Editing Phoenix Force (section)

==Hosts==
The following are the known hosts of the Phoenix Force:

* '''[[Jean Grey]]''': The most powerful and complete Phoenix Force and host combination. Together they became the White Phoenix of the Crown.<ref>''New X-Men'' #151-154</ref> [[Death (Marvel Comics)|Death]] has stated that Jean is the rightful owner of the Phoenix Force and the embodiment of the Phoenix.<ref>''Classic X-Men'' #43</ref> Jean is later revived to be a full host for the Phoenix Force, but she convinces the cosmic entity to stop repeatedly resurrecting her, and let her go so she could live as she wanted.<ref name="Resurrection5"/> Following her death during the third Hellfire Gala, Jean's mind travels to the White Hot Room where she joins with the Phoenix once again.<ref>''Jean Grey'' (2023) #4</ref>
**'''Time-Displaced Jean Grey''': Hosts a spark of the Phoenix that allows her to be transported to the White Hot Room. The Phoenix Force kills her as it does not consider her a true host, since Jean had conspired against the Phoenix from the beginning. The Phoenix Force was, however, forced to resurrect the Time-Displaced Jean Grey to expel her from the White Hot Room.<ref name="Jean Grey #11">''Jean Grey'' #11</ref> During the [[Fall of X]] Jean Grey becomes again the full host of the Phoenix Force.
* '''Rook'shir''': A [[Shi'ar]] that wields the Phoenix Force through the Blade of the Phoenix. He almost decimates the Shi'ar Empire.<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #479"/>
* '''[[Feron]]''': Ancestor of the modern-day Feron whose daydream-like visions prompt the Phoenix to adopt the firebird form.<ref name="Excalibur #50"/>
* '''[[Necrom]]''': Steals a fraction of the Phoenix Force from Feron that is later known as the Anti-Phoenix.<ref>''Excalibur'' #46</ref>
**'''Anti-Phoenix''': A corpse that was animated and incubates the fraction of the Phoenix Force that Necrom stole from Feron, along with a portion of his own life essence for future use.<ref>''Excalibur'' #49</ref>
* '''Fongji''': Host who lived in K'un-Lun centuries ago and was trained in the Iron Fist. The previous guardians of K'un-Lun decided to keep her existence and the Phoenix Force's connection to the legacy of the Iron Fist a secret until its next return.<ref>''The New Avengers'' vol. 2 #26</ref> Her name means bird of fire.<ref name="The New Avengers vol. 2 #25"/>
* '''[[Madelyne Pryor]]''': A clone of Jean Grey that is brought to life by a fraction of the Phoenix Force.<ref>''Uncanny X-Men'' #241</ref> Sinister later creates six clones to take the energies from the Phoenix Five (Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus, Namor, and Magik), and while they manage to siphon some of the energy from the Phoenix, the entity burns away the Madelyne clones and frees the Phoenix Five, who then incinerate Mister Sinister and his city.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' vol. 2 #17</ref>
* '''[[Rachel Summers]]''': The daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers from an alternate timeline who has been referred to as "The One True Phoenix".<ref>''Excalibur'' #64 (April 1993)</ref> Rachel is the longest Earth-born host of the Phoenix and has never become Dark Phoenix.<ref>''Wolverine and the X-Men'' #12 (June 2012)</ref> She mysteriously loses her connection to the fragment of the "blue" Phoenix within her, while at the same time the "hound" markings reappear on her face.<ref name="X-Men: Kingbreaker #4">''X-Men: Kingbreaker'' #4</ref>
* '''[[Professor X]]''': Charles Xavier briefly possesses an echo of the Phoenix Force during his time with the [[Starjammers]].<ref>''X-Men Spotlight on ... Starjammers'' #2</ref>
* '''[[Diamanda Nero]]''': The alleged daughter of Apocalypse from the Askani timeline and briefly becomes the host of the Phoenix after her fight with Rachel. She is unable to contain the Phoenix and begs Rachel to release it from her. Rachel releases the Force into the cosmos, depowering Nero in the process.<ref name="X-Men: Phoenix #1-3"/>
