I'm kinda confused about Jean Gray and the Phoenix thing?!
Question: was she possessed by the Phoenix or was it part of her personality since she was still very young?! because in the cartoons, she was possessed but in the movie it was like she has a split personality.
Answers: was she possessed by the Phoenix or was it part of her personality since she was still very young?! because in the cartoons, she was possessed but in the movie it was like she has a split personality.
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Its tiring reading all the comics, i know i have them all.
The Phoenix Force is an immortal and mutable manifestation of the prime universal force of life. Born of the void between states of being, the Phoenix Force is a child of the universe. It is the nexus of all psionic energy which does, has, and ever will exist in all realities of the omniverse, the Guardian of Creation, and a de-facto guardian of the M'Kraan Crystal. The Phoenix is among the most feared beings in the entire existence - having the power to cut and re-grow any part of the universe, as well as destroy it entirely, which is part of the Phoenix's purpose: "The Judgment of the Phoenix", to burn away the obsolete. Billions of years ago, at the start of the universe The Force encountered the notorious Le Bete Noir, another cosmic entity. Phoenix was able to trap Noir inside of Earth while the planet was still cooling.
During its time as a sentient entity, it traveled the cosmos just like other cosmic beings. At first, the Phoenix Force was a formless mass of energy, but thousands of years ago, it came to Earth, and met a magician named Feron (who worshipped the legendary Phoenix), whose daydream-like visions prompted the Phoenix to adopt the firebird form it has today. He asked the Phoenix to help him by lending its energy to project a stone pillar (which resembled a lighthouse) across the multiverse. The pillar became the lighthouse base for the British super-team Excalibur (a team its future host Rachel Grey née Summers herself would join). Afterwards, Feron was attacked by Necrom in an attempt to steal the power of the Phoenix. Feron, strengthened by the Phoenix Force, was able to fight back but Necrom was able to steal a fraction of the Phoenix's essence forcing it to flee back to space in agonized confusion. The Phoenix Force returned to Earth when it felt the mind of a human transcend the physical realm, a mind that resonated with the Phoenix's energy. A young Jean Grey had telepathically linked her mind to her dying friend, Annie Richards, to keep Annie's soul from moving to the afterlife. In doing so, Jean's mind was being dragged along to the "other side" with Annie. Phoenix lent its energy to break the connection, and kept close watch on young Jean, as it felt a kinship with the young mutant. Years later when Jean was dying on a space shuttle, her mind called out for help and the Phoenix Force answered and saved her, transforming Jean into the Phoenix.
As originally written, the Jean Grey incarnation of the Phoenix was not a separate cosmic entity, but Jean herself, having attained her ultimate potential as a psychic[1], only to become slowly corrupted by the manipulation of such foes as Mastermind and Emma Frost; unable to adapt to her enormous power, Jean was driven mad. Becoming Dark Phoenix, Jean destroyed a planet populated by sentient creatures (by eating the sun of that planet's solar system to satisfy her "hunger" as Dark Phoenix) and subsequently died committing suicide on Earth's moon[2].
In order to return Jean to the fold several years later, this storyline was retconned to reveal the existence of the cosmic Phoenix Force entity, which had created a duplicate body of Jean, believed itself to be Jean, and acted in her place while the real Jean lay in a coma in the ocean. This let Jean be revived as a member of X-Factor. The extent to which the duplicate and Jean are separate entities depends on who is writing the character(s) at the time.
Part of the Phoenix Force joined with Jean's clone, Madelyne Pryor, until she also committed suicide and the Phoenix consciousness rejoined with the awakened Jean. Another possessor of the Phoenix Force is Rachel Summers, Jean's daughter from the Days of Future Past alternate future. The Phoenix Force accepted her as a host, allowing her to use limited amounts of its immense powers to enhance her own.
Later, when Rachel was sent into the future, Jean assumed the code name of Phoenix once again. She even began to manifest the Phoenix raptor anima banner without actually tapping into the Force itself. The Phoenix Force told Professor Xavier that "Jean is only the house where I live."
During the mini-series X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong, the Phoenix Force returned to Earth and resurrected Jean Grey from her grave. Through a number of incidents, including Jean having Wolverine kill her a number of times, Jean trapping herself in a glacier, the Phoenix Force jumping into Emma Frost, and parts of the X-Men being trapped in a Shi'ar-generated event horizon, Jean Grey managed to assert herself and gain control of the Phoenix Force and rescue everyone from the event horizon. Jean then declares that she and the Phoenix force are truly one entity now, have transcended into the White Phoenix of the Crown. Unfortunately, as a result of a Shi'ar attack on the Phoenix Force, it is currently in an incomplete state and Jean must now search out the remaining parts of the Phoenix Force. The consequences of this were partially addressed in X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong in which a small part of the Phoenix Force joined with the Stepford Cuckoos. After nearly losing control to the Phoenix power, the Stepford Cuckoos developed a secondary mutation, in which their hearts turned to diamond and they were able to imprison the piece of the Phoenix Force.
