Dark Phoenix (Phoenix Force Member)

▪️Youth

Jean Elaine Grey was born the second daughter of John and Elaine Grey. She had an older sister,
Sara Grey-Bailey. John Grey was a professor at Bard College in upstate New York. Depictions of
Jean's childhood and her relations with her family have shown a stable, loving family life growing up.

▪️Emergence of powers and joining the X-Men

Jean's mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis first manifest when her best friend is hit by a car
and killed. Jean mentally links with her friend and nearly dies as well The event leaves her
comatose, and she is brought back to consciousness when her parents seek the help of powerful
mutant telepath, Charles Xavier. Xavier blocks her telepathy until she is old enough to be able to
control it, leaving her with access only to her telekinetic powers. Xavier later recruits her as a
teenager to be part of his X-Men team as "Marvel Girl", the team's sole female member. After
several missions with the X-Men, Xavier removes Jean's mental blocks and she is able to use and
control her telepathic powers. She begins a relationship with teammate Cyclops, which persists as
her main romantic relationship, though she also develops a mutual secret attraction to a later
addition to the team, Wolverine.

▪️Phoenix Force and first death

Main article: The Dark Phoenix Saga

Marvel Girl becomes Phoenix. (X-Men #101) Art by Dave Cockrum.

During an emergency mission in space, the X-Men find their shuttle damaged. Jean pilots the shuttle
back to Earth, but is exposed to fatal levels of radiation. Dying, but determined to save Cyclops and
her friends, Jean calls out for help and is answered by the cosmic entity, the Phoenix Force. The
Phoenix Force, the sum of all life in the universe, is moved by Jean's dedication and love and takes
the form of a duplicate body to house Jean's psyche. In that instant, the Phoenix Force is
overwhelmed and believes itself to be Jean Grey and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon.
The ship crashes in Jamaica Bay, with the other X-Men unharmed. The Phoenix Force, as Jean
Grey, emerges in a new green and gold costume and adopts the new codename "Phoenix", with
immense cosmic powers. Meanwhile, the cocoon containing the real Jean Grey sinks to the bottom
of the bay, unnoticed. Phoenix continues her life as Jean Grey with the other X-Men, joining them on
missions and saving the universe. During "The Dark Phoenix Saga", Phoenix becomes
overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction,
called "Dark Phoenix", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's planetary
system, and jeopardizing the entire universe. However, Jean's personality manages to take control
and Phoenix commits suicide to ensure the universe's safety.

▪️Revival

See also: X-Factor (comics) and Madelyne Pryor

Upon its suicide by way of a disintegration ray, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and
a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. In trying to bond with her,
Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond
with and animate a lifeless clone of Jean Grey created by the villain Mister Sinister. Sinister created
the clone to mate with Cyclops to create genetically superior mutants. Named "Madelyne Pryor", the
unaware clone meets Cyclops in a situation engineered by Sinister and the two fall in love, marry,
and have a child, Nathan Christopher Summers. Meanwhile, the cocoon is discovered and retrieved
by the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Jean emerges with no memory of the actions of the
Phoenix/Dark Phoenix. The Avengers and Fantastic Four tell her of what happened and that she
was believed dead until now. She is reunited with the original X-Men and convinces them to form the
new superhero team X-Factor, reusing her "Marvel Girl" codename. Jean learns that Cyclops has
romantically moved on with Madelyne, who is angered over his decision to lead X-Factor and
neglect his family. Though Jean encourages Cyclops to return to Madelyne, he finds their house
abandoned and assumes that Madelyne has left him and taken their infant son; Cyclops returns to
X-Factor and he and Jean continue their relationship. The team's adventures continued throughout
the series, culminating in the line-wide "Inferno" crossover. Madelyne eventually resurfaces, now
nearly insane and with powers awakened by a demonic pact, calling herself the Goblyn Queen.

