This moment is so impactful and on track for Jean because of her decades long history of looking out for and trying to save Madelyne. #XSpoilers
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After being deceived by Scott, Hank, Bobby, and Warren for months following her return from stasis, and finding out Scott had a wife and child who he’d abandoned for her, Jean admonished him and urged him to go back to them. #XSpoilers
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Later, she sacrificed her soul to Mephisto to save Madelyne and Nate, to relieve Scott of his guilt and so that he could be with his family. Mephisto referred to Jean’s soul as “rare and wondrous” and released her. #XSpoilers
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Even after going through a period when she criticized Madelyne harshly for letting Scott think she and Nathan were dead—Jean didn’t know the whole story—she tried convincing Madelyne to let her and the X-Men help her and was deeply distraught by her death. #XSpoilers
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Years later, after Nate Grey accidentally gave form to Madelyne’s psionic ghost, and she tried killing him and Jean, Jean stopped Nate from destroying Madelyne and tried reaching out to her. #XSpoilers
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Their reconciliation has been a long time coming and intercepted by heartache, but thankfully, they finally made it. 🥹 #XSpoilers
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The Dark Phoenix Saga has been framed as a cautionary tale centered on how, as Lord Acton once wrote, "absolute power corrupts absolutely." However, it is a tragedy that illustrates the cumulative effects of grief, abuse, trauma, dissociation, and addiction. 1/36 #XSpoilers
Technically, the "saga" begins after the X-Men battle Magneto, and Jean and Beast believe the rest of their teammates to be dead. Unbeknownst to them, however, the others have been transported to the Savage Land and believe Jean and Beast to be dead. 2/36
Jean is grief-stricken by the seeming death of her teammates—her chosen family— which leaves her feeling alone and displaced. Her guilt over not being able to save them causes a surge in her power and she unintentionally reads Xavier's mind. 3/36
The Dark Phoenix Saga has been primarily framed as a cautionary tale centered on how, as Lord Anton once wrote, "absolute power corrupts absolutely." However, it is really a story that illustrates the cumulative effects of grief, dissociation, addiction, abuse, and trauma. 1/31
Before the 'Saga' begins, Jean is grief-stricken by the seeming death of her chosen family, which leaves her feeling alone and displaced. Her anguish is compounded when she fails to connect with her friend and former roommate Misty Knight before traveling abroad. 2/31
As an aside: Claremont figures Misty prominently in Jean's personal life, both in-story and in later backstories. She is the first person to whom Jean reveals her feelings of dissociation, fear of her growing power, and that she died before being reborn as Phoenix. 3/31
I don't see or feel Sadie Sink as Jean. She has the strange, cold and otherworldly look I associate more with the Stepford Cuckoos. Canonically, Jean is meant to be striking and exude warmth. Cockrum and Byrne modeled Jean after Farrah Fawcett and Raquel Welch, respectively. 1/3
A dying Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind) sends Jean a letter asking her to visit him. After she, Iceman, and Bishop do, they are transported to a new reality in Wyngarde's mind via an "involuntarily psionic link" he establishes. From Uncanny X-Men Annual #17 (1993):
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2/4 In this new reality, each team member's dream-turned-nightmare comes true. Jean lives happily with Scott and their children Rachel and Nathan, who later attack and accuse her of being a bad mother. Jean explodes and defends herself with formidable fury.
3/4 She soon realizes that Wyngarde wants to make amends for the abuse he perpetrated against her during the Dark Phoenix Saga. She telekinetically transports an unwilling Bobby and Bishop out of the astral plane and Wyngarde's mind—an unheard of and nearly impossible feat!