ST-=>Talking about losses, is anybody here old enough to have read the
  -=>John Byrne X-Men that led up to the death of the original Jean
  -=>Grey/Phoenix?
Yes.
  -=>Doesn't it strike you as a little strange, not to mention cruel,
  -=>that they took a character with SOOOO much potential, made her
  -=>into a monster, and then killed her off?
Have you read _Phoenix, The Untold Story_ where it relates a different
ending?  Or perhaps the lead in and first few issues of X-Factor?  8)
ST-=>The original Phoenix was the embodiment of characters like the
  -=>Watcher, The Silver Surfer, Ego, Thor and such, in a female
  -=>vessel...
I think you mean comparative to (cosmically speaking) and not an
amalgamated form.  Yes?
  -=>before she turned into Dark Phoenix, she saved the universe,
  -=>defeated the evil side of the Shi'ar Empire, and did quite a
  -=>few other things that proved quite impressive in her six or
  -=>seven year tenure. Why would you kill off such a GREAT character
  -=>and plot device?!
Perhaps to show, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."
... H. L. Mencken's Law:  "Those who can Ä do.  Those who can't Ä teach."
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