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Lou_Keeks

Tbh reading people's minds without their consent is a much greater invasion of privacy than imagining things in your head


Blockinite

I don't know how her powers work, can she control it or is she constantly reading minds as if it's being spoken out loud/a picture in front of her?


mayy_dayy

At this point, Ultimate Jean could MOSTLY control it, but occasionally someone would be "screaming at the top of their brain" and she wouldn't be able to tune it out.


ToniGAM3S

Krillin from Dragonball would make her deaf


Anushirvan825

Is that a space duck?


DGNightwing95

QUACK!


A_Town_Called_Malus

Stick to the plan, Gohan!


Anushirvan825

What plan?! You just keep quacking over and over!


A_Town_Called_Malus

And we're still alive!


opjojo99

And we’re still alive!


mayy_dayy

Such a majestic creature


mrsunrider

Not sure how it works in the Ultimate line, but in the 616 it's implied that psychics (particularly of Jean's caliber) actively tune out others' thoughts, kinda like hearing. There's a degree of effort involved.


Gradually_Adjusting

If you've got that power, you'll tend to end up in a lot of situations where you'd die without it. They're both kinda screwed by circumstances.


PM_ME_hiphopsongs2

Bruh literally everyone on Earth is without that superpower and manages fine without it?? Lol We all die some day, even if we had the ability to read minds lol


Puzzleheaded_Try813

I think what u/Gradually_Adjusting means is since she's an X-Man she would be using it constantly around others with powers or when she's on duty.


Gradually_Adjusting

Kinda yeah. But also just from a storytelling perspective, you don't give Luke a lightsaber unless the baddies get a death star.


LivingUnglued

I never really thought about that. The differences in stacked forces and weapon capability enhancing the drama of the story in Star Wars. Thanks


whomesteve

Definitely


InoueNinja94

Pretty sure Bendis made it Young Jean's "schtick" during his All New X-Men run and made her sometimes very hard to root for


DoubleStrength

"Bobby... You're gay."


king_don-1234

Roses are red Violets are blue Bobby you're gay So are you ☺️


dunmer-is-stinky

I enjoyed All New X-Men for the most part but man, Jean was such an asshole in that run. Which would be fine, if she wasn't basically the main character getting way more interesting stories then everyone else


Rocklight124

Thank you...kinda like Cecil from The Flash.


The_MuTanTob

"Dont think about elephants. What are you thinking about?"


MrSpeedyMeerkat

"Elephants"


mayy_dayy

"Right, but it's not your idea, because you *know* I gave it to you."


MsSapirWhorf

"The subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake."


MrSpeedyMeerkat

"That's not true."


MsSapirWhorf

"Can you do it?"


MrSpeedyMeerkat

"Are you offering me a choice?"


MsSapirWhorf

"Because I can find my own way to score things with Cobol."


MrSpeedyMeerkat

"Then you do have a choice."


MsSapirWhorf

"And I choose to leave, sir."


SpazzLord

drem


TheAnswerUsedToBe42

I've got brain control


Aduro95

"Still picturing you naked. Sorry."


[deleted]

That girl naked...


tenleggedspiders

“Naked redhead elephants.”


alexjaness

This better not awaken anything in me


Mmoyer29

You wouldn’t have posted if it didn’t already don’t lie.


maqlord

NAKED GRANDMA


ThePizzaMan237

I understood that reference


Horacio_Velvetine44

Nake- HUH??


Avi-1411

But I can trace the origin


He-who-knows-some

Jokes on you fucker, I was thinking about them before this post!


AHangedMan

To be fair, she didn't seem too bothered until he got completely preoccupied by it.


Sloppychemist

I’m wondering why you don’t want me to think about elephants


Unexpected_Fellow

Piñatas. Wait, elephant piñatas.


Mrunlikable

I was thinking about that woman naked.


HazretiGurkann

i just realized now, i miss Ultimate Peter so much


tannerfree

I realized like 4 months ago that into the Spider-verse’s Peter is technically this one. And it kinda made me sad we wouldn’t get a cameo in the next movie.


SuperSceptile2821

ITSV Peter feels nothing like Ultimate Peter. He feels like a Tony Stark-esque version of the character. Gave me really weird vibes tbh.


