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A 1980 ''ComicBook/XMen'' story by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne, taking place from ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen X-Men]]'' #129 to #137, and one of Creator/MarvelComics' most iconic storylines.
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A 1980 ''ComicBook/XMen'' story by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne, taking place from ''[[ComicBook/UncannyXMen X-Men]]'' #129 to #137, #137. A sequel to ''ComicBook/ThePhoenixSaga'' and one of Creator/MarvelComics' most iconic storylines.
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* IHaveNoSon: John Grey does not take his daughter's raging god complex very well, angrily (and hammily) denouncing her.
* {{Retcon}}: Happens mid-story, no less. Since ''X-Men'' issue #101, the characters and narration have been very explicit about how Phoenix is Jean, just using the fullest extent of her powers. At the eleventh hour, in issue #136, everyone starts treating ''the'' Phoenix and Jean as separate beings who have wound up sharing a body. And so the ContinuitySnarl begins...
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* ShoutOut: Gladiator has always been a CaptainErsatz of Superboy, just as the rest of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard have been of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the fact's given a not-even-remotely subtle nod when the narration calls him "a man of steel".
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** A lot of the Hellfire Club is a reference to the ''Avengers'' (the 60s British TV series) episode "Touch of Brimstone". Jean's outfit as the Black Queen is a direct transplant of Emma Peel's 'Queen of Sin' outfit from that episode, while Emma Frost is drawn by John Byrne after Creator/DianaRigg.
** Gladiator has always been a CaptainErsatz of Superboy, just as the rest of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard have been of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the fact's given a not-even-remotely subtle nod when the narration calls him "a man of steel".
** A lot of the Hellfire Club is a reference to the ''Avengers'' (the 60s British TV series) episode "Touch of Brimstone". Jean's outfit as the Black Queen is a direct transplant of Emma Peel's 'Queen of Sin' outfit from that episode, while Emma Frost is drawn by John Byrne after Creator/DianaRigg.
** Gladiator has always been a CaptainErsatz of Superboy, just as the rest of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard have been of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the fact's given a not-even-remotely subtle nod when the narration calls him "a man of steel".
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* BrainwashedBride: Jean Grey has been hypnotized by Jason Wyngarde (aka Mastermind) into believing that she is actually living back in the age of sail and that he rescued her. Mastermind may be good at mind control, but he wants to manipulate Jean's wider range of powers for his own gain. Part of that is tricking her into marrying him (while she's still in the world of hundreds of years ago and thinks that he's a romantic hero).
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* BrainwashedBride: Jean Grey has been is hypnotized by Jason Wyngarde (aka Mastermind) into believing that she is actually living back in the age of sail and that he rescued her. Mastermind may be good at mind control, but he wants to manipulate Jean's wider range of powers for his own gain. Part of that is tricking her into marrying him (while she's still in the world of hundreds of years ago and thinks that he's a romantic hero).
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* BrainwashedBride: Jean Grey has been hypnotized by Jason Wyngarde (aka Mastermind) into believing that she is actually living back in the age of sail and that he rescued her. Mastermind may be good at mind control, but he wants to manipulate Jean's wider range of powers for his own gain. Part of that is tricking her into marrying him (while she's still in the world of hundreds of years ago and thinks that he's a romantic hero).
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Fresh off a battle with [[RealityWarper Proteus]], the X-Men are plunged into a battle with the mysterious [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]], while [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Phoenix]], just back from a vacation in Greece and Scotland, finds herself psychically shifting in time to a Revolutionary War-era ancestor, who's engaged to a mysterious, [[EvilIsSexy roguishly handsome]] man named [[RealNameAsAnAlias Jason Wyngarde]].
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Fresh off a battle with [[RealityWarper Proteus]], the X-Men are plunged into a battle with the mysterious [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]], while [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Phoenix]], just back from a vacation in Greece and Scotland, finds herself psychically shifting in time to a Revolutionary War-era ancestor, who's engaged to a mysterious, [[EvilIsSexy roguishly handsome]] handsome man named [[RealNameAsAnAlias Jason Wyngarde]].
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->''"[[WebAnimation/MarvelTLDR TL;DR]]: Hell hath no fury like a woman possessed by the fire bird of ultimate destruction."''
->''"[[WebAnimation/MarvelTLDR TL;DR]]: Hell hath no fury like a woman possessed by the fire bird of ultimate destruction."''
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* AllAccordingToPlan: After Jean blasts herself to death, Scott wonders if she'd ''planned'' everything, including the fight with the Imperial Guard, simply so she could figure out a way to kill herself.
* AuthorCatchphrase: Mastermind continually refers to how he has ensnared Jean "body and soul", a common phrase in Claremont works.
