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Scott might not be as powerful as many of his compatriots, but his leadership skills are second to none. With a team of X-Men at his side, there’s nothing he can’t do and no villain they can’t defeat. Cyclops is just an Alpha-Level, and his main skills have always been about how he uses his power, not how strong it is. Still, that’s not to say that every version of Cyclops has been weak. Like all long-running heroes, Cyclops has had many alternate forms and power-ups over the decades, and today, we’re looking at the five strongest versions of Cyclops there have ever been. With all that said, let’s consider the most powerful Cyclopses.
5) Bishop’s Future
Scott Summers might not be at the top of the food chain, but that is not to say he’s weak. His optic blasts are much stronger than anyone gives him credit for. While he mostly uses them to incapacitate his enemies, he’s shown that he’s capable of outputting enough raw energy to outmatch a nuclear reactor, according to Iron Man. He generally uses much less power, which is because he’s incapable of truly controlling his blasts.
The brain damage he received as a child kept him from fully mastering his abilities, but in the potential future that Bishop hails from, the older Scott overcame that hurdle. He no longer relied on his rubyquartz lenses, meaning that he could choose to push out as much power as he wanted, whenever he wanted. This alternate version of the hero lacked the one critical weakness that held him back, making him a whole lot more dangerous than before.
4) X-Sentinels
X-Men: Millennial Visions was released at the turn of the millennium, showcasing different potential futures for Marvel’s mutant heroes. One was the X-Sentinel future, where the heroes became the very things they hated the most. The X-Men took countless beatings that ravaged their bodies, so they turned to replacing their failing and aging parts with cybernetics. Eventually, they fully transferred themselves into robot bodies based on their original costumes. Unfortunately, their brains held too much information, deleting everything but the essential drive to keep mutantkind safe. They began hunting humans, becoming the X-Sentinels.
This robotic version of Cyclops retained all the power of the original, except now in a fully controllable artificial body. We didn’t see him in action, but we can safely assume that his physical strength and durability are on the level of the average Sentinel’s, making him much stronger than the normal Cyclops. On top of that, he’s now fully capable of controlling his optic blasts at a level that the original could never hope to reach. This is easily one of the most dangerous versions of Cyclops out there, and the least human.
