That wasn’t originally the plan, however writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne, who at the time of the “Dark Phoenix Saga” were co-plotting the X-Men comic book series, had a far more benign ending in mind, at first Jean Grey would be de-powered by aliens but left alive, with the thinking being that it left the door open for a future Dark Phoenix reprise if necessary. The story offered the chance for fans to watch a favorite character illustrate the “absolute power corrupts absolutely” maxim, before paying the ultimate price as a result - in one of the first deaths of a major character at either Marvel or DC. In the end, it’s only Jean’s innate humanity that saves the day, resurfacing enough to allow her to die by suicide before she succumbs to a more primal, destructive self that could destroy the universe. The original “Dark Phoenix Saga” is one of the, if not the, most iconic and beloved of Marvel’s X-Men comic book storylines, in part because it subjects one of the original members of the team to a very simple, very epic, arc: Jean Grey gains almost godlike power, and ends up becoming corrupted by it, to the point where she not only turns on her loved ones, but also commits genocide, murdering the entire population of an alien planet when she causes a sun to go supernova. But, while the movie brings matters to an appropriate conclusion, things weren’t quite that straightforward in the comic book version of the story. The new Dark Phoenix movie draws on the original “Dark Phoenix Saga” comic book storyline, which unfolded slowly in the pages of the Uncanny X-Men series from 1976 through 1980.
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