Scott Summers: Cyclops Appreciation 2019

[ermac]

Cyclops owns the x-men's Fox News?

lol

[AHRNIHAL]

Cyclops owns the x-men's Fox News?

lol

Xavier owns it.

Plus He's naming them after different mutants to avoid suspicion.

[phoenixzero23]

Oh, right
Thank you.

[sungila]

It's frustratingly expatriating to explain to causal X-Men fans why Scott is not at all and never could be and it makes me kinda mad even to say it...NO SCOTT IS NOT "A" TOM BRADY!!!

Mostly and a lot because I don't even want to know about or talk Tom Brady, NFL or already gets me all upset even...no I don't...but it happens a lot that this happens and sometimes even in a way that a guy usually wants to be all into Cyclops...but actually...isn't!!! You know?!

I say this because I had to do this...and got way too, emotional I guess...which made me feel kind of defensive and aggressive...like being possessed by a...I felt like pointing a finger at Captain America and saying "don't you dare" and him being all like..."what did I do?"



and just storming away

grumbling "oh, you know"

and now I feel all gross about it

because they don't know

it's a Cyclopsian or Scott-esque condition...in a Kafka way.

"not, everyone can carry the weight of the world...talk about the passion"

[Glio]

It can be a nod to when Scott was a radio host.

[Neocide]

That is one of the dumbest comparisons.

Maybe it has to do with his looks?


Tom brady is only a quarterback. Not a radio persona.

[AHRNIHAL]

Did Scott interact with greek gods of MU?
Someone codenamed Cyclops should have a great dynamics with the greek gods.

[Ulfhammer]

This thread though. I come back and the inmates are running the asylum. You'll had one job. ONE JOB.

[Londo Bellian]

It can be a nod to when Scott was a radio host.

Why were day jobs done away with? Are they really dinosaur-outdated relics when it comes to telling superhero stories?

Take Black Widow. In the first "Thunderbolts" story post-Onslaught, reporters still referred to her as Madam Natasha the trendsetter (way before "influencer" became a thing), not the Agent of SHIELD.

I felt like something was lost when many supers simply stopped even going through the motions of a mundane life outside of super activities.

Even Clark is "trying" to retain his job despite outing himself as Superman over in the Distinguished Competitoin.

[Glio]

Why were day jobs done away with? Are they really dinosaur-outdated relics when it comes to telling superhero stories?

Take Black Widow. In the first "Thunderbolts" story post-Onslaught, reporters still referred to her as Madam Natasha the trendsetter (way before "influencer" became a thing), not the Agent of SHIELD.

I felt like something was lost when many supers simply stopped even going through the motions of a mundane life outside of super activities.

Normally the jobs of the superheroes served to give plausible reasons for the characters to find plots. Like, Clark Kent and Peter Parker are on the stage of a story and coincidentally need Superman and Spiderman, Matt Murdock finds a legal problem that only Daredevil can solve, all that.

For example Jane Foster (Valkyrie) works as a medical examiner and thus finds plots that revolve around the dead.

For most mutants this is not necessary. People go for them because they are mutants, there is no need to add more controversial reasons for Scott to be in a place where Cyclops is needed.

[AHRNIHAL]

This thread though. I come back and the inmates are running the asylum. You'll had one job. ONE JOB.

What happened?

[Sutekh]

Why were day jobs done away with? Are they really dinosaur-outdated relics when it comes to telling superhero stories?

I vaguely recall Scott acting as a pilot, briefly, right around the time he was dating Lee Forrester, if I remember correctly.

It is interesting that the more removed the X-Men get from 'the real world' including jobs and human friends and family and whatnot, at first self-segregating at the mansion and only really interacting with other mutants, other super-heroes, and the occasional human supremacist whackjob, and now even further removed on some island, it gets kind of weird, narratively, IMO, almost incestuous and self-referential.

I wonder what ever happened to Scott's grandparents.

[FUBAR007]

I vaguely recall Scott acting as a pilot, briefly, right around the time he was dating Lee Forrester, if I remember correctly.

Scott worked on Lee's fishing boat in Florida. He became a cargo pilot in Alaska after he hooked up with Madelyne.

It is interesting that the more removed the X-Men get from 'the real world' including jobs and human friends and family and whatnot, at first self-segregating at the mansion and only really interacting with other mutants, other super-heroes, and the occasional human supremacist whackjob, and now even further removed on some island, it gets kind of weird, narratively, IMO, almost incestuous and self-referential.

Hickman's Krakoa setup is just the last stage of the X-Men's transformation into the Inhumans. Contemporary Marvel is deeply invested in the concept of an isolated nation-state of superhumans setting themselves apart from humanity.

I wonder what ever happened to Scott's grandparents.

They sold their freight airline (unknowingly) to Sinister and went on a world cruise in the early Simonson X-Factor days. They turned up in the Nicieza X-Men run a couple of times, the last time being when Adam X saved Philip from a plane crash.

I don't know that they've appeared since.

[AHRNIHAL]

So, Scott's grandparents died off-panel. Because they should've appeared in X-men #1 if they're alive.

And don't think Scott will have much appearance in Cable solo written by duggan. It's have logan on cover for god's sake.

[Glio]

Maybe they just weren't invited to that dinner. If they are very old it can be very hard for them the deaths and resurrections so abrupt in the family.