Author's Note and Extra Goodies
Just a little perk I'm loading for me. Um…'cause I can.
I don't think it copyrighted to post this stuff up here…but…
Disclaimer: X-men the main idea and all characters belong to Marvel Enterprises. The Dark Phoenix Saga, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, The Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean Grey, along with the plot idea, etc…belong to… Stan Lee, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin and Marvel.
I just wanna say thanks to Stan Lee, for creating X-men and Jean Grey. Because of him many of us have found a useful thing to do with our time, Create X-men fics. Without him writing fics, reading X-men Comics, watchin' X-men Cartoons, none of it, and I mean none of it , could be possible. So thank you Stan Lee! I also want to thank Stan Lee, and Chris Claremont for creating the object of this fic, and to many a beloved and very awesome character, Phoenix! I would also like to thank John Byrne and Terry Austin, along with Stan Lee and Chris Claremont for creating both the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix sagas. So again thank you!
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I hope you all enjoyed my story. Now since I did make a Dark Phoenix fic, I thought it wrong if I not include some of my fave quoetes and pics from the Dark Phoenx Saga. The Dark Phoenix saga that I am referring to is the Graphic 9-part Comic Series done by Chris Claremont and Jack Kirby, in the late 1970's to the early 80's. I'm sure you all are probably somewhat familier with the the Dark Phoenix Saga. It is still one of the most famous and most talked about X-men comic series today. Along with "Days of Future Past" and "God Loves, Man Kills" It is also one of the most popular. Anyway this story being the fruit of my labor over the past year, and I myself, being a PhoenixPhreak, it just didn't seem right for me to have these and not add them somewhere in this story.
The Dark Phoenix Saga I own, is the graphic novel, basically it's the whole 9 parts put into one cover entitled respectively "X-men: The Dark Phoenix Saga". Anyway here is the order of the comics in which they appeared in the 70's and in my book, I also included the comic title. The only pics I wanted to show, I included in the comic titles because the pics really didn't fit in the quotes.
Enjoy!!
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Dark Phoenix Saga Comic Titles
Uncanny X-Men #129-"God Spare the Child" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 1
Uncanny X-men #130 "Dazzler" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 2
Uncanny X-Men # 131 "Run For Your Life" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 3
Uncanny X-Men # 132 "And Hellfire Is Their Name" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 4
Uncanny X-Men #133 "Wolverine: Alone" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 5
Uncanny X-Men #134 "Too Late, The Heroes" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 6
Uncanny X-men #135 "Dark Phoenix" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 7
Uncanny X-men #136 "Child Of Light And Darkness" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 8
Uncanny X-Men #137 "The Fate Of Phoenix" The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 9
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Lots of Quotes
Uncanny X-Men #132-The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 4
Scene-The X-men have gone to visit Warren in his home in Mexico-Scott has just finished talking to Warren about the team difficulties his having when Jean arrives, Warren leaves and Scott and Jean are left alone.
Jean: We've all grown up Scott. Jean has telekinetically changed her clothes into a yellow bathing suit as she sits down on a blanket, Scott sits down as well.
Scott: {She did it again, changed from costume to street clothes by telekinetically rearranging the molecules of her outfit. Why do I find that so disconcerting? Why shouldn't Jean use her psi-powers to make her life easier?}
Jean: You're brooding.
Scott: It's what I do best. I've got a lot on my mind.
Jean: Didn't you hear me?! It's time for a break! Stop being Cyclops leader of the X-men for a while. Try being Scott Summers lover of Jean Grey. Who knows you might even enjoy yourself. Jean begins to take Scott's visor off
Scott: Jean no. What are you doing?! Put my visor down! If I open my eyes even fractionally without the visors ruby quartz shield to contain my optic blasts…
Jean: Open you eyes Scott. Nothing will happen. I'm telekinetically keeping your optic blasts in check. I…wanted to see your face that's all.
Scott: {I don't believe it…my eyes, how can Jean hold back all that power?!} Jean…
Jean: Hush, no questions now my love. No words, this is our moment let's not waste it. Jean brings Scott down upon the blanket for a kiss, and well…use your imagination.
