Marital Status: Married
Known relitives: John Grey (father), Elaine Grey (mother), Sara (sister, deceased), Scott Summers (husband, deceased), Alex Summers (brother-in-law), Nathan Summers (stepson)
Group affiliation: New X-men (curent) X-factor (former)
First apperance: X-Men # 1 (1963)
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Known superhuman Powers: Telepathy, telekenisis
Eventually the Avengers found the pod in Jamaica
Bay and turned it over to the Fantastic Four for study.
The real Jean Grey then released herself from the pod,
fully healed. She was reunited with Scott and the other
original members of the X-Men, and together they
founded a new team, the original X-Factor . Later,
after Professor Xavier returned from a ong sojourn in space with the Starjammers, Jean and
the other members of X-Factor rejoined the X-Men
Grey, a history professor at Bard College in New York
State, and his wife Elaine. When Jean was ten years old
her best friend Annie Richardson was killed by an
automobile. Jean's outpouring of emotion as she held her
dying friend activated her latent telepathic powers,
causing her to experience Annie's own emotions as she
died. Traumatized by this experience and unable to
control her newly awakened powers, the young Jean
became severely withdrawn and depressed.
When she was eleven, Jean's parents took her to
meet Professor Charles Xavier, who realized she was a
mutant and treated her for several years (see Professor
X). Xavier erected psychic shields in Jean's mind to
prevent her from using her telepathic powers until she
had become sufficiently mature to control them, and he
taught her how to use her emerging telekinetic abilities.
Finally, when Jean was in her middle teens, she joined
the X-Men, a group of other young mutants whom
Xavier was training in the use of their powers. She
assumed the code name Marvel Girl.
Jean soon fell in love with her fellow student, Scott
Summers, alias Cyclops, but for years they were each
too shy to express their feelings for each other (see
Cyclops).
Xavier finally removed the psychic shields from Jean's
mind when he was faced with the threat of the alien
Z'nox. Since then, she has proved highly adept at using
her telepathic powers.
Jean left the X-Men shortly after Xavier recruited a
second team of students, but continued her romantic
relationship with Scott (X-Men). Shortly afterwards
Jean and other X-Men were abducted by Steven Lang's
Sentinels to Lang's orbiting space. After defeating Lang
the X-Men had to escape back to Earth in a space
shuttle through a lethal solar radiation storm. The pilot's
cabin lacked sufficient shielding against radiation, but
Jean insisted on piloting the craft herself. While she was
dying from radiation poisoning, the cosmic entity known
as the Phoenix Force appeared to Jean. The Phoenix
Force created a body for itself that was identical to
Jean's, duplicated her memories and personality, and
absorbed a portion of her consciousness.
had married Madelyne Pryor, a clone of Jean created by
Mister Sinister (see Pryor, Madelyne). Eventually Pryor
went mad, developed vast powers, and died in combat
with Jean.
Some years later, Scott finally married the real Jean
Grey. During their honeymoon, however, their spirits
were transported two millennia into an alternate future
and were placed in new bodies by the Askani cult. Their
leader, Rachel Summers, the daughter of the Scott and
Jean of an alternate reality, had also served in the
X-Men under the name Phoenix . As
Slym and Redd, Scott and Jean spent years in that future
time, raising Nathan, the son of Scott Summers and
Madelyne Pryor, who had earlier been brought to the
future. Eventually Scott and Jean returned to their own
time and bodies, leaving Nathan in the future to become
the heroic warrior Cable (see Cable).
In Rachel's honor Jean adopted the name Phoenix
when she returned to the X-Men.
Jean had planed on retiering with Scott to start a familly
but when the events of the twelve came into play, she
rejoined to fight Apocalypse, only to lose her husband
who bravely sacraficed himself in order to save the
world from Apocalypse. Devistated, Jean left the team
only to return sometime later and join Gambit's strike
team.
In an attempt to seperate Cyclops from the Apocolypse entity, Jean searched for him with her "son" Cable,. They succeded in seperating the two but these events left Cyclops a very canged man, and he continues to drift furhter and further away from Jean.
Jamaica Bay off New York City. The Phoenix Force also
cast the real Jean into suspended animation within a
strange pod that rested on the bottom of Jamaica Bay
while slowly healing her.
Under the name Phoenix the cosmic being joined the
X-Men, who believed it was the real Jean. Months later
the X-Men's foe Mastermind began mentally
manipulating Phoenix's mind, ultimately brainwashing her
into becoming the Black Queen of the sinister Inner
Circle of the Hellfire Club (see Hellfire Club,
Mastermind). In the process he inadvertently caused
Phoenix to turn insane, becoming Dark Phoenix, a
danger to the entire cosmos. Ultimately, the portion of
Jean's consciousness within Phoenix resurfaced and
caused Phoenix to commit suicide rather than wreak
further destruction. Upon the death of the Phoenix
Force's physical body, the portion of Jean's
consciousness it had absorbed returned to Earth and
ultimately was reabsorbed by Jean.