Phoenix Song: Echo is a 2021 comic book by Rebecca Roanhorse and Luca Maresca, starring Echo.
Echo became the host of the Phoenix Force during an arc of The Avengers (Jason Aaron). She tries to keep being a vigilante but she's greatly overpowered now: when she tried to stop some thieves she accidentally burned one of them alive, set the whole building on fire, and almost burned alive a kid she was trying to rescue. Daredevilnote and Forge tell her the Phoenix Force is dangerous and that she needs to control it, but she ran away both times. She seeks help from a man who can communicate with ancestors, and finds out that someone is killing her family.
Phoenix Song: Echo provides examples of:
- How We Got Here: The first scene of the first issue is Echo being Drunk with Power and threatening to kill a child. The next page starts "10 minutes ago".
- Jerkass Has a Point
- Daredevil tells Echo that she's a danger, that she has committed murder. She's about to unleash her power on her but then steps back: she concedes that yes, Daredevil has a point and perhaps she does not belong among people anymore.
- Forge explains Echo the history of the Phoenix Force, all the drama that it has caused in the past, but Echo refuses to be depowered. Forge makes then a surprise attack and tries to contain her inside a bunker, but she easily frees herself. Still, Echo admits that he was right, and she needs help. Not from him, but from someone else.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: The band of criminals fires their weapons against Echo, but her power makes her Immune to Bullets. Another one manages to get close and fire to her face at gunpoint, but she simply incinerated him alive for being "rude". During those few seconds, all the others had the good sense to run the hell outta there.
- Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: To prove his point about the Phoenix Force being dangerous, Forge summoned Echo to the island she razed while fighting Namor.
- Space Is Noisy: With her Phoenix powers Echo can be on the Moon without problem. And talk by phone.
- Spinoff: From Jason Aaron's Avengers, spinning out of the events of the Enter the Phoenix storyline (while also taking advantage of Maya being in the public spotlight due to then-impending release of Hawkeye.
- Super Cell Reception: Echo somehow gets an incoming call on her Phone while on the freakin' Moon!
- Throwing Off the Disability: Averted. Despite being overpowered by a cosmic force capable even to resurrect the dead, Echo is still deaf.
- Understatement: About the man she burned, Echo says that it was an accident. Daredevil replies that's a cute name for "murder".
- What the Hell, Hero?: Daredevil did not like that Echo set a building on fire, committed murder, and even casually walked away from it all.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: This being the Phoenix Force, it goes without saying. She had to deal with this from the start of the first issue, as her anger with some petty thieves make her set a building on fire.
- Wolverine Publicity: The cover of Issue #2 has the X-Men, but they are nowhere to be seen in the comic.
