angelophile | Top Five Meme (Part 2) - Cyclops Badassery (Reply)

uncanny_rman requested my Top Five Most Badass Cyclops Moments.

In actual fact, I had great difficultly trimming it down to five and there's a few (Cyclops shooting a giant squid in the face, about a dozen times he flattened Logan) that didn't make the cut. But hopefully something for everyone here.

Counting down from 5...

5. Cyclops vs The Hellfire Club (Uncanny X-men #134)

With the X-men captured by the Hellfire Club, Jean under their control and Scott barely surviving an attack on the astral plain, bound and helpless, only Wolverine is still at large. So, of course, he single-handedly defeats the Hellfire Club and frees the X-men, right? Wrong. That'll be Scott.

4. Cyclops vs Black Tom and Juggernaut (Icons Cyclops #1)

From Brian K. Vaughan's miniseries, Scott seems positively chipper about kicking the butts of Black Tom Cassidy and the Unstoppable Juggernaut when attack him in Alaska. Poor old Cain really needs to find another adjective to describe himself, doesn't he?

3. Cyclops vs Ord (Astonishing X-men #23)

Perhaps the one thing I liked most about Joss Whedon's X-men - he didn't make Cyclops badass - he just understood that he was badass. As he proves against Ord as the supposedly powerless Scott reveals he's been conning the villain all along, blows a hole through a citadel and does it with enough accuracy to shoot off Wolverine's cuffs in the process. Bad. Ass.

2. Cylops vs Mr. Sinister (X-Factor #39)

Scott has lost his wife to the machinations of Mr. Sinister and the demon N'astirh. It is revealed that Sinister has been manipulating Scott his whole life and placed mental blocks on him accessing his full powers. After getting charged up by Havok, Scott sees Jean in Sinister's clutches and his response is an abject lesson in why you don't fuck with Scott Summers.

1. Cyclops vs … well, everyone (The oversized Uncanny X-men #175)

X-men come under attack from Mastermind who casts an illusion to make them believe that Dark Phoenix has returned and killed Scott. Scott pulls himself out of a coma and what follows is a lesson in epic badassery as Scott single-handedly takes on the entirety of the X-men team:

I disqualified this one because it wasn't 616, but for the record:

Cyclops vs Wolverine (Ultimate X-men #33)

Macho male posturing? Pass. Nuff said.