* BerserkButton: During the fight on the Moon, the Kree observer Bel-Dann saves the Skrull observer Raksor from the X-Men, which just results in the Skrull attacking him. Admittedly, Kree and Skrull ''despise'' one another even on a good day.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Leland has the ability to manipulate gravity. In his rematch with Wolverine, he uses it again on instinct as Wolverine is lunging towards him from above.
** The fight with the Shi'ar takes place in the Blue Area of the Moon, a city built by the ancient Kree millions of years ago, so the X-Men can breath, but the gravity's still much lower. Angel takes off for a test flight and nearly kills himself.
** Leland has the ability to manipulate gravity. In his rematch with Wolverine, he uses it again on instinct as Wolverine is lunging towards him from above.
** The fight with the Shi'ar takes place in the Blue Area of the Moon, a city built by the ancient Kree millions of years ago, so the X-Men can breath, but the gravity's still much lower. Angel takes off for a test flight and nearly kills himself.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Jean's Black Queen outfit, which is her in a corset, underwear, gloves and a spiked collar, while carrying a whip (which goes unused for whipping, but she does slap Storm in the face with it)
* FaceFramedInShadow: Mastermind finds himself face to face with a very angry and now cosmically powered Jean Grey, her face entirely blacked out, except for her eyes, which are glowing.
* ForTheEvulz: Dark Phoenix attacks the X-Men as they're fleeing the mess of the Hellfire Club for no reason other than she just ''wants'' to.
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* JerkassBall: The Professor puts the X-Men through harsh training and treats them like children, even though by this point they have proven to be a formidable team. Scott tries pointing out to the Professor that what he's doing just won't work, but Xavier retorts that this is Scott's ''fault'', and he'll need to "correct" it. Later issues [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this behaviour when Charles admits that he's fully aware the X-Men have grown without him, and Scott's become the leader he's always wanted him to be, but this left the older man unsure of where his place in the team is, and his lashing out is just an expression of his frustration and uncertainty.
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* JerkassBall: The Professor puts the X-Men through harsh training and treats them like children, even though by this point they have proven to be a formidable team. Scott tries pointing out to the Professor that what he's doing just won't work, but Xavier retorts that this is Scott's ''fault'', and he'll need to "correct" it. Later issues [[JustifiedTrope justify]] explore this behaviour when Charles admits that he's fully aware the X-Men have grown without him, and Scott's become the leader he's always wanted him to be, but this left the older man unsure of where his place in the team is, and his lashing out is just an expression of his frustration and uncertainty.
* MoodSwinger: Another problem with Dark Phoenix is she can go from calm to psychotically violent on a dime. Even Jean's family nearly get fried when she makes a brief return home.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: After Wolverine's sent plummeting through the floors of the Hellfire Club, they send a few henchmen to find him. As they're exploring, one guard remarks that he must certainly have drowned. Then he notices the drips falling off the ceiling...
* PowerIncontinence: By the time she's Dark Phoenix, Jean's psychic powers are so strong she can't turn them off at all, and is therefore picking up the deepest thoughts of everyone around her.
* PowerLimiter: The X-Men ''try'' to make one of these to contain Jean. It doesn't work; even when it's on and working, it just slows her down from "RealityWarper" to "PhysicalGod". And then it ''melts''.
* PowerLimiter: The X-Men ''try'' to make one of these to contain Jean. It doesn't work; even when it's on and working, it just slows her down from "RealityWarper" to "PhysicalGod". And then it ''melts''.
* RunningGag: Even in the midst of the heavy stuff, the gag of various vehicles being trashed when the X-Men go near them still happens, a fact Nightcrawler even calls out as it happens.
* ScrewYourUltimatum: In the fight on the Moon, some of the team meet Warstar, who offers them a choice between honorable surrender or honorable ''death''. Wolverine speaks for the team when he tells them to stuff their offer.
* ShoutOut: Gladiator has always been a CaptainErsatz of Superboy, just as the rest of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard have been of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the fact's given a not-even-remotely subtle nod when the narration calls him "a man of steel".
* StakingTheLovedOne: The cold choice; kill Dark Phoenix before she kills everyone else. Wolverine tries early on, but can't bring himself to do it, and during the showdown on the Moon admits he still can't. None of the other X-Men can either, but Jean solves the problem herself.
* StakingTheLovedOne: The cold choice; kill Dark Phoenix before she kills everyone else. Wolverine tries early on, but can't bring himself to do it, and during the showdown on the Moon admits he still can't. None of the other X-Men can either, but Jean solves the problem herself.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Tragically averted at the conclusion of the story.
