AKA Phoenix II Affiliation: None Previous Affiliations:X-Men, Hellfire Club NY Aliases: The Chaos-Bringer, Dark Phoenix, Black Queen I (as Jean Grey) Powers: The Phoenix Force is a cosmic force of nature that at times links with a human, enabling the host to manipulate reality on a cosmic scale. The first to commune with the Phoenix was the original Feron. Thousands of years later, the Phoenix
watched as Marvel Girl sacrificed herself to save her friends. The Phoenix saved Jean, placing her in a healing cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay and created an exact replica that for all intents and purposes was Jean Grey. (This is the entity commonly called Phoenix II.) However, the Phoenix-Jean could not deal with the flood of human emotions in her human form, and was seduced into evil by the Hellfire Club, becoming Dark Phoenix. Eventually the X-Men were able to overcome the Phoenix, if only temporarily, and she committed "suicide" during the battle with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard in the Blue Area of the Moon, destroying the human form she had adopted. The Phoenix then tried to return the essence it had borrowed from Jean, with the intention of reviving her immediately, but it included its terrible memories as Dark Phoenix, so Jean rejected it, and remained in the bay for months. The Phoenix then found the unconscious body of Madelyne Pryor, a clone in one of Sinister's labs. It brought Jean's essence to Madelyne, causing her to scream "Scott!" and awaken with a real consciousness. When Rachel Summers sent her astral form back to the twentieth century, the Phoenix felt the presence of her former host (even if it was her alternate-timeline daughter) and merged with Rachel, who became the next Phoenix, although she did not know it until a post-hypnotic suggestion activated the Phoenix, jumpstarting Rachel's time-travel power and allowing her to physically transport herself to our era. During "Inferno," Madelyne, who had been corrupted by demons and the evil part of her that was dark Phoenix, tried to kill Jean Grey, who had emerged from the cocoon months before. As Madelyne began to kill herself, hoping to take Jean with her while they were telepathically locked together, the piece of the Phoenix that Madelyne had revealed itself to Jean, who accepted it (mainly memories) as part of her, thereby saving her life, even as Madelyne died. Rachel Summers was "the Phoenix" for a few years, until she died in battle with Necrom. The Phoenix Force resurrected her in infant form and took her into space to regrow. While in deep space, the Phoenix (Rachel was still unconscious) encountered Galactus, the world-eater, and attempted to stop him. Galactus accused Phoenix of being a hypocrite, because while he consumed life, she, in her current form, was taking energy from life that was to come in the future. Phoenix realized the truth and shut herself down. As a result, when Rachel returned to Earth, she was still bonded with the Phoenix, but had a lesser access to its power. The Phoenix Force apparently stayed bonded with Rachel until her death as the Mother Askani 2000 years in the future, when she may have transferred it back to her "mother" Jean Summers.
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