Pheonix
Bio
PHEONIX
Real Name: Jean
Grey Summers
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: X-Men, X-Factor,
Hellfire Club NY
Aliases: Redd Dayspring, Dark Phoenix,
Black Queen I, Marvel Girl
Status: Married (Cyclops)
Relatives: Dr. John Grey (father),
Elaine (mother), Sarah Grey (sister, deceased), Joey (nephew), Gailyn (niece),
Summers family
Powers: Phoenix is one of the most
powerful telepaths and telekinetics on the planet, second only to Professor
X (pre-Onslaught) and possibly X-Man. Although her husband Cyclops was
the first X-Man, Jean was Xavier's first student. As a young girl, Jean
watched as her friend Annie Richardson was hit by a car. The stress of
the event activated Jean's powers, and she was in contact with Annie's
mind as she died, a traumatic experience for any telepath, let alone one
who has just manifested. Jean went into a catatonia from which no one could
extract her, save Professor Xavier, who, being a telepath himself, was
able to enter Jean's mind and bring her back to the real world. Jean continued
to study with Xavier and with Moira MacTaggert for a while, and was eventually
brought to the School for Gifted Youngsters to complete the young X-Men
team. When she merged with the Phoenix Force as the original and then Dark
Phoenix, Jean could make her thoughts into reality, although her power
usually manifested itself in terms of her telepathy and telekinesis. It
should be noted that the original Phoenix was actually a construct created
by the Phoenix Force to replace Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), who sacrificed
herself to save her teammates as they were crash-landing in a damaged spacecraft.
This clone actually believed herself to be Jean; in reality the real Jean
Grey was in a healing cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. Her telepathy
was suppressed so that she couldn't cry for help while the Phoenix lived
her life. Unfortunately, the Phoenix was immature and did not know how
to deal properly with human emotions. Eventually she was seduced by Mastermind,
working for the Hellfire Club, and joined them as their Black Queen. Even
though she broke free of Mastermind's control, the dark side of the Phoenix
had been tapped, and she became Dark Phoenix. Dark Phoenix defeated the
X-Men, and then went to the Shi'ar galaxy where she destroyed a sun to
gain energy, but in the process killed the five billion inhabitants of
its fourth planet. When she returned to Earth, Dark Phoenix was suppressed
by Professor X, but returned when the Shi'ar forced the X-Men to hand her
over for termination. The X-Men challenged the Shi'ar to a duel on the
Blue Area of the Moon, feeling that Phoenix had been exorcised from Jean,
but to no avail. As her lover Cyclops was struck down by the Imperial Guard,
Phoenix returned. However, Jean's persona was dominant, and realizing that
she was once again a threat to the universe, Phoenix activated an ancient
weapon and killed her mortal body. The Phoenix tried to return the essence
it had borrowed from Jean to her, but it also brought its memories as Dark
Phoenix, full of evil and death, and Jean rejected it. Years later, Jean
finally broke through the psi-damping of the cocoon she was in, and was
rescued by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. She had lost her telepathy
because of its constant suppression, but joined the other original X-Men
in creating X-Factor anyway. During Inferno, Jean discovered that Madelyne
Pryor, who had married Scott while Jean was "dead," was really her clone,
and had received the memories of the Phoenix that she had rejected. Madelyne
tried to kill herself and Jean, but the part of Phoenix that had been in
Madelyne appeared and save Jean when she agreed to reaccept it. Madelyne
died, but Jean survived, with both her memories and the Phoenix's memories.
During the Dark Riders' attack on X-Factor's Ship, Psynapse telepathically
assaulted Jean, reawakening her long-dormant telepathy. After returning
to the X-Men, Jean was almost killed by Sentinels, but survived by transferring
her mind into the seemingly-lifeless body of Emma Frost. The X-Men rescued
her and Xavier put her mind back. Since then, Jean has married Cyclops,
and journeyed with him to the far future to raise his son Cable as Redd.
She has now accepted the name Phoenix (as a tribute to her "daughter" Rachel,
who died as an elderly Mother Askani 2000 years in the future) and also
appears to have accepted its power once more. Jean left the X-Men after
Scott was injured during Operation: Zero Tolerance, taking a vacation in
Alaska to help him recover. While there, however, Jean lost her telepathy
to the Shadow King's telepathic shockwave, and was having difficulty coping.
However, slowly but surely her power returned, and she along, with Cyclops
and some other X-Men, agreed to protect the Mannites when it seemed that
the core X-Men had disbanded. Then Apocalypse made his return and the X-Men
discovered the prophecies regarding The Twelve. Phoenix and the rest on
the legendary group were abducted and place in a machine intended to fuel
Apocalypse's transfer into Nate Grey's body. In the final battle, Cyclops
scarificed his life to save Nate, but he was absorbed into Apocalypse himself.
Jean and the others were taken to warped pasts and futures in which Apocalypse
tried to recreate the power charging by having the 12 attack him, but twice
Jean stopped the X-Men because she could sense Scott fighting from within,
indicating that he was still alive inside Apocalypse. Unfortunately, no
one, not even Xavier, could sense Scott's presence, and Jean left the X-Men,
despondent and grieving.
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