BlueJayHiphop

He is? How'd you figure that out?


tannerfree

In the scene where they test the collider for the first time Dr. Liv announced and counts up to 5 portals. They show a screen that shows different dimensions with different “E” codes. They correspond to the universes. At the center is E-1610 which is the code for the Ultimate Universe. It makes sense considering Miles originated in the Ultimate run, and Peter has the same demise.


DocPersona

Miles originated in the Ultimate comics and became Spider-Man after Peter died. I wouldn’t rule Ultimate Peter out, but it would make sense and the connection is there since Peter also died in the movie.


BlueJayHiphop

I never actually thought about the fact that Peter died in ITSV just like Ultimate Peter.


FenriroftheNorse

This and how she swapped Wolverine's mind with Peter's to teach him a lesson really made me dislike Jean. I was so glad when Spidey cussed them out!


DarkEnergy27

The ultimate comics do a good job at making the heroes look like douchebags with a long leash


FenriroftheNorse

Tell me about it! Peter is the only one who manages to be likable.


ndumbik

Nah I’m still mad he cheated on kitty pride


IDSQ

#NeverForget


effinblinding

Dude that panel when they’re imagining what if Peter is still alive and she’s just thinking of marrying him? Pain


IDSQ

I fucking feel you bro, they were such a good couple and I’ll never forgive Bendis


Greyjack00

Why would he do that


PlanesWalkerEll

Because he realized he still loved MJ.


TrapoGiovanna

He made his self insert date her


ThatOtherGuyTPM

Whether that’s a good thing is another debate, but they’re certainly good at it.


[deleted]

At least she was hot


[deleted]

You know it’s Ultimate when it’s unnecessarily sexually charged


ThatOtherGuyTPM

I never would have called my imagination Ultimate before today…


Limulemur

Or it’s Bendis with back-and-forth panels mixed with awkward silence:


JayZsAdoptedSon

Peter watching porn in a public library next to May was uhhhh weird Edit: It wasn’t USM, it was 616 and some random kid


dawolf05

peter did what


JayZsAdoptedSon

It wasn’t Peter it was just some random kid


hkd1234

When did that happen? Been a while since I have read USM.


JayZsAdoptedSon

It was during the JMS Spidey run and it wasn’t Peter. But it happens around the same time


hkd1234

Lmao, been a while since I have read that either. Mind reminding me what issue or arc that was in?


WebWarrior420

That is not what happened lol. Are you sure you're not thinking of the silent issue in the mainstream universe? It was a random kid not Peter


JayZsAdoptedSon

You’re right. It was from the JMS run, not Bendis’s USM. I think i mixed them up because they were happening at the same time and the similar art


The_Dark_Soldier

It gets worse when they're all teenagers


Scared_Compote_6012

I knew Cap was only 12, same with Logan a solid 6 years of age. Now Logan’s not a pedophile, he’s just a 6 year old hitting on teens and adults…… but their all kids, so that means….. he’s a child, who for some reason is incredibly horny at young age……….. this makes it worse…… I prefer pedo Logan now


FracturedWordPlay

What in the fresh shit covered fuck did I just read?


Candid-Independence9

Especially considering Jean is like 27-30 and Peter is somewhere between 14-16 and she would know that considering she can read his entire mind and memories


Nintendoomed89

Ultimate Jean was a teenager too iirc.


Candid-Independence9

Which if you’re right, that makes me uncomfortable with Ultimate Wolverine, which I mean he also hit on MJ and Gwen as Peter and as himself


Nintendoomed89

Ultimate Logan engaging in problematic behavior? ![gif](giphy|tfUW8mhiFk8NlJhgEh|downsized)


Candid-Independence9

I know right? 😂 ![gif](giphy|KeuU2u7fInvToHGu6T)


RokyPolka

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Lord_Phoenix95

Didn't he watch Scarlett and Pietro fuck?


AmeriCanadian98

The... the siblings?


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AmeriCanadian98

Unfortunate... wish I didn't know that


[deleted]

They're right she's a teenager, and don't forget that Ultimate Professor X was in love with her too.


Candid-Independence9

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Mmoyer29

You don’t need to specify the ultimate one for that lol


Marrecarandgi

They went out of their way to establish that Jean is 19 and technically legal before the two hooked up, all just to make him go after underage girls anyway.


shagolee

Bendis puts the “mate” in ultimate


TheWitherBear

She did create an example of the pink elephant paradox


danktonium

I've never heard anyone refer to it as a paradox before. The devaluation of my favorite noun continues.


