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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Cable is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in "The New Mutants" #87 (March 1990), and was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist/co-writer Rob Liefeld.Cable, or Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers, is a time-traveling soldier from the future who is here to prevent his apocalyptic timeline from coming to pass. He is biologically the son of X-Men Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey) and Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, and the step-son and genetic proxy son of Jean Grey. As an infant, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #201 (January, 1986), though it took years for said infant and the time-traveling adult to be revealed as the same individual.Thanks to the machinations of Mr. Sinister, he was born with a destiny—to kill Apocalypse. Not being an idiot, Apocalypse took steps to prevent this at an early stage by infecting Nathan with a special "techno-organic virus" which severely limited his powers and would have killed him if his loving father and, uh, step-mother hadn't sent him 2,000 years into the future to be raised by his alternate-universe sort-of-half-sister's all-female psychic death cult. Once he had grown into a grizzled old veteran, Nathan came back in time to the present in order to kill Apocalypse before he could conquer the world.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Now that Cable has accomplished his mission (repeatedly), he has become a man without a purpose; the character has been bounced around through a variety of new concepts. He's been a member of the X-Men more than once, became a messiah figure and developed an Odd Friendship with a certain psychotic katana-wielding mercenary, then adopted and raised Hope, the first mutant born after the mass depowering, while traveling through time. His powers have fluctuated as well, regaining and losing both his techno-organic symbiote and his mutant powers.As mentioned above, Cable got his start in the New Mutants series before it transitioned into X-Force in 1991. Cable originally got his first ongoing solo series in 1993, which lasted 108 issues before it was relaunched in 2002 as Soldier X, which lasted for 12 issues. In 2004, Cable then appeared in the Cable & Deadpool series that lasted for 50 issues. In 2008 he received another solo ongoing launched in the aftermath of the Messiah Complex crossover that lasted 24 issues. In 2012, he starred in the Avengers: X-Sanction miniseries that acted as a pseudo lean-in to the Avengers vs. X-Men event. Once that event was completed, he starred in Cable and X-Force for 19 issues before it was relaunched as X-Force, with Cable as lead, which lasted 15 issues. He was added to the cast of the Unity Squad for a few issues, working alongside his old pal Deadpool, before receiving another ongoing in the aftermath of the Inhumans vs. X-Men event that lasted 15 issues, and when that ended, he became a key player in the Extermination event.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })In the aftermath of that event, a younger version of Cable dubbed "Kid Cable" who murdered the original stars in a new X-Force series that reunites the surviving members of the original X-Force team. Kid Cable then joined the Fallen Angels alongside Psylocke (the second one) and X-23 before getting his own series.He is portrayed by Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2.Also has the notorious reputation as a Game-Breaker in Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. He's also a playable recruit in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.For tropes pertaining to the Cable character and those associated with him, see the character pageThis page is for tropes applying to the series named Cable; tropes applying to the character go on the characters page. | |
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Papa Wolf: Cable is very protective of the new mutant child Hope, raising her as his daughter. Takes a similar attitude towards Nate who is... less than receptive. | |
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Screwed by the Lawyers | |
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Retcon: Likely due to Screwed by the Lawyers, the Dawn of X series has Kid Cable gain the Light of Galador, a sword that is said to belong to the Morn, the first Spaceknight. However, ROM, where the Spaceknight mythos was created, established that ROM himself was the first of the Spaceknights. This is likely because ROM, in his Spaceknight form, is owned by Hasbro and the comic book license for him now belongs with IDW — this is also what kept him from appearing in his Spaceknight form in other series and has kept any of his Marvel appearances from being reprinted. | |
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Headbutting Heroes | |
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Headbutting Heroes: In his 90s series, Cable frequently came into opposition with the X-Men. This was particularly the case with Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Bridge's decision during "The Nemesis Contract" is to leak information to Irene Merryweather as to expose SHIELD's shady dealings in trying to capture Cable. | |
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Body Horror: While Cable's body was still infected with the TO virus, he could become hideously distorted◊ if it was allowed to run unchecked. At one point in his childhood (as depicted in one issue of The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix), he looked like something out of The Thing (1982). One typical way of depicting him losing control of the virus was to have his left arm grotesquely◊ deformed◊ | |
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character | |
