PRYOR, MADELYNE: Page 2 of 5

Publication Date: 6th Dec 2018
Written By: Peter Luzifer, Ruth and Gremlin.
Image Work: Gremlin and Peter Luzifer.
Biography

BIOGRAPHY - Page 2 

While flying a crew of scientists, the plane was manipulated by Loki, who lured them to a place of magic. There, a magic fountain had the ability to transform ordinary people into super-powered beings.  Madelyne received healing powers and called herself Anodyne. When both the X-Men and Alpha Flight investigated the scene, they found an entire city and the missing people joyfully living in it. Madelyne used her gift on Rogue and Scott to give them control of their powers and she also was able to make Alpha Flight’s Puck a normal sized man again. Additionally, Xavier telepathically confirmed what Madelyne was already suspecting, she was pregnant and everything seemed fine. However, it was soon discovered that the gifts were not without a price. The fountain drew its energies from magical beings, like Shaman and Snowbird, who were on the brink of dying. These new facts led to the heroes wanting to reject their new abilities, but Loki tricked Madelyne by placing her in a situation where she needed her healing powers to rescue one of the scientist‘s life. She had to accept his gift again, but Loki’s plans were thwarted by some high-ranking Asgardian beings. In the end, everything was restored and all returned home. [X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #1-2]

Some weeks later, Moira MacTaggert contacted Cyclops, as she was concerned about Professor Xavier‘s condition. His bad health endangered his life and Madelyne understood that Scott needed to check on him. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #197] However, when he did not come back,

she followed to Westchester, as she did want her husband to be present when their baby was born. With the X-Men, it‘s one crisis after the other and, while both the X-Men and New Mutants were busy in Asgard and afterwards had to stay in Paris for Magneto’s trial, Madelyne was alone in the mansion as she went into labor.

Upon the team’s return she had already given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Instead of apologizing and making up with his wife, Cyclops was more concerned about the X-Men’s fate, as, in the meantime, Xavier had been forced to leave Earth because of his health. He wanted to lead the team again, but Storm thought that his responsibilities were to Maddie, so she dueled him for leadership, despite being powerless. Even though Madelyne knew it would break his heart, she wished Scott to lose and she might have subconsciously influenced the duel’s outcome in Storm’s favor. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #200-201]

Scott and Madelyne returned to Anchorage, but there was some tension between them. Scott kept brooding and refused to talk about his problems. Not before long, he received a phone call from Warren Worthington with astounding news - Jean Grey had been found alive at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. Scott immediately started packing, not filling his wife in on what he had just learned.

He departed, despite Maddie saying that, if he left her again, he should not even bother to come back. Madelyne had no idea that Scott helped found X-Factor, a group pretending to be mutant hunters, only to secretly help and train them. Sometime later, when Scott tried to call Maddie from New York, the phone number was no longer working. [X-Factor (1st series) #1-2]

As soon as Sinister became aware of Jean Grey being alive, he knew he had to act fast. Once the two women met, Jean‘s telepathy would have surely recognized Madelyne not as a mere look-a-like but as her identical clone.

He decided to erase all official records of Madelyne and the baby and ordered the Marauders to kill her and kidnap the boy. After a pilot job to San Francisco, Madelyne was attacked by them and forced to hand over the baby. She then was shot multiple times and left for dead. Miraculously, she survived and was found and taken to a hospital as a “Jane Doe.” Though the doctors thought she was a goner, Madelyne pulled through and awoke months later from a coma. [X-Factor (1st series) #38, Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #206, 215]

Neither the hospital staff nor the police believed Maddie‘s story of a stolen baby, as there existed no documents about the woman giving birth or her existence at all.

Having nowhere else to turn, Maddie called the X-Men, who arrived right as the Marauders tried to murder her again, having been alerted to her being alive by the police searching records for her. The X-Men managed to protect her and Havok, especially, swore that he would stand by Maddie’s side to make up for his brother’s mistake. With the Marauders hot on their trail Madelyne, like Dazzler, had to stay with the team. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #221-224]

Shortly afterwards, the X-Men battled the Adversary in Dallas. To seal the portal to his dimension with a magical spell, Forge needed the essences of nine souls – the problem being that only eight X-Men being present. Madelyne offered to be the missing piece and the group was transformed into pure energy. The entire incident was recorded by a film team and reporter Neal Conan provided Madelyne with the chance to say goodbye to her loved ones.

As everything was broadcasted live on national TV, X-Factor watched and heard Madelyne‘s final moments. Her last words were addressed to Scott, telling him to find their missing son. Unknown to the world, Roma resurrected the X-Men shortly afterwards, providing them with a new chance at life. They decided to go underground and keep their rebirth secret, wanting to use this new status to their advantage. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #227, X-Factor (1st series) #27]