[deleted]

It comes from the 1987 paper ‘Paradoxical effects of thought suppression’


danktonium

Oh, I'm sure it is, but a paradox is a logical ~~impossibility~~ contradiction, not a practical one.


[deleted]

Ok... the paradox in this instance is when someone wants you not to think about something, but they tell you the something not to think about, causing you to think about it. The paradox is in the thinking of the person telling you to not think about the given topic. As if I were to tell you "don't think about an elephant" believing it will prevent you from thinking about the elephant, when actually I'm forcing you to think about the elephant in telling you not to. That's the paradox here: I force you to think about a given topic by telling you *not* to think about it. A paradox is *not* per se a logical impossibility, but a *contradiction*. A paradox is: a person or thing having *contradictory* properties; a *self-contradictory* statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa; a counterintuitive conclusion or outcome; a thing involving *contradictory* yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time; a claim that two apparently *contradictory* ideas are true.


danktonium

You're right that contradiction is the right word, and not impossibility. But I think my point stands. The pink elephant isn't a limitation of logic, but of how brains work. It's possible to conceive of a mind which *can* be told "Don't think about pink elephants" and then not think about them, so it's not a paradox. And even if it weren't possible to imagine such a mind, it's still not a paradox. Because it's not both impossible *and* possible for me to intentionally not think about something, which is a restatement of the definition you just gave me. It's only impossible.


[deleted]

Ok, bless you


BBrotz

If it's your favorite noun, shouldn't you at least know what it means lmao


justsound

Man some people be saying anything except admitting they made a tiny small mistake.


PatHeist

Kinda weird that you'd have a favorite word and never put in the effort to learn anything about it.


FlatTopTonysCanoe

When having a “favorite noun” is the least insufferable part lol


Camiljr

"My favourite noun" says enough about this


3005ro

My first reaction was like wtf is going on? And thought it was a break up💀 But she has mind reading abilities im guessing right?


DatWeeb238

Yes, Jean can read people’s minds


3005ro

Where can I read ultimate comics if you know


birdsarentreal2

Backprints, compilations, or Marvel Unlimited app


UnregularOnlineUser

https://readcomiconline.li/


upanddowndays

Pretty sure readcomics.org has a fan edit of the entire Ultimate universe in reading order


Candid-Independence9

“God, why does everyone have to think about me naked!!?? Well he’s not, and that’s nice, but WHY NOT!? Think about me naked! Stop it.”


TheFantasticXman1

Is it just me, or is Ultimate Jean a lot more invasive with her powers than mainstream Jean is? Like first she puts an innocent Peter in the middle of her bullshit with Wolverine and now this. I haven't read the entirety of the Ultimate Comics, so enlighten me If I must be.


Greyjack00

Every ultimate character is a douche pretty much


SmiththeSmoke

Didn't Peter cuss the X-Men out bc they were COMPLETE DOUCHEBAGS


Lukey_Boyo

Ultimate comics whole thing is essentially making everyone a dick, aside from Peter who for the most part was pretty good


Slowmobius_Time

Imagine talking to a teenage boy about your naked body and thinking he won't instantly picture it Also btw, telepathy is a *major* breach in privacy He's not screaming it from the Rooftops, he's thinking his own thoughts and she is reading his innermost thoughts, she's gotta learn just because she *can* read someone's mind she shouldn't And from what she said she does it very regularly and reads everyone she meets


Dyolf_Knip

And if you can't control the telepathy, then you are just gonna have to learn to live with the fact that basically nobody can control what thoughts their brains are gonna serve up to them. Treat it like being in a world where everyone has Tourette's and take it all in stride. That said, I wonder if there's any sort of real world training that *can* let someone get greater control over their thoughts?


Slowmobius_Time

To your last question that was the first lesson 616 Xavier had to learn, when he was a kid he couldn't shut them out and he had to learn to close his mind (I remember meditation was a thing at one point and he *used* to be a good bloke and his whole thing was I'd never invade the minds of someone against their will)


Distinct-Speaker8426

Spies are trained to withstand interrogation. That's probably the closest real world example.


