Her mentor, Charles Xavier, arrives, and through a vicious psychic duel, he creates a new set of psychic "circuit-breakers" which reduce her to only her original Marvel Girl powers. The X-Men attack her but are again defeated. Dark Phoenix returns to Earth, to her family's home, and finds herself conflicted between her normal feelings for her loved ones and her new destructive impulses as Dark Phoenix. On Earth, the X-Men are greeted by Avengers member (and former X-Man) Beast. A council of intergalactic associates is gathered, including the Kree and Skrull empires, and concludes that Dark Phoenix is an even more serious threat than the planet-consuming Galactus and must be destroyed. Dark Phoenix easily destroys the vessel, but not before they alert the Shi'ar Empress Lilandra. A Shi'ar vessel attacks to prevent her from destroying other stars. To recharge, she devours the energy of the nearby D'Bari star, causing a supernova which kills the entire population of the only civilized planet orbiting the star. However, her power proves to be far more limited than she thought the intergalactic trip leaves her almost completely drained. To break her ties with her less powerful identity as Jean Grey, she strikes down the X-Men and departs for a distant galaxy. Enraged at Mastermind, she uses a telepathic illusion to make him experience godhood, driving him insane. Experiencing this power in its totality overwhelms Jean, and she renames herself "Dark Phoenix". When Mastermind kills Cyclops' psychic image, it breaks his hold over Jean's psyche and shatters the final barriers on her power. She helps the Hellfire Club capture the X-Men, and Jean's true love Cyclops faces Mastermind in a psychic duel. Phoenix eventually accepts the Black Queen as her actual identity, a decadent role that allows her to relish the extremes of human emotion and begins to break down the barriers that she had erected. These illusions cause her to believe that she is reliving the memories of an ancestor, Lady Grey, who in Mastermind's illusions was the Hellfire Club's Black Queen and the lover of one of Wyngarde's ancestors. With the help of a mind-tap device created by the Club's White Queen, Emma Frost, Mastermind projects his illusions directly into Phoenix's mind. Under the identity of Jason Wyngarde, he begins to seduce Jean. Her vast potential makes her a target for Mastermind, who is attempting to prove himself in order to join the prestigious Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. It is with this incredible power that Jean repairs the fractured M'Kraan Crystal, but voluntarily restrains her powers afterward in order to keep them under control. Jean becomes a being of pure thought, and then re-forms herself upon return to Earth with the new costume, identity and power of " Phoenix". Returning from a mission in space, Jean Grey is exposed to the deadly radiation of a solar flare, and briefly attains her ultimate potential as a telepath and telekinetic. The live-action X-Men film Dark Phoenix (2019) is an adaptation of the Hellfire arc of the story. Had there been a fifth season of the animated series X-Men: Evolution (2000), its own version of the four-part Dark Phoenix would have been adapted. The animated series Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) adapted "The Dark Phoenix Saga" at the end of its first season, though it changed many elements of the story. The live-action film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) contains some elements from the saga. It was later alluded to in the live-action film X2: X-Men United (2003). It was adapted for the X-Men: The Animated Series (1992). Since its introduction in comics, the storyline has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products. "The Dark Phoenix Saga" is one of the most well-known and heavily referenced stories in mainstream American superhero comics, and is widely considered to be a classic storyline by critics. Sometimes included is Jean Grey's assumption of the Phoenix power and the repair of the M'Kraan Crystal in Uncanny X-Men #101–108 (October 1976 – December 1977). The storyline commonly refers to the story in Uncanny X-Men #129–138 (January – October 1980) of Jean Grey's corruption by the power of the Phoenix and the Hellfire Club, the destruction she causes, and ultimately her death. It focuses on the superhero Jean Grey and the cosmic entity Phoenix Force. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne, the storyline first appeared in X-Men #129 (January 1980). " The Dark Phoenix Saga" is an extended X-Men comic-book storyline published by Marvel Comics.
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