* '''[[Prime (comics)|Prime]]''': Prime is briefly possessed by the Phoenix Force while it is in the [[Ultraverse|Malibu Universe]].<ref>''Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis''</ref>
* '''[[Amber Hunt (comics)|Amber Hunt]]''': Amber is possessed by the Phoenix Force while it is in the Malibu Universe and retains her Phoenix-enhanced power levels even after the entity returns to [[Earth-616]].<ref name=":1">''Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations''</ref> She loses this power enhancement when Maxis absorbs the Phoenix energy and uses it to permanently stabilize its humanoid shape without the need for a host body.<ref>''Ultraforce'' vol. 2 #12</ref>
* '''[[List of Ultraverse characters#F|Foxfire]]''': Foxfire siphons some of the energy from the Phoenix while it is in the Malibu Universe and has a small portion of the Phoenix Force bonded to her at a sub-atomic level.<ref name=":1" />
* '''[[Quentin Quire]]''': Quentin reconstitutes his body using a fragment of the shattered Phoenix Force when it comes to Earth, but it leaves him to his "sickness".<ref>''Phoenix Endsong'' #5</ref> He later becomes the host of the Phoenix Force during the "Asgard/Shi'ar War", and is asked to become the New God of the Shi'ar as the Phoenix.<ref>''Mighty Thor'' (Vol 2) #19</ref> This arrangement apparently does not last as Quentin is seen on Earth<ref>''Generation X''(Vol 2) #1</ref> possessing only a shard of the Phoenix Force. He relinquishes it to save Jubilee from certain death.<ref>''Generation X'' vol. 2 #86</ref>
* '''[[Emma Frost]]''': Emma Frost has become the host for the Phoenix Force on two occasions. In the first instance she is unable to contain it, stating that she is not "strong" enough.<ref>''Phoenix - Endsong'' #4 (March 30, 2005)</ref> Greg Pak later elaborated on this in an interview after the second series ''[[X-Men: Phoenix – Warsong]]'' that "perhaps the Phoenix requires a willingness to open oneself up or give oneself away" in a way that Emma at the time could not, which was why Celeste Cuckoo was the only Emma Frost clone to truly become Phoenix.<ref>{{cite web|title=Greg Pak|url=http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/full-blown-reader-qa/|publisher=BrokinFrontier|access-date=22 June 2015|archive-date=22 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622205827/http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/full-blown-reader-qa/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She later becomes a true host to the Phoenix (see Phoenix Five).
* '''[[Stepford Cuckoos]]''': The group possesses a fraction of the Phoenix Force that they imprison inside of their diamond hearts.<ref>''[[X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong]]''</ref> The Cuckoos later lose their connection to the Phoenix fragment, as the fragment escapes their diamond hearts without a known destination.<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #517"/>
* '''[[Korvus]]''': Descendant of Rook'shir and wielder of the Blade of the Phoenix.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #478</ref> The Blade is powerless after the connection to the Phoenix fragment is lost.<ref name="X-Men: Kingbreaker #4"/>
* '''[[Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)|Captain Marvel]]''': Resurrected by a fragment of the Phoenix Force.<ref>''Secret Avengers'' #26</ref> He later willingly allows the Phoenix to reclaim the fragment, which kills him in the process.<ref>''Secret Avengers'' #28</ref>
* '''The Phoenix Five''': During the ''[[Avengers vs. X-Men]]'' storyline, the Phoenix Force approaches Earth, but Iron Man and Giant-Man use a disruptor weapon that alters the entity and divides it into five fragments that forcefully bonds with:<ref name="avx5"/>
