Cyclops

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Real Name: Scott Summers

Code Name: Cyclops

Former Occupations: Subversive, Second-in-Command of Factor Three

Citizenship: United States of America with no criminal record

Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska

Marital Status: Married (to Jean Grey)

Age: Unknown

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 195 lbs

Eyes: Brown (glowing red when his power is active)

Hair: Brown

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Mutant Physical Powers: Cyclops has the power to absorb vast solar energies and release it as powerful optical energy blasts. When he wants to generate an optic energy blast, he opens the visor. In the early days of the X-Men, the visor was controlled by switches on either side. Later it became thought-controlled, enabling him to fire his optic energy beams without needing his hands to open the visor. Cyclops has also exhibited the ability to fire pinpoint beams for more surgical operations like breaking a lock or hitting a very small target. In one instance, he even used his optic beams to break a teammate's fall by firing rhythmic blasts beneath him. While this resulted in a painful descent for the teammate, he prevented him from getting seriously injured or possibly killed. When Cyclops needs to inflict a maximum-strength strike, he is able to release awesome amounts of energy with his optic blasts. These blasts are quite deadly to non-powered individuals and could easily kill a normal human. He is well aware of this fact and exhibits extreme caution with his ruby quartz glasses or visor on all occasions. Against super-powered human or mutant opponents, Cyclops' optic energy blasts are very formidable. For some strange reason, Mr. Sinister is unusually susceptible to Cyclops' powers. At full power these beams can punch through mountains. He has an uncanny ability to compute trigonometric relations, which allows him to bounce his optic blasts with incredible accuracy. He has invulnerability to his own power and that of Havok. Due to a brain injury, Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blasts at will and must therefore wear a visor or glasses with ruby quartz lenses that block the beams.

Known Relatives: Christopher (Corsair, father), Katherine Ann (mother, deceased), Alexander (Havok, brother), Philip, Deborah (grandparents), Madelyne Pryor (first wife, deceased), Jean Grey (Phoenix, second wife), Nathan Christopher (Cable, son), Gailyn (niece), Joey (nephew), Rachel (Phoenix II, daughter by Phoenix in alternate time line), Tyler (Genesis II, grandson, deceased)

Known Enemies: Mr. Sinister, Apocalypse, Stryfe

Usual Base of Operations: Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted, Salem Center, Westchester County, NY

Former Bases of Operations: X-Factor HQ, New York City

Current Group Membership: The X-Men

Former Group Membership: X-Factor

The following historical summary is taken from "The Power of Cyclops 2000" site by Christian Dimaapi.

Scott Summers was the older of the two sons of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U. S. Air Force. When Scott was a child, Major Christopher Summers flew himself, his wife Katherine, and his sons Scott and Alex back from a vacation in his vintage private plane called the 'DeHaviland Mosquito'. The plane was attacked and set ablaze by a scout ship from the alien Shi'ar Empire. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out the plane door with the only available parachute. The parachute was unable to slow their fall adequately and Scott suffered a head injury on landing. (The injury damaged the part of Scott's brain that would have enabled him to control his powerful optic blasts.)

The two boys were separated by the authorities: Alex was adopted, but Scott remained comatose in a hospital for a year. Christopher and Katharine were believed to be dead. (Actually, they were taken as prisoners by the Shi'ar; Katharine soon died but Christopher later became Corsair, leader of the Starjammers, a band of interstellar adventurers.)

When Scott recovered, he was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska that was secretly controlled by his future enemy Mister Sinister. Years later, as a teenager, Scott began to suffer from severe headaches and eyestrain. He was sent to an eye specialist in Washington, D. C., who discovered that lenses made of ruby quartz corrected the problem.

While Scott was visiting a large city, his developing mutant power to project optic force beams finally erupted, bursting forth in an uncontrollable and energetic blast that demolished a crane, causing it to drop a huge object towards a terrified crowd. Scott saved the crowd by obliterating the object with another blast, but they turned into an angry mob, thinking he had tried to kill them. Scott fled, ultimately escaping on a freight train.

Professor Charles Xavier and F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan joined forces in their mutual attempt to find Scott. Meanwhile, a mutant known as Jack O' Diamonds, and later as the Living Diamond, forced the frightened boy to aid him in his crimes. Xavier rescued Scott from the Living Diamond and enlisted him as the first member of the team of young mutants he would teach in using their powers, the X-Men.

As Cyclops Scott soon became deputy leader of the X-Men. He fell in love with his teammate Jean Grey, although his reserve and his worries about the dangers of his optic beams prevented him for years from expressing his feelings to her. When the other original X-Men left the team, Cyclops stayed on as deputy leader of the "new" X-Men.

Shortly afterwards the cosmic entity called the Phoenix Force secretly placed Jean in suspended animation and impersonated her, adopting a form identical to hers. When this Phoenix committed suicide, Scott believed that the real Jean had died and he left the X-Men. Eventually he returned to the team and met and married Madelyne Pryor, a woman who was Jean's double; he was unaware she was a clone of Jean created by Mister Sinister. Scott and Madelyne had a baby son, named Nathan Christopher, and Scott again left the X-Men.

Subsequently, the real Jean Grey emerged from suspended animation. Scott left his wife and joined with Jean and the other original X-Men in founding a new team, the original X-Factor. Madelyne went insane, developed superhuman powers, and perished in combat with Jean Grey.

Later, Apocalypse infected Nathan with a techno-organic virus. To save his life, Scott was forced to allow a time traveling member of the Askani cult to transport Nathan to the 30th century of an alternate future.

After Professor Xavier returned from a long sojourn in space with the Starjammers, Cyclops and the other X-Factor members rejoined the X-Men. Ever since then Cyclops has remained with the X-Men, sharing deputy leadership with Storm.

Recently, Scott and Jean were finally married. While they were on their honeymoon, Mother Askani, leader of the Askani cult, drew their spirits two millennia into an alternate future, where they inhabited new bodies. There, as Slym and Redd, they spent years raising young Nathan into his early adolescence. Then Scott and Jean returned to their own time and bodies, and Nathan remained to grow up into his time's greatest hero, Cable.

Scott and Jean went on leave from the X-Men and resided in Alaska. Recently Cyclops founded a team of mutants called the Astonishing X-Men. He was their leader. During their mission Wolverine was killed, but it was later revealed that he was just a skrull in Logan's form. Cyclops reluctantly stayed with the X-Men because he and his wife Jean were part of mutant kind's only hope the Twelve. The Twelve were lured to Egypt and eventually all captured. After escaping Bishop returned to his time, Mikhail Rasputin warped dimensions with Pestilence, Famine and War close behind, and the Living Monolith was killed. That left only Jean, Scott, Storm, Cable, Xavier, Magneto, Polaris, Sunfire and Iceman to deal with Apocalypse. Xavier, Cable and Jean were taken down by Apocalypse and the other members of the 12 were on their way but only Scott was there to fight Apocalypse. Apocalypse was draining X-Man of all his powers and using him to bind together to form one, but Scott jumped into the middle of the two, freeing X-Man and absorbing Apocalypse into himself.

However, Cyclops' sacrifice seems to be in vain due to the fact that Apocalypse's personality is now dominant in their merged form. No trace of Cyclops' consciousness was detectable by Xavier, so he is believed to be dead.