Originally Posted by
Omega Alpha
Considering how Hickman has wrote him before, the fact that his favorite characters are Emma and Magneto, and his other work so far, I STRONGLY doubt that.
You're wrong. As we said many times, no one would care if Scott simply said "we don't need an aggressive approach anymore" or something in that sense, or simply didn't address anything anymore. No one complained when he told Wolverine to shut down X-force, for example. The problem is that Marvel wants us to say Cyclops was wrong for reasons that don't make sense. The "somebody got angry or embarrassed that most people sided with Cyclops and the X-men in AvX" theory still looks likely to me, specially after the "Cyclops is the new Hitler" bullshit.
What we have so far about Cyclops and the X-books as a whole:
1) The X-books were unquestionably in a dire state and needed a shake-up, since the classic approach to the books wasn't working, so Marvel signs the biggest name they could realistically get (Morrison) and told him to go nuts (to a point, later he quit because of problems with editorial);
2) Among other things, we saw an explosion of the mutant population, and Cyclops transitioning from a more traditional view to life and his marriage to Jean to a new role and a new relationship with Emma, who also transitioned from side player in the X-franchise to X-man, then co-headmistress and in love with Scott;
3) After Morrison left in part due to problems with editorial, Marvel signed Whedon to a more classic book, but adopting elements from Morrison, and pretty much completed the transition of Scott to a more hardened character and fully in love with Emma, who also let go of the ghosts of her past and fully a part of the team;
4) Then, Quesada decided "there was too much mutants" and nearly destroyed mutantkind;
5) After a period of not knowing what to do, Marvel ran with the logical consequences of the idea- mutantkind's enemies would be emboldened and more aggressive than ever and the X-men's classic approach wouldn't work to stop them, needing a new X-force to deal with the threats;
6) As a logical consequence, the X-men also had to try something different- not just X-force, but abandoning the mansion, moving to a new place, trying to become more intertwined with mankind. The SF era saw the X-men closer to Xavier's dream than any other time.
7) As a consequence of the US being essentially controlled by a villainous mad man, the X-men ended in conflict with the US government, and ended up being forced to go a safe haven, though, after Osborn was defeated, the X-men were still in connection with the local government in SF.
8) After the Purifiers were defeated, Cyclops disbanded X-force, because it wasn't needed anymore- but Wolverine decided to keep going anyway.
So far so good, but then, for reasons that surely had nothing to do with changing editors and writers and childhood nostalgia, Marvel decided "No, we need to go back to the classic approach of the mansion and Xavier vs Magneto, and Wolverine has to be the Xavier, meaning Cyclops is Magneto" and decided to force the characters in that positions, even though it made no sense, and then got shocked that most fans didn't like that and sided with Cyclops.
As if it wasn't enough, in a move that surely had nothing to do with the Avengers sales beginning to slip as Bendis' run waned, Marvel decided the Avengers need to get in the end of the Messiah plot, with the X-men now cast as the villains, especially Cyclops, by ignoring the entire history of the Phoenix and having Scott portrayed as nuts for thinking Hope could use the Phoenix to repower mutantkind. The story ends with...Hope using the Phoenix to repower mutantkind, while Cyclops gets to be the host the Phoenix after Tony Stark shot it, without him asking for it, and is treated as a villain because he snapped after being attacked constantly while he tried to make the world a better place.
After him spending quite some time as a fugitive and being scorned by most of the X-men, while Wolverine, who tried to murder a 16 year old girl and ran a death squad that in it's first mission murdered a child, is as a big hero, he ends Uncanny with a MLK style march and a more pacifistic approach, while in Time Runs Out we see him as leader of a mutant nation.
Then comes post-SW and Cyclops is portrayed as the new Hitler for a year, for reasons no one tells us, and murdered off-panel. But we're supposed to be OK since in the end, they decide to throw Emma under the bus instead.
After that, they tried yet again a classic approach, even having the flagship with the exact same cast as X-men in 1985, even copying the style of dialogue- it's a complete disaster, and Marvel is forced to sign the biggest name they can realistically get (Hickman) to introduce drastic changes. But in the meantime, rather than acknowledge their mistakes or, at least, simply not address the issue, we're still stuck with the same "Cyclops was wrong" bullshit, but without giving us a specific reason so we can understand and agree or disagree, and looks like it will continue, while people like Logan and Bishop are supposed to be heroes (but not Emma, who was never really a X-man nor a hero)
Basically, Marvel's approach to the X-men and Cyclops seems like a mix of Gaslight and Groundhog Day. They introduce big changes and character development, then new editors come along, but since the new ideas don't fit their childhood nostalgia vision of how the X-men are supposed to be, we're expected to see everything that came before as bad and in need to be destroyed; this results in bad stories and the fans getting angry or indifferent, which results in poor sales, which results in a new editor coming in to try a "back to basics" approach, and then a new big name to try to save the franchise.
Mark my words- ater Hickman leaves, Marvel will probably go to the same cycle, until the next big writer is forced to save the franchise again 15 years after Hickman leaves.