Jean Grey

Jean Grey is a mutant with vast empathic and telepathic abilities that were traumatically awakened when as a child she witnessed her best friend's death. For years, Jean Grey was mentored by mutant specialist Professor Charles Xavier, a telepath himself. Eventually, she also developed telekinetic powers. When Xavier opened a school for mutants in order to prepare his students to carry on his dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans, Jean Grey was enrolled as the last student of his first class. As Marvel Girl, she became one of the original X-Men, a group that fights for a world that hates and fears mutants.
== History ==
Jean Grey is the youngest daughter of Elaine Grey and Professor John Grey. She and her older sister, Sara, were raised in a farmhouse near Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where her father taught History. When Jean was ten years old, she was playing with her best friend, Annie Richardson, who was accidentally hit by a car. The stress awakened Grey's mutant telepathic powers which empathically linked her to her dying friend. The traumatic experience of Annie's death left Grey in a withdrawn and deeply depressed state. Moreover, not able to control her newly awakened telepathic abilities forced her to isolate herself from other people to hold on to her sanity.
Months later, a psychiatrist recommended to her parents that they consult Professor Charles Xavier, who was secretly a mutant with telepathic abilities as well. Xavier revealed to Jean Grey, but not to her parents, her status as a mutant. To protect Grey, Xavier decided to block her intense telepathic abilities erecting psychic shields until she had developed the maturity necessary to handle them. Additionally, he assisted her in unlocking her potential as a telekinetic abilities instead, teaching her how to levitate and manipulate objects through psionic force.
Under Xavier's tutelage, Jean Grey helped him to calibrate his Cerebro machine, a mutant locator device and experienced a psychic contact with young orphan Scott Summers' mind. After years of treatment, Jean Grey was successfully recovered. Eventually, Xavier recommended to John and Elaine Grey that they should enroll their daughter in his newly established Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
This school served as a cover for the X-Men, a team of young mutants being trained by Professor Xavier in order to fight for a dream of peaceful racial coexistence. The team acted in the shadows combating threats posed by evil mutants who used their powers against humanity. Jean Grey completed the group with four more students, Cyclops – Scott Summers' mutant alias –, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. Grey took on the codename Marvel Girl.
As a member of the X-Men, Marvel Girl confronted terrorist and harmful mutants, such as Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Vanisher, and the Blob. Although Jean Grey was initially harassed by her flirtatious male teammates, the group soon formed a sound friendship bond as a result of their constant adventures and intense training at the X-Mansion Danger Room.
== 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.
== Powers and Abilities ==
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.
== Appearances ==
* X-Men: Titanic
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