Cerebra's Files

Scott's power first manifested when his parents' plane was attacked by a Shi'ar spaceship. Scott and Alex were pushed out the hatch with the sole parachute, which caught on fire as it opened. Clutching Alex to him, Scott stared down at his doom, until his eyes began to blast red beams of energy, which softened the ground, cushioning the brothers' landing. Scott and Alex were taken to an orphanage run by Sinister, where they were secretly subjected to tests to determine their power level. Alex was fostered out, but Sinister had plans for Scott, having realized that Summers DNA would produce a mutant of incomparable power when combined with DNA from the Grey family. For much of his time in the orphanage, however, Scott was in a coma induced by Sinister's experiments, and Sinister himself, under many guises, tried to brainwash him. Sinister also discovered through trial and error that Scott's headaches could be lessened with ruby quartz glasses. At this point it's not clear that his powers were constantly active, and in fact, there were times early in his career when he used up all his optic energy.

Scott eventually must have run away and came to a city. While walking next to a construction site, his glasses slipped and he blasted a rope holding a heavy HVAC unit, and he was forced to blast the falling machine to save the people below, revealing his mutation to the public. Pursued by police, Scott ended up blasting them accidentally when they removed his glasses, and then was lured to a shack where another mutant, Jack Winters, lived. Winters wanted to use Scott to break into the nuclear power plant that had produced the accident causing his powers. Luckily, Professor Xavier was alerted to Scott's existence by the FBI, and used Cyberno, a predecessor of Cerebro to locate him. Xavier saved Scott from Winters, who had exposed himself to radiation to become the Living Diamond. Fortunately for Scott, Winters's transformation was unstable and he died.

With no other family, Scott was taken in by Professor Charles Xavier, and became Cyclops, the first X-Man and heir to Xavier's dream. From the start Cyclops was the X-Men's field leader, and worked with Xavier to recruit the rest of the male X-Men. When Jean Grey arrived, he soon fell in love with her, and eventually managed to tell her his feelings. When Professor X appeared to have been killed by Grotesk, Cyclops agreed with FBI Agent Fred Duncan that the X-Men were best off disbanded, and he became a radio newsman, allowing him to keep abreast of evil mutant activities and assemble his comrades at need. He and Jean became a steady couple during this period. Later, after Xavier's return, Cyclops remained deputy leader, until the X-Men were captured by Krakoa, and a rescue team led by his long-lost brother Gabriel (Vulcan) was killed trying to rescue him. Scott's energy had been depleted and he was hysterical over what had happened, so Professor X excised his memory of the rescue and led him to believe that he had been sent back by the island. Cyclops and Xavier had to recruit a new team of international mutants to rescue the rest of the X-Men. After defeating Krakoa, Cyclops stayed on as team leader, even thought the other original X-Men left. However, when his lover Jean, now the Phoenix, died on the Moon, Scott left the team in grief. (Actually, Phoenix was not really Jean, but a clone created by the Phoenix Force, which had succumbed to the dark side of human emotions and had become Dark Phoenix.)

