Although Cyclops is a complex and very interesting character in the comics, X-Men adaptations continually failed to make Scott Summers feel as cool as Marvel writers intended. While James Marsden and Tye Sheridan delivered some decent performances, the X-Men movies never recovered from placing Cyclops in an awkward love triangle with Wolverine and giving him one of the first film's most infamous lines.

That's why I'm happy to see more recent TV shows and games put some more respect on Cyclops' name. I highly recommend you go watch X-Men '97, play Marvel Cosmic Invasion's new DLC, and look out for Cyclops in Marvel Rivals and Avengers: Doomsday later this year. Once you do, you'll like Scott Summers a lot more.

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