Originally Posted by
yogaflame
I wish they had followed Jean's actual history more closely. Yes, the Annie Richardson incident. It is so much better thematically than the movie's bastardized version. In the comics, young Jean's powers activate her TELEPATHY first(unless you think her TK took that frizbee into the street...), as she shares her friend's death. She should have died then and there, but she was able to stop both herself and Annie from passing over, just for a moment, and that alerted the Phoenix Force to her presence. You could have the spark of the Force unite with her even then(which would then explain what Jean did in Apocalypse).
But while the Force did save Jean from joining Annie in death, it was all too much for her anyways, and she's left comatose for a long time. Professor Grey, Jean's loving father, contacts his colleague Professor Xavier, to their home, where Charles is able to bring the young girl back to consciousness(in doing so, erecting some 'scaffolding' to suppress her TELEPATHY, not her memories, until she is older and better able to handle the thoughts of others). Already Jean has risen from the ashes of death, reborn. She remains with her mother and father(and sister), only occasionally working with Charles with her telekinesis until she actually moves to the school around 16 or 17(circa Apocalypse).
The version of her past in the movies(both here and X3) make Xavier out to be this horrible man(and her parents, or at least her father), when in the comics he really did bring her back to life essentially, and the worst thing he did was block her telepathy so she wouldn't go crazy at 11 years old or whatever. Kinberg has now twice botched a gorgeous Claremont backstory, despite it being handed to him on a silver platter(this, and Magneto's Anya story), with egregious, unnecessary changes.