Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)

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Contents 1 History 1.1 Origin 1.2 Anodyne 1.3 Motherhood 1.4 Goblin Queen 1.5 Resurrected and Impersonated 1.6 Sisterhood of Mutants 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Main powers 2.3 Current powers 2.4 Abilities 2.5 Strength level 3 Paraphernalia 3.1 Transportation 4 Trivia 5 Related Articles 6 Links 6.1 Discover and Discuss

History

Origin

Madelyne always bore a striking resemblance to the then presumed deceased Jean Grey. Numerous individuals mistook her as Jean reborn^[1]. To make matters more suspicious, Madelyne's mind was closed to Professor X and she was the sole survivor of a mysterious plane crash that occurred at the exact moment the Dark Phoenix committed suicide on the Moon; or so she thought.

In reality she was a clone of Jean Grey, created by Mister Sinister. Sinister's plot was to produce a child from the union of Madelyne and Scott Summers (Cyclops), whom he believed would become a genetically superior mutant. To Sinister's disappointment, Madelyne did not develop any mutant abilities at puberty as he had hoped.

It was at the moment of the Dark Phoenix's death that a spark of the Phoenix Force was accidentally bestowed on Madelyne's body and renewed Sinister's interest^[2]. After Dark Phoenix died on the moon, the Phoenix sought to return the "borrowed" portion of Jean Grey's soul back to her body which was in suspended animation. Jean instinctively rejected the Phoenix and it wandered the globe, lost. Eventually it became attracted to Madelyne Pryor since she was an exact genetic clone of Jean. The Phoenix Force mistakenly gave a spark of itself to Madelyne, granting her a life force and some of Jean's memories.

Madelyne met Scott Summers in Alaska. From the moment of their first meeting, Scott Summers was immediately attracted to Madelyne for her physical resemblance to Jean Grey^[3]. Mister Sinister had also played a part as matchmaker by giving her a personality he knew Scott would like, and placing her where they were sure to meet. Scott was amazed how much she was like Jean and was even tricked for a short time by Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind) to think she was Dark Phoenix^[4].

After a whirlwind romance, Madelyne and Scott were married on the grounds of the X Mansion^[5]. During their honeymoon in the Caribbean, the two were attacked by a shark and a giant squid. This prompted Scott to choose retirement, realizing he would rather start a family than face a life of endless battles among the X-Men and the Starjammers.^[6]

Anodyne

Early in their marriage, Scott and Madelyne were flying a geological survey team across Alaska, when they ran into a mysterious storm that forced them to crash-land. Through Loki's Firefountain, all non super powered humans aboard the plane (including Madelyne) were endowed with mystical powers^[7]. As Anodyne, Madelyne could heal virtually any injury, illness, and physical-defect. She also used mystical healing powers to allow Cyclops to function without his protective lenses. When it was discovered that Loki's intentions were never altruistic, and that his gift was badly flawed as the cost of those powers was the loss of individual creativity and imagination, everyone went against him. His plans ended, Loki was ordered by Those Who Sit Above In Shadow to restore everyone to their original state^[8]. He spitefully removed all the powers he had granted and everyone who Anodyne had cured were also regressed back. During the incident Madelyne revealed she was pregnant.

Motherhood

Madelyne had a son^[9] who she named Nathan (an implanted suggestion by Mister Sinister). The family moved to a cabin in Alaska. Over time their marriage became strained and Madelyne resented the fact that Scott was rarely home and that he continued to miss Jean. When the real Jean Grey returned, Scott abandoned Madelyne and Nathan to be with Jean and help found X-Factor. Madelyne had no idea why Scott had left their family.^[10].

Mister Sinister, reacting quickly to Jean's return, aimed to eliminate Madelyne before the truth of her creation was revealed, and sent his Marauders to kill her. Maddie used her latent psychic powers to defend herself, but lost baby Nathan to her enemies. She was shot multiple times and left for dead. She was taken to a hospital as a “Jane Doe“. Though the doctors thought she was a hopeless case, Madelyne pulled through and awoke months later from a coma. There was no record of her or the baby left in existence, as Sinister had erased them all. The Marauders returned to finish the job, but this time the X-Men found her and protected her.

