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Cyclops has never had a fair shot on screen and it’s honestly one of the biggest missed opportunities in superhero movie history.

Every X-Men movie that featured Cyclops treated him like he was in the way. He was supposed to be the leader, the guy the X-Men rally around, the one who carries the weight of Xavier’s dream more than anyone else on the team, and instead every live action version of him just kind of stood in the background looking serious until Wolverine needed someone to have a problem with. That’s not Cyclops. That’s a prop with a visor.

The actual comics version of Scott Summers is one of the most interesting characters Marvel has ever written, especially when you get into the later stuff where he starts questioning everything he was raised to believe and becomes this morally complicated figure who is neither clearly right nor clearly wrong. That’s a movie. That’s actually a great movie if someone cares enough to make it. A guy who has had control beaten into him since childhood, who can never fully relax or let his guard down literally because of his powers, who devoted his entire life to a cause and then started to wonder if the way he was taught to fight for it was even right. There is so much there.

The MCU reboot is going to get another shot at this character and I genuinely think if they don’t take it seriously it’ll be the same mistake all over again. Cyclops works as a lead. He doesn’t work as a supporting character who exists to make the cooler guy look cooler by comparison. Give him a solo film, give him actual internal conflict, don’t make him the straight man, and let the character breathe for once.

He’s been waiting like 60 years for a decent adaptation. At some point someone has to just do it right.

A few hours ago, I saw a post in this community asking this question: "If YOU had to create the basis for Civil War III, what would it be and who’s fighting who?"

Well, my friends, I have a potentially perfect outline for this potential conflict. We begin by answering the first question:

• Question 1: What would it be about?

To answer this question, we need to look at the opening plot of my potential outline: I with someone entering the underworld, not to make a deal with Mephisto, but to end all deals with Mephisto. That's right. They demand that all deals made by Mephisto, from seizing Cythia Von Doom's soul to the reversal of Peter and MJ's marriage, be undone. Who would be insane enough to do this? He is. Who is? Deadpool. But why? Deadpool doesn't need to make a deal with Mephisto because he has nothing to lose. Figuratively and literally. However, while Deadpool freed everyone who had made a deal with Mephisto, his actions would divide the superhero community into two factions. In short, this Civil War would be about the implications and aftereffects of Deadpool undoing every contract made with Mephisto.

• Question 2: Who’s going to be fighting whom?

Now, for this question, we're going to see who the two sides in this civil war are. Well, the two sides are those who want to renew the contracts (the Restorationists) and those who want to avoid them (the Emancipators). On the Restorationist side, we have those who see Deadpool's renunciation of the contracts as a threat to the order and stability of the world. like Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Doctor Strange, and Miles Morales. Meanwhile, on the Emancipator side, we have those who want to avoid the contracts for good, like Doctor Doom, Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Ghost Rider.