History Characters / MarvelComicsCyclops

** Scott categorizes as Type I, II, III, and IV.

* BadassFamily: His entire family, including his father Chris (Corsair), his brothers Alex (Havok) and Gabriel (Vulcan), his two wives Madelyne Pryor and Jean Grey, his children Nathan (Comicbook/{{Cable}}), Comicbook/RachelSummers (the second Phoenix/Marvel Girl) and Nate (ComicBook/XMan) and his adopted granddaughter the mutant messiah Hope Summers. This could also extend to Scott's other relatives.

* BreakTheCutie: Let's see: Parents die at a young age, sent to an OrphanageOfFear, has his younger brother taken away from him, almost kills several people when his power activates, taken in by an abusive criminal who he is forced to kill, his girlfriend dies, then he meets a woman who looks just like his girlfriend, he marries her, then his girlfriend comes back from the dead, he leaves his first wife who then tries to cause [[Comicbook/Inferno1988 hell on earth in revenge]] and then she dies, his second wife is distancing herself from him after he is possessed by Apocalypse and is haunted by the darker sides of himself. He is only able to confide in Emma Frost about the darker sides of himself as she has them too.

* DeadAllAlong: In ''Comicbook/DeathOfX'' it is revealed [[spoiler:Cyclops died very early on, and the "Cyclops" we've been following throughout most of the story is merely a psychic illusion created by Emma Frost.]] Which explains a lot of why he is taller, younger-looking, and less sure of what he is going to say than before.

** When Jean wouldn't take his PTSD seriously in Comicbook/NewXMen, he asks Emma for help. He confides in Emma about his struggles with said darker parts of himself and begins to grow closer to her.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With the founding members of ''ComicBook/Champions2016'', due to his time-displaced teenage self being a member of that team and Scott getting his memories of that time with DelayedRippleEffect once teen Scott return to his place in time. As a result, adult Scott considers them his friends despite being something like twice their age.

** To {{Comicbook/Cable}} and [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] (he ended up merged with Apocalypse while TakingTheBullet for the latter, and was quite willing to take on SHIELD and the Avengers for him). Slightly less so with Rachel, mostly because by the time he actually knows that she's his daughter she can more than look after herself, but it's still there - he tasked every resource Utopia had to bringing her home at the slightest whiff she might be in trouble.

* WillfullyWeak: Cyclops could take down or kill everyone below the power level of [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]], [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]], [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Sue Storm, Ben Grimm]], etc. just by taking off his visor. He doesn't, mostly because he's afraid of letting his full power out and losing control.

* FightsLikeANormal: Since his power causes way too much collateral damage for most situations.

* BlessedWithSuck: Scott's powers ought to be as controllable as any other energy blaster, but he suffered a concussion in his youth (his parents had pushed him out of a plane when they were attacked by the Shi'ar), which somehow lead to his inability to shut off his powers after they emerged. Emma Frost later removed a mental block to give him control of his powers, since he had apparently been subconsciously keeping his eyes on to ensure he'd never hurt anyone with his powers (her explanation).

* HormoneAddledTeenager: He fantasizes about hooking up with Laura and the Stepford Cuckoos. He also finds Hepzibah, his dad's girlfriend, uncomfortably attractive. And then, there's Jean, as per usual.

* OhCrap: Is terrified when he runs into a version of Emma Frost, after several ''very'' bad experiences. Fortunately, it's a version of the ''Generation X''-era Emma, who isn't evil and isn't interested in him.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Perpetually with Jean. It's mutual but complicated due to finding they ended up together but their relationship got ruined, though it does eventually get resolved at the end of ''X-Men Blue''. He also has this with Emma after his return and during their stay on Krakoa.

At the beginning of ''ComicBook/DeathOfX'', Scott is killed by the M-Pox sickness, but Emma Frost makes everyone believe he was murdered by Black Bolt in order to further [[ComicBook/InhumansVsXmen a conflict between Inhumans and mutants]]. In the meantime, [[ComicBook/XMenBlue Teen Scott and the rest of Original Five are working as a team based on Madripoor]], overseen by Magneto of all people. The original Cyclops returned in ''ComicBook/Extermination2018'', two (or three) years after his death, and returned to the X-Men in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018'', where he also reunited with a returned Wolverine -- the two are stated to be the last X-Men and will rebuild the legacy of the team.

