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| 16 | ->''"I was reborn before all life could die\ |
| 17 | The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly\ |
| 18 | If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I"'' |
| 19 | -->-- '''Music/EltonJohn''', "Grey Seal" |
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| 21 | The Phoenix is an ancient and well known symbol of death and rebirth and is an idea that is found all over Asia and Europe. It's portrayed as a magnificent bird with a plumage of fiery colors and also with fiery powers or in some stories, a bird actually made of living flames. |
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| 23 | The Phoenix of the Phoenician myth was an immortal bird that could regenerate from any injury. At a certain time, the Phoenix would make a nest of cinnamon sticks, and then self-immolate, burning to [[AshesToAshes ashes]], from which a new Phoenix was born. |
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| 25 | Traditionally [[SingleSpecimenSpecies this is not a species; there is usually only one Phoenix]] (video games and other modern fantasy works [[AKindOfOne may beg to differ, but that's another story]]). More modern depictions will take this and run with it, depicting the phoenix as an EndangeredSpecies, with the single specimen often being the LastOfItsKind. Unlike most other mythical beings, it's not immortal, instead it lives, ages, lays one single egg and burns itself up, after which the heat of its self-cremation causes the egg to hatch. Alternatively, the new Phoenix may born directly from the ashes of its predecessor. As a result of this cycle of resurrection, the Phoenix is often used a symbol of rebirth and renewal, and especially of new growth returning after destruction. In the Middle Ages, it also became a symbol of the soul rising from the demise of the physical body. |
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| 27 | Stories don't agree whether the bird from the egg is a new phoenix or [[BornAgainImmortality the same individual]]. As goes with the death/rebirth theme, it's often intentionally left unclear. |
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| 29 | Other ideas include that its [[SwissArmyTears tears]] or song have healing powers. Phoenixes in modern fantasy may sometimes be given [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]] of varying sorts, unlike the original Phoenix whose connection to fire began and ended with its centennial self-immolation. A rare variant is the ice phoenix, who uses ice or ColdFlames in the same manner in which regular phoenixes use fire; these are usually a variant of phoenixes associated with cold environments instead of deserts. |
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| 31 | The Phoenix is sometimes equated or associated with a number of other myths about fiery or divine birds. The Egyptian Bennu, a heron-like bird associated with the sun and the creation of the world, is believed to be at least partly ancestral to the Greek phoenix. The Chinese Fènghuáng (or Houou to the Japanese) is often referred to as the Chinese Phoenix, but similarities between the two myths are fairly superficial -- the Fenghuang lacks any particular association with fire or renewal, and is instead typically linked to celestial bodies, the Chinese empress, and the Chinese dragon, which serves as its male counterpart. Other sometimes-associated myths include the Vermilion Bird [[TheFourGods Suzaku]] and the Firebird of Russian folklore, whose feathers glow like flame. When treated as an actively pyrokinetic creature, it may also be contrasted with or compared to the {{Thunderbird}}. LightningFireJuxtaposition is likely a factor in this. |
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| 33 | A common plot device is to have the protagonist first meet the phoenix as a sickly, dying pet of someone important. When the bird unexpectedly catches fire, circumstances lead the protagonist to expect said important person to blame them. However, just as they're cringing and apologizing, TheReveal comes that this is a phoenix, going through its rebirth cycle. |
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| 35 | See BirthDeathJuxtaposition for a plot that reflects this {{motif|s}}. See BornAgainImmortality for other characters with the ability to be reborn after death. See also {{Ouroboros}}, another ancient symbol of immortality/eternity. See HotWings for other wings of fire. The flames of a phoenix or similar being can be considered a type of {{Sacred Flame|s}} due to its special properties. |
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| 37 | !!Examples: |
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| 41 | * ''Franchise/{{Beyblade}}'': The two true phoenixes are Burn Phoenix 135MS,[[note]]Renamed Burn Fireblaze 135MS outside Japan, possibly for copyright reasons.[[/note]] which is wielded by the appropriately name Phoenix in ''Anime/BeybladeMetalFusion'', and Thief Phoenix [=E230GCF=], which is wielded by Ren Kurenai in ''Anime/BeybladeShogunSteel''. Additionally, Kai's bit-beast Suzaku aka Dranzer from ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' is modeled after the Suzaku of TheFourGods. Dranzer got a ShoutOut in ''Metal Fight Beyblade Zero-G'', in which Kai's {{expy}} Karura wields Guardian Garudas with the titular Garudas being a phoenix-like reimagining of Garuda. This concept would be used again in ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'' with Maximum Garuda 8Flow Flugel owned by Ghasem Madal. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Execution in Soul Society is done in Sokyoku Hill, where the titular Sokyoku, a phoenix-like creature, normally rests as a spear tethered by several ropes. During the execution, the ropes are cut, causing the Sokyoku to transform into its true form and incinerate the prisoner, [[DeaderThanDead eliminating their soul from the cycle of reincarnation forever]]. However, it is not invulnerable; when Rukia is about to be executed for transforming Ichigo into a Soul Reaper, Kyoraku and Ukitake fight and seemingly destroy the creature for good. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/BtX'': Je T'aime, Fou Lafine's B't. Notably, its powers had little to do with fire and instead focus on using sonic weaponry to disable enemies. |
| 44 | * The titular protagonist of ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is often likened to a phoenix, due to his ability to perform miracles and turn the tide of seemingly impossible matches in the direst of moments. The 2018 anime and some videogame adaptations even give the strongest version of his Drive Shoot a phoenix AnimalBattleAura. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': A phoenix is the Mad Sorcerer's personal guard dog outside his home at the lowest level of the dungeon. Instead of being reborn, it has unlimited ResurrectiveImmortality by exploding into flame, making it nearly unbeatable. However, Laios and his party find a way to permanently kill it through ''very'' [[EatingTheEnemy unconventional means]] (but standard for them). |
| 46 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': |
| 47 | ** Zhuqiaomon, one of the Four Sovereigns, who are based on TheFourGods. Thus, he ''is'' the Vermilion Bird. He's something of a KnightTemplar, it turns out. (Azulongmon, aka the Azure Dragon, has to cool him down. Via an epic battle between gods.) There's also a Phoenixmon (also known as Hououmon) who is seen briefly in one episode. |
| 48 | ** Biyomon and her evolutionary line from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has very clear phoenix influence, with all of them being brightly colored birds associated with fire. In fact, the aforementioned Phoenixmon is her mega form. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'': As an early gag, the Muten Roshi calls the Immortal Phoenix to grant Son Goku immortality as a reward for saving Umigame/Sea Turtle. However, the Immortal Phoenix does not appear since it died from food poisoning a year ago. Bulma lampshades it. |
| 50 | * ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Suzaku, one of the four gods of heaven and earth, is represented by a Phoenix. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': This is the motif of the team's ship (God Phoenix & New God Phoenix) in the first and second series. Averted with the Gatchaspartan in Gatchaman Fighter [[spoiler:but brought back in the last episode finale, where it's implied that Dr. Nambu had the Gatchaspartan modified to enable a Firebird mode on it just like its predecessor ships, and conveniently unlocked by the pendant Ken was carrying at the time]]. While the team's individual Bird styles are fashioned after different birds, the combined team's true motif is that of the Phoenix itself; this is implied by the team's main ship motif in the first and second series, and driven home (''literally so, as well!'') in the third series' finale. |
| 52 | %%* ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'': Episode 7 is centered around finding a Phoenix. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': Rune God Windam is a green, wind controlling Phoenix that eventually dons with Fuu Hououji (name translates to "Wind of Phoenix Temple"). Augmenting with the Phoenix theme, Fuu herself is the only character that learns a healing spell (and Windam boosts that further). |
| 54 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': A very short-lived [[MonsterOfTheWeek Jewel Seed Monster]] takes this form during the period after Nanoha meets up with the [[TheFederation Time-Space Administration Bureau]]. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamNarrative'': The Gundam Phenex, the last of the three RX-0 Unicorn Gundams, is named after the Ars Goetia phoenix demon mentioned below. Unlike its two sibling units which are white and black, respectively, this one is decked out entirely in [[GoldColoredSuperiority golden armor]] and has a pair of [[AttackDrone Armed Armor DE units]] shaped like folded wings attached to its back as boosters, allowing it to fly around at SuperSpeed. In fact, the Phenex never uses any of its actual engines during its entire screentime, relying solely on its psycoframe BattleAura as a ReactionlessDrive. The entire movie is about the Federation and Zeon both trying to seize or destroy it since, as a Unicorn unit, it has the potential to become a RealityWarper [[TheSingularity Singularity]] in the hands of a sufficiently powerful Newtype. During its first field test, it suddenly went berserk, attacked its mothership and disappeared along with its pilot; it is later revealed that [[spoiler:said pilot, Rita Bernal, foresaw the events of the movie and [[HauntedTechnology merged her mind into the Phenex]] in order to stop the Neo Zeong's rampage down the line. Once that task is accomplished, she simply flies off into deep space]]. |
| 56 | ** For extra points, [[spoiler:Rita]] expresses a belief in reincarnation several times in the movie and that once it's [[spoiler:her]] turn, [[spoiler:she]] would like to become a bird. |
| 57 | * ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': In the anime adaptation, the protagonists travel around trying to find the Phoenix, the only monster capable of defeating Moo, and restore the deceased monsters to life. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': While there hasn't been an actual phoenix shown, there's a [[{{Animorphism}} Zoan]] [[PowerUpFood Devil Fruit]] which allows the user to become a phoenix. Marco, Whitebeard's 1st Division Commander, has eaten this fruit. ''One Piece'''s version creates and is made of blue flames and has incredible recovery powers, as demonstrated when Marco shields Whitebeard from Kizaru's beams. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'' combines the mythos with themes of {{Reincarnation}}. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'': [[spoiler:[[MonsterLord The royal family of monsters]]]] is actually made out of these. [[spoiler:They can only become an adult phoenix by receiving blessing from THE only adult phoenix, [[HiveMind and then merging into one creature]], just like the myth above. And they gain complete immortality by becoming adults. ]] This is the driving force of the plot: [[spoiler:Since becoming adult phoenix means complete immortality, the siblings must kill each other because there only can be one winner per generation.]] A physical body of a immature royal family usually is as weak as a human, unless they train themselves so hard like Gilliam does. [[BloodMagic Their blood is also magical]], [[LivingOnBorrowedTime it temporarily revives a dead being]], gives it temporary immortality for a few days. After a few days, whoever drank the blood of the royal family must drink it again, but a single drop is more than enough for the next few days. Those who drink a royal's blood are called Blood Warriors, and only few personally chosen by said royals can be one, and becoming a Blood Warrior is considered one of the greatest honor in the universe, as personal bodyguard of the royal. Much later in the story, as phoenix is a being closely tied with fire, [[spoiler:the royal family do can unlock their fire powers without have to be adult phoenix, and capable of upgrading their Blood Warrior into Flame Warrior by putting an eternal flame into their warriors body, and unlike Blood Warriors, a Flame Warrior is not completely dependent on the royal he/she serves, as the flame will never run out of effect, unlike the blood. A Flame Warrior is also capable giving their flame toother Blood Warrior, as Keziah did to Madeline. A talented member of the royal family also capable of turning into half-phoenix-harpy-like being, just like [[http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/3601/13-058.0/compressed/nprincess_resurrection_v13_c58_130_131.jpg Emil,]] even though he is NOT immortal because he never become an adult and already die, killed by his own vassal [[WingedHumanoid Sledge.]] [[http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/3601/20-087.0/compressed/jkaibutsuoujo087_001.jpg Hime too is capable of turning into a semi-phoenix being]] by absorbing her past and future selves , in order to defeat Sylvia who already absorbed Fuhito and both are very powerful to begin with, and cancelled both of her own and Sylvia's powers. After that, Lilianne, Sylvia, and Fuhito, who already lost their royal powers, [[HornedHumanoid is seen with some kind of horns on their heads]].]] |
