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Jean Grey
Name Jean Elaine Grey
Position Team Member
Character Information
| Codename | Marvel Girl | |
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human Mutant | |
| Age | 21 | |
| Affiliations(s) | X-Men |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5′6″ (1.68 m) | |
| Weight | 130 lbs (58.97 kg) | |
| Hair Color | Red | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
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Family
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| Father | Dr. John Grey | |
| Mother | Elaine Grey | |
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| Sister(s) | Sara Bailey | |
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Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Jean Grey is a mutant with vast empathic and telepathic abilities that were traumatically awakened during childhood when she witnessed her best friend's death. For years, Jean Grey was mentored by mutant specialist Professor Charles Xavier, a telepath himself. Eventually, she also developed telekinetic powers. When Xavier opened a school for mutants in order to prepare his students to carry on his dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans, Jean Grey was enrolled as a student of his first class. As Marvel Girl, she became one of the original X-Men. | |
| Mutant Power(s) | Telepathy (4): Jean is able to perceive the thoughts of others or project his own thoughts within a radius of approximately 100 miles (160 km). Jean's psionic powers enable her to manipulate the minds of others, warp perceptions, project mental illusions, cause loss of particular memories, and induce pain or temporary mental and/or physical paralysis. Within close range, she can manipulate a finite number of minds to perform simple feats. She is able to project mind 'bolts' composed of psychic energy, enabling her to stun the mind of another person into unconsciousness, inflict mental trauma, or even cause death. Jean can project her astral form into a psychic dimension known as the astral plane. There, she can use her powers to create objects, control her surroundings. Jean is a powerful empath thanks to her telepathy, as she can feel and manipulate emotions of other people, as shown when her power first emerged and she felt her friend Annie Richardson slowly dying. Jean can also connect people's minds to the feelings of others and make them feel the pain they inflicted Telekinesis (4) : Jean possesses a high-level of telekinetic ability that enables her to psionically levitate and rapidly move. She can use her telekinetic abilities on herself or others to simulate the power of flight or levitation, create protective force fields out of psychokinetic energy, or project her telekinetic energy as purely concussive force. The outer limits of her telekinetic power have never been clearly established, though she has been capable of lifting approximately fifty tons of rubble with strain. Phoenix Force (1): Phoenix Force will manifest itself around Grey in the form of a bird of cosmic flames, the size of the bird varying with the amount of energy she is using. These flames can even manifest in seemingly impossible situations, such as the vacuum of space or underwater. This fire apparently does not require oxygen to burn, and burns so intensely that matter is consumed without by-products such as ash. |
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| Profession(s) | Original X-Men; Civil Rights Activist | |
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| Mutant Mastery | X-3 |
| Origin Story | Jean Grey was born the youngest of two daughters to John and Elaine Grey. Her father is a professor at Bard College History Department in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Jean grew up a normal girl born and raised in a small, liberal college town. Until one day, while playing with her friend Annie Richardson, Jean witnessed Annie being struck by a car. The high emotional stress of the accident caused Jean's mutant powers to manifest well before she reached pre-pubescence. This sudden surge in telepathic power linked Jean with her friend, which caused her to experience Annie's death firsthand. Jean was so traumatized by this event that she slipped into a semi-catatonic state. When Jean reached age eleven, a psychiatrist referred her parents to Professor Charles Xavier, an expert on mutation, specializing in telepathy. Following the psychiatrist's advice, the Grey's brought their young daughter to Professor Xavier's mansion in Westchester County. After his initial analysis, he informed Jean that she was a mutant. The Professor recommended she stay in Salem to attend Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Here she would learn to harness the massive psionic power dwelling within her. Unbeknownst to John and Elaine, this would also be her first step to becoming a founding member of Professor Xavier's X-Men. |
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| Past Exploits | When Xavier felt that Jean had reached a mastery over her telekinetic powers, she became the fifth member of the X-Men where Jean adopted the code-name 'Marvel Girl.' The team actively fought against other mutants who threatened their founder and mentor's ideals. As time went by, the team's relationship grew tighter, and they came to think of themselves as family. The original X-Men remained together, saving the world for many years, and they became renowned for their exploits. Despite romantic interest from Angel, Jean fell in love with her fellow teammate Cyclops. Due to timidity on both sides, the lovebirds were slow to show their affection for one another. Cyclops was perhaps more apprehensive due to his mutant power's destructive nature and its potential danger to anyone who got remotely close to him, especially Jean. Eventually, however, the two revealed how much they cared for each other. During a failed mission to Krakoa: the Living Island Jean sacrificed herself to save Cyclops, allowing him to escape within the Blackbird. As Krakoa's vegetation attempted to consume her, Jean found herself capable of tapping into a new and unknown power. This power allowed her to burn and destroy Krakoa's plant life in the immediate vicinity. Exhausted from this outburst of power, Jean later awoke as a captive. While abducted Jean underwent mental and physical torture in an attempt to once again active the same novel power she had used to burn Krakoa. Cyclops later rescued Jean from her imprisonment in Krakoa. The people and reasons behind her capture and torture remain unknown other than the novel power occasional expressed by Jean is called the Phoenix Force. |