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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everybody thinks the Phoenix Force is turning me into some kind of cosmic destroyer, but it's not like that. I have trouble with the rushes, but I'm okay, really. I think I can make things right here."'' Art by Russell Dauterman.]]

->''I don't want you to get hurt, but you have to '''understand'''... The more you annoy me the more I can't help thinking about '''deconstructing''' you, molecule by molecule, memory by memory... until there's nothing '''left''' but screaming, traumatized '''atoms'''.''
-->-- '''Jean Grey''', ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #120

'''Jean Grey''', also known with the aliases '''Marvel Girl''', '''Phoenix''', '''Dark Phoenix''', and the '''White Phoenix of the Crown''', is a Creator/MarvelComics character and one of five original members of the ComicBook/XMen in Franchise/MarvelUniverse. As such, she is first introduced in the very first X-Men comics, that is ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1 #1 in 1963. She's created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby.

Her power set is simple: telekinesis and telepathy. Her look is simple, but dynamic--[[RedheadInGreen her hair is red and voluminous, her suit is emerald.]] She has a place as Professor X's particular protegee, and (prior to the appearance of her time-travelling/reality jumping children) the only telepath whose potential surpasses his. And when that potential ''is'' tapped, you have one of the most powerful X-Men of all.

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 [[UnstablePoweredWoman an incredibly malevolent]] SplitPersonality 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.

She also initially accepted that Scott has moved on, married to another woman named Madelyne Pryor. However, things got complicated when Madelyne returns during ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}''-- her powers are awakened by demonic pact and she introduces herself as Goblyn Queen. The revelation that Madelyne is actually Jean's clone drove her completely insane and she plans to sacrifice the infant Nathan to achieve greater power and unleash Hell on Earth. 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.

After Madelyne's death, Jean helps Scott care for Nathan, since he's genetically her son as well. When X-Factor rejoins the X-Men, Jean no longer uses her codename. She initially doesn't accept the arrival of ComicBook/RachelSummers (who goes by the codename "Phoenix" as well and is also able to tap into the Phoenix Force). Some time later, Nathan is kidnapped and infected with the Techno-Organic Virus by ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}. The virus was rapidly spreading through his body and, if not stopped, would kill him. To help him, Jean and Scott are forced to let him being taken by a woman named Sister Askani from a distant future who claimed her clan had technology in that might be able to save Nathan. However, Askani could only risk one time jump without destroying herself. So, Nathan could not return to the present timeline very soon.

Unbeknownst to them, though, a mysterious cyborg-mutant soldier called ComicBook/{{Cable}} who appeared to lead the ComicBook/NewMutants and later found the ComicBook/XForce, was actually their son Nathan, who has grown up into an adult man, much older than his own parents, and has returned from the future.

Jean eventually accepts Rachel as her daughter, who also requests Jean to take the codename Phoenix. After some time, she also accepts Scott's marriage proposal (which she previously rejected) and during their honeymoon, they had MentalTimeTravel to the distant future, which allowed them to raise young Nathan. During this time, Scott and Jean used fake names, Slym and Redd Dayspring, respectively, to hide their identity. It's revealed that Rachel was responsible for the time travel by using her powers because she wants them to protect and raise Nathan. Back in the present, Jean and Scott revealed to Cable that they had raised him in the future as Redd and Slym Dayspring. Cable had known for some time and was waiting for them to be ready to tell him. They were pleased to be reunited as a family again. During ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'', Jean also met her other alternate reality child, Nate Grey a.k.a. ComicBook/XMan (and is essentially younger Cable), who accidentally resurrects Madelyne in a subconscious attempt to reach out to his "mother", Jean. Despite being responsible for bringing her rival back into her life, Jean parted with her son on good terms.

Scott is later possessed by Apocalypse while trying to protect Nate and apparently killed. But Jean believes he may be still alive. She's helped by Cable in rescuing and freeing Scott from the possession. But, during the events in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', Scott isn't feeling very well due to Apocalypse's possession and this is when their marriage begin to fall apart, especially after the "psychic affair" between him and ComicBook/EmmaFrost, fellow member and reformed supervillainess. Ultimately, though, Jean realizes that Emma truly loves him. And when Emma was shot and [[LiterallyShatteredLives literally shattered]] in her organic diamond form by Esme Cuckoo, Jean helped repairing Emma at the molecular level, displaying incredible telekinetic power. Later, she's tricked by ComicBook/{{Magneto}} impostor, Kuan-Yin Xorn, along with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who has long-time one-sided crush on her. They ended up trapped on Asteroid M, drifting closer to the Sun. The Phoenix Force within Jean is reawakened when Wolverine tried to {{Mercy Kill}} her. Jean and Wolverine returned to Earth to face Xorn. But Xorn managed to (physically) kill her with an electromagnetic pulse which causes her to have a planetary-scale stroke. An enraged Wolverine soon avenges her by [[OffWithHisHead decapitating]] Xorn.

