The Phoenix Force first appeared in X-Men #101, ... X-Men ’92: This classic animated series remains the standard by which all future X-Men cartoons are measured.

The arc that has come to be known as “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, spans “X-Men” Nos. 129-138. The first half of the story pits the X-Men against the Inner ...

Continuing the recent tradition of setting one "X-Men" film in each of the last four decades of the 20th century, this one takes place in 1992 and starts when Grey bonds with the Phoenix Force ...

“The Dark Phoenix Saga” has already been adapted to the screen very broadly in X-Men: The Last Stand. The first season of the popular 1990s X-Men cartoon also adapted it.

With Dark Phoenix in theaters this weekend, X-Men fans might want to watch all of the previous adaptations. There's only one adaptation you need, though, and it aired in 1994 on Saturday morning.

In it, we see some of the ‘90s-rific X-Men, who legitimately look closer here to their animated series counterparts than they ever have before. No Wolverine, though, as far as we can tell. Here ...

X-Men films have not kept up with the diversity of the Phoenix Force’s uses, however. The Dark Phoenix Saga has been adapted, to use the word generously, twice now in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006 ...

In the climax of the film, after a bunch of infighting, the X-Men resolve to save Jean from the Phoenix Force just as government forces and the D’Bari catch up with them, leading to an all out ...

Fox’s Dark Phoenix movie, which hits theaters next February, is based on one of the most famous X-Men stories ever made by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.

This is all early in Dark Phoenix. Jean Grey is pursued by both the X-Men and the mysterious Vuk (Jessica Chastain), who turns out to be an alien D'Bari, whose people were killed by the Phoenix Force.