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Have you ever wondered what would happen if Doomsday (DC Comics) confronted Jean Grey (Marvel)? Well then if you have, who would win? We've made ourselves this question and we'd like to know, but first we will explore the characters' background stories and their abilities. So well, ladies first!
Jean Grey has a happy childhood , with lovely parents and an older sister, Sara Grey. Her powers first manifest when her best friend gets hit by a car and dies. Jean mentally links with her friend and nearly dies as well, that leaves her in a coma. When she is brought back to consciousness thanks to professor Charles Xavier, he blocks her telepathy until she is older and is able to control it, leaving her only with her telekinetic powers. When Xavier recruits her as a member of the X-Men team (leaving her as the only female team member at the moment), she participates in many missions, until Xavier removes Jean's mental blocks so she can use again her telepathic powers. She begins a relationship with teammate Cyclops (Scott Summers), which persists as her main romantic relationship, though she also develops a mutual secret attraction to later addition to the team, Wolverine.
During an emergency mission in space, the X-Men find their shuttle damaged. Jean pilots the shuttle back to Earth, but is exposed to fatal levels of radiation. Dying, but determined to save Cyclops and her friends, Jean calls out for help and is answered by the cosmic entity, the Phoenix Force. The Phoenix Force, the sum of all life in the universe, is moved by Jean's dedication and love and takes the form of a duplicate body to house Jean's psyche. In that instant, the Phoenix Force is overwhelmed and believes itself to be Jean Grey and places Jean's dying body in a healing cocoon. She manages to save her friends, but the Phoenix Force, taking Jean's appearance rises with a green and gold costume and makes Jean's friends call her "Phoenix" and the Phoenix Force continues its life as Jean Grey. Until suddenly the Phoenix becomes corrupted by the dark forces and nearly destroys the world, if it wasn't for Jean's personality that took control over the situation by suiciding, in that time she is called the "Dark Phoenix".
In a final confrontation with a traitor at the institute (the X-Men's teammate Xorn, posing as Magneto) Jean fully realizes and assumes complete control of the powers of the Phoenix Force, but is killed in a last-ditch lethal attack by Xorn. Jean dies, telling Scott "to live." However, after her funeral, Scott rejects Emma (mutant with who Scott finds consolation with the experience of being possessed by Apocalypse) and her offer to run the school together. This creates a dystopian future where all life and natural evolution is under assault by the infectious, villainous, sentient bacteria "Sublime". Jean is resurrected in this future timeline and becomes the fully realized White Phoenix of the Crown, using the abilities of the Phoenix Force to defeat Sublime and eliminate the dystopic future by reaching back in time and influencing Cyclops to accept Emma's love and her offer to run the school together. Jean then reconciles with Cyclops and fully bonds with the Phoenix Force and ascends to a higher plane of existence called the "White Hot Room". Though she has yet to fully return, the Phoenix Force continues to manifest itself, particularly through the red-haired, green-eyed "mutant messiah" Hope Summers (adoptive granddaughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey), and Jean briefly appears in a vision to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room, telling the X-Men to "prepare." She again appears in a vision to Cyclops when he is overwhelmed by the power of Dark Phoenix, helping him abandon the power so that it can pass on to its true host.
In All-New X-Men, a younger version of Jean is relocated to the present day along with the other original X-Men, and this version has experienced a surge in her abilities due to the trauma of being brought to the future. This version of Jean Grey is being trained in her psychic powers by Emma Frost.
He abilities are unlimited as an omega mutant. She has telepathic and telekinethic powers, meaning that she can read, influence, control, and communicate with the minds of others, project her mind into the astral plane, and generate telepathic force blasts that can stun or even kill others. She can also communicate with animals like dolphins, and take away or control people's senses like sight, smell, taste and even mutant powers. Her telekinetic strength and skill are both of a supremely high power-level, capable of grasping objects in Earth orbit and manipulating hundreds of components in mid-air in complex patterns. She often uses her telekinesis to lift herself and others, giving her the ability of levitation and flight. She uses her telekinesis to create durable shields and energy blasts. She later manifests a "telekinetic sensitivity" to objects in her immediate environment that lets her feel the texture and molecular patterns of objects, feel when other objects come into contact with them, and probe them at a molecular or subatomic level. But her strongest weapon is the Phoenix Force, that allows her to rearrange or disintegrate matter at a subatomic level, fly unaided through space, survive in any atmosphere, and manipulate electromagnetic and cosmic energies for various effects and atmospheric disturbances. She can create stargates that can transport her anywhere in the universe instantaneously. At this level, she is powerful enough to easily defeat a herald of Galactus. As the Phoenix, Jean is able to resurrect after death.
