Marvel Confirms Cyclops is Not The Father of Jean Gray's Child

There may be loads of drama throughout the sons, daughters, cousins, and lovers of the X-Males universe, and Marvel is actually not pleased with each story. However within the case of one well-known future baby of the X-Males, it is truly the followers who missed the clues to one in every of Marvel’s most surprising births.

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Jean Gray Had Her Daughter With The Phoenix, Not Scott Summers

Rachel Summers Altering Her Title To Gray Meant Extra Than Followers Realized

X-Men Female Heroes Rachel Grey Monet Storm and Psyclocke — X-Males Feminine Heroes R0achel Gray, Monet, Storm, and Psyclocke in Marvel comedian artwork

When the legendary “Days of Future Previous” storyline jumped many years right into a future wherein the Sentinels gained and the Mutants misplaced, the existence of a “Rachel Summers” was no shock. In hindsight, it’s virtually quaint that readers accepted Rachel because the daughter of Jean Gray and Scott Summers, an iconic and beforehand married couple.

Rachel would quickly get the prospect to exchange her mom as a Jean Gray-esque heroine on the workforce, with the precise Jean presumed useless following her “Darkish Phoenix” drama. However talking as a visitor on the Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Males podcast, legendary X-Males author Chris Claremont revealed Rachel Summers was a extra direct continuation of Jean’s bond with the Phoenix Pressure than anybody realized:

“To interchange the Jean vacuum, we launched Rachel, who we established initially in Days of Future Previous as the one that’s working with the workforce to ship Kitty again. On the finish of Days of Future Previous, she and Kitty are the one two survivors that we all know of. Now the query was, nicely, who’s Rachel? The place did she come from?

“Nicely, Rachel is Jean’s daughter. Presumably by Scott, however because it seems not. The opposite half of her parentage is Phoenix. The Phoenix Pressure, if you’ll… [Scott] was the, I assume, stand-in father.”

Whereas by no means confirmed within the comics instantly, Claremont states this reality so succinctly, it’s clear that was his intention on the time. And that reality alone goes to blow many followers’ minds, as will the 9 years which have handed since Claremont dropped this world-shattering bombshell.

Rachel Was Created To Grow to be A New Type of Marvel’s Phoenix

Rachel’s Journey From Hound, To Marvel Lady, To Mom Askani All Tease A Larger Nature

Rachel Summers as Phoenix in X-Men Comic Art — Rachel Summers as Phoenix in X-Males Comedian Artwork

It could be an understatment to say that Rachel Summers has loved a sprawling, surprising, cosmically-charged life since her introduction to the comics. Beginning along with her debut within the Days of Future Previous occasion which noticed her changed into a Mutant-hunting “Hound,” and the occasions which noticed her despatched again into the trendy day of the primary Marvel Universe, Rachel has been a beacon of reality-altering circumstances.

Realizing that she was created because the baby of Jean Gray and the Phoenix Pressure itself, a number of chapters of Rachel’s life start to fall into place. The intervention of the Phoenix Pressure itself to offer her a brand new life previously, chief amongst them. To the presumed daughter of Cylops and Marvel Lady, one may ask why Rachel is such a central determine to forces and destinies past her household. Because the Phoenix’s daughter… who would count on anything?

Whereas Not Technically Canon, X-Males’s Rachel Tales Now Make Extra Sense

X-Men Rachel Summers and Betsy Braddock in The White Hot Room — Rachel Summers and Betsy Braddock view their variants in The White Scorching Room in “Uncanny X-Males” #462

The total story Claremont had in thoughts for a residing daughter of Jean Gray and the Phoenix has by no means been advised, a lot to the chagrin of any fan who ever hears of it. However, Claremont’s tales centering on Rachel (together with these of different artistic groups, as nicely) all tackle a brand new layer when positioned on this context. For starters, Rachel’s tenuous relationship with Scott, and her option to take Jean’s surname all add up.

However there are a number of extra plot threads to drag at on this new gentle, together with the numerous occasions Rachel alluded to her distinctive existence, nature, or cosmic function with none clear solutions. Evidently, X-Males followers have some work to do deciphering the total impression of this alteration in parentage. And Scott Summers has one more household disaster to deal with.