#4158: Cyclops

CYCLOPS MARVEL LEGENDS (HASBRO) “The leader of the X-Men, Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, gears up to defend Mutantkind from extinction against a Multiversal threat” There are certainly some missteps in the original X-Men movies, but one of the most notable is their handling of poor Cyclops, as portrayed by James Marsden. Marsden himself was quite well cast in the role and gave it his all, but the material never quite met him, ending with his rather quick departure early into Last Stand. He made a brief return at the end of Days of Future Past, but we haven’t gotten to see Marsden’s Cyclops in action since X2, 24 years ago. Even Deadpool & Wolverine’s love-fest for the Fox movies was notably without Marsden, whom I’d really been hoping to see don a more comics accurate costume, akin to Hugh Jackman’s tiger stripe design. Marsden is finally making his return as Cyclops, however, not in an X-Men film, but rather Avengers: Doomsday, where he’s return alongside a bunch of other former X-Men…

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