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Early Life[]

Scott was born the son of Christopher and Katherine Summers. When Scott was a child, he and his family were attacked by a Shi'ar cruiser while flying home from a vacation in Alaska. With the plane crashing, Scott and his brother Alex were given the only functioning parachute and sent to safety. Scott believed his parents to have died, but they were in fact captured by the Shi'ar for genetic experimentation.[1]

Now an orphan, Scott was separated from his brother and grew up in the McNeil foster home. His emerging mutant powers caused him to be rejected by various foster families, who were frightened of his gifts.[2] He was eventually taken in by Professor Charles Xavier, who trained him in the use of his mutant powers. He became a member of Xavier's X-Men, a team of mutant heroes who used their powers for the betterment of both humanity and mutantkind. Scott would be appointed the team's leader while in the field.[3]

During his early days with the X-Men, Scott often clashed with rebellious teammate Iceman, who would eventually leave the team after a falling out with Professor Xavier[3]

X-Men[]

When the young mutant Jubilee was attacked by Sentinels, Cyclops and the X-Men saved her and took her in. The X-Men discovered that the Mutant Control Agency was leaking information on registered mutants to the Sentinels, and Cyclops led the team in an assault on the agency's headquarters. The X-Men succeeded in destroying the agency's database, but were ambushed by Sentinels, who quickly overwhelmed them. Two of their members, Beast, who was captured, and Morph, who was seemingly killed, were lost. Despite the wishes of fellow teammate Wolverine, Cyclops gave the order to retreat. An enraged Wolverine lashed out at him for leaving their teammates, and angrily departed.[4] Cyclops tracked Wolverine down again, and the two made peace after Cyclops offered a way to find the Sentinels' headquarters and avenge their teammates. Cyclops led the X-Men into the Sentinel factory, which they successfully destroyed.[5]

When Professor Xavier's old nemesis Magneto returned, hoping to provoke a war with humanity by launching nuclear weapons, Cyclops, Storm and Wolverine confronted him. Storm, with help from the Professor, managed to defuse the missiles and save the day.[6] Magneto then struck at a chemical factory, hoping to draw Xavier out. Cyclops again led a team to confront him, now together with Storm and Rogue. Magneto made short work of them, but Xavier arrived and managed to use his telepathic powers to force Magneto to flee.[7]

During a day off, Cyclops and Jean went on a date, only to be captured by the Morlocks, after trying to save a young Morlock from an angry crowd. Cyclops had drawn the eye of Callisto, leader of the Morlocks, who had seen him in action and admired his leadership abilities. She wanted Cyclops to remain with the Morlocks as her consort, but he refused. Temporarily robbed of his powers by Leech, he was unable to help Jean free them, but the other X-Men arrived to help, and Cyclops and Jean were liberated.[8]

When the mutant hating Senator Robert Kelly was kidnapped by Sentinels, Cyclops led the X-Men to storm their headquarters, hoping to end the Sentinel threat once and for all. Cyclops and Jean managed to save Kelly, and haunted by the loss of Beast and Morph during their previous fight with the Sentinels, Cyclops made sure to rescue everyone left behind in the exploding Sentinel base. After the mission, he proposed to Jean.[9]

Mr. Sinister[]

Unbeknownst to them, Scott and Jean had been the targets of Mr. Sinister's obsession for their entire lives. Sinister was a superhuman geneticist, who believed that Scott and Jean's offspring would allow him to control humanity. He rescued Morph from the brink of death, and brainwashed him, turning him into a weapon against the X-Men. Morph posed as a priest during Scott and Jean's wedding, and began sowing chaos among the X-Men while Scott and Jean departed for their honeymoon.[10]

While they were away, they were kidnapped by Sinister's servants, the Nasty Boys, and held captive in his island laboratory. They were rescued by the X-Men, and by Morph who managed to briefly break free from Sinister's conditioning before eventually escaping.[11]

In addition to kidnapping Scott and Jean, Sinister had Morph lure both Xavier and Magneto to the Savage Land, Sinister's primary base of operations. There, they were unable to use their mutant powers and wandered the jungle on the run from Sinister's forces, until they were eventually captured.[12]

