X-Men: 10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About The Phoenix
1. The Phoenix Isn't A Harbinger Of Doom
The Phoenix is often seen as, and indeed lately written as, a harbinger of doom. The current Jean Grey series featuring a time-displaced teenage Jean Grey has Jean desperately seeking to avoid contact with the impending Phoenix, and trying to find a way to beat it, automatically assuming it is a bad thing.
The Marvel event series Avengers vs. X-Men was entirely based on the assumption of the Avengers and Wolverine that the Phoenix returning to Earth meant certain doom. However, if you really consider the overall events of that series, things went wrong when the Avengers interceded, interfered and broke the Phoenix across five mutant hosts who were never meant to play hosts to the cosmic force in the first place
Ultimately, when the Phoenix was allowed to make connection with its desired host, Hope Summers, it restarted the mutant race that had been decimated in an earlier Marvel event. In essence, it was coming to Earth to perform a good action.
The treatment by writers to automatically see the entity as evil or a portent of doom has led to the misconception of what the Phoenix Force really is: Life Incarnate, and that could be just as good as it can be bad.
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