Editing Cyclops (Marvel Comics) (section)

=== The X-Men ===
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When Scott is sixteen, he goes on a trip to New York with his orphanage supervisor. Scott walks near a construction site and his optic beam activates for the first time. The blast damages a metal crane causing it to fall towards an onlooking crowd. Scott thinks quickly unleashing a second blast that destroys the crane. The crowd thinks this is an act of violence, and forms a lynch mob. Scott hops onto a train and runs away. Wandering Scott encounters [[Living Diamond|Jack O' Diamonds]] who tries to recruit Scott as a thief/villain but eventually battles the villain. Scott is found by [[Professor X|Charles Xavier]], who directly after erases the crowd's memories. Xavier then asks Scott to join him and the X-Men, he gladly accepts, as the first official member.<ref>''The X-Men'' #38–42</ref>

In the X-Men's first field mission, he battles [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]].<ref name="X-Men #1"/>  With the X-Men, he battles the Vanisher, Unus the Untouchable, the [[Blob (comics)|Blob]], and many others. Xavier would soon choose him to be deputy leader of the team and act as field leader whenever he was absent.<ref>''The X-Men'' #7</ref>

Cyclops has a relationship with [[Jean Grey]] during their time in the "original" X-Men. For a long time, he refuses to admit, even to himself, that he has feelings for her, afraid he would be hurt again or that his optic blasts would hurt her – or anyone else he cared about for that matter – and also because he feels he is no match for his wealthy teammate [[Warren Worthington III]], a.k.a. Angel, who is at first also romantically interested in Jean. What Scott does not know is that Jean actually has a crush on him, but is too shy to make a move. Finally, on [[Iceman (Marvel Comics)|Bobby Drake]]'s 18th birthday, they reveal their passion for each other and become lovers.<ref>''The X-Men'' #32</ref>

During one of the X-Men's adventures he rediscovers his brother Alex as his powers were manifesting. Alex would join the team with Scott as Havok.

When the original team of X-Men are defeated by [[Krakoa]], Cyclops is the only member able to escape and return to Xavier. He helps train a new group of X-Men, which includes [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]], [[Colossus (character)|Colossus]], [[Nightcrawler (character)|Nightcrawler]], [[Banshee (comics)|Banshee]], [[Thunderbird (John Proudstar)|Thunderbird]], [[Sunfire (comics)|Sunfire]] and [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] to rescue the others.<ref>''Giant-Size X-Men'' #1</ref> When the other original X-Men ([[Warren Worthington III|Angel]], [[Beast (comics)|Beast]], [[Iceman (Marvel Comics)|Iceman]], Jean Grey, and later additions [[Havok (comics)|Havok]] (his own brother Alex) and [[Polaris (Marvel Comics)|Polaris]]) decide to leave in light of the arrival of the new X-Men, Cyclops stays, feeling that he will never be able to lead a normal life because of the uncontrollable nature of his powers.<ref>''The X-Men'' #94</ref>

As an adult member of the X-Men, Cyclops unknowingly meets his father, now known as [[Corsair (comics)|Corsair]], leader of the [[Starjammers]], a group of [[extraterrestrial life|aliens]] opposing what they see as the tyranny of the [[Shi'ar]] empire.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #107–109</ref> Jean learns of [[Corsair (comics)|Corsair]]'s identity but keeps it from Scott and several more years pass before he learns his father's true identity.<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #154">''The Uncanny X-Men'' #154</ref>

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Cyclops privately questions his relationship with Jean after Jean dies trying to pilot a space shuttle through a solar flare, and then is reborn as [[Phoenix Force (comics)|Phoenix]], feeling that this reborn Jean was not the same Jean he had loved. Yet when he thinks her dead for an extended period of time after a battle in the [[Savage Land]], Scott is not able to mourn her, and believes this meant he did not really love her anymore. He briefly dates [[Colleen Wing]].<ref name="X-Men#122">''The Uncanny X-Men'' #122</ref> However, when Scott and Jean are reunited on [[Muir Island]] to fight [[Proteus (Marvel Comics)|Proteus]], he rediscovers his love for her, and they share a passionate kiss on the way home.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #129</ref> A few days before Jean dies, Scott psychically proposes, and she accepts. After her death, he quits the X-Men, unsure of what to do anymore.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #138</ref> He signs on as crew of a fishing boat, captained by [[Lee Forrester]]. After an adventure in which Lee's father is possessed by [[D'Spayre]], Cyclops and the [[Man-Thing]] must fight D'Spayre,<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #144"/> Scott and Lee find themselves shipwrecked in the [[Bermuda Triangle]], where they stumble upon [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]]'s new base of operations.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #148</ref>

Scott soon returns to the X-Men.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #150</ref> He then discovers that Corsair the leader of the Space Pirate group the Starjammers is actually his father.<ref name="Uncanny X-Men #154"/> Scott originally believed that his parents died in the plane accident and is unaware that they, in fact, had been captured and sold into slavery by the Shi'ar. His mother was murdered by then Emperor D'Ken, leaving a grieving Corsair to escape captivity and form the Starjammers. He also finds out through Corsair that he has living grandparents, who own a shipping company in Alaska.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #167</ref> During his first visit to his grandparents he meets [[Madelyne Pryor]], a woman who bears a strong resemblance to Jean. Eventually he marries her, and after she gets pregnant he retires from the X-Men.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #175</ref> Scott has a difficult time adjusting to life outside of the X-Men and later, to his wife's dismay, he challenges Storm to a battle in the Danger Room for leadership of the X-Men. Despite Storm no longer possessing her mutant powers, she defeats Cyclops. Madelyne gives birth to their son, [[Cable (character)|Nathan]], and Scott returns to retirement from the X-Men.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #201</ref>