Hilarity Ensues, sometimes it leads to awkward moments, but most times she can't believe what people have done. She's getting better by the time she meets Miles Morales, and later expresses genuine gratitude to Xavier's Antagonistic Offspring (leader of the Future Brotherhood) for reminding her why this is so important with his rampant abuse of his own considerable Psychic Powers.
  • Mind Rape: She tried to do it on Teen Angel again in Issue 11, but the Stepford Triplets stop her.
  • Most Common Superpower: Depending on the Artist... even though she's still a teenager. Mostly, however, she's drawn with a more realistic build.
  • New Super Power: During the Trial of Jean Grey arc she learns how to combine her telepathy and telekinesis to absorb psychic energy and convert it to power. This makes her entire body glow pinkish purple. It becomes her signature manoeuvre when she's about to pull off something big, using it to stalemate Gladiator, destroy the Poisons, and stun freaking Galactus - though for context, he was occupied with Phoenix at the time and she hit him in the back, it only seemed to knock him over/surprise him, and she did need to draw on his power, her older Phoenix self's power, and that of the planet and people below to do it.
  • Nice Girl: Following a bit of Character Development.
  • Odd Friendship:
    • She actually winds up bonding with Emma Frost of all people, before Emma's Sanity Slippage kicked in. Magik outright states that this is one of the most disturbing things she's ever seen, which is saying a lot.
    Irma Cuckoo: Jean Grey and Emma Frost are friends now.
    Illyana Rasputin: That is the scariest thing I've ever heard. And I grew up in hell, literally.
    • Later with Old Man Logan in Extraordinary X-Men.
    • And even later with Magneto in X-Men Blue. This is particularly strange since she came from a time when Magneto was a raving mutant supremacist who tried to kill them, not the complex Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain he has become, and neither of them entirely trusts the other (or rather, both of them are keeping secrets). Nevertheless, they're both cordial, aware of their dynamic, and Magneto treats her as more of a respected peer than a student, explicitly stating that while he is overseeing their operation and acting as mission control, they're not his students.
  • Parental Substitute: Hilariously, her adult self becomes this, partially as a ghost when haunting Teen Jean and exhorting her to grow up, then more so once she gets her own body back after Phoenix Resurrection, to the point of making pointed comments about Teen Jean's champagne consumption at Piotr and Kitty's abortive wedding, which Teen Jean refers to as "momming" her - and instead suggests that she do so to Rachel, her/their actual daughter, who's standing between them and is developing an understandable headache.
  • Power Glows: Her new powers make her glow violet-purple with psionic energy.
  • Power Incontinence: Specifically, her telepathy. It's not clear how much this is true or if it's an excuse (probably the former going by the way it sometimes happens with her telekinesis too), but she doesn't have her future self's level of control over it and, until Emma Frost gets over most of her issues, none of her teachers are actual psychics. She eventually gets better.
  • Proper Tights with a Skirt: Her costume in Extraordinary X-Men. Best seen here◊.
  • Psychic Powers: As per usual, except that her telepathy is jumpstarted by time travel and consequently has trouble controlling it - at first.
  • Sensual Spandex: Semi-regularly, particularly as drawn in X-Men: Blue.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Manages this in her solo series, when fighting alongside the Odinson and being frustrated at the lack of a 'big frigging magic hammer'. When she accidentally creates a large warhammer from her powers, in the same vein as Psylocke's psi-weapons, she asks, startled, what it is. Odinson replies somewhat drily that it looks to him like 'a big frigging magic hammer.' She then gets tutelage in this from Betsy Braddock, an expert in the art.
  • Supernaturally Young Parent: She's from the past and Rachel is from the future, so it's a given. Rachel even calls her "Baby Momma" sometimes (and gets an understandable headache at Kitty and Piotr's abortive wedding when Adult Jean starts "momming" Teen Jean about underage champagne drinking, while Teen Jean argues that she should be doing it to Rachel instead). Let's not even talk about Cable.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
    • For Hope Summers, who is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the still-deceased Modern Jean Grey. Once Hope's storyline needed reason to exist was over, she was taken out of the main X-Men comic books and was "transferred" to Uncanny X-Force to reunite with her adopted father Cable, and Teen Jean appears to take her place. Just like Hope, Teen Jean is a teenaged girl raised in a different time (this time though, the past) who has the traditional Jean Grey look, has a similar personality and tendency to be a brat (at first), has a lot of story focus with the bulk of the current conflict in the books revolving around her presence, and is slowly learning just how powerful she is. In short, Jean Grey is the Suspiciously Similar Substitute to her own Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
    • The two eventually meet in Jean Grey and, ironically Speak in Unison when remarking that they can't understand why people think they look alike (despite looking identical). Of course, Jean also has shorter hair by this time, so they don't look that identical.
  • Swapped Roles: Kitty Pryde, who was 13 and a half when she joined the X-Men, studied under Jean and learned techniques for handling telepathic issues. Now she's an adult, teaching 16-year-old Jean from the past those same techniques.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Goes from scared teenager to someone who goes toe to toe with Gladiator, grudgingly impresses Namor, stuns (an admittedly otherwise occupied) Galactus, and winds up bullying the Phoenix into resurrecting her.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Due to her Trauma Conga Line, she brainwashes Warren into submission twice! And now in Battle of the Atom she manipulates Teen Scott by flattering him (after kissing Hank) to help her stay in the present, which might cause a Bad Future (events would prove that this was the right decision, if not made for the right reasons). She gets better afterwards.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Once she gets a handle on her telepathy, she develops back into her usual Nice Girl self.
  • Trauma Conga Line:
    • Jean, a 16 year old girl, has her powers blooming early, with her attempts to deal with Power Incontinence adding to her troubles. She finds out she is going to die (repeatedly) and is, as far as she knows, still dead, while her teammates survive to the current day.
    • And then she finds out that her future self (as in her future self if she stays in the present) is insane and evil, then saw her die, then find out that she might just have been a psychic projection all along and then she gets kidnapped by the Shi'ar Imperial Guard and put in front of a Kangaroo Court.
  • Troubled, but Cute: A rare female example. She gets better.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: Perpetually, with Scott. It is, of course, mutual. In Issue 36 of X-Men: Blue, it is finally resolved.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: She's an extremely powerful telekinetic and telepath, but she has difficulty co-ordinating the two abilities in the heat of battle and so she got punked by the Wrecking Crew in Japan. She's also a hot-head and sometimes thinks with her fists, she got called on it by a Goblin Queen-incarnation of Madelyne Pryor: "Sweetie, that's why we have powers" (before blasting Jean after Jean tried to punch her). In her solo series, she goes to everyone (Namor, Odinson, and Psylocke, among others, though she also gets help from Doctor Strange - an attempted exorcism of the ghost of her adult self - and then, unwanted, her adult self who hangs around afterwards) for tutelage and advice, and learns how to use her powers much more effectively.
  • Will They or Won't They?: Teenage Scott and Jean are stuck in the "unresolved sexual tension" phase due to the way their adult counterparts ruined their marriage. At the end of X-Men: Blue, they eventually resolve it.
  • Youthful Freckles: Sometimes depicted as having them, depending on the artist.

Alternative Title(s): Jean Grey

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