jean grey-summers is a central character in the mid-1990s "x-men" animated television series, voiced by catherine disher. as in the comics, she was in a relationship with cyclops, eventually marrying cyclops while being the target of wolverine's unrequited affection. for the most part, she was a warm, friendly person who when necessary stepped in and played peace maker between cyclops and wolverine. as far as her relationship with cyclops was concerned, they were very happy and content with each other, in stark contrast to gambit and rogue often fighting and bickering. the entire saga of the phoenix is retold and adapted in season three, subdivided into the five-part "phoenix saga" in which jean acquires the power of the phoenix and the battle for the m'kraan crystal occurs, and the "dark phoenix saga", showcasing the battle with the hellfire club, the phoenix's transformation into dark phoenix (voiced by tracey moore), and the battle to decide her fate. these particular episodes are as close as the cartoon came to directly duplicating the comic book storylines – the "dark phoenix saga" is so accurate to the original stories that the episodes have the additional credit "based on stories by chris claremont". she also appears in the 1990s "spider-man: the animated series" in first the fourth and fifth episodes of season two along with the rest of the x-men.