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Fictitious dimension in Marvel Comics
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. It exists outside of the Multiverse, but also within the M'kraan Crystal.

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

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. 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. 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.

In New X-Men #54, it was shown to be the home of all of the hosts of the Phoenix Force, past, present, future, and from alternate timelines. 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."

At the end of Rise of the Powers of X #5, it's established that the White Hot Room is the home of New Krakoa.

History

In Classic X-Men #8, a series that reprinted classic X-Men stories with original backups that often "filled in" moments, Jean Grey, while dying of radiation during X-Men #100, finds herself in a blinding white void where she first encounters the Phoenix. Even though this white void remained unnamed until New X-Men #154, it is technically the first appearance of the White Hot Room. In Classic X-Men #43, after dying, Jean finds herself on a tower being built in space alongside a construction worker revealed to be Death. As shown in Defenders: Beyond #3, this, too, is part of the White Hot Room.

In New X-Men #138, as 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." We finally see the White Hot Room in New X-Men #154, filled with the hosts of the Phoenix past, present, and future, including Quentin Quire.

It appears again in X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #5, by Greg Pak and Greg Land, and then Uncanny X-Men #462, by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis. In that issue, the House of M reality warp and Jamie Braddock causes Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers to become trapped in the White Hot Room before being moved into the House of M reality. In What If? X-Men - Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire, by Christopher Yost and Larry Stroman, it's revealed that the White Hot Room exists inside the M'kraan Crystal.

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." When they enter the White Hot Room, the narration states several different names for it:

Mysterium Tremendum!
Elemental Cosmic Heart!
White-Hot Room of Secret Fire!
Excelso Prae Omnibus Aliis!

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

Tigra: The voice comes louder than thunder. Louder than bombs.

White Hot Room: And I am not the Phoenix. I am the room where the Phoenix is made.

Tigra: And I'm falling and I'm burning and her voice is the loudest music...

After the 2023 Hellfire Gala, the majority of Krakoa's population (around 250,000 mutants) were exiled through Krakoan gates into a vast and seeming endless desert, as revealed in Immortal X-Men #14. In Immortal X-Men #16, it's revealed this desert is actually the White Hot Room and Jean, recently murdered by Moira MacTaggert at the Hellfire Gala, has been resurrected there, but is amnesiac and disoriented due to the large number of mutants who now reside inside it. After the Sinister clone Mother Righteous stabs Jean again in the center of the White Hot Room, both the Phoenix and the White Hot Room begin to die. At the end of Rise of the Powers of X #5, after the Phoenix is resurrected, it's revealed that the White Hot Room was restored in a new form and that "it's presently inaccessible by all known methods. What this means for Mysterium that was mined from there is still being explored." 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 X-Men vol. 6 #35 showed that this New Krakoa flourished, returning to Earth after a subjective number of years and then returning to the White Hot Room.

Notes

It's stated in Dead X-Men that the White Hot Room is both outside the Multiverse, but also within the M'kraan Crystal. As something outside of the Multiverse, it's also considered to be a part of "the Mystery," beyond the Far Shore. This includes places like the Beyond (home of the Beyonders), the Land of Couldn't-Be-Shouldn't-Be, and the House of Ideas.

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