10 Superheroes Who Broke Their Own Rules

Even people who have never read comics know about Professor Charles Xavier’s goal wth the X-Men: to create a world where mutants aren’t feared and can live in harmony with humans. It's the core principle pushed in all of the X-franchise.

But Cyclops never was allowed to see the world beyond that ideal. Taken straight from an orphanage by Xavier, Scott Summers had the entirety of that dream drilled into his very core. He was, in essence, a child soldier of peace, so it's no wonder that he always leaned into a hardline view of things.

This rule is broken slowly, showing just how giving into "just this once" mentality can fundamentally alter a character so drastically. This near-extinction event M-Day left Cyclops as the leader of the entire sub-species on the brink of eradication, still in a world that hated and feared them - in fact, now more than ever.

The hard decisions he needed to make were tough but justifiable. Using young teens as soldiers, forming a covert wetworks team and even kicking Xavier out of the X-Mansion were all semi-logical desperate acts of a leader pushed to the edge.

But then Avengers Vs. X-Men happened and he went full cuckoo, harnessing the Phoenix Force to try and rebuild the mutant race, and also killing Charles Xavier. After that, he would become a mutant extremist, shattering the most basic rule of the X-Men: don't be Magneto.