Complete Guide To Every X-Men Character Who Returned After Death

5. Cyclops

How Did He Die?

Apocalypse was gathering the fabled "Twelve", a dozen mutants whose energies could all be harnessed to transplant his consciousness into a new body. His present shell was old and weakening, and the weird blue bastard had designs on transferring into the body of Nate Grey, the X-Man. Cyclops, feeling a fatherly bond to Nate (Nate is made of his DNA from a parallel universe, after all), got in the way and ended up merging with Apocalypse himself.

This process effectively killed Cyclops, as Apocalypse's personality became the dominant one to emerge. This Dragonball-esque fusion of the two created a being called Cyclopalypse - and yes, you can see that it looks as stupid as it sounds.

Then there was the time he went all tyrannical and was killed by the M-Pox (at which point Emma Frost conjured a telepathic version of Summers to be killed by Black Bolt, in order to then end the war between Mutants and Inhumans).

How Did He Come Back?

The X-Men were ultimately able to defeat Cyclopalypse and separate the two, destroying Apocalypse's spirit but preserving Cyclops' body. The logic behind that resurrection isn't exactly airtight, but what can you do.

A time-displaced version of the character has also been hanging around in the comics for a while, and although it's not a resurrection per se, he's still rocking around in the comics.