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Scott Summers (Earth-616)

Cyclops

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Real Name

Scott Summers

Current Alias

Cyclops

Aliases

Scotty, Cyke, Slim, Fearless Leader, One-Eye, Erik the Red, Slym Dayspring, Mutate 007, Apocalypse

Relatives
Oscar Summers (adoptive paternal distant ancestor, deceased); Daniel Summers (paternal distant ancestor^[1], deceased); Amanda Mueller (Black Womb) (paternal distant ancestor); unnamed great-grandfather, deceased; Gloria Dayne (Fontanelle) (paternal distant ancestor); Philip Summers (paternal grandfather); Deborah Summers (paternal grandmother); Christopher Summers (Corsair) (father, deceased); Katherine Summers (mother, deceased); Jack Winters (Jack O'Diamonds) (former foster father); Alexander Summers (Havok) (brother); Gabriel Summers (Vulcan) (brother, deceased); Madelyne Pryor-Summers (Red Queen) (first wife/second wife's clone, deceased); Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix) (second wife, deceased); Nathan Summers (Cable) (son); Gailyn Bailey (niece, deceased); Joseph Bailey (nephew, deceased); Adam Neramani (X-Treme) (nephew, alleged half-brother); Hope Summers (adoptive granddaughter); Stryfe (son's clone); Rachel Grey (Marvel Girl) (alternate reality daughter); Rachel Summers (Mother Askani) (alternate reality daughter, deceased); Nate Grey (X-Man); (alternate reality son); Summers and Grey Family Tree (more relatives)

Relatives

Oscar Summers (adoptive paternal distant ancestor, deceased);
Daniel Summers (paternal distant ancestor^[1], deceased);
Amanda Mueller (Black Womb) (paternal distant ancestor);
unnamed great-grandfather, deceased;
Gloria Dayne (Fontanelle) (paternal distant ancestor);
Philip Summers (paternal grandfather);
Deborah Summers (paternal grandmother);
Christopher Summers (Corsair) (father, deceased);
Katherine Summers (mother, deceased);
Jack Winters (Jack O'Diamonds) (former foster father);
Alexander Summers (Havok) (brother);
Gabriel Summers (Vulcan) (brother, deceased);
Madelyne Pryor-Summers (Red Queen) (first wife/second wife's clone, deceased);
Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix) (second wife, deceased);
Nathan Summers (Cable) (son);
Gailyn Bailey (niece, deceased);
Joseph Bailey (nephew, deceased);
Adam Neramani (X-Treme) (nephew, alleged half-brother);
Hope Summers (adoptive granddaughter);
Stryfe (son's clone);
Rachel Grey (Marvel Girl) (alternate reality daughter);
Rachel Summers (Mother Askani) (alternate reality daughter, deceased);
Nate Grey (X-Man); (alternate reality son);

Summers and Grey Family Tree (more relatives)

Affiliation

X-Men (Team Cyclops), Extinction Team (leader, founding member); formerly X-Force (founder); Corsairs (squad leader); The Twelve; Clan Rebellion; X-Factor/X-Terminators (founding member); Beginagains

Base Of Operations

Utopia, San Francisco Bay, California; formerly Graymalkin Industries, Marin Headlands, San Francisco, California; Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; Ship; X-Factor Complex, Manhattan, New York

Status

Alignment

Identity

Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation

Leader of mutant race, adventurer, former headmaster, student, radio announcer

Education

College Graduate, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Characteristics^[2]

Gender

Male

Height

6' 3"

Weight

195 lbs (89 kg)

Eyes

Brown, (glowing red when using powers)

Hair

Origin

Universe

Place of Birth

Created by

First appearance

X-Men #1
(September, 1963)

HistoryEdit

Hello again. My name is Scott Summers and I’ve been an X-Man since I was fifteen. And like everyone else here, I’ve been a mutant all my life.

-- Cyclops ^src

Early Years

Scott Summers is the oldest son of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U.S. Air Force and his wife Katherine Ann. His younger brother is Alex. Both are mutants.

When Scott and Alex were boys flying home from a family vacation in their father's vintage private plane, a scout ship from the alien Shi'ar Empire suddenly materialized and set the plane ablaze. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out the plane door with the only available parachute. The parachute caught fire, so Scott used his mutant optic blasts for the first time to slow their descent. Scott suffered a head injury on landing that damaged the part of Scott's brain that would have enabled him to control his optic blasts. The two boys were hospitalized and both suffered traumatic amnesia regarding the incident ^[1].

Scott and Alex were unaware that their parents had been teleported from the plane by the Shi'ar a moment before it exploded. The geneticist took an interest in the boys. Mr. Sinister believed that Scott was the Summers brother with the most potential, so he had Alex adopted to both separate them and render Scott emotionally vulnerable. One night, Scott woke up and destroyed the roof of the hospital with his optic blast. When Scott woke up again, a year had past. Upon recovering, Scott was placed in the State Home for Foundlings, an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska. There he was subjected to batteries of tests and experiments by the orphanage's owner, Mr. Milbury, an alias for Mr. Sinister. Sinister placed mental blocks on Scott and took-on the role of "Lefty", who was Scott's roommate and would bully him at the orphanage. Sinister intervened any time anyone came close to adopting Scott.

As a teenager Scott began to suffer from severe headaches he was sent to a specialist, Sinister, who provided him with lenses made of ruby-quartz . Soon after, Scott's mutant power first erupted from his eyes as an uncontrollable blast of optic force. The blast demolished a crane, causing it to drop its payload toward a terrified crowd. Scott saved everyone by obliterating the object with another blast, but the bystanders believed that he had tried to kill them and rallied into an angry mob. Scott fled, escaping on a freight train.

Scott was drawn to a mutant criminal known as the Jack O'Diamonds. Jack O'Diamonds sought to use Scott's new found talent in his crimes and physically abused the young boy when he initially refused. However, Scott's display of power had attracted the attention of the mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier, who teamed up with F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan to find Scott. Scott was rescued from Winters' clutches and was enlisted by Professor Xavier as the first member of the X-Men, a team of young mutants who trained to use their powers in Professor Xavier's dream for human/mutant equality.

X-Men

In the School for Gifted Youngsters the X-Men were tutored by Professor X and trained in the use of their powers in the Danger Room. Xavier provided Scott with visor made of ruby quartz to help him control his powers in the field. As Cyclops, Scott became deputy leader of the X-Men. While he was a skilled tactician, Scott's social skills were lacking. Scott had fallen in love with his teammate Jean Grey, but his reserved demeanor prevented him from expressing his feelings for her for years. For a long time, Scott refused to admit, even to himself, that he had feelings for Jean, afraid he would be hurt again or that his optic blasts would hurt her - or anyone else he cared about for that matter. Scott also felt he was no match for his wealthy teammate, Warren Worthington III, a.k.a. Angel who was also romantically interested in Jean. What Scott didn't know was that Jean actually had a crush on him too, but was too shy to make a move. Eventually they revealed their passion for each other and began to date.

When Prof. Xavier was seemingly killed, the X-Men were ordered to disband by Fred Duncan. Upon reading Prof. Xavier's will, his fortune was to be used for a trust fund, with the mansion becoming the property of the X-Men and Scott to act as a trustee for both the fund and the school.^[2] When dozens of latent mutants were summoned to San Francisco by Mesmero and what seemed to be Magneto (actually a robot duplicate), the X-Men reunited and were overpowered by the villains and their mutant army. Scott created the cover identity of Erik the Red to infiltrate the villain organization and quickly rose to become Magneto's second in command. The X-Men were able to destroy the organization from both outside and within.

