User blog:Blinkn/Whats with the X-Men...

I think I understand some of what may have led Cyclops to become the hardened callous solider that finds himself with more in line with Magneto's ideals than the Professors:

1. He lost his original family in early life. 2. He's lost his beloved wife several times. 3. Adult X-Men family lost in this struggle for mutual/human co-existence. Against genocidal anti-mutant groups and their own government. 4. De-powered mutant child MURDERED by anti-mutant fanatics 5. What anti-mutants couldn't do Scarlet Witch does, no more mutants. 6. etc... (for things I don't know)

That said, Cyclops has lost his way as I read on another post, he was once a moral compass of the team now he is using children and his own son to "defend" the mutant race. It is an old refrain but if mutants do survive what will they be if they sacrificed their humanity to do so.

My question is sparked by a panel I recently came across from "Children's Crusade", which I've yet to read, where Cyclops is getting all bad ass with Captain America so he can "bring Scarlet Witch to justice". I was struck dumb, because for the first time the X-Men were in the wrong, they were the villains.

I knew then that Cyclops had lost his way and had led the X-Men astray as well. When Wolverine, who I do admire, is the restrained one, the one saying "IDK" about the moral implications... it's almost Shakespearean, Henry V to be specific.