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7. The Phoenix Is Incredibly Powerful

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Director Simon Kinberg has been open about the fact that Dark Phoenix is his way of doing the famous comic-book storyline justice, after X-Men: The Last Stand - which he wrote - just didn't deliver the goods.

To that end, it appears as though the Phoenix in this film will be an insanely powerful destructive force, more so than the version depicted in The Last Stand. This will result in the "worst of times" for our X-Men heroes:

In the comics, the Phoenix literally devours an entire star, killing billions of people. While the movie probably won't go that far, it appears as though Jean Grey is set to cause untold amounts of mayhem, misery and death.

Given that this is the end of Fox's X-Men universe, don't be surprised to see more than one major character killed off.

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