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She was a long-standing member of the X-Men supporting cast until a series of traumas eventually led to her being manipulated into being a supervillain known as the Goblin Queen. Jennifer Hale voices Madelyne Pryor in X-Men '97 , a sequel series to X-Men: The Animated Series .
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Surprise. It appears your devices have limits. And I don't.
—Goblin Queen
Madelyne Pryor is a mutant clone of Jean Grey of the X-Men. She was created by Mister Sinister, and her existence was orchestrated to fulfill a grand scheme to birth a living weapon to destroy Apocalypse. Born out of manipulation and experimentation, her path intertwined with that of Cyclops. Their whirlwind romance led to marriage and the birth of their son Nathan Summers, the time traveling mutant Cable. However, the strains of Scott's lingering attachment to Jean Grey, coupled with Madelyne's own sense of abandonment, led to a heart-breaking unraveling of their family.
Abandoned and betrayed, Madelyne's journey took a dark turn as she grappled with her identity and sought vengeance against those who wronged her. Embracing her newfound powers as the Goblin Queen, she waged war against the X-Men and X-Factor, unleashing chaos and confronting her own inner demons. She joined various iterations of the all female team called the Sisterhood of Mutants.
Origin
Madelyne always bore a striking resemblance to the (then) presumed deceased Jean Grey. Numerous individuals mistook her for Jean reborn. To make matters more suspicious, Madelyne's mind was closed to Professor X and she was the sole survivor of a mysterious plane crash, which occurred at the exact moment the Dark Phoenix committed suicide on the Moon, or so she thought. In reality, she was a clone of Jean created by Mister Sinister. Mr. Sinister found that a union between the X-Men, Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), would produce a powerful mutant. Sinister hoped he could control such a mutant and use it to defeat Apocalypse. At the time, Jean, actually the Phoenix, was acting recklessly, so Sinister created a clone of her. Sinister's plot was to produce a child from the union of Madelyne and Scott, whom he believed would become a genetically superior mutant. To Sinister's disappointment, Madelyne had no life and did not develop any mutant abilities at puberty as he had hoped. Sinister left Madelyne in her incubation tube as a failed experiment. It was at the moment of the Dark Phoenix's death that a spark of the Phoenix Force was accidentally bestowed on Madelyne's body and renewed Sinister's interest. After Dark Phoenix died on the moon, the Phoenix sought to return the "borrowed" portion of Jean's soul to her body which was in suspended animation. Jean instinctively rejected the Phoenix and it wandered the globe, lost. Eventually, it became attracted to Madelyne, since she was an exact genetic clone of Jean. The Phoenix Force searched for the next best thing, giving a spark of itself to Madelyne, granting her a life force and some of Jean's memories.
Scott Summers
Madelyne met Scott in Alaska, while he was being introduced to his grandparents. From the moment of their first meeting, Scott was immediately attracted to Madelyne for her physical resemblance to Jean. Mister Sinister had also played a part as a matchmaker, by giving Madelyne a personality he knew Scott would like and placing her where they were sure to meet, as a pilot for his grandparents. Sinister also gave Madelyne the name "Pryor" as a pun on her "prior existence" as a cell sample taken from Jean. Scott was amazed how much Madelyne was like Jean, even after being tricked for a short time, by Mastermind, into thinking she was Dark Phoenix. After a whirlwind romance, Scott proposed to Madelyne on the deck of the Starjammer and Madelyne and Scott were married on the grounds of the X-Mansion. During their honeymoon in the Caribbean, Scott and Madelyne were attacked by a shark and a giant squid. This prompted Scott to choose retirement, realizing he would rather start a family than face a life of endless battles among the X-Men and the Starjammers.
Anodyne
Early in their marriage, Scott and Madelyne were flying a geological survey team across Alaska, when they ran into a mysterious storm that forced them to crash-land. Through Loki's Firefountain, all non-super-powered humans aboard the plane (including Madelyne) were endowed with mystical powers. As Anodyne, Madelyne could heal virtually any injury, illness, and physical-defect. Madelyne also used mystical healing powers to allow Cyclops to function without his protective lenses. When it was discovered that Loki's intentions were never altruistic and that his gift was badly flawed, as the cost of those powers was the loss of individual creativity and imagination, everyone went against him. His plans ended, Loki was ordered by Those Who Sit Above in Shadow to restore everyone to their original state. Loki spitefully removed all the powers he had granted and everyone who Anodyne had cured were also regressed back. During the incident, Madelyne revealed she was pregnant.
