Who is Jean Grey in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

'X-Men: The Animated Series' & 'X-Men 97'The best place to start, in my humble opinion, is with the animated series and Disney+ reboot/continuation that was a generation’s introduction to these characters. Jean Grey is voiced by Jennifer Hale in both series. The show will give you kid friendly versions of Jean’s warring romances with Cyclops and Wolverine, the infamous Dark Phoenix Saga from Marvel comics in which she gets a power upgrade from space and maybe goes evil, and her journey towards becoming a leader.Stream X-Men: The Animated SeriesStream X-Men ‘97'X-Men'Famke Janssen plays Jean Grey in the live-action film. The story begins with her already working at Charles Xavier’s school as a teacher. That’s the fun thing about the X-Men. They’re a superhero team, but also the faculty and student body of a boarding school. Talk about codependency! In this first film, Jean’s powers come in clutch when Professor X falls into a coma and only she can use his cerebro device.Stream X-MenAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below'X2: X-Men United'Jean has a bigger story as a part of the team in the sequel, directly setting up her big villain arc in the third film. Something is also up with her powers. She’s worried about not being able to control them. She vanishes by the end, experiencing some kind of mysterious evolution.Stream X2: X-Men United'X-Men: The Last Stand'The 2006 film is the first live action adaptation of the Dark Phoenix Saga, but it misses a few beats. It’s also, lowkey, a subplot to a larger story about the government creating a “cure” for mutant abilities that suppresses the gene they all carry. (The type of science project that Peter Parker is just doing in his spare time, apparently!)Stream X-Men: The Last StandAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below'The Wolverine''X-Men: Apocalypse' As excited as I am to see what Sadie and the other new actors cast as mutants in the MCU do with their roles, it bums me out to no end that the 2010s reboot cast from X-Men: First Class and its subsequent sequels are getting left out of the party. They were all such cuties! Alas.We met Jean Grey, now played by Sophie Turner, three films into the new franchise. Apocalypse showed the beginning of her relationship with Scott Summers/Cyclops, played by Tye Sheridan, and how she and Professor X (James McAvoy) bond professionally over their telepathic powers.Stream X-Men: ApocalypseAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below'Dark Phoenix' This film sort of gave us a more comic book accurate adaptation of Jean Grey’s origin story than Brand New Day. In the comics, Jean’s best friend Annie died in a car crash. The event both triggered her powers and traumatized her. This film’s version is that Jean’s powers caused the car crash and it killed her mother, not her best friend. Brutal!This movie adaptation of the Dark Phoenix Saga begins the same way the comic does, with Jean gaining heightened powers on a mission in space. But it introduces an alien named Vuk, played by Jessica Chastain, to the mix that diverges from the source material. So does the ending...Stream Dark Pheonix