Madelyne Jennifer Pryor is a supervillain and occasional antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Primarily featured off-and-on as an antagonist of the X-Men , Madelyne Pryor is a clone of Jean Grey , the ex- love-interest and first wife of Cyclops , and the mother of Cable.
She was a long-standing member of the X-Men supporting cast until a series of traumas eventually led to her being manipulated into becoming the Goblin Queen. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men April Madelyne's hairstyle design was modeled on that of Louise Simonson , the book's editor at the time then known as Louise Jones [ 3 ] βa design retained on the character until Claremont named the character after Steeleye Span singer Maddy Prior.
Claremont had already created a character named "Maddy Pryor", a little girl who appeared briefly in Avengers Annual 10 , and has no in-story connections to the X-Men character. According to Claremont, the original link between Madelyne and Jean was entirely the product of Mastermind. Seeking revenge against the X-Men after Mastermind was driven insane, Mastermind's powers of illusion to convince the X-Men that Madelyne is the Phoenixβa cosmic threatβin an attempt to have the team kill her.
Mastermind's plan fails, and Madelyne and Cyclops are married shortly after. The story became more complicated in when moves by the editors and other writers to reunite the original X-Men, for the new title X-Factor , resulted in Jean's resurrection and Scott leaving his wife and son. This deeply compromised Cyclops's character and left little room for Madelyne, and Cyclops's actions thenβand towards even Jean much laterβhave been controversial ever since.
The original Madelyne storyline was that, at its simplest level, she was that one in a million shot that just happened to look like Jean Grey [a. And the relationship was summed up by the moment when Scott says: "Are you Jean?
