In June 2005 Jean Grey was resurrected in a story called Phoenix Endsong which saw her being resurrected by the Phoenix Force once more. The Phoenix Force used Jean to take on a life of its own and buried Jean within the ice in the North Pole. The malevolent entity possessed Emma Frost and attacked the X-men. Suddenly Jean Grey rose from her icy grave and her and the Phoenix became one. She became the White Phoenix of the Crown and went to the White Hot Room to collect the missing pieces of the Phoenix Force.

Since then it looks like 2010 will be the year of the Phoenix. In 2009 Rachel Grey lost her connection to the Echo of the Phoenix Force (a less powerful form of the Phoenix Force) and muttered the words, “please…not now…mom”.

On the island of Utopia the Stepford Cuckoos lost the fragments of the Phoenix Force which they had imprisoned in their diamond hearts during the Phoenix Warsong event. They are currently in a coma.

These two events suggest that Jean Grey is calling back all the fragments of the Phoenix Force in preparation for her next resurrection.

Emma Frost recently encountered a woman who resembled Jean Grey in her mind when she was attacked by Regan Wyngarde a.k.a. Lady Mastermind of the Sisterhood of Mutants. The woman freed Emma from Wyngarde’s psychic trap and disappeared.

Since the events of the Messiah Complex a girl with red hair and green eyes was born and was named the Mutant Messiah. She was taken to the future by her adoptive father Cable and is now a teenager who bares an uncanny resemblance to Jean Grey. The so called Mutant Messiah has also displayed twin phoenix raptors in her eyes.

All this evidence points to Jean Grey’s resurrection and with Second Coming (the return of the Mutant Messiah to the present) arriving in March, you have to admit that this title may be more than meets the eyes.

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Jean Grey is a mutant who was one of the founding members of the X-Men, the most popular Marvel Comics superhero team. The character of Jean Grey was introduced in X-Men issue #1, published in 1963. The character was created by Jewish comic book writer Stan Lee and Jewish comic book artist Jack Kirby. Jean Grey originally went by the superhero codename “Marvel Girl.” She later adopted the codename “Phoenix,” after the Phoenix Force which endowed her with great power, but also caused her many problems. More than most of the other X-Men, Jean Grey has been known simply by her given birth name.

Jean Grey has always been portrayed as having come from an upper-middle class Protestant background. She was a student of Professor Charles Xavier’s even before he founded the X-Men, and her family seems to have known the Professor prior to that time. Although Scott Summers (a.k.a, Cyclops, Grey’s longtime boyfriend, who would eventually become her husband) became known as the “first X-Man,” it was actually Jean Grey who was Xavier’s first student. Jean Grey was with the X-Men from the time the team was formed.

Given the way Jean Grey has been portrayed throughout the years, with her somewhat patrician and religiously low-key New England family background, the character has come to be widely regarded as an Episcopalian, although it is not clear whether this denominational identification is “canonical” (i.e., officially established within the Marvel Universe continuity).

Jean Grey was shown praying with a Christian cross in one Classic X-Men backup story. When Jean Grey married long-time boyfriend Scott Summers, it was in a Protestant Christian ceremony held outdoors.

Jean Grey has dead on multiple occasions, and the various scenes depicting her funerals and gravestones appear to be Episcopalian more than anything else.

Issue #1 of the Marvel Comics miniseries Marvel 1602 (November 2003, published 13 August 2003) establishes the Grey family as English Protestant during the 1600s (i.e., Anglican), with its depiction of John Grey (the analogue or ancestor of Jean Grey in the series) and references to Lady Jane Grey, the Protestant granddaughter of Henry VII.

Jean Grey has always been portrayed as somebody with a strong moral background. Indeed, many of the pivotal stories about the character involve the inner battle between Jean Grey’s innate virtuous character and the evil or amoral influence of the Phoenix Force which came to inhabit her body. Jean Grey has even willingly sacrificed her life so that she would no longer pose a danger to others. In the famous “Dark Phoenix” storyline, Jean Grey is said to have sacrificed her own life so that the world could be saved. A number of writers have described interesting parallels between these events and the New Testament account of the Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross. These stories are not exact parallels, however, because Jean Grey’s character, under the influence of the Phoenix, had a dual nature and evil/destructive component which is not present in the New Testament account of Jesus.

Despite ample evidence of Jean Grey’s strong moral character, compassion for others, and probably religious education, she has rarely been portrayed as particularly religious. Only rarely has her character been seen in comic books going to a church for worship or contemplation. Jean Grey was shown with a cross praying a cross in a Classic X-Men backup story.

Portions of this reprinted from Adherents

But Jean has also been paired with Wolverine on more than a few occasions as writers try to force a square peg in a round hole, in my humble opinion. But I realize there are many fans of Logan that may disagree with me. So let me hear you – both sides.

What do other Jean Grey fans think? Who would you rather see Jean with ultimately?

Please leave your responses in the comments.

