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== Comic Books ==

* The Summers family of the [[Marvel Universe]] is a massive [[Continuity Snarl]] to itself, and is so convoluted that at this point Scott Summers may in fact be [[My Own Grampa|his own grandfather]]. No fewer than four characters in the main continuity of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics can be said to be the child of Scott Summers, only one of whom (Cable) was actually ''born'' during the timeline of the main Marvel Universe, and none of whom are more than [[Comic Book Time|about ten years younger than their parents]] (including [[~~Cable (Comic Book)|~~Cable]], who is, due to the massive amount of [[Time Travel]] in his backstory, at least ten years ''older'' than his parents). Add to that Scott's brother Alex, their long-lost father (the [[Space Pirates|space pirate]] Corsair), and the supervillain-ruler-of-a-galactic-empire Third Summers Brother (Vulcan), and the whole thing is just one big mess. Ironically, Scott started out as an orphan with no known family.

* The Summers family of the [[Marvel Universe]] is a massive [[Continuity Snarl]] to itself, and is so convoluted that at this point Scott Summers may in fact be [[My Own Grampa|his own grandfather]]. No fewer than four characters in the main continuity of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics can be said to be the child of Scott Summers, only one of whom (Cable) was actually ''born'' during the timeline of the main Marvel Universe, and none of whom are more than [[Comic Book Time|about ten years younger than their parents]] (including [[Cable]], who is, due to the massive amount of [[Time Travel]] in his backstory, at least ten years ''older'' than his parents). Add to that Scott's brother Alex, their long-lost father (the [[Space Pirates|space pirate]] Corsair), and the supervillain-ruler-of-a-galactic-empire Third Summers Brother (Vulcan), and the whole thing is just one big mess. Ironically, Scott started out as an orphan with no known family.

** And it was implied that minor character [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Adam X the X-Treme]] was the son of Catherine Summers and Shi'Ar Emperor D'Ken. While this origin was never confirmed in the comics themselves, Adam is [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-human]], and Katherine was the only known human woman in Shi'ar space at the time, and the [[Word of God|writer has confirmed]] that intended Adam X to be the half-brother of Cyclops and Havok.

** Add to that the comic book ''X-Men: The End'', which tried to wrap up every single plot that Chris Claremont never got to resolve, and all of a sudden Gambit is a Summers due to being a genetic combo of Mr. Sinister and Scott Summer's DNA. Add to ''that'' the fact that [[wikipedia:File:Summer brother.jpg|the panel that started this whole mess]] only says "brothers" and doesn't imply a specific number, which means there may be more Summers men coming...