Jean Grey in other media

Jean Grey is a member of the X-Men, and has been included in almost every media adaptation of the X-Men franchise, including film, television and video games.

Adaptations of Jean Grey in other media
Created byStan Lee
Jack Kirby
Original sourceComics published by Marvel Comics
First appearanceX-Men #1 (September 1963)
Films and television
Film(s)X-Men (2000)
X2 (2003)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
The Wolverine (2013)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Dark Phoenix (2019)
Television
show(s)		X-Men (1992)
X-Men: Evolution (2000)
Wolverine and the X-Men (2008)
Games
Video game(s)X-Men Legends (2004)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (2005)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009)
Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (2011)

Television and visual media

Early TV appearances

X-Men
Jean Grey as Phoenix in the X-Men animated series.

Jean Grey-Summers is a central character in the mid-1990s X-Men animated television series, voiced by Catherine Disher. As in the comics, she was in a relationship with Cyclops, eventually marrying Cyclops while being the target of Wolverine's unrequited affection. For the most part, she was a warm, friendly person who when necessary stepped in and played peace maker between Cyclops and Wolverine. As far as her relationship with Cyclops was concerned, they were very happy and content with each other, in stark contrast to Gambit and Rogue often fighting and bickering. The entire saga of the Phoenix is retold and adapted in season three, subdivided into the five-part "Phoenix Saga" in which Jean acquires the power of the Phoenix and the battle for the M'Kraan Crystal occurs, and the "Dark Phoenix Saga", showcasing the battle with the Hellfire Club, the Phoenix's transformation into Dark Phoenix (voiced by Tracey Moore), and the battle to decide her fate. These particular episodes are as close as the cartoon came to directly duplicating the comic book storylines – the "Dark Phoenix Saga" is so accurate to the original stories that the episodes have the additional credit "Based on stories by Chris Claremont". She also appears in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series in first the fourth and fifth episodes of season two along with the rest of the X-Men.

X-Men: Evolution
Jean Grey in X-Men: Evolution.

Jean Grey appears as a central character in the animated TV series X-Men: Evolution, voiced by Venus Terzo. She is a popular soccer player, and also teaches and trains the mutant students of Xavier Institute. She wears a black suit with green accent. Since she is a telepath, she's the one who operates Cerebro aside from Professor Xavier. When humans found out about the existence of mutants, Jean was accused of using her psionic powers for things that she successfully accomplished without using her powers, such as playing basketball in school. At one point, Jean lost control of her powers which caused her to be uncontrollably read people's minds telepathically. The X-Men were having a hard time trying to help her, but luckily Rogue was present and used her own powers to drain enough of Jean's energy for Scott to prompt her to focus on Scott. Jean has a fear of clowns, to which Mesmero uses this to take control of her mind, so she could do the villain's bidding.

Jean's personality is cheerful, slightly tomboyish, short-tempered, with a sort-of jealous streak and some insecurity issues that would appear later in the series. She possesses the power of telekinesis and telepathy, initially only being able to move objects with her hand. She can remote-view others, be in psychic rapport with others and can tell if another speaks the truth. Later on, her telekinetic powers greatly strengthened and increased to the extent that she can now move multiple objects as heavy as a helicopter without effort and create psionic blasts that can render a person unconscious within a few seconds. She is capable of flight at high altitudes and with intense concentration can divert the water flowing from a dam while in flight. At the start of the series, she dated popular but unpleasant football player, Duncan Matthews while struggling with growing and strengthening love feelings for her longtime friend and teammate, Scott Summers. In the third season, Jean finally severed ties with Duncan and began a strong and close romantic relationship with Scott; after saving Scott from nearly being murdered by Mystique.

When Professor X became Apocalypse's horseman, Jean fought her mentor mind-to-mind, after Apocalypse's defeat, Professor X had had a prophetic vision that Jean would eventually become possessed by the almighty Phoenix Force within her and become the X-Men's most terrible of enemies. Had the show continued with a fifth season, it probably would have focused on the Dark Phoenix saga.

Wolverine and the X-Men
Jean Grey and Scott Summers in Wolverine and the X-Men.

Jean Grey appears in Wolverine and the X-Men, voiced by Jennifer Hale, as a supporting character. After a mysterious explosion at the Institute, Jean was lost and the X-Men disbanded until Wolverine reformed the X-Men. Mr. Sinister fooled Cyclops in to thinking that Jean was in the villain's clutches but of course it was only a set-up. Unknown to anyone, Jean was in a hospital. When she finally awoke, the doctors asked for her name but she could not remember anything.