* BreakTheCutie: Let's see: Parents die at a young age, sent to an OrphanageOfFear, has his younger brother taken away from him, almost kills several people when his power activates, taken in by an abusive criminal who he is forced to kill, his girlfriend dies, then he meets a woman who looks just like his girlfriend, he marries her, then his girlfriend comes back from the dead, he leaves his first wife who then tries to cause [[Comicbook/Inferno1988 hell on earth in revenge]] and then she dies, his second wife leaves him, he gets possessed by Apocalypse, his therapist takes advantage of his mental state to have an affair with him, and this isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
** Then when he seems to have found happiness with the therapist who took advantage of him she has a mental breakdown trying to kill everyone, then he gets tortured by an alien after suffocating in space, then his people that he has been trying to protect and whose rights he has been fighting for gets decimated, then his son and adopted granddaughter who might save everyone go missing in the timestream, then someone drops the Phoenix on him, then his girlfriend cheats on him which she had done before but this time she tells him, while they are both high on the Phoenix and getting invaded by his former friends, and then he [[spoiler:kills his father figure]], which causes him to have an emotional breakdown and start a school that is more or less a terrorist cell, then he is faced with his younger self ''and'' the younger version of his wife at the exact age when he first fell in love with her and she despises him, then a few weeks later she ''hits on him'', then he gives up the school and goes on to [[spoiler:die from M-pox]]. After that [[spoiler:his legacy somehow]] becomes "guy who is worse than Hitler and started a war with the Inhumans".

** He's unfortunately unable to maintain relationships with the ones he attracts though; Scott may attract the ladies easily but man, does he have a bad track record with women. Its not completely his fault though, after-all Maddy and him were having problems prior to him leaving (and he intended to and did eventually return to her, only to find her gone), while Jean was at the time of his 'psychic affair' (which was a case of his therapist, Emma Frost, taking advantage of him) contemplating cheating on him with Logan. He's dated other women too, but not nearly as seriously as these two (with exception of Emma, though their breakup has been far more amicable).

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: As much as Cyke gets tossed around by all kinds of villainous ladies, his rocky 1st marriage crossed a line. Though Madelyne Pryor is better known as the ''Goblin Queen'' their history as husband and wife wasn't healthy. To this day, despite ''punching'' his ''face'', the incident of domestic violence is rarely addressed. Maddie is even viewed [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathetically]] over [[JerkAss unpopular]] Cyclops.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Arguably a victim of this.
** Done by his ex-wife Madelyne Pryor (and a clone of Jean Grey) when Scott is in relationship with Emma after Jean's death in ComicBook/NewXMen. Maddie psionically impersonates Emma and has virtual sex with Scott, without him realizing the deception at first.
** When Jean wouldn't take his PTSD seriously in Comicbook/NewXMen, he asks Emma for help. She persuades him that having sex with her while she pretends to be Jean will cure him.

* HappilyMarried: To Madelyne and Jean. At least for almost 20 years. But then things happened and changed...

* HeroicBSOD: Cyclops, in Creator/JossWhedon's Astonishing ComicBook/XMen run, has a severe one of these when [[spoiler:Emma Frost reveals to him that his inability to control his powers is the result of a complex he developed about self-control as teenager, rather than a brain injury resulting from a concussion, as he had previously believed.]] He spends an issue or two in a completely catatonic state, his powers not functioning. He soon recovers enough to move around and lead the team (perhaps even more effectively than usual, with his self-control issues out of the way) and [[spoiler:later surprises everyone by revealing (with a point blank blast in the face of his interrogator) that his powers still work, and that he now has full control over them. At the end of the arc, this control fades as the "clarity" he got from Emma's intervention wears off. See StatusQuoIsGod.]]

** In ''Astonishing X-Men'', [[spoiler:Cyclops had his powers psychically de-activated by Emma Frost and had been captured and tortured by an alien warlord. When he finally tells the warlord that the X-Men's secret weapon "Leviathan", was completely fictional (thus throwing out any reason to keep him alive), he starts laughing. The warlord attacks him, demanding to know what else he's been lying about. Cue the eye beams.]]

* LiterallyShatteredLives: What Scott did to the abusive criminal mentioned earlier in the page when he tried to make him kill a security guard, at the age of about 16. No, he didn't get therapy for this, either.

** In ''Death of X'', [[spoiler:he is this trope to Emma. Most of what she does in that storyline is motivated by the shock of his death (and to a lesser extent, the Terrigen Mists threatening to wipe out mutantkind...again).]]

* MentalAffair: With Emma - who was his therapist at the time. Jean catches them in the act, but later (post-mortem) comes to realize that they love each other and that she should let them be for the sake of the universe. It was a thing.

