Real Name: Scott Summers

Height: 6' 3"

Weight: 195 lbs

Eyes: Brown, glowing red when using powers

Hair: Brown

Distinguishing Features: None

Known Aliases: Slim, Formerl Slym Dayspring, Mutate #007, Eric The Red

Identity: Publicily Known

Occupation: Co-headmaster of Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, adventurer, former student, radio announcer

Teaches: Elective Leadership and Tactics

Faculty Advisor: Corsairs Squad

Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska

Citizenship: United States of America with no criminal record

Maritial Status: Widowed (Jean Grey-Summers)

Known Relatives: Phillip Summers (grandfather), Deborah Summers (grandmother), Christopher Summers (Corsair, father), Katherine Ann Summers (mother, deceased), Alexander Sumers (Havok, brother), Jack Winters (Jack O'Diamonds, former foster father), Jean Grey-Summers (Phoenix, wife, desceased), Madelyn Pryor-Summers (ex-wife, deceased), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable, son), John Grey (father-in-law), Elaine Grey (mother-in-law), Sarah Grey-Bailey (sister-in-law, deceased), Aliya Jenskot (daughter-in-law, deceased), Tyler Dayspring (Genesis, grandson, deceased), Stryfe (clone son, deceased), Rachel Summers (Marvel Girl, alternate timeline daughter)

Group Affiliation: X-Men, formerly Astonishing X-Men, X-Factor

Education: College degree from Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, post graduate courses.

Strength Level: Cyclops possesses the normal human strengthof a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.

Superhuman Powers: Cyclops possesses the mutant ability to project a beam of heatless, ruby colored concussive force from his eyes, which act as interdimensional apertures between this universe and another. Cyclops's body constantly absorbs abient energy, such as sunlight, from his enviroment into his body's cells, which allows him to open the apertures. Cyclops's mind generates a psionic field that is atuned to the forces that maintain the apertures. Because this field envelopes his body, it automatically shunts the otherdimensional particles back ino their point of origin when they collide with his body. Thus, his body is protected from the effects of the particles, and even the thin membranes of his eyelids are sufficient enough to block the emission of energy. The synthetic ruby quartz crystal used to fashion the lenses of Cyclops's eyewear is resonant to his mind's psionic field and is similarly protected.

The width of Cyclops's optic blast is focused by his mind's psionic field with the same autonomic function that regulated his original eyes' ability to focus. Cyclops focuses, the size of the aperture changes and thus acts as a valve to control the flow of particles and the beam's realtive power. The height of Cyclops's optic blast is controlled by his visors adjustable slit. The beam's effective range is about 2,000 feet.

Special Limitations: Due to a head injury, Cyclops is unable to shut off his optic blast at will and must therefor wear ruby quartz lenses to block the beams.

Other Accessories: The mask Cyclops wears to prevent random discharge is lined with powdered ruby quartz crystal. It incorporates two longitudinally mounted flat lenses that can level inward providing a constantly variable exit slot. The inverted clamshell mechanism is operated by a twin system of minature electrical motors. As a safety factor, there is a constant positive closing pressure provided by springs. The mask itself is made of high impact cycolac plastic. There is an overiding finger-operated control mechanism on either side of the mask and normal operation is through a flat micro-switch installed in the thumb of either glove.

History: Scott Summers was the first of two sons born to Major Christopher Summers, a test pilot or the U.S. Air Force, and his wife, Katherine. Christopher was flying his family home from vacation when a spacecraft from the interstellar Shi'ar Empire attacked their plane. To save their lives, Katherine pushed Scott and his brother, Alex, out of the plane with the only available parachute. Scott suffered a head injury upon landing, thus forever preventing him from controling his mutant power by himself.

With their parents presumed dead, the authorities seperated the two boys. Alex was adopted, but Scott remained comatose in a hospital for a year. On recovering, he was placed in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska that was secretly controlled by his future enemy, the evil genenticist, Mr. Sinister.

As a teenager, Scott came into the foster care of Jack Winter, a mutant criminal known as the Jack O'Diamonds. After Scott began to suffer from severe headaches he was sent to a specialist, who discovered that lenses made of ruby quartz corrected the problem. Soon after, Scott's mutant power first erupted from his eyes as an uncontrolable blast of optic force. The blast demolished a crane, causing it to drop it's payload toward a terrifie crowd. Scott saved lives by obliterating the object with another blast, but the bystanders believed that he tried to kill them and rallied into an angry mob. Scott fled, escaping on a freight train.

