The Last Stand
Dark Phoenix
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
To me, this isn't even close, it's Dark Phoenix. While neither lived up to their potential, Dark Phoenix at least attempted to bring aliens and space into it. They also didn't kill off Cyclops in 10 minutes, which is crucial to the movie. X-3 was pretty much pure trash. The killing of important characters was used to push this Wolverine and Jean narrative that should have been for Scott and Jean. They also added in the cure storyline, which could be a movie all on it's own.
If I were a bettering man, I'd say they'll skip the Jean-focused Dark Phoenix Saga entirely and adapt Avengers vs X-Men instead, thus giving them a Dark Phoenix story of their own without it feeling like a threepeat. It'd require massive reconfiguring of the story, but that's what I think they'll do, given the MCU's penchant for adapting more recent stories. And what recent story is more headline-grabbing than Avengers vs X-Men?
What can I say but, "I love comics."
Mystique and Magneto in prominent roles. Neither appear in DPS.
Jean runs off from the team after killing a teammate(or two) to Magneto. Not in DPS.
Jean overwhelms Magneto's power without killing or seriously hurting him. Not in DPS.
Jean wears a red coat. Not in DPS.
Jean likes to disintegrate matter/people into dust. Not in DPS.
Xavier's manipulation of Jean's mind is the main or primary reason for her going crazy/Dark Phoenix. Not in DPS, in fact he ends up helping Jean suppress the Phoenix(at least temporarily) at her house.
Changing Jean's childhood origin. Jean has a great origin in the comics, with the Annie Richardson near death experience being the reason Phoenix noticed her and that Charles came to know her(at the request of her father, Professor Grey). Her parents are both still alive and she even has an older sister(with young children) at the time of the DPS.
Those are just a few off the top that radically deviate from the source material while directly repeating what was already done in X3.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Last edited by Divine Spark; 07-02-2019 at 12:44 PM.
Honestly, by the time the X-Men make it to the MCU screen, I don't think the Avengers will be what they are now. With Tony, Cap, Widow, and Thor all off the board(on earth), Hulk so changed, and Hawkeye retiring to Disney+, I just don't see it[AvX] being a thing. By the time phase 4 is over and Feige's ready to start the X-Men, we're already 5 years down the road. If they start the X-Men with a Giant Sized Krakoa opening, and then do another movie or two before even starting to adapt the actual Phoenix Saga first, with the Shi'Ar in full effect, the M'Krann cystal and all that, we're already talking another 10+ years from now.
If Feige actually goes half way comics accurate, it would be so radically different(and better), than either X3 or DP that no one will care it's a 'threepeat'. Not to say there aren't plenty of other great X-Men stories to adapt(I'd love to see the Brood Saga adapted), but if Feige wanted to do his own version of the Phoenix, he easily could.
Last edited by yogaflame; 07-02-2019 at 12:50 PM.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Magneto was of course a main character in X3, and one of the best set pieces in that movie was his rescue mission to save Mystique. Also her being 'cured'/depowered was the first we saw of an important character, and her intel is what gave the US intelligence a location for Multiple Man to have his scene. She's prominent enough, whereas she is completely absent in the comics DPS.
As for facing off against Magneto, Jean overpowers his control of the cure gun and threatens him with the needles as he is powerless to stop her in the encampment. She toys with him and this is how we know Jean is more powerful than Magneto. They expanded on this in multiple scenes in DP.
What What If? Even if such a thing exists, I don't think random What If's count as source material for the DPS. That distinction belongs to the works of Lord Claremont alone.
Last edited by yogaflame; 07-02-2019 at 12:49 PM.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
You know Jean doesn’t really become a villain in Dark Phoenix(that was the point of the story). So if the MCU did their own version of Jean Grey going bad it would only be for a second time, not a third.
Jean kills Mystique, brutalizes Quicksilver, burns/injures kids in the forest party, threatens Magneto, puppets Xavier, and dementedly dis-re-and disintegrates again the aliens. She's villainous enough. Of course, if you go full Claremont DPS, toasting a whole solar system on a whim will definitely make that(and X3) look insignificant in comparison.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
I rewatched. She doesn’t take the gun from him he lets her take control of it and then threatens him with the needles. But yeah, Magneto was helpless.
It was in What If The Phoenix Lives. In that Jean dusts Kitty X3/DP style.
Jean can destroy a Star so I’m sure she can dust people.