Actually, if you reread the X-Men issues around Inferno, at times Maddie has the Phoenix effect in the iris in her eyes. When the Genoshan telepath went to far
into Maddie's mind, he saw her as a little girl who was sick but got better. She then transformed into a flaming bird of fire and then to the Goblin Queen.
Maddie had a PORTION of the Phoenix. She wasn't the full Phoenix. As for the Red Queen, I doubt she will become the Phoenix. Jean is the true Phoenix.
However, upon creating the new Jean clone and putting her consciousness into it, The Red Queen/Maddie will certainly have some Phoenix power, along with her
telepathy, telekinesis, and magic. And I think fuuin ekusu is probably right, or close to it when he says Maddie is a Phoenix fragment, mayb even the one who
gave Maddie life. Perhaps the psionic echo of Maddie (the ghost Cable met), who was so weak she couldn't influence the physical plane (her connection with
Nate had been severed) came across some Phoenix fragments and merged with them, giving her the power on her own to manifest in the physical plane. But to be
fully powered, she needs a physical body again, which is why she stole Jean's hair to use it to create her body/host.


