Madelyne Pryor (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Madelyne Jennifer Pryor-Summers is a fictional Character in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those featuring the X-Men. As the love interest and first wife of X-Men leader Cyclops (Scott Summers), she became a long-standing member of the X-Men
supporting cast, until a series of traumas — being abandoned by her
husband, losing her infant son, and discovering that she was a clone of Jean Grey — eventually led to her being manipulated into becoming a supervillain. She and Cyclops are the parents of Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. More about Madelyne Pryor (Marvel Comics) Character Review - keep reading !!
Madelyne's biography has been rendered particularly complicated because of the many retcons involved in the publication history of both her character and that of Jean Grey.
Fictional Character Biography
Whirlwind Romance - Madelyne Pryor was an Alaskan charter pilot working for the grandparents of Cyclops (Scott Summers), where the two met during a Summers family reunion and quickly began a romantic relationship. Mystery however surrounded her from the beginning: not only did she bear a striking resemblance to Scott's dead lover, Jean Grey/Phoenix, but was the sole survivor of an airplane crash that occurred the same day Phoenix died on the moon. In addition, Professor X
was unable to scan her mind (which, he noted, was occasionally possible
among normal humans). Scott, still recovering from Jean's death, became
obsessed with the idea that Madelyne was her look-alike reincarnation,
eventually confronting her with his suspicions. Madelyne, furious and
hurt, punched Scott and seemingly transformed into the Dark Phoenix. This, however, was revealed to be the doing of Mastermind,
who had been manipulating the X-Men for months — as revenge for being
driven temporarily insane by Phoenix due to his involvement in her corruption.
After the conflict, Scott finally came to terms with the fact that Jean
Grey was dead and that Madelyne was not her, and that he loved her all
the same. The two were soon married, and Scott retired from active duty
with the X-Men.
Anodyne - Giving up the life of an adventurer proved harder for Scott than
imagined. Early in Madelyne and Scott's marriage, they (along with Alpha Flight and the rest of the X-Men) would have a brief but dramatic encounter with the Norse trickster-god Loki.
Entirely for his own purposes, Loki magically endowed mystical powers
on a small group of normal humans, transforming Madelyne into a mystical
healer of virtually any injury, illness, or physical defect, and given
the name Anodyne. Among Madelyne's acts of healing was the curing of
Scott's childhood head injury, enabling him to control his optic blasts
without the use of ruby-quartz lenses. When it was discovered that
Loki's intentions were never altruistic, and that his gift was badly
flawed - as one of the costs of those powers was the loss of individual
creativity and imagination - the assembled heroes turned against him.
His plans ruined, Loki spitefully removed all the powers he had granted,
and Madelyne and the other beneficiaries of his gifts were reverted
back to their original states, as were Scott and anyone else who had
been healed by Madelyne. It was during this adventure that Madelyne's
pregnancy was announced..
Abandonment - Madelyne gave birth to a baby boy (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) alone in the X-Mansion. When the X-Men did return, the others seemed more interested in the
baby than Scott. Sensing a reluctance on Scott's part to retire to
family life, a powerless Storm
challenged him to a duel for leadership of the team. She won, in effect
forcing him out of the X-Men and into accepting his new role as a
husband and father.
Although Scott tried to live a normal family life in Alaska, he was
not happy. He would often obsessively think of Jean Grey, and of his
life with the X-Men. Maddie tried her best to make Scott happy, but her
efforts seemed wasted. Finally Scott received a call from his former
teammate Angel
that Jean Grey had miraculously been found alive. Without explaining
himself, Scott left Madelyne and their son to reunite with his lost love
and sweetheart. Furious, Maddie told him that if he were to leave, to
not return. Scott left nonetheless and formed X-Factor with his old friends from the original team of X-Men. Madelyne and young Nathan Christopher were shortly thereafter attacked by Mr. Sinister's Marauders, and the child was kidnapped and Madelyne hospitalized. A guilt-racked and increasingly unstable Scott returned home to find
his house empty, and all records of his family's existence erased.
Alone and on the run, Madelyne called the X-Men for help; they arrived and fought off another attack by the Marauders. Unable to find her son, she stayed with the X-Men as they sacrificed their lives to stop the Adversary from remaking the world in Fall of the Mutants. Despite Scott abandoning her, Maddie videotaped a message for him,
pleading that he find their child. With the world thinking them dead,
Madelyne and the X-Men were resurrected by the Omniversal Guardian Roma and began a new era working secretly out of an abandoned Reavers base in Australia, and Madelyne became the team's technical support. During this time, Madelyne and her brother-in-law, Alex Summers (Havok), were growing closer; both of them were lonely — Alex himself had briefly lost his long-time love Polaris, whose body had been temporarily taken over by the Marauder Malice.
Demonic corruption - Monitoring news transmissions, Madelyne learned that Jean Grey was
alive and with Scott. Seeing the evidence of Scott's betrayal, Madelyne
punched the computer monitor's screen, breaking it and causing
electrical feedback that rendered her unconscious. Illyana Rasputin's treacherous Limbo-demon, S'ym,
then invaded Madelyne's mind during her unconscious state, and offered
her the power to hurt Scott just as he had hurt her. Helpless and in
confusion, she unwittingly accepted the offer; the formerly heroic woman
thus began the transformation into the Goblin Queen.
