Editing Jean Grey (section)

==Powers and abilities==
Jean Grey is an [[Omega-level mutant]], and at her highest and strongest potential was fully merged with the [[Phoenix Force (comics)|Phoenix Force]] and with it was able to defeat even [[Galactus]].<ref>{{Cite comic
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===Empathy===
Jean is a powerful empath, as she can feel and manipulate emotions of other people, as shown when her power first emerged and she felt her friend Annie Richardson slowly dying.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=May 2020}} Jean can also connect people's minds to the feelings of others and make them feel the pain they inflicted.<ref>{{Cite comic
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===Telepathy===
When her powers first manifested, Jean was unable to cope with her [[telepathy|telepathic abilities]], forcing [[Professor X|Professor Charles Xavier]] to suppress her access to them altogether. Instead, he chose to train her in the use of her [[psychokinesis|psychokinetic abilities]] while allowing her telepathy to grow at its natural rate before reintroducing it.<ref>{{Cite comic
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| story = If I Should Die...!
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{{blockquote | The ''Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook'' detailed Jean's telepathic abilities:
:As [an alpha-level telepath],<ref>{{Cite comic
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| penciller = Steve Epting
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| story = Not a Cloud in the Sky
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Jean is also one of the few telepaths skilled enough to communicate with animals (animals with high intelligence, such as [[dolphin]]s,<ref>{{Cite comic
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| artist = John Bolton
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}}</ref>). As a side effect of her telepathy, she has an [[eidetic memory]].<ref>{{Cite comic
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| title = The Uncanny X-Men
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| title = Alias
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}}</ref> When Jean absorbed [[Betsy Braddock|Psylocke]]'s specialized telepathic powers, her own telepathy was increased to the point that she could physically manifest her telepathy as a psionic [[phoenix (mythology)|firebird]] whose claws could inflict both physical and mental damage. She briefly developed a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the [[Crimson Dawn]] mark possessed by Psylocke.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=July 2012}} Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full and at a far stronger level than before.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=July 2012}} It was later stated that Jean has been an omega-level telepath.<ref>{{Cite comic
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===Telekinesis===
Jean possesses a high level of telekinetic ability that enables her to psionically levitate and rapidly move about all manner of animate and inanimate matter. She can use her telekinetic abilities on herself or others to simulate the power of flight or levitation, stimulate molecules to increase friction, create protective force fields out of psychokinetic energy, or project her telekinetic energy as purely concussive force. The outer limits of her telekinetic power have never been clearly established, though she was capable of lifting approximately fifty tons of rubble with some strain.<ref>''New X-Men'' #116</ref>  Jean was later stated to have become an Omega Level Telekinetic.<ref>''X-Men: Red Annual'' #1</ref><ref name="Jean Grey #5">''Jean Grey'' #5</ref>

===Psychic Energy Synthesis===
Jean's younger self, who had been brought from the past into the present by an older Hank McCoy, eventually found an entirely new way to use her powers separate from the Phoenix Force. The teenage Marvel Girl learned she has the ability to harness ambient psychic energy and channel it into powerful blasts of force, which are a combination of both her telepathy and telekinesis.<ref>{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> Its potency is such that she can match and overpower the likes of Gladiator, magistrate of the Shi'ar, with relative ease. When using this ability, Jean's whole body glows with pink psychic energy, obscuring her human form.<ref name="Guardians of the Galaxy #13">''Guardians of the Galaxy'' vol. 3 #13 (May 2014).</ref>

====Telekinetic weapons====
Under the tutelage of [[Betsy Braddock|Psylocke]], teenage Marvel Girl learned the ability to create psionic weapons that damage a target either physically or mentally. She showed skill in constructing multiple types of psionic weapons that differ in size, length and power which she uses in combat.<ref name="Jean Grey #5"/>