Jean's past was revealed and she is shown in her teenage years being confronted by Magneto and Professor X, ultimately joining the X-Men, becoming part of the original five that included Angel, Iceman, Beast and Cyclops. Magneto then tried to force Jean to join by attacking the X-Men, but she fought and defeated Magneto, forcing the extremist to admit that she was much stronger than originally thought. Specifically, Jean prevented Magneto from crushing a visorless Cyclops with a bus and using her telekinetic powers to restrain Cyclops's optic beams, then telepathically guided Cyclops aiming at Magneto, blasting Magneto's helmet off; it was around this time that she apparently developed a romantic relationship with Scott Summers. After working at the Institute for a few years, Logan develops a huge romantic crush on her at first sight. Scott and Logan confront each other regarding this matter, which ended with Jean scolding Scott for lashing out at Wolverine. In the pilot, she is still shown berating Scott for poor behavior towards Wolverine and demands that Scott apologize.

Back in the present time, Jean is being helped by the nurse Marjorie on trying to recall her name. Marjorie starts speaking name after name and would not stop even though Jean asked her to. Jean became confused and not realizing what she was doing, lost control of her telekinetic powers. This caught Emma Frost's attention when it registered on Cerebro and went to pick her up with Cyclops. Meanwhile, Jean is being chased by the MRD in the hospital and, once cornered, ratted out by Marjorie, she unintentionally manifested her enormously powerful Phoenix abilities in the heat of her fear and hopelessness, which caused an intense psionic wave that affected almost the entire city. Archangel, under Mr. Sinister's command, went to capture Jean but Cyclops and Emma intervened. They soon discovered that the reason why Jean was not in mental contact with Scott was because she had no memory of Scott. Archangel pursued them as they tried to get Jean home, Cyclops desperately fought him, but in the end both he and Jean were captured so that Sinister could take samples of their DNA for his experiments. The X-Men came to rescue them and fought the Marauders, but just as Archangel is about to kill Cyclops, Jean manifests her immensely powerful Phoenix Force abilities and defeats him. Scott was able to calm her down and take her to the Institute for rest and promised her that she would regain her memories in conjunction with Emma's help. Everyone at the institute then became unconscious, except Emma, an undercover agent of the Hellfire Club who now had Jean, and therefore the Phoenix Force itself, in their hands.

The Hellfire Club was then able to claim Jean as one of their members. By using the combined telepathic powers of both Emma and the Stepford Cuckoos, they mentally tricked Jean into doing what they wanted by using images of Scott and Professor X. But the mental contact was interrupted by Scott's unusually strong psychic/telepathic connection to Jean. The Stepford Cuckoos then tried to release the Phoenix Force so they could be hosts, and seemingly succeeded. Emma was shocked when she learned the true purpose was for the Inner Circle to control the vastly limitless power and energy of the Phoenix when she originally thought that they were trying to release the Phoenix back into space to prevent the world from destruction. Jean and Cyclops then left to fight the Phoenix, but not before Jean angrily pinned Emma to the wall and telekinetically bound Emma with iron pipes after seeing Emma passionately kiss Cyclops (leading her to suspect that Emma may have plotted to steal Cyclops from her). Jean was unable to subdue the Phoenix herself, prompting Cyclops to attack the cosmic entity, only to be struck down as Jean watched in horror. Before the Phoenix could kill Cyclops, Emma, freed by Wolverine, arrived and took the Phoenix Force into herself, seemingly dying in the process by shattering into several diamond fragments. Jean has rejoined the X-Men and her memories have since returned and appeared to have reconciled with Cyclops.

The Super Hero Squad Show

Jean Grey appears in The Super Hero Squad Show, voiced by Hynden Walch. In the episode "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant Academy", she is the only cheerleader at X-Men academy. After she becomes a victim of Ringmaster, she still shows her peppy side in her cheers (Call me Phoenix, call me Jean. Red-haired, mutant, prom night queen. I'll rap you with a mental hurl, if you call me Marvel Girl! Go Mutants!), after she's done her cheer she uses the Phoenix Force and creates a heavy windstorm in the hallway to open the lockers and find a fractal while under Ringmaster's control. Oddly while the comic book cover intro for the episode shows Jean wearing a childlike version of her classic Phoenix costume, she wears a cheerleader uniform with a X-logo in the actual episode. She also makes an appearance in the episode "Ice Man Cometh" where she is telekinetically keeping the water from the melted ice caps from hitting the school.

X-Men Anime
Jean Grey in Marvel Anime: X-Men.

