Phoenix Force

Comics, Fox films

A primal cosmic force of life, death and rebirth that bonds with hosts, most closely Jean Grey. Its hosts range from ancient figures through Jean, Madelyne Pryor, Rachel Summers, the Phoenix Five, Cyclops, Hope Summers and Echo, with several deaths and rebirths from a Phoenix Egg. Jean carries it again in the most recent entries.

Comics custody

1. Golden Hadad
   A storm god wove it into his armor about a billion years ago before the One Above All beat him.
2. Golden Rook Shir
   The Shi'ar worshipped it as Phal'kon; their warrior Rook'shir became the first known Dark Phoenix.
3. Golden Lady Phoenix · Earth
   An early human host a million years ago who helped the Stone Age Avengers.
4. Golden Fongji Wu
   A centuries-old Iron Fist who kept control of it and left Earth to stay safe.
5. Bronze Jean Grey · Earth
   The Force answered her dying call in a shuttle and took her form and memories.
6. Bronze Jean Grey · The Moon
   After becoming Dark Phoenix and destroying a star, she ended it all with a Kree weapon on the Moon.
7. Bronze Madelyne Pryor · Earth
   A spark of the Force wrongly animated Jean's clone in Mister Sinister's lab.
8. Modern Rachel Summers · Earth
   Jean's daughter from another future claimed the Phoenix name and power.
9. Modern Jean Grey · Earth
   The Force left the dying Madelyne and returned to Jean.
10. Modern Unclaimed
    Jean died again and the Force went to the White Hot Room.
11. Modern Emma Frost · Earth
    Took Emma as a host when Jean was freed and fighting it.
12. Modern Jean Grey · Earth
    Jean separated it from Emma and merged with it again as the White Phoenix.
13. Modern Stepford Cuckoos
    Fragments lodged in the Cuckoos' diamond hearts until they left on Utopia.
14. Modern Thunderbird · Muir Island
    Appeared as his god and empowered him against Carrion Crow.
15. Modern Phoenix Five · Earth
    Split among Namor, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Colossus after Iron Man splintered it.
16. Modern Cyclops (Scott Summers) · Earth
    Took the whole Force and became Dark Phoenix.
17. Modern Hope Summers · Earth
    Took the Force from Cyclops with the Scarlet Witch and used it to restore mutants.
18. Secret Wars Cyclops (Scott Summers) · Earth
    A Phoenix Egg he held hatched during the last incursion; he lost it after Doom killed him.
19. Secret Wars Thane
    A new egg hatched when Nebula killed Thane; the Force revived him and he lost it to the Coven.
20. Secret Wars Quentin Quire
    Absorbed a piece of it during Thor's fight with the Shi'ar gods.
21. Fresh Start Jean Grey
    Tried to make the older Jean its host again, then left when she refused.
22. Fresh Start Moon Knight · Earth
    Merged with him after he prayed to it, then left when he refused to destroy Earth.
23. Fresh Start Echo · Earth
    Won its tournament of champions and became the Phoenix.
24. Fresh Start Jean Grey
    Reconnected with Jean after Echo, then reborn with her after the Enigma's plot.
25. Fresh Start: destroyed

Source: wiki page

Fox films custody

1. 1960 Unclaimed
   Wandered the universe destroying what it touched while the D'Bari followed.
2. 1992 Jean Grey
   It entered Jean aboard the shuttle Endeavour in space.
3. 1992 Jean Grey · Earth
   Nightcrawler brought Jean back to Earth, where the entity grew within her.
4. 1992 Jean Grey
   After destroying the D'Bari, Jean left Earth to roam space with it.

Source: wiki page

Where several changes share a year, their order inside it is placed for readability; the years come from the source pages.

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