Originally Posted by
AROSWELL
The thing about Scotty's costumes is that it represents his mindset and evolution as a character. While the yellow color represents his naivety, the color blue represents his loyalty to the X-Men and their cause. As time goes on, the amount of yellow in his costumes slowly diminishes, representing his growth as a character and after his merger with Apocalypse and parting with his wife, Jean Grey for the very last time, which should've stayed permanent, he completely abandons his gold visor to the silver one, representing his maturity and the small amount of gold tells us that he has more to learn. At the same time, his post-merger suits have a darker tone, reminding us that he is no longer the merciful man who considers murder and sacrifices as his last options. His new confident, outspoken and ruthless nature coupling with his calm and collected mentality makes him one of the dangerous beings to deal with. As for the black costumes from Eve of Destruction, Leader of Utopia, Phoenix Five, Revolutionary Era tells us that he is more independent and he is not just exclusive to the X Men and the Dream, but he is there for everyone.
Finally, the red color tells us that he succumbed to his powers and he had lost control over them whilst the white defines him embracing a larger than life role, which he also tells us by replacing his new black visor with a silver visor. The new Cyclops costume consists of a black wetsuit, representing his new allegiance to all of mutant-kind, while the blue lines remind us that him being an X Man, even if he is going to be there for everyone and the silver visor tells us that he is more mature and living a larger than life role. As such, him wearing a new costume is the same as telling us what his new mentality and approaches are going to be. Since he wore the second X-Factor costume, his approaches will be similar to him trying to imitate Captain America, and it was also from an era where he fails miserably from time and time again. So, Hickman literally told us that something bad is going to happen to this guy by making him wear the X-Factor costume with the gold visor. I just hope that the Captain Commander in Comatose returns with complete control over his blasts and has new things to offer since getting hit on the head is how he lost control over his powers (plus his current behavior tells us that he had overcome his psychological trauma).