Editing Jean Grey (section)

==Fictional character biography==
===Youth===
Jean Elaine Grey was born the second daughter of [[Dr. John Grey (comics)|John]] and [[Elaine Grey]]. She had an older sister, [[Sara Grey-Bailey]]. John Grey was a professor at [[Bard College]] in [[upstate New York]]. Depictions of Jean's childhood and her relations with her family have shown a stable, loving family life growing up.

===Emergence of powers and joining the X-Men===
Jean's mutant powers of telepathy and telekinesis first manifested when her best friend was hit by a car and killed. Jean mentally linked with her friend and nearly died as well.<ref name="BA27"/> The event left her comatose, and she was brought back to consciousness when her parents sought the help of powerful mutant telepath, Charles Xavier.<ref name="UXM308">{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> Xavier blocked her telepathy until she was old enough to be able to control it, leaving her with access only to her telekinetic powers.<ref name="BA27"/><ref>{{Cite comic| writer = Roy Thomas| penciller = Don Heck| inker = [[George Tuska]]| story = If I Should Die...!| title = X-Men| volume = | issue = #42| date = March 1968| publisher = Marvel Comics| location =| page =| panel =| id =}}</ref> Xavier later recruited her as a teenager to be part of his X-Men team as "Marvel Girl", the team's sole female member.<ref name="XMN1">{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> After several missions with the X-Men, Xavier removed Jean's mental blocks and she was able to use and control her telepathic powers.<ref name="BA27"/> She began a relationship with teammate [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Cyclops]], which persisted as her main romantic relationship.<ref name="CLSXMN1">{{Cite comic
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===Phoenix Force and first death===
{{Main|The Dark Phoenix Saga}}
During an emergency mission in space, the X-Men find their shuttle damaged. Jean pilots the shuttle back to Earth, but is exposed to fatal levels of radiation.<ref name="DPT"/> Dying, but determined to save Cyclops and her friends, Jean calls out for help and is answered by the cosmic entity the Phoenix Force.<ref name="FF286">{{Cite comic
| writer = [[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]]
| penciller = [[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]]
| inker= [[Terry Austin (comics)|Terry Austin]]
| story = Like a Phoenix!
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}}</ref> The Phoenix Force, the sum of all life in the universe,<ref name="Classic43">{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> is moved by Jean's wish to save herself and her friends. It takes the form of a duplicate body to house Jean's psyche. The duplication is so exact that the Phoenix Force believes itself to be Jean Grey,<ref name="FF286"/> and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon.<ref name="CLSX8"/> This cocoon is later described as a Phoenix Egg.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=June 2019}} The ship crashes in Jamaica Bay, with the other X-Men unharmed.<ref name="UCXM101">{{Cite comic
| writer = Chris Claremont
| penciller = Dave Cockrum
| inker =Frank Chiaramonte
| story =Like A Phoenix, From The Ashes!
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The Phoenix Force, assuming Jean's identity, emerges wearing a new costume and adopts the codename "Phoenix";<ref name="UXM125">{{Cite comic
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| penciller = John Byrne
| inker = Terry Austin
| story = There's Something Awful on Muir Island
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}}</ref> meanwhile, the cocoon containing the real Jean Grey sinks to the bottom of the bay, unnoticed. Phoenix continues her life as Jean Grey with the other X-Men, joining them on missions and even helping to save the universe. During "[[The Dark Phoenix Saga]]", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction called "Dark Phoenix", inadvertently killing the inhabitants of a planetary system after consuming its star, and jeopardizing the entire universe.<ref name="DPS">{{cite book |title=X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga |first=Chris |last=Claremont |publisher= Marvel Publishing |location=New York| isbn=978-0-7851-2213-5 |year=1984}}</ref> However, Jean's personality manages to take control and Phoenix commits suicide to ensure the safety of the universe.<ref name="FF286"/><ref name="DPS"/>