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''.

After a period of haunting her younger self, she was [[ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection brought back to life once again (and told the Phoenix very politely, but very firmly, to leave her alone)]], and led [[ComicBook/XMenRed her own team of X-Men]]. After confronting her son, [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], after he'd apparently pulled a complete FaceHeelTurn and [[AGodAmI come to see himself as a god]] (the truth was a little more complicated) in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', she tried to talk him down and he revealed that [[spoiler: he was dying and desperately trying to do something good before he died (like save the world, whether it wanted it or not)]].

After that, like all the other X-Men she was pulled into his new reality - the ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan''. After identifying the inconsistencies and confronting him, [[GracefulLoser Nate accepted his mistakes and released her and the other X-Men]] (some of whom [[JerkassHasAPoint felt he had a point]]), she became a key part of the [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen X-Men's new status quo]] - a member of Krakoa's Quiet Council.
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!! Jean Grey has appearaed in:

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[[folder: Notable Comics]]
* ''Phoenix: The Untold Story'' (1984)
* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix'' (1994)
* ''Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix'' (1996)
* ''X-Men: Phoenix Endsong'' (2005)
* ''X-Men Origins: Jean Grey'' (2008)
* ''Marvel Girl'' (2011)
* ''Jean Grey'' (2017)
* ''ComicBook/XMenRed'' (2018)
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[[folder: Other Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen''
* ''ComicBook/XFactor'' Vol. 1
* ''[[ComicBook/AdjectivelessXMen X-Men]]''
* ''ComicBook/NewXMen''
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''
* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' Vol. 3
* ''ComicBook/ExtraordinaryXMen''
* ''ComicBook/XMenBlue''
* ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen''
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[[folder: Major Storylines]]
* ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga''
* ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}''
* ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}''
* ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen''
* ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom''
* ''The Trial of Jean Grey''
* ''ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection''
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[[folder: Anime]]
* ''Anime/XMen''
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[[folder: Live-Action Films]]
* ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series
** Portrayed by Creator/FamkeJanssen:
*** ''Film/XMen1'' (2000)
*** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' (2003)
*** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' (2006) -- Creator/HaleyRamm as a child.
*** ''Film/TheWolverine'' (2013)
*** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' (2014)
** Portrayed by Creator/SophieTurner:
*** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' (2016)
*** ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (2019) -- Summer Fontana as a child.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''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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[[folder: Video Games]]
* ''[[VideoGame/XMenIITheFallOfTheMutants X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants]]'' (1990): Appears as playable hero.
* ''X-Men'' (1993): Appears as an AssistCharacter.
* ''VideoGame/XMenMutantAcademy'' (2000): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Catherine Disher.
* ''X-Men: Mutant Academy 2'' (2001): Appears as a playable hero.
* ''VideoGame/XMenNextDimension'' (2002): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Jenette Goldstein.
* ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' (2004) and ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'' (2005): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Leigh-Allyn Baker.
* ''X-Men: The Official Game'' (2006): Voiced by Katherine Morgan.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' (2006): Appears as an {{NPC}}. Voiced by Sarah Waits.
* ''Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2'' (2009): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Creator/MollyHagan.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' (2011): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Creator/JenniferHale.
* ''VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline'' (2011-present): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Creator/TaraStrong.
* ''Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth'' (2012): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Creator/LauraBailey.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' (2012-present): Appears as a recruitable playable hero.
* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'' (2013): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Laura Bailey.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'' (2013-2017): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Creator/AprilStewart.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (2015-Present): Appears as a playable hero.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' (2019): Appears as a playable hero through DLC.
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!! Jean Grey provides examples of:

