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Jean Summers

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Alias(es): Jean Grey, Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, Red, Madelyne Pryor, Maddy, Anodyne, the Goblin Queen, Redd Dayspring.
Parents: John and Elaine Grey
Other Known Relatives:

Orig. Home: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Position: Member of the X-Men Gold Strike Team // Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning Faculty *
Game: GenetiX MUSH Http: Y
Created: February 1996
VR Age: nearly 30 years
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Hair: Flame-Red.
Eyes: Green
Marital Status: Married, to Scott Summers (Cyclops)
Kids: Not yet, but they're working on it! :)
Pix: One

Jean Summers was born Jean Grey approximately 30 years ago in a sleepy college town on the Hudson River. When she was just a child, she experienced the death of her playmate Annie. This awakened Jean's nascent telepathic powers, but left the poor child in a bad way. With the help of Charles Xavier, Jean's powers were put behind psychic circuit breakers, and she went back to her previous life.

After Jean reached adolescence, Professor Xavier invited her to join his School for Gifted Youngsters, completing the original team of the X-Men along with Scott 'Slim' Summers (Cyclops), Hank McCoy (Beast), Bobby Drake (Iceman), Warren Worthington III (Angel). Together, the youngsters were forged into a fighting team through defeating such villains as Magneto, the Vanisher, Unus, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and the Sentinels. When not battling evil mutants and aliens, Jean found time to pursue a deep relationship with Scott Summers, despite the fact that Warren was hopelessly in love with her as well.

Jean's life began to change shortly after the discovery of a whole island that was a single mutant entity named Krakoa. Steven Lang captured the new team of X-Men formed for the solution to the Krakoa incident and pitted them against Sentinels which nearly perfectly mimicked the original team of X-Men on a spacestation in Earth orbit. With the help of Cyclops, the new team of X-Men freed themselves and managed to scramble into a shuttle just as the space station was destroying itself. However, the shuttle's autopilot was damaged in the escape, and they had to fly it through a massive solar flare. As team leader, Scott started to take control, but Jean nailed him with a psi-bolt, knocking him out. She had the other X-Men take refuge in a shielded life capsule in the shuttle's hold while she telepathically raided Dr. Peter Corbeau's mind for the necessary information on safely crashing the shuttle on Earth. As the shuttle cruised to Earth, the radiation started eating away at Jean's telekinetic shield. Just before she died, the Phoenix Force, a cosmic avatar, offered to save her life. Having no alternative, the swiftly-dying Jean agreed to letting the Phoenix save her life. The shuttle crashed into the waters of Jamaica Bay, and Jean was placed in a cocoon to heal. The X-Men hauled themselves out of the sinking shuttle and the Phoenix rose in the form of Jean Grey to take her place amongst them.

Life went on for the X-Men. 'Jean' and Scott's relationship became at once more intimate and more strained, as the Phoenix's powers caused 'Jean's' personality to shift alarmingly. Scott, Charles, and Logan in particular were alarmed about 'Jean's' seeming unconcern about the amount of damage she caused in the course of her tenure on the team. During this time, 'Jean' had been the subject of 'timeshifts' in which she felt she was being shunted into the life of one of the real Jean's ancestors, who allegedly married someone named Jason Wyngarde. The 'shifts' became so real, 'Jean' found herself kissing a modern-day Jason Wyngarde in the middle of a club in New York City, where some of the X-Men (including Scott) had gone to track a new mutant (who turned out to be Alison Blaire [Dazzler]). Both sets of X-Men (the NYC group, and the Chicago group sent after Kitty Pryde [Sprite/Ariel/Shadowcat]) were captured by the Hellfire Club and transported to the Hellfire Club's New York institution. Once there, 'Jean' was fully converted to evil, becoming the new Black Queen of the Hellfire Club and turning on her friends in the X-Men. Jason Wyngarde was revealed to be Mastermind, a long-time foe of the X-Men. 'Jean' broke free of his control when he 'killed' Scott on the astral plane. This shock re-awoke 'Jean's' love for Scott and she turned on Mastermind, destroying the tool Emma Frost (the White Queen) had created to allow him to control 'Jean'. The X-Men escape the Hellfire Club, but the damage was done. 'Jean' could no longer control herself, and she transformed into Dark Phoenix.

