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It doesn’t help that an alien being named Vuk (who takes the body of Jessica Chastain) is encouraging Phoenix to go all space-mental, or that our heroine ends up killing someone she once loved. She’s also flooded by memories of her past that Professor X helped repress, and the combination of her new rage abilities and a sense of betrayal by her father figure leads Phoenix to the dark side.

Renamed the Phoenix by some for the way she cheated death, Jean now has unusual powers that she struggles to control.

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What follows is actually the best sequence in the movie as the X-Men combine their powers to save the crew, giving each a brief moment to shine. Jean ends up taking the brunt of what is though to be a solar flare at first but ends up being some sort of interstellar, planet-destroying force. Jean Grey, Professor X, Raven ( Jennifer Lawrence), Beast ( Nicholas Hoult), Cyclops ( Tye Sheridan), Quicksilver ( Evan Peters), Storm ( Alexandra Shipp), and Nightcrawler ( Kodi Smit-McPhee) spring into action. In an early scene in “Dark Phoenix,” the X-Men are sent on a mission to save a crew of a space shuttle that is spinning out of control. Professor Charles Xavier ( James McAvoy) took in the orphaned girl, knowing that he could raise her in a way that controlled her powers, and she became a part of the X-Men, played when she’s older by Sophie Turner.

When Jean Grey was a child, her parents died in a car accident after their daughter’s psychic powers manifested in a way that put mom to sleep behind the wheel.