We had a really great thread about Jean the other day, that's make another and keep it rolling.
How in your kind (other than killing her) can Marvel Comics redeem her character? Sadly, with Jimmy joining the new O5 team Marvel is going back to the rehashed Jean-Scott-Wolverine love triangle.
Lincoln Green
>Marvel is going back to the rehashed Jean-Scott-Wolverine love triangle
Please be trolling, we've all seen and read this story a thousand times.
Lucas Stewart
Fucks an Inhuman
Jeremiah Rodriguez
No Phoenix shit. No crazy inter-X-Men drama.
Just have Jean tackling villains on her own. That's all.
Luke Turner
This. I'm sick of Phoenix. It's almost like none of the writers can write about Jean without Phoenix.
David Martin
Seriously. Can't we just have a three-issue arc where Jean investigates someone transmitting nightmares into children and causing them to commit crimes in their sleep? Something that ties into her psychic powers.
That's all. Quick story arcs to establish the character outside of her usual role as source of interpersonal relationship drama.
Sebastian Rivera
Honestly her being bi and carrying on a relationship with someone like Emma would be hot as fuck.
Jean and Emma or Jean and Dazzler. Book it.
Nathaniel Miller
What's her character oustide the pheonix?
Joseph Russell
That's the thing, they could create her a new character without the Phoenix but they don't. They have to keep going back to that dry well.
Kevin Wood
Best quit while your ahead user, sooner or later your gonna roll craps.
Juan Powell
At that point, why even use Jean Grey?
Caleb Turner
Have time-displaced young O5 Jean kill White Phoenix of the Crown actual Jean and definitively destroy the Phoenix forever.
It's shit it sucks everyone hates it.
Noah Moore
I don't really know how you'd fix her, cause that would imply you can fix anything in the utter clusterfuck that is the X-Men. Marvel has fucked them into oblivion.
The only idea I can offer is a comparison to a similar character. Saturn Girl is basically proto-Jean, but largely lacking all the bullshit. For one thing, she is always forced to deal with the consequences of her telepathic shenanigans, for which she herself has a strong moral code. Imra's most common conflict, therefore, is the balance of her morals against her sense of pragmatism. So I suppose that could be a good place start with making Jean less of a pain in the ass?
And before you start, this is ain't no company wars shit, merely a friendly suggestion from inside a glass house. Trust me, as a LoSH-fag, I can definitely sympathize with an X-fag's plight.
Jason Morgan
Do you think Jean likes anal?
Colton Perry
Women don't like anal, that's a porn myth.
Logan Perry
Now Jean Gray is the new Batgirl
Nicholas Lee
“I’m really excited to see this character become part of the team,” Senior Editor Mark Paniccia tells ComicBook.com in a statement. “Aside from the fact that he is a kindred spirit…displaced as the Original X-Men are…he’ll also feed into some themes X-Men fans are very familiar with. Like the original Wolverine, Jimmy doesn’t remember his past. And like the original Wolverine, he’s going to find a certain red head very attractive. Will this cause problems with Cyclops? Heheh. Just have to wait and see.”
Hudson Jackson
>Will this cause problems with Cyclops? Heheh. Just have to wait and see.” Tyke comes off as such a fucking push over that it's already completely uninteresting.
Parker King
I want to see Jean's feet.
Jackson Garcia
Me too
Aaron Ramirez
Do you think she has nice feet?
Daniel Russell
Repost.
Josiah Butler
>tops not the bottoms
No thanks.
Michael Murphy
>how can you save Jean Femdom mind break inflicted by Emma Frost then they try and capture young Scott to turn him into Rightclops
Camden Rodriguez
Dat's my fetish.
Benjamin Turner
Femdom mind break or SS
Benjamin Baker
In some ways she's the same character as the Scarlet Witch, who was created as her counterpart on the Brotherhood:
- Passive powers, "ladylike" powers that never require her to look less than pretty - Has endless romantic complications with the team's resident brooding angsty guy - Everyone on the team falls in love with her so there can be triangles
She's basically a romance character like a lot of the early Marvel Silver Age heroines.
