Cyclops has officially entered his Kit Connor era, and suddenly the mutant’s complicated romantic history feels a lot more interesting.
Marvel has cast Connor as Scott Summers for its upcoming X-Men movie, with Sadie Sink playing Jean Grey. The newly announced ensemble also includes Christopher Abbott as Professor X, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue and Maya Boyd as Storm. The film is currently scheduled for May 5, 2028, with Jake Schreier directing.
Connor, who publicly came out as bisexual in 2022, is stepping into one of Marvel’s most recognizable mutant roles. Traditionally, Scott’s romantic life has involved a familiar bit of superhero melodrama: Jean Grey loves Scott, Wolverine loves Jean, and Scott and Logan spend an awful lot of time being rivals while somehow remaining deeply connected.
But then came Krakoa.
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Welcome to the complicated relationship era
Marvel’s Krakoan era, which began in 2019, dramatically changed the social rules surrounding its mutant characters. And for fans fascinated by the Cyclops, Jean Gray, and Wolverine dynamic, some of the material seemed to suggest that the traditional love triangle had become something considerably more fluid.
The biggest piece of fan detective work involved the Summers House floor plan. During the Krakoan era, Scott, Jean and Wolverine had interconnected bedrooms, with Jean’s room sitting between the rooms belonging to the two men.
There were also stories showing Jean and Wolverine becoming romantically intimate while Jean remained married to Cyclops. The combination sent X-Men fans into overdrive. Could it be a throuple?
The internet, naturally, had thoughts.
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But Marvel says: not so fast
There is one rather significant wrinkle.
In 2024, Tom Brevoort, Marvel’s executive vice president and then-new X-Men group editor, addressed the speculation directly. His answer was essentially that readers were interpreting the material more definitively than the comics themselves supported.
Brevoort acknowledged that fans had brought him pages and scenes they believed demonstrated a Jean, Scott and Logan throuple. However, he argued there was not enough explicit material to establish that arrangement as an actual on-page relationship.
So, officially, the X-Men did not suddenly become Couple to Throuple: Mutant Edition.
Unofficially? Well, the fandom had already made up its mind.
Now Kit Connor changes the fantasy
And this is where things get particularly delicious.
Connor’s casting as Cyclops does not mean Marvel is planning a polyamorous storyline. There is currently no confirmation that the upcoming film will include Wolverine in a romantic relationship with Scott and Jean, or that it will adapt anything from the Krakoan relationship dynamics.
But casting Connor as Scott inevitably gives fans another reason to revisit the character’s queer-adjacent fan interpretations.
Connor brings a very different energy to Cyclops than previous live-action portrayals. Add Sink’s Jean Grey to the equation, eventually bring Wolverine into the MCU’s mutant mix and suddenly that old rivalry could become one very complicated situation.
Especially if Marvel decides it wants to explore relationships outside the traditional superhero formula.
Imagine the group chat
Let’s be clear: we’re talking about fantasy here, not confirmed plot details.
Still, superhero fandom has always thrived on the possibilities between the panels. The Krakoan era gave fans enough breadcrumbs to imagine a world where Jean didn’t have to choose between Scott and Logan, and where Scott and Logan’s relationship could exist as something more layered than simple competition.
Now Connor is Cyclops.
So while Marvel may not be promising us a mutant throuple, the question is officially out there again:
What if Scott, Jean and Logan stopped fighting over who gets the girl and simply decided they all get each other?
Honestly, Xavier might want to add “relationship counselor” to the curriculum.