Cyclops is an under-rated character that really got shafted in the movies. He's supposed to be the leader of the team, but instead he was delegated to jealous boyfriend/husband in the first movie, mind-controlled and almost entirely absent from the second movie, and killed in the first few minutes of the third movie. Such a wasted opportunity because James Marsden is a good actor.
Fox didn't do any of them right...the obly one they got close was Logan. Ororo is my girl(ive had a crush on her since puberty) and they gave the part to some mousy, shy, skinny chick! 😢 Tgos...they might redeem them selfs with Deadpool!
Optic blast off Thor's hand into Iron man's chest. Man that was a ballin ricochet shot Cyke delivered. Remaining Avengers should of given him a standing ovation.
Didn't Emma Frost or someone else mention that the optic blasts shouldn't be involuntary and Scott could actually control them if he broke through those psychological barriers?
Cyclops is not as bad as people make him out to be (Especially Fox Studios portraying him as a useless douchebag). He has a large variety of skills (one of them being one of them superior leadership skills). He once lead the X-Men to defeat Magneto while their powers were lost. I believe he has better leadership and tactician skills than Cap (slightly). Being the leader of Utopia helps too
cheesesteakphilly he and Cap are considered the 2 greatest military minds in Marvel. though i do agree, that Cyclops seems slightly more skilled that way.
Luis of House Stark well when you think about it... he's done something Cap has never had to do... he kept his people alive, when faced with extinction, persecution etc. these are things that Cap has never had to deal with. while they are somewhat equal as military minds... Cyclops, though younger... has more experience as a leader, having been one since he was a young teen, and of an extremely diverse group of individuals no less!
+cheesesteakphilly Also, he assembles X-Force (Wolverine, Kurt, Fanomax, Psycloke, and Deadpool) to do things, even murder, that the X-Men morally can't do!
i dont care what no body says about cyclops, He is super awesome. sure he messes up some times as a leader and in his various relationships. but guess what even though he is a mutant he is still human and we all make mistakes.
Craig Brown do you read the comics? he is(/was because of the whole battle world story things can change) basically magneto now. no longer apart of the traditional team, but making his own rouge team.
winnkey Yea, I get that he is pretty much magneto now ( or was), and he is a bit extreme with ideas. But hell so have many other people in comics and hell in history as well.. Their ideas may seem very wrong and hard to understand, But ( in my own opinion) Thats what some leaders do in order to help their own kind or people that they care about. Sure you can say that its not right. But through most of the time cyclops is just trying to make the humans understand that they are willing to take a stand, and should not be oppressed by anyone because they are different.
Craig Brown If he spent the majority of his time throwing one liners, wandering off with little girls and just out right being as over saturated in the media as Wolverine then fans would love him just as much. Cyclops at one point beat many of the X-Men - Wolverine among them - by himself while seriously injured but people like to forget that. He's displayed why is he is the leader numerous times and people like to forget that as well. Xavier is only a figure head in the school while Summer is the man all the responsibility of seeing those ideals through falls on. Both have their place on the team and both are great characters. People just find it easier to flock to the the anti-hero loner with a secret heart of gold archetype more than they do the Lawful Good authority figure.
Also from what I have read of AVX, Scott was more right than he was wrong. Why anyone would listen to that psycho Wolverine over Scott regarding Phoenix is beyond me, also Cap lost any right to ramble on about ethics when he led a paramilitary strike force in an invasion of Utopia to attack the X Men and kidnap a 17 yr old girl to use her as a living weapon.
Cyclops has been an idol of mine ever since I was a little kid. To this day he's my favorite Marvel hero and an inspiration. And hell yes he was right.
Thanks for doing an origins story on my favorite mutant. Cyclops has gotten the short shrift in the movies, but in the comics he is a spectacular character.
One small correction. His powers aren't really involuntary. When he jumped from the plane with his brother he hit his head upon the landing. This caused him to not be able to control his optic blasts without the visor or special glasses. Essentially his optic blasts are always on now and the visor acts as an on/off switch.
I don't understand how Jack can be considered a mutant if he got his powers from an accident. Wouldn't that make Hulk and even Captain America mutants?
