ST> Talking about losses, is anybody here old enough to have read the Jo
ST> X-Men that led up to the death of the original Jean Grey/Phoenix? Do
ST> strike you as a little strange, not to mention cruel, that they took
ST> character with SOOOO much potential, made her into a monster, and th
ST> killed her off?
ST>  
ST> The original Phoenix was the embodiment of characters like the Watch
ST> Silver Surfer, Ego, Thor and such, in a female vessel....before she 
ST> into Dark Phoenix, she saved the universe, defeated the evil side of
ST> Shi'ar Empire, and did quite a few other things that proved quite im
ST> her six or seven year tenure. Why would you kill off such a GREAT ch
ST> and plot device?!
 
Originally, they weren't going to kill her... just completely depower 
her after the events of the Dark Phoenix Saga.  Jim Shooter felt that 
this was a cop-out (she had murdered billions of sentient beings, after 
all), and had Claremont & Byrne change the ending.
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