Scott was reunited with his brother Alex when the X-Men rescued Alex from The Living Pharaoh, though he refused the offer to return with Scott and the X-Men at that time. When the X-Men finally freed Alex from Larry Trask and his Sentinels, Alex accompanied his brother and his teammates back to civilization, where he began training to help him keep his energy in check. Alex took the codename Havok.

When most of his original students were captured by the sentient island-being Krakoa, Prof. Xavier sent another team comprised of Dr. Moira MacTaggert's students, one of whom was Cyclops' long-lost brother Kid Vulcan, to rescue them. After the team freed Cyclops, they were seemingly killed. Cyclops escaped, but Prof. Xavier wiped the traumatizing knowledge that his new-found brother had seemingly died saving him from Cyclops' memories. Prof. Xavier assembled another new team of X-Men, including Sunfire, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Wolverine, and Thunderbird. Scott led this new team, this time successfully rescuing the original X-Men from Krakoa. ^[3]

When Jean and the other original X-Men left the fold following the formation of the new X-Men, Cyclops stayed-on as deputy leader, feeling that he would never be able to lead a normal life because of the uncontrollable nature of his powers, though he continued to date Jean. However, the new team was made up of individuals and loners, such as Wolverine (who quickly developed feelings for Jean), and they weren’t initially working as tight a unit as the original team despite the hard training that Cyclops put them through. Thunderbird was killed in the new team’s first mission against Count Nefaria and his Ani-Men and it haunted Cyclops.

The Phoenix

Shortly after Jean left the team, she, Prof. Xavier, Wolverine, and Banshee were kidnapped by Stephen Lang's Sentinels and taken aboard his space station.^[4]-^[5] After defeating Lang, the X-Men had to escape back to Earth aboard a space shuttle, during a solar radiation storm. The craft's pilot had to sit in an area without enough shielding, to protect him or her from the lethal radiation. Jean volunteered to pilot, by absorbing Dr. Peter Corbeau's flight knowledge, but while guiding the shuttle to Earth, the solar radiation finally proved to be too great for her to hold back any longer with her powers^[6] and she began to succumb to the radiation's lethal effects. However, Jean did not die. Simultaneously, the Phoenix Force fully took on the form, memories, and personality of Jean, by absorbing a portion of her consciousness.

The X-Men journeyed to the M'Kraan Crystal's homeworld, to battle the Shi’ar Imperial Guard where they met Christopher Summers, alias Corsair, Cyclops’ father, who had become a space pirate and leader of the Starjammers. Scott still believed that his parents had died in the plane accident and was unaware that they, in fact, had been captured and sold into slavery by the Shi'ar Empire. Phoenix and Storm learned of Corsair's identity, but kept it from Scott.

Scott believed the Phoenix was Jean, when the real Jean was actually in suspended animation. Cyclops privately questioned his relationship with Jean, feeling that this reborn Jean was not the same Jean he had loved. Yet, when he thought her dead for an extended period of time, after his battle in the Savage Land, Scott was not able to mourn Jean, and believed this meant he didn't really love her anymore. Scott briefly dated Colleen Wing^[7], however, when Scott and Phoenix were reunited he rediscovered his love for her and they shared a passionate kiss on the way home.

Scott and Phoenix shared an intimate night, after Phoenix blocked Scott's optic blast and allowed him to see her clearly. After an invite to a Hellfire Club party from Angel, the Phoenix fell under Mastermind and the Hellfire Club's control and transformed into the Black Queen. After the X-Men battled the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle, Phoenix underwent another transformation into the Dark Phoenix and soared through the universe, where she devoured an entire star and the five billion inhabitants of one of its planets. When she returned to Earth, Phoenix threatened to kill everyone, but Cyclops still tried to reach out to her. Professor Xavier was able to keep Phoenix under control and helped her will herself back to normal. Scott finally proposed to the Phoenix as they were teleported away by the Shi'ar.

The Shi'ar Empire had witnessed Dark Phoenix consuming the star and the X-Men were forced to battle with the Imperial Guard over Phoenix's fate. The battle triggered Phoenix's transformation into Dark Phoenix once more. Phoenix understood that she would never be able to fully control the dark hunger inside and sacrificed herself on the moon. When the Phoenix committed suicide, Scott believed the love of his life had died and he left the X-Men.

Unsure of what to do anymore, Scott signed on as crew of a fishing boat, captained by Lee Forrester, who helped him work through his grief. After an adventure in which Lee's father was possessed by D'Spayre, Cyclops and the Man-Thing fought D'Spayre. Scott and Lee found themselves shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, where they stumbled upon Magneto's new base of operations and he aided the X-Men in defeating him. Scott rejoined the team.

When Corsair came to Earth for help with the Sidri, Scott recognized a certain medallion that Corsair was wearing, containing pictures of the Summers family. At first, Scott was very angry at Corsair and Storm for keeping the truth from him, but Scott came to understand and forgive his father. Scott introduced Corsair to his other son, Alex.

Madelyne Pryor

After spending downtime with Lee, Scott later came into contact with his grandparents, who he learned were still alive and owned a shipping company in Canada, North Star Airways. Scott left to the Summers' family reunion where he met Madelyne Pryor, a pilot for his grandparents. Unaware that Madelyne was a clone of Jean created by Sinister, Scott became obsessed with Madelyne's similarity to Jean. Scott fell in love with Madelyne and on the Starjammer proposed. After a small battle with Mastermind, where the X-Men believed Scott was Dark Phoenix, Scott and Madelyne were married.^[8] On the way to their honeymoon, their plane crashed and after surviving, Scott decided not to accompany his father to the stars or remain an X-Man, but to give Madelyne a normal life.

Scott returned to the X-Men after learning that Magneto joined. Scott met Rachel Summers, his daughter from an alternate reality, not knowing of her true origins. Rachel called herself Phoenix and wore a similar outfit as the original, a fact that Scott protested. Early in their marriage, Scott and Madelyne were flying a geological survey team across Alaska, when they ran into a mysterious storm that forced them to crash-land. Through Loki's Firefountain, all non super powered humans aboard the plane, including Madelyne, were endowed with mystical powers^[9]. As Anodyne, Madelyne could heal virtually any injury, illness, and physical-defect. Madelyne, also, used mystical healing powers to allow Cyclops to function without his protective lenses. When it was discovered that Loki's intentions were never altruistic and that his gift was badly flawed, as the cost of those powers was the loss of individual creativity and imagination, everyone turned against him. His plans ended, Loki was ordered by Those Who Sit Above in Shadow to restore everyone to their original state^[10]. Loki spitefully removed all the powers he had granted and everyone who Anodyne had cured was also regressed back. During the incident, Madelyne revealed she was pregnant.

Scott returned home to battle Fenris, the mutant children of Baron von Strucker, Andreas and Andrea, while Madelyne bore Scott a son on the first day of spring, alone in the mansion kitchen, named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers - Nathan from an implanted suggestion by Mister Sinister in Madelyne, Christopher from Scott's father, and Charles from his father-figure. Scott battled Storm for undisputed leadership of the X-Men and New Mutants and after being defeated, Scott retired from the X-Men with his wife and son in Alaska.^[11] Scott later learned that Madelyne had used her powers to influence the outcome of the battle.