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* ActionMom: Oddly enough Jean fits this despite never having actually carried a child. All her offspring, Rachel, Cable, and X-Man; are from alternate universes or timelines (although Cable was actually born in the present, but he had to be sent to the future as mentioned above. Oh, and his mom is Jean's ''clone''). That said, she considers all of them to be her children, despite having got off to a rocky start with Rachel.
* AllLovingHeroine: Most of the time, and particularly since her return in ''Phoenix Resurrection'', with the emphasis of ''ComicBook/XMenRed'', where she leads the titular team against [[spoiler: Cassandra Nova]], being on the power of compassion. However, as she also reminds people, [[BewareTheNiceOnes 'compassionate' most definitely does not mean either 'weak']] or [[GoodIsDumb 'stupid'.]]
* AlmightyMom: She's just about the only one with any control over [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] - or at least, the only one he's really willing to listen to for more than 10 seconds when he's in a real mood. While this has its limits, it's been exploited in the past by Mystique (granted, he was disoriented at the time and found out in short order - he was ''not'' pleased).
* AntiHero: She's this in the new X-Force run, though she eventually leaves the team after Beast crosses a line.
* [[invoked]]AngstWhatAngst: Jean Grey seems totally fine about her mother, father, niece, nephew, aunts, uncles, and cousins all being mass murdered while she was gone - though considering that as the White Phoenix of the Crown, she was seen ushering them into the White Hot Room, and that she has a very unique perspective on death, perhaps this isn't so surprising.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: ThePhoenix, as avatar of Phoenix Force. Her costume as Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and White Phoenix also has the golden firebird emblem on her chest.
* ApocalypseMaiden: Jean Grey as ''Dark Phoenix''.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In the White Hot Room after her physical death by Xorn in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', to gather fragments of the Phoenix Force.
* BackFromTheDead: Once... for one quite permanent example.
** For not-so-permanent examples, she has undergone this repeatedly in ''Phoenix Endsong'' (See DeathIsCheap below for details). But each time she's resurrected, it's always CameBackWrong, so she finally decides that she’s not yet ready to come back to life, instead returning to the White Hot Room to continue gathering the fragments of Phoenix Force.
** Finally, she returns for good in ''ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection''.
* BareYourMidriff: In ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', Jean was seen to be showing off her midriff often.
* BattleCouple: With ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, combining his optic blasts with her potent psychic abilities. Many stories featured them charging into battle together, hand-in-hand, and blasting their way through opponents.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** In early days she had to choose between Angel and Cyclops, and later Cyclops and Wolverine.
** She was briefly the Betty to ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}'s Veronica for Cyclops' Archie.
** She's become the Betty for Cyclops while Emma Frost is the Veronica.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's sweet, motherly and level-headed, practically overflowing with compassion. Unless you wrong her or her loved ones seriously. Then, you're in for a ''world'' of psychic pain.
* BigGood: Like her husband, she is pretty much TheParagon of mutantkind to whom everybody looks up, also post-mortem. Her teenaged self finds it alternately intimidating and irritating, on the grounds that people tend to see either TheParagon or the ApocalypseMaiden and don't bother to look further - this irritation extends to when adult Jean's ghost (understandably annoyed at being stuck as a ghost) starts haunting her, though the two come to an accommodation and get on just fine once adult Jean has her own body again (and [[spoiler: teen Jean bullied the Phoenix into resurrecting her]]).
* BlessedWithSuck: She used to have great difficulty controlling her powers. Her telekinesis wasn't so bad, but her telepathy was a huge hassle because she couldn't shut it off. It went FromBadToWorse when she became the host of the Phoenix — she had even more power, but less control since the Phoenix isn't always content to stay in the passenger's seat.
* CivvieSpandex: In ''ComicBook/NewXMen''.
* CleavageWindow: Her Phoenix Five costume in ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Jean is capable of getting very jealous, especially where Scott is concerned.
* CompositeCharacter: Jean's Phoenix Five costume in ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' is an amalgam of P5 Emma's chestpiece and P5 Cyclops' suit. Her P5 persona is essentially the Dark Phoenix, being the Epic Boss of the Avengers side after defeating P5 Cyclops.
* ContinuitySnarl: The Phoenix Force with all the {{RetCon}}s (or in some instances, continuity gaffs) surrounding it.
* CostumeEvolution: Her first two changes, along with the rest of the teams, were all designed by her.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jean as Phoenix can be quite witty and sarcastic when she wants to be. This character trait lingers.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: Something the Phoenix Force seems to do. However, how this works is very much DependingOnTheWriter.
* DeathIsCheap: Though wrongly assumed to be her main trait, or wrongly singled out for it, she is still a comic book superhero.
