Why Comic Fans Hate Cyclops

8. The Clean Cut Good Guy Is Always A Hard Sell

Across so many mediums, it's only gotten harder and harder to make the good guy (or gal) an appealing attraction to an audience.

Whether it's in movies, TV, comics, books, or even something like professional wrestling, fans often get to a point in time where they simply don't want to be drawn to the clean-cut hero who always does the right thing. Granted, Cyclops has been depicted as deeply flawed in certain moments, yet the overarching feeling towards the character is that he's the goody two-shoes of the X-Men world.

You can look at someone like Superman, where for the longest period of time people instead gravitated more towards the dark and brooding Batman. Or to hark back to pro wrestling, people were all about the multi-faceted and edgy CM Punk as a more appealing alternative to the baby-kissing, granny-hugging, hand-slapping John Cena.

Simply put, for Cyclops, his years of being the sensible head, the moral compass, and the flawless good guy only served to push readers away from him, as there were far more interesting characters in the rest of the roster.

It was only when the waters began to get a little murky for Cyclops that he became of any sort of interest to readers both die-hard and casual. But by then, the perception of the character had already been long established.