**'''[[Namor]]''': Possesses a fragment of the Phoenix Force, and loses it after being defeated by the Avengers.<ref name="avx8"/>
** '''[[Magik]]''': Possesses a fragment of the Phoenix Force that leaves her after Spider-Man baits her and Colossus into taking each other out.<ref name="avx9"/>
** '''[[Colossus (character)|Colossus]]''': Possesses by a fragment of the Phoenix Force that leaves him after Spider-Man baits him and Magik into taking each other out.<ref name="avx9"/>
** '''Emma Frost''': Possesses a fragment of the Phoenix Force, who refers to Frost as its "beloved child" after she alerts it to Mister Sinister's plot.<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #517"/> Her half of the Phoenix Force is later stolen by Cyclops to increase his power during the final battle with the Avengers and X-Men.<ref name="avx11"/>
** '''[[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Cyclops]]''': Possesses a fragment of the Phoenix Force, and is the last of the Phoenix Five to fall under the corrupted influence of the Phoenix Force. He becomes Dark Phoenix after hosting all five fragments,<ref name="avx11"/> but Jean Grey's essence convinces him to let the Phoenix leave his body as he is attacked by [[Hope Summers (comics)|Hope Summers]] and the [[Scarlet Witch]].<ref name="Avengers vs. X-Men #12"/> He later acquires the Phoenix Egg,<ref name="Avengers Vol. 5 #38"/> and uses it to become one with the Phoenix Force to decimate the Children of Tomorrow during the incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610.<ref name="Secret Wars #1"/> He retains the Phoenix after the remaining universes crash together,<ref name="Secret Wars #3"/> but loses it when he is killed by Doctor Doom.<ref name="Secret Wars #4"/> The Phoenix Force temporarily resurrects Cyclops to convince Jean Grey to accept the entity, but is returned to the dead when she refused. An alternate version of Cable makes arrangements to place a device near Cyclops' heart that siphons some of the Phoenix's energy when it resurrected him to allow his rebirth.
* '''[[Hope Summers (character)|Hope Summers]]''': According to Cable and later confirmed by the Scarlet Witch, she is the incarnation of the Phoenix Force itself, which explains her resemblance to Jean Grey, and for that same reason, is able to relinquish its powers.<ref name="Avengers vs. X-Men #12"/> Hope and the Phoenix temporarily become the White Phoenix.<ref name="Avengers vs. X-Men #12"/> During the [[Fall of X]], Hope fulfils her destiny by giving her life to reboot the Phoenix Force.<ref>''X-Men Forver'' (Vol. 3) #4</ref>
* '''[[Thane (comics)|Thane]]''': The half-[[Inhumans|Inhuman]] son of [[Thanos]], the Mad Titan. He becomes a host of the Phoenix Force after his death and subsequent rebirth hatches a Phoenix Egg. He loses his connection to the Phoenix when the Coven separates it from him when he and his father have one last fight in the God Quarry.<ref>''Thanos'' #12</ref>
* {{anchor|Lady Phoenix}}'''Lady Phoenix''': Born during prehistoric times, Firehair was abandoned by her parents as an infant at the Burnt Place because of her red hair. A pack of wolves took her in and she grows up a [[feral child]]. She later encounters a child with one eye called Highwalker, and joins the Tribe Without Fear, which consists of prehistoric mutants. Firehair's mutant abilities manifest as she warns the Tribe Without Fear about an upcoming attack by the xenophobic tribes. After Firehair faints, the Tribe Without Fear and the xenophobic tribes kill each other. Firehair blames herself after recovering and returns to the Burnt Place to await death. The Phoenix Force, which created the Burnt Place, arrives and saves her while bonding with her. Consumed by the rage of the Tribe Without Fear's death, Firehair starts to become the Dark Phoenix and is only pacified by the wolf that saved her as an infant. Years later, Firehair becomes Lady Phoenix and seeks out [[Odin (Marvel Comics)|Odin]] to form 1,000,000 B.C.'s version of the Avengers with other mystically enhanced beings.<ref>''Avengers'' vol. 8 #39. Marvel Comics.</ref> Its only known fight is with an out-of-control Celestial called the Fallen. The Stone Age Avengers defeat the Fallen and seal it underground in what would become South Africa.<ref name="Marvel Legacy #1"/> It is implied she and Odin shared a romantic relationship during this time,<ref>''Generations: The Unworthy Thor & The Mighty Thor''</ref> and that Thor had born from that relationship.<ref name="Avengers vol. 8 #43"/> For reasons unknown the Phoenix Force keeps Firehair's consciousness suppressed in the White Hot Room, but she isable to exert a degree of subconscious influence over it, causing it to instinctively seek out hosts from Earth, with a preference for red-haired women with psionic abilities, but is apparently released when Time-Displaced Jean Grey reaches the White Hot Room, as Firehair is seen with other avatars battling the young mutant.<ref name="Jean Grey #11"/> 