** Presumed dead piloting space shuttle, re-emerges with Phoenix Force powers.
** Phoenix Force corrupted and turned her into Dark Phoenix, and then she committed suicide on the moon. It's later explained that it's actually Phoenix-created duplicate of Jean who dies. Jean’s psychic link with the Phoenix was what caused her to sacrifice herself. Real Jean's physical body, on the other hand, is actually placed in a stasis phoenix cocoon underwater by the Phoenix Force who saved her from her first presumed death. The portion of Jean's consciousness that had bonded with the Phoenix force awoke in a realm called The White Hot Room. The cocoon is later discovered by Avengers and Fantastic Four, then she re-emerges back to life, initially with no memory of Phoenix or Dark Phoenix.
** She's one of many people who is temporarily erased from existence by ComicBook/{{Thanos}} in ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''. Along with ''everyone else'', she gets restored later on.
** Presumed killed by Trevor Fitzroy's sentinels along with Hellions, and Emma Frost who fell into coma. Jean instead transferred her psyche into Emma's comatose body. She was eventually transferred back into her own body, which was only brain-dead at the time, by Xavier.
** Seemingly [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by Wolverine on remains of Asteroid M. Her Phoenix Force powers are reawakened and she was able to fly them both back to Earth.
** Unfortunately, she's shortly after physically killed by Xorn with an electromagnetic pulse that gave her planetary-scale stroke.
** In ''Phoenix Endsong'' #3, a wounded part of the Phoenix Force makes it way to earth and brings Jean back to life to help heal itself. Feeling the Phoenix power taking control, she asks Wolverine to ''repeatedly'' kill her to weaken the Phoenix. Each time, the Phoenix is able to help resurrect Jean almost immediately. Later, she submerges herself in a glacier, even this fails to hold her, though, and she comes back ''once again''. In ''Phoenix Endsong'' #5, Jean decides that she’s not yet ready to come back to life, instead returning to the White Hot Room to continue gathering the fragments of Phoenix Force.
** And then, finally, she returns in ''Phoenix Resurrection'', where she apparently puts a stop to this for good by firmly telling the Phoenix to bugger off and leave her alone.
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: Her Quesada-mandated death at the end of Planet X had "Magneto" kill her out of spite when he realized he was losing.
* DudeMagnet: Jean is the object of affection for many male X-Men members, including Professor X himself for a brief period in the old days.
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[[folder: E-I]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When she becomes Dark Phoenix, the outfit turns red. In a more subtle version, as the ''normal'' Phoenix, the size of the phoenix logo slowly grew as time went on and she became more {{Anti Hero}}ish.
* EvilRedhead: When she was Dark Phoenix.
* {{Expy}}: Jean Grey has generated some few expies such like ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s best friend Thara Ak-Var, a. k. a. Flamebird, a female hero who is avatar of a firebird-shaped cosmic force.
* FairytaleWeddingDress: When marrying Scott, in most adaptations, her dresses are pretty fancy. In the comic, she wore a mermaid dress with a hooded white cape and HighClassGloves.
* FanDisservice: She is stabbed in the gut by Logan after she stripped down to her bra and pants while on Asteroid M as it's hurtling into the sun in ''New X-Men''.
* FashionDesigner: One of her skills is designing clothes. The first two redesigns for the team were by her.
* FashionModel: In an arc in the 60s Jean goes undercover as a swimsuit model.
* FlamingHair: She sometimes has flaming hair when she's all Phoenix-y.
* {{Flight}}: Using psychokinesis.
* FlyingFirepower: As avatar of Phoenix Force.
* FieryRedhead: Classic Marvel example. And as the Phoenix, quite literally too.
* FireIceDuo: 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 all-white attire and her cool temperament, and she resembles an ice sculpture when in her organic diamond form.
* FootPopping: When she married Scott, the cover [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ScottJeanWedding_6809.jpg shows Jean doing this as they kiss]].
* FormFittingWardrobe: Her Phoenix costume, X-Factor costumes, and 90s costume, all accentuate her voluptuous yet muscular body and MostCommonSuperpower. Even her wedding dress fit her curves.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she is possessed by the Phoenix Force.
* HappilyMarried: With Cyclops... for a while.
* TheHeart: Of the X-Men. Having been the only one who could call both Wolverine and Cyclops into line and mediate all their issues, she was the one who kept the team honest, which might explain why they became so DarkerAndEdgier after her death.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Many of the X-Men have been attracted to the red-headed Jean, most notably Cyclops and Wolverine.
* HeroicBuild: DependingOnTheArtist and in the ''[[WesternAnimation/XMen X-Men Animated Series]]'', she has a fairly muscular build.
* HeroicSacrifice: Knew piloting that space shuttle would kill her, and she still went through with it.
* HighClassGloves:
** Her first appearance in the comic is her in a fancy blue outfit with white gloves (like a debutante about to go on a trip), to show her upper middle class status.
** Her wedding dress includes long white gloves.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: With Cyclops.
* HypnotizeThePrincess: Has been a victim of mind control several times.
* IHatePastMe: In the latter's book, adult Jean - who, in fairness, might have been grumpy thanks to being a ghost visible solely to her younger self - appears to regard Teen Jean as an immature, whiny brat who can't deal with the fact her life wasn't a painless fairy tale. Teen Jean reciprocates. However, they ultimately get used to each other, with adult Jean becoming something of a mentor to her teenage self, and the two get on ''much'' better once adult Jean has her own body again.
-->'''Teen Jean:''' Stop acting like it's so embarrassing you used to be me.
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[[folder: L-O]]
* TheLancer: In ''New X-Men''.
* LevitatingLotusPosition: As seen [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070225104831/marveldatabase/images/a/a5/Jean_Grey_%28Phoenix%29_004.jpg here]].
* LingerieScene: In Uncanny X-Men #144.
* LittleBlackDress: Has worn such dresses, to show her sense of style is sophisticated, not gaudy.
* LoveTriangle: Scott-Jean-Logan, Madelyne-Scott-Jean and Jean-Scott-Emma.
* MamaBear:
** Usually averted with Rachel, who is a psi of talent close to or ''exceeding'' her mother's own. Baby can take care of herself and Mama knows it too well. Plus, Mama's [[FirstLawofResurrection dead a lot.]] However, it's PlayedStraight in ''X-Men: Red'' when Rachel is controlled by [[spoiler: Cassandra Nova]] and Jean steps in. And on. ''Hard''.
** Played straight in regard to her students. When the U-Men turn up, looking to harvest the organs of the students, Jean proceeds to humiliate and terrify them without moving, or, indeed, even raising her voice.
** Played straight in regards to her time travelling son ComicBook/{{Cable}}, having raised him as a baby with Scott in the future, protected him as he grew up and taught him how to use the vast telekinetic powers he inherited from her to hold the techno organic virus at bay.
** Also played straight towards [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]. While he's probably the strongest mutant in the Marvel Universe (possibly excepting Franklin Richards), and a fighter from the start, his powers were unstable and slowly killing him. He was also [[{{Woobie}} extremely emotionally vulnerable]] and a definite MommasBoy - when he resurrected himself, the first bone he had to pick with Mystique was her making him believe that his then-dead mother was alive.
* MessianicArchetype: What she has become [[MessiahCreep with time]], especially in and after Creator/GrantMorrison's run.
