X-Men Teases Jean Grey & Wolverine's Fight To The Death
This article contains spoilers for X-Men #12.
New X-Men comics have teased a duel to the death between Jean Grey and Laura Kinney's Wolverine. By now, it's something of a tradition for X-Men to go up against one another. Sometimes it's because of brainwashing, sometimes it's because of a basic misunderstanding, and often it's just because Wolverine loses his temper. The trope of X-Man versus X-Man has inspired many of the most enjoyable versus matches.
The latest round was teased at the end of X-Men #11, when a group of X-Men infiltrated Gameworld, a galactic casino encouraging punters to bet on which attempt to destroy the Earth would succeed. Gameworld has strong defenses, including psychic ones, and it's ruled by a being somehow more disgusting than Mojo, Cordyceps Jones. The alien is a gangster made of fungus, able to control anyone who breathes in his spores, and he chose Laura Kinney's Wolverine as his pawn against the X-Man.
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X-Men #12, by Gerry Duggan and Pepe Larraz, opens with a brief glimpse of Wolverine versus Jean Grey — to the death. It's a thrilling moment, evocative of the classic New X-Men issue in which the original Wolverine killed Jean Grey at her request, with Laura cutting Jean down before moving on to Rogue. In an ironic twist, though, it turns out this particular death match isn't real at all; it's a psychic construct created by Jean while she uses her telekinesis to neutralize all Cordyceps Jones' spores. It seems this particular round of X-Man versus X-Man was just an illusion all along — as Cordyceps Jones learns to his cost.
Since Laura Kinney is technically Wolverine's daughter (not just his clone), she has a
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