The other terrible thing about X-Men #4…
It just made me REALLY miss the era of Scott just not giving a f-.
Like renegade post-AvX Cyclops was just…fun.
Now we’re back to the “I am afraid I will fail everyone/disappoint Xavier/be a bad leader” insecure Scott…
but that’s what he’s been about since 1963, my dude. giving-a-fuck is cyclops’ bread and butter.
post avx doesn’t show a badass scott who doesn’t care anymore, it shows a broken, suicidal cyclops. A cyclops that the entire world (including close friends and family, including people he has done everything for. ... the xmen.) has turned against no matter what he did for it; no matter how much he bled, no matter how much he sacrificed and fought. yet he still cares, still deeply cares about all of them.
if you don’t want a character that’s constantly questioning themselves and battling their fears of fucking up/mistakes and their constant self-destructive perfectionism, then you don’t want scott summers.
you want someone like... wolverine, or something.