10 Mutants We Need To See In X-Men: Apocalypse

9. Cyclops

Scott Summers was a founding member of the original X-Men, making his first appearance in X-Men #1 in 1963. He was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and has been a mainstay of the X-Men and one of their most powerful members due to his optic blasts and strategic skills. Originally known as Slim Summers, Cyclops has played many roles in the X-Men, most notably as leader, eventually becoming responsible for the entirety of the mutant race. Cyclops has battled Apocalypse since the eternal mutant's first appearance in X-Factor #5. The villain was originally created to be a new threat for Cyclops and his team of X-Factor, but he soon grew into an ongoing threat for the X-Men. Cyclops also featured heavily in an Apocalypse storyline known as the Twelve, which saw Apocalypse gathering a powerful group of mutants to power a device that would have allowed him to possess a powerful mutant body (Nate Grey of the Age of Apocalypse universe) to replace his dying form. Cyclops sacrificed himself and was fused together with Apocalypse for a while, until he was freed by the X-Men.

Of course, the real reason it's time to bring in a younger, recast Cyclops is because it's time for the character who started it all to get the movie justice he deserves. Cyclops was played by James Marsden in the original trilogy, and Marsden did a fine job portraying the character. Unfortunately, Cyclops in the movies was completely overshadowed by both Wolverine and Jean Grey, and his character was unceremoniously killed off in the third film. Cyclops deserves better than that, and we want to see the young mutant his friends called Slim given another chance to shine and be the leader the X-Men never had in the films.