Rachel Summers

Rachel Summers

Rachel Anne Summers (also known as Rachel Grey) is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne for Marvel Comics.

In her first appearance, the character's surname was not revealed; later publications and retcons further expanded Rachel's backstory to involve central characters of mainstream continuity. Rachel's parents are alternate future counterparts to the X-Men Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Jean Grey-Summers from a harsh dystopia. In this context, her "half" brother Cable, and paternal uncles Havok and Vulcan, are all very powerful mutants.

Rachel was designed to have inherited her mother's vast telepathic and telekinetic talents. She also inherited her mother's original code name Phoenix; later, she changed her code name to Marvel Girl in homage to the late Jean Grey. Although the character is considered unique to the Marvel Comics "multiverse", her name has been used to designate the mother of Marvel characters Hyperstorm and Dream Richards in respective timelines.