Jean Grey was one of the five original X-Men. An omega-level mutant telepath and powerful telekinetic, Jean has gained near limitless powers as a recurrent host of the Phoenix Force. She is known for her return from death and as the wife of Cyclops.
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AoA Jean Grey (Earth-295)
In an alternate future where Xavier dies, Jean Grey becomes one of the first X-Men led by Magneto. Later, when Apocalypse rises to power, Jean is captured and is identified by Sinister as an Alpha Class Mutant, one of the most powerful mutants to exist. Because of this potential, Sinister uses hers and Scott’s DNA to create the perfect mutant combo in Nate Grey. Here is Jean’s respect thread.
Handbooks
AoA Jean Grey bio, stats, and powers (Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men- Age of Apocalypse)
Accolades
According to Apocalypse, Jean is an example of genetic perfection and could have been well on her way to becoming apart of the Mutant ruling class. (Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen)Jean is identified as an Alpha Class alongside Logan, which caused fear in Apocalypse Forces enough to call Prelate Havok, a fellow Alpha. (Weapon X vol 1 #1)Jean being an Alpha alongside Logan is cause for alarm by Prelate Havok. (Weapon X vol 1 #1)Jean is out against Candra, a Psi of the Highest Order, according to Magneto. It’s not known who won, but considering Jean is seen next and not Candra, she either won or ended in a draw. (X-Men Chronicles #1)Jean was treated as an Alpha Elite due to her powerful potential. (Factor X #3)Jean’s encounter with Nate Grey unlocks her psychic abilities, supercharging her as a result. (Factor X #4)Jean is described as beyond mutation by Dark Beast and that even at the microscopic level, her body has cells that are a separate center of power. (X-Factor vol 3 #22)Dark Beast identifies Nate Grey as Jean's son by virtue of the power he is wielding, claiming that Nate has her power. (X-Factor vol 3 #22)Only Jean can wield the power of Apocalypse and not lose control completely. (X-Termintion #2)
Telepathy
Jean senses Havok’s arrival. She also seems to sense how powerful he is. (Weapon X vol 1 # 1)Jean uses her telepathy to reach through Logan’s berserker and calm him with considerable effort. Jean comments it’s harder to use her telepathy than her telekinesis, yet Logan comments that more experienced telepaths have tried and ended up frying their brains. (X-Men Chronicles #1)
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Logan's psi-link with Jean helps him locate her in a massive crowd of refugees. (Weapon X vol 1 #2)Jean’s anger becomes so great that it activates Logan’s berserker rage through their link. (Weapon X vol 1 #2)Jean Grey beefs up her defenses to defend against the Brain Trust’s attempts to subdue her. The Brain Trust is made of six telepathic brains used to subdue an entire prison. (Factor X#3)Despite the psionic inhibitor, Jean resists Dark Beasts neural stimulus. Jean claims that she could resist it cranked all the way like she has before. (Factor X #3)
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Jean Grey vs the Brain Trust. Jean wins by using a level of psychic power she had never used before (unlocked by Nate Grey). Because of that lack of experience, she accidentally kills the trust. (Factor X #4)Jean communicates with Magneto telepathically while carrying Logan and herself telekinetically. (X-Men Chronicles #2)
Telekinesis
Jean Psi-blasts a giant mutated cyborg. (Weapon X vol 1 #1)
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Young Jean rag-dolls and destroys multiple Danger Room robots. (X-Men Chronicles #1)Jean catches Iceman in mid-air after Rogue punches him. (X-Men Chronicles #1)Jean carries herself and Logan to safety. (X-Men Chronicles #1)
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After her PTSD was triggered, Jean kills Copycat with a telekinetic blast. (Weapon X vol 1 #2)Jean uses her tk to hurl a rod at the guard and knock him out. She then uses his unconscious body to make it appear like he is taking her in as a prisoner. (Factor X #3)Jean knocks Wolfsbane out in a single tk-blast. She also senses Wolfsbane’s human side beneath the animal mind. (Factor X #3) Despite the inhibitor, Jean manages to overpower the device to get it off of her and then remove Scott’s visor to shoot McCoy. (Factor X #3)Jean frees Scott and herself from Dark Beasts shackles. (Factor X #3)A weakened Jean Grey hurls a ladder at Havok. (Factor X #4)Jean telekinetically carries herself and Logan far away. (X-Men Chronicles #2)After sending the death of millions, Jean blankets the sky in a tk shield to stop nuclear warheads from destroying New York. (X-Men Omega)
Phoenix Force
It was assumed Jean Grey died after Havok shot her, but instead, the Phoenix Force saved her and left her in a comatose state. Still, Jean was thought to be dead, which gave Sinister a chance to experiment and unlock Jean's true potential as the Mutant Alpha, aka the first mutant ever to exist in the Age of Apocalypse timeline. Jean would later lose her Phoenix and mutant abilities after a plan gone wrong with the clone of the Scarlet Witch.