* MindOverMatter: She provides the page image and is one of the most powerful examples in fiction. 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, create durable shields and energy blasts, sometimes even extending to full on molecular manipulation.
* MindRape: When Jean catches Emma Frost and Cyclops in bed (inside of Cyclops' mind), Emma's cavalier response provokes her to psychically tear Emma to shreds, making her relive her worst memories.
* MindlinkMates: with Scott.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her second (and following Hickman's takeover, recent) outfit is a green dress with a miniskirt. It didn't age well, so it's now the colour scheme of the Marvel Girl outfit mixed with the style of her ''X-Men: Red'' uniform.
* ModelingPoses: In the very first ''X-Men'' issue Jean does a fashion pose when she puts on the uniform.
* MoralityChain: Conventional wisdom is that she serves as this for Cyclops, with her compassionate and empathetic nature balancing out his JerkAss[=/=]WellIntentionedExtremist tendencies. Plenty of AlternateUniverse stories (and the mainstream universe once, but we [[DorkAge don't talk about that anymore]]) have shown him going full ComicBook/{{Magneto}} without her to reign him in. However, there is some evidence that she needs him as much as he needs her, as he appears to be the only one who can talk down the Dark Phoenix.
* MoralityPet: She and Scott served as each other's MoralityPet[=s=] before their relationship went south. She helps him to live life and not brood so much, he helps her to calm down and balance the Phoenix's power with her humanity. Once she dies, the gap between Scott and his teammates widens, as she's isn't there to mediate between them any more.
* MsFanservice: Jean is a very beautiful redhead who tends to wear very form-fitting costumes that highlight her very buxom breasts, long muscular yet shapely legs, ripped broad shoulders, and muscular yet voluptuous body.
* MostCommonSuperpower: She has very buxom breasts that are d-cup sizes, especially in the ''[[WesternAnimation/XMen X-Men Animated Series]]''.
* NiceGirl: Alongside ComicBook/NightCrawler, she is often seen to be the kindest, most nurturing and most compassionate of all the X-Men, and a paragon and symbol of the good that Mutants can do for humanity, [[GoodIsNotSoft not a pushover by any means]], though.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: 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."
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* ThePhoenix: Depending on the continuity, or even [[{{Retcon}} the writer at the moment in the main continuity]], she was either the Phoenix itself (later [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Dark Phoenix]]), [[GrandTheftMe possessed by it]], or replaced and impersonated by it at some point. She keeps an equally variable [[TouchedByVorlons connection]] to it from her return onwards. The Phoenix wasn't even originally intended to give her an ability to come BackFromTheDead. Becoming the Phoenix in the ''first'' place was considered her "death and rebirth". None of this helped her overall reputation much, and by now she has become the poster child for DeathIsCheap even by comic book standards.
** Finally, at the end of ''ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection'', she kindly but ''extremely'' firmly tells the Phoenix to go away and leave her alone, as it's not good for either of them.
* PlayingWithFire: Her Phoenix powers give her cosmic pyrokinesis, essentially magic fire.
* PowerIncontinence: When she was a child, she couldn't control her telepathic ability and ended up in a catatonic state. Later on she had a similar problem with the Phoenix Force.
* {{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 [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/x_men_summer_house_floor_plan_5.jpg]] on Krakoa are next to each other[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/logan_scott_and_jean_room_numbers_9.jpg]], 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[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/logan_scott_and_jean_open_room_connections.jpg]].
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* PrimaryColorChampion: Jean has red hair and in the 90s wore a yellow and blue costume.
* PrettyInMink:
** In the 70s, she has a blue winter coat trimmed with gray fur.
** In the early 90s, she buys a white fur coat after she lost her coat coat the previous issue, and she's so excited that she didn't even want the salesman to wrap it up. She just wore it out of the store, gushing about how soft it felt.
** The first time we see her mother, Elaine, she's wearing a brown mink coat. Even a 90s retelling of the X-Men's early years still showed her wearing the coat.
* PsychicPowers: Her main powers aside from Phoenix Force, which mainly include {{Telepathy}} and [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]].
* PunnyName: Perhaps merely by coincidence, Jean has mutant powers because she possesses the X-''gene''.
* Main/RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In an issue of Bizarre Adventures, Jean and her older sister Sara are kidnapped from a boat by Namor villain Attuma. He intends to use them for breeding purposes. They escape using Jean’s powers,but it’s implied this isn’t the first time Attuma has done this. Nor the last.
** Then there are the separate times where Mastermind or Mesmero had Jean completely under their control before other X-Men intervened.
* RedheadInGreen: Some of her costumes have been green. She even designed her first two costume changes, the second being a green MiniDressOfPower (with gold-colored accessories).
* RestrainingBolt: As a young girl, Xavier placed mental blocks in Jean's mind to keep her telepathy from growing out of control. Xavier would later remove these so her telepathy could grow naturally. In certain continuities, though, these mental blocks caused Jean to develop a dark alter ego; this rather than the Phoenix Force being a cosmic entity.
