Post by Madelyne Pryor on Jun 28, 2009 18:10:16 GMT -7
First Name: Madelyne
Last Name: Pryor
Age: This is not exactly answerable... originallly she was force-grown into adult-hood, making her less then a year old when first awakened, after that, she's died and been brought back ALMOST as much as Jean Grey herself, and so details are extremely fuzzy. She seems to be in her mid 20s in appearance and temperment though.
Height/Weight: 5'6 and a half, 120 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Character description: Madelyne was copied from Jean Grey, and was essentially GOOD, in the beginning. But after Jean came back, and Cyclops betrayed her for her first love, her goodness started to slip. Upon finding out she's a clone and meant to be nothing more than a 'brood mare' she becomes bitter and vengeful. After aligning with the Goblins of the Limbo realm, she sinks further and further into darkness. She's pretty much an evil bitch now, but if faced with her Son, will be the kind and loving mother.
Persuasion: Evil
Type of Creature: Mutant, Telepath
Powers: In her most recent Incarnation, the only power confirmed is Telepathy.
Though she hints at other powers, and seems to have the ability to bring the dead back to life, she also claims it's 'magic' and not mutant ability at all.
If she still possesses Jean's Telekinesis, it hasn't been proven yet. (and if the comics reveal anything more, I'll post a reply/update)
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.
Recently, a mysterious woman calling herself the "Red Queen" has emerged, manipulating long-time X-Men enemy Empath and a so-called "Hellfire Cult". When the X-Men locate and enter the Cult's hideout, the Red Queen slips away unseen. But afterward, she takes on the guise of Cyclops' current love Emma Frost (while still wearing the Red Queen's dominatrix-style costume) and seduces him. Later, Cyclops is surprised at the sight of a familiar woman observing him from a distance, but loses her amongst a crowd; Scott tells Emma that the woman he saw was Madelyne. Almost simultaneously, the Red Queen is shown in Madripoor, recruiting Chimera into a new group, the "Sisterhood of Mutants". With Martinique Jason (recruited before the Cult's exposure)and Chimera accompanying her, the Red Queen recruited Spiral and Lady Deathstrike into the Sisterhood as well.
Pryor includes a peculiar offer to all the Sisterhood recruits: as rewards for accepting membership, each are promised the resurrection of a deceased person of their choice. Each woman joins Pryor for their own individual reasons, though some seem to take her strange promise seriously.
Madelyne and her Sisterhood approach Martinique's half-sister, Lady Mastermind, who is at a graveyard mourning their father. Regan Wyngarde is offered the chance to bring him back if she joins them, which she does. Later, Madelyne heals Chimera of her wounds (inflicted during a subsequent confrontation), and the Sisterhood performs a procedure involving Kwannon's corpse and a captive Psylocke.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): X-Men mostly, though she's been in allot of other Marvel titles too.
Last Name: Pryor
Age: This is not exactly answerable... originallly she was force-grown into adult-hood, making her less then a year old when first awakened, after that, she's died and been brought back ALMOST as much as Jean Grey herself, and so details are extremely fuzzy. She seems to be in her mid 20s in appearance and temperment though.
Height/Weight: 5'6 and a half, 120 pounds
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Character description: Madelyne was copied from Jean Grey, and was essentially GOOD, in the beginning. But after Jean came back, and Cyclops betrayed her for her first love, her goodness started to slip. Upon finding out she's a clone and meant to be nothing more than a 'brood mare' she becomes bitter and vengeful. After aligning with the Goblins of the Limbo realm, she sinks further and further into darkness. She's pretty much an evil bitch now, but if faced with her Son, will be the kind and loving mother.
Persuasion: Evil
Type of Creature: Mutant, Telepath
Powers: In her most recent Incarnation, the only power confirmed is Telepathy.
Though she hints at other powers, and seems to have the ability to bring the dead back to life, she also claims it's 'magic' and not mutant ability at all.
If she still possesses Jean's Telekinesis, it hasn't been proven yet. (and if the comics reveal anything more, I'll post a reply/update)
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.
Recently, a mysterious woman calling herself the "Red Queen" has emerged, manipulating long-time X-Men enemy Empath and a so-called "Hellfire Cult". When the X-Men locate and enter the Cult's hideout, the Red Queen slips away unseen. But afterward, she takes on the guise of Cyclops' current love Emma Frost (while still wearing the Red Queen's dominatrix-style costume) and seduces him. Later, Cyclops is surprised at the sight of a familiar woman observing him from a distance, but loses her amongst a crowd; Scott tells Emma that the woman he saw was Madelyne. Almost simultaneously, the Red Queen is shown in Madripoor, recruiting Chimera into a new group, the "Sisterhood of Mutants". With Martinique Jason (recruited before the Cult's exposure)and Chimera accompanying her, the Red Queen recruited Spiral and Lady Deathstrike into the Sisterhood as well.
Pryor includes a peculiar offer to all the Sisterhood recruits: as rewards for accepting membership, each are promised the resurrection of a deceased person of their choice. Each woman joins Pryor for their own individual reasons, though some seem to take her strange promise seriously.
Madelyne and her Sisterhood approach Martinique's half-sister, Lady Mastermind, who is at a graveyard mourning their father. Regan Wyngarde is offered the chance to bring him back if she joins them, which she does. Later, Madelyne heals Chimera of her wounds (inflicted during a subsequent confrontation), and the Sisterhood performs a procedure involving Kwannon's corpse and a captive Psylocke.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): X-Men mostly, though she's been in allot of other Marvel titles too.