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Cable (2020) is the first Cable series since Cable (2017), and starred Kid Cable rather than the original Cable. While Cable (2017) focused on the main character's time-hopping antics and had him as a stern protector of the timestream who was more than a little tortured because of his secrets, Cable (2020) has Kid Cable as a very happy and well-adjusted teenager who likes to fight and go on dates. | |
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Fights Like a Normal | |
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Fights Like a Normal: He has powers (very strong ones) but they're largely ignored in favor of his really big guns and master hand to hand combat skills. | |
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Hypothetical Casting | |
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Hypothetical Casting: Watching Avatar made Rob Liefeld wish on Twitter that Stephen Lang (Col. Quaritch) would play Cable in the X-Men Film Series. Some of Cable's fans, and even Lang himself, wish the same. | |
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Manly Tears | |
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Manly Tears: Despite Cable's hard, cold exterior most of the time, he has shed a few of them over the years. Examples include over the death of his wife Aliya in the first issue of his series, the first time he went back in time when he is found and taken by Moira Mactaggert to Muir Island and remembers his traumatic past, when he is transported forward in time and meets his younger wife when she was alive but is forced to let her go, when his mentor and friend Prosh is forced to leave Earth to save Nathan from the Techno Organic Virus, when he witnesses his parents wedding and in a Storm mini series when he believes that Ororo is dead. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The first issue of the "Newer Mutants" arc featured what seemed to be the cast on the cover, including Cable, X-23, Armor, Doop, Shatterstar, Longshot and the Age of Apocalypse's Blink. Most of these characters are in fact the protagonists... except Blink. Not only is she working for the villains, but it's not even the same Blink — the Blink present in the story is the mainstream Blink, while the Age of Apocalypse Blink is nowhere to be seen, and in fact returned later in a new Exiles series. | |
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up | |
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Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Hope Summers, with the frequent time skips in the 2008 series. In issue 1, she's a baby, by issue 24, she's a teenager. | |
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BFG: One of Cable's trademarks. Covers frequently just have him holding a gun. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: The main theme of the David Tischman run was averting this trope, with Cable using his godlike powers to solve real-world problems like terrorism and ethnic conflicts (albeit with decidedly comic-booky twists like super-plagues and clones). | |
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Terminator Impersonator | |
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Terminator Impersonator: Some depictions play up his Terminator similarities (being a hulking, time-travelling, BFG-toting cyborg with a glowing eye). | |
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Evil Counterpart: The 2008 series positions Bishop as one to Cable, being a time-travelling cyborg mutant from a post-apocalyptic future. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: The 2020 series says that Galador was destroyed by the Builders, which is a nod to the Infinity event that Jonathan Hickman wrote. | |
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Polyamory | |
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Polyamory: While on Krakoa, Kid Cable dates both Pixie and Armor simultaneously. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: No matter what changes are made to Cable, be it killing his archenemy, getting a new power, curing himself of the techno-organic virus, getting weapons other than guns, etc. He always comes back to being a white haired, time tossed soldier with the BFG and metal arm. | |
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Harmful to Minors | |
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Harmful to Minors: Poor Hope lives in constant danger of this. | |
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Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth | |
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Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth: There's a storyline in Earth-80521 with a race of humanoid roaches; the Roach Soldiers, and they have their own president. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: In the tie-in issue to The Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix, he calls out Scott for abandoning him by allowing him to be transported into the future as an infant. Cyclops says it was the only way to save Nathan's life, but Nate isn't particularly forgiving. Coincidentally, the follow-up to that series, The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, showed Scott and Jean on their honeymoon... where they were transported into said future and did raise Nate! | |
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Cloning Blues | |
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Cloning Blues: Stryfe (Cable's clone) and his mother Madelyne Pryor (Jean Grey's clone). | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Cable and Stryfe, as Stryfe is Cable's clone. Cable also has an Absalom thing going on with his son Tyler... or at least, he did, until Wolverine killed him. | |
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Evil Twin | |
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Evil Twin: His clone Stryfe. | |
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Tagline: "The man called Cable" is frequently associated with the character and his series, having appeared on the cover of his first appearance. | |
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