Cyclops
Character » Cyclops appears in 11232 issues.
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.
Does everybody dislike/hate him now?
I'm askin' because I've just got done readin' the Second Coming story arc and I want to know do the rest of his fellow mutants hate him. I mean of course Hope does seein' as how her father was killed right before her eyes because Cyclops sent him and X-Force on a suicide mission. Beast left the X-Men when he discovered the truth behind the new X-Force and how they are Cyclops' personal hit squad, and Storm looks at him differently as well.
Yeah, the guy doesn't always get respect despite being the one (Not Professor X or Magneto) who largely united the mutant race. But that comes with the territory when you're the guy making the big decisions (some of which have led to big sacrifices). Inevitably he is going to piss some people off, and he has.
" Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him.
" @The Dark Huntress said:...fair point. I was referring to the whole Second Coming story line and specifically Nightcrawler's sacrifice and death." Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him. "
" @Vance Astro said:" @The Dark Huntress said:...fair point. I was referring to the whole Second Coming story line and specifically Nightcrawler's sacrifice and death. "" Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him. "
that was a major suckish moment
" @The Dark Huntress said:Please, it was awesome. What an heroic way for Kurt to die." @Vance Astro said:that was a major suckish moment "" @The Dark Huntress said:...fair point. I was referring to the whole Second Coming story line and specifically Nightcrawler's sacrifice and death. "" Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him. "
" @god_spawn said:" @The Dark Huntress said:Please, it was awesome. What an heroic way for Kurt to die. "" @Vance Astro said:that was a major suckish moment "" @The Dark Huntress said:...fair point. I was referring to the whole Second Coming story line and specifically Nightcrawler's sacrifice and death. "" Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him. "
Whilst that is true. It still sucked that Nightcrawler died.
Depends what book, in Astonishing they seem quite fond of him, and so am I. He altered the fly route to make Storm happy, how sweet was that? Plus when Emma had no where to sit and eat, he got on his hands and knees.
In Uncanny I am pretty sure if Wolverine saw a sandwich in the fridge marked as Property of Cyclops, that he would still eat it anyway, and the TV randomly falling onto his foot was probably telekinetically pushed by Hellion. Did the hot water really run out when he took his shower? Or was it Storm? Yep, if I was Cyclops I would bet Nightcrawler's life my ears would be burning like it was 1999 and I and just set them on fire.
I am sick of Summers. Hang him upside down and cover him in macaroni. If you want to know why, read my blog post "Marvelous...well not so much"
" Everybody doesn't dislike Cyclops now, but they should and they should've a long time ago when he screwed Jean over. "QFT!
Cyclops is the new Tony Stark.I think like one person started hating him and then everyone else got their bandwagon on.
" @Vance Astro said:Wolverine is always complaining about something. Douche that he is." @The Dark Huntress said:...fair point. I was referring to the whole Second Coming story line and specifically Nightcrawler's sacrifice and death. "" Oh you're asking about characters, not our own personal opinion? Wolverine is pretty pissed with him as well. "Wolverine is always pissed with him. "
Cyclops is the best leader in mutant history, the morons he surrounds himself with don't realise because they're...well...morons.
Wolverine is always complaining about something. Douche that he is. Cyclops is the best leader in mutant history, the morons he surrounds himself with don't realise because they're...well...morons. "Why is Wolverine a douche? His complaint is actually legitimate in this case.And what morons? The X-men?
" @FadeToBlackBolt said:Wolverine's a douche because he likes to have his cake and eat it too. "Oh, you let Kurt die to save some kid, you're a terrible person. It's not like you were desperately trying to preserve a race or anything. You let your son die, I'm sure that doesn't affect you at all. Clearly you're just doing this for fun." I'm willing to chock this up to moronic writer, but atm, Logan is acting like a brat. Your friend's death was honourable and heroic, he's fine, so you need to shut up and deal with it.Wolverine is always complaining about something. Douche that he is. Cyclops is the best leader in mutant history, the morons he surrounds himself with don't realise because they're...well...morons. "Why is Wolverine a douche? His complaint is actually legitimate in this case.And what morons? The X-men? "
As for the "morons" part, yes, the X-Men, atm, are all being morons. They decided to go and alienate themselves, fine, but don't expect all sugar and daisies, it's bloomin' war, and Beast is whining about there being a black ops group. Get real. Storm has always had a god-complex, Magneto is a Nazi (Planet X happened, **** you Marvel) and Namor. Don't get me started on Namor. Why he hasn't been killed yet is utterly beyond me.
