Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers) [Earth-811]

[Eric J. Moreels]

Marvel Girl III

Real Name: Rachel Summers
Known Aliases: Rachel Grey
Former Aliases: Phoenix III, Mother Askani, R'chel
First Appearance: X-Men (1st series) #141 (as Rachel Summers), Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 (as Phoenix III), Cable #6 (as Mother Askani)
Known Relatives: Scott Summers (Cyclops I, father), Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix IV, mother, deceased), Madelyne Pryor (ex-step-mother, deceased), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable, half-brother), Alexander Summers (Havok, uncle), Gabriel Summers (Vulcan, uncle), Christopher Summers (Corsair, grandfather), Katherine Anne Summers (grandmother, deceased), Tyler Dayspring (Genesis, nephew, deceased), Elaine Grey (grandmother, deceased), John Grey (grandfather, deceased), Bekka Willis (cousin, deceased), Phyllis Dennefer (Elaine's sister, great-aunt, deceased), Roy Denefer (Phyllis' husband, great-uncle, deceased), Cal'Syee Neramani (Deathbird, Gabriel's wife, aunt), Franklin Richards [I(alternate future husband)[/I], Jonathan Reed Richards (Hyperstorm, alternate future son)
Group Affiliation: X.S.E. II, formerly Clan Askani, Excalibur, X-Men, former servant of Ahab
Former Group Affiliation: Clan Askani, Excalibur, X-Men, servant of Ahab
Powers: telepathy, telekinesis
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 125 lbs
Eyes: green
Hair: red

The daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in an alternate timeline, young Rachel inherited her mother's potential for the telepathic and telekinetic powers that Jean Grey possessed as Marvel Girl.

In the "mainstream" universe's reality, the X-Men prevented Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, an investigator of the alleged menace that superhuman mutants posed to society. However, in Rachel's timeline, the Brotherhood succeeded in killing Kelly. The assassination caused intense widespread public paranoia against mutants. In the next presidential election, a rabid anti-mutant candidate won. His administration unleashed Sentinel robots, giving them an open-ended program with overly broad parameters to eliminate the mutant menace permanently. The Sentinels decided that the best way to do so was to take over the United States, and over the subsequent years they killed or imprisoned within concentration camps virtually all known mutants and other superhuman beings within the United States and Canada. Finally the Sentinels controlled the entire North American continent.

One summer morning, when Rachel was still a child, the X-Men's base of operations, Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, was attacked and demolished by federal troops. The only survivor at the school was Rachel, whom the soldiers found by the side of Xavier's corpse. They used drugs to neutralize Rachel's developing psionic powers. Later, she was tortured and brainwashed in prison. Following extensive behavior modification, she became a mutant "hound," using her psionic powers to hunt down other mutants for the authorities, who would kill or imprison them. In the process, Rachel occasionally killed mutants herself, and it is known that some of those, who are as yet unidentified, were people she loved. Rachel's superiors branded her face with a grotesque pattern of tattoos to mark her as a "hound", and forced her to wear a leash. Rachel's grief and shame at what she was forced to do as a "hound", and her anguish over the deaths of her parents and other friends during the anti-mutant reign of terror has deeply scarred her soul, leaving her bitter and intolerant toward human beings who persecute mutants.

Eventually Rachel was placed in the South Bronx Mutant Containment Facility. Rachel used her psionic powers to create the illusion in other people's minds that she does not bear the tattoos marking her as a "hound", thereby concealing her shame. In the camp she rejoined the surviving members of the X-Men. She was instrumental in their plan to end the Sentinels' reign by changing history. Rachel used her psionic powers to exchange the consciousness and spirit of the adult Kate Pryde, a member of the X-Men, with that of Pryde's teenage self as she existed at a time just before the attempt on Kelly's life. It was hoped that the adult Kate, in her younger self's body at that earlier time, could warn the X-Men about the assassination attempt, and that the X-Men would foil it, thereby preventing the chain of events from occurring that led to the Sentinels' rule. However, history cannot be changed in this manner. Rachel, as it turned out, actually caused Kate to exchange psyches not with her younger self ("Kitty") in the past of her own reality, but with the Kitty of our own "mainstream" reality. Kate, in "mainstream" Kitty's body, succeeded in preventing Kelly's assassination in our own reality. She then returned to her own body in her own time and reality, causing Kitty's psyche to return to its proper time and reality as well. On her return, Kate found that other X-Men, except for Rachel, had all died in an attack on the Sentinels' Manhattan headquarters.

