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Over time, it has attached itself to a few others but its powers while in a host remain closely similar -- which is still greater than almost any hero or villain in the Marvel Universe. Before the Dark Phoenix attached itself to Jean Grey, she already possessed great mutant powers. In the start, Grey was only known to possess the power of telekinesis. As Marvel Girl in the original X-Men , her power was simply to move things around and lift bad guys off the ground.

She was very adept at this power. While Magneto could do similar things with metal items, Jean had no such limitations and could lift and move just about anything with her mind. When she merged with the Phoenix Force, those powers gained almost unlimited strength and Jean could move anything she wanted. While Marvel Girl was just known as a telekinetic, Jean Grey's mutant powers were much more powerful than that.

Jean Grey is one of the world's most powerful telepaths. Charles Xavier blocked those powers from Jean at a young age to protect both her and the world around her, but when they were unleashed, Grey became very dangerous.

As the Dark Phoenix, those powers had untapped potential that it took full advantage of. As the White Phoenix, her powers of telepathy were virtually limitless. Her basic powers are mind reading, broadcasting her own thoughts to someone else, and affecting the minds of others. With the powers of Dark Phoenix, her range is increased drastically. Before she ever gained the powers of the Dark Phoenix, Jean Grey could fly.

This was accomplished through the use of her telekinesis, which allowed her to lift herself off the ground and move through the air -- simulating flying, but actually just a manifestation of her mutant powers. That changed as Dark Phoenix. As the Dark Phoenix, Jean was able to actually fly without using her telekinetic powers. She also possessed the power of interstellar travel. This is part of the Phoenix Force, as it was always able to travel anywhere needed to accomplish its tasks. The Dark Phoenix can fly faster than the speed of light.

The Dark Phoenix is able to manipulate matter on a sub-atomic level and has the power of molecular reconstruction. Basically, this means that with the powers of the Dark Phoenix, an individual like Jean Grey can change the form and matter into anything she desires. Jean could turn wood into gold, stone into crystal, or water into air. Jean held onto the Phoenix Force's arm and fell into a coma-like state.

Simultaneously, the Phoenix Force fully took on the form, memories, and personality of Jean Grey, by absorbing a portion of her consciousness. It was also responsible for casting Jean into a coma-like state and placing her within a cocoon-like construction, which rested for years at the bottom of Jamaica Bay, while her injuries healed completely.

Thus, the Phoenix Force fulfilled its pledge to Jean. During this time, the Phoenix scanned the human member and leader of the Starjammers to learn it was Cyclops ' long thought dead father, Christopher Summers. The Phoenix and the Beast ended up separated from the other X-Men, each group mistakenly believing the other to have died.

At this time, Mastermind began entering the Phoenix' mind and had her question her sanity. Moira MacTaggert , it was assessed that the Phoenix entity would become too strong to control, but the other X-Men had no way to know what was happening and little chance of preventing a tragedy.

However, the portion of Jean's personality the Phoenix had taken on subconsciously created a series of psionic mental blocks to reduce the level of power she could command at one time, so as not to be overwhelmed by it. After battling Proteus , Phoenix was reunited with Scott Summers. A very questionable move. After battling the Hellfire Club, over recruitment of Dazzler, Phoenix and Scott shared an intimate night, after Phoenix blocked Scott's optic blast and allowed him to see her clearly.

With the new experience of a cosmic entity dealing with human emotions, Phoenix was thus an easy target for the illusionist, Mastermind, [39] who needed a trophy to join the Inner Circle of the prestigious and infamous Hellfire Club. With the help of a psionic device, created by the club's White Queen, Emma Frost, Mastermind made Phoenix believe that she was his 18th-century lover, Lady Grey. When the X-Men came to her rescue, Jean's true love, Cyclops, faced Mastermind in a psychic duel and was defeated.

As the Phoenix was the light and life of the universe, the Dark Phoenix represented power and destruction. The Phoenix became Dark Phoenix due to allowing human emotions to cloud its judgment. In this state, Phoenix was the strongest, but also an evil entity that thirsted for power and destruction.

Totally uncontrollable, Dark Phoenix was a force to be reckoned with as it was 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 attracted the attention of Eternity. To sate its hunger, the Dark Phoenix flew to a distant galaxy and devoured the star of the D'bari system. The Shi'ar Empress, Lilandra Neramani , was alerted before the vessel was destroyed and called a council of her intergalactic counterparts, including the Kree and Skrull Empires.

They concluded that, for the rest of the universe to live, Dark Phoenix must die. Meanwhile, the Beast had found a way to neutralize Phoenix's immense power, temporarily. Scott, then, proposed to the Phoenix. At that moment, the Shi'ar arrived and teleported everyone aboard their flagship. Lilandra announced that Phoenix, who everyone believed to be Jean, would have to die. Professor X, unwilling to give up on one of his pupils, but romantically involved with Lilandra, challenged her to Arin'n Haelar, a Shi'ar duel of honor that cannot be refused.

The duel took place the next day, in the Blue Area of the Moon. Lilandra ordered Plan Omega, which would destroy the whole solar system, in hopes of eliminating Dark Phoenix as well. Professor X ordered the X-Men to subdue Phoenix, so that Plan Omega would not be necessary, and they managed to subdue the Phoenix, for a brief time. In that moment of lucidity, Phoenix fled into a back alley, with Cyclops in pursuit. Phoenix subdued him, with her telekinesis , and told him that she was losing control of herself and that there was only one way to prevent the Dark Phoenix from taking dominance over her again.