Wolverine's a douche because he likes to have his cake and eat it too. "Oh, you let Kurt die to save some kid, you're a terrible person. It's not like you were desperately trying to preserve a race or anything. You let your son die, I'm sure that doesn't affect you at all. Clearly you're just doing this for fun." I'm willing to chock this up to moronic writer, but atm, Logan is acting like a brat. Your friend's death was honourable and heroic, he's fine, so you need to shut up and deal with it. As for the "morons" part, yes, the X-Men, atm, are all being morons. They decided to go and alienate themselves, fine, but don't expect all sugar and daisies, it's bloomin' war, and Beast is whining about there being a black ops group. Get real. Storm has always had a god-complex, Magneto is a Nazi (Planet X happened, **** you Marvel) and Namor. Don't get me started on Namor. Why he hasn't been killed yet is utterly beyond me. "Why would the writer be a moron to have Wolverine act like that? Scott's motives were noble but I don't see how you can't see that this would be a situation where there could be conflicting opinions.I don't really understand at all where you're coming from.You don't think that if you were in a group and some decided to sacrifice another member..that someone in the group wouldn't have an objection? The rest of the stuff you seem to have a problem with seem to be character flaws.Every character has them, it's what adds realism to the book.I don't agree with how Wolverine feels but I at least understand.I don't understand some of the decisions the X-men make but I understand.The mutants have been through alot.
I would also like to add I get what you MEAN about Magneto but he's Jewish so Nazi probably isn't the best choice of labeling.
I don't think a lot of people find much solace at all if their friend died in an honorable and heroic way, some might, some can, it can provide a type of distraction or aid in the coping, but Wolverine does have a valid point, that can be leveled at Cyclops (or in my opinion the writers) and Wolverine should really bear some blame himself. Cyclops had a pretty flawed plan, Nightcrawler and a bunch of the X-Men didn't really know what they were signing on to, Wolverine was a silent observer and removed himself from the decision making process and is an expert and justifying his hypocrisy, but not when it comes to others.
" @FadeToBlackBolt said:I apologise for coming off short, which I recognise that I did, I am very annoyed atm (nothing to do with comic books), I'll try to express my point a bit clearer, and more calmly :)Wolverine's a douche because he likes to have his cake and eat it too. "Oh, you let Kurt die to save some kid, you're a terrible person. It's not like you were desperately trying to preserve a race or anything. You let your son die, I'm sure that doesn't affect you at all. Clearly you're just doing this for fun." I'm willing to chock this up to moronic writer, but atm, Logan is acting like a brat. Your friend's death was honourable and heroic, he's fine, so you need to shut up and deal with it. As for the "morons" part, yes, the X-Men, atm, are all being morons. They decided to go and alienate themselves, fine, but don't expect all sugar and daisies, it's bloomin' war, and Beast is whining about there being a black ops group. Get real. Storm has always had a god-complex, Magneto is a Nazi (Planet X happened, **** you Marvel) and Namor. Don't get me started on Namor. Why he hasn't been killed yet is utterly beyond me. "Why would the writer be a moron to have Wolverine act like that? Scott's motives were noble but I don't see how you can't see that this would be a situation where there could be conflicting opinions.I don't really understand at all where you're coming from.You don't think that if you were in a group and some decided to sacrifice another member..that someone in the group wouldn't have an objection? The rest of the stuff you seem to have a problem with seem to be character flaws.Every character has them, it's what adds realism to the book.I don't agree with how Wolverine feels but I at least understand.I don't understand some of the decisions the X-men make but I understand.The mutants have been through alot. I would also like to add I get what you MEAN about Magneto but he's Jewish so Nazi probably isn't the best choice of labeling. "
Firstly, pertaining to the Nazi comment, Magneto is a Nazi in the respect that he believes that a superior master race should ignite a conflict with a subordinate race and exteriminate them. So not technically a Nazi, but in a generic sense, the term applies.
Wolverine is a tough guy, and whilst he annoys the hell out of me (purely Bendis' and Quesada's fault, like everything wrong with Marvel), he should have understood why Scott is doing what he's doing. Regardless of how devastated he is at Kurt's death, I would have though Logan would be more willing to support Scott than tear him down and render Kurt's sacrifice pointless.
