Codename:
Cyclops
Real name: Scott
Summers
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 195 lbs
Place of Birth: Anchorage,
Alaska
Relatives: Summers
family
Past: Cyclops' eyes
constantly fire red energy beams. At full power these beams can punch through
mountains. However, Cyclops cannot control his power, and is forced to
always wear a ruby quartz visor, glasses or goggles. He has an uncanny
ability to compute trigonometric relations, which allows him to bounce
his optic blasts with incredible accuracy. His greatest fear is losing
control of his powers and hurting someone he cares for. Cyclops is immune
to his brother Havok's power, and vice versa. Scott's power first manifested
when his parent's plane was attacked by a Shi'ar spaceship. Scott
and Alex were pushed out the hatch with the sole parachute, which caught
on fire as it opened. Clutching Alex to him, Scott stared down at his doom,
until his eyes began to blast red beams of energy, which softened the ground,
cushioning the brothers' landing. Scott and Alex were taken to an orphanage
run by Sinister, where they were secretly subjected to tests to determine
their power level. Alex was fostered out, but Sinister had plans for Scott,
having realized that Summers DNA would produce a mutant of incomparable
power when combined with DNA from the Grey family. For much of his time
in the orphanage, however, Scott was in a coma induced by Sinister's experiments,
and used to control his awesome power. Somehow, Scott was taken in by Professor
Charles Xavier, and became Cyclops, the first X-Man and heir to Xavier's
dream. From the start Cyclops was the X-Men's field leader, and almost
as quickly, he and Jean Grey fell in love. Years passed, and although the
original X-Men were replaced with a new batch of heroes, Cyclops stayed
on as team leader, until his lover Jean, now the Phoenix, died on the Moon.
Actually, Phoenix was not really Jean, but a clone created by the Phoenix
Force, which had succumbed to the dark side of human emotions and had become
Dark Phoenix. After Phoenix's death, Scott was overcome with grief, and
left the X-Men. He became a fisherman in Florida, and started a relationship
with Alettys Forrester, the captain of his ship. Scott soon returned to
the X-Men, however, and after being abducted by, considered joining his
father Corsair, who had been captured, not killed, by the Shi'ar, aboard
his ship, the Starjammer. But Scott remained on Earth, and went to visit
his grandparents in Alaska. On that trip, he met and fell in love with
Madelyne Pryor, a pilot who looked EXACTLY like Jean Grey. Actually, Madelyne
was Jean's clone, created by Sinister to fulfill his dark plan of creating
a super-mutant. The two were married, and in time, had a baby boy, Nathan
Christopher Charles Summers. Tensions were rising between the couple, and
when Scott lost a duel for leadership of the team to Storm, they left for
Alaska. Unfortunately, things didn't work out, and Scott left for NY to
rejoin the members of the original X-Men and found the team called X-Factor.
The fact that Jean Grey was found alive by the Fantastic Four only added
to his confusion over his life and loves, and he remained in NY, almost
forgetting about his wife and child. At some point, Scott was reunited
with his son, probably around the time that Madelyne was rejoining the
X-Men in San Francisco. When the X-Men "died" in Dallas, Scott felt truly
free to pursue Jean once again, but when Madelyne reappeared as the Goblin
Queen, she stole her son back and swore vengeancce against her husband
for abandoning her. X-Factor and the X-Men defeated Madelyne and saved
Nathan's life from being sacrificed to create a demonworld, and Scott's
life returned to what passes for normal for an X-Man. Shortly thereafter,
Scott discovered that Rachel, whom he had met while still on the X-Men,
was actually his and Jean's daughter from a possible future. Summers family
life complicated itself even further when Apocalypse had his Dark Riders
infect Nathan Christopher with a techno-organic virus. The virus would
have killed the boy if Askani had not arrived from the future and offered
to take him forward in time, where his life could be saved. Cyclops made
one of the hardest decisions of his life by allowing his son to be taken
away. Soon after, the members of X-Factor rejoined the X-Men, and in time,
Scott and Jean were married (even though once before Jean had refused Scott's
proposal). On their honeymoon the couple was assaulted by a telepathic
wave that propelled their minds 2000 years into the future. There Scott
became Slym, and with Redd (Jean) raised his son Nathan, the boy who would
grow up to become Cable. The "Dayspring" (Summers) family also helped to
defeat Apocalypse, the despot of the time, before being pulled back to
the present. Scott was injured during Operation: Zero Tolerance when Bastion
had a bomb implanted in his chest: only the medical expertise of Dr. Cecilia
Reyes and some unique surgical tools saved his life. Scott left the X-Men
to recuperate, and with the recent telepathic shockwave released by the
Shadow King crippling his wife's powers, remained away for some time afterwards,
contemplating some new ideas about making Xavier's dream into their own.
However, he and Jean returned to assist the Mannites against Death III.
When that mission ended in the death of Wolverine, who was revealed to
have been a Skrull impostor, Scott (and Jean) agreed to stay on to
lead the team once more. After infiltrating the Skrull base and discovering
that the real Logan was Death III, all the X-Men prepared for the final
battle with Apocalypse. During the fight, Scott and the rest of those who
had been revealed as The Twelve were captured by Apocalypse and hooked
into a machine that would channel their awesome energies into hom, allowing
him to absorb X-Man's body and ascend to the cosmic stage. When the Living
Monolith broke free, Scott attacked Apocalypse, but his powers were drained.
As the other X-Men fell around him, Scott, still powerless, saw only one
option and pushed Nate out of Apocalypse's draining circuit. Unfortunately,
since Scott shared most of the same genes, Apocalypse was able to absorb
him instead into a new evil entity. Although Apocalypse then used his new
power to warp time and space to trick the X-Men into recreating the circuit,
Jean felt Scott inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying
him when they discovered the ruses. No one else was able to sense Scott,
however, and he was presumed dead by most of his teammates. In reality,
though, Scott was still alive, although his mind and body were slowly being
corrupted from the inside out by Apocalypse. He was also amnesiac, and
his eye beams had faded away. Months later he was nearly assassinated by
Gauntlet a former pawn of Apocalypse himself. Cyclops escaped and was found
by Anais, a servant of Apocalypse who said she could help him. Before they
could reach their final destination of Akkaba (Apocalypse's birthplace),
however, they were found by Cable and Phoenix, who had been directed to
Scott's location by Ozymandias. Eventually, Scott converted almost entirely
to Apocalypse, with only a sliver of his own consciousness able to maintain
control for a short period. he fought Cable, who could not kill his own
father, but in the end, Phoenix grabbed Apocalypse through the psychic
link she shared with Scott and ripped him out of her husband, afer which
Cable stabbed the High Lord with his Psi-Mitar, dispersing him to the winds.
Scott took some time off and then rejoined the X-Men after Magneto captured
Professor X and declared war on humanity.