Why is the Model 38 (Phoenix-Killer Armor) 1-A?

[DuckyMcLucky]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can't figure out why the Phoenix Force shown in AvX that Tony fragments into five pieces is 1-A.

I know that the Universal Phoenix Force's article says it's 1-A, but aren't there a ton of anti-feats in AvX? I checked, but I couldn't find anything that would apply to the phoenix shown coming to Earth. I also couldn't find any proof in the comic run that shows that the phoenix could use the entirety of the Phoenix Force's power.

I also looked at Cyclops's profile, and it says that when he's Dark Phoenix (which is the power all of the fragments of the Phoenix put together again, right?) he is only 3-A. Wouldn't this mean that the Phoenix that Tony fragmented would scale similarly?

I might've missed/misunderstood something, so apologies in advance.

 

[Rgerdeena]

I know that the Universal Phoenix Force's article says it's 1-A, but aren't there a ton of anti-feats in AvX? I checked, but I couldn't find anything that would apply to the phoenix shown coming to Earth. I also couldn't find any proof in the comic run that shows that the phoenix could use the entirety of the Phoenix Force's power.

Can you name any of those anti feats in particular?, just would prefer what your argument is based on, also why would we assume that the phoenix force can’t use it’s own full power

I also looked at Cyclops's profile, and it says that when he's Dark Phoenix (which is the power all of the fragments of the Phoenix put together again, right?) he is only 3-A. Wouldn't this mean that the Phoenix that Tony fragmented would scale similarly?

The Phoenix force itself is a lot stronger than it’s hosts

 

[DuckyMcLucky]

Can you name any of those anti feats in particular?, just would prefer what your argument is based on, also why would we assume that the phoenix force can’t use it’s own full power

The Phoenix force itself is a lot stronger than it’s hosts

Let me try and list some (I'm not exactly the most well versed on 1-A scaling):

The Phoenix Force we see in AvX has to travel to Earth, which wouldn't make sense to me if it was using the entirety of the Universal Phoenix Force (was also slower than Nova, who made it to Earth before the Phoenix did by days)

The fact that Cyclops when he becomes Dark Phoenix is only 3-A

Assuming that the Phoenix Force creates avatars of itself similar to how Abstracts use m-bodies (which is supported by the Phoenix Force's profile: "The Phoenix is neither being nor entity, it is a force, the sum and substance of all that lives, and it is the literal concept of life itself in opposition to the abstract Death, using avatars in contrast to Death's M-Bodies."), then it would mean that the avatar shown in AvX is not necessarily 1-A

(also, why don't we have a key for the Phoenix Force's avatars we see moving around? i would assume that all of a 1-A being couldn't just pop into Earth-616's universe without insane consequences)

Thor seems to harm the Phoenix, which wouldn't make sense as he consistently holds back, and his profile says that his AP would only scale to 1-A if he taps into the Phoenix Force or uses his God Blast, which both are visibly not being used

The Model 38 seems to use a weakness of the Phoenix Force? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this wouldn't work on other 1-A beings on a similar level to the Universal Phoenix Force