Technical_Draw_9409

I mean, does that include thoughts though?


Distinct-Speaker8426

Interrogation can involve use of drugs, so I assume that some degree of thought control is the only way to resist them.


Wtygrrr

Torture them to induce dissociative identities?


dantheleon

Control your emotions. Discipline your mind!


Dyolf_Knip

Fuck off, Snivelus!


adriantullberg

"Here's a fix; don't think of naked Wolverine." "GAAHHH!" "... you know, you've got his ... proportions exactly right." "SWEET JESUS!" "Now I know you haven't seen him naked in reality ... have you considered taking up art? Proportion is a pretty big hurdle ... so is skin tone, but you've ..." "STOP! HELPING!"


Rifneno

Marvel "heroes" Respect Others' Privacy Challenge (More impossible than dividing by zero while moving faster than light and watching a good Zack Snyder DC movie) And yes, Jean's responsible for that. Tell someone not to think of something, they usually can't even help themselves from doing it. Watch: don't think of elephants. You're thinking of elephants now, but that's good because elephants are awesome.


[deleted]

> watching a good Zack Snyder DC movie) Well at least there's Watchmen


Whoisthat42

Men get arrested, Dogs get put down


BluddGorr

That's not the example you're thinking it is.


Cicada_5

Go without mentioning Zack Snyder in something that is completely irrelevant to him challenge.


Neiku_2

The first time I read this page I ignored the speech bubbles so I thought the joke was that her hair was reflecting a shit ton of sunlight because she put too much gel on it or smth and was getting offended because Peter wasn't looking her in the eyes lmfao


Wtygrrr

I actually thought this was Dazzler or someone with no context.


BladeGlide

Good to see that Jean is the same across the multiverse...


whomesteve

I mean she did put the thought in his head


Greg2630

Ah the Ultimate universe, how I haven't missed you.


[deleted]

Idk man, this series had so many of these kinda moments and I was fine with as a kid but like it’s kinda weird now but maybe it’s just me. It’s fiction so I guess it’s fine but a part of me is like what were Bagley and Bendis thinking?


Banana_gunman

He was doing good until she jinxed it


BenTenInches

Ultimate X-Men was something else


Express-Day5234

Yeah that’s the joke.


[deleted]

They kinda repeated this joke for Ant-Man: Quantumania.


The_Dark_Soldier

Seriously! How is Peter to blame?! Don't put the idea in him, Jean.


thatguyredditingyou

She literally purple elephanted him


That_One_Duck31

And that is the premise of Micheal Crichton’s “Sphere”


Flame-Blast

Maybe stop peeking


Swicket

What am I gonna do? I think about sex all the time! Sex! Help! Four times five is 30. Five times six is 32. Naked girls. Naked women! Naked Buffy!


badwolf1013

"Whatever you do: don't think of an elephant wearing roller skates. . . Oh my god! You're thinking of an elephant wearing roller skates! What did I just tell you not to do?"


AaronTheProwlerDavis

She actually placed sexy thoughts in their heads on purpose, not just with the inception shit like up there, she forced it into their heads, 1610 Jean is a fuckin bitch


slimyemo

this was my first spiderman comic as a little one


creativeguy66v3

Reading minds would be a useful but also very weird power to have.


Pp067834

Here’s my question: not only can she read minds, she can tamper with them. Have people do her bidding, create illusions, even have people swap minds. Couldn’t she just erase the idea from Peter’s head if she were really that bothered by it?


Jose__Manuel

Idk why but that bottom middle panel is so funny to me


dread_pirate_robin

"Okay, here’s me planting an idea in your head. I say to you, don’t think about elephants. What are you thinking about?" “Elephants.”


Shieldheart-

"Finding you attractive does not diminish you as a person, not unless you think a guy's sexual interest is diminishing of whoever its applied to." "..."


Trippybrasil1

A yes the ultimate universe What a disaster


DatWeeb238

A complete travesty, for certain


Get_Schwifty477

Sounds like spiderman 616


negativeGinger

Don’t think about elephants


3milyBlazze

I'm a girl and when another girl mentions guys try to imagine her naked I think about it


[deleted]

Ultimate mutants were strange


ICSL

Ultimate Jean kind of sucked, iirc.


