History Characters / CableEnemies

* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: His (currently as of 2019) final showdown with Cable took place in the North Africa of the Cretaceous, and he tried fusing the Cretaceous with a weird Deathlok future (but of course failed, because, well... see the trope name).

* LogicalWeakness: Because he lacked the Techno-Organic Virus that Cable had, he doesn't have to use part of his powers to hold the virus back; however, said virus also fortified a good amount of Cable's body (to the point where he's practically a cyborg), meaning that Stryfe has to rely on wearing armor to make up for this disadvantage. All that armor makes him particularly vulnerable to magnetic types, as both ComicBook/{{Polaris}} and ComicBook/{{Magneto}} have demonstrated.

* ForWantOfANail: Supposedly she had plans to recruit her alleged descendant Jean Grey, but Professor X got to her first.

* EldritchAbomination[=/=]HumanoidAbomination: Rapidly fluctuates between the two. The virus plus his native shapeshifting talents and tendency to constantly shift to evade the pain - and the fact that he can seriously threaten the likes of Hope Summers and a young Nate Grey - all qualify him. The fact that he's prone to ''eating'' virus infected flesh doesn't help.

* HybridMonster: The nature of his transformations often leads to multiple simultaneous forms. It is ''incredibly'' disturbing.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Played With. While he controls his shifting, he's in constant pain so he ''has'' to constantly shift to alleviate it.

* MadeToWatch: He's quite intent on Cable seeing ''all'' of what he's doing. Otherwise, what's the point?

* CloningBlues: More like Cloning Melodrama in his case, as he is forever consumed with angst over being Cable's clone. Though, since he thought for most of his life that he was the true Nathan Summers and that Cable himself was the clone, his angst is perhaps justified to a point. It gets worse when he runs across [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who is also an artificially created version of Cable, but more of an artificially gestated half-sibling (he's made from Jean and Scott's DNA)... and who is, to add insult to injury, much, ''much'' more powerful than Stryfe. For context, Stryfe has previously beaten Apocalypse and time-travelled. A teenage Nate, with minimal training and power control, flattened Holocaust and went on to beat Apocalypse to a pulp and leave him on a platter for AOA!Magneto to rip in half, and ''subconsciously resurrected the dead''. A fully fledged Nate treats death as a minor inconvenience, has kept Apocalypse imprisoned - ''effortlessly'' - while simultaneously running Magneto as a puppet and flattening an entire team of powerful X-Men (including Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman, and Psylocke) in the blink of an eye, effortlessly defeated {{ComicBook/Legion|MarvelComics}} and treated the multiverse as his personal stepladder, rewritten reality, and [[ComicBook/AgeOfXMan created an entire new plane of existence.]] You can see why Stryfe might feel a bit inferior.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's got a lot of angst (first over his perceived ParentalAbandonment, later over CloningBlues) and likes to depict himself as more tragic than villainous, but his cold-blooded manipulation of the MLF members and his spiteful release of the Legacy virus tell you all you need to know about Stryfe. TragicVillain he's not.

* TheUnfettered: Thanks to his body not being ravaged by the T-O virus. However, he's still not in Nate Grey's weight-class, which leaves him with [[CloningBlues a serious inferiority complex.]]

* ScoundrelCode: He's one of those villains who considers himself a "professional" and sneers when told that Franchise/SpiderMan villain the Beetle (Abner, not Louise) has gone straight.