Uncanny X-Men #133-The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 5
Scott flashes back to that day on the butte,
Afterwards, Scott and Jean are lying arm to arm, still on the butte.
Scott: It's weird having your psychokinetic talent hold back my optic blasts.
Jean: I wanted to see your face…all of your face.
Scott: Disappointed?
Jean: No. Scott I'd…like to establish a permanent rapport…a psychic bond…between us. Part of me in your head, part of you in mine. I know I'm asking a lot…total sharing, total intimacy, total…trust. I'll understand if you say no.
Scott: I say yes.
Uncanny X-Men #133-The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 5
Banshee: Ye're troubled lass. Want to talk?
Moira: I've just finished processing the data scans Professor Xavier made of Jean in New York.
Banshee: Bad news?
Moira: Sean, luv…as Phoenix, Jean realized her ultimate potential as a psi. She possessed the power of a god but only the experience and awareness of a young woman. She couldn't cope with that totality of power…I doubt anyone on earth could. So to protect itself from itself, her mind engaged in a series of psychic circuit breakers that cut her power back to a leverl she could handle. But lately, someone…or something…has been releasing those breakers. There are almost none left. Jean's once more tapping near-infinate power-levels.
Banshee: Is there nothing we can do Moira?
Moira: We can pray.
Later on Moira phones Xavier about what she detected about Jean's data Scans. Xavier and Warren are still at Warren's home in Mexico
Warren: Professor what's happened?
Prof. X: the simple explanation Warren, is that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Phoenix is the ultimate expression of Jean's potential as a Psi. Too much I power, I fear, too soon. Jean is too young…she lacks the awareness necessary to control her now limitless abilites.
Uncanny X-Men #134-The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 6
She stands motionless, a shadow among shadows, feeling dark fire consume her soul. Her face is supernally calm. Her face lies. Jean Grey is terrified…more afraid now than she's ever been…because she knows what is happening to her. And she cannot stop it.
Jason: {I've lost my telepathic tap on Jean's mind. That means she must have broken my control…but how? I anticipated every contingency.}
She laughs to herself. The man is such a fool. She will enjoy what happens next. And realizing that, she weeps.
Dark Phoenix: You made a mistake, Jason. You "slew" the man I loved before my eyes. Instead of severing my last connection with the X-men, that acted like a bucket of water in my face. Instead of enslaving me forever, you shocked me awake. You set me free. Too late.
Jason: No! I compensated for that reaction…my power should have….
Dark Phoenix: Your Power Is Nothing! YOU! Do you have any idea what you've done…what forces you've set in motion?!!! You came to me when I was vulnerable. You filled the emotional void within me. You made me trust you…perhaps even love you…and all the while, you were using me!
Jean starts attacking Jason in an angry rage.
Jason: Jean no more I beg you! You're killing me!
Dark Phoenix: I intend to do a lot worse than that mastermind. But, First, I want to know how you reached into my mind. You're an illusionist not a telepath.
Jason: M-Mindtap Mechanism…White Queen's design. Allowed me to project illusions directly into your mind…as well as monitor your thoughts…
Dark Phoenix: Use a telepath to ensnare a telepath…ingenious. This device enabled you to tailor your illusions to fit my most private fantasies…the repressed dark side of my soul. You gave me what I secretly wanted…and used that to destroy me! It's only fair that I return the compliment. Through me, you sought power. Very well than, I'll grant your wish. I'll give you power, Jason Wyngarde…such as no living being has even dreamed of.
Caption: The obsidian flames burn brighter within her, and, in the distance, she hears music…a sympathy of power long sought and well remembered. Transfixed by an unhuman joy, her burning soul spreads it's wings and soars towards a destiny that will no longer be denied.
Scene: In the Blackbird after the X-men and Jean found their way out of the Hellfire Club
Peter whispering: Ororo what troubles Scott? He seems so…driven, all of a sudden…like a man possessed.