* RoguesGallery: Mesmero, the Morlocks Masque and 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.
* SecretPublicIdentity: The name "Marvel Girl" didn't age well and was dropped decades ago (then recently brought back, to mixed reactions), 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.''
* SensualSpandex: Her Phoenix costumes (green, red, or white) are the least modest compared to her other costumes.
* ShesGotLegs: She has very long muscular yet shapely legs and tends to show them off through her costumes.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Has red hair and green eyes.
** Her mother was retconned into one (She was a brunette at first).
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her dress when she arrives at the mansion, in the first issue, wouldn't look too out of place at a high class party.
** She has several evening dresses when she attends high class events (although usually undercover).
** Her wedding dress was also grand and simple.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: ''All'' of her children are from the future. Though, only Cable she actually helped raise, thanks to Rachel's MentalTimeTravel related assistance.
* SuperpowerLottery: She gets this, but she went mad with power. Now Jean didn't actually have that much power after she fused with the Phoenix Force, but then [[RunningTheAsylum she suddenly is more powerful than ever before, and more dangerous]]: Jean Grey ''alone'' can lift upwards of twenty tons with her brain. With limited Phoenix power, she can use external objects as a sense of touch and recompose matter at a molecular level. [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Unhinged]], she can teleport anywhere in the universe at will and devour stars. Then it turns out she has ''[[PhysicalGod one more]]'' level beyond that where she can exist outside of reality proper and has total control over space and time itself. On top of all that, if you kill her she comes back basically whenever she feels like it. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
* TalkingToThemself: In ''Jean Grey'' #7, Ghost Jean holds a conversation with her younger self. Ghost Jean notes with irony her younger self doesn't want to appear she's talking to herself as she's actually literally talking to herself.
* TeamMom: The oldest example in ComicBook/XMen. Even when they were still teens, Jean would do things like enforce proper table manners among her teammates.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jean was the only girl of the original X-Men team.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She gives a scathing one to [[spoiler:her time displaced younger self in Issue 6 of her solo.]]
-->'''Jean Grey''': [[spoiler: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.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the early days of the X-Men, Jean was explicitly labelled the weakest member of the team. One little shuttle accident later, and Jean became capable of punching former Heralds of Galactus across Manhattan, grabbing passing asteroids, and restructuring clothing out of nothing. Even once that turned out to be a Phoenix duplicate, most of the levels in badass still remained when the real Jean came back - she was capable of flying through hyperspace, for one thing, and on a smaller scale she can crush bones telekinetically. Teen Jean, meanwhile, has proved capable of going toe to toe with Gladiator and creatures that give Namor trouble.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Jean's telepathy first came in when her best friend was struck and killed by a car right in front of her, with Jean feeling every second of it.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Some of her outfits are blue, including the civilian dress she wears in her very first appearance.
* UniquenessDecay: She was the first and only human that bonded with the Phoenix. Then it turned out Feron did centuries before, then Avengers vs X-Men introduced Fongji Wu, ''then'' a Phoenix host in 10,000,000 BC.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Cyclops when they're not together; sometimes with Wolverine.
* UnstablePoweredWoman: She was a heroic member of the ComicBook/XMen up until the events of ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', where she is possessed by [[SentientCosmicForce the Phoenix Force]], one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. While she initially handles this new power well, Jean is targeted by the supervillain Mastermind, who shatters her control over them in a mental battle. This causes her to lose it and become Dark Phoenix, an intergalactic menace who casually indirectly kills billions of people by devouring a star, and by doing so paints a big target on her back. This storyline was extremely influential, and many comics storylines parallel or homage this directly.
* UnwantedHarem: She was the only girl in the group for years. She's also been the target of villain's affections, as well. Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind) wasn't above committing MindRape to get her to fall in love with him.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Since 1963, Jean and Scott live in a constant cycle where they're unsure whether a relationship is a good idea or they should stay just friends, they get together, live happy for a while until one of them dies temporarily or something makes them break up, and the cycle begins anew.
* WinterRoyalLady: Conversed a bit. After she bought her fur, she and Scott had a SnowballFight with [[MundaneUtility their powers]], and Jean jokingly called herself "the Queen of the Icy North!".
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** Played straight initially as host of Phoenix Force, until it's inverted in ''New X-Men''. It's implied that Jean only lost control because she was afraid of her power before, and repressed it. Now, she's out and proud, and completely in control of herself. Sadly, she's killed there.
** Also, it's frequently ignored by fans and writers that the though she had to fight her anti-heroic urges she was actually in control for a ''very'' long time, only becoming Dark Phoenix after Mastermind and Emma Frost put a ''lot'' of time and effort into their MoreThanMindControl of her to get her to join the Hellfire Club. It worked ''too'' well and we all know what happened next.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Jean as Phoenix can be quite witty and sarcastic when she wants to be. This character trait lingers.