===Phoenix Force===
The relationship between Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force (and the nature of the powers she has) is portrayed in a variety of ways throughout the character's history. In the initial plotline of the Phoenix being a manifestation of Jean's true potential, these powers are considered her own,<ref name="Classic43"/> as part of Claremont and Byrne's desire to create "the first cosmic superheroine".<ref name="DPT"/> However, since the retcon of the Phoenix as a separate entity from Jean Grey, depictions of these powers vary; these include Jean being one of many hosts to the Phoenix and "borrowing" its "Phoenix powers" during this time,<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/><ref name="XFT50">{{Cite comic
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| story = Judgment War, Part 7; Finale: Judgement Day!
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}}</ref> being a unique host to the Phoenix,<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/> and being one with the Phoenix.<ref name="Classic43"/><ref name="PHNXEND"/> She is later described as the only one currently able to hold the title of "White Phoenix of the Crown" among the many past, present, and future hosts of the Phoenix.<ref name="NXM154"/> Jean — both young and adult versions — is also the only character ever to force the Phoenix against its own cosmic will to do anything while not presently a host. In one instance Jean forcibly ripped the Phoenix out of Emma Frost and imposed its status upon herself.<ref>''[[X-Men: Phoenix - End song]]'' #5</ref> Young Jean was able to keep her psyche anchored in the Phoenix's mind postmortem despite the Phoenix's own efforts to forcibly remove her after it murdered her. Jean then subsequently forced the Phoenix to resurrect her after manipulating the Phoenix's mental landscape against it.<ref name="Jean Grey #11">''Jean Grey'' #11</ref>

Over the years, Jean's abilities while bonded to the Phoenix Force have fluctuated, but the ''Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook'' has detailed what Jean is capable of as Phoenix:
{{blockquote | While empowered by the Phoenix Force, Grey has total telekinetic control of matter at the molecular level, allowing her to manipulate atomic structures on a universal scale. She can generate any form of energy in seemingly unlimited amounts, as well as absorb energy from sources as great as a supernova or even convert her physical form to pure energy and back again. She can also exist in virtually any environment without harm and create space/time warps to travel through hyperspace or traverse the timestream, and her telepathic abilities are also vastly enhanced. When using her power, the Phoenix Force will manifest itself around Grey in the form of a bird of cosmic flames, the size of the bird varying with the amount of energy she is using. These flames can even manifest in seemingly impossible situations, such as the vacuum of space or underwater. This fire apparently does not require oxygen to burn, and burns so intensely that matter is consumed without by-products such as ash. The cosmic fire is a literal punctuation to the Phoenix's purpose to "burn away what doesn't work", as well as being described as "burning through lies and deception". The Phoenix Force can also resurrect the dead under some conditions, and absorb the life force from other sentient beings to bolster its own.<ref name="Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook"/>}}

The Phoenix Force also seems to render its host unaging and, at least in some adaptations, enhances the physical strength of its avatar to superhuman levels; in certain incarnations, Jean, namely while acting as Dark Phoenix, seemed to possess some level of superhuman strength.

====Resurrection====
For one reason or another, Jean Grey (both young and old) has, on more than one occasion, been repeatedly resurrected by either the Phoenix<ref name="Classic43"/><ref>''[[X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong]]'' #1</ref> or apparently her sheer force of will.<ref name="ReferenceA">''[[X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong]]'' #5</ref><ref>''Venomized'' #5</ref> In some depictions, these resurrections are immediately after she or whoever she is reviving is killed, while other depictions indicate that a resurrection must occur at a "correct" time, sometimes taking a century. During the height of the [[#Psych War|Psych Wars]], Young Jean was able to forcibly make the Phoenix Force restore her to life,<ref name="Jean Grey #11"/> despite the Phoenix's adamant resolve not to do so, completely recreating her body after it had been vaporized. After her body was taken over and completely devoured by a [[Symbiote (comics)#Weaknesses|Poison]], a small part of Jean's mind survived and, despite itself, was able to infect the whole Poison Hive and destroy it from the inside out, subsequently using nothing but her mind to reconstruct her body. This leaves Jean believing that she may not even be human anymore.<ref>''Venomized'' #1-5</ref> This is not the first time Jean was resurrected without the Phoenix; in one instance, she was even able to fully resurrect herself after being clinically dead completely independent of the Phoenix Force.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

In their most recent meeting, Jean tells the Phoenix Force that she should have died on the shuttle, and asks it to not resurrect her again.{{r|prrjg5}}

===Miscellaneous abilities===
Jean Grey is a trained pilot and proficient unarmed combatant. She also has some degree of teaching ability, experience as a fashion model, and training in psychology.<ref>''Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook'' (July 2010), page 131</ref>