About
The younger daughter of history professor John Grey and his wife Elaine, I was 10 years old when my mutant telepathic powers first manifested after experiencing the emotions of a dying friend. My parents took me to be treated by Professor Charles Xavier. While Xavier treated me he also used me to fine tune his Cerebro machine. When Xavier introduced me to the astral plane a part of my mind manifested as a Phoenix raptor and touched the mind of Scott Summers in the orphanage. Later, Xavier erected psychic shields in my mind to prevent me from using my telepathic powers until I was mature enough to control them. Eventually, using my telekinetic powers, I was a founding member of Xavier’s team of mutant trainees the X-Men as Marvel Girl. Upon a mission in outer space I was noticed by the Phoenix Force which took note of my unlimited potential. At this moment I had a vision of becoming the Phoenix but the vision faded from my memory as it ended.After the X-Men and I defeated scientist Stephen Lang and his robotic Sentinels on his space station, we escaped back to Earth in a shuttle through a lethal solar radiation storm. Dying from radiation poisoning, I was saved by the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force who created a duplicate body complete with memories and personality, absorbed a portion of my consciousness and cast me into suspended animation in a strange cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay.
For months the Phoenix believed itself to be me and saved the universe by healing the M’Kraan Crystal. Mental manipulation by Mastermind caused Phoenix to go insane and become Dark Phoenix. Ultimately, the portion of my consciousness within Phoenix resurfaced, causing it to commit suicide. This portion of my consciousness then journeyed to the afterlife to meet a manifestation of Death. Death explained the Phoenix Force to me, and I wore a White Phoenix costume, before this portion of my consciousness and residual Phoenix energy was sent to my original body in the cocoon, where it was rejected, and then to my clone, Madelyne Pryor. Eventually, I was rescued from my stasis and, with the other original X-Men, formed a new team, X-Factor. Madelyne Pryor later died in a confrontation with me in which I absorbed Madelyne’s and Phoenix’s personalities and memories and a spark of the Phoenix energy. While in battle with a Celestial on an alien world, I expelled this spark of energy and the personalities I had absorbed but kept faint impressions of their memories.
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