User blog comment:Blinkn/Whats with the X-Men.../@comment-1538701-20111222214523

I don't think he's lost his morality or his way, but he's had to develop a bit that has led him to more along the lines of a military leader than a superhero team leader. Magneto wanted mutant prosperity and was fanatical enough to be willing to sacrifice anyone to reach it, Cyclops is just trying to protect what little mutants are left, and when he's had to make sacrifices or risk others he's shown to really feel bad about doing so (In fact, when he had to send X-Force on a suicide mission, he was shown to be incredibly torn about doing so, despite it being the only real choice at the time). Different mental states. Remember that Cyclops was really young when he first joined Xavier's and is probably the longest lasting team member. He's had to deal with more than the others, which has made him a hardened soldier. Combine that with the fact he's the longest lasting member, his outlook is entirely based around 'the mission': Xavier's dream of peace. Before M-Day, during when Cyclops was in charage of the X-Men, he discarded the current leather outfits in favour of traditional costumes as he wanted to make the X-Men more heroic.

Then, after M-Day, that changed everything for the X-Men. They had to protect the few mutants left before they got the peace they wanted, which meant he had to make some tough descisions. He's still trying to reach peace, but now he has to deal with the major threats on a whole new level.

So, he's still along the lines of Xavier, as a few have said he's a realist trying to protect the few that are left. He isn't recruiting child soldiers as Logan made out, he's teaching them to survive what happens. I don't think this is sacrificing their humanity, its more about them having to deal with what they're having thrown at them.

Everything Cyclops has done, from X-Force to Utopia, it was with the future of mutant kind in mind. While you could compare that to Magneto, unlike him he's doing it so that, when they're safe, they can work on reaching a peaceful stance with humanity (Remember, he's now united almost every mutant, well he did, just before Scism split it apart) and remember that, he's not the only team leader who has done some pretty bad things. Tony Stark for example resorted to Fascism and forced inprisonment of innocent people to reach what he wanted (Which wasn't actually a bad thing, having every super hero connected to the others in order to work together much easier). The problem is, Marvel was trying to be Dark and Edgy with their plots, and while Stark may've pulled out of it for the Heroic Age, the X-Men are yet to do so because the writers just don't want to.

As for the Children's Crusade thing, I've just looked up what you were talking about and that panel was being taken out of context. From what I gathered, The X-Men weren't the villains there, they were just disagreeing with what to do with Wanda. As I haven't seen the panel you're reffering to I don't know who's doing what, but from what I've gathered its one of those many chilché 'you and him fight' situations that happen in Super hero comics (Remember that up until recently any time Spider-Man and Wolverine met up it usually resulted in a fight, just because the writers wanted them to, and that most heroes meet by fighting each other). So, again, he hasn't lost his way, the writers just haven't moved past the whole 'Superhero fights are awesome' thing.

So, while I agree with what you're saying, I disagree on the end result. Cyclops is still the good guy, he's just been faced with hard times and had to deal with them in the only way possible, one that even he disagrees with. If Marvel could give mutants a break for once, I'm positive he'd start acting less like a Nick Fury clone and more like his previous self.