Jean Grey appears in Marvel Anime: X-Men, voiced by Yurika Hino in Japanese and again by Jennifer Hale in the English dub, at the beginning of the series, she is consumed by the Phoenix Force and nearly destroys the world with her tremendous strength and power, the X-Men engage in a brief battle with her, until she ultimately sacrifices herself to save the world, although she dies, she assists the X-Men with conflicts through a strong telepathic link in later episodes, such as saving Professor X from hallucinations and appears as the White Phoenix of the Crown, encouraging the X-Men to keep on fighting to save the world, she was in a strong and close romantic relationship with Cyclops, and had a necklace with a ruby stone with gold in the shape of a phoenix, which was a gift from Cyclops, the necklace was then given to Hisako as a sign that Cyclops can finally let Jean go, as he recognizes her sacrifice as a symbol of love for her friends and the world. Her Dark Phoenix persona is taken from X-Men: The Last Stand where her face is full of dark veins and her eyes become entirely black.

Iron Man: Armored Adventures

Jean Grey appears in Iron Man: Armored Adventures, with Venus Terzo reprising the role. In this series, she is under the alias Annie Claremont (a composite homage to her friend Annie Richardson's death that triggered her powers and Dark Phoenix Saga writer Chris Claremont). She temporarily enrolls in the same school Tony Stark, James Rhodes and Pepper Potts attend while looking for a special school for mutants in the area, and after telepathically learning about Tony and Rhodey's secret, she confides in them. Tony and Rhodes, after sympathizing with her, rush to her aid when she is kidnapped and coerced by Magneto to assassinate rabid anti-mutant politician Senator Kelly. After defeating Magneto with the help of her new friends, she is approached by Professor Charles Xavier offering her a place in the institute.

Film

Famke Janssen portrays Jean Grey/Phoenix in several X-Men feature films, while Sophie Turner portrays a younger depiction in the prequel film series.

X-Men
Main article: X-Men (film)

Jean is introduced in the first film as a doctor at Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted, as well as a speaker for mutants' rights. She unsuccessfully campaigns against Senator Robert Kelly's Mutant Registration Act. At the mansion, she is introduced to Logan/Wolverine who shows an attraction to her, which she seems to reciprocate, if slightly, due to her relationship with Scott Summers. She analyses Logan's skeleton and attempts to read his mind to uncover some of the memories. Later in the film, she treats Kelly himself after he is transformed into a mutant by Magneto's machine, though he dies soon after. She also fixes Cerebro, after Mystique sabotages it to injure Xavier, and makes the fateful choice to use the machine herself to find Rogue, though the experience drains her. In the film's climactic battle against the Brotherhood of Mutants, Jean and Storm battle Toad, though Jean is incapacitated when Toad spits solid slime in her face. She nearly suffocates but is saved by Cyclops. She later telepathically aids Cyclops in regaining his visor to defeat Sabretooth, and uses her telekinesis to guide Wolverine to Magneto's machine, freeing Rogue moments before Brotherhood's plan was accomplished. After Magneto's machine is destroyed, Jean appears to be visibly "shaken" by the energy emitted from it. Following the battle, while treating Logan again, Logan admits feelings for her; she attempts to turn them down politely, but Logan quickly changes the subject, while kissing her hand.

X2
Main article: X2 (film)

Janssen's depiction continues to work at Xavier's School, while her powers have slowly been growing unstable since the battle at Liberty Island. Following an assassination attempt on the President by a mutant, Nightcrawler, Jean and Storm are sent by Xavier to track him down. They find him in an abandoned church and realise he was acting under mind control. After Colonel William Stryker attacks the school and most of the mutants are forced to flee, Logan contacts Jean to pick him, Rogue, Iceman and Pyro up in Boston; they arrive just after a fight with the police which leads to the air force chasing after the Blackbird. Despite Storm's best efforts at shaking the fighter jets, one is able to launch two target-locked missiles at the Blackbird. When the team realizes what has happened, Jean falls into a trance and taps into her increasing abilities with startling results: her hair blows back from her face, her skin flushes with an almost fire-like glow, and her eyes burn with red flames as she telekinetically destroys one of the missiles with apparent ease. Shocked at what she's done and exhausted by the sudden power fluctuation, Jean loses her control and the other missile hits the Blackbird. They are then saved by Magneto and Mystique, who offer their aid in stopping Stryker from using Xavier to kill all the world's mutants with a second Cerebro. While camping, Logan makes a pass at Jean, who gently turns him down. Logan is later seduced by Jean, though he discovers it was Mystique in disguise.

