The PF is too powerful is very lame excuse. In lots of runs Jean and Rachel as the Phoenix worked just fine. Some writers messed up making a crazy entity that possess everyone making them crazy, but it doesn't have to be like that.
You know, perhaps Marvel is using the same approach they have used in the past and present with other heroes. Examples: Falcon as Captain America, Jane as Thor, Amadeus Cho as Hulk. Perhaps they want to use OM Logan and Laura and Tyke. These changes in the status quo come and go. I don't mind having Scott and Logan getting a little rest, I just don't want them to vilify a character that is a hero to thousands of fans like myself.
I think it really depends on the author PF's power-level was shown very inconsistent , in general the PF is the oldest know entity in the MU and has the job to watch over the karma cycle of the (multi)universe. The problem with the PF is it can resurrect the dead which is a gamer breaker for the authors.
What you described is the Living Tribunal's role not the PF, the PF job has been death and Resurrection. When attached to a host it always brings out what's always been present in them. AvX only change they made was the P5 where it attached itself to 5 host who majority wise have no psionics to them except for Emma.
I don't think anyone is claiming that this rumor has any validity to it. Late yesterday, it was posted on Bleeding Cool with the disclaimer that it was unsubstantiated and 4chan is not always a reliable source. That said, Rich Johnson did point out that the rumored costume change for Dazzler is wrong. So that alone should put a dent in credibility to this rumor.
That said, I still think it is possible. Quentin Quire is one of the many X-men characters who is MIA. He hasn't been mentioned in any of the relaunched X-men titles. He hasn't really done much since the death of Wolverine. I think it's entirely possible that Wolverine's death affected him so greatly that he would cross a few major lines. And if Cyclops feels he has to take the blame for something another mutant did, he will. That would be perfectly in character for him.
For now, this is the only sort-of rumor we've got to work with now. More are sure to pop up over the next few months. But 4chan did spoil parts of Uncanny X-men #600 before it was released. So it is possible that something could leak. For something like this, I have a feeling it'll get leaked at some point.
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Thought I'd bump this thread after the events of Extraordinary X-men #2. It reveals something pretty striking about Cyclops' fate.
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According to Storm, Cyclops is dead. Not figuratively or anything like that. She says flat out that he's dead.
Now this clashes with the 4chan rumor. However, another part of that rumor ended up being true.
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We find out near the end of the issue that X-Haven is in fact located in Limbo, just as the rumor predicted. So that gives it the first shred of official credibility. However, it also said that Cyclops is alive and working secretly with the Uncanny X-men team. Now maybe this is a cover. Maybe Cyclops faked his death so that he could be a martyr or something, but that still wouldn't explain why everyone blames him for the current state of mutants. The rumor said that he's the one that exposed the truth about the Terrigen Mist. So maybe they just blame him for being the catalyst. Shooting the messenger, as it were. But the whole deal with the Void and what happened with O5 Jean seems a lot less likely now. Then again, the fact it got the location of X-Haven right is pretty telling.
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Way I saw it, Storm said that Dream died with whatever Cyclops did.