X-Men: How the MCU Can Fix Cyclops

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The X-Men films have featured no shortage of beloved comic book characters, from Wolverine to Nightcrawler to Magneto. However, not every X-Man has been lucky enough to make a lasting impact on moviegoers.

Take for instance Scott Summers, aka Cyclops — the original field leader of the X-Men. Despite being a crucial member of the team in the comics with plenty of story focus, he’s always been overshadowed by his teammates on the big screen. So once the X-Men inevitably arrive in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here are a few things Marvel Studios needs to get right in order to avoid the mistakes of Cyclops’ past live action portrayals.

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In the original X-Men film trilogy, Cyclops is a core member of the team — at least until his untimely death in The Last Stand — but he’s never given the same level of prominence as Wolverine or Professor X. Throughout the first film and its sequel, Cyclops’ backstory is never alluded to, let alone explored. But in the comics, understanding Scott’s history is crucial to understanding him as a character.

Cyclops was only a child when he lost his parents in a mysterious plane crash. In the wake of the crash, Scott and his brother Alex, aka fellow X-Man Havok, were taken in by a Nebraska orphanage seemingly run by the kindly Mr. Pearson. But in truth, Pearson was really the mad scientist Mister Sinister, who used the orphanage as a front for his cruel experiments on mutant children like Scott. And though it was these experiments that first supplied Scott with his signature Ruby-Quartz glasses after his destructive optic blasts first manifested, Scott was haunted by his repressed memories of Sinister for years to come.

After awakening his powers,