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Dark Phoenix
Real Name: Jean Grey-Summers
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States, with no criminal record
Former Aliases: Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Black Queen
Place of Birth: Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Known Relatives: John Grey (father), Elaine Grey (mother), Sara (sister, deceased), Gailyn (niece), Joey (nephew), Scott Summers (Cyclops, husband), Christopher Summers (Corsair, father-in-law), Alexander Summers (Havok, brother-in-law), Philip and Deborah Summers (grandparents-in-law), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable, stepson), Rachel Summers (Phoenix II, daughter by Cyclops in an alternate timeline)
Group Affiliation: Founding member of the X-Men, former member of X-Factor
Base of Operations: Professor Charles Xavier's School for Higher Learning, Salem Center. Westchester County, New York; formerly X-Factor headquarters, New York City
History: The Phoenix Force is a manifestation of a primal force of the universe which derives from the psyches of all living beings in the universe, and which therefore has limitless power. The Phoenix Force embodies emotion rather than intellect, specifically, the passion to create or destroy.
Jean Grey and other members of the X-Men were kidnapped by the Sentinel robots commanded by Steven Lang, a scientist who was out to destroy superhuman mutants. After defeating Lang, the X-Men had to escape back to Earth aboard a space shuttle through the path of an unusually intense solar flare. The shuttle's pilot had to sit in an area where he or she would be exposed to the lethal radiation. Grey volunteered to be pilot, using her telepathic abilities to absorb the knowledge of how to fly the shuttle from the mind of her ally Dr. Peter Corbeau, and using her telekinetic powers to shield herself from the radiation. But while she guided the craft back to Earth, the solar radiation finally proved to be too great for Grey to hold back any longer with her powers. The radiation began killing her painfully. The sentient Phoenix Force sensed Grey's desperate desire to save the lives of the X-Men, especially Scott Summers, alias Cyclops, the man she loved, and to save her own life. The Phoenix Force appeared to Grey in a form resembling her own; it also took on a human-like consciousness by reading Grey's mind and replicating her consciousness. The Phoenix Force offered to save the lives of the dying Grey and her friends in exchange for an unstated price. Afraid of death, but determined to save Summers and the other X-Men, Grey accepted the entity's offer, and grasped the entity's arm. The Phoenix Force then took on full human form, an exact duplicate of Grey's. The Phoenix Force transferred a portion of Grey's "soul" or consciousness to itself. Hence, from that point onward, Grey existed as both the human Marvel Girl and as Phoenix. Grey's original human form fell into a coma-like state.
The shuttle crashed in Jamaica Bay near New York City, but the energy being insured that all of the X-Men and Corbeau survived. The entity itself emerged from the shuttle calling itself Phoenix, and the X-Men believed it to be the real Jean Grey, who they believed had died and returned to life with vast new powers. Meanwhile, Grey's original human self remained in a coma-like state within a strange pod-like object while the phoenix-force's power gradually healed her injuries. She remained safe within the pod for years until she was finally found by the Avengers and revived from her coma-like state.
Shortly after the shuttle crash, Phoenix and the X-Men traveled to a planet in the Shi'ar Galaxy where the crazed Emperor D'ken was about to use the M'krann Crystal to obliterate the cosmos. The Crystal is a tesseract (hyperdimensional construct) within which this universe's scientific laws do not apply. Within the Crystal, imprisoned by a magnetic stasis field and reduced to the size of a pinprick, lies a so-called Neutron Galaxy, which is composed of neutron stars, whose super-compressed matter generates so much gravitational force that not even light can escape its surface. If the Crystal were cracked open, the entire universe would collapse upon itself due to the Neutron Galaxy's tremendous gravitational forces, and the universe would be sucked into a black hole. D'ken had triggered this destructive process, but Phoenix entered the Crystal and, drawing upon her full powers through love of the X-Men and Grey's innate courage, repaired the disintegrating stasis field, thus saving the cosmos.
Phoenix served as a member of the X-Men. But since Grey had never been trained to cope with such immense power as the Phoenix Force possessed, Phoenix, in human form, proved to have difficulty in dealing with her power. At first Grey's strong moral sense kept the Phoenix Force under control. After the episode with the Crystal, she subconsciously prevented herself from using her powers beyond a certain limit, lest she become overwhelmed by the intense passions that the use of the Phoenix's vast powers aroused in Phoenix's now-human consciousness.
Then Phoenix fell victim to the psionic manipulation of Mastermind, who was attempting to prove his worthiness to become a member of the secret Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club by mesmerizing Phoenix, whom he believed to be the real Grey, into becoming its new Black Queen. Using a device created by the White Queen, Mastermind projected dream-like fantasies into Phoenix's mind from afar which slowly brought closer to the surface of her now-human mind the dark desires which Grey, like most people, suppress deeply in their subconscious. Finally, upon confronting Phoenix in the Hellfire Club mansion itself, Mastermind forced those desires fully to the surface, submerging Grey's true personality within Phoenix's mind, and Phoenix took on the costume and personality of the decadent Black Queen.