X-Factor

During their time away, Scott and Madelyne's marriage became strained. Madelyne resented the fact that Scott was rarely home and that he continued to miss Jean. Scott became very distant, even leaving Madelyne in the middle of the night. When Jean was discovered alive, Scott abandoned Madelyne and baby Christopher to meet with Jean in New York, despite Madelyne's threats of him not being welcome back. After meeting with Scott, Jean decided that they should do something about the current situation of mutants as the X-Men had strayed from Professor Xavier's dream. The five original X-Men founded X-Factor, an organization that intended to seek out and aid other mutants under the pretense of hunting down those perceived menaces to society. The public assumed they were humans hunting mutants when in fact they were training young mutants in the use of their powers at the X-Factor Complex.^[12] Unsure what to do about Maddie and the baby and Jean, Scott only felt useful when commanding his team. Scott attempted to contact Maddie, but the number was disconnected.

The team went-on to battle Apocalypse and his Alliance of Evil. The media referred to their non-human guises as X-Terminators. At first, Scott tried to keep his marriage from Jean, but it was eventually made apparent, while she trained with the other members of X-Factor.^[13]

Jean had learned that her sister, Sara Bailey, had begun speaking on behalf of mutants, in her absence. Scott and Jean went to check on her, fearing for her safety and ,upon arriving, the house exploded, with Jean saving Scott in a telekinetic bubble. After beginning to fear for Madelyne's safety and feeling bad about abandoning his family, Scott went back to Alaska to look for them. There was no record of Madelyne or the baby left in existence, as Sinister had erased them all,^[14] and, while searching for Maddie, Scott was attacked by a newly awakened Master Mold.^[15] After finding the corpse of a young, red-head in a river, Scott believed his wife was dead and buried her by himself.^[16] Scott became plagued by the ghosts of Warren and Maddie, leading others to believe he was going mad (it was later revealed that Cameron Hodge was planning this using holograms).

Scott and Jean returned to the site on the moon where Phoenix had committed suicide and Jean acknowledged that Scott loved Phoenix and she loved him. After their defeat of Apocalypse, his Ship crash landed on their Complex and X-Factor began living on Apocalypse's sentient Ship, that had a barrier only mutants could enter. X-Factor was approached by the media and finally revealed the truth of their mutant origins and disguise of mutant hunters. After saving the city from a series of fires from their battle with Apocalypse, X-Factor was given a ticker-tape parade.

Scott saw video footage of Madelyne and the X-Men sacrificing themselves in Dallas, Texas, where she told Scott she loved him and to find their missing son, and he decided search for his son^[17]. Scott and Jean left to find his son. While on the way, it settled-in that Scott had not only lost his wife, Maddie, but also his younger brother, Alex. Destiny gave cryptic clues to the whereabouts of Scott's son. With clues from Destiny, Scott and Jean returned to his orphanage and found an entire laboratory in the basement with many children including baby Christopher in incubation pods. While attempting to rescue Christopher, Scott and Jean battled Nanny and Orphan-Maker for Scott's son, only to have demons make-off with him^[18]. After returning to New York, Scott and Marvel Girl were reunited with X-Factor and fought countless demons, searching for baby Christopher. X-Factor's search lead them to the demon, N’Astirh, who teleported with the baby, and Madelyne reappeared with him, calling herself the Goblin Queen and calling baby Christopher Nathan. Scott was surprised to find out that his wife was alive, but Madelyne started a fight, blaming Scott and Jean for the misery in her life. Returning to her Madelyne form, before the arrival of the X-Men, instigated a battle between the X-Men and X-Factor, having the X-Men under her demonic influence and believing that X-Factor was attempting to kidnap Nathan. When Scott attempted to assist Madelyne, Alex interjected, stating that Scott forfeited every right to Madelyne when he walked-out on her. When N'Astirh appeared and attempted to take Madelyne, Scott saved Jean, who was being attacked by demon versions of her parents, and Alex rode-off to rescue Madelyne and the baby, actually getting in-the-way of Scott's shot to save Madelyne as well. Madelyne had previously seduced and slept with Alex and he became her Goblin Prince.^[19]-^[20], ^[21]-^[22] After N'Astirh attacked, X-Factor and the X-Men combined efforts to defeat him, assuming that he was controlling the Goblin Queen and the Goblin Prince.

At that moment, Jean was captured by Maddie and another battle was instigated between X-Factor and the X-Men. Scott battled his wife and brother, even though their powers didn't work on each other, but refused to use lethal force as he believed that he drove Maddie to her madness. The Goblin Queen attempted to sacrifice baby Nathan atop the Empire State Building to permanently open a gateway between Earth and the demonic Limbo, to spite Scott. The Goblin Queen locked herself, Nathan, and Jean inside a psionic barrier. Both X-Factor and the X-Men's combined efforts seemed to be futile in an effort to break through the telekinetic bubble. The invasion was thwarted after Madelyne committed suicide in combat with Jean, attempting to kill everyone in her power, but the X-Men and X-Factor protected each other while Jean protected Nathan Christopher^[23]. After Madelyne's death, Jean began to scream in pain and Storm ordered Psylocke to take Scott and the X-Men into her mind, where Mr. Sinister was attempting to erase all of Jean's memories, until Jean defeated him on the Astral Plane.

Following Mr. Sinister's psychic trail, Marvel Girl tracked him to the School for Gifted Youngsters and X-Factor and the X-Men were ambushed by the Marauders. While interrogating Malice/Polaris, Mr. Sinister destroyed the school. Scott, soon, learned that Mister Sinister ran the orphanage in which he was raised, provided the ruby-quartz lenses, and the truth about Madelyne's creation, while Sinister mentally locked-off access to Scott's optic blast and attempted to claim Jean. While X-Factor and the X-Men battled Sinister and Malice, Scott was bound. With Alex bombarding Scott with his plasma blasts and verbally agitating him, Scott seemingly killed Sinister with an unchecked optic blast.

Scott pursued a romance with Jean, reclaiming his son. Scott decided to take Nathan Christopher with him on missions. Nathan Christopher's other mutant powers began to manifest as a protective force bubble around himself. Later, Scott proposed to Jean only to be denied.^[24] While on Genosha, Scott battled his brother Alex, who had been controlled, until his brainwashing was lifted and together, they defeated Hodge.

Later, the Riders of the Storm kidnapped Nathan and took him to Apocalypse's base on the Blue Area of the Moon. Although Scott saved his son, with the help of his fellow teammates and through the combined strength of Nathan, Jean, and himself, it was revealed that Apocalypse had infected the infant with the Techno-Organic Virus, that was rapidly spreading through his body and, if not stopped, would kill him. Ship created a protective electro-magnetic field and merged with Nathan's electrical parts, to keep the child alive. As the virus spread through Nathan's body, threatening to turn Nathan into a body of liquid metal and organic steel, a member of the Clan Askani, Sister Askani, who sacrificed her physical body to become energy, appeared from the late 37th-early 39th century to Cyclops, claiming that Nathan would become a savior in their time and that the Clan would cure him of the virus. Distraught, Scott decided to allow Sister Askani to transport Nathan, being told that if he crossed that line, Nathan would be lost to him forever^[25].

Returning to the X-Men

Prof. Xavier's psionic enemy, Shadow King, returned to combat the X-Men and X-Factor rushed to assist^[26]. After his defeat, Cyclops and X-Factor disbanded to rejoin the X-Men and Scott was named leader of a newly created "Blue Team"^[27]. Prof. Xavier and Scott traveled to Muir Island and asked Alex to lead the new team of X-Factor. Fellow teammate and telepath Psylocke tried to lure Cyclops into infidelity, behind Jean's back.

