Movies did everyone the justice they deserve. People just mad that because they decided in 2004 to make cyclops personality a rip off of magneto's that the fans who had been reading about him as a teachers pet since the 80s gonna forget all that history and act like he cool all of the sudden.
A teacher's pet who sonned Wolverine regularly since the 70s.
A teacher's pet who's been g-checking Professor X since the 80s.
A teacher's pet who macked on dimes regularly while Wolverine was crying over pictures of Jean Grey wishing he was Scott.
I like you as a poster, but this is revisionist history. Scott Summers was always that dude until he got character-assassinated after they retconned the death of Jean Grey behind Chris Claremont's back. No Bryan Singer anything is better-written or more accurate than the two guys who wrote and plotted stories like these:
...and it wasn't just Scott who was done dirty. You can't justify the way the rest of those characters were treated.
Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Bishop, Colossus, Iceman and Archangel were all an afterthought.
Rogue was nerfed, and totally watered down as a character compared to the 80s/90s comics and the animated series.
Storm never got to truly be a leader who handled business compared to the books. She was lowkey the focal character through most of Claremont's run.
Nightcrawler had a spark when he started in X2. After that he was either absent or irrelevant.
Gambit is a fan-favorite character who deserved more than just a cameo in Wolverine Origins (even though I've shaded him in the past).
Wolverine is a dope character, but the fact is that Fox wrote themselves into a corner by throwing every other character in the bushes just to focus only on him for as long as they did. Once Hugh Jackman started gravitating towards other roles, the whole X-franchise fell off because the writers had all their eggs in one basket and thought they knew better than the OG comic creators.
These clowns at Fox really had Mystique leading the X-men and getting top billing over Storm, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Gambit, and Rogue like anybody was trying to see that in theaters
