MJB said:
No it was not said in the the Endsong series that Jean was disconnected from the Phoenix, but Rachel said it in the Xmen book a couple of months back. Yes she did indeed say that her mother's soul was no longer connected to the Phoenix and that she won't or can't come back. Who knows.
yea, Rachel did say that in Uncanny 460 I think. Fortunately for me, Jean as the White Phoenix made an appearance in End of Greys, so I guess Rachel was wrong.
The real reason Rachel said that at all is because the end of Endsong was re-written by the editors at the last minute. Most likely "disconnect" was the original ending and CC referenced it, and no one bothered to notify him otherwise (business as usual by the Marvel Editorial staff). CC is probably the last person on earth who wants to see Jean separated from Phoenix, he's been trying for years- ever since he wrote the Classic X-men backstories, then when he came during the Revolutions years back to Uncanny- to restore Jean to her rightful status. Every chance he gets he makes the connection, from her guest appearance in X-treme to his "The End" series. The seeds have been sown since Seagle and Kelly's run actually. Finally Morrison with a lot more editorial clout got it done.
By the way, I'm just as disgusted by a lot of the messing around they have done with the Phoenix concept, just in the opposite fashion. I want the utterly insipid Feron and Anti-Phoenix stuff far far away from Phoenix. It was a meaningless story that did nothing to advance the concept and relate it to the X-men, just a random dude who woke up a random cosmic alien entity thousands of years before, as opposed to the
original concept of Phoenix being Jean's evolution into a psi. Thats why there is no entity and no BS in the original Phoenix arc, and they continually reference Phoenix as Jean's evolution. The reason the Phoenix arc worked at all in the first place wasn't because a random entity decided to chill with the X-men and go crazy, it was because one of the X-men themselves had unleashed the true potential of mankind through mutation, and was unable to handle the consequences. It was a tragic story because it involved one of the X-men, not because it involved Alien Entity 6. That's why it became famous. ANd thats why theyre going with the original story for the movie. Its 100 times more coherent and powerful.
It makes sense for Rachel to have inherited the Phoenix powers, because thats how CC intended it all along. It was Jean's genetic line that would achieve the ultimate potential as a mutant and a psi. That's why I've never had a problem with Rachel being referenced as the Phoenix in that sense. But it pisses me off when they first did the retcon, which left the
original woman who was Phoenix in limbo and replaced it with some alien.
Thankfully the years have been kind and in a rather rare move Marvel has gradually realized that their own foolish editorial moves gutted a great story and killed a lot of potential. And so they've reversed it.