Phoenix

Phoenix appears in Dimension Clash as a playable character
Name 	Phoenix (Real name: Jean Grey)
Affiliation 	Heroine
First Appearance	The X-Men #1 (1963)
Voiced By 	Jennifer Hale (ENG)
==Backstory==
Jean Grey was the younger daughter of Professor John Grey of the History Department of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and his wife Elaine. When Jean was 10 years old, she was playing with her best friend, Annie Richardson, when Annie was hit by an automobile. The emotion that Jean felt as she held her dying friend awakened her own latent telepathic powers, and she experienced Annie's own emotions as she died. This traumatic event left Jean in a withdrawn and deeply depressed state. Moreover, Jean discovered that she couldn't control her newly awakened telepathic abilites, and had to isolate herself from other people to keep hold of her sanity.
Finally, when Jean was 11, a psychiatrist recommended to her parents that they consult a colleague of his, Professor Charles Xavier (Professor X), who was secretly a mutant with telepathic powers. Xavier realizes that Jean's young mind cannot yet cope with her abilities, so he telepathically blocks her access to them, allowing her powers to evolve at a more natural pace. Jean develops her telekinetic powers at the age of 10. As a teenager, Jean leaves her parents to attend Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and, using the codename "Marvel Girl", becomes the first female X-Man, joining the team on its first mission against Magneto. With the X-Men, she battles the team's earliest and most enduring threats, including Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Juggernaut, and the Sentinels.
While Jean and Scott are having a romantic evening in Manhattan, she, Wolverine, and Banshee, are abducted by Sentinels. They are taken to an abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. orbital platform under the command of the anti-mutant activist Steven Lang, who is plotting to unleash a new generation of Sentinels. The other X-Men, with the aid of Dr. Peter Corbeau, rescue them. During the space station's destruction, the X-Men find that their shuttle has been damaged in an earlier fight with the Sentinels. The X-Men decide that someone must stay at the controls and pilot the ship, while everyone else remains in the shuttle's heavily-shielded life cell.
Knowing no one else could survive long enough to pilot the shuttle to safety, Jean uses her telepathy on Dr. Corbeau to learn how to pilot the shuttle and her telekinesis to block the radiation as she pilots the ship back to Earth. Her telekinetic shields give way under the onslaught of the intense radiation. The strain of holding the solar radiation at bay with her powers destroys the psychic shields Xavier placed in her mind as a child, and Jean assumes her ultimate potential as a psychic, becoming an entity of pure thought. The shuttle crashes into a bay, and Jean telekinetically reforms her body and emerges from the water. Taking the code name of Phoenix, Jean's psi-powers are now vastly stronger, and she manifests a fiery bird-shaped energy aura whenever she uses her powers to their fullest extent. Phoenix healed the M'Kraan Crystal to keep the universe from being destroyed.
In "The Dark Phoenix Saga", Mastermind a.k.a. Jason Wyngarde tampers with Jean's mind, convincing her she's a Victorian aristocrat (and the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club) and that he is her husband. She turns on her friends, but then loses control of her emotions and becomes the Dark Phoenix, attacking her friends and teammates and destroying a populated solar system's star. Jean regains her sanity long enough to commit suicide rather than risk becoming the Dark Phoenix again and killing anyone else. After killing herself on the moon, Jean's soul awakens in the afterlife and is dressed in a White Phoenix costume. Death greets Jean and tries to help her understand the Phoenix before fragments of her soul are sent back to Earth.
Years later, the Avengers find a strange pod lying on the bottom of Jamaica bay, which they send to Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. The pod cracks open and Jean emerges, with no memories from the time she flew the shuttle until she hatched from the cocoon, but the truth of Phoenix is now revealed. While dying upon the shuttle, Jean was, in fact, approached by a cosmic psionic entity known as the Phoenix Force, which duplicated Jean's form and merged with a portion of her soul/consciousness, while Jean herself was sealed in a pod at the bottom of the bay to heal. It was the Phoenix Force which became the Dark Phoenix and committed those evil actions, hence Jean was absolved of them and went on to found X-Factor with her original X-Men teammates. They would all eventually return to the newly reformed team, which was split into two separate ones--Blue and Gold.[1]
==Gameplay==
Phoenix is a glass cannon character taken to the extreme. She has the lowest vitality in the game by far (420,000, now 375,000), but that doesn't stop her from being an excellent rushdown character. Her true strength lies in when she is knocked out with the hyper meter full, since she turns into Dark Phoenix, and she is strong enough to take out any character with ease (especially in X-Factor). As a tradeoff, her vitality is slowly turned into red vitality, so be sure to end the fight as quickly as possible.
In Ultimate Dimension Clash, Phoenix was primarily altered to balance her TK shots. She can no longer throw multiple Shots in one airborne period and drops like a stone after releasing one (unless flight is employed).
==Changes in Ultimate Dimension Clash==
*Vitality decreased from 420,000 to 375,000
*Only one TK shot in air at a time (unless in flight)
*Air TK Shot doesn't recover until grounded (unless in flight)
*Traps and Shots disappear if Phoenix is hit
==Moves==
===Command Normals===
Move Name 	Cannon
Prominence Heel 	F + M
Flare Sword (in air ok)	F + H
Burn Out Beak 	air D + H
===Special Moves===
Move Name 	Command
TK Shot (in air ok) 	QCF + atk
TK Trap 	QCB + atk
TK Overdrive 	DP + atk
Teleport (in air ok)	BDP + atk
Flight (in air ok) 	QCB + S
===Hyper Combos===
Move Name 	Command
Phoenix Rage (in air ok) (Level 1)	QCF + atk x2
Healing Field (Level 1) 	QCB + atk x2
Dark Phoenix Rising (Level 5) 	when vitality is reduced to zero
==Assists==
 	Move 	Crossover Combonation
a	TK Shot 	Phoenix Rage
B	TK Overdrive	Phoenix Rage
y	TK Trap 	Phoenix Rage
==X-Factor Stats==
X-Factor Boosts	Damage	Speed
Level 1 	135% 	105%
Level 2 	160% 	110%
Level 3 	185% 	115%
==Theme Song==
Phoenix's theme is actually her theme from Marvel vs Capcom 3.
thumb|right|335 px|Phoenix's theme in Dimension Clash
==Attack Overview==
Phoenix/Attack Set
Category:Dimension Clash
Category:Character
Category:Playable Character
Category:Default Character
Category:Heroine
Category:Marvel Comics