* '''[[Moon Knight]]''': Encouraged by the Unseen during a visit on the Moon to seek out a different power to oppose his master, the Moon God Khonshu, Marc Spector used the physical beating during a battle with the Black Panther, as a token of devotion to pray to the Phoenix Force. Moon Knight becomes the Fist of the Phoenix and used its power to attack Khonshu, leaving him to be defeated and have the stolen powers stripped off him by the Avengers. When the Phoenix Force tried to persuade Marc into razing the Earth, Marc began to reject the cosmic force, and allowed Thor to knock him out, becoming free of the Phoenix.<ref>''Avengers'' (vol. 8) #37</ref>
* '''Chosen Champions of the Phoenix''': During the ''Enter the Phoenix'' storyline, the Phoenix Force holds a tournament to judge who its next host will be, choosing many participants from around the world, empowering each of them with a portion of its power and pitting them in trials by combat, with the eliminated contestants losing its power. For the tournament, the Phoenix chooses: 
** '''[[Doctor Doom]]''': The only one of the chosen to realize the Phoenix had its own inscrutable agenda, forfeiting his match against Captain America when he correctly deduces that the Phoenix was not looking for his particular character traits.
** '''[[Man-Thing]]''': Is defeated by Black Panther in combat.
** '''[[Luke Cage]]''': Is defeated by American Eagle in combat.
** '''[[Moon Girl (Marvel Comics)|Moon Girl]] and [[Devil Dinosaur]]''': While Moon Girl does not receive a spark of the cosmic flame, Devil Dinosaur is made a temporary host. Both are eliminated when Devil Dinosaur is defeated by Shanna the She-Devil and Zabu.
** '''[[Orb (comics)#Agent of Zadkiel|Orb]]''': Is defeated by Valkyrie in combat.
** '''[[Hyperion (comics)|Hyperion]]''': Due to the Phoenix's power [[Sensory overload|overloading his super senses]] to unbearable pain, Hyperion immediately forfeits his match against Shang-Chi.
** '''[[Howard the Duck]]''': Is defeated by Red Widow in combat.
** '''[[Nighthawk (Marvel Comics)|Nighthawk]]''': Despite fighting Black Panther to a standstill, the Phoenix declares Black Panther the winner, eliminating Nighthawk from the tournament.
** '''[[Shang-Chi]]''': With the support of most of the remaining participants, Captain America realizes Shang-Chi is the best suited candidate to wield the Phoenix's power and arranges for Shang-Chi to win their match while training him to contain his power. Angered by Rogers' sabotage and Shang-Chi's refusal to kill, the Phoenix eliminates Shang-Chi and forces Captain America to advance to the next round.
** '''[[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]]''': Is defeated by Black Panther in combat.
** '''[[Jane Foster|Valkyrie]]''': Is defeated by She-Hulk in combat.
** '''[[Black Knight (Dane Whitman)|Black Knight]]''': Is defeated by Red Widow in combat.
** '''[[American Eagle (Marvel Comics)|American Eagle]]''': Is defeated by Shanna the She-Devil and Zabu in combat.
** '''[[Winter Guard|Red Widow]]''': Her fight with Shanna the She-Devil and Zabu is interrupted by Echo, who burns Red Widow with cosmic fire while extracting her portion of the Phoenix's power.
** '''[[Shanna the She-Devil]] and [[Zabu]]''': Their fight with Red Widow is interrupted by Echo, who peacefully takes their portion of the Phoenix's power from them.
** '''Namor''': His fight with She-Hulk is interrupted by Echo, who brutally attacks him as payback for her earlier defeat by his hands while extracting his portion of the Phoenix's power from him.