| 61 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 62 | ** A [[{{Gonk}} parody of the bird]] shows up in one story (here called 鳳凰, Hōō, same as the Chinese Fenghuang), where a fat, round, ugly chick hatches from an egg [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday purchased by Kuno]] and imprints on the first thing it sees -- namely Ranma -- and determines it to be its mortal enemy. HilarityEnsues. |
| 63 | ** The subject is treated somewhat more seriously with the final enemy in the series, the [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Phoenix]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Emperor Saffron]], ruler of Mt. Phoenix to the south of Jusenkyo. Not only is he, like all his people, a WingedHumanoid with talons for hands and feet, but he [[PlayingWithFire can generate raw flame]] from his BattleAura and [[HealingFactor regenerate]] from ''[[NighInvulnerability any injury]]'' through his phoenix flame... up to and including having his head frozen solid or his entire body shattered into a million pieces (which merely causes him to be [[BornAgainImmortality reborn as an egg]].) |
| 64 | ** The myth is first referenced in the Cat's Tongue[=/=]Phoenix Pill storyline, wherein Cologne makes Ranma incapable of withstanding ''any'' amount of heat--thereby locking him in female form, since he needs hot water to become male again. She blackmails him by offering the "Phoenix Pill" (不死鳥, Fushichō, "immortal[=/=]undying bird", a literal synonym of phoenix), which would make him ''impervious'' to heat, or at least restore him to normal, in exchange for marrying her great-granddaughter Shampoo. |
| 65 | --->''''Akane:''' "Phoenix Pill? As in, the bird that's reborn in flames?"\ |
| 66 | '''Shampoo:''' "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Champion of heat resistance]]!" |
| 67 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Ikki has the Phoenix Cloth, and like the bird could come BackFromTheDead [[CameBackStrong only to get stronger each time]]. The Phoenix Cloth itself is explicitly said to be immortal, and could regenerate (as well as its wearer) within the incredible heat of volcanoes. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/YuGiOh'': One of [[PhysicalGod The Winged Dragon of Ra's]] powers is turning into a Phoenix and destroying any monster on the opponent's field. [[YourMindMakesItReal If it's during a Shadow Game]], [[{{Synchronization}} this usually destroys the opponent's mind as well]]. |
| 69 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Yusuke's BattleAura during the final battle in the Dark Tournament [[AnimalBattleAura manifests as a flaming blue phoenix]]. In addition, [[spoiler:after Yusuke's death at the hands of Sensui and his rebirth as the Mazoku, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Puu]]'s true form]] turns out to be a tremendous blue phoenix. |
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| 73 | * ''TabletopGame/ResArcana'': The Phoenix card in the ''Perlae Imperii'' ExpansionPack can destroy itself to generate four Elan and let you ignore an attack (symbolizing its TakingTheBullet for you and fiery death) and place it on top of your deck (so it can easily be "reborn"). |
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| 77 | * ''TabletopGame/DuelMasters'' has two kinds of [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Phoenix phoenixes]]; your standard fiery birds that can resurrect, and... planet-sized [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] with [[CelestialBody Celestial Bodies]]. (To say nothing of [[https://duelmasters.fandom.com/wiki/Meteorshower_Auroratheater Meteorshower Auroratheater]], a giant, feathered, snake-haired, long-tongued floating face that runs a theater troupe.) The latter two would count as phoenixes InNameOnly, except it's stated all of these disparate phoenixes are said to all originate from the same source, an entity called the Idea Phoenix. |
| 78 | * ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'': The Phoenix is the symbol of the Phoenix Clan. |
| 79 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Phoenixes are a Red creature type depicted both as red-gold eagle-like birds with a fire motif and as birds made of living flame. As expected of the phoenix, they all have some way of coming back from the Graveyard if they're killed, doing so either automatically or for a cost in mana. |
| 80 | ** The phoenixes of Ixalan resemble owls and are believed to messengers of the sun god in its destructive form, symboling both the terrible power of fire and heat and the new growth that comes afterwards. |
| 81 | ** [[https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/21/lightning-phoenix Lightning Phoenix]] and Ravnica's [[https://scryfall.com/card/grn/91/arclight-phoenix Arclight Phoenix]] are unusual examples of phoenixes connected to lightning rather than to flame, while the [[https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/137/lamplight-phoenix Lamplight Phoenix]] is made out of plasma. |
| 82 | ** The phoenixes of Theros lay just one egg over the course of their centuries-long lives. As its life comes to a close, the phoenix hurls itself into a volcano; on that same day, the egg hatches into a new phoenix. |
| 83 | ** The phoenixes of the Plane of Mountains and Seas are more closely based on the Fenghuang, meaning that they do not resurrect. They are however still prone to burning others alive, in contrast to the mythical bird, which had no specific connection to flame. |
| 84 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sacred_Phoenix_of_Nephthys Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys]]. |
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| 88 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': One mini-comic has the Penguin theming a series of thefts after the phoenix, eventually creating a fire-breathing robot called the "penguin phoenix". |
| 89 | * ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'': One story has a man using ashes of the Phoenix egg as a medicine to keep himself immortal. When his date overdoses herself by sniffing it all in, he tries to find a new egg for himself. While he does find the resting place of the Phoenix and gets more ashes, he is too impatient to wait for them to cool down and burns to death. |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': A one-shot story mentioned that the new phoenix hatches from a white egg, but the burned phoenix actually produces two; the other is black and no one knows what there is inside. |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/TheSentry'': The titular character has vaguely Phoenix-like attributes (leading to further EpilepticTrees on what he actually is), in that he consistently dies and comes back, as strong as before, and has a deep connection to fire/the sun. |
| 92 | * ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': In "Generations" Diana follows a phoenix to take its egg as a present for her mother when it completes its rebirth. ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} follows her and tries desperately to steal the egg thinking Wondy's interest means the tales of the things granting immortality is true. It turns out it's little more than a pretty decoration and Diana wants it for her mother since she broke the phoenix egg that inspired her mother to make her when she was young. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/{{Swordquest}}'': In ''Swordquest: Fireworld'', Tarra fights and briefly rides a giant fire hawk. |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 95 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]], depending on the continuity or even [[{{Retcon}} the writer at the moment in the main continuity]], is either the Phoenix itself (later [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the Dark Phoenix]]), [[GrandTheftMe possessed by it]], or replaced and impersonated by it at some point. She keeps an equally variable [[TouchedByVorlons connection]] to it from her return onwards. The Phoenix wasn't even originally intended to give her an ability to come BackFromTheDead. Becoming the Phoenix in the ''first'' place was considered her "death and rebirth." None of this helped her overall reputation much, and by now she has become the poster child for DeathIsCheap even by comic book standards, to the point that whenever she's in mortal danger, both readers ''and other characters'' don't really care all that much, though they might be concerned about her occasionally [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] with her SuperpoweredEvilSide active. Even her epitaph lampshaded it: "she will rise again." As of 2018, following ''ComicBook/PhoenixResurrection'', she's back and sane, with [[spoiler:the Phoenix having departed after Jean flatly told it to leave her alone.]] |
| 96 | *** The same goes for Jean's KidFromTheFuture, [[Characters/XMen80sMembers Rachel Summers]], who keeps the motif even after ditching the actual cosmic critter itself. Rachel's connection with the Phoenix isn't in a constant state of {{retcon}} like her mother's, though: she and the Phoenix were merged for years, then separated via a fairly complicated (though simple by Summers/Grey family standards) TimeTravel storyline. She also never went [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Dark Phoenix]] like Jean, despite generally being more the hot-tempered of the two, but she came close to it a couple of times. |
| 97 | *** One of Jean's other children, [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]] -- not quite from the future, instead [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]]'s counterpart from the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' -- has never been explicitly a Phoenix host. It was hinted a few times, with the Phoenix raptor forming around him more than once, and it being bluntly stated from the start that he was as powerful as the Dark Phoenix, but more as a comparison. However, death and rebirth motifs, usually related to the fact that he was slowly dying from PowerDeGeneration, followed him wherever he went, and he ultimately pulled an actual death and rebirth worthy of his mother in ''Dark X-Men''. Twice. |
| 98 | ** [[Characters/GenerationHope Hope Summers]], the Mutant Messiah, was foreshadowed as a Phoenix host quite literally from birth, with the Phoenix raptor frequently being seen glowing in her eyes. And when her powers finally manifested, a Phoenix raptor formed around her as she obliterated Bastion and a dome of energy that had been shrugging off the best the Avengers could throw at it for most of a day, in a split-second. This led to a lot of speculation as to who and what she really was, it being clear that she wasn't just an average mutant -- the Phoenix in human form, the reincarnation of Jean Grey herself (speculation restarted after an encounter with Teen Jean revealed that they looked identical)... no one was really sure. The ultimate answer seems to have been that her birth was arranged by the Phoenix to restart mutantkind and undo M-Day, which she ultimately did at the end of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' -- and the resemblance may just have been because the Phoenix likes Jean. Since then, however, there's been no real sign of anything Phoenix related going on with her, with the closest she's come being her involvement in Teen Jean's struggles with the entity. |
| 99 | ** Various other characters have also been hosts for the Phoenix, but it's always been either an extremely temporary situation or happened in ancient history. Even [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]! [[spoiler:But not really. He was using the gadgetry that allowed the robot Rachel of some ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur|MarvelComics}}'' impostors to make it ''look'' good. Thus the costume change]]. |
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| 103 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': |
| 104 | ** The [[ComicBook/XMen Phoenix Force]] is [[CompositeCharacter merged]] with [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Destruction of the Endless]]. After seventy chapters of hints, Chapter 71 spectacularly and violently confirms that Harry's protection comes from the Phoenix Force, which can act through him when required, while Chapter 78 confirms that Lily [[spoiler:merged with the Phoenix as part of the deal, becoming the White Phoenix of the Crown]]. After that, Harry increasingly uses the phoenix motif in both magical and psychic battles, and is revealed to be able to tap into the power of that protection - though for various reasons, that is widely and correctly considered to be a ''very'' bad idea. |