Mister Sinister, disguised as Apocalypse, returned and sent Caliban, a former X-Factor member turned Horsemen of Apocalypse, to kidnap Cyclops and Jean at Harry's Hideaway. After the Horsemen of Apocalypse left, Mr. Sinister turned Scott and Jean over to Stryfe^[28], a madman and rival to Cable, in exchange for a canister containing a genetic matrix he was told contained Summers' family genetic material.^[29] Torturing Scott and Jean, Stryfe claimed that he was Nathan returned from the future after being abandoned. In the final battle on the lunar surface of the moon, Cable and Stryfe seemingly vanished due to Scott activating a device that Cable had created.^[30]

After hearing that Cable had returned and was being controlled by Stryfe, from Domino, Scott, Jean, and Prof. Xavier left with the android, Zero.^[31]. Through the combined efforts of Tyler Dayspring, Professor Xavier, Jean, and a member of the Clan Askani, Stryfe was informed that he was a clone and that Cable was in fact the original Nathan Christopher Charles Summers and he expelled himself from Cable's mind. Cable left Scott with unresolved issues, only wanting to know about his mother before he left^[32].

Psylocke passionately kissed Scott and he took a leave, to meet with his grandparents in Alaska and explain the recent events with his son and wife^[33]. Mister Sinister returned, this time in the guise of Mr. Mulbury, a neighbor of Scott's grandparents, to inform Scott of his accidental release of the Legacy Virus. Sinister also informed Scott that there was another Summers brother and left him wondering, before the Dark Riders appeared and Sinister teleported away^[34].

Jean proposed to Scott.^[35]During the night of his bachelor party, Scott was alerted that there was an intruder in the Danger Room. It turned out to be Cable, going through a hologram of when he was given to the Askani by his father. Originally put-off by Scott's eagerness to relinquish his son forever, Cable came to respect his father after seeing a hologram of Scott's response after his decision^[36].

Slym Dayspring

Scott and his long-time love were finally married^[37] and, whilst on their honeymoon in the beaches of Saint Barts, their spirits were taken into the future, by the Clan Askani's matriarch, Mother Askani. Arriving in the future right after baby Nathan arrived, Scott and Jean inhabited new bodies cloned from their descendants, as their own bodies would not survive the travel, and were directly in the middle of the massacre of the Clan Askani. Ch'vayre, a former member of Askani, had captured Nathan and, after Mother Askani returned similar powers to the couple, Scott, Jean, and Mother Askani successfully rescued him, but Ch'Vayre severely wounded Mother Askani, leaving her in a coma. Scott and Jean fled with Nathan and Mother Askani and spent the next twelve years raising Nathan in secret, posing as humans "Slym" and "Redd Dayspring" and joining the Askani-inspired Clan Rebellion to undermine Apocalypse's empire.

Slym and Redd raised Nathan, as Nathan Dayspring, and began his therapy and training, in the hope he would overthrow Apocalypse, while regularly moving to new locations. Slym and Redd never told Nathan of their true origins or his, but that they were not his true parents and he accepted that he was born in the future.

After over-hearing Slym and Redd speak about a raid on Apocalypse's citadel in Crestcoast with the Clan Rebellion, Nathan followed them and, at eight years old, met Stryfe. While in the citadel, Slym and Redd observed a human virus that greatly resembled the Legacy Virus. Mother Askani telepathically spoke to Nathan telling him how to destroy the virus of Apocalypse's.

After years of remission, Nathan's Techno-Organic Virus, suddenly, began to flare-up and he went into a coma, beyond any medical aid, as his condition was deemed terminal. Slym watched over Nathan day and night, refusing his duties as a member of Clan Rebellion. While Redd was on what should have been the final raid of Apocalypse's Citadel, Nathan miraculously woke-up, as Mother Askani telepathically encouraged him to fight back the spread of the virus and telekinetically contain it. Upon waking, Nathan, with his mind connected to Redd's, alerted Slym that she was in danger. After Slym and Nathan arrived to aid Redd, Apocalypse used his power to see through their physical bodies and recognized them as Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Cable, stating that if he had met them before, he could have deduced this earlier. After Slym, Redd, and Nathan attacked Apocalypse, the disillusioned Ch'vayre betrayed his master, distracting him, and Slym ordered Nathan to disrupt any telepathic links between Apocalypse and Stryfe, seemingly killing Apocalypse. At that moment, Mother Askani began to die and Redd. Slym realized that he too would be sent back to his time and, wanting to say so much, Slym told Nathan that he "...will never be alone. Not in his heart... not in the only way that truly matters... because I will be there. Because I love you, son. Remember that always! You will be many things to many people. Sometimes love and respected. Other times feared and hated, almost always misunderstood. Someday, you’ll be a cable that unites the past with the present and future – yesterday with today and tomorrow. Nathan Christopher will be all those things… but he should know he’ll never be alone."^[38]-^[39].

Upon returning, the school name was changed from Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters to Xavier Institute for Higher Learning^[40] and Scott and Jean moved into the former boathouse^[41].

Scott offered Cable and X-Force a home at the mansion^[42]. After being accidentally sent to a crashing Avalon by Amelia Voght, Scott led the Acolytes to the X-Men's abandoned Australian base^[43].

The X-Men were forced to battle their mentor when Professor Xavier was transformed into the evil Onslaught as a result of mind-wiping Magneto^[44]. Although the X-Men defeated the evil entity and freed Prof. Xavier, most of Earth's heroes were lost for a time. Prof. Xavier, who was left powerless after Onslaught's defeat, was arrested for his part, leaving Scott and Jean as leaders and co-headmasters of the school^[45]. Scott, again, was forced to battle a mind-controlled Alex when the latter joined a new Brotherhood of Mutants.^[46]

he government sponsored mutant-hunting operation known as "Operation: Zero Tolerance" took effect and the villainous Bastion captured X-Men Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Cannonball, and Phoenix^[47]. In his attempt to destroy mutantkind, Bastion placed a nanotech bomb inside Scott’s chest^[48]. The X-Men escaped and the mutant doctor and new X-Men member named Cecilia Reyes, saved Scott’s life.^[49] Scott and his wife soon took a leave of absence from the X-Men for a period of recuperation.^[50] On the plane ride there, Scott and Jean briefly battled a battalion of A.I.M. soldiers^[51] and while on leave, Scott called the original team together to reassess Professor Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existance of mutants and humans. Scott began to grow weary as Jean began to wear the same costume that the Phoenix double wore and manifested the Phoenix flamebird while training.^[52]

Apocalypse

Scott and Jean returned to the X-Men some time after, at the request of Storm, when she grew concerned about the mental well-being of Professor X (who had returned sometime prior)^[53]. Not long after returning to the team, Scott and Jean soon found themselves embroiled in Apocalypse's bid for cosmic power, by assembling "The Twelve" - a group of mutants who would determine the fate of their kind that included Scott, Phoenix, Iceman, Professor X, Storm, Magneto, The Living Monolith, Bishop, Polaris, Sunfire, Mikhail Rasputin, X-Man, and Cable. To secure a new host body, Apocalypse sought to collect the mutants he required to carry out his plan and siphon the awesome energies of "The Twelve". They were wired to a machine that would channel the Twelve's awesome energies into Apocalypse, allowing him to absorb the body of the time-tossed powerful mutant teenager known as Nate Grey, an alternate reality version of Scott and Jean's son from the Age of Apocalypse^[54]. As his teammates fell around him, a powerless Scott saved Nate and merged with the would-be conqueror to create a new evil entity.^[55] Jean detected Scott's psyche inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying him, however, he was presumed dead by most of his teammates^[56]. Only Jean and Cable refused to believe Scott had perished, at which time Cable joined the X-Men to honor his father^[57].