He became a fisherman in Florida, and started a relationship with Alettys Forrester, the captain of his ship. Scott soon returned to the X-Men, however, and after being abducted by the Brood, considered joining his father Corsair, who had been captured, not killed, by the Shi'ar, aboard his ship, the Starjammer. But Scott remained on Earth, and went to visit his grandparents in Alaska. On that trip, he met and fell in love with Madelyne Pryor, a pilot who looked EXACTLY like Jean Grey. Actually, Maddie was Jean's clone, created by Sinister to fulfill his dark plan of creating a super-mutant. The two were married, and in time, had a baby boy, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Tensions were rising between the couple, and when Scott lost a duel for leadership of the team to Storm, they left for Alaska. Unfortunately, things didn't work out, and Scott left for NY to rejoin the members of the original X-Men and found the team called X-Factor. The fact that Jean Grey was found alive by the Fantastic Four only added to his confusion over his life and loves, and he remained in NY, almost forgetting about his wife and child. At some point, Scott was reunited with his son, probably around the time that Maddie was rejoining the X-Men in San Francisco. When the X-Men "died" in Dallas, Scott felt truly free to pursue Jean once again, but when Madelyne reappeared as the Goblin Queen, she stole her son back and swore vengeancce against her husband for abandoning her. X-Factor and the X-Men defeated Maddie and saved Nathan's life from being sacrificed to create a demonworld, and Scott's life returned to what passes for normal for an X-Man. Shortly thereafter, Scott discovered that Rachel (Phoenix II), whom he had met while still on the X-Men, was actually his and Jean's daughter from a possible future. Summers family life complicated itself even further when Apocalypse had his Dark Riders infect Nathan Christopher with a techno-organic virus. The virus would have killed the boy if Askani had not arrived from the future and offered to take him forward in time, where his life could be saved. Cyclops made one of the hardest decisions of his life by allowing his son to be taken away. Soon after, the members of X-Factor rejoined the X-Men, and in time, Scott and Jean were married (even though once before Jean had refused Scott's proposal). On their honeymoon the couple was assaulted by a telepathic wave that propelled their minds 2000 years into the future. There Scott became Slym, and with Redd (Jean) raised his son Nathan, the boy who would grow up to become Cable. The "Dayspring" (Summers) family also helped to defeat Apocalypse, the despot of the time, before being pulled back to the present. Scott was injured during Operation: Zero Tolerance when Bastion had a bomb implanted in his chest: only the medical expertise of Dr. Cecilia Reyes and some unique surgical tools saved his life.

Scott left the X-Men to recuperate, and with the recent telepathic shockwave released by the Shadow King crippling his wife's powers, remained away for some time afterwards, contemplating some new ideas about making Xavier's dream into their own. However, he and Jean returned to assist the Mannites against Death III. When that mission ended in the death of Wolverine, who was revealed to have been a Skrull impostor, Scott (and Jean) agreed to stay on to lead the team once more. After infiltrating the Skrull base and discovering that the real Logan was Death III, all the X-Men prepared for the final battle with Apocalypse. During the fight, Scott and the rest of those who had been revealed as The Twelve were captured by Apocalypse and hooked into a machine that would channel their awesome energies into hom, allowing him to absorb X-Man's body and ascend to the cosmic stage. When the Living Monolith broke free, Scott attacked Apocalypse, but his powers were drained. As the other X-Men fell around him, Scott, still powerless, saw only one option and pushed Nate out of Apocalypse's draining circuit. Unfortunately, since Scott shared most of the same genes, Apocalypse was able to absorb him instead into a new evil entity.

Although Apocalypse then used his new power to warp time and space to trick the X-Men into recreating the circuit, Jean felt Scott inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying him when they discovered the ruses. No one else was able to sense Scott, however, and he was presumed dead by most of his teammates. In reality, though, Scott was still alive, although his mind and body were slowly being corrupted from the inside out by Apocalypse. He was also amnesiac, and his eye beams had faded away.

Months later he was nearly assassinated by Gauntlet a former pawn of Apocalypse himself. Cyclops escaped and was found by Anais, a servant of Apocalypse who said she could help him. Before they could reach their final destination of Akkaba (Apocalypse's birthplace), however, they were found by Cable and Phoenix, who had been directed to Scott's location by Ozymandias. Eventually, Scott converted almost entirely to Apocalypse, with only a sliver of his own consciousness able to maintain control for a short period. he fought Cable, who could not kill his own father, but in the end, Phoenix grabbed Apocalypse through the psychic link she shared with Scott and ripped him out of her husband, afer which Cable stabbed the High Lord with his Psi-Mitar, dispersing him to the winds. Scott took some time off and then rejoined the X-Men after Magneto captured Professor X and declared war on humanity.

