I don't mind that Jean will pretty much become Dark Phoenix right away in X3.

She was basically Phoenix in X2, she just didn't have the codename. She was more confident and more expressive with her personality, she had higher power levels, had fiery effects, and had a Phoenix lecklace and a Phoenix design on the back of her jacket. Too bad the blue chinese phoenix design on her jacket was only visible in one split second scene though. In the commentary on the DVD they said that they didn't really show it because the next movie would be about Phoenix. Unfortunately so far it looks like Jean isn't going to have a Phoenix symbol on her costume in X3 so I wished it had been shown more in X2. But the necklace she wore at the beginning of X2 at the musuem was also a phoenix design.

I also wish some of Jean's scenes in X1 had not been deleted. In one of the deleted scenes Logan questions if Xavier has held Jean back in terms of her powers. In another scene Jean tells Xavier that she can feel her powers growing all the time. They also reference her losing control of her powers at the senate meeting. In the book and script, Jean was suppose to have accidentally taken the files away from Senator Kelly with her telekinesis but that scene was apparently never shot. I think Jean's scene where she used cerebro was shortened too. In the book she projected to Rogue and thats how she found Magneto.

If these scenes had been left in, Jean's story would have flowed so much better from X1 to X2 to X3, imho.





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