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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLe" data-source="post: 3678532" data-attributes="member: 3981">Scott SummersJust to chime in about Scott Summers.I first began reading Xbooks when X-FACTOR came out. Louise and Walter Simonson put alot of focus on Scott, and I was absolutely thrilled. He felt very human to me and was trying to balance his failed marriage, return of Jean Grey, successful/failed leadership, and his role as an Xavier minion.All that translated into a very humanistic side of a character that people often blow off as "tightass". There is a lot of brooding there, but there is a lot going on in there.Really Scott is a heck of a lot more than a mindless leader, and it shows quite a bit in the current Astonishing X-men run.Wolverine, on the other hand, is a pretty boring character if you think about it. He's a man's man who drinks beer, smokes cigarettes, has claws, and doesn't have a care in the world because he has a healing factor. Sure he fights his Berserker Rage once in a while, but overall he is an incredibly 2-dimensional character. When you write about him, you are always writing about "Wolverine". I mean geez, why is he in every X-book and the Avengers book? Really, is he all that interesting? Not really. Take away the claws and you have a really uninteresting character.However, when you write about Cyclops, you are really writing about "Scott Summers". With or without the optic blast power, he constantly struggles with his personal demons, and is still a leader to be reckoned with.That is really the beauty of Scott Summers - he is a far more realistic and interesting than the overrated and overused "Hey Bub, I got claws" mutant that is popping up everywhere.~LE</blockquote>

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