Cyclops and the X-Men searched for both the Professor and Morph. They eventually found Morph working as a circus performer, but realized too late that it was a trap set by Sinister. Sinister managed to kidnap Jean and Morph. He forced Xavier to summon the X-Men, so that Sinister could capture them for his experiments.[12] The X-Men managed to break free, and destroyed Sinister's corporeal form.[13]

The Phoenix[]

After an encounter with an alien ship,[14] Professor Xavier found himself telepathically connected to an unknown alien being. Tormented by these visions, Xavier dispatched the X-Men to hijack the space shuttle Starcore. Cyclops dutifully led the X-Men through the mission. Once arriving at the space station, they encountered Erik the Red, an agent of the alien Shi'ar Empire. During their escape from the station, they were forced to pilot the shuttle through deadly radiation. Jean volunteered to pilot the shuttle, believing she could use her telekinetic powers to shield herself from the radiation. Cyclops refused to allow her to risk her life, forcing her to telepathically knock him out.[15]

Jean successfully piloted the shuttle back to Earth, but in the process she bonded with the Phoenix, the ancient guardian of the M'kraan Crystal. She was hospitalized, struggling to understand her new power. This led the ever-loyal Cyclops to clash with the Professor, accusing him of giving the team insufficient intel ahead of their mission.[16]

Cyclops remained at Jean's side, dispatching the rest of the X-Men to assist the Professor, who had run into trouble while on Muir Island. The Professor's visions proved correct, as he encountered the unknown alien who had haunted his dreams; Princess Lilandra Neramani of the Shi'ar. Lilandra had stolen the M'kraan Crystal, a weapon of great power, from her mad brother, Emperor D'ken. When D'ken was close to retrieving the crystal from his sister, Jean awoke from her coma and travelled to Muir Island to rescue the princess.[17] Cyclops pursued her, and upon their reunion, she teleported him and the rest of the X-Men onto Lilandra's ship.[18]

The ship was attacked by the Starjammers, inter-galactic pirates led by Corsair. They stole the crystal and kidnapped Cyclops. Corsair plotted to kill D'ken, whom he blamed for the death of his wife. He hoped to gain Cyclops' aid, planning to trick D'ken into thinking Corsair would sell him the crystal and hand over Cyclops, only for Cyclops to unleash his powers and kill D'ken. Unbeknownst to both of them, Corsair was in fact Scott's father. The plot failed, as Cyclops was telepathically contacted by Jean just as he was supposed to kill D'ken. The X-Men teleported onto the ship and a brawl erupted with D'ken's Imperial Guard, but the battle ended when D'ken unleashed the crystal's power.[18]

The crystal sucked D'ken and everyone around him into it. Within the crystal, D'ken was practically omnipotent. The X-Men, Imperial Guard and Starjammers frantically tried to stop him, as unless the crystal could be repaired, it would destroy the entire galaxy. Jean managed to free all those trapped inside, and repaired the crystal, trapping D'ken within and ending its threat. In order to ensure it could never fall into the wrong hands again, Jean decided to sacrifice herself and take the crystal deep into the Sun, where no one could reach it, leaving Scott heartbroken.

Struggling with Jean's death, Scott angrily left the X-Men, declaring he was sick of fighting for a world that hated and feared them, and sick of caring. He returned to the orphanage where he had grown up, now run by a childhood friend; Sarah. While at the orphanage, Scott helped foil a plot by Zebediah Killgrave to brainwash the mutants living at the orphanage and use them for his own schemes. After once again being forced to fight for mutantkind, Scott realized that his place was with the X-Men and returned. Upon his arrival at the mansion, he learned that Cerebro had detected Jean's presence, revealing that she had in fact survived.[2]

Dark Phoenix[]

Upon her return to Earth, Jean was taken to Muir Island for treatment. Xavier and his associate Moira MacTaggert concluded that the Phoenix had grown intoxicated and corrupted by the human feelings it felt through Jean, and was gaining ever more control of her.

