Posted: 20 May 2022 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | 5
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In France, at least originaly, Darth Vader was called Dark Vador.The next one for me was i think Dark Phoenix... but no, since it was translated and she was called Le Phénix noir.
I don't think that sort of thing particularly shocked me. As a fan of westerns, i was used to have lot of movie titles with "de la mort" ("of death") in it. Something that wasn't always in the original title, even if i didn't know it at the time. (and of course Wild Wild West's "Night of...")
Black as the color of death, is more or less a given in our occidental cultures.
Dark as a negative, as are the shadows, is also not surprising.
Liking, and even prefering Jean as Phoenix, a dark version of her costume and the addition of Dark to her name (or noir) was simply part of the show.
I had more problems with her... not dying... after all it was a topos in comics... and someting natural for a character called Phoenix... but with her not coming back. I first accepted Madeline Prior because i thought she was Jean... an amnesic Jean probably, bu yeah: Phoenix. When it became clear she was just someone who looked like her, i wasn't fan of that idea. Making her a clone largely fixed the problem. I suppose that there're some coincidences that we accept more easily than others.
What i liked in the Claremont/Byrne Jean was the woman as much as the heroin, and i was also a fan of her costume and powers. I loved the bird of fire,
I already enjoyed Jean in the Lee/Kirby X-Men, but there my only real favorite was Cyclops, the others were equaly good. With Claremont/Byrne & Phoenix, Jean became my favorite and Scott a very close second, maybe her equal. We had couple were before was a loner.
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 20 May 2022 at 8:07pm
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