Superhero comics are often called “soap operas for boys” and nowhere is this more apparent than the X-Men. A huge part of the appeal of the X-Men is that their web of relationships is just as exciting as their battles against evil. The X-Men’s popularity was cemented in the late ’70s, when writer Chris Claremont started to focus on the interpersonal relationships between the members of the group.
Many of the best relationships in the Marvel Universe come from the X-Men side of things, including one of Marvel’s longest lasting relationship — Cyclops and Jean Grey. The two of them have been together since the Silver Age, one of the few relationships at Marvel that has stood the test of decades. People love Cyclops and Jean Grey as a couple, but their love isn’t the X-Men’s greatest romance, although it does involve one of them.
The greatest X-Men romance is Cyclops and Emma Frost, and it isn’t even close. Cyclops is the X-Men’s greatest leader, and his time with Emma saw him truly live up to that appellation. Cyclops and Emma Frost seemed to start as just a new source of drama for the X-Men, coming at a time when change was in the air for Marvel’s merry mutants.
However, it soon became the most important relationship in the modern X-Men comics, one that set the tone for several major eras of the X-Men.Cyclops and Emma Frost Made Each Other BetterCyclops and Jean Grey’s life together has some of the X-Men’s most epic moments. No one is going to forget t.