As the X-Men storm Stryker's base on Alkali lake, Jean accompanies Magneto and Mystique to open the second Cerebro chamber, but Jean is forced to fight a brainwashed Cyclops. When Cyclops unleashes the full power of his optic blasts, a power that, according to Jean earlier could potentially "punch a hole through a mountain", Jean erects a psychic shield and once more unleashes the full extent of her power; her eyes once more burn red and a fiery corona of energy surrounds her as she blasts Cyclops away. The sheer force of the explosion of the two's powers causes a deep crack in the dam itself, and sends the two combatants flying across the room from each other. Jean's blast woke Scott from his trance, though she injures her leg. They reunite with their friends and discover that Magneto fooled Stryker's son, Jason, into manipulating Xavier to kill all humans instead of mutants, though they foil the plan. As they make their way back to the X-jet, the controls are damaged due to the base falling apart. Jean unleashes her fully developed powers: she begins to fix the Blackbird's technical problems, locks all forms of exit to prevent a rescue attempt from distracting her from what needs to be done even preventing Nightcrawler from teleporting to her, and telepathically possesses Professor Xavier in order to say goodbye to her loved ones. She then creates a massive psychic barrier and holds back the entire wave of Alkali Lake, all while lifting the repaired Blackbird out of harm's way. Jean's eyes burn red and her entire body is engulfed in powerful psychic flames as she uses the last of her power to fly her friends to safety before a look of complete peace engulfs her as she drops her hands, allowing the rushing water to finish its work and is apparently killed by the flood, devastating both Logan and Cyclops. However, at the end of the film, the shape of a phoenix is seen.

X-Men: The Last Stand
Main article: X-Men: The Last Stand
Famke Janssen as Jean Grey / Phoenix in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Haley Ramm portrayed Jean's first meeting with Charles Xavier and Magneto is shown in a flashback taking place twenty years before the events of the first film. In the present day, the X-Men, particularly Scott and Logan, continue to mourn Jean's death. After hearing Jean's voice, Scott travels alone to Alkali lake, where he encounters Jean herself, having survived the flood. They kiss passionately, but Scott suddenly vanishes. Xavier senses it and sends Logan and Storm to Alkali, finding Jean unconscious but alive and taking her back to the mansion, where Xavier reveals to a shocked Logan that due to the instability of Jean's powers, he created psychic barriers inside her mind to prevent her alternate personality, the destructive Phoenix, from taking over. Jean awakens shortly after in front of Logan; they almost make love before Logan discovers she is not herself. Though Jean begs Logan to kill her, the Phoenix takes over and knocks Logan out before leaving the mansion for her childhood home. Both the X-Men and the Brotherhood track her down; though Xavier attempts to placate Jean, the Phoenix takes over again and vaporises Xavier, destroying most of the house, and joins the Brotherhood under Magneto while still distrusting him. Jean, however, manages to psychically call for Logan, seeing him as the only one able stop the Phoenix. Logan goes after her but is defeated by Magneto.

Jean witnesses the film's climactic battle sequence on Alcatraz Island between the X-Men and the military and the Brotherhood, but refuses to obey Magneto. After Magneto is defeated, Jean is almost pacified by Logan, but the military's reinforcements arrive and open fire on the X-Men, causing the Phoenix to resurface and devastate Alcatraz Island, wiping out the military and most of Magneto's army. Magneto and the X-Men escape while Logan stays behind to reach Jean, his healing factor keeping him from being vaporised completely. Jean temporarily regains control and begs Logan to save her; he stabs her fatally after telling her he loves her. She is buried on the school grounds next to the graves of Xavier and Scott.

The Wolverine
Main article: The Wolverine (film)

Logan continues to be haunted by dreams of his role in Jean's death. However, in the film's climax, after saving his new lover, Mariko Yashida from the Silver Samurai, Logan has a final vision of Jean in which he finally lets go of her while telling her that he will always love her.

X-Men: Days of Future Past
Main article: X-Men: Days of Future Past

The time-displaced Wolverine encourages the young Charles Xavier to later recruit Jean for the future team, along with Ororo Munroe and Scott, arguing that the good they accomplished outweighs the bad they experienced. Commentary in the film confirms that the young red-haired girl's identity in the field who was marveling at Magneto levitating the Robert F. Kennedy stadium was in fact her character as a young child. When the timeline reset, Logan is astonished to discover that Jean and Cyclops are alive and well in the new timeline, suggesting that the events of the original X-Men films played out very differently.[1]

Sophie Turner portrays Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).