Phoenix Force is linked to passion, she could not fully free herself of the sinister side of her personality which Mastermind had exposed. She helped free the X-Men, whom the Inner Circle had taken captive, and psionically induced temporary insanity in Mastermind. But as she and the X-Men escaped, she realized that the dark side of her personality, the phoenix-force's innate urge to destroy, was taking hold of her, and her human consciousness did not have the proper training to repress it. Suddenly the phoenix-force's primal urges overwhelmed Phoenix, submerging Grey's true personality even more fully than before, and Phoenix became the malevolent Dark Phoenix.
Hungering for more energy (due to the limitations of still being in physical form) shortly after her initial activity as Dark Phoenix, she transported herself to the star D'bari in the Shi'ar Galaxy and absorbed energy from it. As a result, the star became a super-nova, annihilating the sentient nonhumanoid populate of one of its planets. Dark Phoenix next destroyed a Shi'ar starship which had attacked her in retaliation for the non-humanoids' deaths. She returned to Earth and battled the X-Men. Cyclops tried to reason with her, appealing to the love Grey had for him, and thereby induced Grey's true personality to begin to rise again from beneath Dark Phoenix's insanity. Unfortunately, the X-Men's mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, caused her to revert fully to Dark Phoenix again by attacking her. But Cyclops had laid the groundwork for Phoenix's cure, and so, when Xavier used his full psionic power on Dark Phoenix to exorcise her insanity, the nearly buried duplicate of Grey's true personality was able to assert itself just enough to allow him to succeed. With Xavier's help, the uncorrupted side of Grey regained control of Phoenix.
Phoenix and the X-Men were immediately teleported aboard a Shi'ar starship commanded by the Shi'ar empress Lilandra, who judged it necessary to obliterate Phoenix's powers entirely lest she become Dark Phoenix again. Lilandra, like the X-Men, still believed that Phoenix was the real Jean Grey. Believing that they could find a way to prevent Phoenix's reversion to Dark Phoenix, and that she should not be punished for her actions as the insane Dark Phoenix, the X-Men decided to fight against Lilandra's judgement in a trial by combat against members of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. During the fury of the battle, in which she participated, Phoenix again reverted to Dark Phoenix. Grey's true personality reasserted itself in Phoenix's mind, but realized that if it lost control even for a few seconds, Phoenix would turn insane again. Without the proper training, she realized, she had no hope of maintaining that control. Moreover, once she turned insane, she might ultimately destroy the cosmos, probably by breaking open the M'krann Crystal. Therefore, before the eyes of the horrified Cyclops, Phoenix acted as the real Grey would do in such a situation: she telekinetically triggered an energy cannon she had found in the Blue Area of Earth's moon, where the trial by combat had taken place, causing it to fire and totally disintegrate her. Thus, although the real Jean Grey still lay in her coma-like state hidden from the real world, she won her greatest victory. Acting as she would have done, Phoenix commited suicide, thereby saving the universe.
But this suicide did not mean that the Phoenix Force itself ceased to exist. It simply meant that the phoenix-entity's existence in human form was over. The Phoenix Force is indestructible.
And when the Jean Clone known as Dark Phoenix was dead, the entity went back to Jean Grey's wounded body, and tried to grant her life-force back, but Jean denied it for the force was tainted with the destruction of an entire world, so it entered the body of Madelyne Pryor, a clone of Jean Grey created by Mr. Sinister, who had married Scott Summers and given birth to a son, Nathan Christopher Summers.
The real Jean Grey came back to life thanks to the Avengers and fought with Madelyne Pryor(who now possesses the Phoenix Force). Madelyne was defeated and Jean and Scott were left to raise his son. And as for the Phoenix force, it entered the body of a daughter of Jean and Scott's, known as Rachel Summers, in the distant future. She will inherit her mother's telepathy and telekinesis, and will come to control the Phoenix force which has corrupted so many lives in the past. Rachel will become the new Phoenix in the future.
Strength Level: Jean Grey possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. As for her mental and telepathic strength, it is unmeasureable.
Known Superhuman Powers: Jean Grey possessed telepathic powers enabling her to read minds, project her thoughts into the minds of others, initiate astral travel, and mentally stun opponents with pure psionic force, among other talents. She also possessed telekinesis, allowing her to levitate and manipulate objects and others, generate force fields, fly, and stimulate heat molecules to generate concussive blasts. Her powers were magnified to near-infinite levels while she served as an avatar for the cosmic Phoenix Force. She was able to manipulate matter and energy on a molecular scale and can even generate nuclear blasts.
D Dramatic
A Ambivalent
R Rounded
K Kinky
P Profound
H Honorable
O Odd
E Exhausting
N Neglected
I Intelligent
X XtRemE
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I found a cool music vid with Dark Phoenix clips from X-3. Enjoy, and it contains spoilers. Beware.
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