Jean Grey (X-Men Movies)

Jean Grey, alias Phoenix, is a major character from the X-Men film series. 
She is portrayed by Famke Janssen as an adult, Sophie Turner (who also played Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones) as a young adult, and (who also played Gwen Tennyson in Ben 10: Race Against Time) and Summer Fontana as a child.
In X-Men: The Official Game, she was voiced by Katherine Morgan.
==History==
===Original Timeline===
====Background====
As children, Jean Grey and Annie Malcolm were very close friends. One day while playing Frisbee outside Annie, being too competitive and not paying attention, made the catch and was soon hit by a speeding car. Jean ran over to her slowly dying friend and suddenly felt as if she was dying too. That's when Jean first got her powers. After Annie's death, Jean began to dream of fire and dancing among the stars. And then she fell into a two year coma.
Jean was reading in her room from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood Ends when Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier arrived at the Greys' home. She overheard them talking to her parents, and they wanted to meet a mutant who had a great telepathic power. While Lehnsherr wants to use her power, Xavier fears that it's far too dangerous. As a result, he creates psychic barriers to restrain Jean's powers, which ultimately causes her to develop a suppressed alter ego: The Phoenix.
After years of attending Xavier's school together, she began a relationship with her classmate and teammate Scott Summers.
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Jean is the school's medical doctor and is dating Scott Summers. When Wolverine arrives at the school a love triangle starts between the three. In the first film her powers are very limited compared to her comic counterpart. She is a low-level telekinetic, able to move small objects around. She attempts to use Cerebro later in the film, but experiences difficulty as her telepathy is not nearly as developed as Xavier's. Her greatest feats in this movie where when she stopped Toad mid-leap, and when she held Wolverine steady as Storm used wind to levitate him to the top of the Statue of Liberty. An early version of the "Phoenix effect" can be seen as a glow when she manages to help Wolverine achieve his goal of breaking Magneto's machine with his claws.
==== X2: X-Men United ====
Jean's powers have started to developed into what would soon be the Phoenix, as a result of Magneto's machine. At the beginning of the film, Jean is watching over the students on a field trip to a museum. She tells Scott that she has been having bad dreams and that her telepathy has been growing stronger, and that since the event on Liberty Island her powers have been increasing. While on the run from the U.S. Air Force, in the X-Jet, Jean shows Phoenix like powers when she destroys a missile, causing her eyes to glow fire red. When she fights Cyclops who is under William Stryker'scontrol, and is able to telekinetically shield herself from Cyclops' optic beam before dispersing it and scattering the energy about, causing it to destroy the dam's structural integrity, a red glow seems to come off of Jean at this point. Her power apparently reaches Phoenix level as she repairs the X-Jet wit her mind, lifts the jet into the air, telepathically stops Nightcrawler's teleportation to prevent him from rescuing her, and communicates with Cyclops through Professor X by telepathy, all while she holds back the resulting massive tidal wave from the dam's collapse. Jean is engulfed by fire at this point and, once she's sure she's gotten the X-Men out of danger, closes her eyes and lets the waters crash onto her. At the end of the movie as Jean narrates an explanation of evolution you can see a symbol of the Phoenix Force below the surface of the water.
==== X-Men: The Last Stand ====
When Jean died in the last film, it started a downward spiral in Scott. He is haunted by nightmares and telepathic messages. He returns to Alkali Lake, where he angrily releases the full force of his optic blasts into the waters. They begin to kiss and she insists he remove his glasses as she is able to control his powers and stops his optic beams from emitting, but then apparently kills him by atomizing him with her telekinesis. When Scott is killed, Xavier is shown feeling pain and then sends out a telepathic message that has Wolverine and Storm running to his side. He sends them to Alkali Lake where they find Scott's glasses and an unconscious Jean Grey who is taken back to the Mansion. It is revealed by Xavier that since Jean was a young girl she had powers that were beyond all known limitations. Fearing that Jean could not control her vast powers, Xavier put psychic blocks around her subconscious mind to keep Jean's full powers at bay. Due to this, while growing up, Jean has developed a dual personality - one being her usual self and the other being her powerful and uninhibited side which calls itself the 'Phoenix' which emerges when she gets angry. Xavier leaves and Wolverine stays by Jean's side. When she awakens, she seems normal but is really the aggressive Phoenix. They kiss and when Jean snaps out of the Phoenix's hold she starts to have a nervous breakdown, causing thing to shake and burst. When Wolverine mentions Xavier, the Phoenix comes back in full force and knocks Wolverine out, and crumbles the huge mental doors. She is next seen at her old childhood house, where Xavier meets Magneto. Once in the house, Phoenix and Xavier begin a huge telepathic battle. Gravity reverses, and things begin to disintegrate, and so does Xavier. Phoenix then leaves with Magneto.
===Revised Timeline===
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Jean is a strong telepath at Charles Xavier's school. She suffers from telepathic dreams about death and destruction. Because of her abilities, most of the other students are afraid of her, but she does befriend Scott Summers and Kurt Wagner.