The Phoenix battles and wins against Galactus. Art by Alan Davis.During an encounter with Galactus the Devourer of Worlds, Rachel Summers— at the time completely overtaken by the Phoenix Force— battled Galactus in an effort to save a planet he was preparing to devour.[3] The Phoenix Force disrupted Galactus' feeding process and thus was able to eventually overcome the depleted world devourer in battle. Galactus accused the Phoenix Force of hypocrisy and revealed to it that every time it exercised its powers on such vast scales, it robbed energy used to birth future generations. Realizing this to be true, the Phoenix vowed never again to use its powers to such an extent.
The extent of the Phoenix Force's abilities has not been fully clarified. In a certain retconned issue, the Phoenix can be seen holding the Universe-616 in the palm of her hands - modifying them at will. This indicates that her powers rivaled even that of the Living Tribunal. Jean Grey as The White Phoenix of the Crown was able to change the future of a universe by reaching back in time and pushing her husband Cyclops to move on with his life.
As the Phoenix is the creation and life of the universe, the Dark Phoenix represents power and destruction. Dark Phoenix is the physical being or incarnation of power itself. The Phoenix will become Dark Phoenix if it allows human emotions to cloud its judgment. In this state, Phoenix is the strongest, but also is an evil entity. It thirsts for power and destruction. Totally uncontrollable, it is a force to be reckoned with as it is not bound by a human conscience. When Dark Phoenix flew back into space, her true firebird form was seen across the entire universe and even demanded the attention of Eternity.
Dark Phoenix was first released in the Dark Phoenix Saga. Under the mind illusions of Mastermind, the Phoenix entity (thinking it was Jean Grey) was inducted into the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club as its Black Queen. The X-Men tried to save 'Jean,' but Mastermind's illusion showed the Black Queen enemies from the past - revolutionary rebels and slaves. Confident in his illusion, Mastermind killed Scott Summers in front of 'Jean.' This arrogant act released 'Jean' from his illusion. She saved the X-Men, but grew furious with Mastermind. Through his illusion the Phoenix entity had experienced the darker emotions of humanity: lust, power, anger, destruction, and a vast hunger. The X-Men defeated the Inner Circle, but the Phoenix's wrath had been unleashed. She turned on Mastermind and showed him the true scope of power she held. He could not handle the knowledge, and was left catatonic.
The X-Men approached Phoenix, thinking her to be Jean, but in place of the woman they knew and loved was Dark Phoenix. She reveled in the new found strength and power of destruction. She attacked the X-Men and easily defeated them; however, she left all alive and travelled into space to satisfy her hunger. Far from Earth's solar system, Dark Phoenix dove into a star and ate it. The star died and with it five billion D'Bari lives were ended; one of the star's planets had held life.
Dark Phoenix consumes a star, consequently killing billions of people.Dark Phoenix returned to Earth, hungry and eager to experience more human emotions. She went to Jean's old house and was again confronted by the X-Men. This time the X-Men - with Xavier and Jean's consciousness - managed to subdue the Dark Phoenix. At this point, all of the X-Men were transported to a Shi'ar ship. The Shi'ar planned to execute the entity's physical form for the destruction of the sun. The X-Men battled for Jean's life in the Blue Area of the Moon, but in the end, the Dark Phoenix persona erupted once more, though she was (relatively) weak. Jean's consciousness was able to retain enough control long to activate the weapons on the moon. With its human personality suppressing its vast power and thus rendering its mortal body vulnerable, "Jean" triggered one of the ancient weapons and vaporized herself. With its mortal shell now shattered, the immortal Phoenix Force could no longer focus the totality of its power within the mortal plane of existence, thus ending its threat.
Dark Phoenix has reappeared throughout many What If... storylines and has even been in Marvel/DC crossovers. Over the years whenever Jean's powers flared, many of her teammates feared Dark Phoenix's return, although Dark Phoenix had never actually been Jean Grey. After once again merging with the Phoenix Force, Jean had all of Dark Phoenix's memories and she feels the weight of five billion lives upon her soul.
Dark Phoenix has recently reappeared in the mini-series Phoenix: Endsong, by using the body of Jean Grey-Summers as a host once again. It is not long before she remembers what she has come for - Scott Summers (a.k.a. Cyclops). She needs to feed from the energy from his optic blasts, and confused by Jean's emotions thinks she's in love with Scott. When she realizes Scott is in love with Emma Frost (former White Queen of the Hellfire club and headmistress of Xavier's School for Higher Learning) she possesses her instead. But Jean comes back to fight the Dark Phoenix, reveals they are one and the same, and orders the Phoenix force to leave Emma's body. With emotional support of all the X-Men, Jean then transforms into the White Phoenix of The Crown. This is signified by a new white and gold costume. They then both return to the White Hot Room, a higher plane of reality within the M'Kraan Crystal to gather all her pieces. However, one of the Phoenix fragments returns in the bodies of the Stepford Cuckoos in the mini series Phoenix: Warsong.
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In the comics, the Phoenix was not Jean Grey at all, but an alien life form that replaced her for a few years. Welcome to dealing with tv and movie adaptations. They always change things.
try to understand that in the movie they kinda change Jean Gray character from the comics..Jean Gray dont have a split personality in the comics,she was just posses by the phoenix after the battle in the space,,and she kinda can control the powerof Phoenix,,and i dont like what they did to Professor x and to Cyclops,they should'nt died..