5 James Marsden Characters That Got Totally Shafted

2. Scott Summers/Cyclops - X-Men Trilogy (2000, 2003, 2006)

Scott Summer/Cyclops (James Marsden) is with Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), so life is pretty good for the guy. Scott is everything that a woman could ever want in a man. He's the good-looking, reliable and dependable guy you'd take home to meet your parents. Everything is good between them until Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) shows up. Now that there's the bad-boy thrown into the mix, things get complicated. Jean lusts after Logan like a phoenix lusts after a wolverine, because that analogy totally works. Then in X2: X-Men United, Cyclops has absolutely nothing to do but play bodyguard to Professor X (Patrick Stewart). He gets into a fight with Lady Deathstrike and then mysteriously disappears for most of the movie. Once all of the mutants are together in the finale, they have to try and escape. But they can't do so with the giant wall of water raging towards them. Jean decides to sacrifice herself so that they can get away, much to the protest of Scott. Scott watches helplessly as Jean saves them all from certain death so they can get away at the cost of her own life. In X-Men: The Last Stand, Scott broods and broods because of Jean's sacrificial death. While in pain, he goes out to the lake to be even more dark and brooding, until Jean comes back to him as Dark Phoenix. He can't believe that she's back from the dead and all of his emotions start swirling all over again in a cocktail of happiness and confusion. She asks that he take off his glasses, but he's terrified that he'll kill her. She claims that she can control his power, so he reluctantly complies. The glasses are taken off and "sees her" for the first time in his life sans shades. They kiss passionately and then that's it for Cyclops. What does he get for it? Unceremoniously killed off screen by Phoenix, never to be seen again, save for a grave stone at the end.