8 Reasons To Look Forward To Phoenix Resurrection: The Return Of Jean Grey

8. The X-Men Go Cosmic

Mutants and the Phoenix often means one thing: Space!

The Phoenix itself is a cosmic entity, the manifestation of Life itself in the universe, encompassing all the creation, destruction, death and renewal that that entails. It is worshipped by the Shi'ar Empire, though it is a universally known being, and is at times viewed as a great thing and at other times a thing to greatly fear (it's mainly been the latter in the last decade).

As such, even since the very first introduction of the Phoenix Force, it has often meant that the X-Men are getting shot into space.

These stories with the X-Men in the stars are often about as high sci-fi as the series gets, and has led to some incredible storylines and additions to the X-Men and the greater Marvel Universe.

And it's probably not entirely accidental that the Phoenix is returning when the next X-Men movie will be all about the Dark Phoenix. While true Marvel and the movies don't often connect directly, you can almost count on characters appearing in a major film leading to them returning to the comics around the same time. And that new X-Men movie is rumoured to be involving space a bit too, so we could be getting an interstellar outing for at least part of this series.

Or if not the X-Men going to the stars, why exactly is the Phoenix Force, an immensely powerful cosmic force, making it's way back to Earth again?