Alternate versions of Cyclops

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This page consists of alternate versions of the Marvel Comics character Cyclops.

Contents 1 1602 2 Age of Apocalypse 3 House of M 4 Marvel Zombies 5 Mutant X 6 Professor W’s X-Men 7 Shadow-X 8 Ultimate Cyclops 9 What If? 10 X-Men: Fairy Tales

[edit] 1602

In the continuity of the miniseries Marvel 1602, Scott is known as "Scotius Sumerisle." He is the leader of the original five X-Men, who are united under Carlos Javier (Professor X) and are known as "witchbreed" instead of mutants. His powers in Marvel 1602 are identical to his powers in normal Marvel continuity, though he wears a ruby visor instead of a ruby-quartz visor to block his optic blasts. Possessively in love with Jean Grey (who is disguised as a man under the name "John Grey"), he becomes jealous of her friendship with Werner (Angel).

[edit] Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse, Scott is a villain who fights against the X-Men. Just like in the normal timeline, Scott and his brother Alex were separated from their parents when their plane was attacked by a Shi'ar spaceship. The two would end up in an orphanage ran by Sinister, though in this timeline, both brothers were kept by him and raised as his foster children. Unbeknownst to them, their father Christopher Summers eventually makes his way back to earth, only to be found by Sinister and given over to the Beast (also a villain) for medical experimentation.

Both Alpha mutants, and both holding the rank of Prelate, Scott and Alex Summers dominate the new mutant aristocracy in Apocalypse's America. Sinister employs the brothers to operate his breeding pens, act as security, and sometimes perform as special ops unit. Scott's ability to show emotional restraint in battle earns him Sinister's favor over Alex, fuelling a dangerous rivalry between the brothers. This rivalry worsens when the brothers reunite with their real father - Christopher Summers - but are forced to kill him.

Sinister's preference for Scott over Alex also spills over into his genetic experimentation, as with Scott's DNA Sinister plans to create a super-mutant strong enough to destroy Apocalypse. After capturing the X-Man Jean Grey, Sinister believes that he has found Scott's genetic match, and uses their combined DNA to produce a child, Nate Grey.

Despite an initial belief in the doctrine of mutant superiority and even being considered by Apocalypse as a candidate for Horseman, Scott has reservations about the ethics surrounding his work, primarily in terms of excess. These concerns grow substantially once he meets and becomes enthralled with Jean Grey, a prisoner and "race traitor". Though Scott plans to release her on his own time, Grey's lover, Weapon X, breaks in and liberates her himself. Scott fights back against Weapon X, severing Weapon X's hand, but losing an eye in the process. Jean escapes with Weapon X, who remains an enemy of Scott.

In the meantime, Scott increasingly finds himself questioning the treatment of prisoners, and secretly starts releasing them. This does not go unnoticed by his brother Alex, who still harbors hostility against him. Alex re-captures Jean in order to use her against Scott, successfully exposing his brother as a traitor. Although Jean has no love for either brother, she decides to trust Scott and they attempt to escape together. Along the way the two meet Nate Grey, their genetically engineered son, though they remain oblivious to the truth of their connection to him. Eventually, Alex tracks down Jean and Scott, he kills Jean and defeats his brother. In retribution for Jean's death, Weapon X kills Alex by revealing that while Scott blew off Logan's hand, his claws were retracted at the time.

In the 2005 AoA One-Shot, a video screen in Magneto's office months after the events of X-Men: Omega shows the status of ten seemingly random mutants. While Jean Grey and Havok are listed as dead, Scott is listed as incarcerated. The reason for this was an editorial error in X-Men: Omega as Scott was supposed to have been shot to death by Alex. This is confirmed further as there is a "blam" gunshot sound effect in the panel where Scott "dies". Instead, he is supposedly killed by Havok's plasma blast, which is impossible as the two brothers are genetically immune to each other's powers.

[edit] House of M

During the House of M, where the main involved heroes' fondest wishes were granted, Scott was married to Emma Frost, and was a Pilot for Mutair airlines.

