No, they don't have to go back into the Jean/Scott relationship. He is dead, and moved on. Since Jean died the X-Men have also gone downhill, as many of the core characters have been made into semi villains and killed off, or just killed off. Xavier, Cyclops, and Wolverine were all killed off.
No, I think it should have been an accident.
Although, pre-teens and teens do have horrible thoughts sometimes. Maybe she momentarily fantasized about her friend being run over by a car and then *boom* it happens.
Maybe the trauma wasn't just experiencing Annie's death, maybe it was also guilt.
Jean was a powerful psionic and no-nonsense bad ass with or without Scott for a very long time before Morrison foolishly killed her. She was also a caring and nurturing person, one of the biggest on the team. I'm sorry your reading experiences with Jean haven't revealed those sides of her ample personality to you.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
Well sure. Lots of things, infinite things, haven't been said.
How silly.
Annabelle was young but not a child. No one that age just runs into traffic like that. It's as if she suddenly became hysterical about catching that frisbee. It's unnatural. Whether or not Jean is guilty in fact, she clearly believes herself to have been at fault.
Jean had become no nonsense as the original Marvel Girl in the green dress. At that point she's singe handedly beaten Magneto, the Hulk, and the Juggernaught. She was already the most powerful member of the o5. Then she became Phoenix.
Even in the 90s she dismantled Prime Sentinels by just thinking it, shattered Fitzroy's supposedly indestructible armor by just thinking it, etc.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
This is you making stuff up and projecting onto what was written.
What was written is that Annie ran into the traffic.
Proof that no one that age just runs into the traffic, btw? Even if it is unrealistic, that has nothing to do with what was written and published.
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Although I am a Wiccan and consider myself gothic, my psychology isn't in question and I wasn't making a joke. There's no need to get personal. I want the story to be the best story that it can be, and hagiography does not make for a good story. Jean Grey became the Dark Phoenix. She also became the child-sacrificing Goblyn Queen. I read her origin when I began reading comic books when I was fifteen, and I always thought there was more to Annie's death than a mere traumatic kernel. If I can accept Wanda Maximoff's dark side and embrace the character, then I can accept the non-virginal waitress sides to Jean.
https://uncannyxmen.net/characters/phoenix-iv/page/0/1
https://www.google.es/search?q=jean+...jvUHJlzPRrLTM:
All published accounts indicate Annie ran out into the street in front of a blind curve and a car just ran over her. That's when Jean's telepathic powers were triggered.
Now, if you want to take that story apart it's got inconsistencies one could drive a car through, so I can see why you might want to put more in there.
A car just ran over a child and apparently continued on it's way? That's pure homicide. The driver should have stopped and gone to the nearest house and called for help (no cellphones then). So I can see why some posters think there might be more to how Annie got killed than was told, but officially the story is that she simply ran after a frisbee. PS: I also don't think a 10 year old is that likely to run out in traffic like that, so I chalk this mostly to Claremont just doing a bad job in writing this story.