Dark Phoenix battled the X-Men and the then-Avenger Beast in Central Park, but departed after thrashing all concerned. She went into space and crossed the universe with a stargate. Hungry, she sank into the D'Bari sun and consumed it, thus destroying the D'Bari homeworld, a planet with roughly 5 billion sentient beings on it. Only a few who were off-planet at the time survived the tragedy. Dark Phoenix returned to Earth to finish off the X-Men, but was temporarily stopped with the aid of Jean's teacher, Professor Xavier. He installed psychic circuit breakers into 'Jean', and she renounced the power of the Phoenix. However, the Shi'ar kidnapped the X-Men and Xavier to put 'Jean' on trial for the D'Bari massacre. Xavier forced the Shi'ar to allow a trial by combat, X-Men versus the Imperial Guard. The Guard was winning when Scott was struck down. This freed 'Jean's' psychic circuit breakers, and she became the Phoenix again. Knowing that she couldn't stop the further transformation into Dark Phoenix, she forced the X-Men into attacking her, weakening her enough so that an alien cannon left on the moon was strong enough to vaporize her.

Years later, the real Jean Grey was found in Jamaica Bay and returned to the X-fold. She and Warren started X-Factor, recruiting the original X-Men team to join them in their act of mutant hunting. Scott, Jean's supposed true love, had married and had a son in the years that Jean was presumed dead, and for a long time, Scott was divided between the two. Madelyne Pryor, Scott's wife, and his son Nathan Christopher Charles, were presumed dead, and so Scott returned to Jean. Later, Madelyne was revealed to be a clone of Jean, and Madelyne's latent powers were awakened, and she became the Goblin Queen. In the course of Inferno, the attempted demonic takeover of Earth, Jean and Madelyne battled, and Jean was victorious. However, Jean gained the memories belonging to the Phoenix and Madelyne. Later, Jean had a nasty confrontation with Rachel Summers, the cross-time daughter of herself and Scott. Rachel wanted her to treat her like a daughter, but Jean rejected her because Rachel held the power of the Phoenix, as well as seemingly locking Jean's life into one without choice, causing a rift that isn't healed until much later.

Jean's holding of Madelyne and the Phoenix' memories proved to be nearly disastrous when X-Factor took on the Celestials, and the three personalities warred within her. However, she prevailed. A short time later, Jean had to help Scott through the loss of Nathan to the future to save his life from the techno-organic virus that Apocalypse had infected him with, letting the Askani take him on a one-way trip to the 41st century.

Shortly thereafter, Scott and Jean returned to the X-Men to stay, along with the rest of the original X-Factor lineup. X-Factor was turned over to Scott's brother Alex (Havok). Some time after rejoining the X-Men as a member of the Gold Strike Team, Jean was apparently killed, only she transferred her consciousness into the body of Emma Frost, the White Queen of the Hellfire Club and the Massachusetts Academy. The X-Men rescued her and restored her. About a year after that, Stryfe kidnapped Jean and Scott and trapped them on the Moon after taking a potshot at Charles, framing a rough man from the future named Cable for it. Cable had been the teacher of the New Mutants/X-Force, and was an outlaw even moreso than the rest of the X-types.

Due to a concerted effort on the part of the X-Men, X-Force, and X-Factor, Jean and Scott were saved, and Cable took Stryfe with him into the timestream. Jean's next biggest problem was having to deal with Elizabeth Braddock (Psylocke) putting the moves on Scott. However, it was sorted out, and shortly thereafter, Jean proposed to Scott, claiming to finally be ready, and to be tired of waiting. At Thanksgiving, they announced the good news to their friends, to much acclaim. The next January, the two were married, and Jean took the opportunity to squish cake in Scott's face as well as to telekinetically dance the final dance with Charles. Then Scott and Jean went to the Caribbean for their honeymoon.

Misfortune could not stay away. While sporting in a cove, Scott and Jean were seemingly struck down for two hours. Their minds had been ripped from their bodies and sent to the future to aid Scott's son Nathan by Rachel Summers, Scott and Jean's daughter from another timeline. Rachel, now aged to an old woman, told of how she had formed the Clan Askani that had saved Nathan's life in the past. The Phoenix Force had left her a couple of decades after she had arrived in the future, but still left enough power behind to help her revolt against Apocalypse, who was still alive in the future. Jean and Scott, in genetically engineered bodies, saved Nathan from Apocalypse and spent the next 12 years raising him, training him to survive in the world, although they hid their real identities from him, calling themselves 'Slym' and 'Redd' Dayspring. Their efforts culminated in the final death of Apocalypse, and before it was all over, Rachel had also died. Still, she managed to speak to Jean one last time, asking Jean to take back the only thing she had taken from her: the name Phoenix. Jean acquiesced, finally reconciled to that part of her past and her 'daughter's' existence, and Scott and Jean returned to their present, leaving Nathan behind to grow up and become Cable.

Immediately upon returning to the present, Jean and Scott helped a woman named Sunset Grace resolve her life's problems, then they arranged to rejoin their comrades in the X-Men, helping Charles through the transition of his school moving to the former Massachussetts Academy, with the old estate becoming the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Most recently, Jean has had her name legally changed to Jean Summers, only twelve years after the marriage. :)

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