Personally, I believe in the Jean + Scott relationship and bringing her back is just going to feed into a terrible (and utterly trite) romance triangle. I'd love to see her appearing in TV shows, movies, and games with the freedom from decades upon decades of continuity. She is a great character and Scott belongs with her. Right now he is really damaged goods since she was a great anchor for him. He's made some questionable decisions over the time she's been dead and he needs to fix himself without her return. I do not believe the direction he took leading up to her death... marital abstinence coupled with psychic infidelity. So bizarre and it completely cheapened everything about their relationship: the investment, the companionship, and the hard work that goes into a successful marriage.
Few writers were able to write Jean correctly imo and bringing her back without a clear reason/plan/role/etc is damaging to the character. It makes one of the strongest (not just in power, but also in character) women of the Marvel universe utterly wasted. She should not return (presumably through the power of the phoenix) to roll back the events of M Day. She shouldn't come back just to be a romantic foil for Wolverine and Cyclops. She should come back to fulfill a higher purpose in rebirth, not to be some convenient fix to get the universe where a writer wants it to be.
Many presume to speak for all of us in support of her return, but there are more than a few users posting in opposition to her return. Those of us in opposition have our different reasons, but I respect that there are two sides to this debate. Personally, I think she should go the way of Gwen & Uncle Ben and stay dead, living in loving memory because I don't trust any of Marvel's current writers to bring her back to be more than she has already been. For those of us who have loved, lost, and moved on, Scott surviving a deceased Jean is an important story. Scott has baggage with Jean's (yes, the Phoenix's) death that still hasn't been resolved since Claremont's run in the 80s. I'd much rather the X-Men's humpty dumpty be put back together again.
@oviouslyjeangrey: Don't get your hopes up.
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