| 105 | ** The TragicVillain of one of the major arcs of ''Ghosts of the Past'' is the Dark Phoenix, a.k.a. [[spoiler:Harry]], who is, thankfully, talked down in time. It's also revealed that the original Dark Phoenix [[spoiler:a.k.a. Surtur]] ''wasn't'' talked down, ate a galaxy, and is the GreaterScopeVillain for ''Ghosts''. |
| 106 | * ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfSpyroANewDawn'': Phoenixes were the previous inhabitants of Empress Tyrania's kingdom, whom she drove into extinction; they had ResurrectiveImmortality provided that their body was cremated in a volcano and exposed to sunlight, so Tyrania blocked out the sun over the volcano to prevent them from coming back to life. Siria, their queen, appears as a spirit and acts as Ember's SpiritAdvisor and tells her how to revive the Phoenix race by defeating Tyrania. |
| 107 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics: |
| 108 | ** ''Fanfic/ChroniclesOfHarmonysEnd'': Harmony is the TopGod of the setting, and possibly ''the'' phoenix. [[spoiler:Array and Discord "kill" him in a specific way -- by sealing his essence -- to ensure that he cannot be reborn]]. |
| 109 | ** ''Fanfic/EquestriaDivided'': House Moon and Star uses firebirds, living magical constructs modeled after phoenixes and altered to be larger, more powerful and more aggressive; however, unlike true phoenixes, firebirds can only resurrect once. |
| 110 | ** ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'', and consequently its {{Recursive Fanfiction}}s, feature balefire phoenixes, green-feathered descendants of regular phoenixes corrupted by the balefire bombs and [[RadiationImmuneMutants healed by radiation]]. |
| 111 | --->'''Steelhooves:''' The Manehattan Gardens was the largest wildlife sanctuary of its kind, home to the most exotic and admired creatures. All of which were instantly cremated when the zebras' balefire bomb detonated. Of course, a phoenix doesn't exactly have the same relationship with being turned to ash that most creatures do. |
| 112 | ** ''Fanfic/HeartOfTheForest'': [[spoiler:After Fluttershy kills the Shadow by expending all her magic, it bursts into flames and comes back to life, which {{roc|Birds}}s aren't normally supposed to do. Hawthorn later reveals that the Shadow, or Anqa, became the guardian spirit of the White-Tail Woods, and its magic brought him back to life.]] |
| 113 | ** ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': Phoenixes are native to the sun, in whose depths they're born again and again and again, eternally sustained by its fires. Immense flocks of phoenixes erupt from the sun during solar flares, typically either settling among the stars or heading out into the unknown cosmos beyond the bounds the setting's geocentric system, but a few land on the world below instead. The question of how undying creatures can reproduce without developing immense overpopulation issues is addressed -- the periodic solar eruptions keep the sun's population at a sustainable level, while ones without access to the sun's fires do ''not'' live forever. A single phoenix can only carry so much of the sun's fire in itself, and must pass it on to its offspring as they age. Philomena is a special case, as her bond with Princess Celestia gives her a direct link to the sun's magic. |
| 114 | ** ''Fanfic/PastSins'': Spike's baby phoenix, Peewee, is mentioned. |
| 115 | ** ''Fanfic/ThePiratePegasus'': Korsan owns an ice phoenix named Juliana that acts as a very exotic alternative to a PirateParrot. |
| 116 | * ''Fanfic/TheReturnToGravityFalls'': ''The'' phoenix -- the last one in existence -- shows up after crash-landing during a storm. |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/SentinelsOfChaos'': One of the gifts the Keyblade Masters receive is a magical phoenix that "reads the intentions of their hearts," so that the one who gave the phoenix to them can know if the Keyblade Masters are worthy for something more. Axel (reluctantly) takes ownership of the phoenix, originally calling her ''Dopey'', though after bonding with her later on, renames her to Pyranas. Interestingly, Dopey/Pyranas is treated as an actual character, rather than as a pet, and communicates through squawks and other bird noises (which are conveniently translated by the narrator) that the Keyblade Masters interpret and translate perfectly. And she also laughs at almost every pun, [[{{Pun}} regardless of quality.]] |
| 118 | * ''Fanfic/WithStrengthOfSteelWings'': Besides Fawkes as a carryover from canon, Harry gains the ability to [[spoiler:shapeshift into a Phoenix after he carves up a runic set dedicated to the Sun]]. |
| 119 | * In ''Fanfic/HeartsOfIce'', the Phoenix is portrayed as a giant scarlet bird whose burning nest is located on the top of a mountain in the realm of the souls of beasts. |
| 120 | -->'''Masakazu:''' "No other animal is crazy enough to want to return to the life they just departed. They are perfectly content to wait for reincarnation, and perhaps a better lot in the next life, but not the phoenix. Constantly burning herself up, being reborn, and burning herself up again. Just for fun. Absolutely bonkers, that bird." |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965'' is about a crashed plane being rebuilt by its desert-stranded passengers to fly again. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': This is implied to be the case with Mothra, who has a habit of laying an egg and then dying in the same film, then coming back in a later film after the egg hatches. |
| 126 | ** Interestingly, the franchise also has a resident monster with a "firebird" design motif in [[TerrorDactyl Rodan]] (In fact, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the earliest drafts of his]] [[Film/{{Rodan}} debut film]] had him as an archaeopteryx rather than a Pteranodon, and scrapped concept art for his appearance in the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' included feathers to homage this), though he lacks any of Mothra's resurrective powers. |
| 127 | * ''Film/AKnightsTale'': In a deleted scene, William suggests a phoenix as his heraldry as Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein, on grounds of A) the private {{symbolism}} of his incipient jousting career rising from the ashes of Sir Ector's, and B) Ector's white stag could be recognized and Roland and Wat's suggestion of a lion is overdone. Wat suggests three phoenixes as a compromise, to symbolize the whole group rather than just Will. |
| 128 | * ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'': Maleficent is revealed to be descended from the Phoenix, an ancient Dark Fey. She awakens her heritage when she sacrifices herself to save Aurora from being shot at by a crossbow. After Aurora cries over her ashes, they are revived back into Maleficent, this time as a phoenix. |
| 129 | * WesternAnimation/NIMONA2023: At first mentioned by [[CharacterTitle Nimona]] in a metaphorical manner, [[spoiler: before becoming literal in the finale. An EpilepticTree claims that Nimona deliberately [[VoluntaryShapeshifting chose the form of a phoenix]] for her HeroicSacrifice, in order to take advantage of BornAgainImmortality.]] |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Jack Horner keeps the Phoenix as part of his collection, depicted as a fire-breathing hawk-like bird with red and orange plumage. When Jack produces it while in the Black Forest, Ethical Bug marvels at its magnificent appearance... and is shocked when Jack uses it as a flamethrower against the giant flowers blocking his path. [[spoiler:The Phoenix later joins the bug in a TheDogBitesBack moment, as it sets fire to the last piece of the map to the Wishing Star, sealing Jack's demise.]] |
| 131 | * ''Film/Revenge2017'': The heroine has been LeftForDead by the villains, and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on a tree, but escapes by setting fire to the tree so that it eventually breaks under her weight. Later she heals her injuries by cutting open and flattening an aluminum beer can, [[HealItWithFire holding it over the fire and then pressing it against her wound]]. In doing so she inadvertently brands the beer can's logo on her flesh, which happens to be a phoenix. |
| 132 | * ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'': The first creatures Shang-Chi sees upon arrival at Ta-Lo are identifiably fenghuang (Chinese phoenixes). |
| 133 | * ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': The name of Zefram Cochrane's warp ship is "The Phoenix", implied to have been chosen to herald in a new era after the devestation of WorldWarIII. Little does Cochrane know that it does indeed lead the rebirth of human race, when his warp-jump leads to peaceful first contact with [[spoiler:the Vulcans]]. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 137 | * ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Tsukihi Araragi and more specifically the Dying Bird which she is possessed by (or simply is, it's hard to tell). The Dying Bird is a spiritual phoenix; when the host dies of age it reincarnates as another newborn and essentially lives again. Despite looking human Tsukihi is very much a supernatural creature and has all the powers one might expect including a massive HealingFactor. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': In the climax of Volume 10, [[spoiler:Mordain aka the lost prince and the Asclepuis clan are introduced as the phoneix Asura race who were exiled from Epheotus because they rebelled against Kezess and the Indrath clan who exterminated the Djinn out of jealousy regarding Aether Knowledge after their exile they settled deep in the beast glades in a place called the hearth which is HiddenElfVillage with Djinn survivors and Asuras who oppose Kezess Indrath and Agrona Vritra. Later, Mordain shelters Aldir and Wren Kain after Aldir's departure from Kezess's service through them he learns of Arthur Leywin and summons him to the Hearth through Avier the late Cythina's Goodsky bond. Arthur gets to meet the the phoneix race, surviving Dijnn, Half breed of both races and other Asuras who oppose Agrona Vritra and Kezess Indrath making an alliance with Mordain and his followers as Arthur holds a grudge against Agrona for the invasion of Dicathen and Kezess for the extermination of the Dijnn. Both Mordain and Aldir help Arthur in reviving Sylvie Indrath Arthur's bond. Despite Mordain's emnity with her Father Agrona and GrandFather Kezess Indrath he bears no illwill against her but treats Sylvie with a kind and a Curious way]]. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/BlackDogs'': A swamp contains the world's last phoenix, imprisoned by magic. The protagonists release it and it flies off into space, but not before burning up all the magical apparitions that had been harassing them and granting them safe passage through the treacherous swamp. |
| 140 | * ''Literature/BookOfBrownies'' has a seemingly-villainous example called the Dragon-bird, who abducts people for the evil Golden Dwarf. But after the heroic brownies banished the dwarf, the Dragon-bird reveals himself to be enslaved and willingly helps the brownies once he's freed. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': |
| 142 | ** The Chinese phoenix is a brilliantly colored bird divided between the male of its species, called the Feng, and the female, called the Huang. Its appearance is a sign of celestial favor. |
| 143 | ** The Western kind is equated to the Egyptian benu bird, which Borges considers fitting in light of the ancient Egyptians' own preoccupation with eternity. Early versions of the myth had the phoenix generating an offspring before death, but later variants had the bird itself be reborn in flame. In any case, the phoenix was generally linked with the Platonic concept of a cyclic and eternal universe. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'': The bird itself does not appear, but the throne of the Autarchs is shaped like a phoenix, to symbolize their hope that the dying sun will be rekindled by the second coming of their savior figure. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Magic'': |
| 146 | ** One features in ''Byrd Song'', and Phoebe and the Squonk attend its annual death-and-rebirthing. [[spoiler:It also passes some of its power on to a set of newly-created baby Squonks, born from the Squonk crying into the phoenix's ashes. The babies can melt into a puddle of tears, but will revive immediately due to their origin.]] |
| 147 | ** ''Phoenix Farm'' has the narrator discover an egg that hatches into one, and then flies away... but moments later, when her father returns home for the first time since before the fire that destroyed their old home, she realizes that like a phoenix, her family can rise from the ashes, singing. |
| 148 | * ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' includes a phoenix, and gleefully subverts this trope in classic ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' tradition: |
| 149 | ** Rather than a one-bird species, it's a member of a breed of firebirds that has found a way to incubate their eggs ''really quickly''. As Granny Weatherwax said, one of anything is stupid, since everything has enemies, so it won't survive long. However, since historians were more interested about writing about wars than writing about birds, they didn't know this simple fact. |