I thought that in the Marvel universe the term "Mutant" only means someone with the x-gene, and that people who just got powers from an outside source are "Enhanced"
Should have tried to expand on where the energy from his optic blasts originates from, it could have made the episode a little longer, and could have painted Scott in a more interesting light.
always loved cyke but I feel like all the modern writers write him like they don't like him. He got the muntant race through the whole "no more mutants" fiasco when no one else gave a damn about sentinels anti mutant hate groups that now were so close to literal genocide and yeah he became more militant (as if there was another option) but he still got. plus the wrote him killing xavier which is something he would just never do in a million years. Its frustrating but as far as i'm concerned cyke for president lol
precisely! How can wolverine who although, fighting not to be a monster, has a genetic feral inclination towards violence be the one to make a school where mutants learn maths and english. While scott the poster boy of said school chooses to make a boot camp for mutant warriors. makes no sense
3:14 I think there might be an implication that Cyclops can change his optic blast from concussive beam to disintegration beam subconsciously, but he isn't aware of that yet.
Cyclops is the only reason why I even bother with Marvel since the late 80s. All to conclude x-men cannot exist without Scott. Why? 1) Family. Brother a mutant, father a leader of space pirate, 2 Omega wives (madylene is Jean's clone, Jean an omega even before phoenix, Phoenix is an entity), set of mutant kids. Basically, x-men is a story about his family, and how other interact with them. 2) Talent. Ppl wiki his talent!! The knowledge of his talent showed here, is lacking. 3) Omega Class Power: Leadership! What dya call a person who leads a bunch of omegas? Cyclops. 4) emotion impact. How dya feel about AvsX? Cyclops is right, in any given moment. These are my personal opinions.
I remembered back in the early 80's when reading comics where the most characters I came across was for Spiderman,Thor,Ghost Rider,Captain America,X-men and Silver Surfer were a few of them and Cyclops was the favorite X-man whom was the leader and his wife was the sexy Jean Grey that were the parents of Cable.
Cyclops is the best of the X-Men. Constantly underrated, but truly a premier hero, and when in the hands of a great writer, like in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, he shines.
It would be cool to do a story just about optic-blast. I honestly would be interested in seeing the difference be Superman, Darkseid, Cyclops, Gladiator and etc. optical powers.
Brilliant Video Comicstorian Thanks again! Started liking Cyclops more and more recently! I would love to see a solo movie with Cyclops as the main character. I know it will not happen anytime soon though as Cyclops is not popular enough.
I do not agree with mr.scott summers view on how to save his people, but I can also understand how being pushed to the brink of exinction can force you to think the way he does
I thought you'd say how it was discovered that red quartz diffuses his eye beams, and where he got his sunglasses, and stuff like that. That's what I'd like to know.
According to the comics Scott would have control of his blasts mentally, but when he and his brother jumped out of the plane as kids Scott hit his head. This, for some reason, causes him to lose control of is powers when they develop
You forgot to mention how his eyes are actually portals to a universe with non Newtonian physics and the optic blasts are energy particles escaping this dimension
I'm not going to read all the comments to see if anyone said this yet but Cyclops suffered a head injury in the escape from the plane. Which is why he can't control his optic blasts.
Cyclops was right until he strayed form the path, so to answer your question, he is not right. But Cyke is one of my fav X Folks so thank for putting this one out there.
Titus Orelius even before but yes, his character has gone through some major changes from the apocalypse 12 to now. cheating on jean with emma, going the whole hardcore Magneto route to eventually killing charles. its a writing issue in my mind. his stoic nature has been evolved over time into someone not very much like Scott was in youth or during his time with xfactor or the xmen.
Titus Orelius the fact he killed Hank and brought him back but didn't do that with Charles, I think it is his fault. On some level he bears responsibility. we wanted to fix the world, yet the 5 did so much, but in the end so little.
Probably? We can't guarantee that Hope wouldn't go full Darth Sideos and kill everyone/ control everyone. It's all dependant on how the writer portrays Hope.
Is it true that his eyes are actually a portal to another dimension filled with heat energy and when he opens them the energy is able to come through in the form of optic blasts? I can't remember where I learned about that but just curious of its validity.
I used to think Cyclops was boring, but after DC's nu52 kind of dropped the ball for me, I checked out more Marvel stories. All the stuff that's happened to Scott lately has made him a much more interesting character, and I really enjoyed the Cyclops solo series centered around the young Cyclops traveling around with his dad. I don't know if he was completely right, but it's the fact that he's not just following what he's told and does what he feels is right that makes him more interesting than when he was just the second in command.
So it seems Scott might just have a thing for diamond people. The first mutant he meets has diamond hands and wants to be full diamond, and later on he meets Emma , who for some reason can do that on top of her telepathic stuff.
I've always assumed the concussive blasts are at the atomic level. You know, pushing atoms apart from each other causing disintegration to those unready and finding the small gaps in a grip, even a god's.
I understand this is a comic but when others say that his Optic abilities are only concussive, that does not work. Energy is work and therefore, results in HEAT! Even if his optics are from another universe, its manifesting in ours which would generate heat.
