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Warning: Spoilers for Ultimate Wolverine #6 and Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1!The X-Men franchise changes Legion forever by giving him not one, but two new codenames for two different universes: One and The Phoenix. In the latter case, readers and critics have referred to the latest version of Professor X’s son simply as Evil Legion, with David Haller dead and his collective of alters operating without him. The X-Men franchise now simplifies the notion, whilst paving their path to heroism.
Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 rechristens Legion as The Phoenix, while the X-Men villain is referred to more simply as The One in Ultimate Wolverine #6. Giant-Size Phoenix #1 picks up where Giant-Size X-Men #1 left off, with the new identity rebranding Legion and tying him to Jean Grey’s ultimate hero form.
Speaking of ultimate, the Ultimate Universe renders David Haller strictly into a digital entity rather than the Omega-level mutant that he has always been. Both of these new forms transform Legion into something more powerful than he’s ever been before.
Legion Briefly Replaces Jean Grey as the Dark Phoenix
“Marvel Girl” by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Rod Reis for Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1
In the 2025 anniversary issue of Giant-Size X-Men #1, Legion is reintroduced to the fold as they travel several years into the past. With their more empathetic host, David Haller, now dead, no one can hold the Legion back as they try to destroy the X-Men once and for all. Following them into the past is the X-Men’s new mutant, Ms. Marvel. It isn’t long until a battle ensues and, in the midst of it all, the Dark Phoenix Force manifests. As the X-Men try to save Jean, Phoenix conversates with the Legion and is convinced to fuse with them.
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The Phoenix Force is inevitably sucked back out of them and re-absorbed by Jean Grey by the end of the issue, but by the end, Legion uncharacteristically shows a shred of humanity before that happens. As the Phoenix, Legion returns to the White Hot Room where David Haller’s soul remains, and demands it to “give me back my David.” As evil as Legion is, they may have a soft spot for their former human host after all. Such a soft spot could one day pave the way for Legion’s hero potential, even without David in the driver’s seat.
Elsewhere, Legion is The One
Ultimate Wolverine #6 by Christopher Condon and Alex Lins
The Ultimate Universe quietly reboots Legion as more of a digital Opposition, so to speak, or One as it’s also referred to as. Legion has always been considered more of a hive mind than a single being, but now, this new dark timeline evolves that idea by turning Legion into a whole being accessed through the digital world. Both of these separate X-Men comics present Legion as something completely different, but also something completely fresh never before seen in Legion’s past as a villain.
Both Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 and Ultimate Wolverine #6 are available now from Marvel.
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