So she is pretty powerful, right?
Now lets begin with Doomsday, best known for killing Superman. Doomsday is portrayed as a deadly monster born from the depths of ancient Krypton. His creation imbued him with few feelings, mostly hate and destruction which led to his destroying worlds and eventually finding Earth where he meets Superman. He was first known as "The Ultimate" and was born in prehistoric times on Krypton. It was a violent, hellish world where only the absolute strongest of creatures could survive. In a cruel experiment involving evolution, intended to create the perfect living being, the alien scientist Bertron released a humanoid infant (born in vitro in a lab) onto the surface of the planet, where he was promptly killed by the harsh environment. The baby's remains were collected and used to clone a stronger version. This process was repeated over and over for decades as a form of accelerated natural evolution. The agony of these repeated deaths was recorded in his genes, driving the creature to hate all life. Over time, and without the assistance of Bertron's technology, he gained the ability to thrive on solar energy without the need for food or air, to return to life and adapt in order to overcome whatever had previously killed him. The Ultimate hunted and exterminated the dangerous predators of Krypton. He then killed Bertron himself, whom he had come to identify as an enemy. After freeing one arm and smashing his way out of his buried vault, The Ultimate went on a rampage in Midwestern America, where he first encountered the Justice League. He defeated the entire team of superheroes in a matter of minutes, which in turn attracted the attention of Superman. Doomsday developed a strong desire to murder Superman, a desire that was later explained in theHunter/Prey miniseries: from the agony of continually dying during his creation process, Doomsday developed in his genes the ability to sense anyone Kryptonian, as well as an overriding instinct to treat any such being as an automatic threat.
In the aftermath of Superman's apparent death, four super-beings appeared in his wake, two of them declaring themselves to be the "real" Superman. One of these four, a half-man/half-machine who greatly resembled Superman with cybernetic implants where he had sustained the greatest amount of damage from Doomsday's blows, took custody of Doomsday's apparently lifeless body. After strapping the creature to an asteroid with an electronic device attached, the cyborg flung Doomsday into deep space, on a trajectory supposedly certain to never intersect any other planet. The issue ended with a frame of a reawakened and laughing Doomsday, still chained to the asteroid but otherwise alive.
Doomsday had a highly accelerated healing factor that allowed him to quickly regenerate from most damage. When his side was cut by Superman with a plasma sword, it closed within moments. As a result of his engineering, Doomsday did not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, and his body was almost solid mass with no internal organs. Another ability that he possesses is resistance, Doomsday was immensely resistant to heat, cold, and conventional damage, allowing him to survive in the most inhospitable worlds, or in the vacuum of space. His superhuman endurance and invulnerability were able to withstand Darkseid's full-powered "Omega Effect" without any apparent damage. Doomsday possessed extreme superhuman strength that, variable as it was, at one point enabled him to effortlessly stand his ground against the entire Justice League, including Superman and Orion. Doomsday possessed seemingly inexhaustible stamina, and was not noticeably slowed down from fighting Superman for an entire day. His speed and agility were vastly disproportionate to his bulky stature, and he was able to match Superman in this regard, once even managing to grab the Flash while the hero was in motion. He could not fly, but traveled by leaping miles at a time. Superman took advantage of this in their first battle by trying to keep him airborne by flying into the sky.
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In conclusion (remember that this is just my point of view) if Jean and Doomsday ever battled, Jean would win. Why? Because although Doomsday defeated Superman and is able to heal and adapt to everything that surrounds him, he has limits (he can't fly and has limited strength, for example). In the other hand, Jean is an omega mutant, which means she doesn't have any limits and is possessed by the most powerful force in the universe, the Phoenix Force, that lets her be indestructible. And lets not forget she also has more abilities than Doomsday. I think Jean has more chances of winning the fight, but you're free to believe otherwise, they're both incredible characters with amazing stories, I really like them both.
References:
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