Kate Pryde still did not give up her vain hope of altering her reality's history. She hypnotized Summers into using her psionic powers to tap into the Phoenix Force and send herself back in time when Pryde said the words "Dark Phoenix". Thus Pryde hoped that Summers herself could change history. Together, Pryde and Summers illegally entered the laboratory of Project Nimrod, which was the attempt to construct the most highly advanced Sentinel possible with the technology of that time, in the hopes of sabotaging the project. Pursued by guards, Pryde and Summers locked themselves within the laboratory, whose walls were proofed against Pryde's power to phase through solid matter. Summers believed herself and Pryde to be trapped, but Pryde said the words that caused Summers to project herself back through time. Project Nimrod's creation, the Sentinel called Nimrod, then killed Pryde. Nimrod later went back in time to find Summers.

Summers found herself physically transported, body and mind, to a time shortly before the present. But like Kate's spirit, she had traveled not to the past of her reality, but to the past of this "mainstream" reality. She went to Xavier's mansion, but could not bring herself to stay on realizing that she had come back to the wrong reality, and fled without identifying herself. She went to Manhattan, where she was pursued by the psychic vampire Selene. Summers was rescued by the X-Men, and after her mind was read by Professor X, she was invited to join the team.

Rachel was shocked to learn of the supposed "death" of Jean Grey in this reality. Visiting the home of Grey's parents while they were absent, Rachel found a Shi'ar holempathic matrix crystal that Lilandra had given them. The crystal was imbued with an imprint of the essence of Grey's personality. Unaware that Jean was not actually the Phoenix, Rachel refused to believe that Jean could be evil, as people claimed Phoenix was, and she decided to claim the name and power of Phoenix as her own birthright, and through her own actions to redeem the name Phoenix in this reality. Rachel also believed that as the new Phoenix she could use her power to help her fellow mutants, and thereby atone for what she had done as a "hound" in her own reality. It was at this moment that she took the name of Phoenix while holding the crystal that Rachel first manifested about her the bird-shaped aura of energy associated with the previous Phoenix. It may be speculated that from that time on Rachel Summers was able to draw to a limited extent upon the power of the Phoenix Force. The alien Beyonder has hinted that Rachel could potentially become the equal in power of the previous Phoenix. Indeed, the Beyonder once granted Rachel the full power that the previous Phoenix had possessed, but he reclaimed it shortly thereafter.

Soon after, Rachel's fellow X-Man, Wolverine, severely injured her to prevent her from vengefully murdering Selene in the heat of passion. Fleeing to heal herself, she was fooled by the six-armed servant of Mojo named Spiral and taken to Mojoworld where she was held prisoner. Rachel escaped with the help of Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Nightcrawler, and Captain Britain, and together they formed the British super-team Excalibur.

After many adventures, Rachel finally managed to return to the future she had come from. While she couldn`t change her past, she and her teammates were able to change the directives of all the Sentinels of the era to preserve all life, thereby ending the genocide that had prevailed for years. On the return journey, Captain Britain was lost in the timestream and it was discovered that Rachel had to exchange places with him for him to return. She accepted, and was carried to Cable's future where she founded the Clan Askani.

As the Mother Askani, Rachel was responsible for bringing Cyclops and Phoenix to the future to care for a young Cable, but this effort exhausted her old body and her physical form died. She lived on, however, in an astral form.

Some time later, Cable journeyed to the end of time and found a youthful Rachel being held prisoner by Gaunt, a man who had been imprisoned there for his crimes. Cable challenged Gaunt to a duel to decide the fate of Rachel and emerged victorious, returning Rachel to the present with him.