Learning of her true identity and purpose as a clone created by Mister Sinister drove her completely
insane and she plans to sacrifice Nathan Christopher to achieve greater power and unleash literal
Hell on Earth. While attempting to stop her, Jean is reunited with the other X-Men, who are happy to
learn that she is alive, particularly Wolverine, reminding Jean of her unaddressed feelings for him.
Jean and Madelyne confront each other, and Madelyne attempts to kill them both. Jean manages to
survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both
Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from "The Dark Phoenix Saga"

▪️Return to the X-Men and marriage to Cyclops

While continuing on X-Factor, Cyclops proposes to Jean and she meets her alternate future
daughter Rachel Summers (who goes by the codename "Phoenix" as well and is also able to tap
into the Phoenix Force), but she rejects them both out of the feeling that they indicate that her life is
predetermined. When X-Factor unites with the X-Men, Jean joins the Gold Team, led by Storm.
During this time, she no longer uses a codename, instead being referred to by her civilian name.
After some time, she makes up with Rachel, welcoming her into her life, and proposes to Cyclops
and the two marry. On their honeymoon, the couple is immediately psychically transported 2000
years into the future to raise Cyclops's son Nathan, who had been transported to the future as an
infant in hopes of curing him of a deadly virus. Jean adopts the identity of "Redd" along with Cyclops
("Slym") and they raise Nathan Christopher for twelve years before they are sent back into their
bodies on their wedding honeymoon. Jean learns that a time-displaced Rachel had used her powers
to transport them to the future to protect Nathan, and per Rachel's request, Jean adopts the
codename "Phoenix" once again to establish it as a symbol of good after all the bad it had caused.
Meanwhile, her psychic and telekinetic abilities begin to grow and she begins using the iconic green
and gold Phoenix costume again. Jean also met another alternate future child of hers and Scott's:
the immensely powerful Nathan Grey, who accidentally revived the psionic ghost of Madelyne Pryor,
leading to another confrontation between the two women.

▪️Preparing for Onslaught

Jean Grey on the cover of Uncanny X-Men #334.

In Bishop's original timeline before he ends up in the present he finds the X-Men's war room and
finds a garbled distress signal from Jean about a traitor destroying the X-Men from within.
Meanwhile, in the present, the X-Men begin to hear increasing news about a malevolent entity called
Onslaught. Jean first sees Onslaught as a psionic image with the rest of the X-Men after Onslaught
coerces Gateway to kidnap Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, and Iceman. He later appears to her again in
a similar way after rescuing her and Gambit from Bastion and offers her a chance to join him.
Onslaught makes his first full appearance to Jean on the astral plane and shows her how humanity
is closing in on mutants as well as revealing that Xavier was in love with her while she was a student
to convince her to join him. He then telepathically brands his name to her mind when she refused
and asks him his name. When Juggernaut comes to the mansion with information about Onslaughts
true identity but has a mental block preventing him from divulging it, Jean enters his mind and helps
him to remember who Onslaught really is and to her horror she discovers that Onslaught is really
Professor X, having gone insane ever since wiping Magneto's mind.

▪️Arrival of Onslaught

Professor Xavier calls the X-Men together for a meeting and Jean tries unsuccessfully to rally the X-
Men against him before he manifests Onslaught. While Onslaught easily overtakes the rest of the X-
Men, Jean escapes to the war room and sends out the distress signal that Bishop found in the
future. After a massive battle against Jean and the rest of the X-Men, Onslaught escapes to carry
out his plans. After Onslaught nearly kills the X-Men they team up with the Avengers to make a plan
to stop him, knowing full well that it may come down to them killing Xavier if the world is to survive.
Jean accompanies Cyclops, Archangel, and Psylocke to Muir Island where they and Moira
McTaggart discover the Xavier Protocols, secret plans that Xavier made to kill any of the individual
X-Men should anyone become a threat against the world. Meanwhile, Jean's earlier distress signal
makes it to X-Factor, Excalibur, and X-Force. After returning to New York, Jean works closely with
Reed Richards to help build up defenses against Onslaught as well as to help create the psionic
armor that could block Xavier's telepathic powers as seen in the Xavier Protocols.[60] When Jean
senses that Xavier has been freed from Onslaught and is going to confront him on his own, she and
Cyclops bring together the rest of the X-Men to back him up. The rest of the Avengers and Fantastic
Four join them in a final stand against Onslaught before he completely destroys the world. In a final
act of desperation Jean finds Hulk and locks away Bruce Banner's mind, leaving only the Hulk in
control so he can fight Onslaught unencumbered. With the vast majority of earth's heroes missing
and assumed dead after Onslaught is finally defeated, Jean and Cyclops open their home to
Quicksilver and his daughter and try to help the X-Men to get their lives get back together.

▪️New X-Men

Jean Grey on the cover of New X-Men #128.

