Cyclops’ Second Uncanny Extra Skill: Psychic Resistance
Beyond his optic blasts, Scott has many skills—he’s an expert martial artist, a master strategist and commander, and much like his father before him, an extremely skilled pilot (a skill that goes hand in hand with his aforementioned superhuman spacial awareness). Also, a lifetime of growing up (and becoming intimately involved with) psychics has honed Scott’s ability to resist telepathic abilities to a degree few other mutants can—and even though most X-Men receive some amount of training to resist psychic powers, Scott is on another level. This isn’t really a power Scott has through mutation, but it’s a fun thing to note as skill he’s developed that is almost as vital as an ability as his mutation is in the field.
Although not a general resistance, over the years Scott has learned how structure his mind in such a way that he can create a “black box” that probing telepaths—even ones he trusts in his mind, like Jean or Emma—cannot access, allowing him to hide information that powerful psionics can’t get out of him. Sure, it’s not energy beams out your eyeballs that can crack mountains in two, but “I have shacked up with telepaths so powerful my mind is just built like this” is still pretty remarkable.
