There might not be a more estranged and disturbing family in Marvel Comics than the people in Cyclops‘ family tree. Scott Summers has had a tough time with his family from a young age. He even lost one of his brothers and didn’t even know it, thanks to Professor X’s mind manipulation tendencies. However, his actual family tree ended up warped thanks to Mister Sinister and his desire to use Scott and Jean Grey to help unlock his own powers and prepare the world for his eventual attempt at taking control. This resulted in his family tree adding in clones and more than one child born in different parts ot the multiverse, some more powerful than most mutants on Earth-616.
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Here is a look at the most powerful members of Scott Summers’ family tree, ranked by power, from his blood relatives to those added via marriage.
10) Corsair
Cyclops’ father is Christopher Summers, and he is the Starjammers member known as Corsair. Christopher and his wife, Katherine, were flying home when a scout ship from the Shi’ar Empire attacked the plane, and Katherine pushed out her sons, Alex and Scott, before the parents seemingly died. However, Chris survived and tried to fight back before the Shi’ar captured him. Chris ended up sentenced to work the mine pits until his death by the Shi’ar, but he escaped with other prisoners and created the Starjammers based on his memory of the stories of pirates on Earth. However, unlike the other members of Cyclops’ family, Corsair has no powers and is only a great pilot, swordsman, and military expert.
9) Adam-X
Adam-X is a sibling of Scott Summers, although he was one of several children genetically engineered from the DNA of Shi’ar Empire Emperor D’ken and Katherine Summers, making Adam-X a half-brother to Scott and Alex. However, a former commander of the Emperor’s personal guard abducted him and raised him as his own son. When Adam-X’s powers manifested, he learned he was a Shi’ar-human hybrid and a mutant. When Adam-X finally arrived on Earth, he drifted, becoming both a hero and a villain before he learned of his siblings and joined forces with Earth’s mutants. His powers involve sending an electric surge into a person’s body, burning their blood, which only works if he saturates a victim’s blood with oxygen, limiting his powers.
8) Havok
Alex Summers is Cyclops’ brother and a mutant just like his sibling. With Scott, the two were placed in an orphanage where they were experimented on by the owner, who was actually Mr. Sinister. When Sinister saw Scott had more potential, he allowed Alex to be adopted and then kept the brothers apart. Eventually, both brothers were finally reunited at Xavier’s school when Havok’s powers surfaced. Havok’s powers include energy conversion, where he absorbs ambient cosmic energy and then uses it to create plasma blasts. Alex and Scott are also immune to each other’s powers, as well as that of Adam-X.
7) Cyclops
Scott Summers is one of the first mutants to ever appear in Marvel Comics. He first appeared in X-Men #1 and was part of the original Marvel mutant team. He was orphaned as a child and believed his parents had died. However, the evil Mister Sinister experimented on Scott in the orphanage and developed an infatuation with the mutant, using him to try to create even more powerful mutants with his DNA. Scott escaped, joined with Professor X, and became Cyclops. Scott is a mutant who can shoot concussive optic blasts from his eyes. However, thanks to an accident as a child, he has no control over his powers and has to wear a visor to help him manage his blasts. He is also one of Marvel’s greatest tactical warriors and one of the X-Men’s most competent leaders.
6) Cable
Nate Summers is Scott Summers’ son with Madelyne Pryor, who was a clone of Jean Grey created by Mister Sinister. After Scott learned that Jean Grey was still alive, he left his wife and son to go to her, and while he was gone, Sinister sent his Mauraders to kill Madelyne and capture Nathan. He got Nathan, but Madelyne survived, and soon she became the evil Goblin Queen. However, Scott found his son, and when he learned Nathan was infected with the Techno-Organiv Virus, he sent Nathan 2,000 years into the future for his survival. Nathan ended up in a future ruled by Apocalypse and became the warrior Cable, before returning to the past to meet his parents as an adult. Cable is a mutant with telepathic and telekinetic powers. He is also a cyborg, increasing his abilities to superhuman levels.
5) X-Man
Nate Grey is another son of Scott Summers. He was genetically engineered by Mister Sinister using Scott and Jean Grey’s DNA. Sinister then transported Nate from his home reality in the Age of Apocalypse universe to Earth-616. While Cable is Madelyne Pryor’s son, Marvel Comics mainly presents Nate and Nathan as brothers. His powers were shown immediately when he brought Madelyne Pryor back to life while looking for Jean Grey, and he also released Onslaught from Professor X’s mind. Mister Sinister created X-Man to be one of the most powerful mutants on Earth, and he is an Omega-Level mutant who is a psionic entity who could destroy entire worlds if he wished. He is also a telapath who can rewrite history if he desires.
4) Vulcan
Gabriel Summers is another Summers sibling, but he is one that Scott Summers didn’t even know existed for years. That is because Katherine Summers was pregnant with Gabe when the Shi’ar attacked them, and they took the baby from Katherine after killing her and raised him to breed new slaves, aging him to adolescence and sending him back to Earth to serve under Erik the Red. However, Moira MacTaggart found him first, and he joined the X-Men to try to rescue the original team from the island of Krakoa. The team rescued Cyclops, but then they all died trying to save everyone else. Professor X wiped Scott’s brother and the team’s existence from his memory and recruited more mutants to save the original X-Men. Vulcan and Darwin actually survived, and he returned for revenge for Xavier abandoning him. Unlike Scott and Alex, Vulcan is an Omega-Level mutant with energy manipulation powers, where he can control all energy in any form at a whim.
3) Rachel Summers
Rachel Summers is Cyclops and Jean Grey’s daughter from the Days of Future Past version of Earth. While in this timeline, she inherited Jean Grey’s psychic abilities, including telepathy and telekinesis. She also has the power of the Phoenix Force running through her body, which makes her one of the most powerful members of the X-Men since arriving on Earth-616. Like her mother, Rachel is an Omega-Level mutant telepath, and sometimes she surpasses her mother’s powers. She can also shield her mind from other powerful telepaths. For her Phoenix Forcer power, she can use her time manipulation powers to pull the Phoenix Force from the multiverse to use. Finally, Rachel is also an empath and can manipulate the emotions and feelings of others around her.
2) Hope Summers
Hope Summers was the first mutant born after M-Day to a woman whom the Phoenix impregnated. This made her known as the Mutant Messiah, and Cable promised to protect her to serve in that role in the future. However, Bishop returned from the future to kill her because he said she would end up killing a million humans, which turned the survivors against mutants in his timeline. Cable ended up sending Hope into the future to protect her from Bishop. By the time she returned, she was an Omega-Level mutant. Her powers include Power Mimicry, where she can copy the powers of any mutant close to her. She can also stabilize the powers of other mutants and make them their most powerful. It was Hope’s powers that restored all mutants’ powers on Earth after M-Day.
1) Jean Grey
Jean Grey is the most powerful member of Scott Summers’ family. Jean is Cyclops’ wife and one of the most powerful mutant telepaths in history. A member of the original X-Men, debuting in the team’s first issue, she started with telekinetic powers, but that is because Professor X suppressed her psychic powers early for her protection. This led to bad results when the Phoenix Force possessed her, granting her additional powers while unlocking her psychic abilities. She is an Omega-Level telepath and an Omega-Level telekinetic. She is the most potent telepath in Marvel Comics, even more powerful than Professor X. She is also a Psionic of Highest Order. She also has Psychic Energy Manipulation, which allows her to deliver cosmic-level telekinetic blasts. Her Phoenix powers allow interstellar travel, Cosmic Tyrokinesis, teleportation, and more, including resurrection.
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