History ComicBook / CableAndDeadpool

* GadgeteerGenius: Weasel and the Fixer.
** Black Box is revealed to be one as well, due to his major invention.
* GirlFriday: Outlaw and Sandi for Agent X. Lampshaded by Deadpool.

* TheJester: Deadpool tends to play this part to any superhero he encounters, but to Cable in particular.
* MindOverManners: Cable uses an invention of Black Box's to simulate telepathy by hooking into all the world's electronic information. A lot of people are worried about that.
** He also plants a telepathic suggestion in Wade's mind to try and make Wade understand why killing people is wrong...via Wade hallucinating seeing his old victims everywhere, mocking him. Wade [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it as being a serious breach of trust.]]
* MindOverMatter: Cable, when his powers are increased. Usually they're too busy with the techno-organic virus.

* NoodleIncident: The murder of Hajin Bin Barat. Subverted because everyone eventually realizes that only Deadpool could have killed him (especially since Deadpool demonstrated the only possible way for the crime to have happened with only 3 footprints in the room), but the ''reason'' Deadpool did so is unknown. He still has occasional memory black outs, after all. Deadpool thinks (and is worried) that it might have just been because he wanted to.

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

* RunningGag: After the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc, Deadpool continually insists he's an Avenger due to being on the Pro-Reg side when involved in the fighting. He's also continually told that no, he isn't.
** Ditto with Deadpool saying he's a mutant/X-Man.

** During his fight with ComicBook/SpiderMan, Deadpool talks about the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Toby Maguire films]] and how they affected Spidey's public image. He also make quite a few TakeThat-ish references to ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and how Spidey doesn't remember it.
** Deadpool calls sneaking through pipes "the Super Mario strategy."
** And of course Wade's love of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' and Bea Arthur.

* SpeechBubbles: Deadpool's are yellow, as are his thought boxes (which he can see).
** When Cable uses telepathy, he gets blue font.

* 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''': Looks lobotomizing them works too!
* 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."
** Deadpool actually uses the "Bodyslide by one" command again, just to piss Cable off.
** The tagline might have a StealthPun about this.

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a Creator/MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues (May, 2004 - April, 2008). The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{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 BuddyPicture 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. The duo teamed up again from December 2015-March 2016, for the Infinite Comic ''Deadpool & Cable: Split Second''.

'''Please only list examples suited to the series itself here. ComicBook/{{Cable}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} both have their own pages.'''

-->--'''{{Tagline}}'''

* HoYay: So much that it needed [[HoYay/CableAndDeadpool its own page]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs. [[invoked]]

* ButtMonkey: Bob, agent of Hydra. You know you're in trouble when a psychotic mercenary declares you his pet and you seem okay with it. He's very popular with the fans, and is now something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.

* 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.

* WhatTheHellHero: Cable is constantly called out on saying he trusts Wade when usually taking the situation out of Wade's hands, especially by Merriweather Williams when Wade took a girl hostage in a situation Cable started and only did no real harm to her because Nathan interfered.
** Wade also calls Nate out on planting a subliminal suggestion in his head that ended up making Wade hallucinate all his previous victims mocking him. While Nate denies causing the specifics of what Wade saw, he admitted that he did it because he hoped Wade would eventually go to him for help about it and they could talk about Wade maybe being a better person.

* CallBack: In Cable's case, one related to his appearance on a couple of occasions during the de-ageing arc: specifically, how as a teenager he looks exactly like his alternate reality counterpart [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who had at this point been sort of dead for several years. Underlining the fact that it was intentional, the cover for one of the issues of that arc had teenage Cable in his counterpart's original ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse.''

!!Tropes:

* MarketBasedTitle: Some paperbacks and the omnibus retitle the series, ''Deadpool & Cable'', a fact that Deadpool rubs in Cable's face during ''Split Second''.

** And of course Wade's love of ''Series/GoldenGirls'' and Bea Arthur.

* RedSkiesCrossover: While having tie-ins to ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', the series stayed focused on its own characters. For ''ComicBook/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.

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a Creator/MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues (May, 2004 - April, 2008). The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{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 BuddyPicture 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.

->''Wade Wilson and Nathan Summers are back-and this time, they're stuck with each other!''

* 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 than with either of his {{Love Interest}}s (Domino and Irene Merryweather).

!!This comic provides examples of:

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The final villain of the series? Ton of symbiote dinosaurs rampaging through New York City during DarkReign, causing even heroes who wouldn't normally be active to have to pitch in.

* ShoutOut / ActorAllusion: In one issue Deadpool describes his face as looking like a cross between RyanReynolds and a shar-pei.
** During his fight with ComicBook/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.

** And of course Wade's love of GoldenGirls and Bea Arthur.

* ArtifactTitle: Cable is not in the last fourth or so of the series [[spoiler: due to being yet again dead.]] He gets minor action in the last issue, sending Wade a weapon from another point in time to help against the symbiote dinosaurs.

''Cable & Deadpool'' was a Creator/MarvelComics series that launched in 2004 and ran for 50 issues. The whole point of the series was the OddFriendship between ComicBook/{{Cable}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{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 BuddyPicture 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.

''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 SelfDemonstrating/{{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 BuddyPicture 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.

->''Wade Wilson and Nathan Summers are back, and this time, they're stuck with each other!''

* 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.
** Deadpool is a type V HeroicComedicSociopath with some AntiVillain on the side. This causes some real friction in his relationship with the more-altruistic Cable for numerous reasons.
* AntiVillain: Deadpool is a Type I.

''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 BuddyPicture 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.

'''Please only list examples suited to the series itself here. ComicBook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} both have their own pages.'''

** 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.