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monition : pamperer for Original disco biscuit - Men # 1 ahead!When the original fiveX - Mentravel to a man overrun by thePhoenix , only one Avenger stands in the way between the fiery cosmic entity and total world supremacy : Iron Man . By train out Tony Stark , the autocratic Phoenix is able to hold onto her power without much of a challenge .
InOriginal ten - Men # 1by Christos Gage , Greg Land , Jay Leisten , and Frank D’Armata , Professor X ’s first five Adam - Men are institutionalise to another realism by one edition of the Phoenix to stop another . At first , the 2d Phoenix does n’t seem too bad : she ’s take peace to her world , and mutants do n’t go in awe . However , that peace come at the cost of her conquering anyone who threatened her control , including the X - Men ’s ally in the Avengers . The genuine shock come when Beast of this new world ( Earth-696 ) preface the new squad to a babbling , bewhiskered humanity in the science lab : a brainwashed Tony Stark .
Beast explains that Jean said she ’d just " suppress the autonomous stripe " in Tony . This evokes the real - macrocosm aesculapian practice of lobotomy : a operating theatre that predict to only shut down the " uncollectible " parts of the brain but was typically maintain as a artillery against anyone society take for unworthy . With her unlimited index , this testify thateven Phoenix have sex she could n’t kill Tony Stark without repercussions , and instead assure a more gentle approach that was just as cruel .
A Dominion is come to Earth to absorb all inhabit creatures into its collective knowingness , and only the Phoenix Force is able to destroy it .
Tony Stark’s Creative Genius Could Beat the Phoenix
Marvel is full of geniuses- Hank Pym , Reed Richards , Lunella Lafayette . What sets Tony Stark up for greatness ishis personality paired with his smarts . His intelligence can invent technical school and work out equation , but his independent streak is what allows him to take those a step further to make him the military man he is today . It would also get him to stand up to the Phoenix if she was look for macrocosm peace by room of bringing everyone under her control . In 2012’sAvengers vs. X - world , when the Phoenix Force is guide to Earth , but the two teams are divide as to whether it spell salvationor demolition . Tony leads the charge against it with his Phoenix - Buster armor .
It ’s easy to see how the X - man of Earth-696 have take this tone-beginning on Tony . They ’re used to being hated , trying to do the right thing , and then hated even more as people they care about dice . When Jean can make affair peaceful , the price of her brainwashing seems deserving it . Who needs Tony Stark when there ’s intergalactic peace ? As this onetime version of Angel says :
" You compromise . Just a little . Just this once . Then you do it again . After a while , you tell yourself it was for the ripe , the only direction . And you really believe it . Until your teen ego show up … and all it takes is one look to see just how much of a phoney sellout you are . "
When Iron Man stood against the Phoenix in this universe , Jean ’s friends were so far gone that they reasoned he must be in the wrong . In actuality , he was fight a tyrant and hoping he could win .
Phoenix’s Greatest Weapon May Be Weapon X
Ultimately , the Dark Phoenix of Earth-696 is revealed to not be a Phoenix at all , but Onslaught , bid its time and ramp up up power while using the Phoenix Force as a disguise and sapping Jean ’s powers . The young X - Man fulfil their foreign mission , uniting their alternate selves to stop over Jean , but the Phoenix who send off them let in that Onslaught is too big of a menace for them to palm .
Jean does n’t want to crusade it now out of fear that Onslaught will absorb her power and become really unstoppable . Thus , she demand a team who ’s the best at what they do : a multiversal squad of Wolverines . This story sets up March’sWeapon X - Menminiseries , where James Howlett of Earth-295 forms a squad of his variants across the multiverse to manage Onslaught . Now that thePhoenixknows what theX - Menare truly crusade , she does n’t want to stopIron Manfirst .
Original X - Men # 1is useable now from Marvel Comics .
ORIGINAL X - MEN # 1 ( 2023 )
