Storm & Cyclops Have the Ultimate XMen Power Combo

Storm & Cyclops Have the Ultimate X-Men Power Combo

The X-Men’s Cyclops and Storm have often been rivals – but X-Men: The Hidden Years #7 reveals Ororo can super-charge Scott’s powers.

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Storm & Cyclops Have the Ultimate XMen Power Combo

The X-Men’s Cyclops and Storm make the ultimate mutant team, combining their powers for a truly staggering upgrade in power. They may be friends and allies, but Cyclops and Storm have also been rivals; Storm actually dueled Cyclops for leadership of the X-Men once, beating him despite lacking her powers (although the victory was later retconned). Amusingly, when the time traveler Bishop arrived in the present day and called Cyclops “the X-Men’s greatest leader,” Storm was visibly irritated and told him not to believe everything he’d read in the history books.

But, of course, the X-Men are a team first and foremost. They don’t just learn how to master their own powers; they also figure out how to work together, synergizing their abilities to spectacular effect. This has become particularly important in Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men revamp, which has seen the entire mutant race gather on the living island of Krakoa. There, Professor Xavier and his fellow mutant leaders are attempting to create what they call “circuits” – mutants whose powers boost one another in order to accomplish otherwise impossible feats. One circuit referred to as the Five has successfully conquered death itself, while another has raided the heart of creation.

John Byrne and Tom Palmer’s X-Men: The Hidden Years #7 reveals just how formidable a synergy Cyclops and Storm can achieve. The issue recounts the first encounter between the original X-Men and Storm, when another mutant manipulates Storm’s powers to create a storm system that threatens to consume the entire world; the X-Men are traveling back from the Savage Land when they crash-land in Africa, where they team up with a woman who is considered a goddess by her tribe. Cyclops is unconscious, his powers drained – and then Beast hits upon an idea. He has Storm create water droplets in the clouds in a precise configuration – and the water serves as a lens to focus the sunlight on to Cyclops, supercharging his solar-powered optic blasts. The X-Men simply open Scott’s eyes and allow him to blast away at their target, overloading him.

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Storm & Cyclops Have the Ultimate XMen Power Combo

It’s a fascinating strategy rooted in Marvel’s oldest explanation for Cyclops’ powers; that he somehow metabolizes sunlight, with his body serving as a living battery of energy that he projects from his eyes. Various Official Handbooks have attempted to retcon this by suggesting he actually draws energy from another dimension, but that theory’s never been supported by the comics themselves, and flies in the face of issues like X-Men: The Hidden Years #7. Storm and Cyclops did something similar in 1976’s Marvel Team-Up annual, when the X-Men and Spider-Man fought versions of the Hindu gods.

It’s interesting to speculate just what other feats the likes of Cyclops and Storm could accomplish if they were to become part of mutant circuits, synergizing their powers with those of other mutants. Hopefully the X-Men comics will eventually answer that question, because both are tactical geniuses who are sure to spot the opportunity to get creative.

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