** '''[[She-Hulk]]''': Her fight with Namor is interrupted by Echo, who peacefully takes her portion of the Phoenix's power from her.
** '''[[Captain America]]''': His fight with Black Panther is interrupted by Echo, who peacefully takes his portion of the Phoenix's power from him.
** '''[[Black Panther (character)|Black Panther]]''': His fight with Captain America is interrupted by Echo, who peacefully takes his portion of the Phoenix's power from him.
* '''[[Echo (Marvel Comics)|Echo]]''': Despite being defeated and left for dead by Namor under the Atlantic Ocean in an earlier match, the Phoenix was drawn to Echo's suffering and refusal to die, ultimately choosing her to be its next host. After resurfacing from the ocean, Echo intercepted the last fights and absorbed the Phoenix's remaining vestiges from the last participants.<ref name="Avengers vol. 8 #44"/>
* '''Taaia''': Taaia of Taa, from the Sixth Cosmos was briefly possessed by Phoenix when entering the White Hot Room after being mortally wounded in a fight with the [[Beyonders]].<ref>''Defenders: Beyond'' #2</ref> It used her to separate and attack the rest of the [[Defenders (comics)|Defenders]], but [[America Chavez]] was able to keep her distracted with the [[Eternity (Marvel Comics)#Eternity Mask|Eternity Mask]], while [[Tigra (comics)|Tigra]] summoned the Phoenix's opposite, the Tiger God to attack it and free Taaia from its control.<ref name="Defenders: Beyond #3">''Defenders: Beyond'' #3</ref>
* '''[[America Chavez]]''': While fighting a Phoenix-possessed Taaia, she uses the Eternity Mask to steal a portion of it for herself. When Taaia's connection is severed by the Tiger God, America looses hers too.<ref name="Defenders: Beyond #3"/>
* '''[[Mystique (character)#Earth-14412|Dark Phoenix]]''': While appearing to be a gold-skinned woman in a robe, she would later be revealed to be a version of [[Mystique (character)|Mystique]] from [[King Thor]]'s reality of Earth-14412.
* '''Adani''': A lifelong member of the Universal Church of Truth that mistakenly blames the Phoenix for her father's death. When Jean attempts to deal with Thanos and his Warlock's Eye, desperation drives her to transfer the Phoenix's power to Adani in an attempt to stop the Mad Titan.<ref>''Phoenix'' #7</ref> However when Jean tried to reclaim the Phoenix, Adani refused to relent the empowerment and has kept a small fraction of its powers.<ref>''Phoenix'' #8</ref>

Other characters were only possessed by the Phoenix Force during out-of-continuity tales, including [[Franklin Richards (character)|Franklin Richards]],<ref name="ReferenceA">''Ultimate X-Men Fantastic Four'' Annual #1</ref> [[Nightcrawler (character)|Nightcrawler]],<ref>''What If'' vol. 2 #23</ref> [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]],<ref>''What If'' vol. 2 #79</ref> [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] of Earth-14412 (referred to as [[Wolverine (character)#Old Man Phoenix|Old Man Phoenix]]),<ref>''Thor'' vol. 5 #1</ref> [[King Thor]] of Earth-14412,<ref>''Thor'' vol. 5 #6</ref> [[Cosmic Ghost Rider]],<ref>''Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History'' #3. Marvel Comics.</ref> and [[Vulcan (Marvel Comics)|Gabriel Summers]]<ref>''What If? X-Men-Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire'' #1</ref> in separate ''[[What If (comics)|What If...]]'' stories, as well as [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Cyclops]] in the X-Men/[[Teen Titans]] [[inter-company crossover]].<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans''</ref> Quentin Quire is revealed to be a host in the ''[[Here Comes Tomorrow]]'' storyline and in the visions of Deathlok,<ref>''Wolverine and the X-Men'' #4</ref> and in the timeline of [[Nocturne (Talia Wagner)|Nocturne]], the Phoenix Force possesses [[Colossus (character)|Colossus]]' soulless body and reshapes it into a female form.<ref>''X-Men Millennial Visions 2001'', ''Exiles'' #41</ref>