Investigating rumors he was alive, Phoenix and Cable found Scott in the birthplace of Apocalypse in Akkaba, Egypt, struggling to reassert his mind over the villain's psyche. Ultimately, Jean was able to physically rip Apocalypse's essence from Scott's body, using her mental powers, and Cable destroyed Apocalypse with his own powers^[58]-^[59].

Emma Frost

Afterward, Scott returned to the X-Men, but his association with Apocalypse had given him a grimmer, more serious personality than ever before. As a result, many of his relationships became strained, including his marriage to Jean. Apocalypse made him question not only their relationship, but his life as a whole. Following the outing of Professor X as a mutant to the world, while under the influence of Cassandra Nova, his school opened its doors to the mutant population at large. Professor Xavier left Earth, while under the control of Cassandra Nova, and Jean was left as Headmistress of the school^[60]. When Jean began to show signs of manifesting the Phoenix Force, Scott only further distanced himself from her. Jean, confused by the change in their relationship, confided in Logan and the two kissed in the woods outside the school, but Logan walked away, telling her that she should remain with Scott^[60]. Jean's new responsibilities, along with her growing powers, forced her to put her attention elsewhere, leaving Scott feeling ignored and his trauma from being possessed trivialized^[61]. Scott was instrumental in preventing the mutant Kuan-Yin Xorn's suicide and in recruiting the powerful mutant to the X-Men^[62]. Scott began abstaining from sex with Jean for five months and even after Jean attempted several times to confront Cyclops, he continued to push her away. Scott sought the help of qualified therapist, Emma Frost^[63], once known as the White Queen and a former villain who had reformed and joined the X-Men^[41]. Their relationship ostensibly began as a series of psychic therapy sessions, but Emma took advantage of this situation to get close to Scott and, under the guise of counseling him, she was able to instigate a telepathic affair^[64].

When Jean discovered the affair^[65], she forced Emma to admit her true feelings. Furious at both himself and Jean, Scott confronted Jean and demanded she read his mind and Phoenix finally complied. Jean discovered that Scott and Emma never engaged in any physical contact, even though Emma had offered it. Scott, who felt he couldn't get through to his angry and hurt wife, subsequently left the X-Men to mull over what was happening in his life^[66]. Scott left for a small period of recuperation, during which he met and reconciled with his father. Scott soon found himself at the Hellfire Club, which had been turned into a sleazy strip club, and tried to get drunk, attempting to escape the responsibilities, expectations, and demands he felt were unjustly placed on him by the X-Men. Scott, then, accompanied Wolverine and Fantomex to the government-created, time-pocket, called The World, and then Asteroid M. During his time with Wolverine, Scott reveals that he feels his relationship with Jean was stagnant and that the two of them had not progressed romantically since their initial teenage romance^[67]. Repeated missions with Wolverine resulted in the growth of a tentative friendship between the two veteran X-Men.

When Scott returned, the sentient DNA, known as John Sublime, had taken control of the Xorn, who was also wearing the guise of Magneto, and attacked the X-Men and killed Jean in the process. As she was dying, Scott apologized for hurting her, but Jean instead told him that she understood and had never seen him more alive and urged him to live on^[68]. Scott, however, was devastated by Jean's death, and considered leaving the X-Men once more^[69], but due to the telepathic intervention of the Jean of an alternate future, in an attempt to prevent said future from coming to pass, Cyclops and Emma became romantically involved^[70] and together, the pair rebuilt the Xavier Institute, as co-headmasters, as Prof. Xavier had decided to stay in Genosha^[71].

Cyclops also tutored a squad at the institute, named the Corsairs, named after his father. The team consisted of Dryad, Quill, Specter, and the three remaining Stepford Cuckoos.

The Need to Astonish

Initially, several of their teammates were none too happy with this, because they felt that Cyclops and Emma were insulting the memory of Jean Grey-Summers and the marriage she and Scott once shared. As a result, Wolverine flatly insulted and fought Scott^[71], Beast stated that he no longer liked him^[69], and Rachel Summers, in particular, felt hurt and angry by her father's lack of remorse for the psychic affair that Jean found before her death and Emma's part in it and changed her last name to Grey^[72]. The other X-Men, eventually, came to accept the relationship and both Scott and Emma managed to reconcile with Rachel in their own ways, such as introducing Rachel to Jean's other family members, family that she did not get a chance to meet in her own timeline^[73]. Deciding that the X-Men needed to play more of a role in emergency rescue and aid, and thus garner attention on mutants in a more positive light where mutant abilities are used for the good of people, Cyclops handpicked a team, in order to get out into the world more. Scott chose Beast: for his intelligence, Emma: for her telepathy in the field, Wolverine: because of his fighting experience, and Shadowcat: as the public face of mutants^[71]. The remaining teams, Scott left in the charge of Alex and Ororo. The teams' first mission was an alien, named Ord of the Breakworld, during which the team rescued the recently resurrected Colossus and destroyed a cure for mutants^[74].

Not long after, the X-Men's Danger Room became sentient, attacking the X-Men and seeking to ultimately kill Prof. Xavier^[75]. Calling itself "Danger", "she" revealed that Prof. Xavier knew she had been self-aware, since the Shi'ar technology was installed in the Danger Room years ago, but chose to ignore her, effectively, inhumanely using her only to train his teams of X-Men. After her defeat on the island of Genosha, the X-Men abandoned Prof. Xavier on the island in disgust and Cyclops stated that he no longer needed Prof. Xavier's input at the school or with the team^[76].

Deadly Genesis

After the events of House of M, nearly all mutants were left de-powered, and Prof. Xavier was missing. Vulcan, shocked Scott doesn't recognize him, attacked and easily defeated several members of the X-Men and kidnapped Cyclops and Rachel^[77]. Eventually managing to free themselves, Cyclops and Rachel attempted to escape, only to run into their captor, who revealed himself to be Cyclops' younger brother. Cyclops recognized where they were as the Muir-MacTaggert Research Center^[78] and they end-up on Muir Island with Prof. Xavier, Havok, and a team of X-Men. When Scott asked why he didn't remember any of the events, Professor Xavier (who had lost his powers at the time) had Rachel read his mind and confirmed the memories were not in Scott's mind anymore, because he had erased them. Vulcan escaped, stating that he despised what the X-Men had become and did not consider Scott or Alex his brothers. This left Cyclops resentful towards his mentor and he demanded that Prof. Xavier leave the school, as it was no longer "his"^[79].

During an impromptu telepathic "therapy session", while Emma was being influenced by Cassandra Nova, Emma presented Cyclops with the possibility that his lack of control over his optic blasts actually stemmed from a sort of mental block that the young Scott imposed upon himself, after the combined traumas of the loss of his parents, separation from his brother, and shocking manifestation of his powers. This was seen as a coping mechanism, giving Scott something to focus on and try to maintain some sort of control over, at a time when events completely out of his control had effectively shattered the life he had led, up to that point. Using this information to weaken his resolve, surprisingly, Scott seemed to admit that this theory was the truth of the matter, further admitting that he had even blocked making this decision out of his memory, to preserve the fallacy in his own mind and prevent others from discovering his "secret"^[80]. Even though stronger telepaths like Jean Grey-Summers and Prof. Charles Francis Xavier shared a longer common history with Scott, Emma Frost was able to root this out of his mind. It can safely be speculated that Emma was able to do so, in part, due to her highly refined telepathic skills and, in part, due to the fact that she was able to bring Cyclops to a point of shamelessly opening up his true self to her, something Jean and the Professor never accomplished. For a short time, Scott had full control over his optical blasts, although it was only temporary. Scott was also temporarily killed and resurrected on a mission to Ord's Breakworld^[81].