X-Men: Apocalypse

A younger version of Jean, alongside teenage versions of Scott and Ororo, appears in X-Men: Apocalypse.[2] Now blue-eyed with long, loosely curled orange hair, this new variation of Jean had been located and enrolled sometime prior to the movie, as she, now in her mid-teens, is introduced as already being a student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. When Alex Summers brings his younger brother to the school after his own optic laser blast powers had manifested, Scott bumped into Jean, as he couldn't see due to being blindfolded. Jean drops the many books, binders, and papers she held, but instantly we watch as this new incarnation of Jean telekinetically pulls them back into her hands, exhibiting seemingly little effort, which seems to imply that the Professor has left her mind unbarred. She gets mad at this, but apologizes as Scott explains he can't exactly look where he's going. Later, Jean is studying by a tree when Scott attempts to talk to her. Seeing the other students show fear, Jean explains that they're afraid of her because they are aware of her full powers, and therefore is treated as an outcast. Jean is affected by the energy wave released by an ancient, god-like mutant who had awakened that day.

This causes Jean to have a nightmare of the world ending during which the entire school shakes, most of the students are awoken from sleep, and the Professor hurries to her room to find that her telekinetic powers, already immensely strong, are quite literally burning the walls of her room. Telepathically reaching into Jean's mind to awaken her - an act that causes Charles a sizeable amount of pain - the wooden walls cease to burn and to emit smoke, and the Professor slumps back, substantially exhausted now. The powerful young psychic is reassured by Xavier that she is not losing control of her powers, despite her doubts. When the mansion is destroyed, she comforts Scott over the loss of his own brother and conceals herself, Scott, and Nightcrawler from Stryker's men. While in Stryker's base, she connects with Weapon X (Wolverine) and releases him from his cell. Before he, fearfully, leaves the complex Jean restores the few remaining memories of his that she can. She then joins the fight in Cairo. She telekinetically protects the group from Angel's metal wings.

After Xavier is saved, he mentally links with her and reveals to Apocalypse that he is not the most powerful psychic, and convinces Jean to unleash the full extent of her powers. Her eyes glowing with fiery light, the powerful young Mutant walks through midair and within a matter of seconds, a massive burst of telekinetic energy (combined with fire generated by Magneto piling metal into Apocalypses' shields) explode outward from within Jean's body, almost instantaneously taking the shape of a great, fiery bird. Her powerful telekinesis dispels Apocalypse's shield, and aided with Cyclops, Storm and Magneto, they weaken the Apocalypse altogether. Until finally, as she gets more powerful, the fire reaches to Apocalypse's physical body, and she incinerates Apocalypse before calming down. She helps to psychically restore and revive Professor Xavier. She is last seen helping to re-build the mansion, alongside Erik Lensherr, before joining Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, under the leadership of Hank and Raven, to become the new official team of X-Men and preparing to test her powers in her very first Danger Room session against a group of Mark I Sentinels.

Logan

Five years after the events of Days of Future Past, it is revealed that many of the X-Men, including Jean, have all been accidentally killed by Xavier's first telepathic seizure. In a deleted scene, while eating with the Munson family, Logan is asked if he has ever been married. In his grief, and not remembering what truly happened, but rather loosely interpreting the events of X-Men: The Last Stand from the original timeline, Xavier claims that Jean was Logan's wife whom Logan killed by accident. Logan laughs and claims Xavier is confused, but is still shown to be visibly shaken by Jean's death.

Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2 features an Easter egg to Jean Grey's alter-ego "Phoenix" with a moving truck company called "Phoenix Moving" in the film. She is absent from the X-Men's roster in their cameo, implying she hasn't returned yet since leaving Earth in 1992.

Dark Phoenix

Turner reprises her role in the 2019 film Dark Phoenix, which more faithfully adapts The Dark Phoenix Saga. Taking place in 1992, 9 years after X-Men: Apocalypse, the X-Men are hailed as national heroes thanks to their defeat of En Sabah Nur. However, the X-Men are going on more increasingly risky missions and during a rescue mission in space, the Phoenix inside Jean is unleashed after she is struck by a solar flare.[3]