| 150 | ** On dropping from the blazing nest of their self-immolating parent, phoenix chicks shapeshift into the form of the first bird they encounter, the better to blend into their surroundings. Hence, when falconer Hodgesaarrgh goes looking for one, he has no idea which of the several different phoenix-drawings in his bird guide will be correct. After it does that, as Granny puts it, it will be whatever it has become until it needs to be a phoenix. [[spoiler:Its actual resemblance to a lappet-faced worrier or "Lancre wowhawk" (a singularly pathetic bird of prey which faints at the sight of blood) was ''not'' one of the possibilities he'd been led to expect; the ostrich-like puppet he constructed was mainly related to the shape of his arm.]] |
| 151 | ** It also shares a few traits from Marvel's Phoenix Force: first, the tendency to manifest a giant raptor-shaped burning aura in battle, second, the fact that Phoenixes apparently 'share their memories', and third, that they have absolutely no tolerance for evil (and not the world's most forgiving nature, either). |
| 152 | * ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': In "Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword", the image of a phoenix put on Conan's sword both lets him kill the EldritchAbomination and proves he wasn't dreaming. |
| 153 | * ''Literature/CradleSeries'': |
| 154 | ** Suriel, Phoenix of the Abidan, is one of the Judges of the celestial Abidan. She leads the organization's healers, and while they do have incredible healing abilities, they are best known for being {{Time Master}}s. Lindon meets her when an ascendant being destroys his home and kills his family, and Suriel rewinds time so that none of it ever happened at all. |
| 155 | ** The Bleeding Phoenix is one of the four Dreadgods, a colossal red bird with ultimate mastery over blood and an insatiable hunger for more. It is the only Dreadgod that can technically be killed, but it has ResurrectiveImmortality; following its "death," pieces of itself latch onto any living thing within a thousand miles, draining them dry and eventually recombining into a new Bleeding Phoenix. Destroying the eggs is practically impossible, and anyone who actually manages to get close just causes the other three Dreadgods to converge on their location and destroy them. |
| 156 | ** Relatively ordinary phoenixes are mentioned a few times, but they never become all that important. They are sacred beasts with powerful fire [[{{Mana}} madra]], and their flames are known to cause almost no destruction [[BackgroundMagicField aura]]. |
| 157 | * ''Literature/DavidAndThePhoenix'' is a children's fantasy novel about a boy who befriends the titular bird. The Phoenix is huge, multicolored, and quite vain, but aside from [[TalkingAnimal being able to speak]] doesn't exhibit any particular magical qualities. [[spoiler:Even when the Phoenix self-immolates and resurrects at the end of the book, he needs ''matches'' to do so.]] |
| 158 | * ''Literature/{{Dracopedia}}'': Phoenixes are a species of [[FeatheredSerpent coatyl]], and consequently resemble winged, feathered serpents with avian heads and scarlet plumage. They don't rise from the dead as in myth; rather, phoenix shells are very thick to ward off predators, and the chick breaks free by burning them open from inside and thus appears to rise from a pyre. The parent phoenix often refuses to leave the nest during this and burns alive, [[DoingInTheWizard giving rise to the myth that phoenixes immolate themselves and rise again as newborn chicks]]. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': The phoenix is one of the Great Houses. It's unknown if there are more than one of the animal phoenix, but in order for a Dragaeran to be of the House of the Phoenix, both of their parents must be of the House AND a phoenix must fly over when they are born. Needless to say, the House is all but extinct except Zerika, the Empress. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. When Mack Bolan goes from wanted VigilanteMan to covert US government operative, he has to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] in the [[FieryCoverup explosion of his War Wagon]]. His new cover name is Colonel John Phoenix. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/FancyApartments'': Carr meets a phoenix that sings to him and gives him a [[SwissArmyTears tear]]. Unsurprisingly, the tear proves to be rather a ChekhovsGun. |
| 162 | * ''Literature/AFantasyAttraction'' has a phoenix passing overhead at the very end. |
| 163 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 164 | ** Fawkes, Dumbledore's pet, saved Harry in the second book. He's introduced in the way mentioned in the trope description -- bursting into flame while Harry is alone in Dumbledore's office. It's left obvious it's the same animal that is reborn, and it "dies" at least twice during Harry's stay at Hogwarts. While rare, phoenixes are a species rather than Fawkes being one-of-a-kind. Fawkes is extremely loyal to Dumbledore, helping him escape when he is about to be arrested by the Ministry, and [[spoiler:leaving Hogwarts for good after Dumbledore's death, to live as a free bird]]. In turn, Dumbledore named TheResistance group he founded during the First Wizarding War "Order of the Phoenix", and his Patronus is also a phoenix. |
| 165 | ** These Phoenixes can carry very heavy loads, including ''several'' people, and have tears with healing powers. They can teleport in a flash of flame, and even carry at least one person with them when doing so; this ability can circumvent Hogwarts' teleportation defenses, something even the most powerful human wizard can never do. They can survive a Killing Curse -- another thing impossible for wizards except under very specific circumstances -- through their 'rebirth' ability. Their tail feathers are one of the magical items used to create wands (others being unicorn hair, dragon heartstring, and veela hair). The feather in Harry's wand actually came from Fawkes [[spoiler:as did the feather in BigBad Voldemort's wand -- a connection which saves Harry in the fourth book. Wands that have cores from the same source don't work properly against each other]]. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/TheHouseInTheCeruleanSea'': One of the characters is revealed to be a phoenix, likely the last one on Earth-- if there were ever any others to begin with (something that even the phoenix in question isn't sure of). |
| 167 | * ''Literature/ImpossibleCreatures2023'': Phoenixes are common birds in the Archipelago, but play a minor role. They're describe as having fiery-red feathers and being the size of eagles, with foot-long tails. |
| 168 | * Literature/LetterToAPhoenix casts humanity in the role of the immortal bird: only humanity, of all sapient species, kills itself off periodically via warfare and thus never becomes moribund. |
| 169 | * ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'' uses the phoenix as a motif for the Kel faction. Their signifier, the ashhawk, is a fiery hawk, and the signature [[FunctionalMagic formation]] of the Kel is the one that causes self-immolation. |
| 170 | * Literature/OlogySeries: Phoenixes are birds that, rather than being reborn in flames when they die, simply bathe in fire to get rid of parasites. ''Dragonology'' depicts them as vaguely reptilian, toothed pseudo-dragons, but ''Monsterology'' has them as fairly normal eagle-like raptors (apart from the fire thing, obviously). Drake opines that they evolved from ''Archaeopteryx'', but this is contradicted in ''Dinosaurology''. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/PareidoliaAndTheGildedScar'': "Residual Warmth" has a phoenix as [[spoiler:the narrator]], and deals with the aftermath of the bird's fiery rebirth. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet'' by Creator/ENesbit contains a phoenix (well duh) and a [[FlyingCarpet carpet]]. The Phoenix came with the carpet, as an egg which then burst into flame and released a small bird which then rapidly grew into an adult, English-speaking Phoenix. The carpet also grants three wishes a day and can fly and take the children on adventures. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'': Phoenix lamps use phoenix feathers, which regenerate, for light; phoenix ash is useful for bribing salamanders to behave themselves. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'': The tie-in field guide details phoenixes. They are genderless creatures that, towards the end of their centuries-long lifespan, set up a nest they then incinerate themselves upon, leaving an egg that hatches into a new phoenix after nine days. |
| 175 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': ''The Price of the Phoenix'' has Captain Kirk [[spoiler:being killed and resurrected]], only there are complications as a result. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/SunBird'': written by Creator/NeilGaiman for his daughter's birthday, is about a group of gourmets who, having [[ExoticEntree eaten one of everything else on the planet]], are inspired to hunt and devour a phoenix by the oldest member of the group. The member who keeps their records looks back through it and finds that the club has tried this in the past, but the pages after each attempt are strangely burnt. [[spoiler:They find the phoenix, kill it, and cook it -- but as they eat it, their bodies are consumed in flames. The old man who suggested the hunt is unharmed due to his habit of eating increasingly hot objects; in fact, he's done this dozens of times before, becoming immortal by regularly eating the phoenix.]] |
| 177 | * ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'': Pfenix (as they're spelled) appear in the books. They're known to be rare, and omens of change. |
| 178 | * ''Literature/TheWinternightTrilogy'': The villain of the second book is none other than [[spoiler:famous Russian [[OurLichesAreDifferent sorcerer/lich]] Koschei the Deathless]], who has enslaved a phoenix to do his biding. Setting the creature free is unquestionably seen as a good thing, as it had been treated badly in captivity. However it's said that a phoenix/firebird isn't exactly inclined to be thoughtful or careful about the fate of mortals or animals around it, and this one ''definitely'' isn't after the long captivity and cruel treatment it has endured... [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished as soon as it is set free it promptly burns half of Moscow down by accident]]. |
| 179 | * ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' has an underplayed example in the fire hawks, which are basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- hawk-like birds that are always on fire. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/XanaduStoryverse'': Sheenix, a type of [[{{Phonymon}} Gamimon]], is a large falcon-like bird with metallic golden feathers, fringes of flame trailing down its head and along the edges of its wings and tail, and fire-based powers. |
| 181 | * ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simurgh Simurgh]] is notably NOT a phoenix. There's more than one great immortal bird in mythology, after all. |
| 182 | * There is a short story (name currently unknown) about a group of modern-day people who capture a Phoenix and put it on display. They figure they can make a lot of money by televising the phoenix's death and fiery rebirth so they do everything they can to convince the bird that it's dying. When it starts building a pyre, the people train their cameras on it and start their vigil. The phoenix regenerates all right -- unfortunately the resulting fireball winds up taking out most of the observers and a huge chunk of the city with it. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 186 | * In ''Series/BabylonFive'', the phoenix is used as Elizabeth Lochley's Starfury NoseArt and [[CoolHelmet helmet artwork]]. In a DVD commentary, show creator [[Creator/JMichaelStraczynski JMS]] says that he gave it to her because it seemed appropriate, not knowing that the actress Tracy Scoggins had a minor obsession with phoenix mythology. |
| 187 | * ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': Darcy's nom de guerre at a camp she went to. |
| 188 | * ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 189 | ** In ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'', Kamen Rider Odin is phoenix-themed and is completely overpowered compared to the rest of the Riders. Unfortunately, he's also TheDragon enslaved to the BigBad. His resurrection ability is only metaphorical, in that if anyone does manage to kill him, the BigBad will just brainwash and equip someone else to fill the role. His counterpart from the American adaptation ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'', Kamen Rider Wrath, is similar. |
| 190 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': The main character's mix-and-match powers have various animal themes, with red Medals giving him powers based on birds. When he uses all three of them at once, the individual bird motifs (Hawk, Peacock, and Condor) merge into a Phoenix theme. It's only his ''second''-most powerful form, but is sometimes used as the SuperMode since the actual strongest form is a DeadlyUpgrade. |
| 191 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'': The Phoenix Phantom is one of the main villains (at least at the start) and serves as TheDragon in the first arc. He CameBackStrong from every defeat, which makes him one of the biggest physical threats of the series; and Wizard has to HurlItIntoTheSun to deal with him permanently (it wouldn't kill him for good, but he won't be able to escape). |