198

With few mutants left after M-Day, Cyclops opened the Xavier Institute’s estate as an internment camp, set up for any mutant who needed refuge^[82]. Sentinel Squad O*N*E was then activated, by the President. The squad was dispatched to the Xavier Institute, to monitor and protect the remaining mutants. They got into a brief quarrel with the X-Men, but stopped after Emma revealed the units were piloted^[83]. Together, they repelled an attack on the mansion from the Leper Queen and her Sapien League. Apocalypse attacked, again, at this time, but the X-Men, ONE, and the Avengers combined sent him retreating into his Sphinx^[84].

Civil War

Emma declared neutrality on the subject of the superhero Civil War, reasoning that the X-Men sympathized too much with Captain America's side - who, like the X-Men, were persecuted for wanting to do the right thing -, but believed that the mutant race had suffered too great a loss recently to take a side either way and simply needed to focus on survival. A riot broke out, led by Caliban and Erg. It was discovered to be a distraction for Domino and Shatterstar to free the 198. Roughly half of them escaped, with Domino, on an aircraft and went to an abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. base. Iron Man placed Bishop in charge of finding the 198 and Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Iceman left the mansion to assist him^[85], eventually bringing them back.

Mutant Messiah

When the first new mutant baby was born since M-Day, the Marauders and the Purifiers tried to claim her^[86]. Cyclops had a team of X-Men track down the Acolytes while he sent X-Factor members, Jamie Madrox and Layla Miller, to Forge's lab. Scott also sent Rictor undercover, to the Purifiers^[87]. Cyclops told Prof. Xavier to leave the mansion, due to his interference with the the team's direction. Cyclops stated that he needed to lead the team as he was trained to and asked if it occurred to Prof. Xavier that, for him to take the reins, Charles would have to stop driving^[88]. Upon discovering that Cable had kidnapped the new born mutant, Cyclops ordered the reforming of X-Force, with Wolverine leading the team, to hunt down Cable and retrieve the baby. During this time, unknown to the X-Men, Bishop had infected the O*N*E Sentinels that guarded the mansion with nanites and in the fight that ensued, the X-mansion was destroyed.^[89] The search for the mutant messiah ended on Muir Island, where Prof. Xavier convinced Cyclops to allow Cable to escape to the future with the baby^[90]. Cable teleported to the future, just as Bishop fired a round at the child. The shot missed her and hit Prof. Xavier in the head. Cyclops struck Bishop with an optic blast and declared the X-Men disbanded.

San Francisco

Scott and Emma took a vacation in the Savage Land, but received a call from Warren that they were needed in San Francisco. Afterward, Cyclops and Emma were successful in rescuing San Francisco from the mutant known as Goddess. As a result, the Mayor of the city, Sadie Sinclair, offered to help the X-Men reestablish themselves in the city. After building a new headquarters, Graymalkin Industries, and a brief battle against Magneto and some Sentinels, Cyclops sent word to all the world's mutants that San Francisco, which had welcomed the X-Men with open-arms, was now a safe haven for mutantkind and that all were welcomed to join them. San Francisco's population openly welcomed the X-Men, even though a resurrected Graydon Creed and assorted other previously dead foes, began pushing to outlaw mutant reproduction. The new anti-mutant propaganda caused an explosion of hate crimes on mutants and former mutants.

While at the Graymalkin Industries, Storm joined with Cyclops, Emma, Wolverine, Beast, and Armor and the group checked-on a mysterious death, that seemed to be mutant related. After following a trail of mysteriously genetically-created mutants and death, the X-Men finally ended on Wundagore Mountain. There, they confronted Forge, who revealed his true madness. Forge endeavored to save the world from the Annexation, an invasion from a parallel world on the other side of the Ghost Box, the trans-dimensional teleporter, and planned this by sending the X-Men to the parallel universe that was home to the Ghost Boxes, to destroy them before the Annexation could begin. After forcibly opening the Ghost Box, risking all life on Earth, Abigail Brand and Beast fired a world-destroying laser into the opening of the Ghost Box. Before everything could be destroyed, Ororo offered Forge a chance to come back with them and Forge screamed of his rejection by Ororo for marriage and she let him go. Forge remained in his complex as it was destroyed and seemingly perished in the ensuing laser blast. Scott was later possessed, by the Shadow King, to kill the X-Men, in an attempt to force Storm to choose between being an X-Man or the ruler of Wakanda. After being shot by a bolt of lighting, the Shadow King left Scott and Storm revived him with C.P.R.

Cyclops' attitude became more "kill or be killed", during this time, as he reformed X-Force as a black ops hit squad, while keeping their existence secret^[91]. First, Scott ordered Wolverine to eliminate Mystique, for her part in the Messiah Complex^[92], then the Purifiers^[91], and Bishop (which he oped over saving the lives of Boom-Boom, Hellion, and Surge)^[93] from the Leper Queen. Also, Scott ordered the use of a variation of the mutant Legacy virus as biological warfare against the Skrulls, during their invasion of San Francisco^[94].

After battling the Hellfire Cult and Empath, Scott encountered his dead ex-wife, Madelyne, again when she inexplicably returned as a psychic ghost. Calling herself the Red Queen and with a newly assembled all-female team of mutants, calling themselves the Sisterhood^[95], they attacked the X-Men and Madelyne stole a lock of Jean's hair in Wolverine's possession, with the goal of using it to locate and inhabit Jean's body, allowing her to be reborn^[96]. Scott employed Domino to exhume Jean's grave and swap her body with another. Unaware of the switch and spurning Scott's attempt to reach out to her, Madelyne attempted to possess the body, but seemingly disintegrated into nothingness, as no other body than Jean's could house an entity of Madelyne's level of power.

Utopia

Footage of Cooperstown, Alaska from Hope's birth was eventually released to the media, by Simon Trask, designed to deceive the public into believing that the destruction was caused by the newborn mutant messiah rather than the Purifiers. The footage, coupled with Trask's newly formed Humanity Now!, lead to violent rioting from mutants against the anti-mutant coalition in San Francisco. Though supported by the mayor, Cyclops was largely viewed as the leader of the remaining mutant population by the media and he took the brunt of negative media and public opinion, implicated as endorsing and sending the X-Men to lead the rioting. Trask capitalized on the hysteria, portraying Humanity Now! as victims of oppression, in order to push Proposition X^[97]. Norman Osborn utilized the Dark Avengers to stop the riots and ordered the arrest Cyclops and his team of X-Men, calling in Emma to lead a new team of Dark X-Men. Taking advice from Storm that Scott's actions are always in the best interest of mutant-kind, Emma agreed to lead the team, and would answer to Osborn, as his Black Queen.

Scott's plan finally came together, as he had Magik teleport X-Force into H.A.M.M.E.R.'s Alcatraz Island, where they took on the Dark X-Men and Dark Avengers, while Magik teleported all the captured mutants, including Prof. Xavier, to safety. X-Force was aided by Emma and Namor, who revealed themselves to be double-agents against Osborn. Immediately after, Scott had the X-Club resurface Asteroid M, which crashed into Pacific Coast a few years prior. Cyclops then ordered Magik and Pixie to teleport every X-Man and allied mutant to the asteroid, which he now called Utopia. During a press conference, Cyclops informed the world that they had left the United States and that they rejected Norman Osborn and his methods. Magneto soon joined the ranks of X-Men, stating, humbly, that Scott "succeeded where Charles and I failed" in uniting the mutant race^[98].

