1.) Jean had already locked lips with Wolverine during that time and essentially ignored him. Their relationship was all but dead and Jean gave her blessing to the relationship afterwards.
Then get a divorce like a grown ass man.
2.) He wasn't the founder of X-Force, Cable was. And Cyclops disbanded it, Wolverine is the one that continued it.
Actually If you see X-Force no.1 It was Cyclops that convinced Wolverine to continue X-Force once Messiah Complex was over (after which, the squad had been disbanded), and he was also the one that stuck Laura and Rahne in there.
3.) 200 mutants left on the planet, and he had no help from anyone else outside his race.
And that makes it OK to work with Magneto who threatened to exterminate the entire human race more than once?
4.) Was forced to, to avoid his people being murdered and enslaved by Norman Osborn during Dark Reign. Mind you, he came to Asgard and the Avenger's aid during Siege.
He could have just as easily seeked refuge in any nation, I'm pretty sure the QUEEN OF WAKANDA woudln't have minded to give it to them, but no, he decided to create his own like that was the only logica way out. IT WASN'T.
5.) To save the lives of innocent people.(Though sorta dickish)
Still unacceptable, specially since he didn't even think about it.
6.) He didn't force Wolverine out, he let Wolverine go and whoever wanted to go, with his blessing, hell he gave them a Blackbird for crying out loud. Psylocke was both on his security team and with Wolverine's X-Force.
He turned his whole little nation state into a militaristic isolationalist nation, he went power mad, to the extreme that even FUCKING WOLVERINE went "Woah, dude too far".
7.) He didn't invite the Phoenix Force to Earth. It was coming and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Keeping Hope in a "safehouse" wasn't going to stop something that could incinerate planets. He gave his word to Cable he'd protect Hope from the Avengers. Remember even in the end Tony Stark couldn't figure out how to stop the Phoenix. His first plan caused the Phoenix 5 to be created, they didn't grab power it was thrusted on them.
The Phoenix Force didn't need to get to Earth, Cyclops could have just as easily allowed the Avengers to take Hope with the condition that he could accompany her and then helped the Avengers develop countermeasures against the Phoenix Force, instead he wanted to force the power of the most powerful cosmic entity known to man to a small girl who wouldn't have been able to handle it at the moment, all because of some vague messianic delusion that all of mutant kind had already been forcing on her.
8.) How dare the most powerful being enforce world peace.
You can't ENFORCE peace, and you certainly can't force peace with threats, the U.S. of A has been trying that sort of interventionist policy for ages, and the rest of the world isn't all that crazy about it in case you hadn't noticed.
9.) The apparent reason was because they attacked him. Invaded his country and threatened the lives of his people.
And once he had control of the most powerful force on Earth and was essentially untouchable by any of them, he instead of deciding to renegotiate just branded them all criminals and allowed Magik to create her hell prison to retain them in. Awesome stuff...
10.) Emma goaded him into taking the power, you see that in Uncanny X-men.
"I can't believe you." - Emma Frost, AvX #11
Even if she goaded him, he didn't have to leave her at the Avengers' mercy like that.
11.) Who was already attacking him while the Avengers sieged him.
Already attacking him because by now it was obvious they had all gone batshit crazy. Which everyone warned them against BEFOREHAND... like... WAAAAAAAY before.
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