Madelyne kept the existence of the original X-Men as X-Factor — and
of the "resurrected" Jean Grey — secret from the others. Later
accidentally captured by the Genoshans and taken by force to their island-nation, Madelyne was subjected to psychic torture intended to transform her
into a docile slave who served the state. Madelyne instinctively lashed
out with some powerful subconscious abilities which caused the deaths of
her torturers, but the damage was done, as the process deprived her of all motherly
instincts. In the recorded images of the psychic probe performed on
Madelyne, her appearance reflected her change into the Goblin Queen,
while Genosha's Genegineer appeared in Mr. Sinister's outfit. Shortly after being rescued by the X-Men, Madelyne struck an additional bargain with another demon, N'astirh, to find her missing son; also, she and Alex began an affair. Her latent telekinetic and telepathic powers fully activated, Madelyne
completed her transformation into the Goblin Queen, sparking the "Inferno" crossover.
Reappearance - Madelyne mysteriously reappeared many years later as an amnesiac to Nate Grey (X-Man) — the "genetic son" of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the alternate reality known as the Age of Apocalypse — when he came to Earth-616. Under the tutelage of Selene, Madelyne eventually served as the Hellfire Club's Black Rook, had her memories of her previous life restored by Tessa, and would meet her aged son Cable in an uneasy truce.
It was later revealed that Madelyne was a "psychic construct", unconsciously resurrected by Nate Grey's psionic powers. The two would be companions until, near death, Madelyne went her own way. Cyclops and Cable later encountered her psionic ghost on the astral plane, apparently stripped of all her powers. Soon afterwards she once again returned to the living, this time with
a new revelation: this Madelyne was actually an impostor, a Jean Grey
from another alternate reality. Details are ambiguous however: at one point the impostor implied that
she had been impersonating the resurrected Madelyne all along, but at
another time she claimed she "replaced ... Maddie several months ago."
Red Queen - Recently, a mysterious woman calling herself the "Red Queen" emerged, manipulating occasional 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. Afterward, she takes on the guise of Cyclops' current love, Emma Frost,
and seduces him into a sexual encounter. 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.
The Red Queen includes a peculiar offer to all the Sisterhood
recruits: as a reward for accepting membership, each is promised the
resurrection of a deceased person of her choice. Each woman joins the
Red Queen for their own individual reasons, though some seem to take her
strange promise seriously. The Red Queen and her Sisterhood approach Martinique's half-sister, Lady Mastermind, who accepts membership for the chance to bring back their father. Later, the Red Queen and the Sisterhood perform a procedure involving Revanche's corpse and a captive Psylocke. The ritual reconstitutes Psylocke's original body and her mind is transplanted into it. Explaining the procedure's real purpose afterward, the Red Queen
reveals her promised resurrections to be untried and uncertain; this
causes some of her members to react violently against her, but she
convinces them to continue following her. The Sisterhood then commences a
surprise raid on the X-Men's base, quickly neutralizing several of the
main X-members. Recovering from the initial attacks, the X-Men force the Sisterhood
(now including a brainwashed Psylocke) to retreat, but the entire battle
is only a distraction, while Madelyne steals a lock of Jean Grey's
hair.
Madelyne uses the hair sample to locate Grey's gravesite, and then
attempts to repeat the ritual with her corpse. However, Cyclops had
arranged for Grey's body to be substituted with someone else's, and it
somehow causes Madelyne to either discorporate or become absorbed into
the fake, but her ultimate fate is unknown.
Powers and Abilities (Madelyne Pryor)
As a clone of Jean Grey, Madelyne Pryor also possessed mutant abilities of telekinesis and telepathy.
These powers remained latent while she was believed to be a baseline
human, but later manifested in ways that Jean's never had. As the Goblin
Queen, her mutant powers were exponentially enhanced by demonic
eldritch magic to the point where she could warp reality within a localized area.
As Anodyne, Madelyne possessed the ability to wield Asgardian magic
that manifested as eldritch flames with the power to heal and cure.
Among her beneficial actions were fixing the childhood brain injury that
prevented Cyclops from controlling his optic blasts, curing Puck of his mystically induced dwarfism, unifying Aurora's multiple personalities, and giving Rogue the ability to control her mutant power. When transformed into Anodyne, Madelyne also took on the stature of an Asgardian, possibly also gaining the hardier physiology and strength of that race.
After her apparent resurrection by Nate Grey, Madelyne's telepathy
was reduced to a lower level, limiting her to reading minds,
broadcasting her thoughts, creating illusions,
changing or erasing memories, and defending herself against other
telepaths. Her telekinesis was still considerable, such that Madelyne
could lift and manipulate large objects, levitate, fire powerful mental
force-blasts, form protective shields, and even rearrange objects on a molecular level. Madelyne also developed powers that Jean never possessed: she was able to teleport over long distances by psychokinetically shifting in and out of the astral plane (and was shown to be able to carry along at least one other person with her when teleporting), and also able to channel psionic energies
from other psionic-powered mutants to boost her own abilities or those
of another (usually Nate Grey, and on occasion Cable). Madelyne has also
utilized her powers to augment her physical strength and agility, to a
level of being lethal in hand-to-hand combat.
The Red Queen apparently possesses telepathy, and has other considerable powers of a mysterious nature, referred to as "magic". Also, the Red Queen is an entity, not corporeal, which is motivating
most of her plans and actions. Moreover, she mentions that her previous
host had been destroyed and that there were only two beings in existence
that could house her disembodied form. Jean Grey was revealed to be one
of the two; the other is assumed to have been Madelyne Pryor herself.
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