u/ohmygawdyoudidnt

I haven’t seen anyone make this connection yet, but Jean Grey’s big psychic scene immediately reminded me of Charles Xavier in Logan.

Not because they’re both powerful telepaths, but because of how their powers are portrayed.

Logan was the first live-action X-Men movie that really treated telepathy like a large-scale physical event. You have Xavier’s seizure at the hotel in Oklahoma City, where everyone in range is frozen in place and visibly suffering. Then there’s the Westchester Incident, which the movie references several times as an even larger psychic catastrophe that killed multiple X-Men.

Jean’s scene in Brand New Day feels like it’s using that same cinematic language. She locks down an entire section of New York, and everyone caught within her range is immobilized and in obvious pain. It isn’t just mind reading or mind control. It feels like a psychic force affecting everyone nearby.

Before Logan, I don’t remember the movies ever depicting telepathy this way. It was usually more intimate, entering one person’s mind, using Cerebro, or having conversations inside someone’s head. Logan made telepathy feel dangerous on a massive scale.

Whether it was intentional or not, Brand New Day feels like it builds on that idea. As soon as the scene started, I thought, “This is the Jean Grey version of what Logan did with Xavier.”

Did anyone else make that connection?