** Young Scott and Teen Jean have one, forged by accident as they were fighting Emma Frost.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Well, at least none that don't take advantage of his PTSD to have sex with him. In all honestly, Scott's descent down the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism could have been avoided if anybody could have been bothered to fork out to send him to a proper psychologist.

* VillainessesWantHeroes: Emma Frost wasn't the noblest female or had the best intentions, but she has stated that he was the only man she ever wanted to give a shit about her. She really did love him and would do anything for him. But while he did love her, she was constantly aware that his one true love was Jean Grey.

* FutureMeScaresMe: Zigzagged. At first, he has a strong dislike of his adult self, but slowly he learns that what he was told about him isn't quite true and learns to respect his future self. By the time of volume 2, however, Scott outright despises his older self, considering him a monster and a supervillain over [[NoodleIncident whatever it is that Cyclops did]]. Then he learns his older self didn't do anything, but he died from M-Pox and was framed by Emma Frost, and Scott doesn't hate himself or his adult self anymore.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Perpetually with Jean. It's mutual but complicated due to finding they ended up together but their relationship got ruined, though it does eventually get resolved at the end of ''X-Men Blue''.

* TheSpock: For which he is constantly teased by his teammates.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Develops into this with Laura, something helped by the fact that they think in very similar ways, about threat analysis in particular, and occasionally have trouble emoting.

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* BarbarianLongHair: In Age of Apocalypse he sported long hair, with PeekABangs. While long hair is not a problem, the haircut in front of his face was. [[spoiler:It was there to hide his missing eye.]]

Other than being a staple of the franchise, Cyclops has starred and co-starred in several series. Teen Cyclops has [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} his own ongoing series]].

Leader of the ComicBook/XMen and Xavier's top student, Scott Summers is skilled at [[TheStrategist strategy]] and [[TheCaptain managing people]], but [[NotGoodWithPeople fails at most attempts at personal interaction]]. The years of pressure in being an example for other mutants and a combat field leader have wound him up into a tight-assed, stuffed shirt: this brings him into conflict with just about any other mutant who doesn't have standards as high as Cyclops, which is nearly all of them. His powers are energy beams that shoot out of his eyes, which are strong enough to level mountains, and uncontrollable unless filtered with ruby quartz; it's implied that his inability to control his powers has subconsciously driven him to have control and order in every other facet of his life.

* NoSocialSkills: Scott is known to be shy, reserved and stoic. His social skills aren't the strongest.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Although Scott is the leader, he isn't the best people person socially. He is actually pretty good at reading people, but doesnt know how to handle it except in a straightforward manner.

* TheyDo: Scott with Jean when they get married.

* BadassInCharge: Scott is the leader of the X-Men and not only that, but the [[TheCaptain General]] or leader of the entire mutant race.

* ''Anime/XMen'' anime (2011): voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa and Creator/ScottPorter

* AmbiguousDisorder: Scott has sometimes been characterised as being somewhere on the Autism Spectrum, reflecting a number of the more stereotypical traits (NotGoodWithPeople, very emotionally buttoned down, very good at analysis), though that could just as easily be untreated [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] (or both). Certainly, it would explain a great deal about his relationship with ComicBook/JeanGrey. As an immensely powerful telepath noted for [[TheHeart her empathy]] and with a constant [[MindLinkMates psychic link to him]], she's perfectly placed to help him express his emotions and essentially translate between him and everyone else, while his more grounded personality helps balance her out. It would also explain why he gravitates to telepaths in general, though ComicBook/EmmaFrost is as emotionally detached as he is, and for not dissimilar reasons. Certainly, he's much happier and more open, and better with his teammates, when Jean's around.

** To a lesser extent, Charles Xavier's treatment of him drifts into this, too, being emotionally distant, forcing multiple hard jobs on him from the age of 15–16, including killing his previous foster father, and being trigger happy with erasing his memories, although some people might argue his treatment was worse than Jack's because of the messing around in Scott's brain.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Wolverine may not always like him personally, but as Creator/JossWhedon reminded us, there's a ''very good reason'' Scott's the one in charge.

** He's able to get around relying on the smallest sensory details, similar to Daredevil, when missing his glasses. He's also able to remember every action he makes after losing his glasses so to retrace his steps and retrieve them.