Following Cyclops's possession by the mutant villain Apocalypse and apparent death, Jean
continues with the X-Men, but is distraught by the loss of her husband. She later learns that she is
an "Omega-level" mutant with unlimited potential. Jean begins to suspect that Cyclops may still be
alive and with the help of Nathan Christopher (now the aged superhero "Cable"), is able to locate
and free Cyclops of his possession by Apocalypse. The couple return to the X-Men as part of the
Xavier Institute's teaching staff to a new generation of mutants. While Jean finds she is slowly able
to tap into the powers of the Phoenix Force once again, her marriage to Scott begins to fail. Jean
and Wolverine address their long-unspoken mutual attraction, deciding it is best not to act on their
feelings; Cyclops grows further alienated from Jean due to her growing powers and institute
responsibilities and seeks consolation from the telepathic Emma Frost to address his disillusionment
and his experiences while possessed by Apocalypse. These therapy sessions lead to a "psychic
affair" between Scott and Emma. Jean's discovery of the psychic affair results in a confrontation
between her and Emma, though ultimately Jean realizes that her marriage to Scott has run its
course and that Emma truly loves him.

▪️Second death

In a final confrontation with a traitor at the institute (the X-Men's teammate Xorn, posing as Magneto)
Jean fully realizes and assumes complete control of the powers of the Phoenix Force, but is killed in
a last-ditch lethal attack by Xorn. Jean dies, telling Scott "to live". However, after her funeral, Scott
rejects Emma and her offer to run the school together. This creates a dystopian future where all life
and natural evolution is under assault by the infectious, villainous, sentient bacteria "Sublime". Jean
is resurrected in this future timeline and becomes the fully realized White Phoenix of the Crown,
using the abilities of the Phoenix Force to defeat Sublime and eliminate the dystopic future by
reaching back in time and influencing Cyclops to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school
together. Jean then reconciles with Cyclops and fully bonds with the Phoenix Force and ascends to
a higher plane of existence called the "White Hot Room".

▪️Endsong

A weakened Phoenix Force returns to reanimate Jean. Jean tries to convince the Phoenix Force to
let her go so they can return to the White Hot Room together, but once again the Phoenix Force
takes over. Jean lets Wolverine find her and tries to convince him to kill her again before the Phoenix
does more damage. The Shi'ar track the Phoenix Force and make an alliance with Storm to find her
and defeat her. Jean takes Wolverine to the North Pole before the Shi'ar can kill her and convinces
him to kill her. He stabs her numerous times but Phoenix keeps reanimating her, prompting Jean to
dive deep into the ice and freeze herself. The Phoenix Force leaves her body and once again
assumes Jean's form to tempt Cyclops to attack her so she can absorb his optic blasts and become
strong again. When the Phoenix Force merges with and overwhelms Emma Frost Cyclops frees
Jean from the ice. Once freed Jean ejects the Phoenix from Emma and accepts that she is one with
the Phoenix Force. After feeling the love from the X-Men, the Phoenix relents and returns with Jean
back to the White Hot Room. Before she departs, Jean and Cyclops share a telepathic emotional
farewell.

▪️Postmortem manifestations

Though she had yet to fully return, the Phoenix Force and Jean continued to manifest themselves,
particularly the Phoenix through the red-haired, green-eyed "mutant messiah" who slightly
resembles Jean named Hope Summers, and Jean briefly appears in a vision to Emma Frost from
the White Hot Room, warning the X-Men to "prepare". She again appears in a vision to Cyclops
when he is overwhelmed by the power of Dark Phoenix, helping him abandon the power so that it
can pass on to its true host. After Nightcrawler is fatally wounded by the Crimson Pirates, Jean
appears to him along with Amanda Sefton and the recently deceased Wolverine to help coax him
back to life. Jean's spirit begins to manifest in a more straightforward and aggressive manner to the
time-displaced Jean from an alternate timeline, seemingly training her for the arrival of the Phoenix.
However, after the younger Jean begins to ignore her, she possesses the time displaced Jean and
uses her as a means to ambush Emma Frost.

