Differences between Jean Grey, Psylocke, Professor X and Emma Frost?
Here is an interesting question. What are the differences between the mutants Jean Grey, Psylocke, Professor X and Emma Frost. While the comic writers are often liberal in the powers each character possess there are some fundamental differences that should be noted.
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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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i don’t think psylocke is that weak. here’s some of her actual power:-
Telekinesis: Ability to psionically manipulate the physical aspects of reality. She can also move and levitate other people. While she can move objects from a distance and fly as other telekinetics do, she has shown little inclination to do either in combat situations. She can also create telekinetic shields of various sizes and strength and she can fire mental force blasts that can “shatter mountains.” Her telekinesis is also much stronger now than it was before her death. Psylocke seems to find that using her telekinesis in forceful ways is easier than in delicate ways (i.e. she can shatter a brick wall more easily than she can slowly levitate a pencil across a room)
Telekinetic Katana: Psylocke can manifest a telekinetic katana blade composed of raw psi-energy, which at its lowest intensity, functions to disrupt neural pathways and sever the bonds between molecules, and at its highest level, her katanas can slice an armored opponent and cut through the armor, but leave the attacker physically unharmed. She can also use her swords to shatter telepathic power-inhibitors imposed on others.
Enhance Physical Traits: Uses her telekinesis to enhance her speed, strength and fighting skills into super-human levels.
Telepathic Immunity: Immune to any form of others’ telepathy–including telepathic attacks, probes or even attempts at communication.
Reality Warping Immunity: Due to Jamie’s alterations, Psylocke is also immune or at least highly-resistant to physical and mental alteration by beings who can radically restructure reality.
Telepathy (formerly): High order telepath (meaning highly powerful telepath). She possessed vast mental powers to affect and manipulate the minds of other sentient beings. Psylocke could read minds and communicate mentally with others over long distances. When she telepathically communicated with another person over a distance, that person often perceived her presence as a butterfly-like image bearing large eyes on its wings.
Telepathic Tracking: Enhanced psionic senses enabled her to detect and track other sentient beings by their unique psionic emanations (thought patterns contained in the psionic portion of the spectrum) especially if they posed a threat to her well-being in her immediate vicinity.
Psychic Shadow: She was able to mask her presence from others. Her abilities could go undetected and were very difficult to track, even by very powerful telepaths such as Shadow King. She could extend these defenses to others around her as well.
Psychic Knife: Described as “the focused totality of her psychic powers,” by intensely channeling and focusing her psionic powers to her hands to create “psychic blades”, razor-sharp edges of pure mental energy which were said to be the ultimate physical manifestation of her powers which she plunged into the minds of her targets directly, which she often used to disrupt the neurons of her foes by driving the glowing “blade” of mental energy into their skulls. It is able to kill.
Mind Control: Capable of controlling the minds of others.
Telepathic Illusions: She had the ability to create illusions to make herself seem to be invisible, look like someone else, or make others experience events that were not truly happening.
Mental Paralysis: Ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis
Amnesia: Could erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
Psionic Blasts: Could project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which could affect a victim’s mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness or even death.
Astral Projection: Could project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the astral plane, she could mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. Under the effects of the Crimson Dawn her astral form was normally undetectable.
Shadow Teleportation (formerly): While empowered by the Crimson Dawn, Psylocke could use shadows as teleportation gates. Although this form of teleportation was not as controlled or precise as variations of teleportation used by others, it could cover huge distances; on one occasion she transported the X-Men from America to Africa in a few seconds.
Precognition (formerly): Psylocke occasionally had precognitive dreams.
In my opinion, i think that, even though she is my favorite, Psylocke is the lesser telepath of the three.
However, in comparison to Emma Frost, Psylocke is very close to matching her form of power. Of course, now it doesn’t even apply now that Psylocke cannot use her telepathy, however…back then, Psylocke was a very established telepath and I’m almost certain that if the two headed off in a telepathic battle, it would be a very close win for both of them, as they are almost equally matched.
Of course, the writers of the television show don’t believe in that. (A.K.A it took only two of Emma’s shots to knock Psylocke off). However, it’s almost a given that Psylocke is a very accomplished telepath.
While I also believe that Psylocke had the weakest telepathy of the bunch, her other talents make up for it. If you noticed, there’s some balancing aspects of each character on their own levels. Phoenix, of course is ultra-powerful, so she’s up on top. Prof. X, while super-powerful, is wheelchair-bound. Emma, third on the ladder, is just powerful — had the ability to turn her body into diamond, but she loses her telepathic abilities. Psylocke, while having the weakest telepathy, is a killer ninja as well. In hand-to-hand combat situations (sans Emma’s diamond body), she’d kill all three in no time. I think it’s Marvel’s way of balancing characters out, even though they made (in my opinion) a tragic mistake of making Betsy’s background too convoluted.
Don’t get me wrong! I love her, and she’s my favorite. That’s also the reason why I appreciate her background no matter how hard it is to keep track of.
Now that she has telekinesis, I think her ability to manipulate objects physically surpasses that of Rachel Summers, who happen to be a very powerful telekinetic herself. She hasn’t done so, but I’m pretty sure with proper training she’ll be able to copy what Rachel can do as far as manipulating objects on the atomic level. In terms of pure power? I don’t know, but I can imagine that if Phoenix is over 100%, Magneto at 100%, Psylocke’s would be a hairline different than Maggie’s magnetism. People who can shatter mountains qualifies to be at least a high Class 4, or at least low Class 5 mutant, if not more. The fact that she can’t be affected by the power she once used to weild (irony), and be immune to reality-altering is a big plus. Of course, you won’t be able to use that all ability to your advantage all the time, but in a battle between the 4 psychics in an arena, even if you throw in Rachel Summers and Nathan Summers, she’d murder all of them fairly quickly.
Just my honest opinion, of course. Well, a bit biased, but hey, she’s my favorite after all! That’s why I was so angry when they had her killed by Vargas (low-life creep!). One thing I didn’t understand with that scenario was, she’s fully capable of keeping him away, and maybe killing him right off the bat with her telekinesis, but she chose to fight hand-to-hand. I’m pretty sure that she could have assessed the situation, seeing that Rogue and Beast were clobbered, that she would think twice about confronting him physically. A simple levitating trick and a quick swipe of her trusty telekinetic katana would have killed him right off the bat. He may have super-human talents, but a quick grab of a telekinetic “lasso” can render him unable to move anywhere as he’s “hanging” in mid-air (it’s not like he’s super-massive that he can resist getting lifted into the air, unless his powers include gravity or density/mass manipulation), which of course will make him susceptible to any attacks from Psylocke, especially with her molecule-thin blade.
Of course, that’s in a perfect world. The writers had to make it somewhat “fun” and kill her. Telekinesis can probably be one of the cheapest power you can have in a battle too.
Whatever.
I wonder how she’s doing…
ummm ya, the wirter of this article is wrong. Emma still has the ability to transform herself into diamond. should change that.