X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer - 10 Things You Might've Missed

9. John & Elaine Grey

Dark Phoenix John Elaine Grey
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The trailer opens with flashbacks to Jean Grey's youth, focused on a fateful car accident which caused the deaths of her parents and was presumably the result of Jean's suppressed Phoenix powers.

It's safe to assume the movie will follow Jean Grey's family life from the comics, where her she enjoys a pretty stable, loving relationship with her college professor father John and mother Elaine (the latter played by Jigsaw's Hannah Emily Anderson).

Their deaths deviate significantly from the source material, though. In most of their comic incarnations, Jean's parents actually lived to see her powers manifest and were eventually wiped out by a death squad attempting to eliminate the entire Grey genetic line.

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