User blog comment:Colby Cheese/Team Cyclops or Team Wolverine?/@comment-1205866-20111219062625/@comment-821254-20111223013712

You are right they have all done horrible things, end of story no rationalizing, they've all made hard choices in impossible situations but that cannot be the rule. The X-Men must always strive for the good, providing a mirror to humanity that while mutants are demonized they speak to our better nature.

True heroes who unlike the Avengers or FF, X-Men often go uncelebrated, but they fought and died for an IDEA, not just to win the day but build a tomorrow. For each of them Xavier, Wolverine, Beast, and once upon a time Cyclops making those terrible choices hurt, it cost them dearly as individuals. It was never their first choice and that's what is different about Cyclops right now... he makes those terrible choices, it would seem, too easily.

I understand the situation is different and the X-Men must be more aggressive but... all wars end and what do the Cyclop's X-Men have to cling to, what was their reason, what was their purpose when they wake in the night remembering the terrible things they may have indeed had to do. Survival... it simple isn't enough.