“X-Ternally Yours”
Though the animated series played a little fast and loose with the X-Men’s Externals lore, it did give Jean’s encounter with the “X-Ternal” a level of import, implying that the other woman was no mere mutant. In order to convey to the X-Ternal how she’d been deceived by a scheming woman seeking to ensnare Gambit, Jean formed a brief psychic connection with the X-Ternal that ended with her collapsing, wide-eyed, into Wolverine’s arms. One can only imagine what sorts of wildness might be lurking in the X-Ternal’s mind that prompted Jean to have a laydown, and we shouldn’t begrudge her for taking that space for herself.