However, following Cassandra Nova's "outing" of Professor X and the subsequent public opening of the Institute, Scott found himself attracted to Emma Frost, who had also joined the faculty. Mostly at her urging, they began a telepathic affair in which she would at times pretend to be Jean and they would be intimate (in their heads) in the guise of "therapy." When Jean found out she took it hard, but Scott took it even harder, and mysteriously left the mansion after Emma was shattered by a bullet. Interestingly, Sage reported that the person who pulled a gun on her when she came to investigate was a male around 6 feet tall. Cyclops maintained his innocence (the attacker was really Xorn), but then left on a mission with Wolverine to infiltrate the Weapon Plus program, during which time he had trouble getting his powers to work. At the end of that mission, Xorn reveled himself to be Magneto IV and Cyclops helped lead a small band of X-Men against him.

When Magneto IV killed Jean, however, Scott's life was thrown into disarray, and he turned to Emma for support and love, a move that has alienated him from his comrades. Scott took over the Xavier Institute with Emma and became the faculty advisor for the Corsairs squad of students. He also leads a field team of X-Men who are back in costume and out to "astonish" the world with their abilities and good deeds. In a particularly heart-wrenching incident, the Phoenix resurrected Jean and came after Cyclops, hungering for the near-limitless power of his optic blasts. Eventually the Phoenix possessed Emma, and Scott locked himself into a containment chamber with her hoping to keep the Phoenix inside forever. However, Kid Omega broke the chamber, and Scott was forced to battle the Phoenix again. This time, Jean herself regained control of the Phoenix, thanks to telepathic projections of love from her husband and the rest of her teammates, and Cyclops lost Jean again as she ascended to other planes of existence to come to terms with herself.

Scott Summers was married to Emma Frost, and was a charter airline pilot. Just after Wolverine brought Layla Miller to wake Emma up to the true reality, Scott came home and was also awakened. Together with the other heroes, Scott went to Genosha to attack the House of M and force the world to return to normal.

Following M-Day, Cyclops was stunned to find Sentinels arriving at Xavier's, but quickly adapted to the new reality of mutantkind, opening the doors of the Institute as a sanctuary for all. This strained his relationship with Emma, who expelled all the ex-mutant students and staff over his objections, but Cyclops put his foot down and demanded a place for X-23, the female clone of Wolverine. He also demanded that she be trained as a "New X-Man" over Emma's objections.

Cyclops's world was further upset when a mysterious mutant attacked him, Wolverine and Marvel Girl and brought him and Rachel to a secret abandoned facility. Cyclops eventually discovered that the mutant was none other than his brother Gabriel, who had been a student of Moira's that Professor X had sent to rescue Scott from Krakoa, and who was thought to have been killed by the mutant island. Scott had witnessed the deaths of Gabriel (Vulcan) and his teammates, and Xavier had mind-wiped him to alleviate the psychic trauma of the event. Shaken to the core, Cyclops expelled the now-human Xavier from the Institute, though Charles never actually left. During the "Civil War" prompted by the passing of the SHRA, the X-Men remained officially neutral, but Cyclops and the other original X-Men decided to oppose the O*N*E and go after the 198 mutants who had escaped the Institute's "reservation." Cyclops was then remote controlled by Johnny Dee, who caused him to attack Bishop and the Sentinels who had followed the X-Men. Cyclops almost overloaded Bishop but eventually he was stopped before doing any permanent damage.

Back at the Mansion, all was not well, as Emma pushed Scott to acknowledge his darkest secret, that he chose long ago not to control his power, and Scott was left without his constantly-firing optic blasts, and appeared to be comatose. He soon awoke, found a gun and began shooting the Hellfire Club members who had infiltrated the mansion, having deduced them to be psychic manifestations of Emma's guilt plus Cassandra Nova's influences. After convincing the rest of his team of this, he managed to get Emma to stop Cassandra from re-emerging, whereupon Agent Brand kidnapped the X-Men to her starship to help save Earth from the angry Breakworlders, who were preparing to fire a planet-destroying missile at Earth. After nearly being killed by Danger and finding out that Emma truly loved him, Cyclops volunteered to pilot a solo suicide mission against the missile and its defending fleet of fighters. He was eventually hit and ejected into space, though it seems Emma had some plan to save his consciousness...*

*Note: The exact placement of this paragraph in the timeline is still uncertain.
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