Line #11 YMMV/Cable


1	These are examples of subjective tropes for the comic book character, Comicbook/{{Cable}}.
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3	* CantUnHearIt: Creator/JoshBrolin's voice caught on for readers.
4	* CompleteMonster: Vol. 1, issues #83-86: [[ConquerorFromTheFuture Gaunt]] is an intergalactic [[TheWarlord warlord]] from the [[BadFuture future]] who desired to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the entire universe]]. For 10,000 years, Gaunt led a campaign of destruction through countless planets and star systems, killing trillions of innocents, and would take tributes from his conquered planets such as women for his own use. When offered a deal to be released from his prison at the end of time, Gaunt accepts the deal and mystically enslaves Rachel Summers to force her half-brother [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]] to his location, offering him a fight to the death with Rachel's life in the balance. Gaunt is so desperate to continue his endless subjugation of the universe that he violates his own fair fight rules by psychically attacking Cable in his sleep, gaining joy from the suffering he and Rachel endure in the process.
5	* FridgeBrilliance: Despite losing the majority of his powers, Cable recently seems to be able to survive attacks that would have previously killed him (his throat being slit, multiple bullets in the back and a katana through the chest all in the space of a few days). But then one realizes that his former powers help keep his techno-organic virus at bay, now although weaker power-wise he is much more stronger physically because the techno-organics have spread throughout his entire body. "It's hard to completely slit a metal throat"
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** A number of the early interactions between Cable, Cyclops and Jean Grey, before the revelation of his parentage became known. One example includes a time Cable was [[GoodIsNotNice roughly]] [[NinetiesAntiHero berating]] his (unknowing) parents about the leadership of the X-Men, and [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/c59b5a80f3205c0fd05fd15597352aed/tumblr_p73qeeiNrH1udsh6eo4_1280.jpg insisting he take charge of the team for their own good.]]
8	** To add to that Cyclops is saying that the X-men are not warriors and that they must follow Xavier's vision. By the mid 2010s Cyclops had completely given up on Xavier's vision and had become exactly what Cable is saying here.
9	* HoYay: Cable and {{ComicBook/Deadpool}}.
10	** In Cable's case, he seemed entirely unaware of Deadpool's man-crush.
11	** Either that, or he prefers to just ignore it.
12	** [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/6/62148/2445183-mambadeadpool2.jpg Hardly seems that he doesn't know... And Wade wasn't the only person contributing subtext and innuendo to that series. Cable helped.]]
13	** He doesn't freak out when Deadpool asks if they're "gonna have to kiss" or when he calls their falling-out a "divorce", but he might just consider that Deadpool being... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Deadpool.]]
14	** "Bodyslide by two." That is all.
15	* ItWasHisSled: Cable was revealed as the son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey/Madeline Pryor/The Phoenix Force a whole three years after he was introduced. Now, his true identity is one of his defining traits, as evidenced by the introduction on the main page.
16	* MagnificentBastard: ''Film/Deadpool2'': Cable is a half-cyborg soldier from the future whose wife and young daughter are murdered by Russell Collins/Firefist, a pyrotechnic supervillain. Cable travels back in time to prevent this from happening with the strong intent to kill Russell when he's still a child. He breaks into the Ice Box, the mutant prison Russell is being held in, and mows down the guards before then fighting [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool Wade Wilson/Deadpool]] and beating him too. Cable then goes after a prison caravan Russell is in while making further attempts to prevent Deadpool's interference as well. Cable then teams up with Deadpool and his friends to track down Russell and after Deadpool sacrifices himself to protect Russell from Cable and thus, undoes Russell's actions in the future. Cable then relives the previous fight against mutant-hating orderlies perfectly while saving Deadpool and deciding to stay to further help preserve the future comfortable knowing his family is alive again.
17	* MyRealDaddy:
18	** Despite being a creation of Creator/RobLiefeld, many believe that Fabian Nicieza was the one to honestly define Cable as a character, giving him his old cynical soldier elements, most of his abilities and technology and his relationship with Deadpool
19	** Scott Lobdell also gets some acknowledgement here, as he's the one who fleshed out Nathan's life growing up and essentially tied him closer to the X-mythos, and providing a story/character reason beyond 'coolness' for his moniker of Cable. Bob Harras, Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio to a lesser extent, for retconning Cable into Nathan Summers, though they didn't do anything with that afterwards -- that's where Lobdell stepped in.
20	* ReplacementScrappy: Kid Cable, the younger Cable introduced in ''Extermination''. Part of it is because he [[spoiler: murdered the older Cable]], and the other part is that he's, well, young, when a big part of Cable's appeal is him being an old grizzled soldier. And unlike the actual younger version of Cable (his brother/counterpart, ComicBook/XMan), he isn't endearingly socially awkward and trying to be a hero, he isn't exploring Cable's potential if he didn't have the virus, and he isn't interestingly weird. Indeed, he seems to combine the worst traits of both Cable ''and'' X-Man. It gets worse when most of the X-Men and Summers/Grey Family go on to sweep Cable's death under the rug and [[EasilyForgiven forgive Kid Cable for murdering him]], treat him like family, effectively replacing Cable. [[ShootTheShaggyDog Despite everything he was to them and sacrificed for them over the years.]]
21	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Cable used to be considered the embodiment of everything wrong with TheNineties. He was a "mysterious past" character whose power seemed to consist of looking cool and having big guns. Since that time, as more was revealed about his backstory, he's been fleshed out as a shell-shocked soldier fighting an eternal war against a seemingly immortal foe and trying to live up to his role as a MessianicArchetype without falling too deep into KnightTemplar territory.
22	* SoOkayItsAverage: Most of the 2017 run. James Robinson's run had no real characterisation for anyone and a plot that just seemed like an excuse for action scenes set in different time periods, it's at best boring. The following arcs are considered better, but Ed Brisson's arc was hampered by bad art and an obsession with the Externals plotline that many readers never really cared about enough to see resolved over a decade later.

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