Necrosha

When Selene attempted to attain Goddess-hood in Necrosha, she had Eli Bard use the Techno-Organic Virus to resurrect Caliban, Thunderbird, Doug Ramsey, Destiny, the Hellions, many old X-Men villains, and the entire population of Genosha. Selene, also, recruited thought dead Clarice Ferguson, Senyaka, Wither, and Mortis^[99] Selene sent wave-after-wave of the X-Men's fallen friends and foes to eliminate them on their island of Utopia, while attempting to drain the life force of everyone she resurrected to reach ultimate power^[100].

Cyclops sent two teams to deal with the threat. Scott sent Rogue, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Husk, Pyslocke, Colossus, and Blindfold to Muir Island, on a tip from Destiny, that turned out to be a trap^[101] and he sent X-Force to deal with Selene, personally, on Genosha^[102], all while staying on the island with the rest of the X-Men and mutant population.

Second Coming

Cable and a teenage Hope returned from the future. Cyclops made their safe passage to Utopia the X-Men's top priority while Bastion made Hope's demise his^[103]. Scott sent a group of X-Men to bring her in and Ariel was killed in an attack, while Cyclops ordered Cannonball's New Mutants team to attack Cameron Hodge at a Smiley Faces base^[104]. After the X-Men caught up with Cable and Hope after constant attacks from William Stryker's Purifiers, the Leper Queen's Sapien League, and Cameron Hodge's Smiley Faces, Nightcrawler sacrificed himself to get Hope back to Utopia^[105]. Bastion systematically eliminated all of the teleporters, except Pixie, from the X-Men's ranks and had Donald Pierce destroy all transportation off the island^[106]. Bastion, then, encased the island, and much of the San Francisco Bay Area, in an impenetrable dome. At the center of the dome, Bastion opened a time portal to his own time, where sentinels ruled and mutants were extinct, and sent a beacon to a Master Mold Sentinel to send an endless wave of Nimrods^[107].

Cyclops ordered X-Force to ferry Doug Ramsey into the future, using the last time jump that Cable had in his time machine, to halt the horde of Nimrods pouring through the portal^[108]. They were successful, but Cable had to sacrifice himself for their return. Angered at the loss of her father figure, Hope then destroyed Bastion and the dome with an armada of mutant powers and blamed Scott for endangering Cable and the loss of his life^[109]. Scott, then, buried the remains of his son^[110].

Heroic Age

After taking full responsibility for X-Force's actions and the deaths of every X-Man since the start of the Messiah Complex and ordering X-Force's disbanding^[110], Scott was forgiven, by most, and Steve Rogers stated that after saving all of the human and mutant lives in the dome, it was time for the X-Men to step into the light^[111]. Scott was awarded a medal from the President and 5 new mutant births were detected by Cerebra^[110].

After Jubilee was infected by Vampires^[112] and receiving info from Blade that Dracula's son Xarus has been declared Lord of all the Vampires and planned to turn all mutants, Scott ordered the resurrection of Dracula.^[113] After Anole became sick, Cyclops ordered a quarantine of Utopia, sealing everyone that was there on the island and blocking everyone that was off, before learning that Lobe was behind it.

Cyclops later discovered about a group of superpowered teenagers calling themselves the "New X-Men." After these duplicates were defeated in battle against the Collective Man, Cyclops ordered that the "New X-Men" were brought to Utopia for interrogation. Later, Cyclops had a video conference with Lobe, who revealed his plan. Lobe had created a drug that could grant mutant powers to anyone who ingested it, the "New X-Men" were some of his test subjects. He also planned to sell the drug to anyone who could afford it. This would grant mutant powers to anyone, effectively rendering mutants irrelevant. Lobe wanted Cyclops to sell him the commercial rights for the mutant genome in exchange for the cure, but Cyclops refused^[114].

Later, Cyclops interrogated "Angel", Lobe's counterpart for Angel. After obtaining Lobe's location from her, Cyclops berated her for thinking that being an X-Man is a joke. Cyclops sent Lobe's location to Angel and his team, who went to attack Lobe just as he presented the drug to a large group of investors. Lobe and the investors ingested the drug, obtaining mutant powers and overwhelming Angel's team. Cyclops decided to break quarantine to help them^[115].

Cyclops and a rescue team helped Angel's team fight the investors. During the battle, Cyclops brandished a flamethrower to compensate for his lack of powers. However, Lobe set the mutant plague to its maximum power. The X-Men, including Cyclops, was infected by the virus. However, the virus also affected Lobe and his investors. Cyclops forced Lobe to deactivate the virus, saying that the "New X-Men" were also infected by the virus when they were brought to Utopia.

With everyone cured, the investors pulled out from Lobe's plan. Cyclops and Angel decided to sue Lobe, saying that if he gave them everything he had to hurt anyone, he could go to a normal prison.

Cyclops talked with the "New X-Men", who apologized to him for trying to take over the X-Men's lives. Cyclops accepted their apologies, but suddenly realized that Penny Newsom was absent. Later, Cyclops would tell Storm to destroy all the remaining mutant drugs^[116].

Schism

After Kilgore and the New Hellfire Club sent a massive Sentinel towards Utopia, Cyclops and Wolverine had a falling out regarding whether or not to have the children defend the island or evacuate. The disagreement led to a bloody fight between them, and despite the fact that the children defeated the Sentinel, Wolverine decides to leave and reform the School.

Cyclops formed his Extinction Team, composed of the strongest members of the X-Men, to perform super heroics and send a message to the world that the mutants would be victims no longer.^[117] Their first challenge was to defend San Francisco against a newly resurrected Mister Sinister who, using the Dreaming Celestial, managed to convert every human into a copy of him. He was eventually defeated and the X-Men received the Dreaming Celestial's blessing as Earth's protectors^[118].

Avengers vs. X-Men

When Nova crashed in New York, he gave the Avengers a cryptic warning: "It's Coming". Thanks to this, the Avengers discovered that the Phoenix Force was burning a path through the universe on its way to Earth. Meanwhile, Cyclops sparred with Hope repeatedly, training her harshly. When she asked why and he refused to give a straight answer Hope flared up with the power of the Phoenix, which the Avengers detected.Captain America consulting Wolverine, who told him of Hope Summers.

Cyclops became convinced that the coming of the Phoenix Force would herald the rebirth of mutantkind as a species. Captain America saw it as the herald of Earth's destruction, and so arrived on Utopia with the intent of taking Hope into protective custody. After arguing Cyclops refused Captain America, blasting him into the ocean. In response, a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier uncloaked itself and the Avengers began an invasion of Utopia.^[119] After a pitched battle, the X-Men surrender and the Avengers begin to make plans for capturing Hope. This was all a ploy however and Cyclops and the X-Men teleport away, giving them a head start in capturing Hope. Cyclops also contacts his daughter Rachel and convinces her to feed the Avengers false information which sends them on wild goose chases. He proceeds to travel to the Jean Grey Institute in order to offer Wolverine one last chance to change sides as well as recruit anyone willing to fight alongside their fellow mutants.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

Cyclops is a mutant.

Optic Blast: Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a powerful beam of concussive, ruby-colored force from his eyes. Cyclops's powers were originally believed to be ambient energies (such as solar radiation, photons, and cosmic rays) absorbed and metabolized by his body into concussive blasts that are released from his eyes. However, the energy supply of his optic blasts are later revealed to originate from a non-Einsteinian universe that opens up whenever he uses his optic blasts.

