I grew up on the X-comics
I actually had the one where Scott sees Jean for the first time, and it's all ~lighting clap~.
I don't know what Scott is like now (haven't really followed an X-men book since the... Apocalypse Now story line - the one where they went AU for a good twelve to eighteen issues). But I remember his just turning lemons into lemonade re: his mutant power. How he just, focused and became a hero, how he trained himself to be a leader.