While in a club together with Gambit watching a performance by Dazzler, Scott felt Jean reaching out to him. Before Scott could call her, he was forced to save Dazzler from the soldiers of the Inner Circle Club. Scott returned home to find that Jean had been discharged, with Moira believing that it would be best to continue her treatment at home. Scott was distraught and frustrated to find that Jean was still distant, with Xavier warning him that Jean would need to draw strength from Scott in the days to come.[19]

While Jean struggled to control the Phoenix, Emma Frost of the Inner Circle Club took advantage of her weakness. Together with Mastermind, the pair were able to brainwash Jean, turning her against the X-Men. When they stormed the Inner Circle Club's mansion, they were taken hostage. Despite his best attempts to reach Jean through their psychic rapport, he was unable to get through to her. Using Jean's body, the Phoenix soon tired of the Inner Circle's manipulation and broke free, giving the X-Men the opportunity to defeat them.[20]

A battle soon broke out between the X-Men and the Phoenix, and when she hurt Scott, Jean was able to briefly reassert control, and leave the planet. Consuming the star of an uninhabited system, the Phoenix was witnessed by a Shi'ar vessel, prompting Empress Lilandra to dispatch the Imperial Guard to Earth. When the Phoenix returned, the X-Men set a trap for her, and with help from Jean herself, Xavier was able to bury the Phoenix deep in her mind.[21]

Just when the Phoenix had been repressed, Lilandra and the Imperial Guard arrived to seize her. With no other choice, Xavier challenged Lilandra to a trial by combat between the X-Men and Imperial Guard, with Jean's life in the balance. Honorbound, Lilandra was forced to accept. Despite both their fears that the Phoenix would rise again and be let loose upon the universe, Cyclops and Jean decided to fight for her life. The Imperial Guard defeated the X-Men, but due to the stress of the battle the Phoenix emerged once again. It easily dispatched the Imperial Guard, but before it could wreak further havoc, Jean seized control of her body and used a Shi'ar star-cruiser to commit suicide, after Scott refused to kill her.[22]

Restored to purity by Jean's death, the Phoenix offered to resurrect Jean, through the life-force of the X-Men. Each of the X-Men gave of themselves, allowing Jean to return to life.[22]

Family Reunions[]

When former teammate Iceman reappeared and began attacking federal installations, Cyclops and a small team of X-Men were dispatched to stop him. Despite the years that had passed, Scott still held a grudge towards Iceman and resented both him and Professor Xavier for what he felt was Xavier's special treatment of the troublesome student. During the mission, Cyclops knocked Iceman unconscious and took him back to the mansion.[3]

When Iceman refused to elaborate on why he had attacked the installation, or promise he would stop, Xavier imprisoned him in an energy field. During a conversation with Beast, Iceman admitted that he feared that his girlfriend and former X-Man Polaris had been kidnapped and was being held at the installation, but still refused the X-Men's help. Sympathizing with him, Jubilee released him and accompanied him to the installation.[3]

They were pursued by Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine and Xavier. While Cyclops was furious with Iceman, and Jubilee for freeing him, Xavier admitted that he had been wrong to berate Iceman rather than see that he needed help. Before they could sort out their differences, the X-Men were attacked by X-Factor, a government sponsored team of mutants. Scott took on Havok, but to their shock, neither of their powers had any effect on each other. To overcome X-Factor, Xavier had them switch opponents, allowing them to gain the upper hand. The fight was interrupted when Polaris arrived together with team leader Forge.[3]

Polaris revealed that she had left Iceman and joined X-Factor without telling him, having grown tired of Iceman's insistence that they remain hidden and live normal lives. Forge had allowed the battle to break out in order to test his team against the X-Men. The groups parted ways, with both Cyclops and Havok unaware that the reason their powers had been ineffective against each other was because they were brothers.[3]

Shortly thereafter, Cyclops and Storm received a warning from Shi'ar officer Raknar that a criminal vessel wanted by the Empire had arrived on Earth. The vessel, piloted by Corsair, crash landed outside the mansion, forcing Cyclops to rescue the space-pirate. Cyclops was shocked to discover a locket around Corsair's neck bearing a picture of Scott and his brother as children, together with their mother. This led to the realization that Corsair was his father, Major Christopher Summers, whom he had believed dead.[1]

With Raknar interrupting the reunion, Corsair claimed that he was being set-up and had come to Earth for the X-Men's help. When Raknar attacked, the trio were forced to flee. Scott angrily confronted his father, accusing him of abandoning his family to play pirate. Corsair told his side of the story; that he had believed Scott and Alex to be dead, and that he had watched his wife destroyed before his eyes by D'ken. Believing his entire family to be gone, Corsair had no reason to return home and had dedicated himself to his quest for revenge. While this quelled Scott's anger, he still had trouble trusting his father and decided to turn him over to Raknar in order to find out the truth.[1]

