A major feat of this film is that, however imperfectly it was executed, it truly gets the relationship between Jean and Logan; that is, his hopeless devotion to her is not mutual. In the previous two films we were teased with the possibility of a Logan-Jean-Scott triangle which this film instantly demolished, perhaps rightly so. The nature of Logan as a loner and reluctant obsessive strengthens him both as a character and a combative member of the team; to see that obsessive nature rewarded would compromise him. A concept later followed up on in The Wolverine is that Logan is forever haunted by the loss of Jean Grey, both in X2 and again in Last Stand at his own hands. He dreams about her in a way that feels almost discomfiting, and although things panned out quite differently in the comics for awhile, the base of their relationship has always been that though Logan is very much in love with Jean (however reluctant to admit it), her affections lie with Scott. When we see Logan with Jean in The Last Stand, its constantly evident that even outside the spell of the Phoenix Force, Jean has no romantic engagement with him, but events can from Logans point of view be misconstrued as such. When Jean in her moment of sanity asks Logan to kill her, he gratuitously and guiltily abides perhaps because he thought Jean felt he was the right man for the job, and in that moment felt a special bond with her in the throes of death. More likely, she was simply in so much pain she was willing to take the execution from anyone disposed enough to do it; Logan just happened to be the only guy in the room with a healing factor allowing him to get close enough to get it done. Had Scott had the same healing factor (and had he not been seriously dead), her pleas would have been equally insistent.
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