Oh Jesus here we go. We’ve already had hints that Jean Grey doesn’t have a motherly fiber in her entire being, but let’s see how she handles this situation.
Oh my god what’s the matter with you!!! She’s not asking you for money! She just wants you to know the she’s your daughter from a horrific apocalyptic future timeline! Can you imagine meeting your child from the future and reacting this way?? You’d have to be shallower than a two cent cup of coffee to behave like this. Man, the writers were not kind to Jean after she came back to life, and I wonder if it had anything to do with the editorial edict that forced them to write her back into the story. Like, we’ve already seen her be a shitty step-parent, we’ve seen her return Scott’s toxicity instead of just leaving the asshole, and now she finally meets Rachel and she acts like an pro-life politician who just found out his mistress is pregnant.
And then we get proof that Cyclops actually had no clue that Rachel was his daughter despite spending an excessive amount of time with her back when they were both members of the Uncanny X-Men and Rachel taking the moniker of the Phoenix and literally everyone else on the team figuring it out. Nice intuition dumb shit! How did this guy ever get to be the leader of anything?? God this is so cringe. Put me out of my misery already.
Thank you! This was the only way to escape this situation. You come out to your alternate reality mom and she starts clutching her ovaries and demanding that you cease to exist? Seriously just impale me. Don’t worry Rachel is fine somehow. (X-Factor Annual #5 – 1990)