===Revival===
{{See also|X-Factor (comics)|Madelyne Pryor}}
Upon its suicide by way of a disintegration ray, the Phoenix Force disperses into its original form and a fragment locates the still-healing Jean at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. In trying to bond with her, Jean senses its memories of death and destruction as Dark Phoenix and rejects it, causing it to bond with and animate a lifeless clone of Jean Grey created by the villain Mister Sinister.<ref name="UNCXM241">{{Cite comic| writer = Chris Claremont
| penciller = Mark Silvestri| inker = Dan Green| story = Fan the Flames| title = The Uncanny X-Men
| volume = | issue = #241| date = February 1989| publisher = Marvel Comics}}</ref> Sinister created the clone to mate with Cyclops to create genetically superior mutants. Named "[[Madelyne Pryor]]", the unaware clone meets Cyclops in a situation engineered by Sinister and the two fall in love, marry, and have a child, Nathan Christopher Summers. Meanwhile, the cocoon is discovered and retrieved by the Avengers and the [[Fantastic Four]]. Jean emerges with no memory of the actions of the Phoenix/Dark Phoenix. The Avengers and Fantastic Four tell her of what happened and that she was believed dead until now.<ref name="FF286"/> She is reunited with the original X-Men and convinces them to form the new superhero team X-Factor, reusing her "Marvel Girl" codename. Madelyne is angered over Cyclops's decision to lead X-Factor and neglect his family.<ref name="XFT1"/> Though Jean encourages Cyclops to return to Madelyne, he finds their house abandoned and assumes that Madelyne has left him and taken their infant son.<ref name="XFT8">{{Cite comic|writer = [[Bob Layton]]| penciller = [[Jackson Guice]]
| inker = [[Josef Rubenstein]]| story = Third Genesis| title = X-Factor| volume = | issue = #8
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| writer = [[Louise Simonson]]| penciller = [[Walter Simonson]]| inker = [[Dan Green (artist)|Dan Green]]| story = Third Genesis| title = X-Factor| volume = | issue = #13| date = February 1987
| publisher = Marvel Comics}}</ref> but the Phoenix Force's impersonation, and his marrying Madelyne, damaged their mutual trust.<ref name="XFT16">''X-Factor'' #18</ref><ref name=XFTANN2>''X-Factor'' Annual #2</ref> The team's adventures continue throughout the series, culminating in the line-wide "[[Inferno (Marvel Comics)|Inferno]]" crossover. Madelyne reappears, now nearly insane and with powers awakened by a demonic pact, calling herself the Goblyn Queen.<ref name="UNCXM240">{{Cite comic
| writer = [[Chris Claremont]]| penciller = [[Mark Silvestri]]| inker = [[Dan Green (artist)|Dan Green]]| story = Strike the Match| title = [[Uncanny X-Men]]| volume = | issue = #240| date = January 1989| publisher = Marvel Comics}}</ref>

Learning of her true identity and purpose as a clone created by [[Mister Sinister]] drove her completely insane and she plans to sacrifice Nathan Christopher to achieve greater power and unleash literal Hell on Earth.<ref name="UNCXM241"/> While attempting to stop her, Jean is reunited with the other X-Men, who are happy to learn that she is alive. Jean and Madelyne confront each other, and Madelyne attempts to kill them both. Jean manages to survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from "The Dark Phoenix Saga".<ref name="XFT38">{{Cite comic| writer = Louise Simonson| penciller = Walter Simonson
| inker = Dan Green| story = Duet!| title = X-Factor| volume = | issue = #38| date = March 1989
| publisher = Marvel Comics}}</ref>