Sebastian Long
both.
Grayson Diaz
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Aaron Jenkins
I love Jean's new outfit it makes me want to fap to her. That's not a joke, makes her look sexy.
Jeremiah Garcia
Does Jean still have her "gather the ambient psionic energy of the people and things around her and turn it into psychokinetic force" power that turns her pink?
Luke Gray
no more jean relationship drama
jean leaves the x-men
jean is now involved in government wetwork
Hunter Howard
This.
Leo Young
how bout make it a genre book involving trippy mind adventures drawn like ditko dr. strange or steranko nick fury
Charles Lee
And porn encourages men to want it, to want to debase and defile the women they love.
Nathaniel Johnson
In both cases, their fans don't seem to like, or want the triangles, yet most writers can't quit going back to them.
Hunter Smith
Well, first off they need to stop using her as a vehicle for trashing Tyclops. They need to seperate the two of them completely. Different books different love interests. Period.
Eli Long
Have her get more & more relaxed & ok with using her telepathic powers on people until it gets to the point anytime someone does something she doesn't like she inflects psychic goblin nightmares on them, she goes completely evil & crazy changes her name to Maddy & have becomes the new Goblin Queen
Nolan Brown
Does anyone like the love triangle?
Easton Cox
No. Thank god Teen Jean and OML is more liked a father daughter thing.
Bentley Flores
Jimmy is now on the team see
Asher Rogers
Its my least favorite aspect of the character.
Evan Wood
I've met two who do but that's a minority.
Juan Jones
>Jimmy doesn’t remember his past. And like the original Wolverine, he’s going to find a certain red head very attractive. Will this cause problems with Cyclops? Heheh. Just have to wait and see
So, Marvel cannot write a Jean story without using the Phoenix and/or Scott-Logan love rivals. So all Jean stories are just retellings over and over.
Asher Gonzalez
Did they kill them off just so they could rehash past stories? It'd be funny if Jimmy and Scott told Jean to fuck off and took over her book.
Logan Moore
With current Marvel what if Scott and Jimmy fall in love with eachother?
William Martin
FULL VILLAIN REVEAL SHE IS ATTEMPTING TO END HUMANITY BY TURNING EVERYONE GAY
Cameron Miller
Jean gave them the gay and she is living out her fantasies.
Parker Morgan
I vote Ahura
Caleb Long
Oh Well.
Henry Bennett
FUCK THIS STOP RETELLING STORIES
Jaxon Edwards
Adults attempting to write teen characters will never stop being cringy, just look at America "Holy Menstruation" Chavez. Just age her up and stop rehashing the same tired out plots
Oliver Wilson
This Please.
Andrew Barnes
That's a tough sell since no one cares about her outside Phoenix. You'd be better off doing that story with Emma.
Jose Rodriguez
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Jason Ross
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Jonathan Smith
>the love triangle is coming back >Phoenix is coming back
Jackson Martin
I don't think anyone likes the triangle itself, but there are more Wolverine fans than there are Jean fans or Cyclops fans put together, so they get pandered to with love-triangle plots.
This doesn't explain why Fantastic Four keeps doing the Reed/Sue/Namor triangle, or Avengers keeps doing the Vision/Wanda/Wonderman triangle, because Namor and Wonderman are nowhere near that popular.
Marvel just keeps employing writers who are creatively bankrupt, have a cuckold-fetish, or can't even understand the appeal of characters in a stable, loving, happy marriage.
Ryder Cruz
That's not true, her fans have always been divided between those who want her as Phoenix, and those who don't, and the Jean Threads on Sup Forums seem to have very few anons who want Phoenix.
Anyone who started reading before Claremont, or between X-Factor #1 and before the Morrison run, is likely more used to Jean not being Phoenix.
It's not an issue of "what fans want", it's an issue of "Marvel hiring writers who just keep repeating the same old storylines".
