Originally Posted by
Starchilde
I, personally, chose to view the retcon by the way it was presented in Classic X-Men because it makes the most sense to me while not robbing Jean from her own history. So for me the "Jean-Phonenix" from Claremont was not merely a clone, the body may have been a duplicate but the soul(and mind) was hers (a part of her soul, but hers. She only left a portion of it in the cocoon to keep her burned body healing). When Jean took back that part and re-absorbed the memories, I see that as Jean reuninting her whole soul, with the bad memories and Dark Phoenix and all. It depends on the writer if their Jean is going to see the Phoenix saga as hers or not. I prefer those that write a Jean that does accept it as her own, or at least as something that a part of her experienced and did. I think this story has been so convulted through comics that there's not an entirely right or wrong answer, but I personally prefer a Jean that owns that saga as hers, with the bad and good parts and the consequences of it. She already suffered many consequences for it.
In the case of Madelyne I do not agree. It's also a convulted story between the two and I don't know how much of the canon presented in Inferno still stands now (like, does Jean still has Madelyne's memories? Madelyne and Jean have coexisted recently and I don't think it caused any consequences "mentally" for Jean. I don't know, but I hope that if they bring Maddy back they clear that issue and finally close it). I think that Madelyne and Jean should be established as totally separated persons, the bad stuff both of them have done, be their own separated past.