Men' role, Cyclops, for 'Avengers: Doomsday' was 'pretty special' in a new interview. 'It's been a nice little homecoming to a role that really put me on the map,' Marsden said.

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for more Fox X-Men to return, Avengers: Doomsday is going all in by bringing back several non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Among them is James Marsden, who played Cyclops in that initial trilogy and didn’t really get to do much in them.

James Marsden is opening up about coming back to the big screen as Cyclops. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Marsden spoke about how he feels to reprise his role as comic book character Cyclops in the upcoming film, Avengers: Doomsday.

Marsden first portrayed Cyclops, a.k.a. Scott Summers, the leader of the X-Men team from Marvel comics who's capable of firing optic blasts, in 2000's X-Men. He reprised the role in the sequels X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), the latter of which killed off him off.

James Marsden has described playing Cyclops in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday as a “homecoming to a role that really put me on the map.” He will play Cyclops once again in the upcoming Marvel epic, alongside a host of other X-Men stars,

In a full-circle moment, James Marsden is returning to the role that first put him “on the map.” The Paradise actor and newly minted Emmy nominee sat down with Vanity Fair recently to discuss reprising his X-Men character Cyclops in the Russo Brothers’ forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday.