Character Profile: Jean Grey

NAME- Jean Grey
ALIAS- Marvel Girl, Phoenix
AGE- 25
OCCUPATION- Teacher
RELATIONSHIPS Scott Summers (boyfriend), John Grey (father), Elaine Grey (mother)
PERSONALITY- Jean is a loving woman and cares very deeply for her students, she enjoys teaching and was a teacher at the Xavier School for a few years after she graduated.

HISTORY- Jean Grey was born the youngest of two daughters to John and Elaine Grey. Her father was a professor at Bard College History Department in Annandale-on-Hudson. Jean grew up a normal girl born and raised in New York; but while playing with her friend Annie Richardson, Annie was struck by a car. The high emotional stress of the accident caused Jean's mutant powers to manifest well before she reached even pre-pubescence. This is rarely the case for most mutants, whose gifts typically surface in their early teens. This sudden surge in telepathic power linked Jean with her friend causing her to experience Annie's death first hand. She was so traumatized by this event that she slipped into catatonia for the next three years.

When Jean reached age eleven, a psychiatrist referred her parents to Professor Charles Xavier, an expert on mutation, specializing in telepathy. Following the psychiatrist's advice, the Grey's brought their young daughter to Professor Xavier's mansion in Westchester County. After his initial analysis, he informed Jean and her parents that she was a mutant, a possibility that her parents had yet to consider. The Professor recommended she stay in Salem, to attend Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Here she would learn to harness the massive psionic power dwelling within her. Unbeknownst to John and Elaine, this would also be her first step to becoming a founding member of Professor Xavier's X-Men. This team of young (predominantly mutant) individuals would learn how to utilize their mutant powers for the betterment of all mankind; mutant and non-mutant alike.

When Xavier felt that Jean had reached a mastery over her telekinetic powers, she became the fifth member of the X-Men. The other members of the team were Scott Summers (code-named Cyclops), Henry Philip McCoy (code-named Beast), Warren Kenneth Worthington III (code-named Angel) and Robert Drake (code-named Iceman). Jean adopted the code-name: Marvel Girl.

Despite romantic interest from Angel, Jean fell in love with her fellow teammate, Cyclops. Due to timidity on both sides, the lovebirds were slow to show their affection for one another. Cyclops was perhaps more apprehensive as to the destructive nature of his mutant power, and its potential danger to anyone who got remotely close to him, especially Jean. Eventually however, the two revealed how much they cared for each other. Later, when Xavier recruited new students into the school, the other original members, except for Cyclops, left the school to follow their own paths. Cyclops continued his relationship with Jean, though she traded heated battles for sunny beaches as a swimsuit model while Cyke worked as a radio announcer (moonlighting as a superhero, of course).

When the alien force named Z'Nox attempted to invade the Earth, Xavier took a much needed sabbatical from the X-Men (leaving the former X-Men foe turned do-gooder, Kevin Sidney, a.k.a. Changeling, to take his place) and was forced to release most of the psychic barriers he had placed on Jean, allowing her telepathic powers to resurface (although at the time it was explained that Xavier had given her a part of his own telepathy, but was later retconned). He hoped, due to her current maturity level and years of tutelage and training under the Professor himself, that she could handle the amount of power that became accessible to her. Believing Xavier to be dead (though it was Changeling in his place), Jean did her best to fill her mentor's shoes. She continued to use her still new telepathic and formidable telekinetic powers to aid the X-Men in every possible way.  Shortly after all this, she was given the opportunity to teach at Shield University and accepted.

POWERS/SPECIAL TALENTS- Jean Grey is an extremely powerful telepath who can detect and read the thoughts of others and project her own thoughts into others' minds, form psychic links with other beings, control others' mind so as to manipulate their physical functions, mentally stun opponents with bolts of pure psionic force, cast near flawless illusions, and project her mind onto the astral plane. At close range Jean can manipulate any number of minds at once.

Jean can use her powerful telekinetic abilities on herself and others to fly, move objects and other beings, stimulate molecules to increase friction to the point of making flames, make force fields, and make concussive blasts. She is a fair hand to hand combatant

When empowered by the Phoenix Force Jean has total control over all matter on the sub-atomic scale to the point where she can manipulate the entire universe. She can generate endless amounts of energy as well as absorb endless amounts of energy. She can exists in any environment without harm and can create space time warps to travel through hyperspace or traverse the time stream with ease. She can also manipulate and create separate time lines. Also her telepathic powers are enhanced to the point where they become visible to the physical world. Usually she forms a giant Phoenix but can form any thing she can think of. The Phoenix Force can also resurrect the dead and absorb the life force from other beings to bolster its own.