Scott would soon learn that Raknar was a crooked cop and that Corsair had been undertaking a mission to save an important witness. He freed his father and together they managed to take Raknar down. Before going their separate ways, Scott managed to convince his father to stay for a few hours so that they could catch up.[1]

The Wedding[]

With their first attempt at a wedding having failed, Scott and Jean decided to try again. The wedding was a success, but just as the happy couple were about to drive off to their honeymoon, they were suddenly knocked out, as the guests were attacked by the Nasty Boys, who kidnapped Jean.[23]

The X-Men set about looking for Jean to no avail. While scanning for her, Xavier was ambushed and captured by Mr. Sinister. The X-Men narrowly managed to rescue Xavier, but encountered Shard, a mutant from the future who offered to help them find Jean.[23] Learning that Apocalypse had captured Shi'ar Imperial Guardsman Oracle, Xavier deduced that he and Sinister were working together and kidnapping telepaths.[24]

The X-Men decided to track down other telepaths and monitor them. They failed to stop Psylocke from being captured, but managed to learn that Mystique, Sabretooth and Magneto were also working for Apocalypse. The X-Men captured Sabretooth and managed to wring information about Apocalypse's plan from him; that Apocalypse planned to gain control over time itself. This coincided with the arrival of time-traveling mutant Cable, who was journeying back in time in the hopes of defeating Apocalypse, with whom he had been fighting a desperate war in the future.[25]

Cable's plan was to destroy Apocalypse's life-support system in the past, preventing him from being reborn in the present. Cyclops and most of the X-Men accompanied Cable to Egypt in 1200 B.C. While Cyclops, Gambit, Storm and Archangel, who had joined the X-Men for this mission, remained behind to fight the Horsemen of Apocalypse, the others entered Apocalypse's pyramid to destroy his life-support systems. Scott and the others caught up just in time to land in Apocalypse's trap, as he kidnapped Xavier and knocked the others out. While they succeeded in destroying the pyramid housing his life-support system, Apocalypse was unaffected by virtue of now existing outside of time.[25]

With the final telepath captured, Apocalypse was only narrowly stopped by the betrayal of Magneto and Mystique, and the intervention of Bishop, who managed to free the telepaths, who in turn combined their powers to destroy Apocalypse, allowing Scott and Jean to finally be reunited.[26]

Graduation Day[]

Despite their best efforts to promote peace between mutantkind and humanity, tensions between the two species continued to escalate. During a televised debate against an anti-mutant bigot, Xavier was outed as a mutant and attacked with a weapon that caused Xavier to lose control of his telepathic powers. With Xavier near death from the attack, Cyclops, Beast and Wolverine rushed him back to the mansion.[27]

Despite their best attempts, no medical technology on Earth was enough to save Xavier's life, and even with help from Jean, the Professor was too weak to contact his Shi'ar lover Empress Lilandra in order to request her help. The televised attack against Xavier drove many mutants into believing that all their lives were at stake. This heightened tension was utilized by Magneto, who began raising an army of mutants to seize control of the world.[27]

Desperate to ease tensions and stop Magneto, Cyclops, Jean and Wolverine traveled to Genosha to confront Magneto. In the resulting battle, Magneto's magnetic powers inadvertently super-charged Jean's telepathy. The battle halted after Scott told Magneto that the Professor was dying. At Jean's suggestion, Magneto agreed to return with them to save Xavier's life. Boosted by Magneto, Xavier was able to telepathically contact Lilandra. As Xavier briefly awoke from his coma, he gave parting words to all the gathered X-Men, telling a weeping Scott that were he his father, no truer son could ever be. As the Shi'ar arrived to take Xavier away, he entrusted the X-Men with his spirit.[27]

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Seemingly those of the Scott Summers of Earth-616.

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Seemingly those of the Scott Summers of Earth-616.

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  • A possible connection was shown to be with Cable (Earth-13393), though their connection was never fully shown. He did show to have already known about Scott Summers and Jean Grey, as well as when Jean probed into his mind, she saw images of her and someone who looked just like her. That person could have been her, but is more likely to have been her clone and Cable's mother in the comics.

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