I've never even seen a source for this claim that icing Jean was an editorial mandate tbh, though I could believe it.
That goes to your second statement, not your first. That's background you find suspicious, that's not clear evidence that Quesada specifically mandated killing Jean. Killing Jean was Morrison's choice (and IMO fit very well with the arc of her character through his run - she was ascending to godhood again steadily for three years, leaving her human life behind). "Dead is dead" was a larger editorial mandate at the time. They happened to coincide. If someone can point me to information indicating Quesada specifically asked for Jean to be killed at the end of Morrison's run or "Planet X" I am all ears. Otherwise, this is how apocrypha happens and becomes 'fact'.
(Also, Jan and Hank have been off and on for decades)
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I feel like the Phoenix Egg is the best one created and it's the reason Rosenberg used it on Phoenix Resurrection. It wasn't precisely the same thing, but the idea of the Phoenix incubating Jean to accept it was an interesting concept. It's a spin on their relationship and not very convoluted.
The only known case where a real-life divorce was relevant to the end of a comic book marriage was PAD killing off Betty Ross, and we know that because he's specifically said as much.
if Jean was raped on the end of Morrison run you would still say it?
I don't think whole run is as good as fans claim it, and to top that a bad fridging on the end. That was a ok run, that is too overrated
And this isn't the case?
They could, for sure. But it was Morrison that wrote the story and executed it. He i smore to blame than Quesada. i'm pretty sure Scott and Jean wasn't on his radar if wasn't for Morrison.
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