Jean Grey is a 2017 Marvel Comics title, written by Dennis Hallum with art by Victor Ibanez.
The series follows the young time-displaced Jean Grey going off on her own to step out from the shadow of her older self and learn to control her powers.
Jean Grey provides examples of:
- Badass and Child Duo: Jean is briefly this with a seemingly absolutely hammered Odinson when looking to learn about how to fight godlike beings.
- Civvie Spandex: Jean's costume, though she doesn't always wear the jacket.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Jean has shorter hair in this series, supposedly to distinct herself from her future self.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Jean finally meets Hope, both of them remark how they can't understand why some people consider them identical... while looking more or less identical and speaking in unison.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- Unleashed one on Wolverine in Uncanny X-Men issue #100, after reaching the end of her tether with him. Worth bearing in mind this was pre-Character Development Wolverine, and that it's only after this he starts having a crush on her.
- Older Jean gives a scathing one to her younger self in Issue 6.Older Jean: You have convinced yourself that I'm the nightmare. That my life - a life you've only glimpsed in other people's heads - was some kind of dark tragedy. Because there was pain. Because it ended in Death. Because that's not the life you envisioned for yourself. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, princess, but that's just life. Grow up.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Jean discovers she can do this when fighting alongside the Odinson and being frustrated at the lack of a 'big frigging magic hammer'. When she accidentally creates a large Warhammer from her powers, in the same vein as Psylocke's psi-weapons, she asks, startled, what it is. Odinson replies somewhat drily that it looks like 'a big frigging magic hammer.' She then gets tutelage in this from Betsy Braddock, an expert in the art.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Jean's an extremely powerful telekinetic and telepath, but she has difficulty co-ordinating the two abilities in the heat of battle and sometimes thinks with her fists. Therefor, she goes to everyone (Namor, Odinson, and Psylocke, among others, though she also gets help from Doctor Strange - an attempted exorcism of the ghost of her adult self - and then, unwanted, her adult self who hangs around afterward) for tutelage and advice, and learns how to use her powers much more effectively.
