Scott Summers, better known as Cyclops, discovered his mutant ability to direct and control his powerful optic blast, a powerful energy beam emitted from his eyes, during his difficult childhood. Having lost his parents at an early age and been raised in an orphanage, he was eventually found by Charles Xavier and became the first member of the original X-Men. Cyclops is also the father of Cable and the husband of Jean Grey.
When Scott was a boy growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, his father, USAF Major Christopher Summers, took the family for a flight in their de Havilland Mosquito. It came under attack by an alien Shi’ar spaceship. As the plane went down in flames, Scott’s parents fastened him and his younger brother Alex into a parachute and pushed them off the plane, hoping that they would survive.