• By using his talent to visualize spatial geometry, Cyclops can use his optic beams to make a multiple reflection shot. He can strike up to eight targets in a single round if all of them are made of a reflective material (like metal), are within an area adjacent to him, and if he makes a successful Incredible Agility FEAT roll. The damage for this type of optic blast drops to Incredible.

The two boys were hospitalized for injuries they sustained during their landing, since their overburdened parachute had been unable to slow their decent safely enough. Scott himself was comatose for a year and was diagnosed as having brain damage. The only long lasting effect of the brain damage, however, was to the portion of his brain which would have enabled him to shutoff his optic blasts. Scott and Alex both suffered amnesia about the incident on the plane. Alex left the hospital in two weeks, was placed in an orphanage, and was soon adopted. He had little or no contact with Scott until years later, shortly before the emergence of his mutant powers as Havok. Scott remained comatose in the hospital for a year, and upon his release was sent to an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska.

As a teen, Summers began to develop severe headaches and eye strain, and was taken to an eye specialist in Washington, D.C. Through trial and error, the optometrist discovered that eyeglasses whose lenses were made of ruby quartz seemed to alleviate the boy’s vision problems. The optometrist suspected that Summers was a mutant, and reported him to the FBI. Summers was in a large city when his mutant metabolism reached a critical point and he unintentionally released an uncontrolled optic force blast for the first time, thus destroying a crane and causing a large object to fall toward a crowd below. Summers destroyed the falling object with another blast, saving the crowd, but the mob of onlookers was enraged. Summers fled by hopping aboard a moving freight train.

Reports of the incident involving Summers sent Professor Charles Xavier out of his self-imposed seclusion to Washington, D.C. Xavier set out to find Summers and, as a fellow mutant, help him. Summers, meanwhile, afraid to return to the orphanage, fell into an unwilling partnership with a superhumanly powerful mutant criminal named Jack Winters, alias Jack O’Diamonds, and later, the Living Diamond. Xavier found Summers and freed him from Winters’ domination. Xavier then asked Summers to become the first student in the “School for Gifted Youngsters” he was setting up to train young superhumanly powerful mutants in the uses of their powers These young mutants would also form a team called the X-Men who would use their powers to aid humanity. Summers accepted, and became the team’s leader, adopting the code name of Cyclops.

Cyclops led the X-Men for years during various changes in its membership. He finally stepped down as deputy leader and was succeeded by Storm. Summers has since married airplane pilot Madelyne Pryor and they have had a son. Recently, Cyclops joined with the other members of the original X-Men to found a new team, X-Factor.

Tormented by the constant proximity of Jean Grey, apparently resurrected from the dead once more, Cyclops’ relationship with his wife took a turn for the worse. Madelyne left with their son and all traces of her existence (birth certificate, piloting registry, etc.) were mysteriously eradicated, apparently by Mister Sinister of the Marauders.

With the apparent suicide of the Angel, X-Factor’s finances went into a state of disarray, thanks to the machinations of Cameron Hodge. The members of X-Factor have recently broken away from his manipulation and publicly declared their mutant status.