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Cyclops
Cyclops, Iceman and Wolverine
Gender	Male
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Origin	Anchorage, Alaska
First Appearance	X-Men #1 (November, 1963)
Creator(s)	Stan Lee Jack Kirby
Alter ego	Scott Summers
Aliases	Slim, Eric the Red, Slym Dayspring
Abilities	Emits a powerful optic blast from his eyes which he controls by wearing a special visor with an adjustable slit that he can open and close.
Affiliations	X-Men X-Factor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Xavier’s School for Higher Learning

Cyclops is a fictional comic book character, known mostly as a founding member of the superhero team, the X-Men, which is published by Marvel Comics.

Cyclops is Scott Summers, a mutant born with the ability to process and store sunlight in his body, and process it into a powerful energy beam emitted from his eyes, called an optic beam. The exact nature of the energy is unknown, but due to an accident he experienced as a child, Scott does not have the ability to turn the beam off, except by closing his eyes. In order to control the beam when he opens his eyes to see, Scott must wear his either glasses or a special visor made of ruby quartz lenses, which seem to be able to dissipate the energy. Allowed to emit from his eyes at full strength, his optic beams are powerful enough to kill a man, hitting him at roughly 500 pounds per square inch. Scott can control the width of the beam with his eyes, and the height of the beam with the visor’s adjustable slit.

Having to be careful all the time to keep from hurting someone with this dangerous uncontrollable power, Scott has developed a bit of a repressed and meticulous personality. This has caused him some social problems over the years, but makes him an ideal combat leader.

Character Origin

Like most mutants in the Marvel Universe, Scott did not manifest his mutant ability until his teen years. Scott is the older of two sons of Christopher and Katherine Ann Summers. Christopher was an air force major and a test pilot. Scott is still a child when his father flies the family home from a vacation in a vintage jet. The plane encounters a galactic scout ship from the distant Shi’ar Empire. The plane is destroyed and his parents seemingly killed, but Scott’s mother pushes him and his brother Alex out of the plane with the only parachute, saving the boy’s lives. Scott and Alex are injured in their landing, and it is thought that the nerves in Scott's brain that were supposed to be able to control his optic beam were permanently damaged.

Scott grows up in an orphanage until his powers develop in his mid-teens. An ophthalmologist finds that the ruby quartz lenses relieve his symptoms, but then reports Scott as a mutant to the U.S. government, putting Scott on the run. Alone and desperate, Scott falls under the influence of an evil mutant named Jack Winters, who forces Scott to use his powers for criminal purposes. Fortunately, Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X, finds out about Scott and frees him from Winter’s control, and recruits him to become his first mutant student. Under the code name Cyclops, Scott soon becomes the first leader of the team of mutants known as the X-Men. (In the 'Astonishing' storyline, Emma Frost reveals that Scott's powers are not uncontrollable - he merely decided not to control them when he was younger, after all of the trauma from his younger years. This memory was hidden so far into his subconsious, even Proffessor Xavier and Jean Grey were not able to find it.)

Relationships

Scott became the team’s leader in combat, until he left the position to the mutant Storm. Scott has remained affiliated with the X-Men and Professor X all these years. His brother, Alex, also developed powerful energy powers, and is known as Havok. Scott and Alex are immune to each other’s energy powers. He discovered later that his parents were not killed in the plane crashed, but were captured and sold into slavery by the Shi’ar. His father eventually became the space pirate known as Corsair of the Starjammers.

Scott has been romantically involved with fellow X-Man, Jean Grey, a powerful telekinetic, originlly known as Marvel Girl. Scott and Jean eventually marry. Scott and Jean eventually have a child, Nathan, who is raised in the future and grows up to be the mutant Cable. In yet another alternate future, Scott and Jean father Rachel Summers, who becomes the second Phoenix. Unlike Cable, Rachel's parents are not the Scott and Jean of this reality. Since Jean’s death, Scott has become romantically involved with another mutant, Emma Frost. Scott also married Madelyne Pryor, when he thought Jean Grey had died. After a few years, Scott realized that although his wife looked like Jean, she didn't have her personality, and he began emotionally distancing himself from her. Scott eventually left Madelyne (a clone of Jean) when Jean came back as the Pheonix.