List of X-Men film series characters

This is a list of fictional characters in the X-Men film series. Based on the X-Men comic book series which had started in the 1960s, the characters were first brought to life in film in 2000 with the release of the first X-Men movie.^[1]

Scott Summers/Cyclops (portrayed by James Marsden as an adult, Tim Pocock as a teenager in the original timeline and Tye Sheridan as a teenager in the revised timeline) is a mutant and member of the X-Men who can fire destructible laser beams from his eyes and wears either sunglasses or a special visor to protect them.

He first appears in X-Men (2000) where he is shown with teammate Ororo Munroe/Storm, rescuing Logan/Wolverine and Marie/Rogue from the clutches of Sabretooth and bringing them to the X-Mansion where he is then formally introduced to Logan the next day by Charles Xavier. He later finds his fiancée Jean Grey and Logan together, causing him to threaten Logan by telling him that he should stay away from her. After Rogue leaves the school (due to accidentally touching Logan and almost rendering him comatose), Scott goes to the train station with Ororo to take her back, however he is attacked over there by rival mutant Toad who destroys his visor and causes him to almost destroy the station with his laser eyes and then fall down unconsciously because of it. After having his visor fixed, Scott finds out that something bad happened to Cerebro and that Xavier is now hospitalized because of it. When him and the other X-Men find out that Rogue is kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Mutants led by fellow mutant Magneto and is at the Statue of Liberty, Scott along with Logan, Ororo and Jean go inside the Statue where they are first attacked by Toad who knocks all of them out before getting killed by Storm and then Sabretooth, who is about to kill them until Scott uses his charged up visor to blast him from the Statue and to his apparent death. After getting rid of all of Magneto's henchmen (including Mystique), Scott goes with Logan, Jean and Ororo to the top floor of the Liberty Statue where they see Magneto using Rogue's powers to carry out his evil plans, causing them to each use their powers and, in the end, defeat and capture Magneto whilst also rescue Rogue. The next day, Scott is watching the local news with Ororo and Jean and finds out that Mystique is secretly alive before he then sees Logan leave the Mansion to go to Alkali Lake using his motorcycle.

In X2: X-Men United (2003), which takes place a few months after the Statue of Liberty fight, Scott gets engaged to Jean and finds out that she is having weird reoccurring dreams and changes to her mutant abilities. On the day Logan returns to the mansion, Scott finds out that he has to accompany Professor Xavier to the cell where a captured Magneto is being kept and over there, is attacked and kidnapped alongside Xavier by mutant Yuriko Oyama/Lady Deathstrike who brings them to her base at Alkali Lake where Scott is programmed by her boss General William Stryker to serve him and kill the X-Men. A few days later, a programmed Scott in the Alkali Lake base notices Jean walking by which makes him attack her and then get knocked out, causing him to regain his memories, snap out of Stryker's control and leave Alkali Lake with Charles and the other X-Men who have arrived there after they kill Stryker, his henchmen and Oyama. Once on the defunct X-Jet, Scott finds out that a powerful wave is going to come and kill them if the plane doesn't start quickly and after he notices Jean preparing to sacrifice herself in stopping the flood to let the X-Men leave, he tries to get her to come however Logan pulls him back with Jean finally sacrificing herself in the end and all the others flying back to the X-Mansion where Scott is now devastated over losing his fiancée and love of his life. In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Scott is still reeling over losing Jean and goes to Alkali Lake where he sees her walk out of the ocean still alive. However, after having his eyes restored to normal and kissing Jean, he is killed by her new powers and leaves only his sunglasses behind with a proper funeral then happening for him a few weeks later outside the X-Mansion.

In X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), a teenage Scott in 1988 is first seen getting detention for wearing sunglasses in a classroom and in detention, is attacked by mutant Victor Creed who knocks him out, kidnaps him, brings him to his base on Three Mile Island, blindfolds him and puts him into a jail cell with fellow mutants Toad, Quicksilver and Emma Silverfox. A few days later, Scott and the others are freed from their cells by mutants Logan/Wolverine and Kayla Silverfox who make them escape the base and go outside where they meet telepath Charles Xavier who takes them into his X-Jet and recruits them as X-Men.

After the timeline is revised by Logan going back to 1973 and preventing the assassination of inventor and mutant-hater Bolivar Trask, Scott is resurrected and is briefly seen in the new timeline welcoming him in 2023 alongside Jean Grey and Xavier in the X-Mansion.

