It's telling that no one really remembers other telekinetic/telepathic characters outside of Jean. That's enough for me to rest easy.
In either case, I view Jean's connection to Krakoa (and Xavier) differently now, especially after witnessing her realize she could and would be forced to choose between fighting alongside her family, friends, and mutants as a whole, i.e., "the people," and remaining loyal to the Quiet Council. As I see it, she had already played along long enough, barely letting Beast and X-Force get away with their nefarious doings
because of her loyalty, before her moral code forced her to exit that team. However, once the QC made it clear that they found the their little inner circle more important than the people they were appointed to represent and protect, she bowed out and picked her side: the people.
Furthermore, her rejection of the offer to rejoin the QC, coupled with her decision to form the new team and move away, is very telling. Krakoa never felt like her type of party, especially if you consider what she saw as her ideal - her "dream" - in
X-Men: Red, so it felt good to see her step one foot out of the Krakoan empire. It felt very...
her. I say all of this to both underscore that she has been depicted very much in character within the last year or so and to suggest that with
Inferno on the horizon, this may be the position the writers are slowly choosing to place her in, i.e., as someone fighting against both those perpetually calling for the destruction of mutants
and a mutant cult that has gone wrong.
Marvel's wiki and other pages don't even acknowledge that Hope has telepathic
or telekinetic capabilities, so I honestly think it was a mistake; either that or an unstated retcon.
First, I think it's important to consider the emotional moments Jean shared with Vision and the rest of the Avengers instances before Lorna alerted her that it was "too late...to telepathically mask the place." Clearly, Jean was preoccupied with these exchanges and also didn't consider that the Avengers would be given a tour of the Hatchery. Now, one can argue that Jean should have been written to know better and multitask, but what was written was also realistic, and I don't interpret it as Jean being nerfed. (Where was Scott, by the way?)
Mind you, I am not the greatest fan of Leah; however, she was very clever in how she fashioned a moment for one of her favorite characters (Emma) while not taking anything away from and, in fact, paying respect to Jean as
the First Lady and one of the premier leaders of the X-Men and Krakoa as a whole. In fact, she was rendered as if she were one of the most important members of the QC, being the one to greet the Avengers first and most impactfully, while Cyclops and Wolverine stood
behind her...
As you can read on the page above, the only thing Jean refused to do was mindwipe the Avengers. This is clear, understandable, and totally in character for her, especially considering the aforementioned exchanges she shared with them just instances before. Furthermore, Emma was not written as "com[ing] up" with anything first or being willing to do something Jean was not willing to do. The only advantage Emma was shown having was already being in the Hatchery, which allowed her to "mask the place." As the next page makes clear, she did not mindwipe the Avengers.
You may ask, How did she find out the Avengers were headed there? She could have been either eavesdropping on Jean and Lorna's conversation, picked it up on her own since she wasn't preoccupied, or even alerted by the Cuckoos. She could have found out in a number of ways. In either case, I think Leah did an admirable job of not showing favoritism in this scene. Had she written Emma deciding to mindwipe them, then
maybe you would have an argument. (It's also important to note that she could have just as easily excluded Jean from this miniseries completely, which is actually what I thought she was going to do.)
I think she did a little more than that. She was depicted as the heart of the X-Men and one of the most important people in Krakoa even though she no longer lives there and has no official position in its government. Also, the moment Leah gave Jean and Vision was sublime. (You have no idea how many Wanda fans have reacted positively to that hug, which they feel indicates Jean's feeling for Wanda. In fact, you may have an idea because a fan of Wanda's posted their feelings about it, and how it's made them look at Jean differently, in this very thread.)
I totally agree! I tweeted Werneck, telling him "I need you on a Jean Grey solo
now." He actually quote-tweeted it with the reply, "My dream." I can tell!
Werneck's tweet:
https://twitter.com/LukasWerneck/sta...01003564421126