Winters sought to use Scott's newfound talents in his crimes, and physically abused the young boy when he initially refused. However, Scott's display of power attracted the attention of the mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier, who teamed up with the F.B.I. agent Fred Duncan in their mutual attempt to find Scott. Xavier rescued Scott from Winter's clutches and enlisted him as the first member of the X-Men, a team of young mutants who trained to use their powers in the fight for human/mutant equality.

As Cyclops, Scott became deputy leadr of the X-Men, and while he was a natural field general his social skills were lacking. Scott had fallen in love with his teamate Jean Grey, but his reserved demeanor prevented him from expressing his feelings for her for years. When Xavier's other original reruits left the fold following an encounter with the sentient island-being Krakoa, Cyclops stayed on as leader of the new team.

Shortly thereafter, the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force took Jean's place. When it committed suicide, Scott believed the love of his life had died and he left the X-Men. During his time away from the team, Scott met fishing boat captain Lee Forrester, who helped him work through his grief. Scott eventually returned to the X-Men whereupn he met Madelyne Pryor, a woman who was a clone of Jean created by Sinister, Scott fell in love with her and they were soon married. Madelyne fell pregnant and bore Scott a son they named Nathan Christopher.

When the real Jean emerged from suspended animation , Scott abandoned his wife and son and rejoined the original X-Men in establishing a new team, X-Factor. During a demonic invasion of New York City, X-Factor, and the X-Men fought against a superpowered and insane Madelyne. The invasion was thwarted after Madelyne perished in combat with Jean.

Later, the warlord named Apocalypse infected Nathan with a techno-organic virus. To save his son's life, Scott had to allow a member of the Clan Askani to transport Nathan two millennia into the future, where it had been foreseen that he would deliver the world from Apocalypse's clutches. X-Factor disbanded soon after and it's members returned to the ranks of the X-Men. Scott and his long-time love Jean were married, and while on their honeymoon their spirits were taken into the timestream by the Clan Askani's matriarch. Arriving in the future, they inhabited new bodies, and raised Nathan for twelve years. When they returned to their own time and bodies, Nathan remained in the future and ultimately matured into his time's greatest hero, Cable.

Following Xavier's arrest for crimes committed as the evil psionic entity Onslaught, Scott assumed the role of leadership of the X-Men once more. Soon after, the government sponsored mutant-hunting operation known as "Zero Tolerance" took effect, and the villainous Bastion captured the X-Men. In his attempt to destroy mutantkind, Bastion placed a nanotech bomb inside Scott's body. The X-Men escaped, and the mutant doctor named Cecilia Reyes saved Scott's life, Scott and Jean then took a leave of absence from the X-Men for a period of recuperation.

Not long after returning to the team, Scott and Jean soon found themselves embroiled in Apocalypse's bid for cosmic power by assembling "The Twelve": a group of mutants who would determine the fate of their kind that counted Scott, Jean and Cable amongst their number. They were wired to a machine that would channel their awesome energies into Apocalypse, allowing him to absorb the body of the time-tossed powerful mutant teenager known as X-Man. As his teamates fell around him, a powerless Scott saved X-Man and merged with the would-be conqueror to create a new evil entity. Jean detected Scott's psyche inside Apocalypse and prevented the X-Men from destroying him, however, he was presumed dead by most of his teamates. Only Cable and Jean refused to believe Scott had perished. Investigating rumors he was alive, the pair found him in the birthplace of Apocalypse in Akkaba, Egypt, struggling to reassert his mind over the villian's psyche. Ultimately Jean was able to physically rip Apocalypse's essence from Scott's body using her mental powers, and Cable destroyed it with his own telepathic powers.

Scott left for a small period of recuperation, during which he met and reconciled with his father. Afterwards, Scott returned to the X-Men, but his association with Apocalypse had given him a grimmer, more serious personality than ever before. As a result, many of personal relationships became strained, including his marriage to Jean. Scott sought the counsel of his teammate Emma Frost, and the pair began a psychic affair. When Jean discovered Scott's betrayal, he left the X-Men in order to sort out the mess his life had become.

Following the outing of Professor X as a mutant to the world, his school, was rechristened the Xavier Institute of Higher Learning, and opened it's doors to the mutant population at large, training and educating dozens of young new students to help them cope with their burgeoning abilities. Ater the death of his wife, Scott assumed the position of co-headmaster of the School alongside his new love, Emma.