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Real name: Scott Summers Current Alias : Cyclops Aliases: Cyclops, Slim, Fearless Leader, One-Eye, Erik the Red, Slym Dayspring, Mutate 007, Apocalypse Identity: Known to certain government officials Alignment : Good Occupation: (current) Adventurer, (former) Student, radio announcer Former occupation: Subversive, second-in-command of Factor Three Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record Place of birth: Anchorage, Alaska Marital status: Widowed Known relatives: Philip Summers (paternal grandfather) , Deborah Summers (paternal grandmother) , Corsair (father, deceased) , Katherine Anne Summers (mother, deceased) , John Grey (father-in-law, deceased) , Elaine Grey (mother-in-law, deceased) , Sara Grey-Bailey (sister-in-law, deceased) , Havok (brother) , Vulcan (brother) , Goblyn Queen (wife's clone/first wife/sister-in-law, deceased) , Jean Grey (second wife, deceased ) , Scotty Summers (nephew) , Gailyn Bailey (niece, deceased) , Joey Bailey (nephew, deceased) , Marvel Girl (daughter) , Cable (son) , Stryfe (son's clone) , Genesis (grandson, deceased) Group affiliation: (current) X-Men, Corsairs, formerly X-Factor, Factor Three, The Twelve Universe : Marvel Universe Earth 616 Base of operations: Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York, formerly X-Factor Complex, Manhattan First appearance: X-MEN (first series) #1
Characteristics Gender : Male Height: 6 Ft. 3 in. Weight: 195 lbs Eyes: Brown (glow, red) Hair: Brown Unusual Features : (Wears special sunglasses or visor to contain his mutant power) Legal Status: United States citizen with no criminal record Citizenship : United States of America (No Criminal Record) Marital Status: Widowed Occupation : Adventurer, Chairman & principal stockholder of Worthington Industries, Multi-Millionaire, Heir, former terrorist Education : College degree from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Enhancement : Scott is a mutant, born with his amazing abilities that developed during puberty. Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska First Appearance: X-Men #1 (September, 1963)
Origin : Uncanny X-Men #156 (1982), Classic X-Men #41-42 (1989), X-Men #39-42 (1967-1968) Significant Issues : F irst joined X-Men (X-Men #1, 1963); appointed deputy leader (X-Men #7, 1964); began romance with Jean Grey (X-Men #32, 1967); trained new X-Men (X-Men #94, 1975); believed Jean dead, left X-Men (X-Men #138, 1980); reunited with father (Uncanny X-Men #154, 1982); married Madelyne (Uncanny X-Men #175, 1983); Nathan born (Uncanny X-Men #201, 1986); founded X-Factor (X-Factor #1, 1986); Nathan taken to future (X-Factor #68, 1991); married Jean (X-Men #30, 1994); raised Nathan in future (Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4, 1994); merged with Apocalypse (Uncanny X-Men #377/X-Men #97, 2000); freed from Apocalypse (X-Men: The Search For Cyclops #1-4, 2000-2001); began psychic affair with Emma (New X-Men #128, 2002); became co-headmaster of School (Astonishing X-Men #1, 2004)
Origin : Scott Summers was the older of the two sons of Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot in the U. S. Air Force. When Scott was a child, Major Summers flew himself, his wife Katherine, and his sons Scott and Alex back from a vacation in his vintage private plane. The plane was attacked and set ablaze by a scout ship from the alien Shi'ar Empire. Katherine pushed Scott and Alex out the plane door with the only available parachute. The parachute was unable to slow their fall sufficiently to prevent Scott from suffering a head injury on landing. (The injury damaged the part of Scott's brain that would have enabled him to control his optic blasts.)
With their parents presumed dead, the authorities separated the two boys. Alex was adopted, but Scott remained comatose in a hospital for a year. On recovering, he was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska that was secretly controlled by his future enemy, the evil geneticist Mr. Sinister. As a teenager, Scott came into the foster care of Jack Winters, a mutant criminaly known as the Jack O'Diamonds. After Scott began to suffer from severe headaches he was sent to a specialist who discovered that lenses made of ruby quartz corrected the problem. Soon after, Scott's mutant power first erupted from his eyes as an uncontrollable blast of optic force. The blast demolished a crane, causing it to drop its payload toward a terrified crowd. Scott saved lives by obliterating the object with another blast, but the bystanders believed that he had tried to kill them and rallied into an angry mob. Scott fled, escaping on a freight train. Winters sought to use Scott's newfound talent in his crimes, and physically abused the young boy when he initially refused. However, Scott's display of power had attracted the attention of the mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier, who teamed up with F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan in their mutual attempt to find Scott. Scott was rescued from Winters' clutches and was enlisted by Xavier as the first member of the X-Men, a team of young mutants who trained to use their powers in the fight for human/mutant equality.
Strength Level: Normal human male who engages in intensive regular exercise. Known Superhuman Powers: Powers Cyclops is a Beta mutant. Optic Blast: Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of concussive, ruby-colored force from his eyes. Cyclops's eyes are no longer the complex organic jelly that utilizes the visible spectrum of light to see the world around it. Instead, they are inter-dimensional apertures between this universe and another, non-Einsteinian universe, where physical laws as we know them do not pertain. This non-Einsteinian universe is filled with particles that resemble photons, yet they interact with this universe's particles by transferring kinetic energy in the form of gravitons (the particle of gravitation). These particles generate great, directional concussive force when they interact with the objects of this universe. Cyclops's mind has a particular psionic field that is attuned to the forces that maintain the apertures that have taken the place of his eyes. Because his mind's psionic field envelops his body, it automatically shunts the other-dimensional particles back into their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membrane of his eyelids is sufficient to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops's eyeglasses and visor is resonant to his minds' psionic field and is similarly protected.
