Marvel Comics/Cyclops

**Cyclops** (Scott Summers) is a mutant and one of the original X-Men. He has ascended from superhero field leader to a mutant revolutionary icon. He is the brother of Havok and Vulcan.

## Powers and Abilities

Cyclops is an Alpha mutant according to Apocalypse, while Nick Fury's intelligence classified him as power level 7.

**Optic Blasts:** Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a powerful beam of concussive, ruby-colored force from his eyes. His powers come from ambient energies (such as solar radiation, photons, and cosmic rays) that are absorbed and metabolized by his body into concussive blasts that are released from his eyes. The width of Cyclops' optic blasts seem 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 beam changes, thus acting as a valve to control his energy blasts. The height of Cyclops' blasts are controlled by his visor's adjustable slit. His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of four feet, has a force of about two pounds per square inch. His broadest beam, about 90 feet across by a distance of 50 feet, has a force of about ten pounds per square inch.

* **Spatial Awareness:** Cyclops possesses an uncanny sense of trigonometry that enhances his observation of objects around himself and the angles found between surfaces of these objects. He has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to cause his optic blasts to ricochet and/or reflect off said objects in a trajectory to his liking. This is commonly called a "banked shot" when applied to his talent. He has been observed causing his optic blasts 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 spatial awareness that enables him to perform these feats.
* **Genetic Immunity:** Cyclops is resistant to the effects of his own powers as well as those of his brothers due to their close genetics, a quirk of mutant genetics that is common among siblings.
* **Trajectory Manipulation (possibly):** When his younger self came to the future, this iteration of Cyclops displayed more direct control over his optic blasts than his elder counterpart. Cyclops may have the capacity to will his optic blasts to twist and curve in any given direction without the need for a solid surface to bounce his eye beams off of.

### Former Powers

**Phoenix Force Empowerment:** Cyclops was one of the five avatars of the Phoenix Force which granted him the great powers of the Phoenix. Although he only only displayed interstellar travel, he presumably should have had access to all of the typical powers of a Phoenix Force avatar.

* **Interstellar Travel:** He could fly unaided through the vacuum of space and cover interstellar distances faster than the speed of light.
* **Cosmic Pyrokinesis (presumably)**
* **Resurrection (presumably)**
* **Immortality (presumably)**
* **Temporal Manipulation (presumably)**
* **Telepathy (presumably)**
* **Telekinesis (presumably)**

**Gamma Transformation:** During the World War Hulks event, Cyclops had been exposed to the Cathexis Ray Generator which caused him to bulk up into a gamma mutate like numerous other heroes. Due to this, he gained incredulous amounts of bodily mass at the expensive of higher brain function.

* **Abnormal Physiology:** His physiology had been radically altered beyond the addition of excess bone, skin, and musculature density to his anatomical frame, as he boasted a head and scalp teaming with numerous eyes through which he could discharge multitudinous optic beams from.
	+ **Panoramic Vision:** In addition to this, he had a near-perfect 360 degree field of vision to see out of.
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Accelerated Regeneration**

**Black Vortex Empowerment:** After exposure to the power of the Black Vortex, Cyclops' cosmic potential was unleashed, vastly improving upon his previous abilities and bestowing several additional ones.

* **Anaerobic Sustenance:** Cyclops could survive in the vacuum of space unaided.
* **Flight:** He was able to fly at various speeds.

**Symbiote Bonding:** While out in space searching for his father, Cyclops and the rest of his teammates were bonded to Klyntar symbiotes which adapted to their unique powers. Cyclops' symbiote became able to form ruby quartz "eyes" anywhere on its body and fire concussive energy beams from them.

* **Energy Constructs:** He could also manifest energized constructs by channeling his optic energies, such as tendrils or focus crystals.