When William Striker arrives at the X Mansion and kidnaps the other X-Men, Jean telepathically shields the presence of herself, Scott, and Kurt from his guards. They then sneak aboard Strikers jet to rescue them. During this time, they find and free Weapon X, who goes on a berserker rampage, but Jean manages to calm him down. Jean is pivotal to the defeat of Apocalypse. After Professor Xavier battles Apocalypse he calls upon Jean for help. Seemingly using the power of the Phoenix, Jean manages to defeat Apocalypse.
At the close of the film, Jean is one of the students who is officially inducted into the new team of X-Men, with Mystique and Beast acting as their leaders.
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Jean's powers become more powerful when she is possessed by a cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force. She meets a woman named Vuk, who tells her that she needs to accept the Phoenix Force, or it would be forever lost. As seen in the trailer, Charles would meet a young Jean, who feels broken, and would later cause the death of her parents.
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In a dark future, Sentinels hunted down most of the X-Men, leaving a small group to fight back. Kitty Pryde sends Wolverine back in time to prevent the assassination of Bolivar Trask (at the hands of Mystique), believing that this is the turning point that leads to the apocalyptic future.
In the past, Wolverine must convince Xavier to work with him. Logan lets Charles gets into his mind, whose memories mostly retells his history with Jean Grey, prompting Charles to learn the history of Jean.
Later, in a plane, Wolverine makes the Professor promises him that no matter what he will form the X-Men and will look for Ororo, Scott and Jean.
After the events of the movie, Logan returns to the future, only to find the School opened and a brighter present. He walks the school and finds Rogue, Iceman, Kitty, Colossus, Beast and Storm. He finally encounters Jean standing in the door of Xavier office. She is alive and healthy. He greets her and tell her she is there, while she replies "Where else would I´d been?". When he tries to touch her face, Cyclops (also alive in this new future) stops his hand. Scott and Jean leaves the office, but Jean senses something is up with Logan. She farewells and leaves with Scott.
==Personality==
Jean is generally an affable and soft-spoken member of the X-Men. She shows her intelligence by debating against Senator Kelly about the Mutant Registration Act and is also a doctor where she treats Wolverine and Professor X. She has a strong relationship with Cyclops, and says that he is the good guy, compared to Logan. Jean shows that she is willing to sacrifice her welfare for her team members, which is evidenced when she used Cerebro for the first time to locate Magneto and when she gave her life after saving the X-Men by lifting the X-Jet to safety and being covered in water at Alkali Lake.
When Jean was young, she was terrified of her abilities and that caused her to be somewhat of a loner at Xavier's School, a lot of other students also became afraid of her. She did, however, form a strong bond with Charles Xavier, with him becoming a father-like figure to her due to their telepathic bond. As soon as she met a young Scott Summers, there was an immediate attraction and a bond formed over the lack of control both of them had over their powers. In her youth, Jean's uncontrollable powers led her to feel the emotions of others at all times, knowing how other people felt led her to want to be a better person and aid them.
==Powers, Abilities, & Weaknesses==
===Powers===
Jean Grey it’s one of the most powerful telepaths, to such an extent that she had been stated to be the most powerful. Jean is able to use her telepathy in different ways as Mind Communication, Mind Reading, Mind Transferral, Mind Detection, Psychic Surgery, cast near flawless Illusions, project her Astral Form, control the Astral Plane, create Psychic Links with other beings and Mind Manipulation. She’s able to manipulate minds in different ways as Mind Control, Mind Possession, Hypnosis, induce Paralysis, modify or erase someone memories, Amnesia, prevent another mutant to use his powers, increase another mutant’s powers, induce Pain, change someone’s personality. At close range Jean can manipulate any number of minds at once. Jean can also mentally injure, stun or kill opponents with bolts of pure psionic force. Her psychic powers are so strong that they can bypass numerous forms of immunity and resistence.
===Weaknesses===
* Concentration - If Jean loses her focus while utilizing her powers, her abilities will become invalidated.
* Electric Field - When Jean was in the Weapon X plane, the electric field cage was able to block her telepathy, though doubtfully her telekinesis since it merely prevents her mind reaching past the barrier, not attacking it directly.
*Instability - If she becomes emotionally unstable, she loses control of her powers and will turn into her darker persona known as the Phoenix. Although in the revised timeline, she learned to control her emotions much better.
==Trivia==
*It's implied in X-Men commentary that Jean's inexpert use of the caused her Phoenix transformation.
*Some parts of Jean's storyline in are loosely based on by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.
*In the comics, Jean and Scott eventually married and have a daughter named Rachel Anne Summers in an alternate future.
*Jean was not a scientist in the Marvel Comics versions. Originally, Beast was set to appear in the first film, but the technology was not yet adequate to portray him, so his character was written out, and Jean took on the role of team scientist.
*In , for her dual role as Jean Grey/Phoenix, extensively researched dissociative identity disorders and split personalities to make her performance convincing.
*The color red is often associated with Jean. When she's not in her X-Men uniform, she often likes to wear red clothing.
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