Ororo: I know Peter. We're all alive, unhurt…free. You'd think that would make him happy.
Jean: Oh Scott…you mind's an open book to me. I know your feelings, your thoughts…what you're trying to do…but it's to late, my darling. For me. For us.For…everything.
She reels under the impact of more sensations than she has names for…as her song of power builds to it's inevitable crescendo.
Dark Phoenix: Here me X-men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire! And LIFE INCARNATE! Now and Forever…I AM PHOENIX!
Uncanny X-Men #136-The Dark Phoenix Saga pt 8
Scene-Jean is at her parent's house and the X-men arrive, Jean has turned into Dark Phoenix, and she has captured all the X-men except for Scott.
Dark Phoenix: Have you come to fight? I hope so.
Scott: I came to talk.
Dark Phoenix: I won't listen.
Scott: Than kill me. I can't stop you. I won't even try. Be true to your malefic destiny Phoenix….Kill me…If you can. But if you can't, than ask yourself why? You're Dark Phoenix…power incarnate…no force in existence can stand against you. The X-men have defied you…fought you…yet we live. Why?
Dark Phoenix: You're not worth killing.
Scott: That's one answer. But there's another. True you're Dark Phoenix, but you're also still Jean Grey. No matter how hard you try, you can't exorcise that part of yourself it's too fundamental. You can't kill us because you love us, and we you.
Dark Phoenix: Dark Phoenix knows nothing of love.
Scott: Oh? For love of the X-men you sacrificed your life. For love of me you resurrected yourself. For love of the whole universe you almost died a second time to save it. Know nothing of love? Jean you are love! Your existence, your very creation springs from love. From the noblest emotions a human can attain. And now you want to deny that. Deny yourself?
Jean: Yes! No. I…hunger Scott…for joy. Rapture beyond all comprehension. That need it is a part of me, too. It…consumes me.
Scott: It doesn't have to. Let me help…
Jean gets a physic bolt to the head from Professor Xavier.
Scott: Professor Xavier?!? What have you done!?!
Xavier: While you distracted her, I was able to approach and mind blast Phoenix. I-I had no alternative. Now stand aside—At once! I do not wish you to be hurt.
Dark Phoenix: Awakening in Scott's arms: You heard our "mentor" my love, away with you!
Dark Phoenix telekinetically hurls a bolt at Scott sending him flying across the lawn.
Dark Phoenix: Meddling old fool…you have just signed your death warrant!
Dark Phoenix hurls a very powerful fiery bolt at the professor braking his wheelchair and knocking him to the ground
Xavier: Perhaps Phoenix but I am in part responsible for what has happened here. Though it may cost me my life…I will put it right.
Dark Phoenix: Why professor you sound almost guilty…as well you should! You have unleashed my latent telepathic ability. You set in motion the chain of events that created first Phoenix and than Dark Phoenix! Behold Charles Xavier! I am what was, what is, what will be…The Black Angel, Chaos-Bringer! I AM POWER!
Xavier: Power without restraint…knowledge without wisdom…age without maturity…passion without love. I must fight you Jean! I must…I will win!
Dark Phoenix: Will you?
The Phoenix rises, the Psi-war begins! The insane young telepath… versus her teacher…in a death-duel between the strongest mutant minds on earth. The struggle is epic…waged simultaneously on all infinite planes of existence. Not long ago, yet for Jean, A lifetime ago, Phoenix bound a rogue neutron galaxy within a stasis-field of living anti-energy, thereby preventing that ultimate black hole from destroying. Now in much the same way, Charles Xavier seeks to bind Dark Phoenix one more…within an unreachable network of psionic circuit breakers. The end comes suddenly. One moment the phoenix effect lighting up the countryside like a small sun. The next Jean Grey collapses to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
Scott: Jean!
Xavier: {Would… have lost…But I sensed Jean's mind…fighting her…Phoenix-self…helping me…Bless you child. I am so proud of you.}
Scott: Jean!! Jean? {She's so still. I'm not even sure if she's alive. I want her to live…but what if she's still Dark Phoenix? I'll love her just the same. For better, worse, richer, poorer, sickness, health, till death do us part.}
Jean: Waking up in Scott's arms: Hi
Scott: H-Hi yourself.
