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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 2859701" data-attributes="member: 2198">While the original story was very cool at the time (I started reading X-Men with the Hellfire Club / Dark Pheonix issues), it was also very silly and really only made sense in an established comic-book universe like Marvel - where something like "the Pheonix Force" could just be introduced with little explination and readily accepted, and mutants battling space aliens isn't really all that strange.  That why I always wonder why fans are disappointed when things like this get changed for the big screen (or for television) - the original MAKES NO SENSE in a stand-alone movie or cartoon franchise.This applies to the Spider-Man black costume / Venom thing as well.  "Well, a hero that fights street crime gets transported to an alien planet where he gets a magic new costume from a machine that really turns out to be a symbiote being that feeds on his adrenline, and when he gets rid of it, it bonds with a photographer whose reputation was ruined by the hero's civilian identiy to form the deadliest villian of all!"  This was all very fun to read at the time, but it would never work in a movie, where audiences don't expect things like aliens in their Spider-Man stories.</blockquote>