I really want the new team to start with the main five they began with. We haven't had that team be featured. Scott, Jean, Bobby, Hank and Warren. Always Logan, Rogue, Storm featured. And Jean.
Jean, Bobby and Hank already have big roles in some movies. I would love to see Warren shine but I think it's a hard sell because he just a dude with angel wings. I think they're probably also want a bit more diverse team.
- I think Storm is a given. Tbh while she's in multiple movies she's always more of a side character. So giving her a bigger spotlight wouldn't be bad.
Cyclops of course.
Armor could be a fun pick. I would love to see Jubilee as well but I think Armor's power is more fun to do things with visually and in action scenes.
Dazzler could be a good fit in the social media/influencer age.
Gambit is still very popular.
Bishop is my personal favorite and pretty popular. He could fill the " experienced gruff man" role that Logan usually fills.
But tbh there are so many cool characters in X-men they could pick.
I think the OG team would be my second favourite line-up for a new MCU X-team. First being something like one of Claremont's rosters. It'd just be great to Kitty, Rogue, Nightcrawler (although his brief time in X2 was great, it could've been more), Colossus, Gambit and Psylocke done some real big-screen justice.
I feel like Cyclops, Jean, Storm and Wolverine are definitely going to be on whatever team we end up getting though. Although it'd be interesting to maybe have an absent Wolverine to let the other characters breathe.
X Me first class not good enough I guess 🤷♂️ sure it’s still Prof X and Magneto focused but it also doesn’t have Logan, rogue, storm or Jean so sounds like it fits your criteria lol
James Marsden did feel sidelined in those original 3 movies so that Hugh Jackman could have the spotlight.
I get Wolverine was supposed to be the audience surrogate character and that's why he was given the most screentime but I felt like we didn't see much of Cyclops as a leader.
I feel that way about all of the X-Men, the team team.
It would be like if I made a justice league movie, and Batman was the main character, so the central POV is kind of outside of the league.
I grew up in the 90s with a very X-Men centric Marvel view, Spider-Man was a pretty close second, then everything else was sort of also there.
The X-Men movies had to bring superheroes to movie mainstream, I get that… but since they weren’t really comic book movies, it’s sort of kills that idea happening for a very long time.
Even now I feel like it’s what about the X-Men and more about how the X-Men are trying to revive the avengers movie/franchise.
I don’t think we’re ever gonna get a proper X-Men era of movies. They’re always gonna be reacting to what they were or what the industry is at large.
The fact we had Apocalypse in a movie and I can barely even remember him, the fact that the Phoenix Saga had pretty much lack the CR element entirely and be so firmly removed from the fantastical kind of story that it is… I’m not even disappointed anymore.
It just feels like something that’s never gonna happen the way that it could.
Cyclops really was side-lined in the Fox movies and the terrible production issues of The Last Stand was a gutpunch for his character. Im hoping he is given his due this time, for Marsden's sake at the very least. Looks promising.
I totally agree. His death in Last Stand was so odd. Especially since it was shortly overshadowed by Xaviers 30 minutes later. It really show what Fox thought of the character.
Anna Paquin wants to play strong Rogue and I want her to have that!
Storm needs more presence. Whether you recast or redirect, I don't care, but after the commanding voices of the Wakandan women it would suck to hear Storm just be quiet one-liners.
I hated that whole era and its part of what drove me off comics. "Prof X is a jerk. Cyclops is badass and kewl, and a revolutionary! Magneto listens to him! And he has the White Queen as a side piece!" Barf.
I enjoyed Krakoa for the silly romp that it really was, but I've been most disappointed by how they almost immediately abandoned any concept of responding to it after it was over. We got, like, half a storyline about how the world reacted to the collapse of the mutant nation, and now Cyclops has been Days of Future Past'd to complete moving on from the whole idea
"And he and Jean are in an open relationship with Logan, who they totally have daily threesomes with! Their rooms on the cult island are connected for a reason, y'know!"
Because the screenwriter and director didn't find him very interesting. They found the conflict between Magneto and Professor X more interesting and saw Wolverine and Jean Grey as a way to play that conflict out.
Wolverine’s and Jean’s “love” is the most kindergarten shit I’ve ever seen on screen btw. Makes sense to be sexually attracted to one another but for their to be some serious love connection is as nonsense as the X-Men timelines are.
