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7/7/2025, 4:24:48 AM
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I don't think the second to last panel was altered for this 2011 reprint, can't be fucked to track down scans of the original tho
>Yet Jean Grey IS Dark Phoenix.
RIP Jim Shooter, calling it like he saw it. We are poorer for his passing out of comics.
Anyway the X-Men treat her like she's Jean (and she treats the X-Men like she's Jean) for the rest of that issue (and beyond) and she visits her parents (and threatens them with being turned into crystals because she can hear their thoughts) on the very next page, then she's depowered by Xavier (because CURING MUTANTS IS WRONG) and the next issue starts with Uatu declaring that he saw it all, she is Jean Grey, she is the Phoenix, she is the Dark Phoenix
throughout her trial it's clear that most of the X-Men are disgusted with what she's done, Cyclops *knew* but didn't want to believe it (via telepathy) and on learning the truth immediately sides with her (the woman he spent all morning calling a dire threat and trying to depower) and Xavier bizarrely invokes a medieval duel with the Shi'Ar to save her life
the X-Men spend most of the issue wrestling with their consciences about saving the life of a mass-murderer just because she happens to have been their friend (and also tried to kill them hours before), Jean literally tells Scott that she did it and his immediate response is trying to say "Dark Phoenix" did it, which is the most crack-head self-representing court argument you'll ever fuckin hear, then Jean becomes Phoenix again and literally says they're the same being and "part of me welcomes it"
she's a villain, bringing her back even once was a mistake, making her a villain was maybe the last truly bold choice Marvel made and they beansed it by trying to say all that villain crap was someone else (who is also secretly her because of the Phoenix working that way)
I don't think the second to last panel was altered for this 2011 reprint, can't be fucked to track down scans of the original tho
>Yet Jean Grey IS Dark Phoenix.
RIP Jim Shooter, calling it like he saw it. We are poorer for his passing out of comics.
Anyway the X-Men treat her like she's Jean (and she treats the X-Men like she's Jean) for the rest of that issue (and beyond) and she visits her parents (and threatens them with being turned into crystals because she can hear their thoughts) on the very next page, then she's depowered by Xavier (because CURING MUTANTS IS WRONG) and the next issue starts with Uatu declaring that he saw it all, she is Jean Grey, she is the Phoenix, she is the Dark Phoenix
throughout her trial it's clear that most of the X-Men are disgusted with what she's done, Cyclops *knew* but didn't want to believe it (via telepathy) and on learning the truth immediately sides with her (the woman he spent all morning calling a dire threat and trying to depower) and Xavier bizarrely invokes a medieval duel with the Shi'Ar to save her life
the X-Men spend most of the issue wrestling with their consciences about saving the life of a mass-murderer just because she happens to have been their friend (and also tried to kill them hours before), Jean literally tells Scott that she did it and his immediate response is trying to say "Dark Phoenix" did it, which is the most crack-head self-representing court argument you'll ever fuckin hear, then Jean becomes Phoenix again and literally says they're the same being and "part of me welcomes it"
she's a villain, bringing her back even once was a mistake, making her a villain was maybe the last truly bold choice Marvel made and they beansed it by trying to say all that villain crap was someone else (who is also secretly her because of the Phoenix working that way)
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