Let’s Talk About the Ending of Dark Phoenix

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie Dark Phoenix.

Dark Phoenix ends not with its main character, Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, but with a scene featuring the two men whose contentious relationship has propelled the X-Men film series for 19 years: Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender). The two sit down to play a game of chess, a callback to earlier X-Men films.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie Dark Phoenix. Dark Phoenix ends not with its main character, Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, but with a scene featuring the two men whose contentious relationship has propelled the X-Men film series for 19 years: Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender). The two sit down to play a game of chess, a callback to earlier X-Men films.