I always sort of liked Scott because he wasn't the typical comic hero. He seemed cerebral, honest, and a good leader in that he listened to other people. None of that makes him perfect and they can all lead to real ISSUES, but they're grown-up issues. Scott imprinted on me as an adult.
One of the reasons I hate Whedon's run on X-Men (no. 3 up there) is scenes like this. It's entitled, pretentious adolescent wish-fulfillment. Kill people, fuck girls with big tits, get in a one-liner. Ho hum; there are plenty of characters like that. Emma and Scott are monstrously entitled and borderline sociopaths here, which would be interesting, except that they're not written as sociopaths, they're written as . . . badass.
For women to be badass, they must be quippy, violent, and wear very tiny clothes. For men to be badass, they just have to be quippy and violent. I'd love to see a badass who's actually radically iconoclastic or confrontational.