Jean Elaine Grey Summers is an evolved mutant with powerful telekinetic and telepathic abilities, further enhanced by the cosmic energies of the Phoenix Force. She studied at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and trained as a second-generation member of the X-Men under the tutelage of Professor X.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
In 1973, Jean saw a TV broadcast of Mystique sparing the life of President Nixon after the Attack on the White House. The event had a profound impact on Jean, which she recalled as the moment that Mystique became a hero to her.
In 1975, Jean was in the car with her parents John and Elaine Grey as they were driving. She asked her mother to change the station, to which Elaine responded by saying that Jean can listen to whatever song she wanted to when she was old enough to drive. At that moment, Jean's telekinetic powers flared up, moving the radio dial and changing the station. When her mother asked her what is she doing, Jean denied it. As her telepathy started to manifest, Jean's mind was overwhelmed with voices, causing her to yell "Quiet!" out loud. This unintentionally made Elaine fall asleep at the wheel of the car, steering it into the direction of an oncoming vehicle that resulted in a car crash. Jean's telekinesis saved her from being injured by the crash, but her mother was not fortunate enough to survive.
Multiversal Incursion[]
To prevent Wanda Maximoff from achieving her goal that would doom the Multiverse, Jean Elaine Grey Summers was among a number of Interdimensional Travelers that were summoned by America Chavez to help combat the Scarlet Witch.
Personality[]
Jean is seen in her younger years, where she is isolated from her fellow students because of the volatility of her powers. However, this doesn't hamper her ability to socialize with those who do not fear her, like Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Jubilee, all of whom she bonded with. Unlike in the original timeline, she is far more inhibited in the use of her powers, even though she is more resourceful when employing them to suit her ends. One trait of hers that carried over from the original timeline is her selflessness and tendency towards heroism. Most notably, she stepped up to face Apocalypse in the Astral Plane by herself despite her inhibitions and she redirected the Phoenix Force away from the X-Jet where her teammates and rescued civilians, choosing to have the entity bombard her instead.
When merged with the Phoenix, Jean was initially overwhelmed by the entity that dwelled inside her, prone to fits of unpredictable rage, especially after learning of the truth behind her enrollment into the Institute. She remains fully aware of what she does in these moments of weakness and it crumbles her resolve, making her more susceptible to being manipulated, as Vuk did. However, upon reconciling with Charles Xavier, Jean was able to take back control of her faculties and harness the power of the Phoenix without losing herself, becoming one with the entity that once tormented her.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Mutant Physiology: Jean Grey is an extremely powerful mutant, whose abilities varied across her appearances. From a burgeoning psychic whose abilities were contained until she could gain better control of them and letting go of her inhibitions once she merged with the Phoenix Force. when unleashing the full extent of her powers, Jean's powers manifested around her as a fiery raptor. Her powers is vastly amplified after merging with the Phoenix, allowing her to accomplish feats impossible if attempted alone. Her power signature is seen as glowing fiery veins across her skin and her clothes as well as her immediate environment atomizing and repairing themselves, reflecting the sheer volatile power of the energy within her.
- Telekinesis: Jean has the ability to move objects with her mind, ranging from doors to people, cars and even trains. Beast once stated that Jean's powers had no limits. She can sustain multiple telekinetic feats at once and even intercept Quicksilver while he is running at superhuman speeds when merged with the Phoenix. Even without the Phoenix, her telekinetic control allowed her to assist Magneto in rebuilding the X-Mansion after the events of Apocalypse, rebuilding the school alongside Erik piece by piece.
- Flight: Jean can fly using her telekinesis by project herself through the air. During the battle against Apocalypse, Jean was able to walk on and float in the air while attacking him. When merged with the Phoenix, she is able to simulate self-propelled flight at considerable speeds. She is even able to easily soar through outer space and the upper atmosphere.
- Force-Field Projection: Jean can generate telekinetic shields or barriers to block, contain and impede targets. To protect herself and others from the rushing waters of Alkali Lake, Jean erected one while controlling the X-Jet. Jean unconsciously wrapped herself in a cocoon of telekinetic energy to shield her from the inundation. She can also project such fields as a means of offense, releasing them as waves of concussive force able to damage solid concrete. When merged with the Phoenix, she is able to create multiple fields for individual people, all the while enacting various other telekinetic feats at the same time.
- Molecular Manipulation: At a full extent of her power, she can manipulate matter at a molecular level at will, with the exception of adamantium, or anything encased or bonded with adamantium.
- Disintegration: Jean is able to atomize nearly anything within her surroundings at will when at the full extent of her powers. It is an extension of her telekinetic ability and she is seen being able to affect all manner of objects and even people with this power. She uses this ability to destroy Apocalypse once and for all (though at a gradual rate), manifesting a fiery raptor around her as she does so. Once merged with the Phoenix Force, she once again exhibits this ability, instantaneously destroying many of the D'Bari with it.
