History ComicBook / JeanGrey

She was the center of attention throughout many of the X-Men's early adventures, being [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only woman on the team]] at the time, and also one of the most potentially powerful. Eventually she settled into a relationship with Scott Summers, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}; however, her burgeoning psychic potential along with some brain-washing caused her to develop an incredibly malevolent split personality with the power to destroy planets. She made a HeroicSacrifice during a moment of being in control of herself so that she wouldn't cause any more destruction at the climax of ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga. However, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. But Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond with her still-lifeless clone, Madelyne Pryor, instead. The phoenix cocoon, containing Jean’s psyche, is discovered and retrieved by ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/FantasticFour. Jean emerges with no memory of the actions of the Phoenix or Dark Phoenix. She is reunited with the original X-Men, and convinces them to form the new superhero team ComicBook/XFactor.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelSuperHeroes'' (1966) (Guest Star)
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' (1981-1983) (cameo)
* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' (1992-1997): Voiced by Catherine Disher.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' (1994-1998) (Guest Star): Voiced by Catherine Disher.
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' (1994) (cameo)
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' (2000-2003): Voiced by Creator/VenusTerzo.
* ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' (2009): Voiced by Creator/JenniferHale.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' (2009-2011): Voiced by Creator/HyndenWalch.
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' (2009-2012): Voiced by Venus Terzo.
* ''Anime/XMen'' anime (2011): Voiced by Yurika Hino in Japanese and Jennifer Hale in English.

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!Tropes applying to Jean Grey

* SecretPublicIdentity: The name "Marvel Girl" didn't age well and was dropped decades ago, and (usually; DependingOnTheWriter) she only uses the name Phoenix when actually supercharged by the cosmic critter. This leaves her as just plain "Jean Grey" the majority of the time, even during action. It's been {{Lampshaded}} more than once; Jubilee once even referred to her as "Miss I'm Too Sexy For A Codename, Too Sexy For A Codename," and in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' tie in comic, when Nightcrawler asked why Rogue was just Rogue, Cyclops said "The same reason Jean's just Jean," and they were interrupted before Nightcrawler could get finished asking about ''that.''

Upon the death of her physical form, Jean spends time in the The White Hot Room doing 'Phoenix work'. The Phoenix Force can also restore Jean's body to life, although there appears to be some unknown limitation to how quickly it can successfully accomplish this following her death. Around this time, she's also somehow seen aiding the X-Men, such as collecting the missing fragments of the Phoenix Force; she took some of them from Rachel Summers and the Stepford Cuckoos after the events in ''Phoenix Warsong'' when they wield the powers. She even helps Emma (again), when the latter is {{mind rape}}d by the resurrected Madelyne Pryor into psychic static. She also helps Scott, who became Dark Phoenix of Phoenix Five, to let go of the Phoenix Force during ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen''. Most recently, she's been brought back to life once again and is leading [[ComicBook/XMenRed her own team of X-Men]].

* AntiHero: She's this in The new X Force run.

** She's got a bit of this towards [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], since while he's probably the strongest mutant in the Marvel Universe (possibly excepting Franklin Richards), having the raw power of the Dark Phoenix at ''17'', his powers were prone to switching off at inappropriate moments or slowly trying to kill him. Also, he was a colossal {{Woobie}} and something of a MommasBoy, Jean being just about the only person who could get through to him when he was being stubborn. When he resurrected himself, the first bone he had to pick with Mystique was the fact that she'd been impersonating his dead mother, making him believe that she was alive. He was ''not'' pleased.
*** During ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', after his FaceHeelTurn, she's pretty much the one person who can actually get through to him, and who even gets ''close'' to making an impact on him, literal or figurative.

* MindOverMatter: She provides the page image. Her telekinetic strength and skill are both of a supremely high power-level, capable of grasping objects in Earth orbit and manipulating hundreds of components in mid-air in complex patterns. She often uses her telekinesis to lift herself and others, giving her the ability of levitation and flight. She uses her telekinesis to create durable shields and energy blasts.

* NeverLiveItDown: Twofold: Some claim she does frequent deaths despite only actually having it happen ''twice'' and often thought of only for ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga. Both unfairly: as you can see here, she has had decades of adventures before and after the Dark Phoenix Saga, and the DeathIsCheap section is padded with "Phoenix Force makes stabbity survivable" cases, one coma case, and that one time ''many'' people were erased and brought back, leaving her actual "killed off and brought back later" count at TWO. In fact, the trope was once called "Jean Grey Escalation," but characters dying a lot or gaining new powers were constantly being added or {{Pot Hole}}d to that page.

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* ''Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix'' (1994)

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* FireWaterJuxtaposition: Used to contrast her with Emma when she becomes her romantic rival. Jean is constantly associated with fire and heat because of her red hair and her connection to the fiery Phoenix Force, and her personality is known to vacillate between warm compassion and unpredictable fiery temper; Emma is associated with ice and the cold because of her surname "Frost", her [[WomanInWhite all-white attire]] and her cool temperament, and she resembles an ice sculpture when in her organic diamond form.

* WomanInWhite: As the White Phoenix of the Crown, the most powerful incarnation of the Phoenix.

** Also in-universe: the Shi'ar won't forgive Jean for having been [[DependingOnTheWriter possessed/replaced]] by a cosmic entity and later corrupted by two psychic villains; every so often, {{Inspector Javert}}s from the Shi'ar Empire come to try to kill Jean (and ''did'' kill her ''entire'' family) because apparently merely being ''capable'' of hosting the Phoenix equals "may wake up one morning and decide to end the universe any day now."

* {{Polyamory}}: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/x_men_summer_house_floor_plan_5.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]] on Krakoa are next to each other[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/logan_scott_and_jean_room_numbers_9.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]], as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/logan_scott_and_jean_open_room_connections.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]].

* {{Polyamory}}: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {Polyamory}: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* [[Polyamory]]: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* Polyamory: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In [[X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In [[{X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019)}[[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In [X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019)[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Vol_5_1]], it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019), it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]], and teammate ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* RoguesGallery: Mesmero, the Morlock Bliss, Madelyne Pryor, the Mastermind family and sometimes the Shi’ar Imperial guard. It remains to be seen if her and Emma Frost are SitcomArchNemesis now.

* RoguesGallery: Mesmero, the Morlock Bliss, Madelyne Pryor, the Mastermind family and sometime the Shi’ar Imperial guard.

* {{Polyamory}}: In X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019), it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband Scott Summers, and teammate Wolverine may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* {{Polyamory}}: In X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019), it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[Scott Summers]], and teammate [[Wolverine]] may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.

* Polyamory: In X-Men Vo. 5 #1 (2019), it has been hinted and speculated by fans/readers that she, her husband [[Scott Summers]], and teammate [[Wolverine]] may be in a polyamorous relationship. Evidence to support this is that their rooms on Krakoa are next to each other, as well as separated from the rest of the Summers family. Her bedroom is in the middle of her husbands and James's, and the map layout shows that their rooms are connected by hidden doors.