10 Shocking Comics Events That Changed Characters Forever

10. Cyclops Goes Radical - Avengers Vs X-Men

The thing about Cyclops is that he is one of the most important members of the X-Men...despite the fact that finding someone who LIKES him as a character is akin to finding the holy grail.

The past decade hasn't exactly featured him helping his case, as the character has been on something of a downward emotional spiral. His relationship with Xavier and his passive approach to mutant and human relations has always been rough, but it all came to a head in Avengers Vs X-Men.

AVX featured Cyclops going from proactive mutant revolutionary to straight up supervillain in one story, as he got his hands on the Phoenix force and used it to... well, do what one normally does with the Phoenix Force. That is to say, wreck everyone's collective sh*t.

This culminated in the death of Charles Xavier. The leader of the X-Men and the closest thing Cyclops had to a dad.

Needless to say, the ripple effect caused by the field leader of the X-Men murdering the team's founder in cold blood has actually stuck quite a bit, both in terms of Cyclops' character, and the status of the X-Men as a whole.