The path of Scott Summers of this universe seemingly followed the same of his Earth-616 counterpart until the day when Beast from an alternate future traveled to their universe in order to inform them they needed to return with him to the future. Scott and the rest of the X-Men accompanied him to a "future" where Scott had killed Xavier, and Jean was dead (with the school now named after her). The shock of this caused Jean's dormant telepathic powers to surface. While confronting the "future" Cyclops, Jean read his mind and was incredibly disturbed at what she had seen. This caused her to reject Scott. Under Jean's leadership, the team decided to stay in this time until its problems were resolved.
Cyclops found himself shunned by the X-Men and other students at the school, and constantly under the watchful eye of Wolverine who was considering killing Scott to stop the older Scott from ever killing Xavier. He decided to leave the school and stole Wolverine's motorcycle. Wolverine chased him down to bring him back to the school, but Cyclops evaded him by blasting him away, continuing his escape. He traveled to a bank where he had kept a deposit box, hoping that his future-self had kept it. Guards at the bank were alerted to his presence, believing him to be his future self, and attempted to arrest him.
Mystique disguised as Wolverine arrived and freed Cyclops, telling him she was an old friend of Professor Xavier, and told him that he alone could stop and kill his future self. She also told him that Wolverine had corrupted the school and was using it to turn the children into killing machines and that he was the only one that could set it back on track. When the real Wolverine arrived, Mystique escaped, but not before urging Cyclops to start keeping a list of mutants and their powers. Cyclops returned to the school with the real Wolverine.
When Cyclops' future-self came to the School in order to find recruits for his X-Men, the young Angel left with him, to young Cyclops' dismay. Cyclops and the other past X-Men were placed under the tutelage of Kitty Pryde, with whom they were to continue their training. Cyclops continued to uncover more and more about his future, including his marriage to Jean. He eventually uncovered the truth about Mystique, and foiled her scheme to buy Madripoor with the other X-Men.
During a mission to subdue a new mutant, Cyclops, the original X-Men and Kitty Pryde came under attack by Sentinels. They were assisted by the arrival of adult Cyclops and his team, and together they defeated the Sentinels. During the battle however, past Cyclops took a hit, and was briefly clinically dead, causing his future self to blink out of existence. After being healed by Triage, Cyclops recovered and his future-self returned. Shortly after that, a team of "X-Men" arrived from the future, to tell the X-Men of the present that the past X-Men needed to return to their own time. Jean sensed that these "X-Men" were hiding something, and tried to urge her companions to flee. Cyclops was the only one that trusted her enough to leave, and the two escaped. After escaping, the two were able to find refuge with adult Cyclops. The future "X-Men" were revealed to be a future Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, after Magik, past Beast, and past Iceman traveled to their future and brought the real future X-Men back.
In a last attempt to accomplish their goal of re-writing history, the Brotherhood instead transported all of the X-Men to Camp Hammond, the site of the X-Men's very first mission. Here, they were attacked by S.H.I.E.L.D. who was revealed to have their own Sentinels. The X-Men beat back the assault, and the future Brotherhood was defeated.
Angry that Wolverine's X-Men didn't trust her, and grateful to Cyclops' X-Men for believing in her, Kitty led the X-Men of the past into joining Cyclops' X-Men. After Jean Grey was abducted by the Shi'ar to be put on trial for the crimes her future-self committed, Scott and the rest of the X-Men, along with the Guardians of the Galaxy, went to Chandilar in order to rescue her. During this adventure, Scott encountered the father of his future self, Corsair, and decided to leave the X-Men in order to explore space with him once Jean was rescued.
Cyclops started to doubt his decision to leave Earth, Jean Grey and his X-companions, instead of facing his problems. When he and the Starjammers encountered, and defeated, a hostile Badoon ship, he realized that what he needed was to be by his father's side. Corsair and Cyclops then took the captured Badoon ship on a discovery journey in space. After reuniting with the X-Men while investigating the Black Vortex alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy, Scott rejoined them when they returned to Earth.
The young X-Men decided to part ways and lay low for a while with the emergence of a new wave of anti-mutant hysteria and the beginning of the M-Pox crisis, during which Cyclops' present-self died. Cyclops initially didn't answer the calls of his friends when Beast decided to reunite the team, but eventually rejoined them after they assisted him in combating a group of misguided young Mutant extremists named the Ghost of Cyclops in Chicago, Illinois which Scott had been investigating during his break from the team. Even though Scott returned to superheroics, he remained deeply affected by the fate of his present-self due to the fact his final actions led him to be regarded as a terrorist and a villain worldwide. Cyclops' present-self had seemingly died fighting the Inhumans after destroying one of their Terrigen Clouds, which were the cause of the M-Pox.
Following the second superhuman civil war, the younger members of the Avengers, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man and Nova, split from the rest of the team, disillusioned by the behavior of their elders. Together with other young heroes, they formed the Champions. Ms. Marvel's call to action to the young generation to stand up for a better tomorrow resonated with Cyclops, so he decided to follow the Champions and ask them to join. Even though the young heroes were initially reluctant due to the reputation of Scott's older self, they admitted him into their ranks.
Young Cyclops was one of the numerous mutants who banded together to attack the Inhumans after it was discovered the final Terrigen Cloud was weeks from being completely assimilated into Earth's atmosphere, rendering the planet uninhabitable for mutants. In the middle of the conflict, Cyclops' body was possessed by the body-snatcher Inhuman known as Mosaic. While being forced to take a backseat to the control of his own body, Scott gained access to residual memories Mosaic kept of his previous victim, Magneto. Through these memories, Scott learned that the death of the older Scott as well as the last act that made him infamous had been orchestrated by Emma Frost. In reality, Cyclops had died of M-Pox, and Frost used a mental projection of him to wage war in his name.
When Cyclops regained control of his body and encountered Emma Frost, he exposed her lies to both X-Men and Inhumans, helping ease the conflict. Unfortunately, Frost escaped after the Inhuman queen Medusa willingly destroyed the last remaining cloud. Even though his name had been cleared among his peers, the young Cyclops remained frustrated at the fact that the world at large still didn't know the truth, and that Emma Frost hadn't
paid yet for what she had done.
Current Version:
Cyclops
Former Versions:
Cyclops (Black Vortex)
Cyclops (Symbiote)