-->'''Professor X:''' Cyclops, attack Phoenix now, while she is still relatively weak!\\
'''Cyclops:''' Professor, there has to be some other way! Please!\\
'''Professor X:''' If there was, lad, don't you think I'd be using it?
-->'''Professor X:''' Cyclops, attack Phoenix now, while she is still relatively weak!\\
'''Cyclops:''' Professor, there has to be some other way! Please!\\
'''Professor X:''' If there was, lad, don't you think I'd be using it?
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* TheShadowKnows: After escaping from the nightclub in a stolen car, the X-Men drive past Jason Wyngarde, who casts a shadow on the wall that was not his own. Cyclops half-noticed it, but had too many things on his mind to pay it much heed.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Mastermind goes from a guy who can merely scare his opponents with fake monsters to almost destroying the X-Men all by himself. His powers are now boosted by a device made my Emma Frost, allowing him to project his illusions directly into Jean's mind and corrupt her over a period of months.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Mastermind goes from Mastermind, previously a guy who can could merely scare his opponents with fake monsters to monsters, almost destroying destroys the X-Men all by himself. His powers are now boosted by a device made my by Emma Frost, allowing him to project his illusions directly into Jean's mind and corrupt her over a period of months.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Mastermind goes from being a guy who can do nothing but scare his opponents with fake monsters to almost destroying the X-Men all by himself.
** He did have a lot of help this time -- a device made my Emma Frost allowed him to project his illusions directly into Jean's mind to corrupt her over a period of months.
** He did have a lot of help this time -- a device made my Emma Frost allowed him to project his illusions directly into Jean's mind to corrupt her over a period of months.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Mastermind goes from being a guy who can do nothing but merely scare his opponents with fake monsters to almost destroying the X-Men all by himself.
** He did have a lot of help this time --himself. His powers are now boosted by a device made my Emma Frost allowed Frost, allowing him to project his illusions directly into Jean's mind to and corrupt her over a period of months.
** He did have a lot of help this time --
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** A few pages later, the Imperial Guard itself at the hands of Dark Phoenix. It happens so quickly that it's not shown on the page and we only see their unconscious bodies.
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** The two "impartial observers" who are sent to supervise the duel turn out to be fully supportive of Lilandra's cause and attack Wolverine.
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** The two "impartial observers" who are sent to supervise the duel turn out to be fully supportive of Lilandra's cause and attack Wolverine. The galactic powers who sent them gave their support to Lilandra of the duel only if it was not permitted for the X-Men to win.
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[[note]]Two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. Both are textbook InNameOnly adaptations.[[/note]]
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[[note]]* Two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' adapted the storyline as a four-episode arc in its third season. The arc was largely faithul to the original comic with a few LighterAndSofter edits to make it more family-friendly and to allow Jean to be SparedByTheAdaptation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' adapted the storyline as a four-episode arc in its third season. The arc was largely faithul to the original comic with a few had LighterAndSofter edits to make it more family-friendly and to allow Jean to be SparedByTheAdaptation.
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Since its original publication, this story has been adapted several times:
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Since its original publication, this story has been extremely loosely adapted several times:
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* Two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. While the former only incorporated part of the Saga into its plot, [[TruerToTheText the latter used a few more elements from it]] while being more grounded than the comics' epic scale.
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* AdultFear: The Prydes are understandably shaken when their daughter goes out for a malt with some strangers, then learn that the malt shop has been attacked and blown up.
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* TheBusCameBack: Beast and Angel, who had been serving on other teams, returned for the latter half of the story.
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* TheBusCameBack: Beast and Angel, who had been serving on other teams, teams (Comicbook/TheAvengers and the Comicbook/{{Champions|1975}}, respectively), returned for the latter half of the story.
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* DeathIsCheap: Originally meant to be explicitly averted by all involved -- Jean Grey was to stay dead. Madelyne Pryor was intended to be just what she presented herself as -- a normal human who just happened to have an uncanny resemblance to Jean. Unfortunately, it was decided about six years later that the original five X-Men should have their own book, and there had to be a way to bring Jean back. This led to the continuity trainwreck that was ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}'', and opened the door for the "Jean Grey Memorial Revolving Pearly Gates" jokes.
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* DeathIsCheap: Originally meant to be explicitly averted by all involved -- Jean Grey was to stay dead. Madelyne Pryor was intended to be just what she presented herself as -- a normal human who just happened to have an uncanny resemblance to Jean. Unfortunately, it was decided about six years later that the original five X-Men should have their own book, and there had to be a way to bring Jean back. This led to the continuity trainwreck that was ''ComicBook/{{Inferno}}'', ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'', and opened the door for the "Jean Grey Memorial Revolving Pearly Gates" jokes.