▪️Return
See also: X-Men Red
Strange psych occurrences around the world, which include a large bird flaring out from the sun and
an explosion on the moon, raise red flags for the X-Men, who quickly launch an investigation of
these events. After a string of bizarre encounters with familiar enemies, many of them considered
deceased, the X-Men come to one conclusion: the Phoenix Force is back on Earth. The X-Men also
discover that psychs are going missing or falling ill, which prompts the team to investigate the grave
of Jean Grey. As they find the coffin of their long-dead teammate empty, they race to locate the
Phoenix before it can find a suitable host. As it turns out, with the time-displaced teen Jean Grey out
of the Phoenix Force's way, the cosmic entity has already resurrected the present adult Jean Grey.
However, she doesn't recall her life as a mutant and an X-Man, and terrible visions from her previous
life have left Jean unsure of the difference between reality and fiction.As she lies inside of what
appears to be a Phoenix Egg, the X-Men theorize that the strange psych occurrences are
subconscious cries for help made by Jean Grey and that they must try to stop the Phoenix from
merging with their old friend. Old Man Logan is able to make Jean Grey remember her true life and
she learns about the fate of her family and several of her friends, among them Cyclops. As Jean
faces the Phoenix Force, she is finally able to convince the cosmic entity to stop bringing her back
and let her go. Alive once again, Jean is reunited with her friends as the Phoenix Force journeys
back to space.

Restored to life, Jean gathers some of the greatest minds on Earth together so that she read their
minds to plan her next move. Recognizing that there has been a sudden surge in anti-mutant
sentiment, to the point where there are plans to abort pregnancies if the mutant gene is detected,
Jean announces her plans to establish a more official mutant nation, making it clear that she will not
establish a geographic location for said nation as past examples make it clear that doing so just
makes mutants a target. To support her in this goal, she assembles a team including Nightcrawler,
X-23 and Namor, but is unaware that her actions are being observed by Cassandra Nova.

▪️Time-displaced incarnation
All-New X-Men

The young time-displaced Jean in All-New X-Men Volume 1 #18, art by Stuart Immonen
In All-New X-Men, present-day Beast goes to the past and brings a younger version of Jean to the
present day along with the other original X-Men in hopes of helping the present-day Cyclops to see
how far he's fallen. This version has experienced a surge in her abilities due to the trauma of being
brought to the future. The time travel also caused her suppressed telepathic powers to awaken
much earlier in her life than they were supposed to. She also has a habit of reading people's minds
without their permission, to the great frustration of her team.[volume & issue needed] During the
Battle of the Atom crossover, a future version of this Jean Grey, who had never returned to the past
and whose powers had grown beyond her control, would return to the present as Xorn, a member of
the future Brotherhood of Mutants. Xorn perished during the battle, but in the process the X-Men
also found out that there is something preventing the All-New X-Men from returning to the past.
During this timeline, she reads the mind of current Beast, who regrets never admitting his feelings for
her, so confronts younger Beast and gives him a kiss, which creates problems with the younger
Cyclops. She and her team also leave the Jean Grey School for mutants and go to Cyclops's school,
where she forms a reluctant friendship with Emma Frost as she trains her psychic abilities.

▪️The Trial of Jean Grey

Jean is later kidnapped by the Shi'ar and placed on trial for the destruction done by the Phoenix
Force years earlier in a 2014 crossover story line The Trial of Jean Grey. The All-New X-Men team
up with the Guardians of the Galaxy to rescue Jean from the Shi'ar homeworld, but Jean would end
up awakening a new power that she never had, in which she is able to absorb massive amounts of
psionic energy from others and combine her telepathy and telekinesis, which she used to defeat the
powerful Gladiator, leader of the Shi'ar.

▪️Traveling to the Ultimate Universe

While searching for new mutants, Jean and the All-New X-Men get teleported into the Ultimate
Marvel universe. She teams up with Spider-Man (Miles Morales) to rescue Beast, who's been
trapped by the local Dr. Doom. Before she is teleported back she gives Miles Morales a kiss. Upon
their return to Earth 616, she and the All-New X-Men team up with the Guardians of the Galaxy a
second time in search of The Black Vortex.

▪️Extraordinary X-Men

Following the reconstruction of reality after the Battleworld crisis, Jean has parted ways from the rest
of the time-displaced X-Men as she attempts to find her own life in the present by living a normal
civilian life in College until Storm recruits her to join her new team of X-Men to help protect mutants
from Terrigen. She mentions having broken up with Hank McCoy, considering him to be more of a
brother. After the X-Men go to war against the Inhumans to destroy the Terrigen, Jean leaves
Storm's team and attempts to return to her original timeline along with the rest of the time-displaced
X-Men but realizes that they're not from the 616 timeline, leaving them stranded on Earth 616 with
no idea which timeline they're originally from. With this new knowledge that they are from an
unknown alternate timeline, Jean becomes the time-displaced X-Men's new leader and they quit the
X-Men in hopes of finding their place in the current world.