Her power set is simple: telekinesis and telepathy. Her look is simple, but dynamic--[[RedheadInGreen her hair is red and voluminous, her suit is emerald.]] She has a place as Professor X's particular protegee, the only telepath whose potential might match his. And when that potential ''is'' tapped, you have one of the most powerful X-Men of all.

Jean eventually accepts Rachel as her daughter, who also requests Jean to take the codename Phoenix. After some time, she also accepts Scott's marriage proposal (which she previously rejected) and during their honeymoon, they had MentalTimeTravel to the distant future, which allowed them to raise young Nathan. During this time, Scott and Jean used fake names, Slym and Redd Dayspring, respectively, to hide their identity. It's revealed that Rachel was responsible for the time travel by using her powers because she wants them to protect and raise Nathan. Back in the present, Jean and Scott revealed to Cable that they had raised him in the future as Redd and Slym Dayspring. Cable had known for some time and was waiting for them to be ready to tell him. They were pleased to be reunited as a family again. During ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'', Jean also met her other alternate reality child, Nate Grey a.k.a. ComicBook/XMan (and is essentially younger Cable), who accidentally resurrects Madelyne in a subconscious attempt to reach out to his "mother", Jean. Despite responsible bringing for her rival back into her life, Jean parted with her son on good terms.

Scott is later possessed by Apocalypse and apparently killed. But Jean believes he may be still alive. She's helped by Cable in rescuing and freeing Scott from the possession. But, during the events in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', Scott isn't feeling very well due to Apocalypse's possession and this is when their marriage begin to fall apart, especially after the "psychic affair" between him and ComicBook/EmmaFrost, fellow member and reformed supervillainess. Ultimately, though, Jean realizes that Emma truly loves him. And when Emma was shot and [[LiterallyShatteredLives literally shattered]] in her organic diamond form by Esme Cuckoo, Jean helped repairing Emma at the molecular level, displaying incredible telekinetic power. Later, she's tricked by ComicBook/{{Magneto}} impostor, Kuan-Yin Xorn, along with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who has long-time one-sided crush on her. They ended up trapped on Asteroid M, drifting closer to the Sun. The Phoenix Force within Jean is reawakened when Wolverine tried to {{Mercy Kill}}ed her. Jean and Wolverine returned to Earth to face Xorn. But Xorn managed to (physically) kill her with an electromagnetic pulse which causes her to have a planetary-scale stroke. An enraged Wolverine soon avenges her by [[OffWithHisHead decapitating]] Xorn.

