Phase Zero
Characters

Jean Grey

Phoenix

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The most powerful mutant in these films, told from childhood to keep most of it locked away, by the man who was raising her.

Jean Grey is played by two actors across two runs of films, and both times the story is the same: her power is greater than the team’s, Charles Xavier decided when she was a child to wall part of it off, and he did not tell her. The Fox films tried this twice, in The Last Stand and again in Dark Phoenix, and neither attempt is loved.

What survives both attempts is the relationship with Logan, which the films handle better than the cosmic material. Famke Janssen and Hugh Jackman are the reason The Wolverine has anything to grieve about.

Played by
Famke Janssen, Sophie Turner
Role
Doctor, and member of the X-Men
Affiliation
The X-Men
What they can do
Telepathy and telekinesis, without a known ceiling.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. X-Men2000

    A doctor at the school and a member of the team, testifying in front of a Senate committee.

  2. X22003

    Holds back a flood of water long enough for everyone else to leave.

  3. X-Men: The Last Stand2006

    Comes back with the restraints gone, and the film has to decide what that means.

  4. The Wolverine2013

    Present only in Logan's dreams, which is the whole film's argument.

  5. X-Men: Days of Future Past2014

    Alive again at the end, in a corridor that should not exist.

  6. X-Men: Apocalypse2016

    A student, afraid of herself, who is asked to stop being afraid at exactly the wrong moment.

  7. Deadpool 22018

    In the background of the mansion, in a film that is counting them.

  8. Dark Phoenix2019

    The story told for the second time, this time as her film.

Appears in

  1. X-Men2000
  2. X22003
  3. X-Men: The Last Stand2006
  4. The Wolverine2013
  5. X-Men: Days of Future Past2014
  6. X-Men: Apocalypse2016
  7. Deadpool 22018
  8. Dark Phoenix2019

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 8, 2026