4. Jean Grey - X-2
Thematically speaking, this film needed some sort of a cliff hanger for its ill fated sequel. Killing off Jean Grey is a necessary evil, making it possible for her to rise again as the phoenix, but the writer could have thought of a better way for her to die. With the ship not able to take off Jean says she will exit the ship and help it take off with her mind powers (in so many words). Leaving the ship and raising it from the water with her telekinesis, drowning her in water in the process, is the ultimate self sacrifice. As an audience, it is a sad moment as the camera pans across the water to reveal the shadow of a Phoenix just before the credits roll. A sombre, touching ending to a great film wasnt it? Hang on a minute, she has telekinesis, she could have helped them leave without ever exiting the ship! There isn't too much to say about this one as X-2 is such an amazing film that even a dampening squib of an ending couldn't ruin it. But to be honest, it is pretty close when you stop to think about her totally
needless self sacrifice. If she has to die, at least think of a better way to do it have her trapped maybe, unable to move but able to help others one last time, maybe she could die in a burning building and quite literally be a Phoenix rising from the flames but instead, we are treated with a much more ambiguous and ridiculous demise than that.