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White Hot Room
The White Hot Room and all the Phoenix hosts from New X-Men #154, art by Marc Silvestri, words by Grant Morrison.
First appearanceClassic X-Men #8
(January 1987)
New X-Men #154
(March 2004)
PublisherMarvel Comics
CreatorsChris Claremont
John Bolton
Grant Morrison
Marc Silvestri

The White Hot Room (or the White-Hot Room) is a fictional dimension appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is the home of the Phoenix Force and where Phoenix hosts go after they die.[1] It exists outside of the Multiverse, but also within the M'kraan Crystal.[2] It has been called "the epicenter of creation and rebirth."[3]

The White Hot Room first appeared, retroactively, in the backup story for Classic X-Men #8 by Chris Claremont and John Bolton. It was established and named in New X-Men #154 by Grant Morrison and Marc Silvestri.

Description

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The White Hot Room can appear as an endless white void, but it has also appeared in other forms, too. In the backup story for Classic X-Men #43, by Chris Claremont and Mike Collins, the Room appeared as a large tower being constructed in space, with the construction worker identified by Jean Grey as Death.[4] In Defenders: Beyond #3, by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez, it appears the white void, the tower, a dark cave lit by a single fire, a snowy landscape, and an endless expanse of desert.[5] This desert reappears in Immortal X-Men #14, by Kieron Gillen and Lucas Werneck, where it's eventually revealed to be the White Hot Room.[6]

In New X-Men #54, it was shown to be the home of all of the hosts of the Phoenix Force, past, present, and future.[7] In Jean Grey #11, by Dennis Hallum, Victor Ibanez, and Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque, the Phoenix states that is "a nexus between all Phoenix hosts and our eternal flame. A place of rest and contemplation. Home to every being with whom I've merged. Every Phoenix host leaves a piece of itself here with me."[8]

History

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In Classic X-Men #8, a series that reprinted classic X-Men stories with original backups that often "filled in" moments of continuity, Jean Grey, while dying of radiation during X-Men #100, finds herself in a blinding white void where she first encounters the Phoenix.[9] Even though this white void remained unnamed until New X-Men #154, it is technically the first appearance of the White Hot Room.[10] In Classic X-Men #43, after dying, Jean Grey finds herself in the White Hot Room again, alongside an aspect of Death.[11][12]

In New X-Men #138, as the character of Quentin Quire dies and ascends into a higher dimension, he says "...I'm streaming...going away...into the bigger rooms..outside rooms bigger than the whole world."[13] The White Hot Room is finally shown in New X-Men #154 as an afterlife for the Phoenix and its hosts.[14][15] In X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong, the Phoenix returns from the White Hot Room temporarily.[16]

In S.W.O.R.D. vol 2 #1, the mutant circuit known as the Six manage to break into the White Hot Room and bring back a substance they call "Mysterium."[17] This metal is harder and stronger than Adamantium[18] and has anti-magical properties.[19]

In Defenders: Beyond #3, the Defenders find themselves in the White Hot Room as Taaia is possessed by the Phoenix.[20] Much like the earlier stories by Claremont, this issue equates the White Hot Room with Tiphareth of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah.[21]

After X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023, during the Fall of X crossover, the majority of Krakoa's population (around 250,000 mutants) were exiled through Krakoan gates into a vast and seeming endless desert; in Immortal X-Men #16, this desert is revealed to be the White Hot Room.[22][23][24] After the Mister Sinister clone Mother Righteous stabs Jean in the center of the White Hot Room, both the Phoenix and the White Hot Room began to die.[25][26][27][28] At the end of Rise of the Powers of X #5, both the Phoenix and the White Hot Room were restored.[29][30][31] The finale of the Krakoan Age X-Men #35 revealed that while many mutants were able to get back to Earth to fight Orchis, a large number of them still remained in the White Hot Room and this "New Krakoa" flourished, returning to Earth after fifteen years before going back to the White Hot Room.[27][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]

References

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  5. ^ Ewing, Al; Rodriguez, Javier (September 28, 2022). Defenders: Beyond #3. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ Gillen, Kieron; Werneck, Lucas (August 9, 2023). Immortal X-Men #14. Marvel Comics.
  7. ^ Morrison, Grant; Silvestri, Marc (March 17, 2004). New X-Men #154. Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ Hallum, Dennis; Ibanez, Victor; Jiménez Alburquerque, Alberto (January 31, 2018). Jean Grey #11. Marvel Comics.
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