In X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), a teenage Scott in 1983 gains his powers for the first time at school and accidentally knocks out a bully which causes his older brother Alex to make him move to the X-Mansion where he introduces him to mutant Hank McCoy/Beast and mutant telepath Charles Xavier who tests Scott on his abilities and also gives him special sunglasses to put on so he can see things more properly. After getting settled in the mansion, Scott gets acquainted with fellow mutants Jean Grey, Jubilee and Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler with the 4 of them going and hanging out at a mall before then coming back to witness a destroyed X-Mansion which is where Scott finds out that Alex died in an explosion accidentally caused by his powers which had also destroyed the mansion. After reeling over his brother's death, Scott, alongside Jean and Kurt, reunites with Hank and meets mutants Raven Darkholme/Mystique and Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver and human CIA Agent Moira MacTaggert however they are all then captured by mutant-hater and army general William Stryker who brings them to his base in Alkali Lake and puts them in a containment cell where they are interrogated by him and also get to know each other more. After finding a way out, Scott, Jean and Kurt go outside the base to a hidden room where they see a mysterious man in a dark cage, causing Jean to use her abilities to release him from the cell and then control him to massacre all the guards of Stryker's facility whilst they rescue the others that were captured. As the man heads out, he runs into Scott, Kurt and Jean and is about to kill them with his adamantium bone claws until Jean reads his mind and gives him some of his forgotten memories, causing him to then remove the equipment that's on him and run outside the facility and for Scott, Jean and Kurt to run back to reunite with the others. After they reunite, find some team uniforms in the facility and a plane to drive in, Scott, along with Jean, Kurt, Raven, Hank, Moira and Peter, go inside the plane and start piloting it towards Egypt where they plan to rescue Professor Xavier from aging mutant En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse and also stop him and his Four Horsemen from causing chaos to humanity. Once they arrive in Egypt, Scott goes outside alongside the others to participate in the battle against Apocalypse and the Horsemen where he fights Horseman and fellow mutant Ororo Munroe/Storm and is about to defeat her until she realizes Apocalypse doesn't care about her and joins the X-Men's side instead. At the end of the battle, Scott uses his powers alongside Xavier's mind control and Jean's Phoenix abilities to destroy and kill Apocalypse once and for all and then comforts the now bald and mentally injured Charles along with the other X-Men. A few months after the X-Mansion has been rebuilt, Scott replaces his sunglasses with a visor given to him by Hank and stands in the Danger Room with Jean, Kurt, Ororo, Peter and Raven who is now the team leader and who tells them that they are officially X-Men before she then walks out of the room and leaves Scott and the other 4 mutants inside so that they can face off against the Sentinels for a training exercise.

During the events of Logan (2017), it is said that sometime in 2028, Charles Xavier suffered from a massive seizure caused by his Alzheimer's which had also caused his powers to attack the mansion and kill 7 mutants alongside injuring 50 others. It is presumed that Scott was one of the mutants who died from either the seizure attack or his injuries caused from it.

Scott makes a brief uncredited cameo appearance in Deadpool 2 (2018) where he is seen having a meeting in Xavier's office with Hank, Kurt, Ororo, Charles, Raven, Jean and Peter and notices Wade Wilson/Deadpool talking loudly outside, causing Hank to close the door for him and the other X-Men who are standing in the room.

In X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), 9 years have passed since the battle in Egypt and in 1992, Scott is called along with Jean, Kurt, Ororo, Peter, Raven and Hank to the X-Jet as the President of the United States has told the X-Men that they have to rescue 2 astronauts who are trapped in space. When they go there and are on the mission, a mysterious cosmic entity named the Phoenix Force arrives and attacks them with Jean being the one most affected by it. After rescuing the astronauts and going back to Earth, Scott (now in a relationship with Jean), finds out that she is suffering from problems with her powers (that are attributed to the Phoenix attacking and possessing her earlier on in the space mission) and tries to ask her if she is ok, only for her to respond at first by telling him that she's fine, then hurting him with her psychic powers and finally knocking him out when he is checking on her. The next day, Scott finds out that Jean has left the X-Mansion, causing him and the X-Men along with Charles to track her location and arrive over there at Red Hook where her father John's house is located. When talking to her fails as she knocks out and injures Peter, Ororo and Hank try to attack her however are mentally freezed by Charles and knocked out by Scott with Jean then killing Raven by impaling her onto a wooden shard. After the funeral for Raven is over, Scott finds out that Hank has joined forces with Erik Lensherr/Magneto due to the both of them feeling grief for her death and wanting revenge on Jean for killing her which causes him to tell Charles about it and then go with Ororo and Kurt to New York where the 3 fight Hank, Erik, Ariki and Selene Gallio over Jean's life before the 8 of them are then knocked out and alongside Charles, taken by the US Military in collars to a mutant internment facility. Whilst on the train en route to the facility, Scott convinces Erik and Hank to not kill Jean as Raven would never have wanted it, causing them along with Ariki and Selene to join the X-Men's cause. When he thinks that everything is going to be a bit calmer now, Scott and the other mutants on the train are then attacked by an alien race called the D'Bari who say that they want to take Jean and kill her so that they can also kill the Phoenix Force inside of her, causing the X-Men alongside Magneto's Brotherhood to break free from their collars, band together and fight against the aliens before Jean finally transforms into the Dark Phoenix, goes to space with the D'Bari and sacrifices herself by murdering all of them and destroying the Phoenix Force inside of her. With his girlfriend presumed to be deceased, a depressed and grieving Scott witnesses Charles quit as the school headmaster, give the title to Hank and finally change the name of the school from Xavier's to Jean Grey's School for Gifted Youngsters to honor her memory.