How would you Vote in the Trial of Jean Grey?

[Ar-Pharazon]

^Yeah, but even if you take that as cannon, it's more the equivalent of having someone slip something in your drink as apposed to getting drunk on your own accord.

Jean didn't choose to be the Phoenix.

Unless alcohol can be proven to have a consciousness, then you could try that defense.

I was arguing that it's not like alcohol.

I was agreeing with you actually, maybe my wording was a little confusing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Two more things...

this...

Freshly reminded of the near infinite power that the Phoenix could wield, the Shi’Ar wanted to make sure that no other member of the Grey family would become the next Phoenix, so they sent their Death Commando to kill every single member of the Grey family. The attacked during a party at John and Elaine Grey’s house, killing the guests one by one, including Gaylin, Joey, John and Elaine. Some of the many other victims (all of them being never before seen characters) were named and briefly introduced as
Brian Grey, younger brother of John Grey
Fred Harriman, an in-law from John Grey’s side of the family
Phyllis Dennefer, the sister of Elaine Grey, and her husband Roy
Julia, Roger, Liam and Brian - all of them being either nieces and nephews of John and Elaine or married to one of them
Derry Campbell, Bekka Wallis, Mary-Margaret and Kindra - all of them being grandnieces of John and Elaine
Bekka’s fiancée
Julian, Russell, Terry Maguire and his younger brother - the exact nature of their relation being unrevealed

The only person left alive was Rachel, who the Shi’Ar branded with a large Phoenix symbol on the back, apparently to function as some sort of tracking mark. [Uncanny X-Men #466-468] For some unrevealed reason, the Shi’Ar either forgot about Cable or failed to recognize him as also being blood-related to the Greys.

1a. Jean has a blood debt to destroy all Shi'ar. They should be more concerned about she putting them on trial.

1b. Through her future marriage to Scott, that makes Jean the Sister in law to a recent Emperor of the Shi'ar, so if she killed Gladiator in a fair fight, she could probably claim the Empire.

1C. Kid Gladiator is a student at the Jean Grey School. First of all that's like a Polish family sending their Kids to the Hermann Goring School of Fine Bakery, second they could have used him as a mediator, or third they could have used him as a hostage.

And Second...

The D'Bari are vegetables. Broccoli people. With cuttings and seed reservoirs stored off planet it would be easy to bring them back, if they served a vital purpose to the Empire in some manner, but what if every time a forest of these things are grown they get really pissed off about the genocide of their people?

I could see the D'Bari as being a living element to terraforming?

 

[Mr Light]

I didn't read that comic, who ordered the Death Commandos in? Lilandra?

 

[Mike Farley]

How convenient that while the rest of the family is exterminated, the long standing X-Men is just branded with a "tracking" device.

Just like when the Scarlet Witch "No more mutants"-ed the homo sapiens superior race, she somehow missed nearly everyone with an X on their belt.

 

[Mister Fandango]

Not sure why there's even a question to this.

It's like going back in time to snatch up Adolf Hitler when he was 9 years old and putting him on trial for what his future self did. The kid is innocent, just like this version of Jean Grey is.

You can't be guilty for something you might do, especially when the circumstances (being in the future, well past the event, and being aware of the event no less; not to mention it not having been you to begin with in Jean Grey's instance) all but prevent it from happening by you.

 

[Guy Gardener]

From Wikipedia.

Even though Jean Grey did the Shi'ar a big favor by eliminating the threat of Cassandra Nova, the Shi'ar still want her dead. In the Phoenix Endsong series, a group of Shi'ar tried to permanently kill the Phoenix Force and Jean Grey. Jean, however, escaped their suicide bomb attack and returned to the White Hot Room to restore herself. In the "End of Greys" story arc, the Shi'ar wanted to wipe out the Grey genome and Quentin Quire with the purpose of eliminating the possibility of a new Omega-level mutant becoming a host for the Phoenix Force. The Shi'ar Death Commandos murdered Jean Grey's father, niece, nephew, and other relatives in an alien invasion on Earth, thus inciting the wrath of Jean's daughter Rachel Summers, who has vowed vengeance on the entire Shi'ar Empire. Recent events seem to indicate the Shi'ar Council was responsible for this, and that Lilandra is unaware of what has been done in her name.

Lilandra was in charge, but her juniors were putting up a wall to either apply plausible deniablity, or they hated her and it was part of a long term plan to oust Charlie's broad from her regal roost.