| 192 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' gets a Phoenix as one of his choices for his organic-half powers. It's one of his more powerful options, and gets special focus by being featured in one of the tie-in movies. |
| 193 | * In ''Series/{{Legacies}}'', one of the main characters, Landon Kirby, is revealed to be partially a phoenix. |
| 194 | * ''Series/{{Phoenix}}'' is a PoliceProcedural involving a carbomb that killed two police officers in the subsequent fireball. The investigation is called Operation Phoenix for InUniverse RuleOfSymbolism. |
| 195 | * ''Series/ThePhoenix'' features an alien named Bennu of the Golden Light (Bennu being an Egyptian mythical bird similar to the phoenix), who awakens after being stored away for thousands of years. The usage of the Phoenix symbols is metaphorical, however. No incendiary birds appear. |
| 196 | * In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the Phoenix is a human-looking creature who can't die, and who can [[PlayingWithFire burn people alive with a touch]]. |
| 197 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 198 | ** There have been several phoenix-themed Rangers: Change Phoenix in ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman'', Houou Ranger in ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' (whose mecha was adapted as the Firebird Thunderzord in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''), [=MagiRed=] in ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger''/the Red Mystic Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''), [=GoseiPink=] in ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''/the Pink Megaforce Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', and Houou Soldier in ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''. |
| 199 | ** The Red Ranger in ''[[Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger Ohranger]]'' / ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' has a phoenix mecha, although he himself doesn't have any particular bird motif. |
| 200 | ** For a non-Ranger example, there's Ginga Phoenix mecha in ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman''/Stratoforce Megazord in ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''. |
| 201 | ** In ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' and ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger,'' the Phantom Beast Generals are themed after TheFourGods. TheDragon chameleon is upgraded to a phoenix when the usual bad guys join up with the Phantom Beasts. |
| 202 | * ''Series/UltramanLeo'': The titular alien flees his dying (and by the time the series began, extinct) planet, adopting the human form of Gen Ootori ("ootori" is one of the Japanese words for phoenix). |
| 203 | * In ''Series/Warehouse13'', the Phoenix artifact will allow you to save yourself, but using it will cause someone else to die. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 207 | * In ''Manhua/WeaponsOfTheGods'', [[spoiler:Nangong Wentian]] was known as this after [[BackFromTheDead getting resurrected]] by transplanting his heart with Phoenix, an axe made from nine feathers of the phoenix and gaining its power. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 211 | * Igor Stravinsky's ''The Firebird'' is all about the trope, through Russian fairytale. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGA6bpscj8 Have a listen.]] This piece was set to animation in ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000.'' |
| 212 | * Music/ThirtySecondsToMars has Mithra, a phoenix featured as one of the band's earliest logos and still used today. |
| 213 | * In Music/KanyeWest's ''Runaway'', a lady phoenix with strategically placed feathers crashes on Earth, and Kanye keeps her as a pet, or girlfriend, or something. |
| 214 | * "Феникс" ("Feniks") by Music/{{Ariya}} tells the story of the bird in question. |
| 215 | * ''Firebird'' by Dreamtale. |
| 216 | * Music/FallOutBoy's single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDZbroaQDc "The Phoenix,"]] which is also the opening track of the album Save Rock and Roll. Since this is the first album they made after a three-year hiatus, it works as meta symbolism of the band's rebirth. |
| 217 | * "Phoenix" by Polish industrial band Gorthaur: |
| 218 | -->Out of my ashes / Will raise a new phoenix / I'll live forever / Because the spirit never dies |
| 219 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AppYgVdETNo "Phoenix"]] by Progressive Classic Rock Twin Lead Guitar band [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_Ash Wishbone Ash:]] |
| 220 | -->Bird, rise high from the cinders / Leave it all far behind / All the ruins and the fire / Bird, raise your head from the ashes / Many men lay dead / You can see them like I / Phoenix rise, raise your head to the sky |
| 221 | * Music/TenaciousD's third album and title track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5X2bagYBBk 'Rize of the Fenix']] uses this imagery to signify their rise back to stardom after the critical failure of [[Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny their movie]]. |
| 222 | -->''When The Pick of Destiny was released, it was a bomb,\ |
| 223 | And all the critics said that the D was done.\ |
| 224 | The sun had set, and the chapter had closed,\ |
| 225 | But one thing no one thought about, was the D would rise again.\ |
| 226 | Just like the phoenix,\ |
| 227 | We'll fucking rise again!'' |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Myths and Religion]] |
| 231 | * Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths (more specifically the Tapwuring oral traditions) have the Mihirung paringmal (literally "giant birds"). Best known as the vernacular for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromornithidae Dromornithids]] (extinct flightless birds), the actual mythological birds are nothing to balk at. The cause volcanic eruptions in their rampages, effectively making them firebirds considerably [[OlderThanDirt older than the western phoenix]]. |
| 232 | * The phoenix of western legend is first recorded by Herodotus in his description of Egypt (possibly based on the below-mentioned Bennu), who said it was an eagle-like creature worshipped at Heliopolis but from Arabia, where it would live for five hundred years and then build a nest out of spices to cremate itself in and return to life. This description was adopted by the rest of the classical world and eventually survived into the Middle Ages, where it became a staple of bestiaries and became symbolic of Jesus Christ's resurrection. |
| 233 | * The ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' speaks of a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord]] called Phenex who takes the form of one of these. |
| 234 | * The Bennu is a stork-like bird from Myth/EgyptianMythology associated with the sun, creation, and rebirth. In fact, some legends claimed it was the first being in existence and helped with the creation of the world. Many believe it to be the inspiration for the phoenix in the west. |
| 235 | * The Chinese Fenghuang (or Houou in Japanese) is often translated as "phoenix", despite the fact it has extremely little association with fire or rebirth. Instead, it is considered a symbol of good fortune, harmony, and virtue, and is often placed as the DistaffCounterpart of the Chinese Dragon, being associated with feminine roles (like the empress of China or the bride at a wedding) in situations where the dragon would be placed in a masculine one. |
| 236 | * The Vermilion Bird (aka the [[TheFourGods Zhuque or Suzaku]]) of Chinese-Japanese mythology is often mistaken as the "Asian Phoenix" due to the color of its plumage, however in its home countries its not considered a ''fire bird'' so much as a ''bird that uses fire''. Not helping is that it's associated with the South, Summer, and Fire in general, and it is frequently confused with the aforementioned Fenghuang. |
| 237 | * The Firebird of Slavic folklore is often compared to the Phoenix, but has little to do with fire or rebirth beyond having feathers that shine in the dark like fire. It usually appears in stories as the object of a quest or as a DeusExMachina that rescues the heroes. However, the stories all agree it is a good omen, but to capture or harm it is to bring ill fortune. |
| 238 | * The Anqa in Arabian Mythology. The oldest myths don't give many details beyond it being a giant female bird (probably a heron or eagle) who attacks her victims during the sunset, but later myths about it adopted many attributes of the phoenix and other mythical birds (such as the ability to resurrect itself). |
| 239 | * The Huma bird of Iranian legend is often compared to the phoenix and sometimes given its attributes, but also has a number of its own traits, like never coming to the ground to rest (and having no legs as a result). Like the Fenghuang, it is associated with good fortune and harmony; seeing it is said to grant eternal happiness, while killing it will cause the culprit to die in exactly forty days. |
| 240 | * Myth/PhilippineMythology features the Sarimanok, a rainbow-colored rooster that is said to soar through the sky like an eagle and bring good luck to those who capture it. It accompanies the deities of the Philippines at times and played a major role in the creation myth by pecking the first man and woman out of a tree. |
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| 243 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 244 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has had several versions of a phoenix monster over the years. Depending on the edition, they're either NeutralGood inhabitants of the Upper Planes or destructive {{Elemental Embodiment}}s of fire. Either way, they're always extremely powerful and usually have to be killed twice in combat. |
| 245 | ** In the 1st Edition ''Fiend Folio'', it's stated that phoenixes are based on garbled accounts of reptilian ostrich-like monsters called giant striders bathing in fire. This is immediately contradicted by the subsequent ''Monster Manual II'' introducing actual phoenixes to the game. |
| 246 | ** In 3.5th Edition, phoenixes are immense, noble birds of prey with red, orange and golden feathers and a number of magical powers, mostly centering around fire. A phoenix immolates itself when it is about to die, and a new fully-grown phoenix rises from its ashes. This has led to them being associated with themes of eternity and rebirth, and a phoenix sighting is seen as an omen -- although whether it's an omen of renewed life and prosperity or of impending ordeals and trials by fire depends of the situation and individual. |
| 247 | ** In 4th Edition, phoenixes are a species of RocBirds that happen to be native to the Elemental Chaos, where they became infused with the essence of elemental fire. They are wholly made of living flame, hate the undead, and explode in balls of fire when brought to low health only to be reborn moments later. Despite their appearance, they sometimes leave behind scarlet feathers when they're reborn; these can be used to make resurrection magic more effective, allowing it to raise people who have been dead for longer than normally feasible as well as those dead of old age(yes, the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Down of a Phoenix]]). They're related to {{thunder|bird}}hawks, another species of roc attuned to a different element. |
| 248 | ** 5th Edition: |
| 249 | *** ''Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes'' takes the ElementalEmbodiment seen above and takes it to the extreme with an Elder Elemental called the Phoenix. It's powerful enough to rival an ancient red dragon, and desires to see everything burn. If slain, they violently explode and leave behind an egg-shaped cinder that eventually hatches into a new phoenix. |
| 250 | *** An earlier ''Unearthed Arcana'' portrays phoenixes as more benevolent, with the Phoenix Soul origin for Sorcerers -- mages with a natural affinity for [[PlayingWithFire pyromancy]] because they or their ancestors were blessed by a phoenix. How this subclass, if ever officially published, will be reconciled with the more destructive phoenix seen in ''Mordenkainen's'' remains to be seen. |
| 251 | ** Phoelarches are a race of fiery humanoids whose lives are linked with phoeras, phoenix-like creatures from the Elemental Plane of Fire. When a phoelarch dies, a phoera spontaneously appears in its place to avenge its death. Dead phoeras themselves burn down to an egg-shaped cinder, which eventually hatches into a new phoera. |
| 252 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': |
| 253 | ** Garda birds are [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elementals]] resembling large, beautiful birds with gold, purple or silver feathers (the exact coloration depends on the specific form they are in, as they can take several). They are ageless and immortal -- when one dies, it is reborn in flame nine days later without fail. One of the forms they use for combat, a humanoid with six arms and the head, tail, wings and claws of an eagle, is also referred to as the Phoenix form. |
