Peach Momoko’s Cyclops Reinvented: Visceral & Bleeding

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Marvel just dropped a jaw-dropping twist on Cyclops that turns Scott Summers’ optic blasts into pure nightmare fuel.

Peach Momoko’s Ultimate X-Men reimagines the classic mutant saga with a dark, visceral edge that feels ripped from a fever dream.

Enter Natsu Tsukishima, the new face of Cyclops. She bears Scott’s legacy but cranks the power level—and the horror—to eleven.

Her optic blasts aren’t just concussive force; they’re so intense they literally make her eyes bleed with each release.

Worse yet, she fires everything from a single eye, forcing her to rock an eyepatch that mirrors Scott’s visor—but this one’s a seal on torment, not control.

Where Scott’s ruby-quartz gear shields him, Natsu’s bandages can’t stop the agony. Every blast sears her flesh, a stark reminder that power comes at a price.

It’s a brutal reinvention of a classic mutant power, injecting body-horror into a superpower that’s always been about restraint.

We’ve always seen Cyclops’ beams as a burden of responsibility. Now we see them as a weapon against the wielder.

Momoko’s art and storytelling lean into the “what if this power hurt you every time you used it” question, and the answer is chilling.

Imagine the long-term consequences: damaged tissue, shattered optics, the mental weight of knowing every move you make is agony.

It turns every mission, every skirmish, into a gamble with your own body—an X-Man fighting not just villains, but self-inflicted wounds.

This nightmare-fuel detail elevates Natsu from a cool redesign to a living tragedy, and it forces us to reexamine Scott’s burden through a new prism.

If comics are about pushing characters to their limits, this Cyclops upgrade ensures the saga of optic horror has only begun.