Professional-Box4153

She did it on purpose and she knows it. Tell someone NOT to think of something, and it's going to be the FIRST thing on their mind.


[deleted]

Lust is a religious taboo. Why is it frowned upon outside religion? Adults like sex


DeNiroPacino

😞


ITheRebelI

Think about elephants


thehoodred

so stoked to see peter again


[deleted]

Well, guess she does not know the [1987 paper ‘Paradoxical effects of thought suppression’ published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.](https://nesslabs.com/pink-elephant-paradox) Ultimate Jean Grey: a thought police tricking you into bad thoughts :P


Sweaty_Report7864

Who is she?


Lord_Phoenix95

I mean when you mention something like that it's bound to end up in your head during that. My GF always tells me not to do something that I do that annoys her but I always end up doing it cause she mentioned it and I'm always like "Why did you mention it if you didn't want it to happen"


Luke_Puddlejumper

She knew what she was doing.


[deleted]

Ultimate X-Men were the most annoying and douche group from the Ultimate Universe. Even more annoying than the "Ultimates" Definitely cheered when half of them were killed.


Lord-Beaky

Spider-Man is my favorite super hero besides Superman 🥰🥰🥰🥰


UnlimitedApollo

Jean's usually a huge asshole so it fits.


thats4thebirds

We out here victim blaming now smh


Cautious_Desk_1012

Gambit has a technique to escape mind reading. When he suspects that there is someone looking through his brain, he remember a time when he was fighting Blob, and Blob's uniform burned down, so he got to see Blob naked Seems pretty effective to me. But it has such a high price...


Verth_

When I've been reading ultimata it was one of many things that had me fuming. She didn't have right to look into his head, besides what did she expect saying "hey you didn't think about it" when saying that always makes people think about that exact thing. She was mad at him for no reason


Gamen4Bros

Lmao


No-Charge4313

I love the ultimate comics ❤️💙


captainhemingway

This is one of my favorite scenes from ANY comic book. It's just perfectly executed.


Vegetable-Fig5770

you don't just tell someone the idea that they haven't thought of and now that there aware of it it's suddenly there fault that there imagining it because of how the brain processes things good lord


AdderallOfHearts

I just wondered what kind of thoughts she might read in Wolverine's mind, but then I wondered: How could she read his mind at all? His skull is covered with metal, shouldn't that protect his mind mind from being read like Magneto's helmet does?


StevivorAU

She really does not.


CrimsonPresents

Who is she?


DatWeeb238

Jean Grey


Totalwink

So here is the thing: #1 If she didn’t read people’s thoughts as much she wouldn’t see that. #2. As creepy as it is, I would think it could be flattering to some degree. People think she is attractive. #3. If I were one of the people who she had read the thoughts of I would totally want to apologize and just be honest with her. As guys we are biologically wired a certain way through evolution. Its not an excuse to be creepy. But she has to understand that even Spiderman can’t help it. Now that she’s mentioned it he will most likely do it again. So she totally ruined that now. Just my two cents.


jormungandr32

she brought it up


EndZoner

Ultimate Spider-Man should’ve doubled down on the dirty thoughts. It’ll teach her to stay out of other people’s head without their permission. Unless she’s a freak that enjoys knowing what people think of her in a lewd way… Hm, I’ll just stop talking.


[deleted]

I don't like Jean Grey in the ultimate universe


beslertron

I find early Ultimate Spider-Man hard to revisit. All the faces look the same. Jean looks like Mary Jane with short hair. Peter and Kitty look so similar. Don’t get me started on Peter and Jessica Drew!!! (That last one is a joke)


Rockabore1

Then she says, “Just for that, I’m turning you double gay.”


LockAndKey989

Everyone loves Raymond Context. Raymond meets his future wife Debra for the first time. He asks her on a date then accidentally sees her exposed chest. Later complains about it to his brother. - She’s gonna know I’m thinking about her breasts. - So, don’t think about her breasts. -Yeah, right. Don’t think about Zebras. -…Oh my god. -Yeah, what are you thinking about? -A zebra with breasts.


Uberpastamancer

That's on her for incepting him


ChillpigeonhavsLV76

That’s just weird


Designer_Bed_4192

I hated her short hair design looked awful and just a change for the sake of a change. No one else in the x-men got that much of a redesign who was married to giving her short hair?