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''. After a period of haunting her younger self, she was [[ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection brought back to life once again (and told the Phoenix very politely, but very firmly, to leave her alone)]], and led [[ComicBook/XMenRed her own team of X-Men]]. After confronting her son, [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], after he'd apparently pulled a complete FaceHeelTurn and [[AGodAmI come to see himself as a god]] (the truth was a little more complicated) in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', she tried to talk him down and he revealed that [[spoiler: he was dying and desperately trying to do something good before he died (like save the world, whether it wanted it or not)]], like all the other X-Men she was pulled into his new reality - the ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan''. After identifying the inconsistencies and confronting him, [[GracefulLoser Nate accepted his mistakes and released her and the other X-Men]] (some of whom [[JerkassHasAPoint felt he had a point]]), she became a key part of the [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen X-Men's new status quo]] - a member of Krakoa's Quiet Council.

* MamaBear: Averted with Rachel, who is a psi of talent close to or ''exceeding'' her mother's own. Baby can take care of herself and Mama knows it too well. Plus, Mama's [[FirstLawofResurrection dead a lot.]]

** Also played straight towards [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], since while he's probably the strongest mutant in the Marvel Universe (possibly excepting Franklin Richards), his powers were unstable and slowly killing him. More to the point, while he could fight, he was [[{{Woobie}} extremely emotionally vulnerable]] and a definite MommasBoy. Jean was one of the only people who could get through to him when he was being stubborn, and 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. During ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', after his FaceHeelTurn, she's pretty much the one person who can actually get through to him, managing to engage him in a philosophical discussion, and being the only person (aside from Armor, with an ArmourPiercingQuestion) to crack his calm and detached facade when he tried to claim that he saw her as a GlorifiedSpermDonor. It was pretty obvious that he was lying, as was revealed shortly afterwards.

* MiniDressOfPower: Her second (and following Hickman's takeover, current) outfit is a green dress with a miniskirt.

->-- '''Jean Grey''', ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #120

Jean Grey, also known with the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and White Phoenix of the Crown, is a Creator/MarvelComics character and one of five original members of the ComicBook/XMen in Franchise/MarvelUniverse. As such, she is first introduced in the very first X-Men comics, that is ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1 #1 in 1963. She's created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everybody thinks the Phoenix Force is turning me into some kind of cosmic destroyer, but it's not like that. I have trouble with the rushes, but I'm okay, really. I think I can make things right here."''//Art by Russell Dauterman.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Everybody thinks the Phoenix Force is turning me into some kind of cosmic destroyer, but it's not like that. I have trouble with the rushes, but I'm okay, really. I think I can make things right here."'' Art by Russell Dauterman.]]

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[[caption-width-right:297:''"Everybody thinks the Phoenix Force is turning me into some kind of cosmic destroyer, but it's not like that. I have trouble with the rushes, but I'm okay, really. I think I can make things right here."'' Art by Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau]]

* ''Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2'' (2009): Appears as a playable hero. Voiced by Molly Hagan.