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If we look at the origin of Phoenix in 101, we definitely come away with a big WTF moment. Jean, bombarded by cosmic rays (tac tac tac) emerges from the shuttle unscathed, with her powers boosted and apparently having undergone some kind of psychotic break. She then settles back in with the group and her powers keep growing and growing, until all but Chris seem aware that the X-Men are becoming fifth wheels in their own book (a phrase that was used around the Office quite a bit at the time). To let Chris write her as he clearly wants, but without diminishing Scott and the others, Steven Grant suggest we make her a villain. Off we go to do that, with Chris, at first, quite content with the idea that Mastermind’s corruption of Jean unleashes the “dark” that is really Phoenix. But when we are forced to change our ending, because Phoenix must suffer the CONSEQUENCES of her actions, Chris becomes resentful that Doom and Magneto and (especially) Galactus do not have to be similarly treated. So he begins “rebuilding” Phoenix, so that it/she is all sweetness and light that was corrupted by the human spirit of Jean. Exactly the opposite of what was portrayed in 137.
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