Video games
  • Marvel Girl appeared as a playable character in X-Men II: The Fall of the Mutants for the PC.[4]
  • Jean Grey was a supporting character in the X-Men video game for the Sega Genesis and levitates living characters from falls into fatal pits.
  • Jean Grey appeared as a non-playable character in Cyclops's and Wolverine's endings in the arcade game X-Men: Children of the Atom.
  • Jean Grey appeared as a playable character in X-Men: Gamemaster's Legacy for the Sega Game Gear; she is in her blue-and-gold uniform and is one of the games flying characters and fires powerful psi-blasts.
  • Phoenix was a playable character in X-Men: Mutant Academy, again voiced by Catherine Disher for the Sony PlayStation.
  • Phoenix reappears in the sequel X-Men: Mutant Academy 2.
  • Jean Grey is playable in X-Men: Next Dimension for the PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube, voiced by Jenette Goldstein. Phoenix and Dark Phoenix appear as separate playable characters.
  • Jean Grey appears as a playable character in X-Men Legends and X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, voiced by Leigh-Allyn Baker. Her Phoenix persona is also a playable character and her Dark Phoenix persona appears exclusively in the game's PSP version.
  • Phoenix has a small part in X-Men: The Official Game, voiced by Katherine Morgan.
  • In X-Men: Destiny, Phoenix is shown to have been slain like Professor X.
  • Jean Grey appears as a playable character in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, voiced by Tara Strong. Her Marvel Girl persona possesses Telepathic and Telekinetic Powers which are pink in color and has the ability to fly. Her Phoenix design (the green and gold costume, the Dark Phoenix costume and the White Phoenix costume) has powers that include shooting fireballs, firebirds, fire jets, healing and the ability to fly.
  • Jean Grey is briefly mentioned by Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
  • Phoenix appears as a playable character in the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance. Her moveset includes Psi-blast, Telekinesis, Mind Link and Phoenix Fire which are continuously obtained at the beginning, level 2, level 6, and finally level 9.
  • Phoenix appears as a playable character in the fighting game Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, voiced by Laura Bailey.
  • Jean Grey is a playable character in the MMORPG Marvel Heroes, voiced by April Stewart.[5][6]
  • Jean Grey is a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced again by Laura Bailey. Her alternate outfits are a 1990s variant, Phoenix variant and a PS3/360 pre-order exclusive Dark Phoenix variant.
  • Phoenix appears as a playable character in Marvel: Contest of Champions.
  • Phoenix appears as a playable character in 2015 game Marvel: Future Fight. She appears as a special character begins with native Tier-2, and needs to advance Rogue, Storm, Cyclops, Magneto, and Wolverine into Tier-2 to unlock her. She currently has 2 uniforms: Phoenix & X-Men Red uniform. As Phoenix, her attacks are mainly energy & flame damage, while in X-Men Red uniform her attacks are mainly energy & mind damage. She currently is the only female mutant who can advance into Tier-3, and her ultimate attack is called "Revelation" where she flies upwards with cosmic flames emerging in her vicinity, before summoning Phoenix Force & burning enemies even more. Her ultimate attack deals flame damage.
  • Jean Grey is available as a playable character in the match-three mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest. Two versions are separate playable characters: the time-shifted younger version from All-New X-Men was added to the game in July 2015,[7] and the rarer Phoenix version became available in November 2015.[8]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance series

Jean Grey appears in the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series of games.