▪️X-Men: Blue

Jean ends up approached by Magneto, who offers her and her team to join him in preserving
Xavier's dream by defeating those who oppose it.[89] Jean accepts and her team joins him, but in
secret they train themselves in case Magneto ever reverts to his villainous roots to kill them.[90]

▪️Phoenix premonition

Jean and the Phoenix Force on the cover of her first-ever solo series, art by Dave Yardin
As part of the Marvel's RessurXion event, Jean Grey received her first-ever solo series. While on a
solo mission against the Wrecking Crew, Jean receives a vision that the Phoenix Force is coming
back to earth. She goes to the rest of the X-Men to warn them about her vision but as there haven't
been any Phoenix sightings since the X-Men went to war against the Avengers to decide the fate of
the Phoenix, she has a hard time getting Beast, Captain Marvel, and Kitty Pryde to accept that her
vision was real even though they assure her that if the Phoenix ever does return then the X-Men and
Avengers will come together and do all they can to stop it. Jean feels even less taken seriously when
Beast begins examining her for signs of delusional hallucinations. Jean then meets with other former
Phoenix hosts Colossus, Magik, Rachel Summers, Hope Summers and Quentin Quire, where the
latter uses his powers to show her how the aftereffects of bonding with the Phoenix Force has
individually affected each of them. A meeting with Namor helps Jean come to the conclusion that
she can refuse the Phoenix and even possibly defeat it. After meeting with Thor and training with
Psylocke, Jean learns how to create telekinetic weapons to help with her impending battle against
the Phoenix.

▪️Meeting Phoenix

Jean ends up sent back in time for unknown reasons and ends up meeting that timeline's Jean Grey
shortly after she first becomes Phoenix. Time-displaced Jean attempts to ask Phoenix questions
about the Phoenix Force but she dodges Jean's questions. Instead Phoenix takes Jean for a night
out and shows off her powers. After witnessing Phoenix use her cosmic powers to fight off Galactus
from consuming a defenseless planet, Jean contemplates warning Phoenix of her fate until an
encounter with The Watcher stops her from doing so. The Watcher commends Jean and tells her
that choosing to not change her future means that her ultimate fate is in her own hands whether or
not she ends up hosting the Phoenix Force back in her present. As Jean returns to her present,
Phoenix cryptically states that they will meet again.

▪️Psych War

Backed by a host of former Phoenix Force wielders, Emma Frost, Quentin Quire, Hope Summers,
the Stepford Cuckoos and even the spirit of the adult Jean Grey, the teen Jean tries to defy destiny
and stop the Phoenix before it can take her over and bend her to its will. With the Phoenix Force
now on Earth, the team realizes it's going to take a lot more than they have to stop it. And while the
young Jean is able to wound the Phoenix with the aid of Cable's Psi-mitar, the Phoenix seems just
too strong for anyone to overcome. Teen Jean eventually managed to push the cosmic force far
away from her friends and allies, where a final battle can take place. However, both Jean Greys
learned how wrong they were, as the Phoenix was never coming for teen Jean, at least not like they
believed. Actually, the Phoenix wants the adult Jean, but to do that it needs the young Jean out of
the way. Thus, the force floods her body with flaming psychic energy, incinerating her from the inside
out, leaving only a skeleton. This was done to resurrect the adult Jean Grey, which the Phoenix
considers its one true host. However, after dying, the younger Jean found herself somehow in the
White Hot Room despite not being a Phoenix host. Angry, the Phoenix attempted to destroy her
using mental manifestations of its past hosts, created from pieces of their life forces left in the Room.
Jean realized that she could control the White Hot Room against the Phoenix wishes and
commanded the cosmic entity to resurrect her, which it did so in order to get rid of her. After
returning to Madripoor, she was approached by her resurrected older Earth-616 counterpart, much
to her surprise.

🔶Powers and abilities

Jean Grey is an Omega-level mutant, and at her highest and strongest potential was fully merged
with the Phoenix Force and with it was able to defeat even Galactus.

🔸Telepathy

When her powers first manifested, Jean was unable to cope with her telepathic abilities, forcing
Professor Charles Xavier to suppress her access to it altogether. Instead, he chose to train her in the
use of her psychokinetic abilities while allowing her telepathy to grow at its natural rate before
reintroducing it. When the Professor hid to prepare for the Z'Nox, he reopened Jean's telepathic
abilities, which was initially explained by writers as Xavier 'sharing' some of his telepathy with her.

