5 Best & Worst Things About X-Men Comics

9. Worst - The Summer's Family Tree Is Insane

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Cyclops does not have a conventional family and trying to explain it is the bane of any X-Men fan. Heck, his father is a space pirate and that's not even the weirdest part.

Scott's first wife was Madelyne Pryor, a clone of his dead girlfriend Jean Grey (she wasn't actually dead though, more on that later) who eventually became evil. Together they had a son named Nathan who was sent to the future to save his life from a deadly virus. He eventually travelled back to the present as the gun-toting Cable (now older than his own father) to fight his own evil clone Stryfe.

There's also Rachel Grey, Scott and Jean's daughter who travelled to the present from a completely different future and decided to hang around.

Scott's final child, like some sort of horrible car crash between the other two, is a teenage version of Cable called X-Man, who was grown in a lab clone from Scott and Jean's DNA in an alternate universe.

Pretty much the only normal relationship Scott has is with his brother Alex, the hero Havok. However for years it was teased there was a third brother neither knew about. Apart from Adam X, he was hinted as being everyone from Gambit to Apocalypse before it was eventually revealed to be a brand new character named Vulcan.

And they say EastEnders is convoluted.

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