The width of Cyclops's eye-blast seems to be focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. As Cyclops focuses, the size of the aperture changes and thus act as a valve to control the flow of particles and beam's relative power. The height of Cyclops's eye-blast is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of 4 feet has a force of about 2 pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch. His most powerful eye-blast is a beam 4 feet across which, at a distance of 50 feet, has a force of 500 pounds per square inch. The maximum angular measurement of Cyclops's eye-blast is equivalent to a wide-angle 35mm camera lens field of view (90 degrees measured diagonally, or the angle subtended by holding this magazine's pages spread open, upright at 9.5 inches from your eyes). The minimum angular measurement is equivalent to the angle that the thickness of a pencil would subtend at 4 feet (3.5 degrees, about a quarter of an inch viewed at 4 feet). The beam's effective range is about 2,000 feet, at which point a 1-inch beam has spread out to 10 feet square, and then has a pressure of .38 pounds per square inch. Cyclops's maximum force is sufficient to tip over a filled 5,000 gallon tank at a distance of 20 feet, or puncture a 1-inch carbon-steel plate at a distance of 2 feet. The extra dimensional supply of energy for Cyclops's eye-blast is practically infinite. Thus, so long as Cyclops's psionic field is active (which is constant), there is the potential to emit energy. The only limit to the eye-blast is the mental fatigue of focusing constantly. After about 15 minute of constant usage, the psionic field subsides and allows only a slight leakage of energy to pass through the aperture. Cyclops's metabolism will recover sufficiently for him to continue in about an additional 15 minutes. The maximum force of Cyclops' optic blasts are unknown, but a commonly given description is that he can "punch holes through mountains", and he has been shown to rupture a half-inch thick carbon steel plate. During a particular battle, Scott says that he hit Cain Marko (a.k.a. the Juggernaut) with enough power to split a small planet, though he may have been indulging in hyperbole. In the Age of Apocalypse dimension, his beams can cut through adamantium a previously indestructible metal. In the mainstream continuity of the Marvel Universe, it has also been implied that Cyclops only utilizes a fraction of the energies at his disposal. During the Civil War: X-Men story arc, Cyclops is controlled by another mutant to use his powers at their full magnitude. When directed at the energy-absorbing mutant Bishop, Cyclops was able to overload Bishop's powers in a matter of seconds, When Iron-man measured cyclops's power whilst he was powering bishop, he found the energy output was well over 2 giga-watt, larger than a large nuclear reactor. It is also stated that Cyclops does not use his powers at such a level due to the preoccupation he has regarding his control (or lack thereof) of his abilities. Cyclops is listed at IGN.com as a target on Hulk's "Hit List" of characters. [1] He is seen fighting The Hulk in World War Hulk: X-Men #1 and in issue #2, he uses a full beam blast to stop the Hulk, refusing to let the Hulk take Professor Xavier. While it peels off some of the Hulk's skin, he was able to walk towards Cyclops and clench his entire face, effectively containing the blast.
Spatial Awareness: Cyclops seems to possess an uncanny sense of trigonometry, in this sense used to describe his observation of objects around himself and the angles found between surfaces of these objects. Cyclops has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to cause his optic blasts to ricochet and/or reflect off those objects in a trajectory to his liking. This is commonly called a "banked shot" when applied to this talent. Cyclops has been observed causing beams to reflect from over a dozen surfaces in the course of one blast, and still hit his intended target accurately. It is his sense of superhumanly enhanced spatial awareness that allows him to perform these feats as well. Energy Resistance: Cyclops is resistant to the effects of his own powers. This is linked to him being capable of withstanding his brother's ability with no ill effects. This is a result of their close genetics, a quirk of mutant genetics that is common among siblings.
Abilities : Skills : Expert Pilot: Cyclops is an expert pilot of fixed-wing aircraft, a skill he appears to have inherited from his father. It has also been implied that his trigonometric sense improves his abilities in the air. Master Strategist and Tactician: Cyclops has spent most of his superhero career as the leader of either the X-Men or X-Factor and has developed exceptional leadership skills. It is notable that regardless of their general attitude towards him, all of the X-Men tend to obey his orders in battle - because they know that he's usually right. Master Martial Artist: Cyclops also has extensive training in martial arts and unarmed combat, holding black belts in judo and aikido. His level of skill is sufficient to defeat six normal men with his eyes closed and he has in the past held his own against such dangerous enemies as Wolverine and Ghost Rider. Weaknesses : Regulation Disability: Due to psychological trauma and physical injury at a young age Cyclops is unable to control his optic blasts. In connection his eyes have become more reliant on the ruby quartz he uses rather then affecting change to the injury. Genetic Flaw: Cyclops is not immune to Vulcan's powers like he is to Havok's.
Cyclops's Visor: The mask Scott wears to prevent random discharge is lined with powdered ruby quartz crystal. It incorporates two longitudinally mounted flat lenses which can lever inward providing a constantly variable exit slot of 0 inches to .79 inches in height and a constant width of 5.7 inches. The inverted clamshell mechanism is operated by a twin system of miniature electrical motors. As a safety factor there is a constant positive closing pressure provided by springs. The mask itself is made of high-impact plastic. There is an overriding finger-operated control mechanism on either side of the mask, and normal operation is through a flat micro-switch installed in the thumb of either glove. A separate pair of lenses were also designed for Scott to use while sleeping. Transportation: X-Men Blackbird, formerly X-Men Stratojet, Sentinel Air Transport and X-Factor Plane Weapons: When Scott used the disguise of Erik the Red, he was able to project his optic blasts through its gloves
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