Post by Dawn on Dec 19, 2009 7:16:41 GMT -5
First Name:Madelyne
Last Name:Pryor (a personal joke from Sinister himself)
Alias or Nick-name: Goblyn Queen, Maddie
Age: This is questionable... since she started out as a clone force grown into adult hood, and then was brought back to life by Nate...
Height/Weight: 5'6 and a half (same as Jean Grey ) and about 110 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Persuasion: Evil
Powers/Weapons: Since Madelyne was cloned from Jean Grey's DNA, she was essentially another version of Jean, and possessed Jean's telekinetic and telepathic abilities. As Goblin Queen, her powers were exponentially enhanced by demonic magic to the point where her telepathy could be used to release the dark side of a person's personality, and make them evil, and her telekinesis could even warp reality in a localized area. After her resurrection by X-Man (Nate Grey), Madelyne's telepathy was reduced to a much lower level, limiting her to reading minds and communicating by broadcasting her thoughts. Her telekinetic abilities were still enormous: such that Madelyne could move, lift and manipulate fairly large objects, channel her telekinetic powers to fire powerful mental force blasts, focus her psionic energy into a protective shield, and levitate herself in order to fly at fairly high speeds. She also developed powers that Jean never possessed. Madelyne was able to teleport over long distances by psycho kinetically shunting herself in and out of the astral plane (she was also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleported, but her limits were never fully tested). Madelyne also discovered that she was able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic mutants. She could then use the stolen psychic energy to boost her own powers or channel the energy into someone else (usually Nate Grey) to temporarily increase their psionic abilities.
History: Madelyne's biography is complicated because of the many retcons involved. She was originally introduced as a human love interest of Scott Summers with a few mysterious traits: she had survived a fatal airplane crash on the same day Phoenix died on the moon, and Professor X was unable to scan her mind (which, he said, was occasionally possible among normal humans). After a series of events involving Mastermind (who wanted revenge for Phoenix having driven him insane) and his telepathic illusions, Madelyne married Scott, and he soon decided to retire from the X-Men.
Madelyne gave birth to a child, named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Although Scott tried to live a normal life, he received a call from his former teammate Angel that Jean Grey had been found, alive. He abandoned Madelyne and his son who, shortly thereafter, were attacked by Mr. Sinister's Marauders, and Nathan was taken away. Madelyne was hospitalized, but Sinister had erased all her records.
Madelyne called the X-Men, and they arrived just as the Marauders did, and fought them off. She stayed with the X-Men as they fought the Adversary, and sacrificed their lives to stop him. Resurrected by the Omniversal Guardian Roma, the X-Men worked secretly out of an abandoned Reaver base in Australia.
The demon S'ym later came to Madelyne in her dreams and offered her the power to hurt Scott just as he had hurt her with his adultery and his abandonment of her and their child, and she accepted. She then struck a bargain with another demon, N'astirh, to find her missing baby; the demons then fully activated her latent telekinetic and telepathic powers and she became the Goblin Queen. This started the "Inferno" crossover.
This crossover retconned in a new origin for Madelyne. In this origin, Mr. Sinister, believing that a child of Scott Summers and Jean Grey would have great powers, had created a clone of Jean specifically to fall in love with Scott and produce a child. When Phoenix committed suicide, a part of the Phoenix Force entered the clone and gave it life. Sinister named the clone Madelyne Pryor, created a false background, and sent her to Alaska, where she fell in love with Scott Summers.
N'astirh took Madelyne to an orphanage in Nebraska, the front for Sinister's genetic laboratory. Sinister captured her and told her all about her creation and her intended goal. She used her black magic to escape, and N'astirh brought her son, intending to sacrifice him to ensure a permanent demonic presence on Earth.
She pitted X-Factor against the X-Men by reverting to Madelyne and claiming that Scott wanted to take their baby away. She even took Scott's brother Havok as her lover. The teams defeated N'astirh, but Madelyne, becoming suicidal upon the discovery of being a clone, trapped herself and Jean Grey in a telekinetic bubble (as per Psylocke's assessment), then killed herself and tried to telepathically take Jean with her. Jean survived by re-integrating the portions of her essence absorbed by the Phoenix Force and by Madelyne (which she would later expel).
Her son, Nathan Christopher, turned out to be the time-travelling soldier of fortune Cable, who had already been appearing in comics for some time by then.
