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Proteus

  • Note: The Jean in this story and The Dark Phoenix Saga is not the original Jean Grey. After a space mission in which Jean was exposed to radiation after saving the X-men and thereafter died, the original Jean was placed in a cocoon at the bed of Jamaica Bay while the Phoenix, a cosmic entity impressed with Jean’s sacrifice, created a duplicate body of Jean and became known as Phoenix-Jean and unbeknownst to the X-men that it wasn’t their Jean

  • Immediately precedes the Dark Phoenix saga

  • A past battle between Magneto and the X-men on Muir Island is what allows Mutant X (Proteus) to escape after being quarantined for 10 years

  • Jean Grey is at Muir Island with Moira Mactaggert, Multiple Man, Polaris, and Havok

  • She thought that the X-men died in a battle with Magneto in Antarctica but they are alive and well at X-mansion

  • Mastermind has begun his illusion casting on Jean’s mind

  • She is already the Phoenix

  • Proteus attacks Jean and the X-men fly to Muir Island with Banshee after Polaris tells Cyclops of the attack on Jean

  • The X-men and Moira Mactaggert search for Proteus in Scotland

  • Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Storm encounter Proteus and are easily defeated 

  • Moira attempts to shoot her son (Proteus) with metal bullets since that is his weakness but misses due to intervention from Cyclops

  • Cyclops tests the resolve of his X-men by physically fighting them after facing Proteus

  • Jean Grey telepathically locates Proteus as he continues to take host bodies on his way to kill and use his father as a host

  • Proteus easily toys with the X-men and gives Moira an ultimatum to accept him or become his new host

  • A distracted Proteus is shot by Banshee and his father’s host body is weakened giving the X-men an advantage

  • Wolverine rescues Moira as Proteus is stalled by Havok and Cyclops but slips away and pursues Wolverine 

  • Proteus takes his mother and prepares to use her as a host but Colossus knocks him away and forces him to be in a pure energy form after the host body is destroyed

  • Colossus disperses Proteus around the world due to Proteus’s reaction to the metal. X-men think he is dead

  • Moira desires to clone Proteus (Kevin Mactaggert) for a second chance but Banshee talks her out of it