Powers
Mutant Physiology: Since Madelyne was cloned from Jean Grey's DNA, she was essentially another version of Jean, and possessed Jean's telekinetic and telepathic abilities, although they manifested far later. It is unclear whether she inherited her template's full Omega-level potential, although Sinister's use of her clones as a means of containing the Phoenix Force suggests that she was of a similar caliber. When she was a psychic ghost, Madelyne revealed that she was so powerful that she, like Elizabeth Braddock, could only be contained in a body that was capable of housing such massive psychic powers, comparing her own powers to Psylocke's. •Telekinesis: Her telekinesis is powerful enough that Madelyne can move, lift, and manipulate fairly large objects, channel her telekinetic powers to fire powerful, mental, concussive blasts, focus her psionic energy into a near-impenetrable force field, and levitate herself in order to fly at fairly high speeds. On a few occasions, she can make images in her mind become tangible. •Reality Warping: She has the ability to bend the quantum strings that make up reality within a localized area through precise telekinesis. •Telepathy: She can read and manipulate the minds of others and even higher-order animals within a vast, potentially limitless, radius. Her notable powers include: •Telepathic Cloak: She can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can, at times, go undetected or be counteracted by more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. •Psionic Shield: She has the ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others' minds. •Telepathic Camouflage: She has the ability to mask herself, and other people's' presence from those around her. She can telepathically disguise herself, making her appearance to those around her quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising). •Mind Control: She has the ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration. •Mind Possession: She has the ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as her own. •Mind Alteration: She has the ability to alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely. •Telepathic Illusions: She has the ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring. •Mental Paralysis: She has the ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis. •Mental Amnesia: She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia. •Psionic Blasts: She can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead. •Mind Transferal: She is able to transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies if her own physical body could be somehow killed. •Mental Detection: Can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being. •Induce Pain: She can also induce mental pain merely by touching the brow of her victim. •Astral Projection: She can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane, she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. •Astral Teleportation: Teleport over long distances by psychokinetically shunting herself in and out of the astral plane (she was also shown to be able to carry additional weight, such as another person, when she teleported, but her limits were never fully tested). •Psionic Siphoning: She is able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic mutants. Demonic Augmentation: Bargaining with the demon S'ym for power and revenge, Madelyne was bestowed demonic abilities by the demon's touch, granting her powerful dark magic on top of her psychic abilities. •Sorcery: Madelyne possesses the ability to cast a wide variety of simple and complex spells. Her sorcery might is such that she has been shown to heal wounds, locate spirits inter-dimensionally, and work in conjunction with technology to restore life to the long dead. Her dark sorcery also allows her to summon various goblins, demons, and other entities. Former powers •Reality Warping: The ability to bend the quantum strings that makeup reality within a localized area. •Healing: As Anodyne Madelyne had the ability to heal others.
Abilities
Madelyne was a highly skilled pilot, had a natural affinity for computers and technology, and was experienced in childcare.
Equipment
Mercy Crown: A "demon Cerebro", the Crown allowed Pryor to see the souls of all mutants remaining on Earth following Orchis's attack on the Hellfire Gala.
Weapons
•Scythe of Sorrows
Transportation
Former Transportation •Conventional aircraft •Portals created by Gateway •Goblin carriage driven by N'astirh •Portals created by Spiral
•Like Jean Grey, Maddie had a significant portion of her publication history retroactively attributed to another character. Allegedly, an alternate Jean had replaced the Maddie that was psionically recreated by Nate Grey, and she is purportedly the Madelyne Pryor that shows up in X-Man and Cable. As a consequence, Madelyne Pryor's interactions with adult Cable, including their first meeting in Cable #44, have been retconned. For a list of her retconned appearances, click here.
•Matt Fraction, in an interview about Uncanny X-Men 508, said of the Sisterhood Madelyne Pryor, "Poor Maddy is still dead, I think she was consumed by the Red Queen. Nobody said Maddy was coming back. The Red Queen is back and Maddy is dead." This could possibly be insinuating that this was in fact Jean Grey of Earth-9575 still impersonating Madelyne Pryor, and not Madelyne Pryor at all. If this is the case, all of the appearances during the Sisterhood should be attributed to Jean Grey (Earth-9575) instead of Madelyne.
•Certain memories that Madelyne believed were her own were actually from Jean's past. They were transferred to Madelyne's mind when the Phoenix Force found her.
•Madelyne was a pilot for North Star Airways, an air freight company owned by Philip Summers (Cyclops' grandfather).
•Madelyne and Scott honeymooned on a fictional South Pacific island, called Boragora. This is may be a nod to the short-lived TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey which took place on an island with the same name or, more likely, a reference to Bora, a real-life island in the same region that is a popular honeymoon destination.
•Madelyne gave birth to Nathan by herself in the kitchen of the X Mansion.
•112 appearance(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
•8 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
•34 minor appearance(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
•90 mention(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
•5 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
•171 image(s) of Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
Goblin Queen (2021) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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