[edit] Marvel Zombies

Cyclops appears in his original form as one of the characters in the Marvel Zombies universe, fighting against the zombified Alpha Flight alongside his fellow X-Men at the X-Mansion in Marvel Zombies: Dead Days. However, like many of his comrades, Cyclops succumbs to the zombie infection and becomes one himself. At the beginning of Marvel Zombies #1 when Magneto fights the zombified superheroes by launching shards of steel at them, which has Cyclops caught in the crossfire and is later seen being shoved by Wolverine away from the corpse of the Silver Surfer he is then cooked and eaten by the cosmic zombies. On zombie variant covers, he is mostly seen headless and holding his decapitated head to defeat and eat victims.

[edit] Mutant X

Scott’s history diverged at a much earlier point in the Mutant X reality. In this timeline, it was not only the Summers’ parents who were kidnapped by the Shi’Ar, but Scott as well. While back on Earth, it was Havok who would be discovered by Charles Xavier and eventually grow up to be the X-Men’s leader, Scott presumably worked as a slave in the Shi’Ar mines. Eventually, he escaped and joined the Starjammers. Among the group, he also found a lover in Carol Danvers. Unlike his brooding counterpart from the main universe, this version of Scott Summers was a happy-go-lucky space pirate. Eventually, one of their adventures led the Starjammers to Earth, where he was briefly reunited with his younger brother after nearly 20 years of not seeing each other.

[edit] Professor W’s X-Men

A rather tragic event turned Cyclops into a bitter person in this timeline. At one point, several years in the future, the Shadow King took control of Wolverine and made him kill Professor Xavier. Cyclops never forgave him for this and when, shortly afterwards, Jean Grey was killed, he angrily left the team. In secrecy, Scott assembled a new Brotherhood around himself and one day returned with a vengeance. During the Brotherhood’s attack on Xavier’s mansion, Cyclops almost killed Wolverine, who didn’t fight back at all. It was Nightcrawler’s daughter, Nocturne, who ended the battle by possessing her teammate, Armageddon, only to use his telekinetic power to pop Logan’s claws in Cyclops’ chest. She did so with so much precision that Scott was stopped but not killed.

[edit] Shadow-X

New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Cyclops, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King. They are brought to Earth-616 as a result of M-Day. He was later beheaded by Sage.

[edit] Ultimate Cyclops

In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Scott is introduced as the strait-laced field leader of the X-Men. His parents died in a plane crash, and he is estranged from his older brother Alex, to whom he hasn't spoken since joining the X-Men. Before becoming part of Xavier's dream, Scott dated a young woman named Lorna Dane. Scott is unable to ask his crush Jean Grey on a date, and when she sleeps with Ultimate Wolverine, Scott leaves the X-Men and joins Magneto. Magneto considers Scott a potential heir and urges him to pursue a relationship with his daughter. However after seeing the lengths to which Magneto will go to fufill his dream, Scott betrays the Brotherhood.

During the Weapon X storyline, when agents of Weapon X are trying to take in members of the X-Men, Cyclops is the one of the last X-Man standing, causing serious problems for the ground forces attempting to lay siege to Xavier's Institute. He is taken out only after Nightcrawler teleported behind him and ambushed him with a frying pan.

When Jean dumps Wolverine and begins a relationship with Cyclops, the two men argue over whom Jean loves and fight. Xavier sends the two on a mission to the Savage Land to resolve the rivalry. Scott falls into a chasm and catches himself on a ledge. Wolverine catches him, but allows Scott to fall. Cyclops survives, but is severely injured and unable to stand. He survives by eating insects until he is found by a Brotherhood rescue group in search of mutant survivors of a previous Sentinel attack. Cyclops recovers just as the doctors recognize him and when one doctor asks "Don't you know who this is?!" Cyclops blasts the two of them and utters "Cyclops baby, don't wear it out." After recovering, Cyclops contacts the X-Men and proceeds to attack Magneto alone in his underwear until the X-Men arrive. After Magneto is defeated Cyclops and Wolverine seem poised for another fight, Cyclops, angered over Wolverine's betrayal, blasts Wolverine with his optic blasts after taking his visor off and kicks Wolverine off the team. Later, Cyclops finds Wolverine and offers him to return to the X-Men, believing that the school was set up to help mutants and someone like Wolverine needed the help that the school had to offer.

