History ComicBook / CableAndDeadpool

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues. The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} that began after the first six issues, where they were somewhere between fighting and helping each other due to their individual missions conflicting/collaborating during that arc. The series had been noted for its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_movie buddy movie]] overtones, the high-level of GenreSavvy possessed by ''all'' characters, and how it tied into major Marvel events (''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', and referencing ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'') without the characters being derailed at all for the plot.

* ActionGirl: The B.A.D. Girls (Black Mamba, Asp, and Diamondback) who end up in the first major arc of the second volume, Domino, from Rumekistan arc, and Outlaw and Sandi finally prove themselves as this in the final issue (they only hadn't before due to lack of screen-time).

** Deadpool is a type V HeroicComedicSociopath with some AntiVillain on the side.

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues. The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} that began after the first six issues, where they were somewhere between fighting and helping each other due to their individual missions conflicting/collaborating during that arc. The series had been noted for its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_movie buddy movie]] overtones, the high-level of GenreSavvy possessed by ''all'' characters, and how it tied into major Marvel events (''HouseOfM'', ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', and referencing ''OneMoreDay'') without the characters being derailed at all for the plot.

* RedSkiesCrossover: While having tie-ins to ''HouseOfM'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', the series stayed focused on its own characters. For ''HouseOfM'' Wade went tripping through several dimensions to find Cable, one of which included the main universe created in that series. For ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Cable joined the Anti-reg and Deadpool the pro-reg, Cable on principles and Deadpool for fighting. All it did was cause another on fo their "divorces" for a bit.

* UnfortunateNames: Weasel's real name is Jack Hammer (no in-series word on possible relations to [[IronMan Justin Hammer]]). He wonders if his parents had a sick sense of humor.

* TeleporterAccident: * A variation occurs: the two main characters' genetic code get mixed up during the first arc, leading to Cable's transporter fusing them together every time they say, "Bodyslide by one," instead of, "Bodyslide by two."

* MindOverMatter: Cable, when his powers are increased. Usually they're buy with the techno-organic virus.

** Deadpool and weasel have a less healthy version of this.

* TheAce: Shan Kuei a.k.a. The Cat. How good is he? He doesn't accept mercenary jobs for money, he accepts them if the other people competing with him to complete the job would lead to good fights. Deadpool and Weasel both have fanboy moments over him and he beats up all three B.A.D. girls.

** Ditto with Deadpool saying he's a mutant/X-man.

* MindOverMatter: Cable, when his powers are increased. Usually they're buy with the techno-organic virus.*

* AndThisIsFor: There's a RunningGag of Deadpool fighting his way into building doing this, but the things he mentions are nothing to do with who he's attacking.

** In the recap pages, people being awkward about describing how Cable and Deadpool ended up stuck together from the beginning of the series. Also, constant statements [[TakeThatMe that the book has about on recurring fan.]]

* TheBuscameBack: The series liked featuring minor Marvel characters, including Black Box's real identity as [[the mutant Comcast]], who hadn't been seen in awhile.

* UnfortunateNames: Weasel's real name is Jack Hammer (no in-series word on possible relations to [[IronMan Justin Hammer]]0. He wonders if his parents had a sick sense of humor.

* OddFriendship: It's heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that Cable and Deadpool have no serious reason to be friends (outside of their mutal teleport system requring them both to use it or be temporarily fused together anyways). When Deadpool was first created way back when, he was Cable's ''enemy''.

** During his fight with SpiderMan, Deadpool talks about the [[Film/SpiderMan Toby Maguire]] films and how they affected Spidey's public image. He also make quite a few TakeThat-ish references to OneMoreDay and how Spidey doesn't remember it.

* TheAce: Shan Kuei a.k.a. The Cat. How good is he? He doesn't accept mercenary jobs for money, he accepts them if the other people competing with him to complete the job would lead to good fights. Deadpool and Weasel both have fanboy moments over him and he beats up all three B.A.D. girls

* OddFriendship: It's heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that Cable and Deadpool have no serious reason to be friends (outside of their mutal teleport system requring them both to use it for be temporarily fused together anyways). When Deadpool was first created way back when, he was Cable's ''enemy''.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cable and Deadpool. Despite frequently trying to kill/injure each other, Cable never telling Deadpool anything or trusting him much (admittedly justified at times), Deadpool doubled crossing Nate like crazy, and Nate having two female love interests, Cable and Deadpool become BLATANTLY entrenched in each other's lives and quite devoted to the relationship. They call any time they're not on good terms a "divorce" and Cable seems more at ease with Deadpool that either of his {{Love Interest}}s (Domino and Irene Merryweather).

** To be fair, those facts weren't necessary to the story.

* FinalBattle: How the series ended--Deadpool accidentally teleported dinosaurs to New York City, where they also became infected with symbiotes (somehow). This leads to every Hero, AntiHero, and mercenary int he city fighting them. Deadpool [[FanBoy almost swoons]] when he realizes he's getting to fight with people like Ben Grimm, Spider-Man, and the Avengers.

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues. The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} that began after the first six issues, where they were somewhere between fighting and helping each other due to their indivual missions confilcting/collaborating during that arc. The series had been noted for its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_movie buddy movie]] overtones, the high-level of GenreSavvy possessed by ''all'' characters, and how it tied into major Marvel events (''HouseOfM'', ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', and referencing ''OneMoreDay'') without the characters being derailed at all for the plot.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Thanks to Cable fixing his mind in issue 16, Deadpool remembers a lot more of his life. He doesn't dwell on it [[AngstWhatAngst never has, never will]], but he is able to use it to prove that he's Wade Wilson, so T-Ray isn't. {{Word of God}} keeps [[FlipFlopOfGod flip-flopping]] as to whether it's right or not. Most fans still stick to this version, though.

* AntiHero: Cable is mostly a Type III (this being the series credited with [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap saving him from his old type IV self who mostly just killed villains and was an archtype of]] NinetiesAntiHero

* BattleRoyaleWithCheese: How the series ended--Deadpool accidentally teleported dinosaurs to New York City, where they also became infected with symbiotes (somehow). This leads to every Hero, AntiHero, and mercenary int he city fighting them. Deadpool [[FanBoy almost swoons]] when he realizes he's getting to fight with people like Ben Grimm, Spider-Man, and the Avengers.

** During his fight with SpiderMan, Deadpool talks about the [[Film/SpiderMan Toby Maguire]] films and how they affected Spidey's public image.

* SpottingTheThread: A memory version-when T-Ray showed Deadpool the moment when Deadpool "tried to kill him and then stole his identity" in an earlier series, and Deadpool was already in costume when he did the alleged act. When Cable fixed Deadpool's memories later, Deadpool remembered that he only got the costume after Weapon X, which he only joined because his cancer made him leave the army (which he signed up for as '''Wade Winston Wilson). This gets {{retcon}}ned in and out DependingOnTheWriter, though fans typically take it as proof that Deadpool is Wade and T-Ray is not. Deadpool himself admitted that [[DependingOnTheWriter it depends on who's writing him]].

** Deadpool is a type V HeroicSociopath with some AntiVillain on the side.