Why a 'Dark Phoenix' movie could never do the beloved 'X-Men' story line justice
by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2019
3 minutes
"Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever I am Phoenix!"
These are the words Jean Grey says when she first bursts onto the page as Phoenix in "X-Men" No. 101 (1976) after sacrificing herself to pilot a spaceship through cosmic radiation to get her friends safely back to Earth.
She makes the same declaration on the last page of "X-Men" No. 134 (1980) when she rises as Dark Phoenix shortly before destroying the aircraft she and her
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