While trying to stop Alex from proceeding to the Triskelion to save Lorna Dane, he is hit with a tire iron. Alex claims Cyclops allowed him to do it, because he wants Lorna saved as much as he does.

A few months later, the X-Men are challenged by a new and powerful foe: Cable, who came from the future to kill Charles Xavier. After defeating the X-Men in the X-mansion and seriously injuring Kitty Pryde, Cable escapes to Finland with a kidnapped Jean. Scott and the Professor stayed in the mansion while the rest of the team travel to Europe with help of Bishop, another time-traveler who wishes to stop Cable. The X-Men engage Cable's bodyguards, the Six-Pack. Frustrated by being left behind, Cyclops confronts Xavier, who confesses to his pupil that he is in love with Jean. After this confession, both Cyclops and the Professor rush to Finland. A battle between Cyclops and Cable then occurs with neither able to gain an upper hand, until the Professor distracts Cable so that Cyclops can hit Cable in the neck with an optic blast. Cable then detonates some form of hand grenade, while Charles uses his telekinesis to get Cyclops out of the range of the explosion. After the explosion, all that remains is a skeleton that is believed to be the Professor, while Cable is nowhere to be found.

Cyclops, Storm, and Jean are left everything that Professor Xavier owned. Cyclops makes sure that the school will still exist, but since (according to him) Xavier's dream died with him, Cyclops has chosen to disband the X-Men and turn the mansion into just a school. When Bishop challenges Scott's decision, Cyclops tells him to form his own team of X-Men. Cyclops's age in the Ultimate Marvel continuity is 19 as of his first appearance. After Bishop and Storm leave the Institute to start a new team of X-Men, Cyclops takes the role as Headmaster. Since then, Xavier returned from the future revealing himself still alive and Xavier resumes his position of Headmaster in Ultimate X-Men #93. In this same issue, Jean manifested with the Phoenix and has since disappeared. Cyclops is once again a member of the X-Men.

[edit] What If?

In What If Mister Sinister formed the X-Men, Cyclops and Havok were raised both by Sinister who formed a team consisting of Cyclops, Havok, Sauron, Sabretooth and Madelyne Pryor (possessed by Malice). Believing the team to be heroes, Cyclops eventually came in conflict with the X-Men and Cyclops and the other team’s leader, Marvel Girl, instantly grew attracted to each other. Sensing that he was about to lose Scott, Sinister faked his death at the hands of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and asked Cyclops, with his “dying” words, to hold onto Sinister’s dream. Scott respected his surrogate father’s last wish and rejected Jean’s affection, but he and Havok joined the X-Men to secretly undermine them from within.

In What If Magneto and Professor X formed the X-Men Together, Cyclops alongside Sabretooth and Havok are seen as members of the Marauders and view a battle at the X-Mansion.

[edit] X-Men: Fairy Tales

Cyclops appears as the main character in the first and third short-story installations of a four-part X-Men: Fairy Tales limited series.

• Issue #1

This issue is based around the Japanese fairy tale of Momotarō, only with Cyclops being the boy born out of the peach. He is named Hitome, which can mean "one eye" in Japanese. However, his optic blasts come from only one eye, and are stopped by the pit of the peach he was born from.

Until he is around the age when he joined the X-Men in the regular comics, he lives with the old couple who found the large peach, working as a woodcutter, using his blasts to cut down trees instead of an axe.

When an old monk (Professor X) comes running through the woods, chased by thieves, Hitome comes to his aid. The old monk tells a tale of how he is gathering a group of special people like Hitome in order to rescue the Emperor's daughter (Jean Grey), from a group of demons (The Brotherhood of Mutants: Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Toad).

Along the way, Hitome and the monk gather a team of comrades, some by Hitome's cunning, others by his offers of friendship.

• Issue #3

This issue's story draws elements from Snow White and stories involving witches.

Scott is a poor blind tailor who discovers a beautiful red-haired woman (Jean Grey) sleeping in a glass coffin in the woods. He awakens her with a kiss and takes her back to the village. Logan, a local butcher, confronts Scott and warns him that the woman is more than she appears to be, and that she presents a threat now that she's awake.