Quote Originally Posted by phoenixzero23 View Post
No, this whole "they are in love with the idea, not the woman" applies to everybody but Scott and Logan. Jean is an attractive and charismatic woman, every hetero man would want a shot to a relationship with her. It's easy for most males to fall in love or develop a crush with her in no time. they could literally pair Jean with any other character because loving her is easy, there is no reason not to love her.

Meanwhile for as much drama that there has been with Scott or Logan, both relationships go way beyond that. For example Logan cares about Jean even though she has rejected him and chose other guy, keep caring about her even though she chose another guy is a clear sign of genuine and inconditional affection. On Scott side, he is probably the person who has know Jean the longer and more intimate than anybody else, he has also lived with her the best and most horrible moments on her life through the different periods of her life cycle. So Scott isn't just in love with the idea, he knows the woman.

Again, falling in love with Jean is easy but is the difficulties and even the drama what shows more than just sexual attraction. Sexual attraction is the easiest and cheapest base for a relationship.


Every other guy besides these two is in love with the idea of Jean. Because they don't know her like these guys or haven't deal with the ugly parts of love.
Not every heterosexual man wants to be with Jean Grey. Not even in the X-Men. Gambit married Rogue, because it was Rogue he truly loves.

The idea of every man liking Jean came from the o5 era in which she was the ONLY female X-Man and one of the few female mutants.

Colossus loved and got screwed over by Kitty. He has never wanted a relationship with Jean. Nightcrawler may have been with Rachel, but he has never wanted a romantic relationship with Jean. Neither has Longshot. After they got to be around other women, neither Beast nor Angel wanted a relationship with Jean either.

Thank god Marvel stop portraying her as the ideal wife. She's a nice person and she is pretty, but every man does not want Jean Grey. That was a horrible idea left over from the time when she was the token woman on the team.

Notice Jean Grey was able to have working relationships with the Black Panther, with Namor, and able to team up with the Avengers without all the guys trying to sleep with her?

It really cheapens the male characters too to act like Jean is the only woman in the universe, which hasn't really been done in decades prays Jesus.