Hey guys, question: I just finished reading AvX; so what's Cyclops status right now?? Last I saw him he was a prisoner of some sort to Cap, but I saw him free and with Magneto in some preview posted around here.
Also, in which point in time did he become such a.....Magneto?? He's such a sociopathic dukee in AvX...and I used to really like Summers as a kid
I haven't read the comics in years, you'll have to excuse me.
Polux
You can say Cyclops has been walking down this path ever since Scarlet Witch decimated the mutant population in
House of M/M-Day. In Whedon's
Astonishing X-Men he already started becoming more confident and less reliant on other people to define him, and by
Messiah Complex and the birth of the first mutant since M-Day he began showing his whatever-it-takes attitude by reforming X-Force to hunt down his son, Cable, who was hiding the baby. Then he began to herd mutants to San Francisco, promising them safety in the city of tolerance while he continued to use X-Force to proactively take out threats to mutantkind.
Soon in
Utopia the X-Men were forced to calm riots after the state proposed mutant birth control, and when Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers intervened Cyclops was forced to gather all the mutants who followed him and relocate them to the island of Utopia, essentially naming himself leader of the mutant race.
All the stress and responsibility continued to build as he continued to do anything and everything to ensure mutants would live on, including creating his "Extinction Team" (a team of X-Men including Magneto, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus, and Magik) who were there to protect humanity but also to warn them of the power mutants carry should they be threatened. And that's when the Phoenix finally returned to Earth in
AvX and Cyclops saw that as the answer to his prayers. That's where things really went south.
So after that event he was imprisoned for his crimes, only to be broken out by the remaining members of his Extinction Team soon after. Now he's continuing his mission of protecting mutants and is now at odds with the X-Men living at the Jean Grey School.
His story will be followed in the new Uncanny X-Men in February.