I don't like how the X-Men are being written, and it sounds like I hate them, which is wrong, I LOVE the X-Men, I own one less X-Men trade than I do Batman trade (and I bleed Batman), so you can trust me when I say that I love them. That said, I can't look at them now without getting annoyed, which is where my admittedly directionless rant came from.
I understood what you meant by Nazi as I said I just found it ironic you used the term for someone who is actually jewish.Magneto's feelings towards humans were created by humans.Magneto really doesn't understand why mutants live as an oppressed minority when they have the power to take whatever they want.That's more legitimate than simply being raced and thinking blonde haired blue eyed white people or simply people who are white are superior to other races.White people truly are inherently equal to all other races.I don't think you could argue that mutants are equal to humans..especically Omegas.Now as far as Wolverine is concerned I understand what you are saying about him...but as I said in my last post...that is the writer exposing a character flaw in Wolverine.This is no different than how heroes acted over the registration act.Iron Man made a decision that was supposed to help everyone...because of it's nature alot of people didn't agree with him and therefore it caused other heroes to be angry with him...and at the same time many readers.I think that's good writing honestly.To make a REAL person feel a type of way about a fictional character because of the way you caused them to act.I think that's good writing.I can't too much argue on the X-men.I've stopped reading X-men a while ago.Second Coming was the last arc I read and I read that like a week ago.But my reasoning is different from why you're annoyed with them.I was mainly tired of so much importance being on a few X-men and characters that have been there for years get no spotlight at all.I apologise for coming off short, which I recognise that I did, I am very annoyed atm (nothing to do with comic books), I'll try to express my point a bit clearer, and more calmly :) Firstly, pertaining to the Nazi comment, Magneto is a Nazi in the respect that he believes that a superior master race should ignite a conflict with a subordinate race and exteriminate them. So not technically a Nazi, but in a generic sense, the term applies. Wolverine is a tough guy, and whilst he annoys the hell out of me (purely Bendis' and Quesada's fault, like everything wrong with Marvel), he should have understood why Scott is doing what he's doing. Regardless of how devastated he is at Kurt's death, I would have though Logan would be more willing to support Scott than tear him down and render Kurt's sacrifice pointless. I don't like how the X-Men are being written, and it sounds like I hate them, which is wrong, I LOVE the X-Men, I own one less X-Men trade than I do Batman trade (and I bleed Batman), so you can trust me when I say that I love them. That said, I can't look at them now without getting annoyed, which is where my admittedly directionless rant came from. "
"Its actually pretty funny..when gambit joined the X-men he was spose to be this ladies man...but if you think about it Cyclops is. Jean Goblin Queen Jean again..Pyslocke Jean Emma Jean has no standards? "
I found his relationship with Emma funny. I wonder if she came back and he ask if the phoenix is inside her. Maybe he should avoid people with mind control. When did dated psylocke. He also made out by clone of Emma by accident. He totally loses it and killed invader from the Hellfire club with a pistol.
I think people who hate Cyclops only do so out of ignorance of the comics, being a bigger fan of a character he disagreed with, or just being an ignorant douche who's only knowledge of him comes from the movies.
What reasons are there to hate him? Leaving Madelyne? Yeah, it's really dickish to leave a marriage to an evil clone of your ex-girlfriend, which was implanted in your mind by Mister Sinister, and whom has been manipulating you since you met, and once tried to sell your child to demons in exchange for more power.
Creating the X-Force? Yeah, to hunt down people who blew up a bus full of children. At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law here, what about the people on the squad? Why no hate for them? They actually did the stuff you're complaining about, were they just "following orders"? Do you hate Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, Domino, Elixer and Angel, or do you hypocritically let them off the hook?
Sleeping with Emma? I'm not the biggest fan of Emma, in fact I think her character is worthless and despicable as anything other than a villain given the atrocities she's committed, but in fairness to Scott, Jean kind of reached back from the future and TOLD HIM TO DO IT.