| 254 | ** The 2nd Edition sourcebook ''Dreams of the First Age'' describes the white iron phoenix, a great white bird from the Wyld which patrolled the Eastern edges of Creation during the First Age. It was notable for, besides its seething hatred of the Fair Folk that drove it to attack any it found with no regard for its own safety, the mode of its death -- when slain, the phoenix exploded in a burst of flame that solidified the Wyld into static reality and turned Fair Folk into iron statues, after which a new phoenix rose from a pile of iron ashes left at the center of the conflagration. |
| 255 | * ''TabletopGame/KingsOfWar'': Basileans can take a Phoenix as a monster unit. It has fire breath and the ability to heal your troops. |
| 256 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Phoenixes are powerful and benevolent creatures of great wisdom that resemble enormous birds of prey made of fire. They are able to self-resurrect when slain only once a year, dying permanently if killed again before a full year has passed since their previous death. They have an important role in the worship of the sun goddess Sarenae, whose followers believe them to be sacred to the goddess and that Sarenae created the first phoenixes from {{roc|Birds}}s blessed with her power. |
| 257 | ** Phoenixes are distant kin to {{thunderbirds}} and tidehawks, powerful avian beings associated with lightning and water instead. Tidehawks possess a similar resurrection ability to phoenixes; once a year, if slain, they turn into a torrent of rain and are swiftly resurrected if their remains fall back into a body of water. If they fall on dry land, however, they need to wait for however long it will take for their liquified bodies to flow back into a river, lake or sea before they can return to life. Phoenixes have rocky relationships with both species -- phoenixes see thunderbirds as too harsh and unyielding and tidehawks as flighty, selfish and unreliable, while thunderbirds see phoenixes as excessively soft and forgiving and tidehawks see them as meddlesome do-gooders. |
| 258 | ** The cult of the Peacock Spirit has ties to creatures referred to as peacock phoenixes, peacock-like firebirds native to a remote corner of the Plane of Fire. One such creature features in the ''Return of the Runelords'' adventure path, although in game terms it resolves as a fiery Thunderbird. |
| 259 | ** Mortals who witness the resurrection of a phoenix or are healed by one of the firebirds can retain a touch of the creature's spirit in their souls, and beget descendants with the phoenix bloodline. Such characters can channel a limited version of the creature's powers, including immunity to fire and the ability to passively heal allies while raging, sprout wings made out of fire and, at high levels, bring themselves back to fighting health when near death. |
| 260 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Phoenixes are large, red-gold predatory birds capable of generating fire, which they use to cook their prey before feeding. They do not resurrect or immolate themselves, but in a nod to the original legend they do incinerate their nests once their young are old enough to leave. |
| 261 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The phoenix is the symbol of Asuryan, the chief Elven deity and the god of eternal life and rebirth, hence the king's bodyguard being [[PraetorianGuard the Phoenix Guard]]. |
| 262 | ** Actual Phoenixes are available to the High Elf army as monstrous units, and come in two flavours -- the classic Flamespyre Phoenix, which is young and fiery and able to come back from the dead in a shower of flames, and the ancient, much tougher Frostheart Phoenix, which trails ice and chill rather than flames, and has lived so long it is no longer able to rebirth itself. There are also Arcane Phoenixes, described in Forge World's ''Monstrous Arcanum'', a much rarer variant with rainbow-colored feathers, swallow-like tails and the Flamespyre's ability to rebirth itself, which are believed to be companions of Asuryan himself and only appear in the material world as omens of imminent catastrophes and a hope of rebirth afterwards. |
| 263 | ** Phoenix feathers can also be used to create a talisman that can resurrect its bearer if they're killed, although the talisman itself is consumed in the process. |
| 264 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Phoenix Lords are the greatest of all Eldar warriors. The title seems to be related to the phoenix's connection to death and rebirth: the Phoenix Lords are actually spirits residing within soulstones attached to the armor they wore in life. When a volunteer dons the armor, the Lord's personality and will merges with them. As long as the soulstone and the armor remain intact, the Phoenix Lord will never truly die. |
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| 267 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/AgainstTheStorm'': The Smoldering City and its Queen are highly associated with phoenixes, representing the city's cycles of construction, destruction by the Blightstorm, and rebirth, as well as fire as a counterpoint to the constant rain. [[spoiler:The cutscene at the end of the Queen's Hand trial reveals the Queen is a phoenix BeastWoman herself.]] |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': The Egyptians can summon phoenixes (scientific name ''[[GratuitousLatin Aquila inferna]]'', literally "eagle from hell") that are actually ''made'' of living flames, which they can throw from the air in a bombing-raid-style attack. When they are killed over solid ground, an egg appears in the ashes of their body and a new Phoenix can be summoned from it. |
| 270 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders'': |
| 271 | ** The original game has the phoenix as a rare, summonable creature. It's extremely powerful and, when slain, will resurrect after three turns, which it can do without limit. They can also [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] and cause fire damage to any being that touches them. |
| 272 | ** ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders3'' sees the phoenix unit return. This time, however, its resurrection abilities came from its ability "resurgence" which returns it to life after a battle with 30% of its HitPoints as long as its controller won the battle, which makes them fantastic suicide units. They're strongly good-aligned -- non-good factions can summon them, but at a significant morale cost. |
| 273 | * ''VideoGame/{{Archon}}'' had a phoenix as a piece. It could immolate itself as an attack, and was invulnerable while doing so. |
| 274 | %%* ''VideoGame/{{Astal}}'': One of the bosses resembles a phoenix. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Nox Nyctores Phoenix Rettenjou has the power to sever the connection from the Boundary, and in here, Boundary can mean 'land of the dead' so it has the probability to save someone from death. Its user, Bang Shishigami, inexplicably has some untold fire powers. And that one time he was thought to be dead (when he saved Litchi in the beginning of his story in Continuum Shift)... he suddenly got back up as if nothing happened. [[WildMassGuessing Hmmmm....]] |
| 276 | * The first boss of ''VideoGame/CloudMaster'', a game set in ancient China, is a hostile ''fenghuang'' who can spam FeatherFlechettes on you. |
| 277 | * In ''VideoGame/CopyKitty'', the [[RecurringBoss Yoggval]] you fight midway through Normal Mode World 11, thanks to being tampered with by an ancient artifact, is given fire attacks and drops the Phoenix Flare power. [[spoiler:At the end of the world, [[ChekhovsGun it comes back]] and uses the artifact's full power to become [[SuperMode Phoenix Yoggval]], with the ability to resurrect itself several times.]] |
| 278 | * ''VideoGame/{{Coryoon}}'' has a hostile phoenix serving as the boss of the volcano stage. |
| 279 | * ''VideoGame/Dota2'' has the hero Phoenix, a Strength-based ranged hero that is basically... a phoenix. It is actually a manifestation first sun that soared in the void of universe. All of its skills are using HP as well as mana for activation. Its ultimate skill, Supernova, sacrificed its life to transform into a burning sun. If the sun isn't destroyed, it will be reborn at full health / MP / cooldown and deal big damage to the area surrounding. Phoenix was created way back in Dota VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} v 6.70, somewhere in 2010. Its Dota 1 name was Icarus from the Greek legend, now it is simply Phoenix. |
| 280 | * Older versions of ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' had phoenixes as occasional late-game monsters -- if their corpse wasn't destroyed, they would eventually revive themselves in a burst of fire. Newer versions instead have bennu, phoenix-like birds with an unholy slant that can revive themselves a single time in a burst of ghostly flames. |
| 281 | * In ''VideoGame/FellSealArbitersMark'', Ercinees are fire-elemental bird monsters that [[TakingYouWithMe explode when they die]], have an innate [[AutoRevive Rebirth]] status, and possess both a SuicideAttack and a SacrificialRevivalSpell. The strongest version of this monster is explicitly named the Phoenix. |
| 282 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 283 | ** The Phoenix is a [[SummonMagic summon monster]] in quite a few ''Final Fantasy'' games, usually in some combination of [[KillItWithFire fire-based attack on the enemies]] and healing and/or resurrection on your allies. |
| 284 | ** Plays a particularly important role in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. [[spoiler:After Louisoix failed to re-seal the rampaging Bahamut, he was able to absorb the [[{{Mana}} aether]] of the failed spell before Bahamut could; with the enourmous mass of energy and the prayers for salvation from everyone present, and Louisoix's own wish to see [[TitleDrop the realm reborn]], he was able to summon Phoenix into his own body and weild its power against Bahamut. He won the ensuing battle and then released the aether back to the dying land, allowing it to return to life. As a result, Eorzea was able to recover from the calamity in record time.]] |
| 285 | ** The series' go-to item for resurrecting fallen allies is named "Phoenix Down". Some games have the rarer "Phoenix Pinion" which either revives everyone/revives someone at full HP/revives them with an auto-resurrect. |
| 286 | ** The Phoenix is an Esper and essential plot point for Locke in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. |
| 287 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' stars the Phoenix as a core character, the Guardian Eikon of the Rosenfeld Archduchy. They are depicted as a screeching god of raging fire - and the plot begins when they are inexplicably sent to the hospital by an even angrier god of raging hellfire. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/FlightRising'' has a phoenix familiar; unlike most familiars, the phoenix's image actually changes each time you open the page it's on, cycling between four stages of life (egg, chick, adult, ash). |
| 289 | %%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': A phoenix makes an appearance. |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'''s Phoenix line (the stronger ones are called fire birds and wonder birds) is notable for being the MookMedic and giving massive amounts of experience (especially if killed with Mercury Djinn), with an [[MetalSlime unfortunate tendency to run away]]. It is possible to run into two wonder birds at a time, who keep resurrecting each other for risky (if they both run, you get no experience ''[[AllForNothing at all]]'') LevelGrinding. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': After an onslaught of miniature serpentine [[OurDragonsAreDifferent fire dragons]], the first boss of ''Gradius II'' is a large Phoenix that sprays blue flames while teleporting across the screen. Other installments in the series feature smaller phoenixes as {{Mooks}}. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' had it from the start. In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic 1'' and ''2'' it was the top-tier creature of the Sorceress Castle. In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic III'' it was absent but returned in the expansion, Armageddon's Blade, as the Conflux top-tier creature and gained the ability to resurrect after a stack died for the first time. In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic IV'' it showed up as one of two top-tier creatures for the Preserve/Nature faction as well as a summoning spell in the Nature school. ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic V'' actually has two versions, a summoned Phoenix whose stats depend on the hero's, and a neutral creature that can come in numbers and ressurects once per battle when slain. In the campaign, their light is one of two ways for the Elves to defeat the Vampire Lord [[spoiler:Nicolai]] for good. |
| 293 | * ''VideoGame/JewelMaster'' has a phoenix-like avian monster whose body is made entirely of flames as the second stage's boss. Later on you can fight an Ice Phoenix, which is a PaletteSwap of it's fiery cousin. |
| 294 | * ''VideoGame/KaijuWars'' has Pterus Ignis. On top of being a [[GiantFlyer gigantic]] birdlike {{kaiju}} made of fire, it has a special ability, Phoenix Burst, which lets it resurrect itself in a fiery explosion after being killed. |
| 295 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 296 | ** In ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' Fire + Fire turns Kirby into a giant blazing phoenix. |
| 297 | ** ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' features a literal Phoenix named Hot Wings as the second boss of the game. |
| 298 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': |
