Jean Grey (Earth-1610)
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Now you face the wrath of PHOENIX. 
- -- Ultimate Phoenix
Life before the X-Men
Jean Grey was a normal teenager with a normal family until her mutant powers manifested. Her telepathy caused her to suffer from terrifying hallucinations of a giant, wild, flaming raptor, and she was held in a mental institution presumably for observation and testing before she met Professor Charles Xavier, who offered her a place among his X-Men, along with a chance to learn to control her powers and avert the upcoming mutant/human war.
X-Men
Jean became Xavier's second student, after Cyclops, and began to learn a great deal about her powers. Jean proved to be outgoing, yet responsible and mature.
Jean developed a relationship with Wolverine, the newest X-Man, and may have slept with him. Unbeknownst to her, Wolverine was secretly working for Magneto and his Brotherhood, and was plotting to kill Xavier. Wolverine admitted to her that he first joined the X-Men to act as a mole and assassin for Magneto, and, repulsed, Jean terminated her relationship with Wolverine.
Fire and Brimstone Arc
In the Hellfire and Brimstone arc, she is shown to be possessed by a so-called Phoenix God and becomes nearly insane, but escapes its grip. The Hellfire Club believed that Jean was the perfect host for the God, yet Xavier claimed that Jean's Phoenix powers were the result of Jean's own mutation growing, as Jean is a powerful mutant, yet lacks control. Jean briefly believed the Phoenix to be an intergalactic demon bent on destroying the world through her before accepting Xavier's explanation that there was no Phoenix entity but just her evolving powers. Thor questioned Xavier's logic.
In further arcs, Jean Grey's powers emanate as a halo in a fiery bird-like form and she often had difficulties controlling her ever-growing powers.
Date Night
After their constant battles, Xavier decided to give the X-Men a night off. Jean and Scott spent it watching a movie, though Jean wasn't really watching it-- she wanted to make out. Scott wasn't spontaneous enough, which she yelled at him for at the end of the movie. They soon got back to the Mansion to be a little more spontaneous.
Church of Shi'ar Enlightenment
Having lost his government funding, Xavier was unable to continue funding his X-Men. Almost too perfectly, a group of new religious followers known as the Church of Shi'ar Enlightenment approached Xavier with a proposal: they would fund his endeavor if they were allowed to observe Jean Grey, who they believed may have a connection to their God.
The Shi'ar have been reimagined as a "Church of Enlightenment" and Lilandra Neramini was its high priestess. Xavier and Lilandra were attempting to uncover if Jean is the avatar and/or host of the Phoenix God. The Shi'ar believed the Phoenix God was held captive by an alien armada that utilized their own technology and the powers of the Phoenix itself to create a planet that it would be imprisoned in; that planet, the Shi'ar believed, was Earth. They believe that once the Phoenix had awoken, she would make Earth a utopia of Mutant/Human harmony and craft the universe into a paradise.
Jean refused to believe that she is the Phoenix. But she willingly subjects herself to tests to determine if she is the Phoenix. But the questions turned out too much and the Phoenix awoke - in an evil form. She taunted Lilandra for trying to see the realm of a god and prepares kill to Lilandra, starting with her non-essential organs then the essential. Xavier tried to stop her but the Phoenix was more powerful and tried to melt his brain until he admitted that he loved her, snapping Jean back to normal, but he shut off her brain temporarily. When she woke up, Lilandra's assistant Gerald confirmed that her subconscious manifested a false Phoenix. this left Jean to think she was insane, depressing her to make four strange goblin-like creatures that seem to be part of her telekinesis.
Merged with the Phoenix
As Xavier was about to be killed by Apocalypse, Jean calls out to the Phoenix Force for help. Merging with the powerful entity again, Jean blasts Apocalypse from behind. When he got up, he sensed great power in her, both mutant and not, intending to take. Phoenix merely taunted him, saying he is facing a god and unleashes a small fraction of her power at him, melting his armor. He feigned defeat then struck back, so she decides to unleash her full might against him, causing pain that made him beg for her to stop; she complied. Defeated, Apocalypse's true form, Sinister, was revealed. As the X-Men and Fantastic Four gather, she proclaimed she was and not Jean. But she still had strong feelings for them, but see there is much work to be done. She flares her anger at Xavier, pointing out the damage that he caused: "You set the mutant cause back by a hundred years." She expected him to "star over". Instantly, she reverses time to the point where destruction never happened. Xavier then became determined to change the world.
