 madelyne "maddie" jennifer pryor-summers is a fictional character in books published by marvel comics, in particular those featuring the x-men. as the love interest and first wife of x-men leader cyclops (scott summers), she became a long-standing member of the x-men supporting cast, until a series of traumasâbeing abandoned by her husband, losing her infant son, and discovering that she was a clone of jean greyâeventually led to her being manipulated into becoming a supervillain. she and cyclops are the parents of nathan summers. her biography has been rendered particularly complicated because of the many retcons involved in the publication history of both her character and that of jean grey. ==publication history== madelyne pryor was introduced during the acclaimed 1983 uncanny x-men run that saw long-time writer chris claremont pair with artist paul smith for a series of issues that would see the jean grey look-alike marry the retired x-men leader scott summers (cyclops). madelyne's hairstyle design was modeled off the book's editor at the time, louise jones (later louise simonson)the x-men companion, volume ii. 1982. fantagraphics books, inc.. p5, 108.&mdash;a design retained on the character until 1988. claremont named the character after steeleye span singer maddy prior. claremont had already created a character named "maddy pryor", a little girl that appeared very briefly in avengers annual #10 (1981), and has no in-story connections to the x-men character. claremont, nonetheless, years later used the opportunity to indulge in an in-joke: in uncanny x-men #238 (1988), a similar child would appear as madelyne's mental image of herself, wearing the same clothes as the little girl from avengers annual #10, repeating the girl's same line of dialogue, but also singing "gone to america," one of steeleye span's biggest hit
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