Madelyne Pryor

Madelyne Pryor known also under the name of Goblyn Queen is a character of the Univers Marvel. It is a Clone of Jean Grey, created by Mister Sinister. Although having belonged to the X-Men during a certain time, a certain number of events in its life (in particular to be rejected by his/her husband and the loss of its son), its handling and its transformation into demon facilitated. Chris Claremont seems to have created the name of the character while thinking of Maddy Prior, singer of the group Folk rock'n'roll Steeleye Span.

Biography

Origins

The biography of Madelyne is complex because of many the chamboulements of continuity. Originally, it was presented like partner of Scott Summers. Some mysteries surrounded it however: she survived a crash landing of a plane the same day when Phoenix died on the moon, and the Professor X was unable to probe its spirit (he even explaining why that seldom arrived on certain human, but was not impossible). Following many events with Mastermind (which sought to be avenged for Jean Grey) and its telepathic illusions, Madelyne married Scott, following what this last left the X-Men.

Nathan

Madelyne gave rise to a child, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. However, although Scott tried to live a normal life, it accepted a call of Angel informing that Jean Grey had been found alive. It gave up Madelyne and its son, which was attacked by the Maraudeurs. Nathan was removed and Madelyne hospitalized.

The transformation

Following that, X-Men had to fight a demon, the Adversary. In order to overcome it, they had to be sacrificed. Life income thanks to the Roma goddess, X-Men worked secretly while settling in an old abandoned base having belonged to the Reavers, in Australia.

Thereafter, the demon ym proposed in Madelyne to be avenged for Scott, and it accepted. It passed a market with another demon, astirh, in order to find her son. The demons helped Madelyne to become aware of its latent capacities, namely the Télépathie and the Télékinésie. It became the Goblyn Queen and that marked the beginning of the saga Inferno.

This crossover redefines the origins of Madelyne: Mr. Sinister, thinking that a newborn of Jean Grey and Scott Summers would inherit great capacities, it created a clone of Jean so that Scott in tomb in love and makes him a child. When Phoenix committed suicide, part of the force of the Phoenix was transferred in the clone and life gave him. Sinister called the clone Madelyne Pryor, invented a false past to him and sent it in Alaska, where it fell in love with Scott Summers.

Astirh did not take along Madelyne to an orphanage of the Nebraska, a cover of a genetic laboratory of Sinister. This last told him all on its creation and its acknowledged goal. Madelyne used the black magic in order to escape. Astirh did not show him whereas it was in possession of his son, and that it was going to sacrifice it to secure a permanent démoniaque presence on ground.

It turned over X-Factor against X-Men while becoming again Madelyne and by explaining why Scott wanted to remove their child. The teams vaincurent Astirh, but Madelyne, become suicidal when she learned that she was a clone, was locked up with Jean Grey in a telekinetic bubble (according to the terms of Psylocke), then gave itself death while trying to take along Jean with her télépathiquement. The latter survived by reinstating the residual gasoline of the Phoenix of Madelyne. The origins of his/her son, Nathan Christopher, were redefined. He had become the soldier traveller of the time known under the name of Cable.

The Return

Madelyne reappeared mysteriously in X-Man #5 (July 1995) partially amnesic. Thanks to the assistance of Selene, it became Black Rook on behalf of the Club of Damnés and gradually remembering sound old life. In X-Man #25 (March 1997) we learn that Madelyne is actually a psychic construction, formed unconsciously by the spirit from Nate Grey; however, contrary to the majority of psychic creations, it was unable autodétruire. It seemed to age prematurely in X-Man #52 following a loss of energy, and after being appeared as a psychic phantom in Cable #76, one did not see it any more. It however returned in X-Man #67, where it was learned that Madelyne was an impostor, a Jean Grey come from a parallel universe. The scenario writer Steven Grant (who did not take part in the former appearances of Madelyne in the series) indicated that it wished to keep this explanation for all the duration of the X-Man series. Speaking Scénaristiquement, there exist however inconsistencies. Indeed, this false Jean Grey says to us that Madelyne existed forever as such, that it was an impostor all length; but at other times, she proclaims " to have replaced Maddie there is many mois" thus implying that only the appearances of Madelyne after the #67 were those of false the Jean Grey.

In Annual Avengers #10 (scenario of Chris Claremont, a child being made call Maddy Pryor makes its appearance. It seems that Claremont took again the name of the singer and that no history around this character was envisaged, although the child reappears like mental image of Madelyne in X-Men #238, wearing same the dress and having the same dialog as in Avengers Annual #10. That resembles more one simple allusion without claim.

Madelyne in Mutant-X

In the alternate universe of the series Mutant X, Cyclops was projected in space, his/her brother Havok becoming thus one of the founders of the X-Men. Pareillement with the traditional Universe Marvel, Jean Grey dies and is replaced by its clone, Madelyne (known also under the name of Marvel Woman . It falls in love with Havok and they will have a son, Scotty . It passed also a pact with astirh and ym and was at the origin of the Inferno Crisis , at the conclusion which it discovered the extent of its psychic capacities. However, even if it survived the crisis, it gave up her husband when it formed the group of the Six . Its taken again dark side the top on many occasions, initially as Goblyn Queen, and later as Goblyn Forces. It amalgamated with the Beyonder and formed a being quasi Omnipotent. It is supposed that Havok, right before being again propelled in nothing, saved Madelyne off by injecting the Nexus Realities in its body, expelling Goblyn Force.

In this reality, when Madelyne becomes Goblyn Queen, it changes appearance and is transformed into demon with the orange skin, raising long horns, claws and a third eye in the middle of the face.

Capacities

Since Madelyne was clonée starting from Jean Grey, it had the capacities of the latter, with a least degree however. As Goblyn Queen, its capacities were reinforced considerably thanks to the magic. Thus, it can make bring out the side sinks of a person, and make it bad. It also can, thanks to its telekinesis, to transform reality in a given place. After its resurrection by X-Man (Nate Grey), its telepathy was seen decreased, being limited to reading the spirits and communicating by the thought. Its telekinesis however remained rather powerful, enabling him to project a mental ray, to concentrate its psionic energy in a protective shield and to fly at a rather high speed. Parallel to that, it developed capacities that Jean Grey never had. Namely téléporter through the astral plan by using its capacities psychokinetic. She realized that she was able to absorb psychic energies of the mutants psionic; thus, the energy which it stored made it possible him to increase its own capacities or to channel this energy in another person (mainly Nate Grey)

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