Even the team leader of the X-men was once a laughing stock
Cyclops (Scott Summers) is a team leader of the X-men and one of the main protagonists of Wolverine and The X-Men. In the series he was sadly flanderized.
Why he sucks:
The writers screw up Cyclops' origins into making him into a bullied teenager and a laughingstock, which is very meanspirited. Even his two bullies are completely out of motivation.
We see him as a young teenager, who always gets bumped by bullies, outside the orphanage home. To make this even more mean-spirited is that Cyclops gets beaten and laughed at causing him to emerge his mutant powers.
He was flanderized into a hopelessly incompetent wimp who couldn't handle one basic training simulation & needed Jean to lead him by the hand & tell him what to do when facing off with Magneto, then years later an emotionally volatile man-brat who physically assaulted Wolverine when he thought the clawed one was trying to steal Jean from him, and then fell apart when Jean disappeared.
They boiled Scott down to the stereotype that he is nothing without Jean, & gave him no positive qualities or growth to compensate. We never see him when he was at his best, which makes it difficult to swallow his fall from grace since he apparently had no grace period to fall from.
Not once do we ever see anything resembling the hero from the comics, the efficient & fearless leader who fought for Xavier's Cause like a knight defending the Holy Grail. This version of Scott deserves sympathy from no one, & certainly doesn't deserve either Jean or Emma. Yeah, Scott had a crappy life, but so did Magneto. Though a fine actor, Nolan North can't save this walking shack of faults characterization.