10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Cyclops
2. He's Not A Killer
Unless your name is Logan, killing the hell out of your opponents is usually frowned upon in the X-Men. It is something that is only ever used as a last resort an something that should never be taken lightly. And yet with a body count that's in double figures, it seems that nobody bothers to inform Cyclops of this.
He is almost responsible for more deaths than the Legacy Virus, even going so far as to use a mutated version of the disease to wipe out a legion of Skrulls during Secret Invasion.
The guy is a stone-cold killer, possibly of the serial variety, and as the years roll by his body count keeps stacking up. He has taken out Candra of the Externals, Ghoul, Ugly John, and that's to name just three on Earth 616.
If you add them all together with the deaths he is responsible for on alternative worlds, Slim's up there with Hannibal Lecter in terms of villain-status.
No matter how he justifies it - as a tactical move or for the greater good - being quite willing and eager to use excessive force means Scott Summers has no problem with taking the problem out at the source, permanantly if needs be.