Rachel started college to further her education, but soon became embroiled in the Dark Sisterhood's attempted takeover of the United States. Rachel aided her half-brother Cable in defeating the Sisterhood and their leader, Finality.

Rachel was subsequently possessed by Elias Bogan, predator of mutants. She became his "mystery telepath", doing his dirty work, until she was finally freed by the X-Treme X-Men. This happened around the same time her mother, Jean Grey, was killed, and Rachel then took Jean's original codename, Marvel Girl. Marvel Girl joined Storm's team during the following X-Men roster shake-up, becoming one of the Marshals in X-Treme Sanctions Executive. She has also started to use the name Rachel Grey instead of Rachel Summers.

Note: The issue in which Captain Britain I met alternate universe opposite sex versions of some X-Men, including a no-codename-mentioned male Marvel Girl III, was "Uncanny X-Men" #462.

Appearances:
Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix #1-4
Alpha Flight (1st series) #33
Askani'Son #1-4
Cable #9, 23, 65, 71, 82-86, 92-95
Civil War #1
Dazzler #41
Decimation: House of M - The Day After #1
Excalibur (1st series) #-1, 1-27, 29-52, 64, 68-75
Excalibur: Air Apparent
Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
Excalibur: The Possession
Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn Special Edition
Fantastic Four (1st series) Annual #23
Heroes For Hope Starring X-Men #1
Marvel Comics Presents #31-32, 36-38, 73
Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #150
New Excalibur #1-3
New Mutants (1st series) #18, 30-31
Quasar #11, 23, 54
Secret Wars II #1, 5, 7-9
Sensational She-Hulk #26
Thing (2nd series) #8
Thor (1st series) #427-429
Uncanny X-Men #-1, 142, 184-185, 188-196, 199-203, 206-209, 444-479, 481-482, 484-485
Uncanny X-Men Annual v.1, #8-9, 14
Uncanny X-Men Annual v.2, #1
Wolverine (3rd series) #25, 30
Wolverine: Days of Future Past #2
X-Factor (1st series) Annual #3, 5
X-Men (1st series) #141
X-Men (2nd series) #30, 157, 165, 174
X-Men: Books of Askani #1 (profile only)
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6
X-Men: Phoenix #1-3
X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #5
X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong #1
X-Men: The 198 Files (threat level rating "severe")
X-Men: True Friends #1-3
X-Men and Alpha Flight #1-2
X-Men Spotlight on... Starjammers #2
X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #11
X-Treme X-Men #44-46

[Ruth]

One small correction:
Rachel first displayed the Phoenix in Uncanny X-men 199, not 201 (and officially took the name in UXM annual 9 - much to the dismay of poor Scott and Maddie)

[melt]

Who is Jonathan Reed Richards aka Hyperstorm?

[atxbomber]

Originally posted by melt
Who is Jonathan Reed Richards aka Hyperstorm?

He was the son of Ray and Franklin Richards in an alternate version of Days of Future Past.

IIRC He had the mutant ability to tap into the energies of Hyperspace and used his powers to conquer the universe, which he rulde with an iron fist.

Towards the end Fantastic Four (Vol 1) it was believed that Dr. Doom had disintigrated both Reed Richards and himself after Doom had been beaten nearly to death. In truth Hyperstorm had kidnapped them--he sent Reed to the far, far, faaaar past (think Conan days), and had imprisoned Doom in his (Hyperstorm's) HQ by turning off his (Doom's) mind.

Eventually the FF defeated him by trapping both Hypserstorm and Galactus in a pocket universe where Galactus could feed off the infinite energies that Hyperstorm wielded.

His current fate is unknown, but since Galactus eventually made it back to the universe proper it's not a far step to say that Hyperstorm could be out there, lurking.

[Eon]

I may be wrong, but in the Exiles issue #13, I believe... yeah. #12-13, there's a character named David Richards.