===Return to the X-Men and marriage to Cyclops===
Unsure of herself since returning to life,<ref name="XFT2">{{Cite comic |Writer=Layton, Bob |Penciller=Guice, Jackson |Inker=Rubinstein, Joe |Colorist=Scotese, Petra |Letterer=Rosen, Joe |Editor=Harras, Bob |Story=Bless the Beasts and Children |url=https://www.comics.org/issue/41231/ |Title=X-Factor |Volume= |Issue=#2 |Date=March 1986 |Publisher=Marvel Comics |access-date=2021-07-24}}</ref> Jean finds possessing the Phoenix Force and Madelyne's memories to be difficult.{{r|XFT53}} Cyclops proposes to her and she meets her alternate future daughter [[Rachel Summers]] (who goes by the codename "Phoenix" as well and is also able to tap into the Phoenix Force), but Jean rejects them both out of the feeling that they indicate that her life is predetermined.<ref name="XFT53"/><ref name="XFTANN5"/>{{r|UXMAN14}} Jean had learned during the Inferno event that her rejecting the Phoenix Force caused Madelyne to wake;{{r|XFT38}} Cyclops admits to [[Susan Storm Richards]] that Jean sometimes wishes that the Fantastic Four had not found her, and that he does not know how to communicate with her.<ref name="UXMAN14">{{Cite comic |Writer=Claremont, Chris |Penciller=Adams, Art |Inker=Green, Dan |Coinkers=Bob Wiacek, Al Milgrom, Art Thibert, Steve Mancuse |Colorist=Vancata, Brad |Letterer=Orzechowski, Tom |Editor=Harras, Bob |Story=Days of Future Present (Part 4): You Must Remember This |url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/12360/x-men_annual_1970_14 |Title=Uncanny X-Men |Volume=1 |Issue=Annual 14 |Date=1990 |Publisher=Marvel Comics}}</ref> When X-Factor unites with the X-Men, Jean joins the Gold Team, led by Storm.<ref name="UNCXM281"/> She deliberately chooses not to use a codename, so the team simply uses her civilian name. After some time, she makes up with Rachel, welcoming her into her life, and proposes to Cyclops and the two marry.<ref name="UXM308"/><ref name="EXC75">{{Cite comic
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| story = Hello, I Must Be Going
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}}</ref> On their honeymoon, the couple is immediately psychically transported 2000 years into the future to raise Cyclops's son Nathan, who had been transported to the future as an infant in hopes of curing him of a deadly virus. Jean adopts the identity of "Redd" along with Cyclops ("Slym") and they raise Nathan Christopher for twelve years before they are sent back into their bodies on their wedding honeymoon. Jean learns that a time-displaced Rachel had used her powers to transport them to the future to protect Nathan; per Rachel's request, Jean adopts the codename "Phoenix" once again to establish it as a symbol of good after all the bad it had caused.<ref name="TAoC&P">{{cite book |title=The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix |first=Scott |last=Lobdell |publisher= Marvel Publishing |location=New York| isbn=978-0-7851-0171-0 |year=1994}}</ref> As her powers increase, Jean also decides to wear the original Phoenix's gold-and-green costume.<ref name="UNCXM356">{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> Jean also met another alternate future child of hers and Scott's: the immensely powerful [[Nate Grey|Nathan Grey]], who accidentally revived the psionic ghost of Madelyne Pryor, leading to another confrontation between the two women.<ref name="XMAN25">{{Cite comic
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| penciller = [[Roger Cruz]]
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===Onslaught===
In [[Bishop (comics)|Bishop]]'s original timeline before he ends up in the present he finds the X-Men's [[war room]] and finds a garbled distress signal from Jean about a traitor destroying the X-Men from within.<ref name="UX287">''The Uncanny X-Men'' #287</ref> Meanwhile, in the present, the X-Men begin to hear increasing news about a malevolent entity called [[Onslaught (Marvel Comics)|Onslaught]]. Jean first sees Onslaught as a psionic image with the rest of the X-Men after Onslaught coerces [[Gateway (comics)|Gateway]] to kidnap Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, and Iceman.<ref>''X-Men'' #50</ref>  He later appears to her again in a similar way after rescuing her and [[Gambit (Marvel Comics)|Gambit]] from [[Bastion (comics)|Bastion]] and offers her a chance to join him.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #333</ref> Onslaught makes his first full appearance to Jean on the astral plane and shows her how humanity is closing in on mutants as well as revealing that Xavier was in love with her while she was a student to convince her to join him. He then telepathically brands his name to her mind when she refuses and asks him his name.<ref>''X-Men'' #53</ref> When Juggernaut comes to the mansion with information about Onslaught's true identity but has a mental block preventing him from divulging it, Jean enters his mind and helps him to remember who Onslaught really is and to her horror she discovers that Onslaught is really Professor X, having gone insane ever since wiping Magneto's mind.<ref name="UX287"/><ref>''X-Men'' #54</ref>

Professor Xavier calls the X-Men together for a meeting and Jean tries unsuccessfully to rally the X-Men against him before he manifests Onslaught. While Onslaught easily overtakes the rest of the X-Men, Jean escapes to the war room and sends out the distress signal that Bishop found in the future. After a massive battle against Jean and the rest of the X-Men, Onslaught escapes to carry out his plans. After Onslaught nearly kills the X-Men they team up with the Avengers to make a plan to stop him, knowing full well that it may come down to them killing Xavier if the world is to survive. Jean accompanies Cyclops, Archangel, and [[Betsy Braddock|Psylocke]] to Muir Island where they and [[Moira McTaggert]] discover the ''Xavier Protocols'', secret plans that Xavier made to kill any of the individual X-Men should anyone become a threat against the world. Meanwhile, Jean's earlier distress signal makes it to X-Factor, [[Excalibur (comics)|Excalibur]], and [[X-Force (comics)|X-Force]].<ref>''X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic'' Books 1-2</ref> After returning to New York, Jean works closely with [[Mister Fantastic|Reed Richards]] to help build up defenses against Onslaught as well as to help create the psionic armor that could block Xavier's telepathic powers as seen in the ''Xavier Protocols''.<ref>''X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic'' Book 3</ref> When Jean senses that Xavier has been freed from Onslaught and is going to confront him on his own, she and Cyclops bring together the rest of the X-Men to back him up. The rest of the Avengers and Fantastic Four join them in a final stand against Onslaught before he completely destroys the world. In a final act of desperation Jean finds [[Bruce Banner|Hulk]] and locks away Bruce Banner's mind, leaving only the Hulk in control so he can fight Onslaught unencumbered. With the vast majority of earth's heroes missing and assumed dead after Onslaught is finally defeated, Jean and Cyclops open their home to [[Quicksilver (comics)|Quicksilver]] and his daughter and try to help the X-Men to get their lives back together.<ref>''X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic'' Books 4</ref>