| 299 | ** Anivia, the [[AnIcePerson cryophoenix]], turns into a egg when killed and revives from if it isn't destroyed, although she can revive as such only once per few minutes. |
| 300 | ** Udyr has a Phoenix Stance, but subverts the death and rebirth part of the trope. He uses the fiery aspect of the creature for a FireBreathingWeapon. |
| 301 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' has furnixes, red-and-gold birds with long tails and the ability to spit out fireballs, that live in the Lanayru Desert. |
| 302 | * In ''VideoGame/MagicalDoropie'', Doropie can transform into a Firebird to defeat all enemies on screen at the cost of one-third of her life meter. |
| 303 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZero2'' have the fire-themed bosses Blaze Heatnix and Phoenix Magnion. While they don't have the ability to resurrect on their own, you ''do'' have to fight them again in the BossRush of their respective games, Heatnix was technically brought BackFromTheDead by BigBad Gate in the first place, and one of Magnion's attacks involves summoning [[TheCameo ghostly apparitions]] of past (and probably long dead) ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' villains to attack Zero with. ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' has a [[DualBoss Dual Miniboss]], Fenix and Suzak, with that theme. |
| 304 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'': Ironically, the Phoenix monster has one of the shortest lifespans of any monster in the game. That said, unlike other monsters, it doesn't die when its time is up. It just flies away, never to return. It's the same thing in terms of game mechanics, though. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'': According to his history, the Spectral Eagle and his keeper [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed themselves to end a conflict between the Monster Keepers and the kings of the Old World]]. While the Eagle revived himself by rising from his ashes, his Keeper didn’t survive the battle, which the Eagle mourned for. The Spectral Eagle can revive an ally monster with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Revive]] and he has the ability Reborn from Ashes, which heals an additional amount of HP and grant Charges[[note]]It increases the damage of the next attack[[/note]] to the revived monster (including himself). |
| 306 | * ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II'': One of the ninpo spells Ryu can use is "Art of the Flame Phoenix", which summons phoenix spirits which hover around him. The phoenixes can protect against melee and projective attacks. |
| 307 | * ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'': The Fire Vellumental is a giant scarlet bird covered in burning feathers, and if Mario's main attack doesn't kill it in one go it will instantly recover all of its health. |
| 308 | * ''VideoGame/{{Phoenix}}'' is a coin-op game which has the player battle [[EndlessGame wave upon wave]] of phoenixes. |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/PN03'': The second version of Loewenzahn [[OneWingedAngel transforms]] into a robotic phoenix. |
| 310 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 311 | ** Moltres, one of Kanto's legendary birds, draws inspiration from the western phoenix myth. Besides being an elemental bird with feathers made of fire, its Pokédex entries state that if it is injured, it will bathe in the lava of a volcano to burn and heal itself. |
| 312 | ** Ho-Oh, which resurrected the legendary Pokémon Raikou, Entei, and Suicune after the Brass Tower they were in burned down, and which seems to be based on the Chinese fenghuang. |
| 313 | ** The legendary bird Pokémon Yveltal is an interesting variant; while it lacks an obvious association with fire and life and instead embodies death and destruction, it is said that when it is dying, it will sap away life energy from every living thing and revert to a cocoon state in order to be reborn later. |
| 314 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'': Pajay is classified as the "Phoenix Pokémon", although it doesn't have any ability associated with phoenixes other than being a fire bird. |
| 315 | * ''VideoGame/RefleX'' has the player's ship, which ''is'' called the Phoenix. [[spoiler:In Area 7, the Phoenix is totaled by ZODIAC Virgo, resulting in the death of the pilot... but then the Phoenix lives up to its name and reawakens as ZODIAC Ophiuchus.]] |
| 316 | * ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'': The Alin use an Arabian-style phoenix as a scout. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'': [[spoiler:Raven]] turns out to be one, with pretty incredible fireball attacks. |
| 318 | * ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has various forms of the Phoenix, mainly stemming from a quest called In Pyre Need, which rewards the player with a repeatable boss (a phoenix), the ability to summon a phoenix familiar and a baby phoenix pet. There is also a desert phoenix, and a "firebird", an actual bird of fire resembling a phoenix. |
| 319 | * In ''VideoGame/SoulSacrifice Delta'', one of the [[EldritchAbomination Archfiends]] is literally called Phoenix, although she appears as a [[MothMenace Moth]]-like creature instead of a bird. Basically, she [[WasOnceAMan used to be a human girl]] who, alongside with her mother, ran a moth potion shop to support her ailing parents until she fell in love with a lone traveler, but the would-be couple were caught, so the girl was locked away in her faraway home, almost forgotten by the traveler. Her parents pass away and now the girl is left with the shop before setting it on fire, including the poor moths. Eventually, [[ArtifactOfDoom The Sacred Chalice]] visits the girl to make a [[DealWithTheDevil sacrifice]], but the girl has nothing to give... until the old traveler returns... Now the girl is reborn from the ashes anew and start her second life until age takes a toll on her life. Unfortunately, every time when the girl dies and reborns, her cycle keeps getting shorter until she is stuck in a painful cycle of youth and frailty, becoming the very moth-like creature that is fought in the game. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': You can create these. They're treated as a standard flying creature and aren't flaming themselves, but they are attracted to fires -- with the humorous result that you can tie a rope to them, tie the other end to something you want to move, and repeatedly move a fire that they'll chase after like it's a carrot on a fishing line. |
| 321 | * ''VideoGame/ShiningForceII'': Peter the phoenix, an important plot character who revives himself if he dies in battle. |
| 322 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': Phoenixes are featured like many other mythological creatures. What's interesting is that, in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Phoenix's (of the Sun Arcana) artwork is that of Suzaku's and Suzaku (of the Temperance Arcana) has another variation of its artwork. Yukiko also uses Fire, [[TheMedic Healing]], and Resurrection Magic, and her personas are winged humanoids. |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceFirebird'' is a coin-op game which has the player battle [[EndlessGame wave upon wave]] of phoenixes. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' has the Protoss Fenix. A Zealot met early in the Protoss campaign, he's defeated in battle when the Zerg invade and is presumed dead. Later, however, it turns out his body was recovered and he was resurrected as a Dragoon cyborg. |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'': In ''Tenchu 2'', Suzaku is a frightening parody of the phoenix's life after death theme.%%How? |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/TerraCresta'': The shmups all have a phoenix form as a SuperMode. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'': [[spoiler: The FinalBoss of the game is Phoenix Cantus, a massive bird Noise that is based off of the Fenghuang. It has some ties to the western Phoenix as well, mostly the renewal aspect, as it was born from the Dissonance created by the main character rewinding time, and it revives itself the first time you defeat it.]] |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'': Phoenixes are powerful flying monsters, resembling colossal eagles, in the High Elf army. They are attuned to magic and their strength is proportional to your magic reserves -- expending these to cast spells will gradually weaken them -- come in two types: |
| 329 | ** Flamespyre Phoenixes are fiery creatures with orange feathers and a an aura of heated, shimmering air constantly around them. They have a chance to resurrect with a random amount of health -- including a completely refilled health bar. They can also drop fiery "bombs" when in flight, allowing them to strafe enemy troops from the air before diving into melee. |
| 330 | ** Frostheart Phoenixes are older phoenixes whose flames have chilled with age and which have lost the ability to resurrect. Their feathers are a bright icy blue and studded with ice crystals, and they trail frost behind them as they fly. |
| 331 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Fujiwara no Mokou has phoenix-themed powers in the form of resurrection-type immortality and control over fire. One of her [[CallingYourAttacks Spellcards]] is even called "Possessed by Phoenix". |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIIReignOfChaos'': The Blood Mage can summon one as his ultimate spell, a magic-immune flyer that deals heavy damage and can stream fire at enemies while moving, subverting the otherwise omnipresent DoNotRunWithAGun trope. Like the above example, it turns into an egg on death, rebirthing from it when the egg is not destroyed quickly. It actually burns itself, needing a rebirth every few minutes even without fighting. As first and strongest of the Blood Mages, the phoenix is the personal symbol of Kael'thas Sunstrider, and a very prominent symbol of the Blood Elves in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in general, representing their rebirth from the ashes of genocide in the Third War. Kael's pet phoenix Al'ar serves as a boss in his raid, Tempest Keep, and Kael summons phoenixes during both boss fights against him in ''Burning Crusade''. |
| 333 | * ''VideoGame/WerewolfTheApocalypseEarthblood'': After Cahal cleanses the Red Talon caern of its Wyrm corruption, Onawa compares Pachu'a, the tribe's avian patron spirit, to this. Cahal had to kill him to destroy his Wyrm taint, but Onawa states that he will recover his strength in time and be reborn from his ashes. |
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| 336 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 337 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Phoenix Wright is a rising new star lawyer with the uncanny ability to turn cases around when all hope seems lost. Case 1-5 is even called "Rise From the Ashes". This applies much more to the English version though. In the Japanese version, however, his name (Ryuichi Naruhodo) suggests the Dragon, and at one point [[AnimalThemeNaming he has]] a [[TigerVersusDragon rivalry]] with a tiger-themed character. |
| 338 | * ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Ushiromiya Battler has been likened to a phoenix a couple of times in Arcs 2 -- 4. After [[spoiler:being turned into a soulless servant, tricked mercilessly by his rival and enemy, and ''fading out of existence'' after learning his parentage,]] he continues fighting Beatrice. May double as a reference to ''Franchise/AceAttorney''. |
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| 341 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 342 | * The WebAnimation/{{hololive}} (EN) [[VirtualYouTuber VTuber]] Takanashi Kiara is a phoenix (and '''not''', emphasis hers, a chicken or turkey) who aspires to own a fast food restaurant. As an immortal, her romantic interest in [[DontFearTheReaper Calliope Mori]] is, at least nominally, not reciprocated. |
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| 345 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 346 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfShanShan'': The phoenix is a tiny bird, in yellow and red, sent to guide Shan Shan and Cassie. |
| 347 | * ''Webcomic/{{Phantomarine}}'': [[spoiler:Cheline appears as a [[https://www.phantomarine.com/comic/3-1-the-fata-morgana four-winged peacock-like phoenix]].]] |
| 348 | * ''Webcomic/{{Roza}}'': In order to return what was stolen, the thief [[http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2008-03-17 demands a phoenix]] -- a bird capable of healing the gravest wounds, extending life and incinerating anything. |
| 349 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sunbird}}'': Phoenixes are used as energy sources for power stations. They are implied to be a variant of sunbird and look like a mixture of a lammergeir, hoatzin and [[RocBirds roc ]]. The original colonists likely named the species after the legend. |
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| 352 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 353 | * ''Blog/CodexInversus'': True phoenixes once lived in the Plane of Fire, before the Collapse. Afterwards, Iblis, the last of the Lords of Fire, reshaped them into their modern descendants, the flamingo-like ''phoenixopteroi'', to which he gave dexterous hands for feet and the ability to cast spells. ''Phoenixopteroi'' wade through lakes of molten rock like regular flamingos do in tepid lakes, using spells to call up small elementals to eat, and, when they die, they burst into flames. This often leaves behind an egg, but this isn't the bird being reborn, as true immortality has been impossible ever since the Collapse. Instead, they use the heat of their deaths to incubate their eggs. |