** Though admittedly, Scott did kind of have reason to be suspicious of Cap, since a) he was gambling everything on Hope being able to control the Phoenix and restart Mutantkind, b) Cap was getting his information on the Phoenix from Wolverine, who even the other Avengers ( notably Spider-Man ) suspected was going to try and kill Hope before she could become the Phoenix - which is exactly what he tried to do as soon as he got the chance , c) Cap invaded Utopia , a sovereign nation with a SHIELD battalion that has no jurisdiction there and the Avengers and immediately responds with authority (which he does not have ) for Scott to surrender Hope into his custody or suffer the consequences . After all that and all the stress he was going through , can anyone blame him for violently resisting such a blatant and ridiculous threat ?

%%zce* JerkassHasAPoint: Perhaps the true reason why others continue to follow his orders.

* KnightInSourArmor: His character development has largely consisted of him growing more cynical, not without reason. Mostly being let down by people he trusted. Among other things, he was tricked into cheating on his wife, was cheated on by his phoenix-crazed girlfriend, and his father figure kept his little brothers existence from him.

** To {{Comicbook/Cable}} and [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] (he ended up merged with Apocalypse while TakingTheBullet for the latter). Slightly less so with Rachel, mostly because by the time he actually knows that she's his daughter she can more than look after herself, but it's still there - he tasked every resource Utopia had to bringing her home at the slightest whiff she might be in trouble.

* RealMenWearPink: If the apps on his computer are to believed he plays Hello Kitty games and also owns a [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/71be47fdd1c4744de3c0c491ca71b27e/tumblr_nqsgriE8Jf1r1ins0o1_400.png Captain America teddy bear.]] As for the real men part, despite his MemeticLoser status, he can beat up several people with his eyes shut.

** Though admittedly, Scott did kind of have reason to be suspicious of Cap, since a) he was gambling everything on Hope being able to control the Phoenix and restart Mutantkind, b) Cap was getting his information on the Phoenix from Wolverine, who even the other Avengers (notably Spider-Man) suspected was going to try and kill Hope before she could become the Phoenix - which is exactly what he tried to do as soon as he got the chance.

* FictionIsntFair: Post-''ComicBook/AvengersVersusXMen'', a number of writers, particularly Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, would acknowledge the fan sentiment that he was being persecuted for things that most Marvel heroes would be (and have been) EasilyForgiven for, complete with having the more idealistic O5 X-Men side with him over Wolverine and allowing Cyclops to make [[StrawmanHasAPoint fairly well reasoned]] arguments for himself. He would still be treated like garbage by the majority of superheroes though, making it an example of this trope.

** By the time of the [[ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge Krakoan Age]], [[SubvertedTrope the “sociopathic” aspect seems to have been dropped]] but still retains a pro-Mutant stance.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Scott tends to be paranoid and has difficulty expressing emotions. It's clear that he has some type of disorder, but there has been no confirmation of what in canon.
** One of his most consistent character flaws is his persistent codependency; he is unable to function outside a relationship. Whenever Jean dies, he becomes an utter emotional wreck and walks away from his responsibilities as an X-Man. This has yet to be discussed within the books.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Although Scott is the leader, he isn't the best people person socially. He is actually pretty good at reading people, but [[AmbiguousDisorder doesnt know how to handle it]] except in a straightforward manner.

* StandardizedLeader: Wiki/TheOtherWiki has noted that if Cyclops is in the field, he is TheCaptain, regardless of whose party it was before he arrived. The only exception to this rule is Captain America, and even then.

!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Slim, Slym Dayspring, Eric the Red, Mutate #007, Phoenix, Dark Phoenix, [[spoiler:Captain Krakoa]]

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Cyclops, while a boy scout in general, definitely fits the 'troubled aloof stoic' bad boy criteria, and is the first to point out he's dangerous to be around. Even before his recent descent into AntiHero badassery, he's had a steady stream of women pursuing him, including ComicBook/JeanGrey, Madelyn Pryor, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}, and ComicBook/EmmaFrost.

** His younger self tries to rectify this, all the while believing that [[spoiler:sassing Blackbolt it a completely legit cause of death]].

* BlindWeaponMaster: Cyclops of the X-Men has two options when he loses his [[SunglassesAtNight glasses]]: Keep his eyes open and [[EyeBeams kill]] [[PowerIncontinence everything in sight]], or keep them shut and ''beat the living hell out of his opponents'' while counting his footsteps so he can find his way back to where his glasses landed.

* GenreBlindness: Pointed out to him by Jamie Madrox when the latter and his team visited Utopia. It was Jamie's contention that humanity at large feared mutants because they could not tell good mutants from evil ones. Scott insisted that was ridiculous, just as [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Magneto, Emma Frost and Namor]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments came into the room to greet Jamie]].