Cyclops's eyes not only are organs that utilizes the visible spectrum of light to see the world around it. They are are also inter-dimensional portals between this universe and a non-Einsteinian universe where physical laws as we know them do not pertain. This non-Einsteinian universe is filled with particles that resemble photons, yet they interact with this universe's particles by transferring kinetic energy in the form of gravitons (the particle of gravitation). These particles generate great, directional concussive force when they interact with the objects of this universe.

Cyclops's mind has a particular psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures that have taken the place of his eyes. Because his mind's psionic field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membrane of his eyelids is sufficient to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops's eyeglasses and visor is resonant to his minds' psionic field and is similarly protected.

The width of Cyclops's eye-blast seems to be focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. As Cyclops focuses, the size of the aperture changes and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and beam's relative power. The height of Cyclops's eye-blast is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of 4 feet has a force of about 2 pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam 4 feet across which, at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. The maximum angular measurement of Cyclops's eye-blast is equivalent to a wide-angle 35mm camera lens field of view (90 degrees measured diagonally, or the angle subtended by holding a magazine's pages spread open, upright at 9.5 inches from your eyes). The minimum angular measurement is equivalent to the angle that the thickness of a pencil would subtend at 4 feet (3.5 degrees, about a quarter of an inch viewed at 4 feet). The beam's effective range is about 2,000 feet, at which point a 1-inch beam has spread out to 10 feet square, and then has a pressure of .38 pounds per square inch. Cyclops's maximum force is sufficient to tip over a filled 5,000 gallon tank at a distance of 20 feet, or puncture a 1-inch carbon-steel plate at a distance of 2 feet.

The extra dimensional supply of energy for Cyclops's eye-blast is practically infinite. Thus, so long as Cyclops's psionic field is active (which is constant), there is the potential to emit energy. The only limit to the eye-blast is the mental fatigue of focusing constantly. After about 15 minute of constant usage, the psionic field subsides and allows only a slight leakage of energy to pass through the aperture. Cyclops's metabolism will recover sufficiently for him to continue in about an additional 15 minutes.

The maximum force of Cyclops' optic blasts are unknown, but a commonly given description is that he can "punch holes through mountains", and he has been shown to rupture a half-inch thick carbon steel plate. During a particular battle, Scott says that he hit Cain Marko (a.k.a. the Juggernaut) with enough power to split a small planet in half, though he may have been indulging in hyperbole. In the Age of Apocalypse dimension, his beams can cut through Adamantium, a previously indestructible metal. In the mainstream continuity of the Marvel Universe, it has also been implied that Cyclops only utilizes a fraction of the energies at his disposal. During the Civil War: X-Men story arc, Cyclops is controlled by another mutant to use his powers at their full magnitude. When directed at the energy-absorbing mutant Bishop, Cyclops was able to overload Bishop's powers in a matter of seconds. When Iron Man measured Cyclops's power while he was powering Bishop, he found the energy output was well over 2 gigawatts, larger than a large nuclear reactor. It is also stated that Cyclops does not use his powers at such a level due to the preoccupation he has regarding his control (or lack thereof) of his abilities.

Cyclops is seen fighting The Hulk in World War Hulk: X-Men #1 and in issue #2, where he uses a beam blast to stop the Hulk, refusing to let the Hulk take Professor Xavier. While it peels off some of the Hulk's skin, he was able to walk towards Cyclops and clench his entire face, effectively containing the blast.

Spatial Awareness: Cyclops possesses an uncanny sense of trigonometry, in this sense used to describe his observation of objects around himself and the angles found between surfaces of these objects. Cyclops has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to cause his optic blasts to ricochet and/or reflect off those objects in a trajectory to his liking. This is commonly called a "banked shot" when applied to this talent. Cyclops has been observed causing beams to reflect from over a dozen surfaces in the course of one blast, and still hit his intended target accurately. It is his sense of superhumanly enhanced spatial awareness that allows him to perform these feats as well.

Energy Resistance: Cyclops is resistant to the effects of his own powers. This is linked to him being capable of withstanding his brother's ability with no ill effects. This is a result of their close genetics, a quirk of mutant genetics that is common among siblings.

Power Grid ^[120]

Abilities

Expert Pilot: Cyclops is an expert pilot of fixed-wing aircraft, a skill he appears to have inherited from his father. It has also been implied that his trigonometric sense improves his abilities in the air.

Master Strategist and Tactician: Cyclops has spent most of his superhero career as the leader of either the X-Men or X-Factor and has developed exceptional leadership skills. It is notable that regardless of their general attitude towards him, all of the X-Men tend to obey his orders in battle - because they know that he's usually right.

Master Martial Artist: Cyclops also has extensive training in martial arts and unarmed combat, holding black belts in judo and aikido. His level of skill is sufficient to defeat six normal men with his eyes closed, and he has in the past held his own against such dangerous enemies as Wolverine and Ghost Rider.

Strength level

Cyclops possesses the strength of a normal human male who engages in intensive regular exercise and hence is able to press lift at least his own body-weight.

Weaknesses

Genetic Flaw: Cyclops is not immune to Vulcan's powers like he is to Havok's.

Power Regulation Disability: Due to psychological trauma and physical injury at a young age, Cyclops is unable to control his optic blasts. In connection, his eyes have become more reliant on the ruby quartz he uses rather than affecting change to the injury. Emma Frost has recently claimed the psychological trauma of losing his parents and being separated from his brother are primarily responsible for his inability to control his powers. Mister Sinister has also claimed that his eyes have become reliant on the ruby quartz sunglasses and visor, therefore making it hard for Cyclops to control the blasts on his own. After overcoming the trauma, he was able to control his blasts and open his eyes for a period of time. However, he gradually began losing control of the blasts and had to revert back to using the sunglasses and visor.

ParaphernaliaEdit

Equipment

Cyclops' Visor: The mask Scott wears to prevent random discharge is lined with powdered ruby quartz crystal. It incorporates two longitudinally mounted flat lenses which can lever inward providing a constantly variable exit slot of 0 inches to .79 inches in height and a constant width of 5.7 inches. The inverted clam-shell mechanism is operated by a twin system of miniature electrical motors. As a safety factor their is a constant positive closing pressure provided by springs. The mask itself is made of high-impact plastic. There is an overriding finger-operated control mechanism on either side of the mask, and normal operation is through a flat micro-switch installed in the thumb of either glove.

A separate pair of lenses were also designed for Scott to use while sleeping.

Transportation

X-Men Blackbird, Magik, formerly X-Men Stratojet, X-Copter, Professor Xavier's Rolls Royce, Sentinel Air Transport, X-Factor Plane, and various aircrafts constructed by Ship.
Weapons
When Scott used the disguise of Erik the Red, he was able to project his optic blasts through its gloves.

NotesEdit

Due to brain injury, Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blasts at will and must therefore wear a visor or glasses with ruby quartz lenses that block the beams.

Mister Sinister claimed that Scott's eyes and brain became too reliant on ruby quartz rather than affecting change to his injury.

Emma Frost has recently said the psychological trauma of losing his parents and being separated from his brother are primarily responsible for his inability to control his powers.

Scott frequently listens to the radio.

TriviaEdit

Scott was very close to his mother in law Elaine Grey who acted as a motherly figure toward him. The two continued to be close even after the death of his wife Jean Grey. Scott was severely upset when Elaine was slain by Black Cloak, a random victim of the extermination of the Grey Genome.
Each of the Summer Brothers has a signature energy color: Scott has Red, Alex has Blue, And Gabriel has Yellow.

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