>>85144192Scott turned somewhat away from Xavier''s ideals, after mutantkind went through one too many crises.
On the verge of total annihilation, hunted and hated more than ever, he created a sanctuary state for mutants (Utopia) and managed to pull through what was probably the most dangerous period in X-Men history - in the span of a few months in-universe, he defeated Osborn's Dark Avengers/X-Men, stopped Selene and her zombie armies, defeated Dracula and his vampires, stood against a Serpent-enhanced Juggernaut, and faced down a team of every single human villain the X-Men ever faced now enhanced with cyborg technology. Oh and he then stopped a fleet of super-Nirmods from obliterating the few remaining mutants. And he saved Hope, allowing her to rekindle the X-Gene with her Five Lights.
This is roughly the backstory behind the Rightclops meme, but he's still regular Cyclops (although boss) at this point. After Wolverine starts a Schism over whether the X-Men should include teenagers (which so so hypocritical, since the X-Men were literally started as Xavier's teen soldiers, and Wolverine is the one mutant with teen sidekicks), Cyclops decides to start a new X-lineup - the Extinction Team. The strongest, most dangerous (and, as Emma joked, nearly all former villains) X-Men around, to remind the world mutants can defend themselves.
Full-on Rightclops happens after AvX, when he goes Dark Phoenix (long story) and kills Xavier in battle. This makes everyone view him as worse than Hitler (despite "I was possessed by an evil force" always having been a get-out-of-free-jail card).
No matter. Scott will get the job done, with or without the old X-Men. With Magik, Magneto, Emma and a handful of recruits, he moves into the old Weapon X facility and announces a mutant revolution (which wasn't much in the end, blame Bendis).
Or, as he would say to his detractors:
"Hated, feared, saving the world. Tell me what's changed."--Rightclops, 2012.
