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Whether with or without the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey’s potent abilities make her an Omega-Level mutant. When working in tandem, the Phoenix Force grants Jean additional abilities, including fire projection, superpower manipulation, energy absorption, transmutation, precognition, reality warping, and resurrection. With all this power that has allowed Jean to become one of the most important entities in the multiverse, it’s mind-boggling that she still keeps dying repeatedly.
10) Restored Emma Frost
Although Jean Grey is most well-known for using the Phoenix Force to resurrect herself, she has also used it to bring other people back from the dead as well. In New X-Men #139, Emma Frost was shot by a sniper while in her diamond form, causing her to shatter into a million pieces and apparently die. Two issues later, Jean senses a lingering consciousness within the shards. Using her immense telekinetic abilities, Jean collects and fuses all of Emma’s pieces back together while simultaneously using her telepathy to borrow Beast’s medical knowledge so that she doesn’t make any anatomical mistakes. Once she’s finished reconstructing Emma, Jean brings her back to life.
9) Restored a Star
As the wielder of the Phoenix Force, Jean doesn’t confine herself to Earth to perform heroic acts; rather, she regularly does courageous feats across the universe that save billions of lives. In X-Men #35, Jean Grey traveled to the edge of the intergalactic Shi’ar Empire to reach a white dwarf star. A star in this stage is near the end of its natural life cycle and would soon die. To save the surrounding solar system and its countless inhabitants, Jean uses the Phoenix Force’s cosmic energy to revert the white dwarf into a yellow star, ensuring that it would continue shining for several billion more years to come.
8) Stabilized a Black Hole
Dying stars aren’t the only cosmic crises Jean handles daily. In Phoenix #1, a supermassive black hole called Ton 618 has become unstable. Ton 618 is about to collapse, threatening to destroy a nearby space station prison. To tame Ton 618, Jean flies into it and becomes one with the black hole. Like a cosmic dance, Jean uses the Phoenix Force’s limitless power to guide and temper the black hole. Once she’s finished, the threat of Ton 618 has been neutralized. In real life, Ton 618 is one of the largest supermassive black holes in the observable universe, dwarfing the Milky Way Galaxy and possessing a mass of around 66 billion suns.
7) Turned Gorr the God Butcher into a Star
As his name suggests, Gorr the God Butcher is a terrifying and genocidal madman who won’t rest until every god is dead. He has slaughtered countless deities, and it once took the combined might of three versions of Thor to stop him. However, in Phoenix #5, Jean Grey defeated him all on her own. When Gorr sought to kill Jean, he used the deadly All-Black that grants its user the ability to slaughter gods and even encase a universe in darkness. To defeat the God Butcher, Jean transformed him into something that brings life. With her reality-warping and transmutation abilities, Jean turned Gorr and the All-Black into a gigantic star that would nourish numerous planets with its light.
6) Used Galactus’s Power Against Him
Even as a teenager, Jean Grey could match Galactus. Fueled by the Power Cosmic, Galactus possesses near limitless power. In Generations: Phoenix & Jean Grey #1, a temporally displaced younger Jean is whisked away to a planet about to be consumed by Galactus. To save the planet, the younger Jean develops a new trick. By absorbing the psychic energy from the inhabitants of the nearby planet, along with that of Galactus’ Herald Terrax, the Phoenix Force, and Galactus himself, Jean constructs a gigantic fist that knocks the Devourer of Worlds flat on his back. The strike was so powerful that Galactus ceded the planet to Jean. To redirect the full power of both the Power Cosmic and Phoenix Force shows the heights of Jean’s absorption capabilities.