During a battle with Adversary in Dallas, Forge required the essences of nine souls to seal the portal to his dimension with a magical spell. With only eight X-Men present at the time, Madelyne agreed to be the missing piece and the group was transformed into pure energy. The entire incident was recorded by a news crew, providing Madelyne with the chance to tell Scott to find their missing son. As the incident was broadcasted live on TV, Scott watched and heard Madelyne‘s final moments. Unknown to the world, Roma resurrected the X-Men shortly afterwards. They decided to go underground and keep their rebirth secret, wanting to use this new status to their advantage.

Madelyne became the X-Men's computer specialist for a while. One day while watching the news Madelyne saw Scott with Jean Grey. Finally, she learned the reason for why Scott had abandoned her. Lonely and angry, Madelyne started an affair with her brother-in-law Alex (Havok)^[11]. Alex was reeling from the loss of his own love, Lorna Dane (Polaris) who had turned into the villainous Malice.

Goblin Queen

In her dreams, The demons N'Astirh and S'ym appeared, toyed with her self doubt and tempted her with great power. Madelyne slowly lost herself to the dark side of her personality, and agreed to help the demons create a link between Earth and the extra-dimensional Otherplace in exchange for locating baby Nathan. Yet, as she grew more powerful and adopted the guise of the Goblin Queen, neither the demons nor Mister Sinister could succeed in making her their pawn. Maddie succeeded in seducing Alex, making him her consort, the Goblin Prince.

As the Goblin Queen, Madelyne descended into madness after Sinister revealed she was only a tool modeled after Grey^[12]. She attempted to sacrifice the recovered baby Nathan atop the Empire State Building to permanently open a gateway between Earth and Limbo^[13]. Both acts were done to spite Cyclops. Madelyne was brought into direct conflict with both the X-Men and X-Factor, after they defeated N'Astirh's invading demonic army.

Pryor and Jean Grey fought one-on-one, with Madelyne unleashing a psionic force intending to destroy both herself and her opponents. Madelyne locked herself Nathan and Jean inside with her. Both the X-Men and X-Factor's combined efforts proved to be futile in an effort to break through her psionic barrier. Madelyne became intent on destroying herself along with Jean Grey and Nathan. Jean would have succumbed were it not for the Phoenix leaving Madelyne at that time and returning to Jean. Jean was able to resist and, as Madelyne died, Jean recovered the part of her soul the Phoenix Force had mistakenly given to Madelyne^[14].

Years past, in which Scott and Jean married and her son Nathan traveled to and from the future and became the man called Cable.

Resurrected and Impersonated

Later the powerful Nate Grey traveled to this world from Earth-295. His mind looked for a companion, and discovered the spirit of Madelyne Pryor on the astral plane. X-Man subconsciously gave the echo of Madelyne's psyche a new form. Madelyne remembered very little of her past. In Paris, she was lured away from Nate by Selene, who slowly took her to New York and met with Sebastian Shaw, suggesting a revival of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Selene presented Madelyne as Black Rook. She proved her value by winning a battle against the London Club's Red Rook Scribe, pulling the parasitic mutant Mountjoy out of the woman‘s body.

One night, Tessa attempted to probe Madelyne's mind, but was discovered. Madelyne angrily defeated Tessa and proved to be telepathic too, making Tessa forget the incident. Madelyne's memory was fully restored at last. She searched for Nate Grey but met Threnody instead, who revealed to her that even though she was walking around and breathing, she was actually still dead. Angered, she murdered Threnody.

She then found Nate with Jean Grey. In a battle, Nate chose to side with Jean over her. Nate and Jean discovered that Madelyne was a psionic ghost, subconsciously given form by Nate. Nate tried to re-absorb her, only to find that he couldn’t, as she had become independent.

