James Marsden, meanwhile, is an actor who never really got his due in the X-Men films. Cyclops in general tends to be spectacularly mishandled in many of his comic book, TV and movie incarnations, portrayed as nothing more than a goody-two-shoes with no real depth who mostly serves as a foil for the way cooler fan favourite Wolverine. So, Marsden mostly spent the first two X-Men films as a one-dimensonal leader, something of a wet blanket, and a charisma vacuum. His appearances in films as diverse as Anchorman 2 and Robot & Frank prove he's anything but. Then Cyclops got killed off, off-screen, in The Last Stand. Hopefully Tye Sheridan will have better luck playing the younger Scott Summers. The 18-year-old Texan certainly has the right look for Cyclops and does kinda look like a younger James Marsden and has been justly praised for his performances in a couple of recent superlative Southern Gothic crime tales, holding his own alongside Matthew McConaughey in Mud, and then Nicolas Cage in last year's Joe.