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No, it wasn’t a mistake.

That major character death you saw revealed in the latest trailer for this week’s highly anticipated X-Men film, Dark Phoenix, isn’t the result of someone asleep at the switch.

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Writer-director Simon Kinberg (who is making his directorial debut with the pic) says the reveal is meant to show X-Men fans that this is a different kind of comic book movie.

“I wanted closure with this movie from start to finish,” Kinberg, 45, says down the line from London. And eschewing a tradition of having a post-credits tease, when Dark Phoenix ends that’ll be it.

“There isn’t a post-credits scene for the same reason we didn’t put one in Logan,” he continues, teasing the 12th X-Men film. “We want to have the feeling of completion and closure.”

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Based on one of the most revered X-Men storylines, Dark Phoenix is presumably the last entry that will feature the First Class cast — which includes Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), the telepathic Jean Grey (Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner) and others. The new ‘90s-set story follows directly on the events of 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse and finds the team sent into space for a routine astronaut rescue mission when Jean is hit by an evil cosmic force that threatens to take over her mind and powers. After she murders one of her own, her fellow mutants are left to decide whether to kill her Jean or try and save her.