Overview
- A full gameplay trailer for Phoenix Cyclops was released on October 7, showing the character in action and confirming him as the first fighter in the game’s Year 1 Pass.
- Phoenix Cyclops is an alternate Scott Summers drawn from the Avengers vs. X‑Men Phoenix Five storyline and mixes his optic blasts with wide-area, fire‑based attacks.
- Director Kazuto Sekine said the team chose the Phoenix version to make Cyclops play differently from past fighting‑game appearances and to avoid narrative problems with the X‑Men team in the base game.
- Arc System Works teased the character on official social channels and its Discord with screenshots of an explosive dive kick, a fire‑filled taunt, and a massive eye laser ahead of the trailer.
- The studio positions this DLC rollout and ongoing technical patches as a way to recover momentum after a strong PS5 launch that was undermined by a troubled PC port and friction over PlayStation Network requirements.