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Jean uses the power of the Phoenix to stop the nuclear bombs from taking New York. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #5)Jean Grey survived the point-blank blast from Havok, even though they all assumed she was dead. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #5)According to Mister Sinister, the Phoenix Force was power wielded by the first mutant that brought about the existence of all mutants and its powers are passed down from generation to generation. Sinister not only reveals that Jean's power stopped the nukes and could change the world, but she stopped an entire timeline from being erased from existence, aka even after the M'Kraan Crystal reversed the AoA timeline back into the 616. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6)
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Jean overwhelms AoA Sunfire, who was attempting to contain her, until Psylocke flanks her. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6)After being hit with Psylocke's psi-knife, Jean creates an explosion upon falling to the ground. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6)Jean telekinetically immobilizes Mister Sinister. She claims to have the power to change the world and kill Mister Sinister. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #6)Jean reveals that Sinister forced her to brainwash the Sinister Six. (Age of Apocalypse #6)Though Jean is cryptic about it, it can be assumed Jean used her powers to manipulate the minds of others to visit Magneto. (Age of Apocalypse #6)Jean combs through Wolverines memories to see what the 616 reality is like. (Uncanny X-Force vol 1 #12)Jean one-shots a giant sentinel with ease. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #12)Jean telekinetically carries a team of X-Men with ease. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #12)Jean immobilizes an Orange Hulk telekinetically. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #13)Jean uses a telepathic command to halt Kurt, Deadpool, and Wolverine with ease. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #13)Jean temporarily holds back Weapon X with a telekinetic blast. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #13)Jean immobilizes X-Force in mid-air and sends them through the portal back to the 616 created by Gateway. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #13)Jean claims to hear X-Forces desires, which includes Psylocke and Fantomex, known for having powerful psychic defenses. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #13)
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When Psylocke became a Horseman of Dark Angel, Jean infiltrates Betsy's mind when she lowered her defenses and helps her fight the persona's influence. After Betsy is freed, she destroys the alt persona, claiming to have done so before. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #17)Jean one-shots Demon-Ock and kills him with her cosmic pyrokinesis. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #19.1)
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Jean telepathically works with a clone of Scarlet Witch to learn her powers in an effort to replicate the "No More Mutants" spell. Unfortunately, it only reaches a few dozen feat and rids Jean of her mutant powers, causing the Phoenix Force to leave her. (Uncanny X-Force vol 3 #19.1)Jean uses her experience as Phoenix to control the influence of the Death Seed and prevent her from losing control. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)
Death Seed
This form of Jean Grey came during the X-Termination event when an army of Exterminators threatened to destroy multiple realities. As a result, Jean took the power of the Death Seed to sacrifice herself as she held off the Exterminators.
Jean Grey is the multiverses last hope of defeating the Exterminators using the Death Seed. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean has the power to kill Exterminators. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean uses her new tk powers. (Astonishoing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean solos two Exterminators. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean displays the durability of both her shields and her physical durability as they take attacks from Exterminators with no visible damage. Jean also reveals that she can feel their life-force, their power, and sense their fear. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean destroys an Exterminator. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean makes it to her allies before the army of Exterminators can reach them and she holds back an entire army of Exterminators with her shields. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean takes out four more Exterminators. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean's shields hold up against multiple Exterminators and she takes another punch from a Celestial. She has become so powerful that every Exterminator that threatened the reality targets her and she still goes strong. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean takes multiple hits from multiple Exterminators ganging up on her, creations of the Celestials that threaten the multiverse. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Prophet reveals that the Exterminators will defeat Jean eventually. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean unleashes her power and it unleashes an explosion that takes out one part of the ruined city. (Astonishing X-Men vol 3 #61)Jean unleashes a blast that take out multiple Exterminators, whose, according to Nightcrawler, numbers are endless. (X-Termination #2)
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Jean ko's Prophet with an energy blast of sorts. Jean reveals that she copes well with the Death Seed, possibly because she once wielded the Phoenix Force. The only difference in her is that she is more arrogant so far. (X-Termination #2)Jean flies to the center of the battlefield and unleashes a giant explosion. (X-Termination #2)
Secret Wars AoA Jean Grey (Earth-51518)
During the 2015-2016 Secret Wars, the Age of Apocalypse reality became a part of Battleworld, a composite planet of different realities across time and space by God-Doom, as the Domain of Apocalypse. Jean was a mutant who was captured and whose powers were taken in fear of the power she wielded. Later, Doctor Nemesis would briefly reawaken that power, causing Jean to lose control of her powers and warn everyone of human's creation of the Legacy Virus. Though it is not known why Doctor Nemesis didn't continue his work, it can be presumed by his later reactions to Jean's awakening that he learned to fear her the same way Sinister did. So Jean would remain MIA until the Legacy Virus is released, in which Emma Frost would take Dark Beast's knowledge and reawaken Jean's powers alongside Mister Sinister. Doctor Nemesis would go on to take the powers of three hundred mutants and become the cure for the Legacy Virus and threaten everyone's lives. He is thwarted by the awakening of Jean Grey, who unleashes the Phoenix Force to kill him and depower every mutant in the Domain of Apocalypse, giving everyone the equality Charles Xavier and Magneto so dreamt would happen some day.