- Telepathy: Jean has the ability to read, communicate with, and control other people's minds, not unlike Charles Xavier. However, this was only because Professor X was blocking her powers, but once the blocks were destroyed, she far exceeded her mentor's abilities, being able to transcend great distances and even defend her own mind from other telepaths. In the revised timeline, her telepathic abilities are displayed more frequently. During the battle against Apocalypse, though stronger than Charles inside the Astral Plane, he was no match for Jean, who easily cast him out. When merged with the Phoenix, her telepathy is immensely amplified, able to overcome Charles Xavier, a more seasoned telepath, and affect multiple people at once.
- Illusion Projection: Jean has the ability to project realistic illusions through telepathic means, able to simulate invisibility for herself and other people, as seen after the explosion at the Mansion, as well as being able to appear as a completely different person to multiple people after being empowered by the Phoenix Force.
- Telepathic Resistance: Jean has the ability to resist the telepathic intrusion of other psionics.
- Astral Projection: Jean is able to project her consciousness into the Astral Plane, where a psionic's powers are able to affect the physical world there. Jean used this ability to assist Charles in defeating Apocalypse.
- Precognition: Jean has displayed precognitive dreams in the revised timeline, portending a bleak future and disturbing her sleep to the extent of simulating seismic activity around the Mansion and causing the paintings in her bedroom to atomize.
- Mental Healing: Jean has exhibited the ability to heal another's psychological trauma to the extent of being able to reach into Charles's weakened mind and bring him back from the precipice after being bested by Apocalypse in the Astral Plane.
- Memory Manipulation: Jean has displayed the ability to peruse into the deepest depths of another's mind to extract and manipulate their memories. She is able to restore the few memories in a berserk Wolverine's mind, restoring what little sense of self she could salvage of him.
- Pain Inducement: Jean has the ability to project psionic forces from her mind powerful enough to cause both physical and mental harm to her desired targets. While combating Apocalypse in the Astral Plane, Jean unleashed a psychic scream that shattered the simulacrum of the X-Mansion as well as Apocalypse himself, casting him out. When merged with the Phoenix, Jean's psionic blasts are powerful enough to cause a Cerebro-empowered Charles Xavier considerable discomfort and even render him unconscious.
- Psionic Energy Manipulation: Jean is able to create, shape and manipulate psionic energy which appears as a fiery raptor. She mostly showed this ability when she merged with the Phoenix Force. Psylocke also showed this ability, but Jean's energy is on a whole other level being so destructive that she had to fly in space to kill Vuk in order to not disintegrate her friends. She is also seen to be able to manipulate other types of energies such as when she redirected Scott's optic energy and when Storm threw a lightning at her, Jean immediately redirected it.
- Psionic Healing: Jean has shown the power to regenerate herself from injuries by using psionic energy. She showed this ability after she aborbed the Phoenix Force in space regenerating her body and even her clothes. Also when a D'Bari stabbed her she instantly healed herself.
- Vacuum Adaptation: Jean is able to adapt in the vacuum of space by creating an energetic aura around her. She also used this ability when she was trying to hold that space ship in space because apparently only Nightcrawlerneeded a special helmet.
- Phoenix Force Manipulation: After merging with the Phoenix Force in space, Jean's natural abilities are immensely amplified, allowing her to overcome powerful mutants the likes of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, the combined efforts of her entire team, and even an army of D'Bari, including one partially empowered by the very cosmic entity inside her. She didn't necessarily gained new abilities when merged with the Phoenix but Vuk has stated that Jean could gain some powerful abilities if she can control the power. Some of those abilities include the power to create life and posses the very power of a god.
- Cosmic Fire Manipulation: Via the Phoenix Force, Jean is able to create, shape, manipulate and summon cosmic fire which was strong enough to kill powerful mutants like Apocalypse manifestating itself as a fiery psionic bird. This fire is most likely summoned by Jean with her telepathic powers.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Jean was able to defeat extremely fast opponents like Quicksilver and the D'Bari.
- Resurrection: With the power of the Phoenix Force that she fully controls, Jean can resurrect others after they have died into pure living flesh, bone, and blood. She used that power to resurrect Raven Darkholme, Alexander Summers, her parents
- Telekinesis: Jean has the ability to move objects with her mind, ranging from doors to people, cars and even trains. Beast once stated that Jean's powers had no limits. She can sustain multiple telekinetic feats at once and even intercept Quicksilver while he is running at superhuman speeds when merged with the Phoenix. Even without the Phoenix, her telekinetic control allowed her to assist Magneto in rebuilding the X-Mansion after the events of Apocalypse, rebuilding the school alongside Erik piece by piece.
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Weaknesses[]
- Concentration: If Jean loses her focus while utilizing her powers, her abilities will become invalidated. However, after merging with the Phoenix Force and beginning to understand its true potential, Jean has full control and feels immune of losing control due to mastering her abilities. While others continued to fear her power, Jean can feel their fear, but no longer has to fear of losing control anymore. Like Professor X, Jean is shown to use her power ot help other mutants that had trouble controlling their powers.
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