Even the movies' biggest defenders will admit that they never quite managed to adapt the Dark Phoenix saga, something the animated series did pretty successfully. We start off with a subplot involving the Hellfire Club (renamed to The Inner Circle in this version) who try to seduce Jean and make the Phoenix inside her discover the pleasures of evil. Jean then destroys an entire solar system that I strongly suspect wasn't uninhabited in the original comic, which once again attracts the attention of the Shi'ar empire. The final episode coming down to a brawl between the X-Men and the imperial guard is a bit underwhelming but the ending with all the X-Men sacrificing a bit of their power to save Jean is pretty touching, though I strongly suspect it won't have much of an impact in the future.
X-Men: The Animated Series (TV Series)
The Dark Phoenix, Part IV: The Fate of the Phoenix (1994)
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