===New X-Men===
Following Cyclops's possession by the mutant villain [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] and apparent death,<ref name="Twelve"/><ref name="AGES"/> Jean continues with the X-Men, but is distraught by the loss of her husband. She later learns that she is an "Omega-level" mutant with unlimited potential.<ref name="XMFRV"/> Jean begins to suspect that Cyclops may still be alive and with the help of [[Cable (comics)|Nathan Summers]] (now the aged superhero "Cable"), is able to locate and free Cyclops of his possession by Apocalypse.<ref name="XMSfC">{{Cite comic
| writer = [[Joe Harris (filmmaker)|Joseph Harris]]
| penciller = [[Tom Raney]]
| inker = Scott Hanna
| story = Book Four: Found!
| title = [[X-Men: Search for Cyclops]]
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}}</ref> The couple return to the X-Men as part of the Xavier Institute's teaching staff to a new generation of mutants.<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/> While Jean finds she is slowly able to tap into the powers of the Phoenix Force once again, her marriage to Scott begins to fail.<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/> Jean and Wolverine meet in the woods where Jean confides her feelings of distance towards Scott while Wolverine also shuts down any interest in a relationship he himself had with Jean by telling her that he knew a relationship between the two would never work and walks away from her; Cyclops grows further alienated from Jean due to her growing powers and institute responsibilities and seeks consolation from the telepathic [[Emma Frost]] to address his disillusionment and his experiences while possessed by Apocalypse.<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/> Emma psychically manipulates Scott and tries to psychically seduce him, which Jean interrupts and discovers, though she would later learn Emma was in love with Scott. Jean also realizes that Scott and Emma never had a physical affair and that Emma had, to an extent, taken advantage of Scott to telepathically seduce him.<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/>

===Second death===
In a final confrontation with a traitor at the institute (the X-Men's teammate [[Xorn (comics)|Xorn]], posing as Magneto) Jean fully realizes and assumes complete control of the powers of the Phoenix Force, but is killed in a last-ditch lethal attack by Xorn.<ref name="NWXMNOMN"/> Jean dies, telling Scott "to live". However, after her funeral, Scott rejects Emma and her offer to run the school together. This creates a [[Here Comes Tomorrow|dystopian future]] where all life and natural evolution is under assault by the infectious, villainous, sentient bacteria "[[Sublime (Marvel Comics)|Sublime]]". Jean is resurrected in this future timeline and becomes the fully realized '''White Phoenix of the Crown''', using the abilities of the Phoenix Force to defeat Sublime and eliminate the dystopic future by reaching back in time and telling Cyclops to move on. This leads him to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school together.<ref name="NXM154">{{Cite comic
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| penciller = [[Marc Silvestri]]
| inker = Joe Weems
| story = [[Here Comes Tomorrow]]: Rescue...and Emergency
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}}</ref> Jean then reconciles with Cyclops and fully bonds with the Phoenix Force and ascends to a higher plane of existence called the "[[White hot room|White Hot Room]]".<ref name="PHNXEND"/>

===Endsong===
A weakened Phoenix Force returns to reanimate Jean. Jean tries to convince the Phoenix Force to let her go so they can return to the White Hot Room together, but once again the Phoenix Force takes over. Jean lets Wolverine find her and tries to convince him to kill her again before the Phoenix does more damage.<ref>''X-Men: Phoenix Endsong'' #1</ref> The Shi'ar track the Phoenix Force and make an alliance with Storm to find her and defeat her. Jean takes Wolverine to the [[North Pole]] before the Shi'ar can kill her and convinces him to kill her. He stabs her numerous times but Phoenix keeps reanimating her, prompting Jean to dive deep into the ice and freeze herself.<ref>''X-Men: Phoenix Endsong'' #3</ref> The Phoenix Force leaves her body and once again assumes Jean's form to tempt Cyclops to attack her so she can absorb his optic blasts and become strong again. When the Phoenix Force merges with and overwhelms Emma Frost, Cyclops frees Jean from the ice. Once freed Jean ejects the Phoenix from Emma and accepts that she is one with the Phoenix Force. After feeling the love from the X-Men, the Phoenix relents and returns with Jean back to the White Hot Room. Before she departs, Jean and Cyclops share a telepathic emotional farewell.<ref>''X-Men: Phoenix Endsong'' #4-5</ref>

