Day 9: Least favorite male character: Cyclops

[flint_marko]

Cyclops falls in love with Madelyne Pryor and marries her.








They later have a son.

Then Jean returns, and Scott's out the door.




Later he marries Jean (the narrator is Xavier).






But once again, Scott can't stay faithful for long.














Never has one image summed up a character as much as this one from Todd Nauck's has.

Comments

[nickfury90]

Scott Summers is a very interesting character(at least during Morrison's run). I never thought I would say that about the douchebag from the X-men cartoons and the stubbly douchebag from the X-men movies, but I find him incredibly fascinating in New X-men. The way his one-dimensional battle mindset is played for "icy cold zen lunacy", the charmardie between him and Hank/Logan, becoming more and more cold towards Jean(even though he always loves her) and he tries to take a step out of the "boy scout" handle he's been struck with. Just like the line in the post above where Emma tells him to stop being such an old superhero, "But I've never been allowed to be anything else..."

Scott's visor and Emma's diamond form are perfect metaphors for who they are; flawed people who hold everything back so they won't get hurt. Scott/Emma were a very intersting couple for awhile until Emma lost all her wit and is now simply Scott's telepathic bitch. Take out the occasional "Darling" and you could just replace Jean in the role.

[slim-summer.livejournal.com]

Agreed, to be fair I am reading Astonishing for the real Emma. That being said you shouldn't blame Emma's lack of characterisation on Cyke when Fraction has to take a lot of the blame as well.