Jean: If I didn't know better I'd say those thoughts I just picked up sounded like a proposal.
Scott: They did didn't they? Well what do you say Red?
Jean: I say yes!
Uncanny X-Men #137-The Dark Phoenix Saga-- pt 9
Final chapter
Scene-The X-men have been transported unto Lilandra's ship. They found out that Jean as Dark Phoenix destroyed a whole word that was under the Sh'iar watch and because of this she must die. Scott stands alone thinking.
Scott: {Today's contest is not a duel to the death…but in trying to save Jean. One of us…or all of us…might fie…and I can't help thinking, what if Lilandara's right? Suppose we win today, than the psychic circuit breakers that Professor Xavier placed in Jean's mind fail? Dark Phoenix will be free once more, with the whole universe at her mercy, and it will have been our fault. I've been wrestling this problem…this fear…all night. I still don't have an answer. Maybe there isn't one. Damn it! It isn't fair! After all we've been through…after all the good Jean's done…to have it end like this! I guess that's what the people on D'Brai thought when their sun exploded. I've been a leader too long. I can see Lilandra's position as clearly as my own. And if our positions were reversed would I be acting any differently than she? I'd like to think yes. If vengeance is demanded, let God mete it out. Me…I'd rather err on the side of mercy.}
Jean: No matter what the cost?
Scott: Jean! You read my mind!
Jean: I no longer have the power of Phoenix Scott. But I'm still a telepath, and we still share our psychic rapport.
Scott: You're dressed as Marvel Girl! Why?
Jean: I'm not sure…nostalgia? Pride? I started as Marvel Girl and that's how I'll finish. Scott am I worth it? I destroyed a world…in my mind. I can still hear the screams of the dying…and it felt…good! I don't want that feeling ever again. And yet…I do!
Scott: I know but to give up that'll be like saying that Dark Phoenix has won. That you are evil, You're not! Jean whatever happens, know that I love you and I'll stand by you.
Jean: And I you Scott, with all my heart.
Uncanny X-Men #137-The Dark Phoenix Saga-- pt 9
Final chapter.
17th anniversary of the X-Men's creation
The Watcher.
I am…the watcher. Since time immemorial, I and others of my race have beheld the myriad wonders of the universe. Our charge…our most sacred trust…is that we ever observe but never interfere. Years ago I beheld the birth of Jean Grey. I watched her grow from child to woman, watched her take her destined place as one of the X-men. I saw her die…and I saw her reborn again as Phoenix! Though she did not know it than, Jean had become one with a primal force second only to that of the creator. It was more power than she…or any human…could ever control. In time, it twisted and warped her soul…until Phoenix was transfigured into Dark Phoenix! The X-men fought to save their friend, to return Jean Grey to her humanity, and after an epic struggle they succeeded. But than, at that very moment of their triumph the X-men vanished from the face of the earth. This drama's final act is about to begin. Before it is ended, these young mutants will be put to the ultimate test. If they are found wanting, the entire universe may well pay the price.
Scene- The X-men, the kree, the skrull and members of Lilandra's team, have a battle on the moon, which will determined Phoenix's fate. The X-men have all been defeated except for Scott and Jean. They run into a small opening and Jean uses her telekinesis, by dragging sand up to cover the hole, making it look closed.
Jean: We've got breathing space Scott…but sooner or later we'll have to come out.
Scott: I know. There's so much I want to say to you…so much that I feel. I… don't have the words.
Jean: Where I'm concerned, it's the thought that counts. Any yours… like you…are beautiful. You're a special man, Scott Summers.
Scott: No more special than the woman I love.
Uncanny X-Men #137-The Dark Phoenix Saga-- pt 9
Final chapter
Scene- After the fight on the moon The X-men have recovered, and while still on the moon, Jean is slowly turning back into Dark Phoenix. Xavier has ordered the X-men to kill her, and they now reluctantly have to destroy her, Wolverine threw Peter in his metal form at Jean whom he softly instead of hardly punched with his fist…The X-men cannot kill her.
