Cerebra's Files

Queen Jean
(Earth 998)


Affiliation: Hellfire Club NY
Aliases: Madelyne Pryor II, Black Rook II, Spitfire II
Status: Deceased
Relatives: Uncertain
Powers: Madelyne was not seen again until Nate Grey appeared on our Earth, and reached out with his power for Jean, his "mother" in his birth dimension. Instead, he found a psychic echo of Madelyne, and somehow recreated her. They stayed together a short time, but then Maddie was recruited by Selene to be the Black Rook of the Hellfire Club. She also became Sebastian Shaw's consort. By this time Madelyne had a range of psychic powers, but she really increased her abilities when she again encountered Nate, and drained him of almost all his powers. She also gained the ability to teleport, in addition to her other abilities. Maddie also "killed" Threnody prior to her confrontation with Nate. She hinted at a physical connection with Nate, which made it appear that they are sharing life-energy and power to exist. She joined up with Nate again in Europe and when Stryfe took over Latveria, she deceived him into believing that she had joined him. Instead, she waited until Stryfe shared some of his power with her, and then she psionically recharged Nate, allowing him and Cable to defeat the madman.

Maddie stayed with Nate for a while, and came into conflict with Ness, who was looking to mentor Nate following an incident with Stryfe. However, when Nate was finally tracked down by the Psi-Ops Gauntlet, a team of armored telepaths, Maddie again used her power to recharge a drained Nate, but then ended up looking years older. In the final conflict, one of the telepaths detonated a bomb, and it appeared that Madelyne was caught in the explosion.

Recently it was revealed that the Maddie Nate created was replaced months ago by her doppelganger from another reality. In that world, Jean Grey masquereded as Maddie and was Queen, and for some reason needed Nate Grey's power to accomplish a conquest of the multiverse, so she replaced our Maddie and started controlling Nate in his sleep, making him use his power in destructive ways until he figured it out and she took him to her dimension. There she revealed that she had been controlling Nate for some time, since she answereed his psychic call across the dimensions and appeared as Madelyne. Nate fought her control and escaped to the far side of the planet, where he encountered that Earth's version of himself, who was a slightly insane "shaman" to the people living in the area. Jean eventually captured Nate, but it was her Earth's version, who had switched physical characteristics with X-Man. After he blew up, Jean was confronted and killed by her henchman Scratch, who had figured out that she was not Queen Madelyne.

What exactly happened to our Earth's Madelyne is unknown, but an astral plane conversation with Cable would indicate she is again dead.
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