57 Facts About Madelyne Pryor

Madelyne Jennifer Pryor is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily featured off-and-on as an antagonist of the X-Men.

Madelyne Pryor was introduced during the acclaimed 1983 Uncanny X-Men run that saw long-time writer Chris Claremont pair with artist Paul Smith for a series of issues that would see the Jean Grey look-alike marry the retired X-Men leader Scott Summers.

The original plotline was that Scott marries Madelyne Pryor, they have their child, they go off to Alaska, he goes to work for his grandparents, he retires from the X-Men.

Madelyne Pryor comes back on special occasions, for special fights, but he has a life.

Madelyne Pryor has grown out of the monastery; he is in the real world now.

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Madelyne Pryor was brought back in 1995 as a supporting character in X-Man, a marginal X-Men related title.

In 2008, exactly 25 years since the character's debut in Uncanny X-Men, Madelyne Pryor was brought back in the flagship X-Men title for the first time since 1989.

Madelyne Pryor was a cargo pilot in Anchorage, Alaska working for Scott Summers' grandparents when she and Scott meet during a Summers family reunion.

Scott, still recovering from Jean's death, becomes obsessed with the idea that Madelyne Pryor is her reincarnation, eventually confronting her with his suspicions.

Entirely for his own purposes, Loki bestows mystical powers on a small group of non-powered humans, including Madelyne Pryor, transforming her into a healer of virtually any injury, illness, psychological issue, or physical defect.

Madelyne Pryor adopts the name "Anodyne" and cures Scott's childhood head injury, enabling him to control his optic blasts without the use of ruby-quartz lenses.

Alone and threatened, Madelyne Pryor calls the X-Men for help; they arrive and fight off another attack by the Marauders.

When it's done, Jean is real again and Madelyne Pryor is the featureless mannequin, unable to even scream.

Madelyne Pryor falls unconscious, dressed in a cropped black leather shirt, leather loincloth, and thigh-high Combat Stiletto boots, thus reflecting her eventual change into the Goblin Queen.

Later abducted by the Genoshans and taken to their island-nation, Madelyne Pryor is subjected to psychic torture intended to transform her into a docile slave of the state.

Sinister named her "Madelyne Pryor", and created a false background, implanted memories and a personality designed to attract Summers, and conceived a plan to use the clone to facilitate selective breeding between her and Scott.

Madelyne Pryor then planted her with Scott's grandparents' company, thus ensuring the two would eventually meet.

Jean Grey's return threatened to cause the truth about Madelyne Pryor to be uncovered if the two were to meet, so Sinister tasked his Marauders with killing Madelyne Pryor and bringing him Nathan, the fruit of his scheme.

Madelyne Pryor refuses to stop, forcing the heroes to overwhelm her.

Madelyne Pryor mysteriously reappears years later as an amnesiac to Nate Grey, the "genetic offspring" of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the alternate reality known as the Age of Apocalypse, when he arrives into Earth-616.

Under the tutelage of Selene, Madelyne Pryor eventually becomes the Hellfire Club's "Black Rook", has her memories of her previous life restored by Tessa, and meets her aged son Cable in an uneasy truce.

Madelyne Pryor then finds Nate Grey with Jean Grey and a fight ensues.

Madelyne Pryor is buried alive by one of them but she manages to escape by teleporting.

Madelyne Pryor ends up revealing herself as the Red Queen, a Jean Grey from Earth-9575, an alternate reality where she becomes a creature of violence and unquenchable desire.

Madelyne Pryor seems to have taken advantage of Madelyne's fragile state and replaced her in order to worm her way into Nate's head.

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Later during a concert of Dazzler's, Scott is surprised at the sight of Madelyne Pryor observing him from a distance before losing her amongst the crowd.

The Madelyne Pryor clones join Sinister's other clone creations in fighting the Phoenix Five, and manage to defeat each one.

Madelyne Pryor is not seen in "the first wave" of mutant villains who accept Xavier's invitation to join him on Krakoa.

Madelyne Pryor is seen wearing a version of the flight suit that she had originally worn with the X-Men, positioning her as “good Madelyne” again; but when she sees herself in a mirror, it reflects her Goblin Queen persona.

Some time afterwards, Madelyne Pryor met Ben Reilly, a mistreated and vengeful clone of Spider-Man now going by the name Chasm.

Madelyne Pryor made a demon possess a mailbox, with Spider-Man intervening and defeating the demon.

Ben and Madelyne Pryor watched from afar, with Ben saying that he thinks his teamwork with her will work and Madelyne Pryor agreeing since they have a lot in common.

Madelyne Pryor seemed to gain the physical stature of an Asgardian.

Madelyne Pryor's telepathy enables her to read minds, broadcast her thoughts, create illusions, change or erase memories, and defend herself against other telepaths.

Madelyne Pryor utilizes her powers to augment her physical strength and agility, making her formidable in hand-to-hand combat.

Madelyne Pryor learned how to use her powers to teleport over long distances by psychokinetically shifting in and out of the astral plane, and was able to channel psionic energies from other psionic-powered mutants to boost her own abilities or those of another.

Madelyne Pryor was shown to heal wounds, locate spirits interdimensionally, and work in conjunction with science to restore life to the dead.

Madelyne Pryor however was successful in quelling the resistance and wresting control of the Phoenix Force from Rachel, but was ultimately betrayed and killed by S'ym, using Wolverine's reanimated adamantium skeleton.

Madelyne Pryor was not infected, but became the Goblyn Queen and planned on releasing a demon army to wipe out the vampire mutants and dominate the world.

Madelyne Pryor made contact with the lord of the Dark Dimension, Dormammu, who became her ally.

However this version of Madelyne Pryor had never been awakened by the Phoenix Force, so she was simply a mindless shell inhabited by the psychic entity Malice.

Just like in Earth-616, Madelyne Pryor makes a deal with Limbo's demons, unlocking her latent psionic abilities, and initiates the "Inferno Crisis".

Havok supposedly saves Madelyne Pryor by placing the "Nexus of Realities" in her body, purging her of the malevolent Goblyn Force and reuniting her with her son Scotty, before Havok returns once more to the void.

Madelyne Pryor plays an important role in X-Men: The End, Chris Claremont's limited series about an alternate future.

Mysteriously joined with the X-Men's alien enemies, Madelyne Pryor affected a disguise to infiltrate the X-Men, planting herself near Cyclops for the rest of the series.

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Still seeking revenge against her former husband, Madelyne Pryor wavered however and protected him instead, after eavesdropping on Scott expressing remorse for everything that happened to her, and even implied that he genuinely loved her after all.

Contrary to all assumptions, Madelyne Pryor never committed the sacrificial prolicide of her baby son, and had been raising Nathan in the years since.

Madelyne Pryor then became one of four Barons Doom chose as his "Generals" and ordered to field their armies to crush an uprising against the God Emperor.

Madelyne Pryor later opened another portal to gain access to Earth in Miami and her hordes of demons descended to wreak chaos all over the place.

Madelyne Pryor revealed that when Battleworld began collapsing, twelve hell gates inexplicably opened near the area she was and she along with Bamfy entered one that took them to Limbo where they remained in the shadows.

Madelyne Pryor has since been training the time-displaced Hank on how to hone his mystical capabilities.

Madelyne Pryor then has Hank cast a ritual that summons her and her new team of supernatural X-Men, calling them her "Hex Men", and ambushes Magneto's team of X-Men in Madripoor.

Madelyne Pryor's goal is to use the ritual that Beast started to summon alternate versions of herself trapped in the underworld and bring them to the surface to help her gain power.

Bloodstorm sees how Madelyne Pryor has used them as a means to her own goal and knows that she will throw the Hex Men to the wolves when her main goal is accomplished.

Madelyne Pryor is emphasized as the victim in everything, not culpable for Inferno nor intending to harm her son.

In Deadpool 2, an Easter egg reference to Madelyne Pryor is made with an ice cream truck labeled "Pryor's Treats" appearing.

Madelyne Pryor was alluded to in the X-Men animated television series episode "Time Fugitives".