Ultimate Cyclops, what should have been
As the Ultimate Universe is going down in flames, and Ultimate Wolverine is shaping up to tbe the most irrelevant, shitty part of the Ultimate line, a thought occurred to me the other day of what they should have done with that series instead of a downright standard Logan series.
One thought was that we just make Sabretooth the Wolverine stand-in, as at least that would be semi-original but then I had another thought.
What if instead of Logan, due to the changed nature of this universe it was Scott Summers who wound up as Directorate X's super-soldier?
My thinking is that as Professor Thornton was killed by the Maker before completing his Adamantium bonding process, it could be shown to have came to a dead-end as a result of this. Instead, Directorate X's research went in a different direction like say...enhanced energy projection.
As a result, Scott ends up being the Mutant turned into Directorate X's brainwashed hitman with a different explanation for why he can't switch off his optic blasts, as well as why it can vary between being more like lasers but also like concussive force.
He might have been given some cybernetic upgrades to increase his durability and ability to detect people, overall I see him as more of a ranged fighter who might be most often be deployed to kill from a distance. His lack of a healing factor might also lead to a Winter Soldier who's much more strategically inclined than Logan is.
How such a series could work, well its irrelevant given that the Ultimate Universe is ending, the people who wrote Ultimate Wolverine are dumber than rocks, and Ultimate Cyclops was just a mindless cyborg anyway, all I'm just proposing is that 'Cyclops as Weapon X' would've at least worked better than whatever they ultimately went with.