I'm pretty sure it mentions that David Richards is the son of both Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers. You don't have to add him on there as a future alternate universe son... I just thought you should know so that you could make the decision yourself.

[Jim Learning]

You're right. David is Rachel and Franklin's kid. Another Summers.

[Eric J. Moreels]

Well that should be detailed in the Exiles section of the character bios, rather than here.

[doctorx]

However, history cannot be changed in this manner.

But, history can be changed...Like when Bishop stopped Onslaught.....

I think the reason history couldn't be changed was because Rachael transported Kate to the wrong timeline. She should have transported Kate to their timeline, not the "mainstream" one

[Ruth]

Originally posted by doctorx


But, history can be changed...Like when Bishop stopped Onslaught.....

I think the reason history couldn't be changed was because Rachael transported Kate to the wrong timeline. She should have transported Kate to their timeline, not the "mainstream" one

I believe that was the plan originally. But the DoFP was probably already plotted when the edict came from Shooter that Jean had to die in UXM 137, and then, since Jean´s DAUGHTER was an important part of DoFP, it couldn´t be the right future anymore.

[Argus]

Loose plotends regarding Rachel: why did she never have a counterpart in any reality? What did happen exactly in Mojoworld anyway?

Rachel also has her own power, along with her mother's inherited telekenisis and telepathy: she can travel in time, or send another's mind through time. This is evidenced in sending Kate Pryde's mind back in time, and also when she confronts Cable in an issue of Excalibur (70-something?). She displaces herself a few seconds into the future to avoid a rock being thrown at her. Also, in Excalibur #59-60, she (and Widget) transport the team to her future in order to save it.

It seems this power takes a lot of effort to use however, so that explains why we rarely see her use it!

She gained the Phoenix power when she sent her mind back in time to see why Kate's plan had failed. The phoenix, having just destroyed itself on the moon, found her psychic essence and it's close similarity to Jean Grey. Intrigued, it followed Rachel back up the time stream and revealed itself to Kate, whereupon the plan to send Rachel back in BODY was concieved. (As it has been said before, it needs a LOT of power to send her body in time... the phoenix power ought to do it ! However it is a while before she claims the name Phoenix...

She loses the Phoenix force at some point in the time stream before Cable saves her from Gaunt. She feels it leave her...

As for the nature of timelines: Like dimensions, there are an infinite number of timelines also. They branch out like the, well, branches on a tree! However, even if a person travels back down the timestream, they cannot alter the "future" so to speak.. it already exists. They can however create a divergent path. In respects, both Rachel and Bishop may have succeeded from THEIR futures occuring. But they still exist, out there...

[doctorx]

Loose plotends regarding Rachel: why did she never have a counterpart in any reality? What did happen exactly in Mojoworld anyway?

That's a good question. I never thought about that. I just think Jean and Scott didn't have any kids in those dimensions. And also because, i think she may be the Phoenix's daughter, and not Jean.
I think in Mojoworld, she just got better from Wolverine's wounds, but she became a slave there.

As for the nature of timelines: Like dimensions, there are an infinite number of timelines also. They branch out like the, well, branches on a tree! However, even if a person travels back down the timestream, they cannot alter the "future" so to speak.. it already exists. They can however create a divergent path. In respects, both Rachel and Bishop may have succeeded from THEIR futures occuring. But they still exist, out there...

Thanks. I see what they mean now.

So, the Age of Apocalypse still exsists then? I thought it ceased to exsist.

So with that in mind, it would be possible for Jean Grey from the main universe to meet Jean from X Men the Animated Series and X Men Evolution and the X Men Movie :b

I believe that was the plan originally. But the DoFP was probably already plotted when the edict came from Shooter that Jean had to die in UXM 137, and then, since Jean´s DAUGHTER was an important part of DoFP, it couldn´t be the right future anymore.

That probably was the way it was supposed to be until Marvel had a more clear policy on time travel. Of course then, teenage Rachael probably wouldn't have made it here..

[Garb]

Originally posted by doctorx

So, the Age of Apocalypse still exsists then? I thought it ceased to exsist.

