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People always debate on who is a better character & partner of Cyclops:
Emma Frost or Jean Grey.
I always say that Jean has been a victim of bad writing as she’s stuck in how she was written since the 60’s as a love interest.
People usually don’t see that & say that Emma has always been a better character which is a bit strange considering that Emma as a character didn’t really evolve until the 2000’s with Morrison’s run and everything until AvX & the current era.
So I’m gonna compare the 2 Marvel females that have been written for decades simultaneously & show you what I mean by Jean being “Scott’s high-school love interest and nothing else” is a writing issue.
Both her and Sue Storm have been the “love interest & nothing more” for Reed and Cyclops & later writers spice things up with love triangles (mainly Logan and Namor) . Sue has been more than that for a while now , she actually doesn’t really care about Namor or his obsession with her , she’s been a badass fighter , mother , sister to Johnny & Ben and always makes sure that Reed knows his place & that he’s not talking to a child or a defenseless weak person.
Is she a single woman ? No , does she love her husband? Yes , does that make her a weakling or nerf her character in anyway? No . Meanwhile Jean Grey is still suffering from the poor 60’s writing , why?? idk but ever since Claremont decided to get at Shooter and Louise Simonson by creating the Logan Jean Scott love triangle in classic X-men (1986) he placed the character in a bad position that he originally removed her from when he took over the X-men.
Writers since then have decided that Jean will always be written as a love interest and nothing more -with few exceptions like Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix & X-Factor- and she stayed like that until the search for cyclops story where she was portrayed as more than a love interest then Morrison took over the X-men & had her and cyclops face a lot of issues and ended up killing her . So basically her history -with a few exceptions- have been about her being a love interest only even in her best series ever (X-men red) she was written in the annual pretty badly.
She literally went to see Laura Kinney before Cable
people say her being single was the best thing that ever happened to her & that annual proves otherwise.
It’s from the series we all love the most and set it’s version of Jean as Supreme Jean , her “lovers” aren’t around and yet she was written as a love interest.
She went to see Laura before her son -who was in the timeline and possibly injured as Phoenix attacked him Psychically on the night Jean was resurrected aka a day or a few hours before the events of the annual started.
She went to Laura because she has no one left except her & Rachel that she considers family.
There is an injured fker out there who you raised , remember giving birth to & loved more than any other member of your family or your lovers (logic & nature say that).
I don’t care about her wanting to meet Laura on the contrary that’s what is expected from Jean , she’s the heart & soul of the X-men so of course she’ll want to meet Gabby and Laura & even protect them (she saved Emma -put her back together not long after she caught her & Scott together- and her first thought seeing Scott returning from the dead is how she wasn’t there to protect him , even tho to her he cheated on her a few days ago -)
Claremont coming at Shooter caused a lot of problems that aren’t yet resolved
So to sum up is Jean as a character different than Emma.
No she cares about people , oped and has a lot of great aspects that need to be explored beside being the reason of Scott and Logan fighting or even sleeping together.
Is she written bad ?? Yes
Abso-fking-lutely.
Is it because of Scott’s presence in the comics.
Nope.
Duggen has been writing her good with Scott and other characters in the book although she is not the focus of his book like she was in X-men red.
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