Madelyne returned to Sebastian Shaw, with whom she began a physical relationship with. This was of great concern to Selene and Tessa.

While Cable was in the middle of his Askani meditation^[15], his mother appeared to him on the Astral Plane. She explained her life story to him and proposed they join forces to destroy all mutants and rule the world together. After a heated discussion, in which Cable refused to side with her, they decided to meet at a neutral contact point in Alaska. Cable emerged from his meditation and formed an uneasy truce with his mother.

Madelyne later returned to Nate Grey's side, now with the ability to teleport. Nate didn't want her around at first, but he eventually started to come around to her. When Nate was attacked by Strikesquad: Gauntlet, a group of operatives wearing psi-shielded armor, Madelyne was buried alive by one of them. She managed to escape by teleporting, yet, as the battle had taken a lot out of Nate, her body rapidly became drained and withered. In no shape to carry out her plans, she departed Nate's side.

Later, a Jean Grey from an alternate universe posed as Madelyne to Nate for a short time, but the impostor eventually revealed herself. Nate Grey finally discorporated while fighting a being called the Harvester and was never seen again.

Sisterhood of Mutants

Madelyne seemingly returned again^[16], identified by Scott at a Dazzler concert. Recently she formed a female version of The Brotherhood known as the Sisterhood Of Mutants. She had recruited Martinique Wyngarde, her half-sister Regan, Chimera, Spiral and Lady Deathstrike, promising to resurrect a person of their choosing. But first they needed a test, so she had them steal a coffin in Tokyo, containing Psylocke's old body in which Kwannon died in and the real Psylocke. Using a magical ritual, they resurrected her old body and placed her mind in it.Explaining the procedure's real purpose afterward, the Red Queen reveals her promised resurrections to be untried and uncertain; this causes some of her members to react violently against her, but she convinces them to continue following her. The Sisterhood then commences a surprise raid on the X-Men's base, quickly neutralizing several of the main X-members. Recovering from the initial attacks, the X-Men force the Sisterhood (now including a brainwashed Psylocke) to retreat; but the entire battle is only a distraction that has enabled the Red Queen to steal something kept by Wolverine: a lock of hair from Jean Grey.

While Mastermind and Lady Mastermind confronted Emma, Storm, Dazzler and Karma, Madelyne and the rest of the Sisterhood raced to the grounds of the Xavier Institute where Jean was buried. Domino was already there and held the Sisterhood off until the other X-Men arrived. During the battle, Madelyne unearthed Jean's coffin. Cyclops warned her not to take possession of the body inside, but she did so regardless. Madelyne then collapsed in agony. Cyclops revealed that he knew Madelyne would come to Jean's gravesite and had Domino remove her coffin and replace it with someone else's, knowing nothing less than Jean's body could contain her. Madelyne discorporated into nothingness.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Since Madelyne was cloned from Jean Grey's DNA, she was essentially another version of Jean, and possessed Jean's telekinetic and telepathic abilities.

Main powers

• Telepathy: can manipulate the minds of others and even higher order animals within a vast, potentially limitless radius. Her notable powers include:

• Telepathic Cloak: Can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well.
• Psionic Shield: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
• Telepathic Camouflage: Ability to mask herself, and other peoples' presence from those around her. Can telepathically disguise herself, making her appearance to those around her quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).
• Mind Control: Ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration. Astral Teleportation
• Mind Possession: Ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as her own.
• Mind Alteration: Ability to alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely.
• Telepathic Illusions: Ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
• Mental Paralysis: Ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
• Mental Amnesia: Can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
• Psionic Blasts: Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead.
• Astral Projection: Can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
• Mind Transferal: Able to transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies if her own physical body could be somehow killed.
• Mental Detection: Can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
• Induce Pain: Can also induce mental pain merely by touching the brow of her victim.
• Cloak Mind: Ability to rearrange the “mental engrams” of mutants so their distinctive mutant though patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
• Mind Link: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
• Sorcery: possesses considerable magical abilities, having gained a great deal of mystical knowledge while as the goblin queen. She may also have learned some magic from Selene. The number of magical effects that she can create has yet to be cataloged, but it is known that she can cast and counteract spells and summon extra-dimensional demons.