" I think people who hate Cyclops only do so out of ignorance of the comics, being a bigger fan of a character he disagreed with, or just being an ignorant douche who's only knowledge of him comes from the movies. What reasons are there to hate him? Leaving Madelyne? Yeah, it's really dickish to leave a marriage to an evil clone of your ex-girlfriend, which was implanted in your mind by Mister Sinister, and whom has been manipulating you since you met, and once tried to sell your child to demons in exchange for more power. Creating the X-Force? Yeah, to hunt down people who blew up a bus full of children. At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law here, what about the people on the squad? Why no hate for them? They actually did the stuff you're complaining about, were they just "following orders"? Do you hate Wolverine, X-23, Warpath, Domino, Elixer and Angel, or do you hypocritically let them off the hook? Sleeping with Emma? I'm not the biggest fan of Emma, in fact I think her character is worthless and despicable as anything other than a villain given the atrocities she's committed, but in fairness to Scott, Jean kind of reached back from the future and TOLD HIM TO DO IT. "Very well said, especially about the X-Force part. It's completely unfair to hate Cyclops while Wolverine, X-23, and Angel are the ones actually doing the killing.
There is a fine line between hating a character and hating a characters writing though. Yost and Kyle were given the X-Force book, and what that book would be, they wanted to include X-23, she was going to be in the book, no matter the characters decisions on these things. Characters who actually did the killing bearing more responsibility? Possibly, or they trust the wrong person. lol, Maddy's bad actions, came much later after Cyclops leaving her, but again, we know why, its because they were getting ready to launch X-Factor.
I like Cyclops, I dislike many of the times, he has been written recently. Everything is supposedly dire, but lets stop in the middle of the mission to have sex with Emma? OMG Slim, your so badass now and cool. When I grow up, I want to be as cool and smooth as you. (that particular depiction of him)
He is as awesome as ever in Astonishing though.
i used to love cyclops, i always stood up for him when people around me called him a pussy and i found his love for jean to be beautiful. all around cyclops is a good man. i agree that he isny completely to blamme for nightcrawler and cable's deaths. the thing that honestly pissese me off is how hre abandoned his first wife and his newborn son, and how he cheated on jean. its just so incredibly viel that it kind of weathers down any respect i had for him as a man. as an x-man Scott is great but as a father and husband he is a complete failure
I guess there´s only respect for him, at most
Liking, maybe Emma, and I don´t know if much
Scott abandoned any hope of a normal life when
he took the burden of being the leader of mutant kind
I remember even back in the mid to late 90's everyone trash talked Cyke. Pisses me off, I love him. He's my favorite character in the X-men Universe. I like the undeniable leader type. Not afraid to make tough decisions. I wasn't a fan of the movies because they underused Cyclops. Unfortunately I haven't been up on comics recently, just started with the end of the Vampire stuff and the beginning of Serve and Protect. I love that he's kinda the overall leader, no Xavier around. Good stuff.
I don't think he is hated by everyone, but i know he isn't being buddy buddy with everyone know either, and i think that he has had problems with the original X-Men since the beginning mostly Bobby, and later Jean, Angel seems to see his idea, and Beast works with Angel a lot so he might see it too, there are definitely some that hate him but there are some that can stand him and even some that like (other than Emma)
"But they all respect him. "
I agree with this. I can see how Cyclop's approach can offend and piss people off but I also feel that they do respect him, even if they disagree with what he does.
This might sound weird but he's got the best leadership qualities of Magneto and Xavier. Which really makes him compelling to me. If there were an X-man deserving of his own title, it is Cyclops. I personally find it funny how through the 90's Cyclops was pegged as the boyscout, which admittedly he was, but Wolverine and Gambit were always the badasses and I think now that's almost even reversed. I think Remi and Logan were so over-saturated that they lost a bit of their cool factor while Scott's maintained his character through underuse.... I'd kinda like to see him eventually go solo and just do his own thing but that also kinda goes against who the character is... I'm rambling.
" This might sound weird but he's got the best leadership qualities of Magneto and Xavier. Which really makes him compelling to me. If there were an X-man deserving of his own title, it is Cyclops. I personally find it funny how through the 90's Cyclops was pegged as the boyscout, which admittedly he was, but Wolverine and Gambit were always the badasses and I think now that's almost even reversed. I think Remi and Logan were so over-saturated that they lost a bit of their cool factor while Scott's maintained his character through underuse.... I'd kinda like to see him eventually go solo and just do his own thing but that also kinda goes against who the character is... I'm rambling. "Though it would be cool to see Cyclops get his own series there's only one issue with that. He's too big of a player to go and be his own guy, there's too much on him as it is in the X-men. What I love about Cyclops and his work is there's no real analogue for him other than maybe Black Bolt?
A leader of a small band of people that look to him for leadership and protection?
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