Meanwhile, Phoenix was traveling through space, meeting with the Silver Surfer, who informed her that wars are being waged in her name and races are committing suicide in her honor. But Phoenix refused to be stopped and went beyond a place the Surfer was guarding to find what she describes as heaven.
Soon, Jean returned to the Mansion unexpectedly, but she reintegrates with her teammates, even playing baseball. However, even she couldn't defeat the Alpha Flight. She then decided to search Colossus' mind to find out what was troubling him. She soon found out that he was addicted to Banshee to give him super strength. Peter had found out, attacked her and, as a result, because of the school's "zero tolerance, drug-free" rules, she expelled him.
Jean and Xavier soon began testing all students in the institute for Banshee. They found one positive -- Wolverine. At first mention of the news, he took out his anger on a number of Danger Room robots. He later discovered that the drug was derived from his DNA, making it seem like he had been using it.
Jean soon intensified Danger room practices, telling the X-Men to push harder at least six hours a day. Kurt Wagner soon communicated with her, asking for help from the side-effects of Banshee. In her astral form, she witnessed Colossus' X-Men fight Acolytes for Banshee. She lead Xavier's X-Men to the Urst-ordansky Collective in Siberia to stop Colossus. When she pleads everyone to stop, she is interrupted by what seemed like her father. He pleads her to move on with her life and to stop pushing her teammates. She recovers Northstar, who was crippled from the waist down, reducing aggressions. Everyone but Scott returned home, so Jean followed him into space, where he was staring down at Earth, feeling omnipotent. Jean reminds him he's needed, provoking him into attacking her. The effects of Banshee started to wear off and he would've succumbed to the vacuum if Jean hadn't encompassed him in her fire.
During the Ultimatum event, she discovered that Nightcrawler, Dazzler and Beast had died. Scott, Jean, and Logan go as the "original X-Men" to stop Magneto once and for all. The remaining X-Men along with the Fantastic Four, Ultimates and SHIELD assault Magneto's base, during which they lose several more members including Wolverine, who has his adamantium ripped from his bones by Magneto. In the end Magneto is defeated when Jean downloads Nick Fury's memories into Magneto, which reveals that mutants are not the next stage of human evolution, but rather a super-soldier experiment gone wrong. Horrified by the truth, Magneto surrenders, and Cyclops executes him with his optic blast.
Soon after, Jean is in Washington with the remaining X-Men, where Cyclops makes a speech, attempting to bring a peace to the anti-mutant hostilities and to ask that all mutants surrender to the government. He is then assassinated by Quicksilver, who lodges a bullet into his skull. Scott dies in the arms of Storm and Colossus, while Rogue rushes a distraught Jean to safety. Jean is later seen in the Ultimate X-Men Requiem alongside Rogue and Iceman tearing down the Xavier Institute and everything on the estate. They bury the bodies of the various deceased X-Men on the estate's remains.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Jean possesses dual psionic potential that grants her telepathy and telekinesis. Her telepathic abilities allow her to sense, broadcast and detect thought patterns, alter the physical or mental perceptions of others, and manipulate the functions of the human body while her telekinetic abilities allow her to levitate herself or other objects, propel or manipulate them however she wishes, and generate concussive bursts and protective shields.
Jean's powers have grown considerably since her original encounter with what she considers to be the fictitious Phoenix God. Also since that time, her powers have grown erratic, and she is often unable to control the immense strength of her power. as the Phoenix, she is capable of producing inexhaustible flames, able to manipulate space and time, such as reversing things to certain points in time.Abilities
Jean absorbed medical knowledge from surgeons when she had to perform a cutting-edge operation on Beast.
Paraphernalia
Transportation
X-Jet
Trivia
- The exact nature of the Phoenix god in the Ultimate Universe has been revealed. It is an actual entity and not a twisted turn of Jean's own mind, or something else entirely. This was revealed in Ultimate X-Men #71.
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