Place Of Birth: Anchorage, Alasksa
Marital Status: Married
Group Affiliation: New X-men (leader), (former) X-Men (leader), X-Factor (leader)
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: brown (glow red)
Hair: Brown
Fighting Skills: Extensive training in hand to hand combat
Known Superhuman Powers: Abillity to project a beam of concussive force from his eyes
Limitations: Due to a brain injory Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blast at will and must therefore where a ruby quartz lense over his eyes that block the beams.
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 (see Mister Sinister; Pryor, Madelyne).
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 (see Apocalypse). 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 (see Askani Clan).
After Professor Xavier returned from a long sojourn in
space with the Starjammers, Cyclops and the other
X-Factor members rejoined the X-Men (see
Starjammers). Ever since then Cyclops has remained with
the X-Men, sharing deputy leadership with Storm (see
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 (see
Mother Askani). There, as Slym and Redd, they spent
years raising young Nathan into his early adolescence
(see Slym, Redd). 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 then went on leave from the X-Men
and resided in Alaska. Scott had planed to retier, and start a family but when the events of the twelve, came into play, he returned to fight along side the twelve. In order to save the world from Apocalypse, Scott sacraficed himself by bonding himself with Apocalypse, and "died" for his teamamtes.
Recently Scott's son Cable and his wife jean succeded in seperating him from the Apocolypse entity, this however left him a very changed man. Since then Scott has returned to the X-Men and taken over leadership duites once again.
Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U. S. Air
Force. When Scott was a child, Major Summers flew
himself, his wife Katherine, and his sons Scott and Alex
back from a vacation in his vintage private plane. 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 sufficiently to
prevent Scott from suffering a head injury on landing.
(The injury damaged the part of Scott's brain that would
have enabled him to control his 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
dead. (Actually, they were taken prisoner by the Shi'ar;
Katharine soon died but Christopher later became
Corsair, leader of the Starjammers, a band of interstellar
adventurers.)
On recovering, Scott 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 blast that demolished a crane, causing it to drop a huge object towards a terrified rowd. 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.