Jean is also one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high
intelligence, such as dolphins, dogs, and ravens). As a side effect of her telepathy, she has an
eidetic memory. Jean was able, through telepathic therapy with the comatose Jessica Jones, to
grant Jessica immunity to the Purple Man's mind control abilities, despite his powers being chemical
in nature rather than psychic. When Jean absorbed Psylocke's specialized telepathic powers, her
own telepathy was increased to the point that she could physically manifest her telepathy as a
psionic firebird whose claws could inflict both physical and mental damage. She briefly developed a
psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the
Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke.[volume & issue needed] Jean briefly lost her
telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full and
at a far stronger level than before.

🔸Telekinesis

Jean possesses a high-level of telekinetic ability that enables her to psionically levitate and rapidly
move about all manner of animate and inanimate matter. She can use her telekinetic abilities on
herself or others to simulate the power of flight or levitation, stimulate molecules to increase friction,
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 was capable of lifting approximately fifty tons of rubble with some strain.

🔸Psychic Energy Synthesis

Jean's younger self who had been brought from the past into the present by an older Hank McCoy
eventually found an entirely new usage of her powers separate from the Phoenix Force. The
teenage Marvel Girl learned she has the ability to harness ambient psychic energy and channel it
into powerful blasts of force, which are a combination of both her telepathy and telekinesis. Its
potency is such that she can match and overpower the likes of Gladiator, magistrate of the Shi'ar,
with relative ease. When using this ability Jean's whole body glows with pink psychic energy,
obscuring her human form.

🔸Telekinetic weapons

Under the tutelage of Psylocke, teenage Marvel Girl has learned the ability to create psionic
weapons that damage a target either physically, mentally or both in some point. She showed skill in
constructing multiple types of psionic weapons that differ in size, length and power which she uses in
combat.

The relationship between Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force (and the nature of the powers she has)
is portrayed in a variety of ways throughout the character's history. In the initial plotline of the
Phoenix being a manifestation of Jean's true potential, these powers are considered her own, as part
of Claremont and Byrne's desire to create "the first cosmic superheroine". However, since the retcon
of the Phoenix as a separate entity from Jean Grey, depictions of these powers vary; these include
Jean being one of many hosts to the Phoenix and "borrowing" its "Phoenix powers" during this time,
being a unique host to the Phoenix, and being one with the Phoenix. She is later described as the
only one currently to be able to hold the title of "White Phoenix of the Crown" among the many past,
present, and future hosts of the Phoenix. Jean — both young and adult versions — is also the only
character ever to force the Phoenix against its own cosmic will to do anything while not presently a
host to its powers. In one instance Jean forcibly ripped the Phoenix out of Emma Frost and imposed
its status upon herself.[112] Young Jean was able to keep her psyche anchored in the Phoenix's
mind postmortem despite the Phoenix's own efforts to forcibly remove her after it murdered her.
Jean then subsequently forced the Phoenix to resurrect her after manipulating the Phoenix's mental
landscape against it. The Phoenix Force also seems to render its host unaging and, at least in some
adaptations, enhances the physical strength of its avatar to superhuman levels; in certain
incarnations, Jean, namely while acting as Dark Phoenix, seemed to possess some level of
superhuman strength.

🔸Resurrection

For one reason or another, Jean Grey (both young and old) has, on more than one occasion, been
repeatedly resurrected by either the Phoenix or apparently her sheer force of will without Phoenix. In
some depictions, these resurrections are immediately after she or whoever she is reviving is killed,
while other depictions indicate that a resurrection must occur at a "correct" time, sometimes taking a
century. During the height of the Psych Wars, Young Jean was able to forcibly make the Phoenix
Force restore her to life, despite the Phoenix's adamant resolve not to do so, completely recreating
her body after it had been vaporized. Some time later, after her body was taken over and completely
devoured by a Poison, a small part of Jean's mind survived and, despite itself, was able to infect the
whole Poison Hive and destroy it from the inside out, subsequently using nothing but her mind to
reconstruct her body. This leaves Jean believing that she may not even be human anymore. This is
not the first time Jean was resurrected without the Phoenix; in one instance, she was even able to
fully resurrect herself after being clinically dead completely independent of the Phoenix Force.

🔸Miscellaneous abilities

Jean Grey is a trained pilot and proficient unarmed combatant. She also has some degree of
teaching ability, experience as a fashion model, and training in psychology.