She also developed powers that Jean never possessed.

• Astral Teleportation: teleport over long distances by psychokinetically shunting herself in and out of the astral plane (she was also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleported, but her limits were never fully tested).
• Psionic Siphoning: able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic mutants. She could then use the stolen psychic energy to boost her own powers or channel the energy into someone else (usually Nate Grey) to temporarily increase their psionic abilities.

• Telekinesis: Possesses telekinetic abilities enabling her to manipulate matter and energy, and to some extent energy, psionically. She can levitate herself in order to fly at high speeds or merely hover, manipulate matter on a molecular level, project telekinetic shields capable of withstanding missile blasts, create objects of pure psionic force, focus her mental energy at a specific target in order she can release devastating force blasts, and control the biological functions of other lifeforms including other humans.

• Reality Warping: ability to bend the quantum strings that make up reality within a localized area.

• Dark Psyche: ability to release the dark side of a person's personality, and make them evil.

• Goblin Force: ability to tap into dark sorcery allowing her to summon various goblins, demons and other entities.

• Healing: ability to heal others (as Anodyne).

Current powers

• Telekinesis: was still strong enough that Madelyne could move, lift and manipulate fairly large objects, channel her telekinetic powers to fire powerful mental force blasts, focus her psionic energy into a protective shield, and levitate herself in order to fly at fairly high speeds.

• Telepathy: can manipulate the minds of others and even higher order animals within a vast, potentially limitless radius. Her notable powers include:

• Telepathic Cloak: Can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well.

• Psionic Shield: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
• Telepathic Camouflage: Ability to mask herself, and other peoples' presence from those around her. Can telepathically disguise herself, making her appearance to those around her quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).

• Psionic Blasts: Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead.

• Astral Projection: Can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.

• Astral Teleportation: teleport over long distances by psychokinetically shunting herself in and out of the astral plane (she was also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleported, but her limits were never fully tested).

• Psionic Siphoning: able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic mutants. She could then use the stolen psychic energy to boost her own powers or channel the energy into someone else (usually Nate Grey) to temporarily increase their psionic abilities.

• Phoenix spark: It is strongly hinted in X-Man #33 that Madelyne is indeed a living spark of the Phoenix which explains why Nate was able to psionically recreate her, though she is in truth only a living mass of psionic energy.

• Psychic vampirism: Though it is not confirmed in the pages of X-Man it is strongly hinted that Madelyne either learned new powers from Selene or stole some of her powers. The ability to teleport, and the ability to drain mutants energies were both examples of Selene's influence. This was further hinted at in X-Man #52 when she was shown to be aged and withered after over-exerting her powers much like Selene.

• Sorcery: Madelyne possesses the ability to cast a wide variety of simple and complex spells. Her sorcery might is such that she has been shown to restore life to the long dead.

  Abilities

Madelyne was a skilled pilot.

Strength level

Madelyne Pryor possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Conventional aircraft, portals created by Gateway, goblin carriage driven by N'astirh.

Trivia

• Certain memories that Madelyne believed were her own were actually from Jean's past. They were transferred to Madelyne's mind when the Phoenix Force found her.
• Madelyne was a pilot for North Star Airways, an air freight company owned by Philip Summers (Cyclops' grandfather).
• Madelyne and Scott honeymooned on a fictional South Pacific island called Boragora. This is probably a nod to the short-lived TV series "Tales of the Gold Monkey" which took place on and island with the same name.
• Madelyne gave birth to Nathan by herself in the X Mansion.
• Given that Madelyne had some of Jean Grey's memories due to the Phoenix fragment that awoke her, it is probable that her piloting skills were inherited from when Jean "downloaded" Peter Corbeau's piloting skills in Uncanny X-Men # 100.
  

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