This year’sDark Phoenixmarks both the end of Fox ’s long - runningX - Menseries and the 2nd adaptation of the critically acclaimed and beloved 10 - Men comic arcThe Dark Phoenix Saga . UnlikeX - Men III : The Last Stand , which only drive component of the source material , Dark Phoenixwill be a loose but closer adaptation of the famous comic plot line .

But even if it lean nearer to the comic Koran , Dark Phoenixleaves some interesting fact and outcome about Jean Grey , her Phoenix persona , and the saga as a whole on the cutting floor . Now that Marvel regained the right to the X - man , these details may make it to the big CRT screen in the future but for now , here are 10 facts about Jean Grey and the Phoenix thatDark Phoenixleaves out .

Dark Phoenix Killed The D’Bari

InDark Phoenix , Jean learns more about the cosmic powers inside her through the D’Bari drawing card Vuk and her stalwart . Here , the D’Bari are an exotic race that seek to employ the cosmic powers within Jean to resurrect their satellite .

However , they had almost nothing to do with the Dark Phoenix . earlier , the peaceful D’Bari are Dark Phoenix ’s first victim when their adept system is wiped out after she eat their sunlight by make it go crack - nova . Their only purpose in theDark Phoenix Sagawas to establish wager and give Jean a torso counting of more than 5 billion .

Alien Races Tried To Kill Dark Phoenix

After the X - Men temporarily subdue the Dark Phoenix , the mutants are teleport into an intergalactic courtroom where they decree that Jean Grey must croak for kill 5 billion people .

Some of the races present in the hearing are familiar Marvel keystone , such as the Kree and the Skrulls . Leading the visitation are representatives of the Shi’Ar imperium , who were ally of the D’Bari . The moving picture only expend one of the many races boast in the saga , and it just so go on to be the dead one .

Dark Phoenix Ate Planets

Jean Grey may have been possessed by one of the most potent and evil forces in the whole beetleweed , but she still take to eat . Using her vast powers drained her zip , so she ate the first star that she lucked into : the sun of the D’Bari scheme .

Dark Phoenix consumed the system ’s sunshine so tight that the planets ’ population had no time to react or even realise what was going on . To her , this monolithic genocide was as easy as tearing paper . It ’s a disgrace the picture never showed Jean eating a sun .

Dark Phoenix Thrives On Life-Force

Though it ’s not really open in the in vogue motion-picture show , Dark Phoenix thrives from living beingness ’ life history - force . In fact , it was the D’Bari Dominicus ’s energy and the combined life - force play of more than 5 billion individuals that made her even more powerful .

The closest thatDark Phoenixhas to show this is when it ’s state that the cosmic power in Jean relies on its host ’s sprightliness - force to stay alive , which is why transferring it from Jean to Vuk could prove fatal for the telepathic mutation .

The Phoenix’s Name

After seemingly coming back from the dead during the X - Men ’s latest delivery mission in distance , the student in Xavier ’s school set out to call Jean “ Phoenix . ” None of the characters explicitly call her ( or the power ) “ Phoenix , ” though the image of the fiery bird perpetually appears .

In the comics , the cosmic entity call itself the “ Phoenix Force , ” and Jean Grey sweep up the name when she merge with it . For a while , Jean ( now more powerful ) was known as Phoenix , and this served as the foundations for theDark Phoenix Saga .

The Phoenix Force Is A Sentient Being

The Phoenix Force is a sentient being that was eventually misdirect when its host – Jean – get her first taste of evil thanks to brain . Jean even compared it to a symbiote that was egg her to charge more atrocities to fill its grow hunger .

InDark Phoenix , however , the Phoenix Force is a cloud of mysteriously destructive cosmic king that just so happened to fall by Earth . Whatever it was , it wiped out the D’Bari ’s planet and now Vuk wants to utilise it to resurrect the planet – despite it never being clarify how exactly she can do this .

The Hellfire Club Awakened Dark Phoenix

Jean turn into the fear Dark Phoenix only after coercion and corruption , and the corruptor changes depending on which taradiddle is come . If Vuk gaslit Jean inDark Phoenix , it was the doing of genius and the Hellfire Club in the comics .

Einstein want to bestow out Jean ’s evil side ( named The Black Queen ) so the Hellfire Club could gain a Modern ally , and he did so by manipulate her mind . This worked too well and awakened Dark Phoenix ’s full potential , whose first human action with her amplified abilities was to for good break Mastermind by driving him insane .

Jean Grey Was Phoenix Before Dark Phoenix

InDark Phoenix , Jean is possessed by shapeless cosmic energy that amplifies her already strong telekinetic and telepathic abilities . She ’s barely able to control it , unleashing her more powerful and terrifying role as a event .

Conversely , Jean was able to keep her beef up major power in check for a long period of prison term in the comics . Going by the codename “ Phoenix , ” Jean prove to be one of the X - Men ’s most hefty psychic . The move forgoes this , instead immediately jumping to Jean ’s tragical downfall from heroism to wickedness without any of the comics ’ build - up .

Jean Grey Accepted The Phoenix Force

Jean ’s transformation into Phoenix did n’t only make her stronger but it show how far she ’d go to deliver her class . When the Phoenix Force says that its power could stamp out its host , Jean volitionally permit it own her to save the X - Men ’s lives . This move the Phoenix Force , and it lends Jean its strength .

InDark Phoenix , however , the cosmic energy possesses Jean because she just so encounter to be in its way . Vuk says that it was looking for a host , but it ’s arduous to drop a catalyst that only happened because of bad luck and terrible timing .

Jean Grey’s Death Was A Sarcastic Suggestion

Dark Phoenixends with Jean leaving Earth , even if she died in the comics – a death that ’s regard as one of comics ’ most tragic . It ’s worth noting that the turning point event only happened becauseX - Menwriter Chris Claremont sarcastically suggested that Jean should die .

Claremont and co - Almighty John Byrne in the beginning planned to let Dark Phoenix outlast as Jean Grey but editor in chief Jim Shooter disagreed , say that doing so was equivalent to letting Adolf Hitler order Germany after World War II . A defeated Claremont made the aforementioned snarky comeback , which Shooter surprisingly okay of and endorse . The residuum is history .

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