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5[[caption-width-right:330:[[{{Tagline}} The man called Cable!]]]]
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7->''"You'll be many things to many people... sometimes '''loved''' and '''respected'''. Other times '''feared''' and '''hated'''... almost always misunderstood. Someday, you'll be a '''cable''' that unites the past with the present and future -- yesterday with today and tomorrow. You'll be all those things, Nathan Christopher... but know that you'll never be alone. Never."''
8-->-- '''Scott Summers''', ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix''
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10The ''Cable'' {{comic books}}, published by Creator/MarvelComics, are eponymously named for the main character, Cable. [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable's character page is here]].
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12The character first fully appeared in ''"The ComicBook/NewMutants''" #87 (January 1990), and was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist/co-writer Creator/RobLiefeld.
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14Cable, or [[OverlyLongName Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers]], is a time-traveling soldier from the future who is here to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent his apocalyptic timeline from coming to pass.]] He is biologically the son of [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]] (a clone of [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]]) and Scott Summers, a.k.a. [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]], and the stepson and genetic-proxy son of Jean Grey. As an infant, he first appeared in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #201 (October, 1985), though it took years for said infant and the time-traveling adult to be revealed as the same individual.
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16Thanks to the machinations of [[Characters/XMenSinister Mr. Sinister]], he was born with a destiny--to kill [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]]. Not being an idiot, Apocalypse took steps to prevent this at an early stage by infecting Nathan with a special "[[UnwillingRoboticisation techno-organic virus]]" which severely limited his powers and would have killed him if his loving father and step-mother hadn't sent him 2,000 years into the future to be raised by his [[TangledFamilyTree alternate-universe sort-of-half-sister's]] all-female psychic 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.
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18Now 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 ComicBook/XMen more than once, [[ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool became a messiah figure]] and developed an OddFriendship with [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool 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.
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20In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/Extermination2018'', a younger version of Cable dubbed '''"Kid Cable"''' and who murdered the original, stars in a new ''[[ComicBook/XForce2018 X-Force]]'' series that reunites the surviving members of the original X-Force team. Kid Cable then joined the ''ComicBook/{{Fallen Angels|2019}}'' alongside [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]] ([[LegacyCharacter the second one]]) and [[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney X-23]] before getting his own series. Old Cable was later resurrected to defeat Stryfe and Kid Cable had to return to the future.
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22----
23!! Cable appears in:
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25[[AC:Notable Comic Appearances]]
26* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' (first appearance as Cable)
27* ''ComicBook/XForce'' (1991)
28* ''Cable'' Vol. 1 #1-108 (1993)
29* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix'' (1994)
30* ''Soldier X'' #1-12 (2002)
31* ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' #1-50 (2004)
32* ''Cable'' Vol. 2 (2008)
33* ''Avengers: X-Sanction'' (2012)
34* ''[[ComicBook/XForce2013 Cable and X-Force]]'' #1-19 (2013)
35* ''ComicBook/XForce'' #1-15 (2014)
36* ''Cable'' Vol. 3 #1-5, renumbered to #150-158 (2017)
37* ''ComicBook/Extermination2018'' (2018) (murdered and replaced by younger self)
38* ''ComicBook/XForce2018''
39* ''[[ComicBook/XMen2019 X-Men Vol. 5]]''
40* ''ComicBook/FallenAngels2019'' #1-6
41* ''ComicBook/{{Cable|2020}}'' Vol. 4 (2020)
42* ''Cable: Reloaded'' (2021)
43* ''ComicBook/{{Cable|2024}}'' Vol. 5 (2024)
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45[[AC:Appearances in Other Media]]
46* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', voiced by Creator/LawrenceBayne (Japanese voice: Creator/TesshoGenda)
47* ''Film/Deadpool2'', played by Creator/JoshBrolin.
48* ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes]]''
49* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance''.
50* ''VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline''
51* ''[[VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2]]''
52** ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' as DLC
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54For tropes pertaining to the Cable ''character'' and those associated with him, see the [[Characters/{{Cable}} character page]]
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56'''This page is for tropes applying to the ''series'' named Cable; tropes applying to the character go on the characters page.'''
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58----
59!!The various ''Cable'' series contain examples of:
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61[[foldercontrol]]
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63[[folder:Cable (1993)]]
64* HeadbuttingHeroes: In his 90s series, Cable frequently came into opposition with the X-Men. This was particularly the case with Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine.
65* ReedRichardsIsUseless: 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 [[ThePlague super-plagues]] and clones).
66* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: 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.
67[[/folder]]
68
69[[folder:Cable and Deadpool]]
70-> See ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool
71[[/folder]]
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73[[folder:Cable (2008)]]
74* CockroachesWillRuleTheEarth: There's a storyline in Earth-80521 with a race of humanoid roaches; the Roach Soldiers, and they have their own president.
75* EvilCounterpart: The 2008 series positions Bishop as one to Cable, being a time-travelling cyborg mutant from a post-apocalyptic future.
76* HarmfulToMinors: Poor Hope lives in constant danger of this.
77* PlotRelevantAgeUp: 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.
78[[/folder]]
79
80[[folder:Cable and X-Force]]
81-> See [[ComicBook/XForce2013 Cable and X-Force]]
82[[/folder]]
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84[[folder:Cable (2017)]]
85* CoversAlwaysLie: 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.
86[[/folder]]
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88[[folder:Cable (2020)]]
89-> See ComicBook/Cable2020
90[[/folder]]
91
92[[folder:Cable (2024)]]
93-> See ComicBook/Cable2024
94[[/folder]]

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