===Postmortem manifestations===
Though she had yet to fully return, the Phoenix Force and Jean continued to manifest themselves, particularly the Phoenix through the red-haired, green-eyed "mutant messiah" who slightly resembles Jean named [[Hope Summers (comics)|Hope Summers]],<ref name="XFC3-28">{{Cite comic
| writer = [[Craig Kyle]]; [[Chris Yost]]
| penciller = [[Michael Choi (comics)|Mike Choi]]
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}}</ref> and Jean briefly appears in a vision to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room, warning the X-Men to "prepare".<ref name="UXM510">{{Cite comic
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}}</ref> She again appears in a vision to Cyclops when he is overwhelmed by the power of Dark Phoenix, helping him abandon the power so that it can pass on to its true host.<ref>''Avengers vs X-Men'' #12</ref> After [[Nightcrawler (character)|Nightcrawler]] is fatally wounded by the Crimson Pirates, Jean appears to him along with [[Amanda Sefton]] and the recently deceased [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] to help coax him back to life.<ref>''Nightcrawler'' vol. 4 #10</ref> Jean's spirit begins to manifest in a more straightforward and aggressive manner to the time-displaced Jean from an alternate timeline, seemingly training her for the arrival of the Phoenix. However, after the younger Jean begins to ignore her, she possesses the time displaced Jean and uses her as a means to ambush Emma Frost.<ref>''Jean Grey'' #5-7</ref>

===Return===
{{See also|X-Men Red}}
Strange psych occurrences around the world, which include a large bird flaring out from the sun and an explosion on the moon, raise red flags for the X-Men, who quickly launch an investigation of these events.<ref>''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #1</ref>  After a string of bizarre encounters with familiar enemies, many of them considered deceased, the X-Men come to one conclusion: the Phoenix Force is back on Earth.<ref>''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #2</ref>  The X-Men also discover that psychs are going missing or falling ill, which prompts the team to investigate the grave of Jean Grey. As they find the coffin of their long-dead teammate empty, they race to locate the Phoenix before it can find a suitable host. As it turns out, with the time-displaced teen Jean Grey out of the Phoenix Force's way, the cosmic entity has already resurrected the present adult Jean Grey. However, she does not recall her life as a mutant and an X-Man, and terrible visions from her previous life have left Jean unsure of the difference between reality and fiction.<ref>''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #3</ref> As she lies inside of what appears to be a Phoenix Egg, the X-Men theorize that the strange psych occurrences are subconscious cries for help made by Jean Grey and that they must try to stop the Phoenix from merging with their old friend.<ref>''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #4</ref> Old Man Logan is able to make Jean Grey remember her true life and she learns about the fate of her family and several of her friends, among them Cyclops. As Jean faces the Phoenix Force, she is finally able to convince the cosmic entity to stop bringing her back and let her go. Alive once again, Jean is reunited with her friends as the Phoenix Force journeys back to space.<ref name=prrjg5>''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #5</ref>

Restored to life, Jean gathers some of the greatest minds on Earth together so that she can read their minds to plan her next move. Recognizing that there has been a sudden surge in anti-mutant sentiment, to the point where there are plans to abort pregnancies if the mutant gene is detected, Jean announces her plans to establish a more official mutant nation, making it clear that she will not establish a geographic location for said nation as past examples make it clear that doing so just makes mutants a target. To support her in this goal, she assembles a team including Nightcrawler, X-23 and Namor, but is unaware that her actions are being observed by [[Cassandra Nova]].<ref>''X-Men: Red'' #1</ref>

===House of X / Dawn of X===
The adult Jean returns to using her original Marvel Girl codename and wears her second green-and-yellow Marvel Girl costume. She is sent as part of a strike team to outer space to stop a satellite near the sun from being used as a Sentinel factory. Sentinels crush Jean's escape pod and she dies, but is resurrected into a cloned body.<ref name="House of X #5">''House of X'' #5</ref> She is also a member of the [[Quiet Council of Krakoa|Quiet Council]], Krakoa's provisional government.<ref>''House of X'' #6</ref> Following the events of House of X, Jean briefly joins the Krakoan incarnation of X-Force,<ref>''X-Force'' #1</ref> before resigning in protest of Beast's actions in Terra Verde.<ref>''X-Force'' #10</ref>

When the Phoenix Force selects Maya Lopez, also known as Echo, to be its new host, Jean cautions her to maintain connections with other people to prevent it from overwhelming her.<ref>''Avengers'' #44</ref>