Madelyne mysteriously re-appeared in X-Man #5 (July 1995) with little memory of her past. Under the tutelage of Selene, this new Madelyne served as the Hellfire Club's Black Rook, gradually learning more of her previous life. X-Man #25 (March 1997) revealed that "Madelyne" was in fact a psychic construct, unconsciously formed by the mind of Nate Grey (X-Man). However, unlike other psychic constructs, X-Man was unable to uncreate her.
After apparently aging in X-Man #52, when X-Man lost a lot of energy during a battle, she did not appear again until much later in X-Man #67. It was soon revealed that this Madelyne was an impostor, a parallel universe Jean Grey. The then-current writer Steven Grant (who did not write Madelyne's earlier appearances in the series) stated that he intended that Madelyne had been an impostor for the duration of the entire X-Man series (which would be a retcon). The in-story evidence is more ambiguous; at one time the impostor implies that Madelyne was fake all along, but at another time she claims she "replaced your Maddie several months ago," implying that only some of Madelyne's appearances were fake (one possibility is that the parallel version of Jean was able to kill Madelyne in her weakened state and replace her).
Madelyne appeared again in Cable #76, when Cyclops and Cable encountered her as a psionic ghost on the astral plane, apparently stripped of all her tremendous powers, and made peace with her.
Madelyne appears in a slightly important role in the X-Men: The End storyline (Book 1). In this story she first appears when the Shi'ar attacks the Xavier Institute using Warskrulls made to look like Stryfe, Genesis and Madelyne. Oddly enough, Madelyne was not a Warskrull, but rather the real Madelyne who has resurrected by unknown means and had gotten involved in the Shi'ar's plot. Having killed Dust, Madelyne posed as her thanks to her black niqab and despite her rage towards Cyclops, took to protecting him. Later when Cassandra Nova kills Cyclops and Jean Grey, Madelyne reveals herself. Madelyne reveals that she is the part of Jean Grey that loved Scott with all her heart, and her death was the reason that Cyclops' and Jean's marriage failed. Madelyne turns into energy and fuses with Jean Grey, who is once again resurrected and heals Cyclops. Finally completed, Jean is able to use her power to its fullest again which allows Jean and all the dead X-Men to merge with the Phoenix and trancend to a new level of existence.
Comic character is from: Xmen, Xman, and a couple other marvel titles.
Last Name:Pryor (a personal joke from Sinister himself)
Alias or Nick-name: Goblyn Queen, Maddie
Age: This is questionable... since she started out as a clone force grown into adult hood, and then was brought back to life by Nate...
Height/Weight: 5'6 and a half (same as Jean Grey ) and about 110 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Persuasion: Evil
Powers/Weapons: Since Madelyne was cloned from Jean Grey's DNA, she was essentially another version of Jean, and possessed Jean's telekinetic and telepathic abilities. As Goblin Queen, her powers were exponentially enhanced by demonic magic to the point where her telepathy could be used to release the dark side of a person's personality, and make them evil, and her telekinesis could even warp reality in a localized area. After her resurrection by X-Man (Nate Grey), Madelyne's telepathy was reduced to a much lower level, limiting her to reading minds and communicating by broadcasting her thoughts. Her telekinetic abilities were still enormous: such that Madelyne could move, lift and manipulate fairly large objects, channel her telekinetic powers to fire powerful mental force blasts, focus her psionic energy into a protective shield, and levitate herself in order to fly at fairly high speeds. She also developed powers that Jean never possessed. Madelyne was able to teleport over long distances by psycho kinetically shunting herself in and out of the astral plane (she was also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleported, but her limits were never fully tested). Madelyne also discovered that she was able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic mutants. She could then use the stolen psychic energy to boost her own powers or channel the energy into someone else (usually Nate Grey) to temporarily increase their psionic abilities.
History: Madelyne's biography is complicated because of the many retcons involved. She was originally introduced as a human love interest of Scott Summers with a few mysterious traits: she had survived a fatal airplane crash on the same day Phoenix died on the moon, and Professor X was unable to scan her mind (which, he said, was occasionally possible among normal humans). After a series of events involving Mastermind (who wanted revenge for Phoenix having driven him insane) and his telepathic illusions, Madelyne married Scott, and he soon decided to retire from the X-Men.
Madelyne gave birth to a child, named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Although Scott tried to live a normal life, he received a call from his former teammate Angel that Jean Grey had been found, alive. He abandoned Madelyne and his son who, shortly thereafter, were attacked by Mr. Sinister's Marauders, and Nathan was taken away. Madelyne was hospitalized, but Sinister had erased all her records.