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Since its original publication, this story has been adapted in two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. While the former only incorporated part of the Saga into its plot, [[TruerToTheText the latter used a bit more elements from it]] while being more grounded than the comics' epic scale. To mark the release of the 2019 movie, the story was also adapted as a full-length novel by writer Stuart Moore in May 2019.
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Since its original publication, this story has been adapted several times:
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' adapted the storyline as a four-episode arc intwo its third season. The arc was largely faithul to the original comic with a few LighterAndSofter edits to make it more family-friendly and to allow Jean to be SparedByTheAdaptation.
* Two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. While the former only incorporated part of the Saga into its plot, [[TruerToTheText the latter used abit few more elements from it]] while being more grounded than the comics' epic scale. scale.
* To mark the release of the 2019 movie, the story was also adapted as a full-length novel by writer Stuart Moore in May 2019.
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' adapted the storyline as a four-episode arc in
* Two films of the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series: 2006's ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'', and 2019's ''Film/DarkPhoenix''. While the former only incorporated part of the Saga into its plot, [[TruerToTheText the latter used a
* To mark the release of the 2019 movie, the story was also adapted as a full-length novel by writer Stuart Moore in May 2019.
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* LightEmUp: This story arc introduces Dazzler, a mutant with the power to convert sound waves into luminous energy. Though she mainly uses her power to create special effects for her concerts, she can also generate intense bursts of light to either blind her enemies or overwhelm their senses, plunging them into a coma.
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Incorrect. All members of the Hellfire Club other than Emma, Sebastian and Leland are normal humans and express a strong dislike for mutants. The issue in which Jean becomes the Dark Phoenix even plants the seeds of the anti-mutant hysteria that would become important in subsequent story arcs, since Mastermind's illusions and Shaw's manipulation of Kelly and the police end up worsening the reputation of the X-Men.
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* LostAesop: The X-Men's usual "protect a world that fears and hates them" schtick was pretty much forgotten about for this story, as their antagonists were either mutants, former teammates, or aliens. However, the {{Aesop}} of the story itself, that [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power corrupts]], was firmly held onto.
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Wrong. Mrs. Pryde wasn't scolding Kitty, she was surprised to see the young girl laying on the floor. The concerned father even offers Kitty a glass of water immediately afterwards.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Kitty's parents don't make a necessarily great showing of themselves in their first appearance, with Mrs. Pryde snapping at Kitty for lying on the floor, a few minutes after she's said she had a nasty headache.
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* RiggedSpectacleFight: Professor X and Lilandra agree to settle Jean Grey's fate through a formal duel between their respective teams, which they watch aboard the Empire's space ship. As the battle progresses, it becomes clear that it was blatantly rigged against the X-Men:
** Cyclops points out at the beginning of the duel that they have no idea what their opponents are capable of. However, the aliens outright state that they know exactly what the heroes' powers are and how to counter them.
** The chosen arena is the Blue Area of the Moon, whose low gravity and lack of atmosphere severely disrupt Angel and Storm's powers, respectively.
** One of the Imperial Guards is revealed to actually be two separate aliens who can combine and disassemble at will, thus turning the 8v8 match into a 9v8.
** The Imperial Guard's knowledge of the battlefield enables them to trick a Watcher into assisting them, as the enraged entity psychically assaults Wolverine when the latter is hurled into its home.
** The two "impartial observers" who are sent to supervise the duel turn out to be fully supportive of Lilandra's cause and attack Wolverine.
** Cyclops points out at the beginning of the duel that they have no idea what their opponents are capable of. However, the aliens outright state that they know exactly what the heroes' powers are and how to counter them.
** The chosen arena is the Blue Area of the Moon, whose low gravity and lack of atmosphere severely disrupt Angel and Storm's powers, respectively.
** One of the Imperial Guards is revealed to actually be two separate aliens who can combine and disassemble at will, thus turning the 8v8 match into a 9v8.
** The Imperial Guard's knowledge of the battlefield enables them to trick a Watcher into assisting them, as the enraged entity psychically assaults Wolverine when the latter is hurled into its home.
** The two "impartial observers" who are sent to supervise the duel turn out to be fully supportive of Lilandra's cause and attack Wolverine.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LogoJoke This]] may or may not be a metaphor for [[ContinuitySnarl what she did to the franchise.]][[note]][[http://clzimages.com/comic/large/b6/b6_94511_0_UncannyXMen56WhatIsThePower.jpg She wasn't even the first to do this trick]].[[/note]]]]
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Rewording example, since Claremont's narration implies that Colossus and Gladiator were somewhat evenly matched : "Two men of steel — One an irresistible force, the other an immovable object"
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