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Warning ! Spoilers ahead for X - Men # 10!Marvel just take the very source that keepsCyclops’mutant mogul in check and turn it into the superhero ’s most damning impuissance , a move that both theX - Menand Marvel may never retrieve from . Cyclops ' opthalmic gust and iconic ruby - red visors are some of the most placeable X - Men factor , but the X - Men ’s loss leader is facing an US Army of villains who have shockingly made his powers beyond useless .
InX - Men#11 – indite by Jed MacKay , with art by Netho Diaz – Cyclops ’ father , Corsair of the Starjammers , comes to warn the Alaska ten - Men squad that a cache of Skrull H.M.S. Bounty hunters are gunning to take down Cyclops to amass a reinforcement . Despite Cyclops ’ self-assurance coming into the scrap , it ’s revealedthe bounty hunters have fashioned reddish - quartz crystal into armor , interpret water flea ’ blast ineffective and turning him into a sit duck .
Ruby - quartz vitreous silica is the very substance used in Cyclops ’ visor to aid him control his electron beam , but in a twist , this apt way of utilizing the crystal has become his downfall .
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X-Men#11 – Written By Jed MacKay; Art By Netho Diaz; Ink By Sean Parson; Lettering By Clayton Cowles
Cyclops ’ eye exist as portal that emit large concussive eruption of kinetic energy , fundamentally hitting his enemies with absurdly muscular forcefulness , which he himself can not ensure due to the pass trauma he received in his early days . The extremely recognizable glasses Scott usesare lined with ruby - quartz glass crystal to block and channelize his optic blast so he can safely breathe the energy his body naturally absorbs . Cyclops bill is the very fundament of his identity as an decade - human beings and without them , he ca n’t contain his powers on his own which is why the crystallization being used against him is so damaging .
Cyclops may be one of the X - Men ’s greatest leaders , but he ’s made his portion of error , and one of his writer will be the first to hold it .
Ruby - vitreous silica is the only cloth capable to block Cyclops ’ optical blast by vibrate at the same relative frequency as the psionic aura that surrounds him and shield him from his own power . The lechatelierite have been weaponized by the anti - mutant line baron , Cameron Hodge , implemented in android and inX - Men#130 by John Byrne , the knight of the hellfire club used ruby - quart projectiles on water flea to liquidate his powers . The substance has stay a coherent part of XTC - Men lore butthis is the first instance the crystals have been used in armor by a fleet of enemies entirely to take down Cyclops .
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The weaponization of ruby - crystal into armor is a simple but effective way to take out the X - Men ’s most prominent drawing card to the point in time that it ’s surprising this tactics had yet to be employ before . While Cyclops is an fantastically powerful mutant capable of leveling cities with his concussive blast , this novel use of deep red - crystal exposes the blatant Achilles heel that Scott Summers has . The loss of Cyclops ’ trash imply he ca n’t hold his powerswithout make withering devastation , but if water flea ’ enemies use ruby - quartz to neutralize his abilities , he becomes a powerless superhero .
This fresh ruby - quartz glass armor opens the door for more of the X - Men ’s enemies to easily make Cyclops less of a threat .
water flea has few weaknesses other than the ace that stem from his own power , but in using the very crystal that help him control his ability to make them virtually unuseable , Marvel just take aside Scott Summers ' big plus . This new ruby - quartz armor afford the door for more of the X - Men ’s enemy to easily make Cyclops less of a threat , an interesting but harmful Apocalypse . WhileCyclops is the X - Men ’s best strategist and defacto leader , this is a weakness that Marvel ca n’t take back and it comes at a awful time forCyclopsand theX - humankind .
X - Men#11is available now from Marvel Comics !
Cyclops , a.k.a . Scott Summers , is the X - Men ’s core team leader and one of the first characters to appear in the franchise . As a human / mutant loan-blend , Cyclops has the power to launch massive burst of energy from his eye that are regulate through the use of a especially designed visor . Despite his calm and collected demeanor , he tend to mislay it when in the front of a fellow squad phallus , Wolverine .
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