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the cleanest way would have been just pulling a Crisis/Rebirth and saying "oh actually madelyne and jean were the same person all along via phoenix bullshit/actually she was subconsciously astral projecting a second body/some time travel bullshit" and just fusing them together.
The fact that, TO THIS DAY, it's 100% canon that THE WOMAN CYCLOPS MARRIED AND IMPREGNATED is NOT the Jean Gray he's in a relationship with/Phoenix, and that the actual mother of his child was banished with her baby fucking stolen and given to Jean to raise instead, with her now being a D-lister stuck in literal Limbo/Hell, is like beyond parody. Cyclops has been a deadbeat asshole who STOLE A WOMAN'S BABY for like 40 years now.

the truly based result would have been Cyclops simply accepting and banging Jean AND Madelyn and being a selfcest throuple but Marvel editorial are cowards who adore love triangles but are terrified of threesomes so everyone needs to constantly be cheating on each other and breaking up and getting back together instead of just being pole sisters