17-06-2009, 06:24 PM
Jean Gray is the bitter taste that taints so many X-Men stories that could have been flawless.
She makes her debut on page one of the first issue of The Uncanny X-Men. She is apparently Professor X's first student and was part of the original team of "gifted teens" known as the X-Men along with Cyclops, Beast, Ice Man, and Angel.
Alright, so I get the reason for her early fame/usefulness. She was the only woman in a room full of supermen, she was an obvious source of physical interest for basically the entire team.
Early in the comic the bulk of her dialogue was thought, as was the bulk of Scott Summers' dialog (which makes sense, as people think more than they actually speak). So basically the early sex appeal for the X-Men comic series would consist of some thought bubbles between Scott and Jean while they were in the same room.
Example (thoughts appear in brackets):
Scott and Jean are on their way back from training.
Scott: "Jean, good work back there, but watch your form, you never know who our next opponent will be" (Oh Jean, if I could only tell you how I REALLY feel. BUT I MUST NOT! My eyes of death would kill you, but I don't want you to die, I long to HOLD YOU!!)
Jean: "You got it Scott" (But what I really want to say is KISS ME SCOTT! Oh why do you ignore my advances! The other X-Men are ugly and stupid! Why can't you NOTICE ME!?)
Scott: (I MUST NOT appear to favor Jean in front of the other X-Men, that's why I MUST be harder on her than the others, but what I really want is her companionship!)
Jean: (Oh Scott, I don't care if your face kills me, I just WANT YOU!)
Example over. WTF Jean, you're a psychic, Scott was practically ravaging you with his mind, couldn't you pick up on that?
Besides her being mentally inept, why do they keep insisting that Wolverine has the hots for her too? By the time Wolverine was in the picture there were waaaaay more X-Women for him to lust after. They just put it in to make strife between Cyclops and Wolverine. She's not even his type. Clearly Wolverine digs asians, specifically Asians who aren't loosers. Jean fits neither category.
Obviously Jean wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for all the time devoted to her throughout literally everything. If Jean's in the story there will be AT LEAST two men fighting over her. Why? She's nothing amazing. Is Storm invisible? Storm is cool, smart, powerful, has an awesome accent, and is megahot. Rogue is energetic, powerful, fun, and at least an 8. Given the choice, Spiderman chose Storm to assist him when called upon by Madam Web. I think his exact words were: "there is one member of the X-Men so powerful that she wields the power of the weather itself, plus her accent makes my knees weak".
Jean, let's face it, is maybe a 7. She's boring and whiny all the time. The only time she was interesting was when she turned into Phoenix... which is another thing that annoys me. Phoenix, ok, whatever, was that really necessary. Possibly the best saga of the X-Men, devoted to the looser that is Jean Gray. Why couldn't it have been about Storm going crazy? Or Emma Frost?
Literally, this is Jean Gray's character in a nutshell:
- Torn between loving Scott and not wanting a messed up life.
- Seems to be irresistible to all men, for no documented reason.
- Torn between being over-friendly with the masses of men that somehow are crazy about her.
- Tries to be Prof X's prodigy, but usually fails.
- Turns into Phoenix every now and then.
That is literally all her character is. Her backstory was that her dad is rich, she has psychic powers, she used to be a model, and started going to school at Prof X's academy "for gifted youngsters". That's literally all she has.
She basically just thinks about different men and her feelings. Thinks about trying harder to be prof X's successor. Then occasionally comes out of the background to assist the professor during mind-melds. Oh, then they threw an entire saga on top of her.
When they animated the cartoon they soon figured out that Jean was just excess material. That's why she literally does nothing except be seen standing next to professor X every now and then. ....but then, as I said before, Phoenix Saga.
Consider this: The Invisible Girl of the Fantastic 4, was around long before Jean made her debut. She had some mind powers, but attributed them to being able to make force fields... and somehow go invisible. So, she's basically Jean Grey, except actually useful, actually good looking, and actually given proper character development. All that and she doesn't constantly have to fight off hordes of hopeful suitors.