  • Phoenix appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, voiced by Sarah Waits. She is a NPC for the every versions, but Game Boy Advance version where she is one of the strikers. In the primary gameplay versions, she is initially kidnapped by Arcade putting her under mind control and forces her to battle the player's team. After she is rescued, she assists the player's mission to rescue Nightcrawler from Mephisto's realm, only to be captured by Blackheart in the process. After defeating Blackheart, the player has the choice to save either Jean or Nightcrawler, since saving one results in the other's death. If Nightcrawler was rescued, then Jean will be resurrected by Mephisto (this will occur during the game). After you defeat Phoenix during the fight against Mephisto, Jean Grey-Summers dismisses herself as an echo of her past self and sacrifices her life to defeat Mephisto. In the end of the game, it is revealed if the player let Jean die, she will return as the Dark Phoenix and exact her revenge on those who did not save her. On a side note, she has special dialogue with Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Invisible Woman, and Cyclops. On the game's PC Version, Jean is available as a playable Mod character from Marvel Mods. There are several versions of Jean which give her different powersets. These include powersets from the 1990s, Morrison's Run, current Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, and Goblin Queen. She also has powersets based on her XML2 and MUA2 (both the Xbox 360/PS3 and the PSP/PS2/WII) versions. She has many costumes including all her Phoenix costumes, Marvel Girl, Original X-Men, First Class, Black Queen, Maddie Pryor, AOA, Ultimate, 1990s, Here Comes Tomorrow, New X-Men, Evolution, Movie, X-Factor, as well as many custom costumes. On PC mod patch provided by Marvel Mods that both Jean Grey and Nightcrawler can be saved from the Void by a telekinetic user (mainly Magneto by default), then both Jean and Nightcrawler manage to catch up with their four allies, whose having a trouble defeating Mephisto due to his realm is a source of his unlimited power, leaving Jean, whose Phoenix Force can match Mephisto's power finishes the demon lord for good, and with the two X-Men are finally returned safely.
  • Jean Grey appears as a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Molly Hagan. This game appears to retcon Jean and Nightcrawler's previous fates depends on the player's choices in the previous game. She can be unlocked by collecting 5 shards of the M'Kraan Crystal. Her default costume is her Phoenix costume. She uses telepathy, telekinesis, and the power of the Phoenix. Jean's alternate costume is her X-Men: First Class costume and she fits in the X-Men, Masters of Energy, Repentant Killers, Natural Leaders, and Femme Fatales team bonuses. Since she is a playable character in this game, her fate in the first game is non-canon. In the game she has a special conversation with Cable, however, this conversation is only available if you pick Anti-Registration in the game, it deals on their family relationship and the status on the Civil War. Jean also has the unique ability to possibly resurrect herself from the dead in both versions of the game. In-game, whenever Jean picks up an object the object hovers, giving the effect that Jean is holding the object with her tk. During her block, whenever she is hit by a projectile a telekinetic shield is partially visible. There is quite a difference in the PS2/PSP/Wii version of her and her Xbox 360/PS3 version. In the former, Jean's telekinesis and telepathy is in the form of her pink energy signature, along with some fiery powers, and most of the animations are completely from X-Men Legends II. She also harnesses the signature Phoenix raptor during fusions. In the latter version, all of Jean's powers are fiery energy, including her telekinesis and telepathy. No Phoenix Raptor is in this version of her. Jean is not playable in the DS Version. Jean also appears on the back of the MUA2 cover for all versions. For some reason on the back of the cover she possess the fiery mane type of hair that she had under the artistic work of Phil Jimenez and Greg Land, but in the actual game, she has straight hair.
  • Jean Grey returns as a downloadable playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3, this time goes by her well-known codename, Phoenix. Her Dark Phoenix form is the antagonist of the X-Men DLC pack where Jean is included alongside three other X-Men (Iceman, Gambit, and Cable). Jennifer Hale reprises her role from Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel Anime: X-Men. Phoenix's default costume is her green and gold "Phoenix" costume, and her alternative costume is her red and gold "Dark Phoenix" costume. Phoenix's other costume includes her Marvel Girl costume. Phoenix's abilities in the game include a mixture of fiery abilities mixed with her telekinetic abilities. Phoenix is able to revive herself and other team members by using her ultimate attack.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Jean Grey-Summers (under the name of "Phoenix") appears in the crossover fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds as a playable character, voiced once again by Jennifer Hale. She is widely considered to be one of, if not, the most powerful character in the game winning many major tournaments and being played by many high level players. She has the lowest vitality of any character in the game, a little less than half of the next lowest health characters, but compensates for this by having tremendous damage output. She can teleport at distances, use telekinesis for her throw attacks, and heal her red-damage life bar with Healing Field Level 1 hyper (by getting close to enemies). Her main projectile attack is TK Shot, a cosmic fireball that varies in speed depending on the button pressed. Her one and only offensive Hyper Combo is Phoenix Rage, where she shoots a huge cosmic Phoenix raptor at her enemy, heavily burning enemy at contact. If her lifebar is emptied with the Hyper Combo gauge at maximum (5), she will transform into Dark Phoenix. Although her health is completely restored upon turning into the Dark Phoenix, her life bar depletes at a steady rate. However, her attacks become more powerful, shoots out small projectile fire feathers with normal attacks, and the Hyper Combo gauge refills at a faster rate than normal.[9] Phoenix sports four alternate color schemes based on her classic look, her early 1990s appearance drawn by Jim Lee, which shares similarities with her appearance in Chris Claremont's X-Men Forever, and her costumes from Greg Pak's X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong and Grant Morrison's New X-Men.[10]

Phoenix has two additional colours as well as a DLC costume in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The DLC costume is available in The Dead Rising Pack and it is her 1990s Jim Lee look. The pack was released on 22 November 2011 and was the first pack to be released. The pack also contains additional costumes for Ghost Rider, Frank West and Nemesis. In Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Phoenix has been toned down to reduce overall character use, but can still be very destructive in the right hands. Mods for the PC version of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 have allowed for Jean to have more health in the game, with some modders giving Jean the highest health in the game. Although making her incredibly unbalanced, players are unable to play online with her this way and as a result, must play offline with her.

Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite

Modders for the PC version of the game have allowed for Jean Grey to be playable. Albeit as a skin for Captain Marvel. Modders have used the models from the Marvel Heroes MMO to make this happen.