Jean: Wow you… pulled your punch Peter. And even so…I'm surprised my head's still attached to my body. Thanks, though, for knocking some "sense" back into me. Now, finally, I truly understand what I am, and what has to be done…two beings…Jean Grey and Phoenix…separate…Unique…bound together. A symbiote, Peter; neither can exist without the other. Phoenix provides my life force, while I provide a living focus for it's infinite power. So long as I live the Phoenix will manifest itself through me. And so long as that happens, I'll eventually, become Dark Phoenix. The Phoenix is a cosmic power. It can neither be contained nor controlled…especially by a human vessel. Return it to the cosmos which is its home. Kill Me!
Scott: NO!
Jean starts running from them and Scott follows.
Scott: It doesn't have to end like this. You have an intellect Jean, a will, a soul…Use them! Fight this dark side of yourself! We'll help you!
Jean: {the power…changing me…it's to soon!}
Scott: Jean…Wait!! You're not giving us any choice!
Jean: The choice was never yours to begin with. Jean to phoenix, to dark phoenix…a progression as inevitable as Death. You of all people should know how I feel, through the psychic rapport we share. I'm scared Scott…I'm hanging on by my fingernails. I can feel the phoenix within me taking over. Part of me welcomes it. You want me to fight? I have, I am…with all my strength. But I can't forget that I killed an entire world…five billion people…as casually, as unthinkably, as you would crumple apiece of paper. I want no more deaths on my conscience. Your way I'd have to stay completely in control of myself every second of every day, for the rest of my immortal life. Maybe I could do it. But if I slipped even for an instant, if I…failed…if even one more person died at my hands…it's better this way, quick, clean, final. I love you Scott. A part of me will always be with you.
Scott: Jean, No. Don't! NO!
Jean: SCOTT!
Scott: JEAN! Jean triggers an ancient Sh'ier energy cannon and annihilates herself.
Scott, kneeling down by the round black mark on the ground where Jean once stood: You planned this didn't you? From the moment we landed on the moon. You shielded your intentions from our rapport. But just the same I should have guessed. I should have realized…that you could not become dark phoenix
And remain true to Your self, the Jean Grey I knew, and fell in love with. So you took steps to ensure that, if Lilandra couldn't stop you, you'd do the job yourself. You must have picked the minds of the kreed Skrull observers, learned that ancient weapons were hidden here. Than you used your fight with the X-men to drain you of enough energy to make you vulnerable. And finally when you were ready, you…you…oh Jean…Jean…. Scott's voice trails off as he sobs quietly.
This has got to be my favorite quote(s) out of the Dark Phoenix Saga Books. I think it really sums up a lot about what happened and why It happened that way, in the comic. It's kinda touching to me.
The Watcher.
I am…the watcher. Since time immemorial, I and others of my race have beheld the myriad wonders of the universe. Our charge…our most sacred trust…is that we ever observe but never interfere. Years ago I beheld the birth of Jean Grey. I watched her grow from child to woman, watched her take her destined place as one of the X-men. I saw her die…and I saw her reborn again as Phoenix! Though she did not know it than, Jean had become one with a primal force second only to that of the creator. It was more power than she…or any human…could ever control. In time, it twisted and warped her soul…until Phoenix was transfigured into Dark Phoenix! The X-men fought to save their friend, to return Jean Grey to her humanity, and after an epic struggle they succeeded. But than, at that very moment of their triumph the X-men vanished from the face of the earth. This drama's final act is about to begin. Before it is ended, these young mutants will be put to the ultimate test. If they are found wanting, the entire universe may well pay the price.
The Recorder: Statement: I am the recorder, a non-cellular humanoid created by the colonizers of Rigel to think and record. I have observed all that has transpired here, yet I do not comprehend the meaning of these events. My historical circuits inform me that Jean Grey was counted a force for good on earth. As Phoenix, her power saved the entire universe from extinction. Yet she was hounded until death. Interrogative: Why?
