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3	''The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix'' is a 1994 four-issue miniseries written by Creator/ScottLobdell focusing the ''ComicBook/XMen'' characters ComicBook/JeanGrey and [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]] shortly after their marriage.
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5	While on their honeymoon, Jean and Scott's minds are suddenly psychically pulled thousands of years into the post-apocalyptic future by ComicBook/RachelSummers, a version of their alternate-timeline daughter who was split from the main version after getting caught in a TimeyWimeyBall. Rachel has brought them to the future to protect young Nathan Summers, Scott's son with Madelyne Pryor (Jean's clone), who was previously sent to the future to be cured of the techno-organic virus and will one day become the hero ComicBook/{{Cable}}. In this future, the world has be conquered by ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}, who enforces mutant supremacy and persecutes humans and anyone else who resists his rule. Jean and Scott's job is to raise young Nathan and overthrow Apocalypse.
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7	The miniseries was followed up by two sequels, ''Askani'son'' and ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix''.
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10	!!This series contains examples of
11	* BadFuture: This timeline has Apocalypse ruling the world.
12	* BittersweetEnding: Twelve years after pulling her parents into the future, Rachel is dead and Jean and Scott are once again separated from Nathan, who must grow up in a war against Apocalypse's supporters and wait decades to see his parents again. However, the figurehead has been defeated, Jean and Scott were given the chance to raise Nathan for his first twelve years, and the latter promises his son that he will never be alone.
13	* CallingParentsByTheirName: Even at the age of five Nathan calls his parents "Redd" and "Slym" (their made-up names). In fairness, he believes they're just his foster parents.
14	* ClosestThingWeGot: Since their bodies could not survive time travel, Jean and Scott live in bodies cloned from their descendants (as close of a match as possible) and retain their powers to a lesser degree.
15	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The second issue starts with a man traveling to the city of his birth while his wife rides a donkey with their son, the prophesied savior. Doubles as a {{Biblical Motif\|s}}.
16	* EvilTwin: Stryfe to Nathan. He was cloned from him as a baby in case Nathan perished to the techno-organic virus. He was kidnapped by Apocalypse's forces, however, and raised as Apocalypse's heir.
17	* ForegoneConclusion: It's not a big leap for the reader to assume sooner or later Jean and Scott will be returned to the past before Nate gets too old.
18	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #310 (shortly before the miniseries' publication) Cable mentions being raised by foster parents in the future. He eventually realizes they were in fact his biological parents as well.
19	* FutureBadass: Young Nathan Dayspring is destined to one day become Cable and free the world from genetic oppression.
20	* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: Nate's body is heavily infected with the techno-organic virus, which gradually turns organic material into technology and can only be kept in check with telekinesis. However, we know that Nate will one day become the hardened veteran Cable, though he keeps the {{Badass Transplant}}s.
21	* TakeUpMySword: In the end, a dying Rachel requests that Jean continue calling herself Phoenix in her memory.
22	* TimeyWimeyBall: Due to time shenanigans, the Rachel in this series was split from the younger version residing in the present. This Rachel has aged to an elderly woman and is now known as "Mother Askani".

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