Levi Gomez
House of ideas. Hoping for a rehash of Teen Jean death.
Dylan Edwards
Instead of "age her up", let's send the teen O5 back in time, and then bring back the real Scott, Jean, Wolverine, Xavier, and Iceman.
Luke Brooks
I love Jean, I love Phoenix. I love Phonnix from the 80s, during stories that really had weight and mean someone.
When you use the Phoenix time and time and time again. It's like, "who even cares about the Phoenix anymore. It's gotta come back in 2 years". I lose all interest, they add nothing new. Cyclops and the Phoenix egg was interesting and was well built then they blew their load and wasted it.
Gavin Williams
>not the bottoms That literally never happens in comics
Cooper Robinson
Sure, user. I've seen no one care about Jean outside the phoenix shit. Also
>before Claremont
No one cared about X-Men back then, and even less about Jean. And the only things people cared about from the first X-factor run was Archangel and Apocalypse.
Brayden Adams
>And the only things people cared about from the first X-factor run was Archangel and Apocalypse.
That's not true, people cared about Jean being back, they cared about Cyclops' marriage ending, they cared about Beast not being a furry anymore, and they cared about the original "mutant hunters" plot.
A lot of that caring was expressed through REEEEEEEing, but it's still caring.
Oliver Ramirez
Jeanbump.
Adam Scott
>, and then bring back the real Scott, Jean, Wolverine, Xavier This please.
Aiden Hughes
Jeanbump for Jeanbumps
Joshua Ross
Even the movies go straight to Logan and the Phoenix. Twice.
Justin Russell
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Oliver Lopez
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William Adams
Yes yes.
Cameron Jenkins
There was a vocal contingent of Silver Age X-Men fans who never warmed to the reboot and hated the whole Dark Phoenix story because they loved OG Jean.
Kurt Busiek is the best known of these because he came up with the "Jean wasn't really Phoenix" retcon that brought her back, but there were a bunch of others. X-Factor existed because of original X-Men fans who never accepted the reboot.
Noah Sanders
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Brody Flores
Except she traumatized an innocent bystander with mental rape, after she caused a car to ram through the poor girl's house.
Jean is nothing but death and destruction. She blows up solar systems to masturbate. She violates the mental privacy of others, while she herself dislikes the invasion of mental privacy.
She blows up solar systems to achieve estrus, and bitches to her husband about his inability to get it up during sex.
Jean is canonically interested in three things: sex, mental rape, and getting sexual satisfaction from death.
Jaxon Collins
>Jean is canonically interested in three things: sex, mental rape, and getting sexual satisfaction from death.
Four things: sex, mental rape, getting sexual satisfaction from death, and housework.
Aaron Wright
Very good.
Bentley Parker
>Jean >With Emma
You leave best girl alone! She doesn't deserve to be Jean'd!
Elijah Clark
Thank you for the much needed correction.
Jaxon Scott
this, I fully expect this.
Jean will want to be "stronk, indipendants womysn" and get all upset over Scott and Jimmy wanting her, and she'll Jean them into being gay for each other.
Nicholas Williams
DEEPEST LORE!!!!
Oliver Hall
*chuckles* She'll "Jean them..."
I like this meme.
Kayden Hernandez
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Aaron Reed
Well, if we're sharing Jean/Maddie Semi-Work Safe images...
Jean "Fifty Shades of Grey-ing" herself.
Levi Fisher
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Henry Jackson
Impressive...and actually sexy.
Connor Clark
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Levi Scott
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Ethan Green
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Zachary Mitchell
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Nathan Wood
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Logan Turner
Last one for the night, keep it going, anons.
Isaac Reed
I know you're joking, but you can actually make a coherent personality out of those traits, domineering perfectionist.
Nicholas Bailey
>some themes X-Men fans are very familiar with. Like the original Wolverine, Jimmy doesn’t remember his past. And like the original Wolverine, he’s going to find a certain red head very attractive >See, just like if you had the real X-Men around, right? RIGHT? Are you gonna buy our fake shit now?