Madelyne called the X-Men, and they arrived just as the Marauders did, and fought them off. She stayed with the X-Men as they fought the Adversary, and sacrificed their lives to stop him. Resurrected by the Omniversal Guardian Roma, the X-Men worked secretly out of an abandoned Reaver base in Australia.
The demon S'ym later came to Madelyne in her dreams and offered her the power to hurt Scott just as he had hurt her with his adultery and his abandonment of her and their child, and she accepted. She then struck a bargain with another demon, N'astirh, to find her missing baby; the demons then fully activated her latent telekinetic and telepathic powers and she became the Goblin Queen. This started the "Inferno" crossover.
This crossover retconned in a new origin for Madelyne. In this origin, Mr. Sinister, believing that a child of Scott Summers and Jean Grey would have great powers, had created a clone of Jean specifically to fall in love with Scott and produce a child. When Phoenix committed suicide, a part of the Phoenix Force entered the clone and gave it life. Sinister named the clone Madelyne Pryor, created a false background, and sent her to Alaska, where she fell in love with Scott Summers.
N'astirh took Madelyne to an orphanage in Nebraska, the front for Sinister's genetic laboratory. Sinister captured her and told her all about her creation and her intended goal. She used her black magic to escape, and N'astirh brought her son, intending to sacrifice him to ensure a permanent demonic presence on Earth.
She pitted X-Factor against the X-Men by reverting to Madelyne and claiming that Scott wanted to take their baby away. She even took Scott's brother Havok as her lover. The teams defeated N'astirh, but Madelyne, becoming suicidal upon the discovery of being a clone, trapped herself and Jean Grey in a telekinetic bubble (as per Psylocke's assessment), then killed herself and tried to telepathically take Jean with her. Jean survived by re-integrating the portions of her essence absorbed by the Phoenix Force and by Madelyne (which she would later expel).
Her son, Nathan Christopher, turned out to be the time-travelling soldier of fortune Cable, who had already been appearing in comics for some time by then.
Madelyne mysteriously re-appeared in X-Man #5 (July 1995) with little memory of her past. Under the tutelage of Selene, this new Madelyne served as the Hellfire Club's Black Rook, gradually learning more of her previous life. X-Man #25 (March 1997) revealed that "Madelyne" was in fact a psychic construct, unconsciously formed by the mind of Nate Grey (X-Man). However, unlike other psychic constructs, X-Man was unable to uncreate her.
After apparently aging in X-Man #52, when X-Man lost a lot of energy during a battle, she did not appear again until much later in X-Man #67. It was soon revealed that this Madelyne was an impostor, a parallel universe Jean Grey. The then-current writer Steven Grant (who did not write Madelyne's earlier appearances in the series) stated that he intended that Madelyne had been an impostor for the duration of the entire X-Man series (which would be a retcon). The in-story evidence is more ambiguous; at one time the impostor implies that Madelyne was fake all along, but at another time she claims she "replaced your Maddie several months ago," implying that only some of Madelyne's appearances were fake (one possibility is that the parallel version of Jean was able to kill Madelyne in her weakened state and replace her).
Madelyne appeared again in Cable #76, when Cyclops and Cable encountered her as a psionic ghost on the astral plane, apparently stripped of all her tremendous powers, and made peace with her.
Madelyne appears in a slightly important role in the X-Men: The End storyline (Book 1). In this story she first appears when the Shi'ar attacks the Xavier Institute using Warskrulls made to look like Stryfe, Genesis and Madelyne. Oddly enough, Madelyne was not a Warskrull, but rather the real Madelyne who has resurrected by unknown means and had gotten involved in the Shi'ar's plot. Having killed Dust, Madelyne posed as her thanks to her black niqab and despite her rage towards Cyclops, took to protecting him. Later when Cassandra Nova kills Cyclops and Jean Grey, Madelyne reveals herself. Madelyne reveals that she is the part of Jean Grey that loved Scott with all her heart, and her death was the reason that Cyclops' and Jean's marriage failed. Madelyne turns into energy and fuses with Jean Grey, who is once again resurrected and heals Cyclops. Finally completed, Jean is able to use her power to its fullest again which allows Jean and all the dead X-Men to merge with the Phoenix and trancend to a new level of existence.
Comic character is from: Xmen, Xman, and a couple other marvel titles.