So, for being sub-par, and granted waaaaaay too much attention, I award Jean Gray a "disappointing head shake".
She makes her debut on page one of the first issue of The Uncanny X-Men. She is apparently Professor X's first student and was part of the original team of "gifted teens" known as the X-Men along with Cyclops, Beast, Ice Man, and Angel.
Alright, so I get the reason for her early fame/usefulness. She was the only woman in a room full of supermen, she was an obvious source of physical interest for basically the entire team.
Early in the comic the bulk of her dialogue was thought, as was the bulk of Scott Summers' dialog (which makes sense, as people think more than they actually speak). So basically the early sex appeal for the X-Men comic series would consist of some thought bubbles between Scott and Jean while they were in the same room.
Example (thoughts appear in brackets):
Scott and Jean are on their way back from training.
Scott: "Jean, good work back there, but watch your form, you never know who our next opponent will be" (Oh Jean, if I could only tell you how I REALLY feel. BUT I MUST NOT! My eyes of death would kill you, but I don't want you to die, I long to HOLD YOU!!)
Jean: "You got it Scott" (But what I really want to say is KISS ME SCOTT! Oh why do you ignore my advances! The other X-Men are ugly and stupid! Why can't you NOTICE ME!?)
Scott: (I MUST NOT appear to favor Jean in front of the other X-Men, that's why I MUST be harder on her than the others, but what I really want is her companionship!)
Jean: (Oh Scott, I don't care if your face kills me, I just WANT YOU!)
Example over. WTF Jean, you're a psychic, Scott was practically ravaging you with his mind, couldn't you pick up on that?
Besides her being mentally inept, why do they keep insisting that Wolverine has the hots for her too? By the time Wolverine was in the picture there were waaaaay more X-Women for him to lust after. They just put it in to make strife between Cyclops and Wolverine. She's not even his type. Clearly Wolverine digs asians, specifically Asians who aren't loosers. Jean fits neither category.
Obviously Jean wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for all the time devoted to her throughout literally everything. If Jean's in the story there will be AT LEAST two men fighting over her. Why? She's nothing amazing. Is Storm invisible? Storm is cool, smart, powerful, has an awesome accent, and is megahot. Rogue is energetic, powerful, fun, and at least an 8. Given the choice, Spiderman chose Storm to assist him when called upon by Madam Web. I think his exact words were: "there is one member of the X-Men so powerful that she wields the power of the weather itself, plus her accent makes my knees weak".
Jean, let's face it, is maybe a 7. She's boring and whiny all the time. The only time she was interesting was when she turned into Phoenix... which is another thing that annoys me. Phoenix, ok, whatever, was that really necessary. Possibly the best saga of the X-Men, devoted to the looser that is Jean Gray. Why couldn't it have been about Storm going crazy? Or Emma Frost?
Literally, this is Jean Gray's character in a nutshell:
- Torn between loving Scott and not wanting a messed up life.
- Seems to be irresistible to all men, for no documented reason.
- Torn between being over-friendly with the masses of men that somehow are crazy about her.
- Tries to be Prof X's prodigy, but usually fails.
- Turns into Phoenix every now and then.
That is literally all her character is. Her backstory was that her dad is rich, she has psychic powers, she used to be a model, and started going to school at Prof X's academy "for gifted youngsters". That's literally all she has.
She basically just thinks about different men and her feelings. Thinks about trying harder to be prof X's successor. Then occasionally comes out of the background to assist the professor during mind-melds. Oh, then they threw an entire saga on top of her.
When they animated the cartoon they soon figured out that Jean was just excess material. That's why she literally does nothing except be seen standing next to professor X every now and then. ....but then, as I said before, Phoenix Saga.
Consider this: The Invisible Girl of the Fantastic 4, was around long before Jean made her debut. She had some mind powers, but attributed them to being able to make force fields... and somehow go invisible. So, she's basically Jean Grey, except actually useful, actually good looking, and actually given proper character development. All that and she doesn't constantly have to fight off hordes of hopeful suitors.
So, for being sub-par, and granted waaaaaay too much attention, I award Jean Gray a "disappointing head shake".
