Cyclops is a jerk.

[starwolf_oakley]

A VS. X makes it clear Cyclops is acting like a total jerk. And I wish it was Out Of Character for him, that some desperate hope Jean will come back is overriding his better judgement. Except it isn't. Cyclops being a jerk is standing operating procedure pretty much since DECIMATION started, if not before.



From the last issue of CHILDREN'S CRUSADE:



Good gravy, Scott.

Two pages from X-MEN: SCHISM #4:





Cyclops has two good points: Logan blows off every class he is assigned, and he was in a bar when the Hellfire Club attacked the Mutant History Museum (thus Idie killed the Club soldiers). Those are Scott's only points.

One panel from X-MEN: SCHISM #5:



Examples like when he ran out on Madelyn Pryor and his son also come to mind, but he realized at that very instant what an ass he was. He just didn't do anything to change it.

Comments

[md84]

In A vs. X, the issue isn't jerkiness so much as stupidity. And Cap and Cyclops were both being pretty out-of-character stupid, which is really the only way the crossover fight could happen in the first place. A clear case of Hanlon's Razor in action.

[salinea]

In A vs. X, the issue isn't jerkiness so much as stupidity.
This. Cyke is a jerk at the best of time, which doesn't make him not!right, especially not in Schism - and he's not wrong to be angry at Wanda for Decimation either. The ooc-ness here however is the Idiot Ball everyone is juggling with.