Unbeknownst to Cyclops, as Phoenix was talking to him, she was using her powers to activate an ancient Kree energy weapon behind her. Phoenix then bade Cyclops an emotional farewell and triggered the weapon, which atomized her on the spot. It was at the moment of the Dark Phoenix's death that a spark of the Phoenix Force was accidentally bestowed on Jean's clone, Madelyne Pryor.

After Dark Phoenix died on the Moon, the Phoenix had sought to return the "borrowed" portion of Jean's soul back to her body, which was in suspended animation.

Jean instinctively rejected the Phoenix and it wandered the globe, lost. Eventually, it became attracted to Madelyne in Mister Sinister 's lab, since she was an exact genetic clone of Jean. The Phoenix Force, mistakenly, gave a spark of itself to Madelyne, granting her a life force and some of Jean's memories.

After being manipulated by the demons S'ym and N'astirh , Madelyne learned of her true origins and became mad, calling herself the Goblin Queen.

The Goblin Queen locked herself, Nathan Christopher Summers , her and Cyclops' son, and Jean inside a psionic barrier, where she explained her origins as Jean's clone. Both X-Factor and the X-Men's combined efforts seemed to be futile in an effort to break through the telekinetic bubble. Pryor-Summers and Grey fought one-on-one, with Madelyne unleashing a psionic force, intending to destroy both herself and her opponents. X-Factor and the X-Men protected each other and Madelyne was the only one affected, but as she lay dying, she pulled Jean into her mind to die with her.

Jean would have succumbed, were it not for the Phoenix leaving Madelyne at that time and returning to Jean. Jean was able to resist and, as Madelyne died, Jean recovered the part of her soul the Phoenix Force had mistakenly given to Madelyne. Attempting to change her reality, Rachel used her psionic powers to exchange the consciousness and spirit of the adult X-Man Kate Pryde with that of Pryde's teenage self.

Traveling through time and across dimensions to the mainstream reality to learn why their efforts did not succeed in changing her reality, Rachel sent her astral self into that past as well, also arriving in the mainstream reality.

While floating above New York City , in preparation for her return, Rachel's meditative astral form was found by the Phoenix Force. Fascinated by Rachel, the alternate reality child of Grey, the Force read her mind and was impressed that Rachel had not given into despair after all she had experienced. Sending a portion of itself in the future of Rachel's reality with Rachel, the Force met Kate, after Rachel passed-out from the strain of the time travel.

Kate bargained with the Force to save Rachel from the Sentinels ' rule and to keep her from remembering the horrors she had experienced. The Force agreed to boost Rachel's powers so she could physically travel back in time, not just psychically. Kate hypnotized Rachel into using her psionic powers to tap into the Phoenix Force and send herself back in time when Kate said the words "Dark Phoenix".

Rachel and Kate illegally entered the laboratory of Project Nimrod, which was the attempt to construct the most highly advanced Sentinel possible with the technology of that time, in the hopes of sabotaging the project. Rachel believed herself and Kate to be trapped, but Kate said the words that caused Rachel to project herself back through time. Rachel was still shocked to learn of the supposed "death" of Jean in this reality.

After meeting Scott Summers of the mainstream reality and not telling him of her true origins, Rachel visited the home of Grey's parents while they were absent and she found a holo-empathic crystal that was imbued with an imprint of Grey's personality. Unaware that Jean had not actually been Phoenix, Rachel refused to believe that Jean could be evil, as people claimed Phoenix was, and she decided to claim the name and power of Phoenix as her own birthright.

From that time on, Rachel was able to draw to a limited extent upon the vast power of the Phoenix Force. Rachel became apparently disassociated from the Phoenix Force sometime after swapping places with Captain Britain and becoming lost in time, [51] although she has manifested aspects of the Phoenix Force such as the firebird since her mother's more recent death.

Jean and the Phoenix Force were later revealed as being a single bound entity. Dying, Wolverine killed Jean and awoke the Phoenix Force within her. Defeated, his last act was to give Phoenix a stroke on the planetary level. Dying in Scott's arms, she urged him to live on.

Resurrected Jean Grey as Phoenix. Stepford Cuckoos as Phoenixes. The Phoenix Force was reconstituted before its time by a Shi'ar vessel attempting to eliminate the Phoenix forever. The attempt failed, and the Phoenix Force was wounded, driven nearly insane. It traveled to Earth, craving Scott's power and forced Jean to return to life so that it could be with him.

This time however, the two were at odds, with Jean struggling to regain control over her body. This event was further complicated with the arrival of Quentin Quire , awakened by the Phoenix's arrival.

Quire wanted to use the Phoenix Force to resurrect Sophie , one of the Stepford Cuckoos , who had died trying to stop him from taking over the Xavier Institute. Further inflaming the situation were the crew of the Shi'ar warship, converging around Earth to attack the Phoenix.

Escaping an attack by the Shi'ar, the Phoenix and Wolverine teleported to the North Pole , where Jean asserted control once more. She asked Wolverine to kill her, forcing the Phoenix to bring her back over and over again, until the Phoenix was weak enough that Jean could kill them both by submerging herself under a glacier.

The Phoenix left Jean's body however, and was confronted by the X-Men. Confused, it attempted to force Cyclops to open his eyes so that she could feed on his optic blasts. Achievements Leaderboard List of Badges. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 1. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Phoenix Force and Hosts.