The first X-Man, Scott Summers possesses the mutant ability to fire powerful concussive blasts through his eyes that act as a portal to another dimension full of the force that makes up his optic blast. He is visually distinctive for the ruby quartz visor he wears to control his devastating power. A born leader, Cyclops succeeded his mentor Professor X to command the X-Men.
The trench coat doesn't work for him. The costume he wore in the 90's is my favorite because that's the era in which I started following the X-Men; but overall I think the one he wore in Morrison's run was the coolest.
While I love trench coats, because...come on, it's a f*cking trench coat, it's not really Cyclops' style. That show's Cyclops was totally out of character and poorly written, so it made sense that he looked "edgy", but Cyke isn't edgy.
While I love trench coats, because...come on, it's a f*cking trench coat, it's not really Cyclops' style. That show's Cyclops was totally out of character and poorly written, so it made sense that he looked "edgy", but Cyke isn't edgy.
It was meant to help artistically capture the look for him and back dropped against the other characters in the series that Scott had become a broken and lost man, and distanced himself emotionally from his team mates and friends, hence the reason as well the viewer who read the comics would understand he was in no condition to lead the X-Men in that world. Not unlike when Spider-man switches to a black and white costume to implicate his own fall from grace, though I would compare it even more to Spider-mans battle damaged rags. Really, it makes no sense to place this look on the actual comic character, whom is large and charge and in control of his own facilities, whereas better to have a sharp, clean and streamlined look like the one the comic uses now. If he ends up breaking from the pack and becoming a street level hero living in a one bedroom apartment and maybe drinking himself due to everything falling apart, then this would work for his character, not that I can ever see that plot happening in the comics.
@FadeToBlackBolt: Well, taking into account that Cyclops has been written horribly for quite the years now, it makes me wonder whether he doesn't need a change in style.
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