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History: Scott Summers is the
elder of the two sons of Christopher Summers, a United States Air Force
Major and test pilot, and his wife Katherine Anne. Scott and his mother
and younger brother Alex were flying back from a vacation in
Christopher's airplane when the plane had engine failure and the plane
caught fire. Katherine Anne Summers pushed Scott and Alex out of the
burning plane with the only available parachute. The parachute was
unable to slow their fall sufficiently to prevent Scott from suffering a
head injury on landing. (The injury damaged the part of Scott's brain
that would have enabled him to control his optic blasts as well as
memories from his childhood). Scott remained comatose in the hospital
for 6 months. Alexander, Christopher and Katharine were believed dead.
On recovering, Scott was placed in an five different foster homes, none
of which worked out. He moved into Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska where he
was labeled a problem child. Years later, as a teenager, Scott began to
suffer from severe headaches and eyestrain. But rather than inform the
people that the orphanage, he kept the pain to himself. Scott was
further aggravated at the lack of interest in him by prospective parents
and eventually left the orphanage on his own. Scott will not reveal what
truly happened but does mention that it wasn't very glamorous. It is
assumed that his powers finally manifested around this time, and the
Professor found him and took him in, cleaned him up, and gave him a
home. At Xavier's, Scott completely turned his life around. A month or
so after moving into the Mansion, Xavier brought in a young woman by the
name of Jean Grey. When the class at the mansion began to grow, Scott
took on a role as leader of the group and would initiate training
sessions as well as lead missions out in the field. |