A universe very similar to it still exists as another timeline, as do all other possibilities.

What was unique about AOA was that it was the "regular" marvel universe distorted. Sort of like if all realities were stored on a shelf and someone took our's out and put another one in it's place.

Originally posted by doctorx
So with that in mind, it would be possible for Jean Grey from the main universe to meet Jean from X Men the Animated Series and X Men Evolution and the X Men Movie :b

Yes. It's also "possible" for Jean Grey to meet Mickey Mouse. (Should Disney authorize such a thing.) When you consider that there are [i]infinite/i] realities, that is there's no limit to them as there are billions of new ones created every second, anything and everything is not only possible, but somewhere it is actually happening.

[Wolverine]

Wolverine was rumored tp be her father...

[Alex Guillen]

I'm really looking forward to see if CC has plans for Rachel and hopefully she'll make it back into the x-teams, she's a great character.

[gtrmp]

Does the current version of Rachel remember having been Mother Askani? If not, that would be a good indication that the current Rachel is a seperate character from Mother Askani, and so the two ought to have serperate entries.

[M.O. Frisch]

Originally posted by gtrmp
Does the current version of Rachel remember having been Mother Askani? If not, that would be a good indication that the current Rachel is a seperate character from Mother Askani, and so the two ought to have serperate entries.

Good point. If I remember Weinberg's story correctly, the Rachel Cable saved from the timestream had never been Mother Askani.

--Marc

[Monolith]

Originally posted by M.O. Frisch
Good point. If I remember Weinberg's story correctly, the Rachel Cable saved from the timestream had never been Mother Askani.

--Marc

I think she does have vague, residual memories though.

[ShedWiggins]

OK I am doing some research on Rachel and I am trying to figure out what exactly her status is in continuity. Someone please help I would really appreciate it.

[Wolverine]

Basically she came from the alternate futre the Days of Futures past. then she sent herself back to 616. after that she was on the X-men an Excalibur teams for a while before going to another timeline in the place of Captian Britain. This was Cables timeline. in 1999 he wiped it from existance when Apocolypse died. Since that timeline couldn't happen she was washed up from the timestream where gaunt lived. Cable saved her and brought her back to 616. She hasn't appeared since 2000

[ShedWiggins]

Originally posted by Wolverine
Basically she came from the alternate futre the Days of Futures past. then she sent herself back to 616. after that she was on the X-men an Excalibur teams for a while before going to another timeline in the place of Captian Britain. This was Cables timeline. in 1999 he wiped it from existance when Apocolypse died. Since that timeline couldn't happen she was washed up from the timestream where gaunt lived. Cable saved her and brought her back to 616. She hasn't appeared since 2000

Thanks, I knew all of that up until the deal with Apocolypse. I wish they'd bring her back.

[Wolverine]

Yeah me too. She is really cool and underused. the dark sisterhood storyline was great

[ShedWiggins]

Maybe Jean's on her way out and Rachel will come back. Although how hard is it for Cyclops to explain that his son is older than him and his daughter is like five or six years younger than him.

[Most Holy]

I wonder if they'll ever bring her back. She is my all time favourite character so it's almost a given that they won't since my second favourite is Magik. I guess I have a thing for tragic characters. Incidently my favourite villain is Apocalypse!

The best Cable storyline was the one Illustrated by Laddron where he fights Apocalypse, could anyone tell me what Laddron is doing now his art on Cable was awsome!!!!!

[ShedWiggins]

In a perfect world Rachel would take her mother's ( who is frankly dull as shoe leather) place. Or she would make a great member of Exiles so long as they don't kill her off. I too like Magik so it is frustrating to have two of my favorite characters in limbo (oh hey that was kind of a pun, considering Magik is from....ahem well).

[LoganBane]

Originally posted by Wolverine
Wolverine was rumored tp be her father...

I'm glad someone brought this up. But at the same point this is one of those things that even some of the fans can't seem to accept. :logan: + :jeanphnx: = :rachel: