55 Facts About Rachel Summers

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Rachel Anne Summers is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Rachel Summers is the daughter of the alternate future counterparts to Cyclops and Jean Grey-Summers from a harsh dystopia, the sister of Nate Grey and half sister of Cable, a niece of Havok and Vulcan, and a powerful mutant in her own right.

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3.

Rachel Summers inherited her mother's vast telepathic and telekinetic talents, and code names Phoenix and Marvel Girl before later adopting her own code name Prestige.

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4.

Rachel Summers was abducted by operatives working for Ahab, who used drugs and hypnotherapy to turn Rachel Summers into a "Hound", a mutant who tracks down other mutants.

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Rachel Summers fulfilled her duties, but her psychic powers linked her to her victims; fueling her grief and despair until she attacked Ahab and scarred him.

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6.

Rachel Summers managed to send Kate's consciousness into the past to her younger self to prevent the assassination, but it did not change their time.

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7.

Rachel Summers sent her astral form into the past to find out why and discovered she had sent Kate into an alternate past.

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8.

Rachel Summers passed out from the strain of astral projection and the Phoenix Force revealed itself to Kate, who asked it to give Rachel Summers a fresh start.

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9.

Rachel Summers had a brief membership in the X-Men before finding a Shi'ar holoempathic crystal at her grandparents' home.

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10.

Rachel Summers was granted access to its power on a cosmic magnitude, albeit in a much more limited fashion than the Dark Phoenix.

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11.

Rachel Summers did this with the intention of taking vengeance on Selene for the murders she had committed, particularly that of nightclub owner Nicholas Damiano, who had previously taken Rachel into his home after Selene had attacked her.

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12.

Selene proved to be no match for Rachel Summers's newly increased powers, but just as she was about to finish Selene, Wolverine arrived and was forced to stab Rachel Summers in the chest.

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13.

Rachel Summers has once been cited having a flashback to her time there where she is held in chains and tortured.

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14.

Rachel Summers attempted to bond with Jean, but Jean, upon discovering Rachel was the present host for the Phoenix, rejected any contact with her.

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15.

Rachel Summers rejected Rachel because she felt that Rachel's existence was a constant reminder of the dystopian future she feared could still come to pass.

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16.

Rachel Summers remained with Excalibur until an incident caused Captain Britain to be lost in the timestream.

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17.

Rachel Summers exchanged places with the time-lost Captain Britain and emerged two thousand years in the future, in a world conquered by Apocalypse and crushed under his iron fist.

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18.

Rachel Summers gathered together a group of rebels and founded the Askani.

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19.

Rachel Summers trained one of her followers to travel back in time and bring her "brother" Nathan forward in time when he was infected with a techno-organic virus.

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20.

Rachel Summers finally died ten years later and sent Scott and Jean back to their original bodies seconds after they had left.

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21.

Rachel Summers then decided to take a break from superheroics and enrolled in college after she made Cable promise he would not tell anyone she was back.

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22.

Rachel Summers decided to rejoin the X-Men, taking the name "Marvel Girl" to honor her mother and wearing a costume her mother had designed but never worn: a variation on Jean's first green costume.

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23.

Rachel Summers changed her last name to "Grey", possibly to express disapproval at her father's betrayal of Jean, as well as his continuing relationship with Emma Frost; though she and Emma made a truce of sorts during one of the team's missions in Hong Kong.

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24.

Rachel Summers had a short stint with newly re-formed Excalibur, reminiscent of the former team, shortly after the House of M events.

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25.

Rachel Summers assisted the team in battling Shadow-X and the Shadow King.

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26.

Rachel Summers spent some time with her grandparents, bonding with her grandfather.

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27.

Xavier, who recently was stripped of his powers, recruited Rachel Summers to serve as his telepathic "eyes and ears" during their mission.

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28.

The shadow of the Phoenix begins influencing Rachel Summers's behavior, causing her to design a new darker uniform and begin a romance with Korvus.

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29.

Havok warns her not to, but Rachel Summers tells him that they deserve to die after what they did to her family.

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30.

Rachel Summers is one of the X-Men stranded in Shi'ar space when their ship is sent back to Earth.

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31.

Rachel Summers makes contact with the eldest Scy'ar Tal and discovers their true origin.

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32.

Rachel Summers is seen prominently in the "War of Kings" storyline, which features Vulcan, the Inhumans, Nova, and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

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33.

Rachel Summers is next seen as Lilandra's bodyguard along with the rest of the Starjammers.

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34.

Once reality was restored, Rachel Summers's mind is separated from her body which according to her is "half a universe away".

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35.

Rachel Summers asks Rogue to connect with her to see what will happen.

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36.

Once there, Rachel Summers is retrieved from a band of pirates as Rogue becomes their new leader.

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37.

Rachel Summers is then invited to hold a position as senior staff member of the "Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, " which was rebuilt from the Xavier Institute and has Wolverine as acting Headmaster and Kitty Pryde as Headmistress.

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38.

Rachel Summers says that if the Phoenix has chosen her and that is the destiny that Hope wants, she will do everything in her power to help her.

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39.

Rachel Summers then battled against Cyclops and helped both the Avengers and X-Men in the final battle.

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40.

Rachel Summers is shown to be reverted to her hound form by Dr Doom and Wanda Maximoffs spell.

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41.

Rachel Summers is part of Storm's team of Amazing X-Men who attempts to stop the Living Monolith from becoming the new Juggernaut.

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42.

Rachel Summers Grey is distrusting of Spider-Man's newly appointed position as Jean Grey School guidance counsellor.

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43.

Rachel Summers is shown as a teacher at the Jean Grey Institute in the battle against Kenji.

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44.

When Kitty Pryde returns from space to lead the X-Men, Rachel Summers joins her team in X-Men Gold and adopts the unique, new code name Prestige.

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45.

Rachel Summers possesses various psionic abilities, generally exhibited through telepathy, psychometry, telekinesis, and limited time manipulation.

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46.

Rachel Summers has harnessed her telepathy to sense, locate, and track other sentient beings based on their thought patterns, but has a moral apprehension about using this skill due to her experiences as a Hound.

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47.

Rachel Summers has been able to create a micro black hole, levitate an entire city for a time, sustain shields that withstood Jovian atmospheric pressures, and direct blows from Thor's hammer, Mjolnir.

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48.

When Rachel Summers was bonded to the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force, she demonstrated heightened psi-powers, the ability to manipulate energy and life-forces, and limited cosmic awareness.

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49.

The echo was powerful enough to allow Rachel Summers to survive in and fly through the vacuum of space without the need for additional protection, as well as being able to hold her own in combat against the tremendous physical power of Gladiator.

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50.

At times, Rachel Summers has been shown to learn new skills extremely quickly.

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51.

Rachel Summers is considered by many to be an Omega-level mutant, but the only literary reference to this attribute is when the future Sentinel, Nimrod, classified Rachel Summers as an "Omega class subject" several years before the term was established in Marvel canon.

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52.

Rather, all other incarnations of "Rachel Summers" that exist in parallel timelines are linked only by having the same name, or attributes.

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53.

Rachel Summers then became involved with Captain Britain's mission to seal the breach in reality that was created by the Scarlet Witch's manipulations.

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54.

Rachel Summers seemingly kills them both, but Rachel used the power of the Phoenix to save herself and incapacitates Nova.

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55.

Cassandra, using Rachel Summers's body, kills Jean Grey and Cyclops, leaving Rachel Summers forced to watch the ordeal.

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