Editing Cyclops (Marvel Comics) (section)

=== Return to the X-Men ===
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Cyclops Jim Lee.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Leader of X-Men Blue Team. Art by [[Jim Lee]].]] -->After Cyclops's return as field leader,<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #1</ref> much of the Blue team is kidnapped by [[Omega Red]] and the ninjas of [[Hand (comics)|The Hand]].<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #4-7</ref> After the captured teammates' rescue, Mr. Sinister sends [[Caliban (comics)|Caliban]], a former X-Factor member, to kidnap Cyclops and Jean for [[Stryfe]], a madman and rival to [[Cable (comics)|Cable]], both time-lost mutants.<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #14</ref> Stryfe tells the two that he is Nathan, sent to the future and abandoned. In a fight, Cable and Stryfe apparently die.<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #15-17</ref> Afterwards, the team battles Omega Red again, and teammate and telepath [[Betsy Braddock|Psylocke]] tries to lure Cyclops into an affair behind Jean's back.<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #8</ref><ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #12</ref><ref>''Uncanny X-Men'', Vol. 1 #294</ref><ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #17-19</ref> Ultimately, however, Cyclops remains with Jean.<ref>''X-Men'', Vol. 2 #20</ref> Cable returns as well and reveals to Cyclops that he is the real Nathan Christopher Summers, while Stryfe is a clone of Nathan created in the event of his death who was stolen and raised by Apocalypse.<ref>''Cable'', Vol. 1 #6-8</ref>

==== Second Marriage ====
Scott Summers and [[Jean Grey]] finally marry.<ref>''[[X-Men: Legacy|X-Men]]'' vol. 2 #30 (March 1994).</ref> During their honeymoon, they are brought into the future where they raise [[Cable (comics)|Cable]] for the first 12 years of his life during ''[[The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix]]'' miniseries. After helping Cable defeat the future version of Apocalypse, they are sent back to the past. At the request of Rachel Summers, Jean assumes the Phoenix identity. Mister Sinister, involved with the machinations of Apocalypse and Stryfe and still alive, tells Cyclops that there is [[Vulcan (Marvel Comics)|another Summers brother]], and leaves him wondering.

As Cyclops deals with the fact that his son is now old enough to be his father,{{Volume needed|c=y|date=September 2016}} the X-Men are forced to battle their mentor when Professor Xavier is transformed into the evil [[Onslaught (Marvel Comics)|Onslaught]], as a result of his recent attempt to wipe Magneto's mind causing Magneto's darker impulses to merge with Xavier's own subconscious darkness and manifest as a new personality.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=September 2016}} Although the X-Men defeat the evil entity and free Xavier, most of Earth's heroes are lost for a time.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=September 2016}} Xavier, who is left powerless after Onslaught's defeat, is arrested for his part, leaving Scott and Jean as leaders and co-headmasters of the school.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=September 2016}} However, the pair go into retirement following [[Operation: Zero Tolerance]], in which Cyclops is gravely injured when a bomb is placed in his chest.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=September 2016}}

==== Merging with Evil ====
Scott and Jean return to the X-Men sometime after at the request of Storm, when she grows concerned about the mental well-being of Professor X (who had returned sometime prior).<ref>''X-Men'' #92 (September 1999)</ref> Their return then leads to the events of [[Apocalypse: The Twelve|The Twelve]], in which [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] plans to use a machine to steal the powers of twelve select mutants and the body of [[Nate Grey]] which will make him virtually omnipotent. {{Volume needed|c=y|date=April 2009}} In order to save Nate, Cyclops willingly merges with the villain Apocalypse.<ref>''X-Men'' #97</ref> He is believed dead until Jean and Cable track him down to Egypt and separate him from Apocalypse, killing Apocalypse's spirit in the process.<ref>''X-Men: The Search for Cyclops'' Books 1–4</ref>