Why The World Needs Jean Grey to Stay DEAD.

Why The World Needs Jean Grey to Stay DEAD

I believe the dead should stay dead.  Sometimes, when the dead are brought back, they serve a specific purpose and go on to be used for great stories.  I look at Norman Osborn whose recent Osborn miniseries and some of the events of Dark Reign and Siege have really proven to me that Norman still had good stories to tell.  And the other example I look at is Psylocke whose role in Uncanny X-Force has been an incredible force within the dynamic of the team.  These are two of the good examples.  But more often than not, the dynamic created by the void of a character is often better than the character itself.  These are the instances where the Death served a very specific purpose and was ultimately for the greater good.  But then there are the Deaths where there isn't a void afterwards.  Where instead the death felt like an inevitability and needed to happen rather than as something that has it's own purpose. 

The only time Jean Grey ever served a purpose was as a villain or as a tool for the growth of Scott Summers.  Her first revival was done very a convuluted retcon that instead of Jean becoming Dark it was a corrupt power called the Phoenix Force that can become a clone of Jean Grey while Jean Grey remained in a cocoon to heal.  Interestingly enough, Scott Summers leaves his wife and child(the future Cable) for the revived Jean some years later...because she turns mean into assholes.  Of course then his wife goes crazy and we find out she was a clone mixed with the Phoenix Force.  And then Jean mind melds with her and regains the Phoenix Force and remembers things again and convulution continues.  And then she would go on to die AGAIN.  No one really mourned.  No laments.  In fact,   a year later and the absence of the character wasn't an issue.  Joss Whedons run( a critically acclaimed run and one that a majority of fans consider one of the definitive runs) let's Jean stay dead and follows up on Grant Morrison's work on expanding and developing Emma Frost.  For that last dozen or so years, Emma has been treated as a far more stable and adult persona and one that has had a much more approriate companion for the current leader of the mutant nation Utopia. 

Obviously Jean Grey is drenched in continuity, like all of the X-history, and the less she's involved the less convuluted the time line is.  We don't need her.  Every character is better off without her and the only reason to bring back Jean is  to give her a better story than the Dark Phoenix Saga.  And really, if a writer or team is that arogant they definately shouldn't be bringing her back. 

Dear Marvel, don't bring Jean Grey back.