The Watcher: Because she was human
The Recorder: Insufficient answer. Watcher. Please elucidate further.
The Watcher
All beings carry within them a capacity for good and evil. All our actions result from the interaction of these two fundamental forces. Our reason makes us aware of these forces and likewise gives us the responsibility of choosing between them. Regrettably, not all choices are clear-cut, nor all conflicts obvious.
This child achieved a level of power that placed her as far above humanity…on the evolutionary scale…as they are above the amoeba. She had only think and that thought would become instant reality. But the Phoenix is also a force of primal passion. And Homo sapiens is still as much a creature of passion as of intellect. Such a passion is by its very own nature seductive and violent. Jean could not help but respond to it, be changed by it, and in time overwhelmed. So she briefly became the dark side of phoenix, the black angel, and chaos bringer. Yet when faced with a choice between her god like power…knowing she would than wreak death and destruction across the stars…and dying herself, she chose the latter. This is what it makes humanity so virtually unique in the cosmos my friend…This extra ordinary capacity for self sacrifice…this ability to triumph over seemingly insurmountable obstacles if the cause be just knowing all the while that to do so means certain death. The X-men do not realize it…they may never realize, or accept it but this day they have won perhaps the greatest victory of their young lives. Jean Grey could have lived to become a god. But it was more important to her that she die…. A human.
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I sure hope the quotes were easy to read and understand. I tried to do my best in way of putting everything together and making it easy to read and understand. If you were confused or puzzled while reading or if the nature in which I put everything together on one page was to complicated, than I'm very sorry.
And yes if any if you did notice, I did use some titles and quotes from the Dark Phoenix saga in my fic. But hey I'm a PhoenixPhreak! I don't think it's copyrighting, I mean I did do a disclaimer. Why would anyone want to sue me anyway?
Here I'll include a quote from Phoenix creater Chris Claremount. The rest of the summery, I found a while back on a Phoenix Website that as of present, is no longer in exsistence.
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We are taught from an early age that heroes and heroines are perfect and one-dimensional. They always know the right thing to do, when to do it, and they always save the day just in the nick of time. They do not let their personal lives get in the way of upholding the law and making sure that justice prevails - indeed, they really don't have much of a life outside of their ceaseless good works. They never doubt themselves or second guess what they are doing or tire of the responsibility. They never stop and think that maybe the other side has point or is attractive; and they never, ever cross the line between hero and villian.
Jean Grey was the farthest thing from that stereotype.
She was intelligent and courageous, beautiful and funny, loving and vivacious, loyal and independent, gracious and strong; but she could also be impetuous, stubborn, selfish, childish, tempermental, resentful, secretive, and irrational. She would sacrifice her life for those she held dear; and at the same time run away from her problems, afraid to ask for help. She would cling tenaciously to her convictions; but find herself being swept into situations that led to immorality and villainy. The very convincing and realistic dichotomy of her personality allowed her to be at once an innocent girl and a wild woman, niave and experienced, playful and mature, ladylike and anything but.
She was human . A tragically flawed, passionate young woman suddenly rushed into godhood - a destiny she both desired and feared; yet one that she could neither control nor fufill. A destiny that eventually drove her insane and to her death.
"If anything the woman is more beautiful than the fiery celestial raptor that is the physical manifestantion of her power….and far more terrible. She is an archangel made flesh, the incarnation of passion that is as glorious as it is fearful. She is the fire that ignited the first spark of creation. She is the fire that well ultimately consume it." – Chris Claremont on Jean as Phoenix.
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Alright that's it! Did you notice that some of those quotes used now in comics would be kinda cheesy? It's weird but all that stuff they used in the DP Saga back then was an accomplishment and ingenuis. Nowadays it's not so much. But I will commend CC and the rest of the staff that made Phoenix and Dark Phoenix possible. Because c'mon it was a great idea. Sure they killed her and it continues to be fodder for storylines today…but hey…it worked and Jean/Phoenix got a fan gathering. So I really can't complain.