8 Great Characters Fox's Marvel Movies Have Completely Screwed Up

3. Cyclops

Right now, Cyclops is getting a pretty rough time of it in the comic books, but that pales in comparison to how poorly the movie version has been handled over the years. Bryan Singer took a character who was a fearless leader and turned him into a jealous love rival with a personality so boring that it at times was hard not to root for Wolverine to get the girl (even if he was being a bit of a d*ck about it as I previously mentioned). When James Marsden made the decision to follow Singer to Superman Returns, Brett Ratner took this already botched version of Scott Summers and made things even worse in what has to be one of the all-time worst death scenes in a comic book movie. Having him basically go nuts and get killed offscreen was an insult, and he was such a non-entity in these movies that he wasn't even really missed from The Last Stand's final act. In fairness to Marsden, he did the best he could and was a solid enough choice to play the character. However, this Cyclops just didn't work, and that hurt those original X-Men movies no matter how many other good points they may have had. As a result, all eyes are now on Singer and X-Men: Apocalypse as a younger version of Scott will be introduced there. With any luck, Cyclops will finally get some redemption there.