Toys

Jean Grey-Summers has appeared in several X-Men toy lines, including the popular Marvel Legends line. Her first figure appeared within the Shi'ar assortment of X-Men figures, with her wearing her green Phoenix costume and included an electronic light up hair and eyes feature. Eventually a Jean in her 1990s outfit was offered as part of an exclusive line called She-Force (Subsequently, the figure was only a repaint of a previous figure). Later, she was a part of the Onslaught assortment, this time wearing he blue and yellow costume that she wore for most of the 1990s, which was oddly preposed with very little articulation. Following this figure, she was a part of the X-Men Space Riders assortment, wearing a variation of her 1990s costume that also included added space suit parts. After this, a better looking, more articulated version of Jean in her 1990s outfit was designed and shown at Toyfair. Unfortunately, the line had later been canceled and the figure never saw release.

In Marvel Legends series 6, she appeared in her Phoenix (green) costume, with a Dark Phoenix variant. The Phoenix figure was later re-released as part of the X-Men Classics Line. A figure of Jean Grey from X-Men: The Last Stand was released in the second series of Marvel Legends from Hasbro with a Dark Phoenix variant as well.[11]

A Phoenix figurine has also been released as part of the "Superhero Squad" line of non-articulated figurines. These small scale figurines depict famous Superheroes in "kiddie" variations. Phoenix is released as a two-pack with the brown and orange costumed Wolverine. A Dark Phoenix variant has also been released as a Toys 'R' Us exclusive boxset.

A Phoenix toy was created based on the first X-Men movie. Three different variants were released. The first had her with an open top, no bra, and her hair down. The second had a redesigned head with her hair tied back, and a bra painted on underneath her open top. The third had the same tied back hair do, but the chest was redone and closed up, making it the most accurate of the three variations.

A Jean Grey-Summers figure was also created as part of Toy Biz's Famous Covers assortment. The figure depicted her in her blue and yellow 1990s outfit.

Jean Grey is the eleventh figurine in the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection.

Other Media

Jean Grey is recast as Julia Ash in The Refrigerator Monologues. Julia has difficulty maintaining any kid of daily life in Deadtown, because she constantly disappears and reappears in a different form. She is revealed to be a Mockingbird (a mutant), so named because Charles Darwin discovered evolution by observing different types of mockingbirds. She developed telepathic powers as a child and was saved by Professor Yes (a female Professor X parody), who took Julia to St. Ovidius's School for Wayward children. There, Julia fell in love with Henry Hart, a pyrokinetic fellow student, and was groomed to become a member of Yes’ Millennial Men.

Although Julia was bothered by the fact that she was the only member of the team, she remained loyal and able. Her team primarily went to war against enemy Mockingbirds led by Lodestone (Magneto). Julia started developing new powers, which bothered the Millennial Men (possibly because she was a woman). Then she had an encounter with the cosmic entity Chaybodis in space, giving her the powers of a god. Out of fear and jealousy, Yes and the Millennial Men encouraged her to keep a tight leash on her new abilities.

Matters came to a head when the team faced Retcon, a new ally of Lodestone's, who killed Hart by transporting him into a timeline where he was not immune to fire. A furious Julia punched Retcon across the globe and grew a meadow on the Ice Shelf before abandoning her team. For the next several months, Yes stalked her psychically in an attempt to bring her home. Julia tried to numb herself with sex, seeing her teammates’ disapproval as a double standard. She tracks down Retcon, but is unable to hurt him, and he transports them both to an alternate timeline where America and Europe never existed. Retcon reveals that had Hart been allowed to live, he would have stolen Julia's power and used it to destroy the world, and that if Julia returns, her teammates will bury her alive.

Julia and Retcon stay together in the alternate timeline for years, eventually having sex. Then Retcon abruptly teleports her back to the moment of Hart's death, putting her in a new timeline. Julia saves Hart's life and then abandons Earth forever in order to protect herself and others. However, Charybodis takes control up in space, driving Julia to eat a star and wipe out a solar system. She realizes that Retcon and Lodestone manipulated her with alternate realities in order to drive her to xenocide.

Julia is abandoned by her power and falls back to Earth, where she is treated much more harshly than any male criminal, including Retcon. Retcon is given custody of Julia and cycles her through an endless ring of alternate realities, including one where she is his abused wife. In some of these realities, Julia is dead, allowing her to seek comfort with her ghostly friends and the gargoyles of Deadtown. She is only allowed to remember who she is for a-fifteen minute stretch each week, although she still has some hope of being placed in a timeline where she has the power to free herself.[12]

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