Telepathy
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Jean unleashes a telepathic burst so powerful that it reaches across and cripples Emma Frost, cripples Doctor Nemesis, and Mister Sinister's Chamber of the Four Horseman. Apparently, the only other telepath powerful enough to produce a telepathic burst so powerful is Emma Frost. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #3)Jean sends to Emma Frost and the Horseman what she overheard at Heaven Nightclub regarding the Legacy Virus. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #3)Despite her powers not being active, the combination of her insanity and the power in her cells causes Emma Frost to feel some psionic feedback. Emma states that Jean might be crazier than Apocalypse and Doctor Nemesis combined. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)When Jean's powers awaken, every mutant in Manhattan feel her from miles away and it causes Doctor Nemesis to panic and lash out desperately. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)Jean telepathically links the minds of everyone in the Domain of Apocalypse to share histories and perspectives to create harmony. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)
Telekinesis
Jean Grey seemingly trashes Dark Beast's lab telekinetically. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #3)Jean Grey obliterates Doctor Nemesis, an individual who gave himself over three hundred mutant powers, with casual ease. Doug states that Nemesis learned he is not fit in the face of Phoenix and that all could feel Phoenix's anger and Jean's love, a balance that kept tipping. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)Jean uses telekinetic winds to carry Doctor Nemesis' liquefied cellular remains all over the area to cure those infected by the Legacy Virus. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)
Phoenix Raptor/ Cosmic Pyrokinesis
Jean states that if she had her powers, she would burn Mister Sinister, Dark Beast, and Wildchild to death. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)Jean unleashes a Phoenix Raptor so large it dwarfs many skyscrapers in New Cairo (alt New York in the Domain of Apocalypse). The Phoenix Force is described by Doug Ramsey as a tidal wave of power as old as life and death itself. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)
Reality Warping
Jean took away all mutant powers from the residents of the Domain of Apocalypse with every bit of the Phoenix Force left. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)
Accolades
According to Doctor Nemesis, his predecessor (most likely Dark Beast) were afraid of Jean Grey. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #3)Jean Grey (the one who is "depowered......for now") is the 2nd most powerful telepath in the world. The 1st was Charles Xavier (the one who "killed 20 years ago") and the one after her is Emma Frost, the current most powerful because Jean and Charles are off the board at that point. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #4)According to Wolverine, Dark Beast was ordered by Mister Sinister to cut out the part of Jean's brain that activated her mutant powers because she was too powerful for even his curiosity. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #4)According to Emma Frost, Jean is the key to stopping the Legacy Virus, either referencing what she already took with her telepathy or what she could take with her telepathy. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #4)Jean Grey is described as a former Omega-Level Telepath and Telekinetic. Her mutant potential was so great that Sinister risked incurring Apocalypse's wrath to ensure she was lobotomized to keep her powers from awakening. Doctor Nemesis's goal was to reawaken that power. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)Emma Frost states Jean once had Omega Level Mutant Potential powerful enough to terrify Mister Sinister, info she probably got from Dark Beast. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)Mister Sinister states that the only hope of stopping Doctor Nemesis, who gave himself the powers of over three hundred mutants, is to let the Phoenix rise from the dead. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)After Emma Frost donates a piece of her brain, Jean's powers immediately activate. (Age of Apocalypse vol 2 #5)
With the end of this respect thread, I have come to the conclusion of the tiers of Age of Apocalypse Jean Grey's telepathy. For the original AoA Jean, regular is low mid-tier and Phoenix in this universe is God-Tier when she is unleashed, but low high-tier when Jean is in control. Death Seed Jean is inconclusive. She has telekinesis, and she reveals to be capable of sensing their fear, but its hard to conclude on whether she just has empathy or telepathy. If she does however, she would be god-tier. Secret Wars Jean Grey is either a high tier or a god-tier. Hope you enjoyed the thread.
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