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The Summers have had various roles in the mutant side of things. Some of them have become iconic characters who have legions of fans, and others are less popular, but still important. These members of the Summers family are the most important to X-Men history, heroes and villains who have helped define the team.
10) Corsair
Christopher Summers was a pilot who took his family for a flight one day. However, the plane was attacked by the Shi’Ar. Christopher’s sons Scott and Alex took the last parachute, escaping the plane, but Christopher and his wife were captured, their unborn child pulled from his mother’s womb. Christopher was enslaved, but eventually escaped and join the Starjammers as Corsair, becoming a space pirate. Since then, he’s been an absentee father to his kids, staying in space and doing pirate stuff. His neglect has helped mold his family, though, and he turns up every decade and then disappears again.
9) Vulcan
Vulcan was the unborn baby pulled from his mother’s womb. He was put in a growth accelerator, enslaved and sent to a secret Shi’Ar base on Earth, and escaped once he mastered his energy powers. He was taken in by Moira MacTaggert, and recruited by Xavier to save the X-Men after they were captured by Krakoa. His team was slaughtered, and he survived by bonding with Darwin. Xavier erased the memory of him from the world, but his return would see him attack the X-Men, and then the Shi’Ar Empire. His energy-manipulating powers are Omega-level, and his insanity from being enslaved and forgotten has seen him fall off the heroic wagon every time he gets on it. He’s a powerful wild card without too many dimensions to his character, but it is fun when he shows up.
8) X-Man
X-Man is the “Age of Apocalypse” Cable and has had quite a ride since then. He was one of four characters who survived the original story, coming to the repaired 616 timeline. He was created on his world from the DNA of Cyclops and Jean Grey to be the ultimate weapon against Apocalypse by Sinister, and soon found himself coveted by the powerful mutants of Earth-616. He was an awesome character for the first couple of years of his existence, but eventually Marvel stopped doing anything interesting with him, and he’s faded away. He’s made a few appearances over the last few years, but they aren’t what anyone would call good, squandering all the potential he once had.
7) Rachel-Grey Summers
“Days of Future Past” changed X-Men history, leading to the introduction of Rachel Grey-Summers. Rachel is the child of Cyclops and Jean Grey of that Earth, helping the X-Men of the future before being captured and made into a mutant-hunting Hound. She was able to break free and come back in time with the Phoenix Force, and has since been a member of the X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, and X-Force. She’s a powerful character who eventually no one knew what to do with, and is currently languishing, but she has been a part of some amazing stories and is a favorite of many X-fans.
6) Hope Summers
Hope Summers was the first mutant born after M-Day (conceived by Jean Grey with the Phoenix Force in Hope’s mother so she would exist to help defeat Enigma at the end of the Krakoa Era; if none of that made sense, let me be the first to welcome you to the X-fandom!) and played a huge role in X-Men comics in the late ’00s and early ’10s. She was taken to the future and trained by Cable, helped defeat Bastion and the Purifiers, joined the X-Men, and has had her fortunes rise and fall throughout the rest of the ’10s and ’20s. She’s a cool character who was once a major player, and now is mostly a footnote of history.