Originally, she was known as Marvel Girl, one of the founding members of the X-Men. When the 2nd line-up formed (Storm, Wolverine, Colossus) she and Cyclops took some time off…

After re-joining the X-Men, she sacrificed herself by piloting a space shuttle back to earth, even though the pilot’s seat was being buffeted by deadly radiation. What happened next is a little open to interpretation.

Originally they said that she bonded with an alien entity called the Phoenix force, which protected her from the radiation, and gave her new powers. She then called herself Phoenix, but eventually became Dark Phoenix, which was portrayed as an evil character. (The Hellfire Club also mind-controlled her and turned her into their “Black Queen” somewhere along the way)

The Shi’ar kidnapped the X-Men and put Dark Phoenix on trial for destroying an entire galaxy – but Jean Grey’s personality re-surfaced, and committed suicide to save the universe from Dark Phoenix.

Later on, they discovered the ruins of the space shuttle in New York harbor, and found Jean Grey in a cocoon – so it turns out that Phoenix was an alien force that only LOOKED like Jean Grey – so Phoenix was evil, Jean Grey was good.

Then it gets more confusing – largely because so many different writers have worked on the X-books. There was a clone of Jean Grey, the Phoenix Force came back, Jean Grey died, was resurrected, died again. At some point Jean Grey bonded with the Phoenix Force (for real this time) and began using the name “Phoenix” again, before dying again.

Check out the recent miniseries Phoenix: Warsong, and Phoenix: Endsong for the latest chapters in this saga.

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Jean Grey isn’t “evil” but the when the phenoix is released like escapes the mind block the professor has on it then she is capable of anything shes the most powerful of all mutants in the pheonix form unfortunatley she doesn’t know how to control it.

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From the page:

This page is dedicated to encouraging the return of Jean Grey as Phoenix in Marvel’s X-Men Comics.

The Jean Grey Message Board is trying to get Jean fans to show support for the character and to write and email Marvel to request that Jean Grey as Phoenix return soon.

Jean/Phoenix fans are encouraged to send brief positive emails, postcards, and letters to Marvel. Letters and postcards through the mail carry more weight with Marvel.

You can write Marvel at..

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ATTN: Please Bring Back Jean Grey aka Phoenix

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Good Qualities:

We won’t lie, Cyclops seems to have the whole package: He’s polite, clean-cut, great with kids, and ridiculously muscular. That’s like winning the husband lottery, right?

Warning Signs:

Wrong. While Cyke might be the go-to guy for fighting colossal robots, you’ve got the wrong man if you’re looking for someone to have a good time with. Summers is a little like the Hulk, only instead of transforming into a rampaging monster, he turns into sort of a jerk. And never changes back.

He’s the only man alive who can make beating the tar out of a gang of genetic freaks feel like work.

The Clincher:

The worst thing Cyclops ever did to his wife might not be the most heinous on this list, but it is without a doubt the dumbest. See, Cyclops was married to Jean Grey who, by the way, had psychic powers. When some of the spark went out of the relationship, Cyclops dealt with according to the true nature of his jerkishness: by seeking sexual healing from another telepathic babe, Emma Frost.

Thus they being a bizarre “psychic love affair.” After all, how would Jean ever find out? Oh, wait. She’s also psychic. To reiterate: Scott Summers, while married to a psychic of inestimable power, enters into a psychic affair with the sluttiest psychic in town.

Once Jean catches on, it predictably takes her about a thousandth of a second to tear into Emma’s mind and break up the shenanigans, leading to this charming tableau:

Look at Cyclops’ face in the above picture. It betrays one of two things: Either he’s only just realized what a titanically poor decision he’s just made, or he’s still in the dark and is completely flabbergasted. “What’s wrong, honey? Why are you so angry? Oh, say hi to Emma, you know Emma, right?”

Reprinted from Cracked.

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Jean Grey

Jean Grey is the most powerful. She is on her own a powerful omega level telepathy and telekinetic. However, in addition to this, she often plays host to the Phoenix force which increases her power to the cosmic level.

Psylocke

Pyslocke’s powers have varied a great deal. Initially only a low level telepathy, with some precog ability, her abilities changed after transferring bodies through the siege perilous and mojo’s tampering. She then developed her famed psychic knife, which is her powers concentrated, and ninja skills. She later came in contact with the Crimson Dawn, which once again enhanced her powers and allowed her to teleport through shadows. She did have to stop using her powers for a while in order to trap the shadow king. She also gained some of Jean’s Telekinetic abilities for a while, but then she died. And then she came back to life, I guess by James Braddock, but I do not think that has been fully explained. So in summary, Psylocke’s abilities are mainly telepathy, with a little telekinesis and a psychic knife.

Professor X

Professor X has one of the most powerful telepathic abilities on Earth. He has great abilities in telepathy of all forms, including communication and mind control. With Cerebro helping him out, he can scan the entire world over.

Emma Frost – The White Queen

Emma Frost has normal telepathic abilities, not as strong as Prof X’s. She also had a secondary mutation for a while where she could turn her body into hard diamond crystal form. However, when in this protective form, she could not use her powers. This has since been revised out of the comics and she no longer has this ability. She also is very apt at playing politics and manipulating people.

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