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Events of 616

The Dark Phoenix Saga

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  • Note: The Jean in this story and Proteus is not the original Jean Grey. After a space mission in which Jean was exposed to radiation after saving the X-men and thereafter died, the original Jean was placed in a cocoon at the bed of Jamaica Bay while the Phoenix, a cosmic entity impressed with Jean’s sacrifice, created a duplicate body of Jean and became known as Phoenix-Jean and unbeknownst to the X-men that it wasn’t their Jean

  • Jason Wyngarde aka Mastermind gets into Jean’s head

  • Makes Jean think she’s living through an ancestor’s life in the 1800s

  • X-men are taken hostage by the Hellfire Club after psychic attacks by Emma Frost who at this time attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde into her Hellions

  • Hellfire Club members include Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost, Mastermind, Donald Pierce, and Harry Leland who are all part of the Inner Circle

  • Leland can increase an object’s density and mass. Pierce is a cyborg

  • Jean becomes the Black Queen

  • Mastermind beats Cyclops in a psionic battle when Cyclops uses his psychic rapport to reach Jean

  • Killing Cyclops’ psychic form, this breaks Jean’s final mental barrier

  • With Jean free, the Phoenix becomes angry and becomes Dark Phoenix

  • Dark Phoenix beats Emma Frost in a psionic battle

  • Dark Phoenix flies into space where she destroys an entire solar system in the Shi’ar empire by consuming the star D’Bari

  • Xavier restrains Phoenix back inside Jean 

  • Shi’ar empress Lilandra demands justice for Jean’s crimes, the penalty for which is death

  • X-men fight Lilandra’s Imperial Guard for Jean’s life and lose. Gladiator is the leader of the Imperial Guard and one of Marvel’s strongest characters

  • Jean becomes Dark Phoenix again and knows she must self-sacrifice to end the pain to herself and her friends which she does