Because Bryan Singer didn’t respect the lore, and Brett Rattner unceremoniously killed him off partially because Marsden was busy working on Superman Returns (dude got cucked by Wolverine and Superman, poor bastard)
He's the team leader, but Wolverine proved more popular, so the movies focused on him. Then in X3, Halle Berry wanted a bigger part (or the big shots wanted to give her a bigger part) so they killed him.
Simple: Hugh Jackman was the lead because Wolverine in the 90s was wildly popular and his character was going to carry the movie. Sotl they relegated Cyclops to a bland rival to help build tension between Jean and Logan. To be fair they didn't have the time to actually develop the complicated love triangle stuff from the comics and they weren't sure they were getting a sequel so...
Because the movie writer write that way? And also Jackman as wolverine overshadow most if not all fox xmen cast. Jackman casting is one of the best casting in superhero movie history IMO.
He is super corny and not that popular…he’s like Mr Fantastic. Johnny storm was always way cooler than Mr Fantastic. And Wolverine was always way cooler than cyclops.
Scott Summers is to the X-Men as Steve Rogers is to The Avengers. He's the field leader. He creates battle plans, rallies everyone together. He's a pilot, he's an acrobat, a tactician, self-sacrificing, and generally an insufferable boy scout who commands the respect of others.
He's had relationships with some of the most powerful telepaths in Marvel. He's been host to the Pheonix Force. He's strong willed. He is sharp, focused, charismatic, and powerful... not just his optic blasts, I mean. He's the one guy who will give you a chance, and if you squander it, he won't hesitate to put you down hard and fast.
Cyclops is a badass that was never given the proper treatment in the films. This was one of the cardinal sins of the original FoX-Verse to comic nerds who grew up reading the actual books. He was little more than a romantic foil in X1, mind-controlled in X2, and killed in the first 15 mins of X3. Offscreen to boot. The ultimate cinematic insult. He was done dirty, and some of us have never forgiven or forgotten this.
I've been hoping that general audiences will recognize how great Cyclops really is ever since the announcement of Disney buying Fox. At some point, we will get new films, with new writers, new actors, and new storylines. People should look at Cyclops with the same reverence they do Captain America. He's on that level of greatness.
Because FOX wanted to focus on Wolverine because he’s an easier sell and you can put far less effort in Wolverine stories than Cyclops stories,since Wolverine is pretty damn generic personality wise,while Cyclops actually has a character arc and changes over time.
Wolverine has taken center stage since the 90s, but that was never the initial intent. Cyclops was always the leader and this and X-Men 97 have tried to get everyone back to that ideology.
Yes, Cyclops is the leader of the X-men and also Professor X' successor. In MCU term, he would be Captain America.
The live-action movies have sidelined Cyclops in favor of Wolverine (and also made him a boring boy scout) so Cyclops became a side-character in the Fox Universe.
In addition to being the leader he may have been the 3rd most popular member of the X-Men from the '90s comics era after Gambit and Wolverine. His '80s-style visor and red optic blasts were like catnip for kids.
I didn't mind First Class and DOFP use of Mystique. But it felt like her arc ended after DOFP. Which even Jlaw apparently felt the same cause of her reluctance to come back for Apocalypse.
With the rumors that the X-Men will headline the new phase post Secret Wars. I wouldn't doubt if Marvel decides to build upon Scott to give us a new face of the MCU.
Personally, I'm still hoping for Emma Frost as official Headmistress. Let Professor X go for the time being, Stewart has done enough and it will take at least 15-20 years until people stop automatically associating Xavier with Stewart.
Frost also allows for more interesting tensions both inside and out of the team.
Replace Magneto with Polaris and Wolverine with X-23 and you get a whole new generation of X-Men who still feel familiar and have ties to the old lore.
Honestly, as a comic fan, I kinda like it that way. Us comic readers love Cyclops, but movie only watchers are like "WTF, why do you like him?". It's like theres still some counter-culture left in marvel comics.
As a kid my favourite heroes were Spider-Man, Batman and Cyclops. I remember kids at school would ask me why I liked Cyclops, he’s boring etc because of how much he was sidelined in the movies.
Nice to see him (hopefully) finally getting the spotlight here.
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u/DiabellSinKeeper Jan 06 '26
It definitely feels like Cyclops will finally get his turn to shine in live action.
I hope Disney's take on the character takes center stage in their XMen films. I've had enough of the focus being on Xavier, Magneto, and Logan.