Warning : spoiler for Phoenix # 5!The world ofMarvel Comicsis litter with gods and heroes and monsters and villains , and fans might expect those divinity to be the most powerful Marvel beingness . And yet , asPhoenixlearns in her young serial , there is something more powerful than gods in the Marvel pecking order , which elevate Jean Grey well beyond mutant condition and even beyond the realm of gods .

A founding member of the X - Men , Jean Grey has had a troubled go at being a paladin , degenerate from a grinder into a scoundrel driven excited by the cosmic entity in her head , and even becoming Dark Phoenix . But inPhoenix#5 by Stephanie Phillips and Alessandro Miracolo , she has return to her full power and is working in tandem with the Phoenix Force .

She comes face to boldness with the abstract ideals behind the textile of reality and realizes that she is the primal strength of cosmos in the universe . Using this superpower , she returns to vote down Gorr the God Butcher by plow him into a virtuoso , telling him thatshe is more muscular than a divinity - because life itself has no bound .

Phoenix #1 variant cover by Rose Besch of Jean Grey as the Phoenix

Phoenix’s New Form as the Avatar of Creation Elevates Her Beyond God Status

Phoenix#5 by Stephanie Phillips, Alessandro Miracolo, Marco Renna, David Curiel, and Cory Petit

Jean Grey has receive a cosmic redesignin her new solo serial . She has fine-tune from the decade - human race and is fighting cosmic battles against gods like Gorr , Perrikus , and , before long enough , Thanos , as well as interacting with the index behind the universe in the word form of Eternity . Even in modest ways , she has shown that she does n’t have somatic functions , such as demand to eat , breathe , or drink water supply to stay alive . She is entirely self - sufficient in her own originative power , separating Phoenix from the bequest of the ten - Men - though she is no divinity but something swell .

Phoenix summons the power of founding , both in theory and in strong-arm force , in her struggle against Gorr .

Jean Grey ’s ascension to insufferable ability and might is a redemptive arc in response to the still heavy outcome of herDark Phoenix Saga . This solo serial publication deal with the still - present repercussions of her time as the Dark Phoenix , such as when she pass over out an entire alien civilization . It ’s apt , too , thatthe story arc revolves around salvation , as that is the primary power of the Phoenix : its power to reanimate itself . Phoenix summon the king of creation , both in possibility and in strong-arm forcefulness , in her battle against Gorr .

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Phoenix Proves That Cosmic Abstracts Beat Gods Every Time

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go away even further , Phoenix shows the culmination of her redemption as she turn Gorr the God Butcher into a star . Gorr , with the All - Black , is immensely powerful , and yetwhile crusade a god is nothing to process lightly , Phoenix burns him from existence with simplicity , picture that an abstractionist nonpareil of instauration can go place a god simply ca n’t . Gods fight within the bounds of reality , but as Phoenix shows , she , as the incarnation of cosmos and reincarnation , works outside the physical laws and limits , going well beyond mortal limit . As every funny fan knows , the graven image , in the end , are mortal . Jean Grey , then , is something else entirely .

Gorr ’s death in this outcome is also disposed in the way that his death mime the life - cycle of the Phoenix . Since the mythological concept of the Phoenix is in how it bursts itself back to life from the momentum of its own decease , and this is how whizz are made too , the analogue are clean . The death of Gorr ’s All - blackened reach elbow room to fresh living . No god could do this . Phoenix does n’t just have power over expiry but over life too , making them one and the same , a crucible of creation , making her one of the most powerful beings in all of Marvel -the most sinewy someone in beingness .

Phoenix Is Marvel Comics' Symbol of Universal Life

Jean Grey Completes Her Redemption Arc

In Marvel ’s comics , gods are normally project as the ultimate top step in the hero ’s evolutionary ladder . Beings such as Thor are some of the most powerful beingness in the universe , and yet there is always something higher , such as Eternity or Uatu the Watcher , who survive and play behind the fabric of reality . Jean Grey is bursting through this fabric of reality , outstrip the fear gods of the Marvel canon . Gods may die , but Jean Grey always comes back- creation itself beats a Almighty every time .

X - Men ’s Jean Grey reaches her final evolution with next - level , worshipful cosmic power , s just as she ’s set to battle the infamous villain Thanos .

In both her baron and her story , Phoenix is redeeming her wrongs as Dark Phoenix and rise a upright place in the world . In her ultimate form , she has the powers of institution and conversion , and she uses her sacred flaming to burn off by every trace of wickedness and make something good out of it , like the light of a whiz . Phoenixis more than aMarvel Comicsgod now - she is life itself .

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Comic book art: Jean Grey Phoenix versus the Dark God Perrikus

Comic book art: Jean Grey Phoenix with Eternity

Comic book cover: Phoenix battles Perrikus

Comic book panel: Jean Grey aka the Phoenix soaring through the cosmos.

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