| 354 | * ''Literature/TheDragonWarsSaga'': Bennu is a phoenix (it's implied that phoenixes are a species among Speakers). |
| 355 | * ''WebVideo/NewLifeSMP'': The Phoenix origin, held by Sausage in his second life; this is also symbolic in that all known players who held this origin did not have this as their first origin. They have two forms: in their Normal Form, they have more health, and can launch themselves into the air and fly with wings; in their Reborn Form, which they shrink into when they lose health, have little health and are only one block tall in height, but have Slow Falling and Jump Boost, and return to their Normal Form by Rejuvenation[[note]]or death, but that's not how the NLSMP works[[/note]]. They can Rejuvenate by standing directly under the Sun or when sneaking without moving; standing in the rain or water will slow down this process (unless they are sneaking). They also have HealingHands with their Radiant Call ability, fully healing every entity within a 12-block radius every two minutes; this can also speed up the Rejuvenation process. Additionally, they receive a speed boost when on land or in the air while under direct sunlight, can shoot fireballs, and are [[RequiredSecondaryPowers naturally]] ImmuneToFire. However, they can only eat gilded foods (golden carrots and apples), have decreased speed in water, take more fall and kinetic damage (the latter from flying into blocks), and the ground around them is set on fire when they die. |
| 356 | * ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'': |
| 357 | ** The Phoenix as a species becomes prominent in the second half of ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril''. Instead of one of a kind, red-and-gold birds roughly the size of a hawk, Phoenixes are tall, anywhere from 7-9 feet in height (although their King stands at 11 feet) and they speak with telepathy. Phoenixes in this universe come in any color feather, usually a solid color, and they all sport unique, intricate, glowing linies of another color along their bodies. They have the ability to light themselves on fire at will, they breathe fire, and they can carry a human or two, depending on their size and strength. These Phoenixes used to live in mountains all over the planet, until their homes were destroyed by an unnamed entity, and they were forced to retreat to Ushuum'a, a city built inside the volcano Kilimanjaro, and Ka'a, their capital city built inside a hollowed out Mount Everest. They have a single King and Queen, Ra and Nasaero, who rule over the entire race and reside in Ka'a. The entire city is lit by artificial sunlight coming from a large jewel hanging above the area on the rocky ceiling, and wildlife grows and lives in the city as well. Phoenixes in general are very untrustworthy and proud, so much that they were ready to kill Kyle, Etzel, and Kitty upon sight. Only one with phoenix blood in their veins can open the entranceway to their cities. They have a massive army sporting golden armor, due to their warlike nature. Phoenixes are easily as intelligent as a human, clearly sentient, and because of their incredibly long lifespans it is very hard to trick them. A select few also practice the ability of forcefully digging into the minds of others for information, if the need arises. Phoenixes will live forever, bursting into flames and rising from the ashes ever five hundred years, unless they are killed in battle. |
| 358 | ** In the same universe, there is a phoenix-human hybrid named Kyle Vivoka, who has inherited some of their abilities, as well as a version of their immortality, mortalized in the form of high-speed regeneration. |
| 359 | * ''WebAnimation/SlushInvaders'': [[spoiler:St-hang]] has the abilities of a phoenix, reviving after every time they die in a burst of flame, and can throw fireballs or huge walls of fire. |
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| 362 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 363 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': The pilot episode is called "Phoenix," ostensibly named for Zachary's ill-fated ship. It also could be read as a reference to Zach himself, as his life is pretty much shot by the end of the ep (severely injured, the ship's destroyed, wife's headed to the FateWorseThanDeath), and he's "reborn" as a HollywoodCyborg and put in command of the Series 5 team. One of the theme songs also references the Phoenix. |
| 364 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': While no phoenixes are seen, the [[EvilOverlord Fire Lord]] [[BigBad Ozai]] invokes the symbolism of the bird when he grants himself the title of "Phoenix King" on the basis of how he will [[spoiler:rise from the ashes of the incinerated Earth Kingdom as the supreme ruler of the world]]. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'', an InNameOnly AnimatedAdaptation, has a small, young, [[PollyWantsAMicrophone talking]] phoenix named Needle with the power to enter metal objects and become a decoration upon them as a SidekickCreatureNuisance. In one episode it temporarily gets its adult form and becomes massive and powerful, easily carrying Conan on its back. In the sequel series where the firebird is missing, Conan makes an offhand comment saying that he eventually ate it. |
| 366 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' featured a feather-phoenix in one episode. It starts off as a standard phoenix with fire powers and all, but every time it is killed, a single feather remains. This feather is still alive and self-aware, so it takes over objects or other beings to resurrect the monster, giving it a new form and new powers depending on what it has taken over. |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': One of the Three Keys of Power (artifacts that grant their owner tremendous magical power when used together), the Phoenix Gate, allows people to travel through time. However, [[StableTimeLoop due to the nature of time travel in that series]], no one can actually ''change'' the past, merely fulfill their role in it. In the canon comics, [[spoiler:the Phoenix Gate is broken and an ''actual'' Phoenix is freed as a result]]. |
| 368 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' showed the phoenix as a gluttonous beast. |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Each time Dave molts, he goes from cocoon, to baby, to child, to teenager, to young adult, to prime adult, to elderly and then back to cocoon. The cycle continues no matter what, and any damage he takes will be reversed once he enters the cocoon stage again. |
| 370 | * ''WesternAnimation/MonsterLovingManiacs'': The Power Phoenix from the episode of the same name is a huge green spectral bird that feeds on electricity to sustain its body. Draining all the electricity from its body reduces it to a skeleton, but it'll come back to life if given electricity again. |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Phoenixes make scattered appearances throughout the series: as a whole, they're large, eagle-like birds with brilliant scarlet, orange and yellow plumage, sometimes with magenta highlights (the exact colors and pattern vary highly between all individuals seen), and long tails. Typically for birds, they have marked sexual dimorphism: male phoenixes have a tufted crest of long backwards-pointing feathers on their heads, while females have three thin feathers with round tips, reminiscent of a tiara. They periodically age into a wasted, ugly state before burning to ash and rising back to full health, and contact with their feathers can induce deafness. |
| 372 | ** Princess Celestia, Equestria's ImmortalRuler, has a pet phoenix named Philomena. When first introduced, Philomena is a sickly bird, [[spoiler:and Fluttershy kidnaps her to nurse her back to health. Everything she tries fails, and meanwhile Fluttershy and her friend Twilight Sparkle are panicking about how much trouble Fluttershy will get into for kidnapping the bird. Just when the princess arrives, Philomena catches fire. Fluttershy is very dismayed and confesses what she did, and the princess reassures her that she knows Fluttershy's intentions were good. Then she reveals that Philomena isn't dead, and a beautiful phoenix rises from the ashes.]] Philomena also turns out to have a mischievous side not unlike her owner [[spoiler:which is why she went along with the kidnapping]]. Interestingly, this plot is very much like how Fawkes from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' was introduced, causing many fans to see it as a ShoutOut. |
| 373 | ** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", the teenage dragons attempt to raid the nest of a phoenix family. The family escapes, but Spike finds a lone unhatched egg. [[spoiler:The other dragons urge him to smash it, but Spike refuses out of sympathy (he was a lone egg too not too long ago) and takes the egg with him back to Ponyville. The egg later hatches and Spike adopts the newly hatched chick as his pet naming it Peewee. Peewee was PutOnABus in the next season, but returns as an adult in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E11MoltDown Molt Down]]".]] This borders on FridgeLogic since in most lore phoenixes cannot be killed. Although, the fact that there is a phoenix ''species'' in Equestria implies that there must be ''something'' that prevents the population from growing out of control. |
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| 376 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 377 | * "phoenix" was the online handle of the PlayfulHacker leader of the original Hacker Unionist Movement. While he retired at the end of the first movement, it's had a ContinuityReboot of sorts twice. |
| 378 | * The [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Bennu]], the mythological bird that inspired the concept of the phoenix in the west, was based on a species of extinct heron (''Ardea bennuides''). In turn, the Feng Huang, or "Chinese phoenix", was inspired by the Asian ostriches that lived during the ice ages in China. |
| 379 | * There is a breed of long-tailed chicken known as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28chicken%29 phoenix.]] |
| 380 | * Phoenix was the name of the coins the Greek state used after its liberation. It symbolized the rebirth of Greece. |
| 381 | ** A phoenix rising behind a soldier was also a symbol of the "Colonels' Regime" in Greece (a military junta that ruled the country 1967-1974), symbolizing the "rebirth" of the Greek nation under their quasi-neofascist rule. They put this symbol everywhere, including coinage. |
| 382 | * A phoenix above the main entrance of Hamburg's city hall symbolizes the rebirth of the city after the great fire of 1842, as does the representative ''Phönixsaal'' (Phoenix Hall) on the upper floor. |
| 383 | * A phoenix was added to the coat of arms of Coventry, to symbolize the city's restoration after the World War II bombing. |
| 384 | * The capital of {{UsefulNotes/Arizona}} is Phoenix, named in reference to it being founded on the long-abandoned ruins of former Hohokam settlements in the Salt River Valley. Most Americans assume that the city is instead a reference to the triple-digit temperatures the state experiences every summer. [[MemeticMutation But it's a dry heat.]] |
| 385 | * The [[LaResistance Provisional]] [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA]] had a phoenix as their symbol representing the rebirth of the IRA and the Irish republican cause. |
| 386 | * The city of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco has the phoenix as its flag symbol, symbolizing rebirth in the wake of the 1906 earthquake and fire. |
| 387 | * The city seal of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia is a phoenix, reflecting the city's rebuilding after being wiped out during the Civil War. |
| 388 | * There is an Azhdarchid pterosaur, called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanqa Alanqa,]]'' is named after a type of phoenix. This being an Azhdarchid pterosaur, it looks more like [[DinosaursAreDragons a dragon]] than a phoenix. |
| 389 | * It is thought by some that the source of the phoenix myths were sightings of flamingos feeding in boiling crater lakes. |
| 390 | * The [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Navy]] had four carriers named after the phoenix: the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Hōshō Hōshō]]'' ("Flying phoenix"), the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shōhō Shōhō]]'' ("Auspicious phoenix"), the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Zuih%C5%8D Zuihō]]'' ("Fortunate Phoenix"), and the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Taihō Taihō]]'' ("Great phoenix"). |
| 391 | * There's also a Phoenix in the sky, the southern constellation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(constellation) the same name.]] As with so many other examples, good luck attempting to figure that mythological bird on it. |
| 392 | * Last but not least, {{UsefulNotes/NASA}}'s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft) Phoenix Mars Lander,]] whose insignia featured a very stilized phoenix. Unfortunately she did not come back from the Martian winter. |
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