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Preface[]

Not much is known about the early life of the Madelyne Pryor ofEarth-91240, other than that she was a clone of themutantJean Grey, just likeher Earth-616 counterpart.

Secret Wars[]

After the collapse of theMultiverse, Madelyne Pryor became the baroness ofLimbo, a domain ofBattleworld inEarth-15513; however, at some point, the court ofAll-Father Doom ruled against Madelyne in favour of her ex-husband,Scott Summers, removing her as baroness and elevating Scott to baron in her stead.^[3]

Despite being stripped of her barony, Madelyne still remained in control of a part of Limbo known as the Goblin District, and assumed the title ofGoblin Queen. DuringColossus' annual attempt at freeing hissister from theDemons, Madelyne intercepted him just as his mission was being botched, and rescued he and his wife,Domino, planning on using Colossus to defeat the Darkchild.^[4]

After arranging for Colossus to gain the Darkchild'sSoulsword, Madelyne made him an offer; she and herGoblin Horde would get Colossus into the Darkchild's throne room, allowing Colossus to run her through with the Soulsword, which would either free his sister or kill the Darkchild, in exchange for which, Madelyne would take the Darkchild's throne. Colossus accepted, and they launched their attack.^[5]

Madelyne lived up to her end of the bargain, but found that the Darkchild and the bulk of her demon forces had left their stronghold and launched an attack on theX-Men. Initially content with staying out of the fight, since her force could not penetrate the X-Men's barriers, Madelyne quickly re-considered, launching an attack on the Darkchild's forces.^[6] They manage to rescue the X-Men fromN'astirh and were then surprised by the revelation thatMister Sinister was still alive.^[7]

Sinister offered to help them, but Madelyne, still angry over how Sinister had toyed with her life, used her telepathy to forceBoom-Boom to kill him. A fight immediately broke out with Sinister's army of clones, which was then made worse by the arrival of the Darkchild and her demon horde; however, Colossus finally managed to kill his sister, thus ending the war. Madelyne then came upon her body, with the Hellfire that had granted her her power escaping from her corpse, and took it as her own.^[8]

At some point after this, Madelyne was re-instated as baroness of Limbo, and when a wave of rebellions, instigated by theProphet, broke out across Battleworld, All-Father Doom called upon Madelyne and three more of his trusted barons —Apocalypse, theMaestro, andMister Sinister — for advice, charging them with putting down the rebellions.^[9] When the rebels reachedDoomgard itself, Madelyne and her Goblin Horde were there to defend it; however, they were betrayed by Baron Sinister, whose army turned on Madelyne's. Together withCaptain Marvel, he personally attacked Madelyne, and seemingly broke her neck.^[10]

Hex-Men[]

OnceReed Richards restored the Multiverse,^[11] the Goblin Queen, theBamf Dragon, and her goblins somehow found themselves on thePrime Earth's version ofLimbo. Tired of hiding in the shadows, they opened a portal to a storage facility inFlorida, from which they planned to invadeEarth; however, their mustering was interrupted byWolverine andAngel, forcing the horde to withdraw.^[12] A short time later, twelve Hell Gates inexplicably cracked open at the same time inMiami,^[13] prompting the Goblin Queen to unleash her Goblin Horde to wreak havoc on the city.^[14] She was eventually confronted by theX-Men, who she easily defeated, before being forced to retreat byBeast, who banished her army after merging with theOrb of Zarjul.^[13]

With her connection to the arcane diminished, Pryor coaxed a group of mutants with ties to the arcane (including Beast, who she had been tutoring in the dark arts) into forming theHex-Men with the false promise of helping them in exchange for their assistance in her schemes.^[15] After summoningColossus,Pixie, andBloodstorm to the Prime Earth via a spell cast by Beast, the Goblin Queen led her Hex-Men against the X-Men attheir mansion in Madripoor, resulting in the capture of some of them.^[16] Pryor planned to use the pain caused by Beast's betrayal to fuel a ritual to summon otherGoblin Queens from throughout time and space. However, Bloodstorm, who had realized through the nature of the ritual that the Goblin Queen's promises were hollow, betrayed her and made Beast see reason, prompting him to conjure a spell to cast the Goblin Queen away with the rest of the Hex-Men.^[17]

Fall of X[]

Banished to the depths of Limbo, the Goblin Queen became an empty shell of a human being during her time in a forgotten corner of the realm. It was in this state that the anti-mutant organizationOrchis found her, with sixty-three units being subsequently lost to capture and contain her and her Bamf Dragon. Fearing her power, Orchis used the Goblin Queen as one of their earliest test subjects for a new method of deactivating theX-Gene withBlightswill, but she cackled at it for having already outgrown her mutant powers by refining her mystical ones.

• When the Goblin Queen was cast away by Beast inX-Men: Blue #12, the issue's writerCullen Bunn intended for her to die at that point, but left it ambiguous in case another writer wanted to bring her back later.^[19]

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