Why Comic Fans Hate Cyclops
2. His Treatment Of Madelyne Pryor
Poor Madelyne Pryor was originally depicted as a Jean Grey lookalike.
When Cyclops first sees Maddie, he's instantly smitten and drawn to her for the simple fact that she looks like his then-dead ex-girlfriend.
Many readers - and even Pryor herself, at times - found it a little questionable for Cyclops to fall for somebody purely because they looked like his ex, rather than for who Madelyne actually was.
Still, Scott Summers would indeed win over Madelyne Pryor - to the point that the pair married and had a son. Everything was perfect... until Jean Grey was resurrected.
Once Jean was back, Pryor was retconned to make her a Mister Sinister-created clone of Jean Grey. But if that revelation wasn't a big enough shock to Maddie's system, Cyclops made it ten times worse by walking out on her and their son as soon as Jean returned from the grave.
What had started as a plan to humanise Cyclops and take him out of the main X-Men picture for a spell ultimately resulted in him looking like a complete d*ck who dumped his wife and kid at the drop of a hat.
It's no wonder that Madelyne ended up embarking on a descent into madness which resulted in her becoming the villainous Goblyn Queen. As for the son who Cyke left behind, he'd grow up to be badass time-travelling mercenary, Cable.