History ComicBook / Cable2020

Following his time briefly working with Psylocke and X-23 in ''ComicBook/FallenAngels2019'', Cable has gone solo and is living life as the chosen son of the Grey-Summers clan. After a brief sparring session with Wolverine (in which Nate cheats to claim victory), Nathan responds to a young mutants' distress call regarding an injured creature roaming Krakoa. Nate, Pixie and Armor fight the monster, leading the telekinetic teen to see a piece of metal sticking out of its paw. Pulling it free, Nate realizes that it is a sword belonging to one of [[ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight the Space Knights]]. Hoping to disassociate himself from the old Cable, Nate decides he's a sword guy now. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people wanting that sword too...

!!''Cable'' provides the following tropes:

* AdultFear: The child of Omerta and Stinger, who had been living in a human suburb for some time, is kidnapped by the Order of X, a cult that worships mutants.

* ChickMagnet: Like father, like son. Young Cable is quite successful with the ladies. He's palling around with Armor and Pixie in the first issue and become the boy toy of all five of the Stepford Cuckoos in the second. There's even a brief joke in ''Wolverine'' setting up his status, where the Cuckoos do the unthinkable (flirting with Quentin Quire for a few minutes) just to get a shot at dating Cable.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Firmly averted. While previous writers have frequently forgotten about Cable's incredibly powerful telekinetic and telepathic abilities, here they are on full display, such as in the first issue when Cable uses his telekinesis to gain a combat advantage over Wolverine. In #6, [[spoiler:he manages to use his telepathic abilities to contact his parents, Jean and Scott, on Krakoa while he's on another plane of existence. Even they're amazed he was able to reach them.]]

Following his time briefly working with Psylocke and X-23 in ''ComicBook/FallenAngels2019'' Cable has gone solo and is living life as the chosen son of the Summers Family of Krakoa. After a brief sparring session with Wolverine (in which Nate cheats to claim victory) Nathan responds to a young mutants' distress call regarding an injured creature roaming Krakoa. Nate, Pixie and Armor fight the monster, leading the telekinetic teen to see a piece of metal sticking out of its paw. Pulling it free, Nate realizes that it is a sword belonging to one of the Space Knights. Hoping to disassociate himself from the old Cable, Nate decides he's a sword guy now. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people wanting that sword too...

The book ended with issue 12.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: When Stryfe is finally killed by the Cables, the demons he conquered loudly declare his death and immediately walk away from fighting the Grey-Summers clan without further incident.

* BackFromTheDead: Issue 11 sees the resurrection of [[spoiler:the original old Cable, who surprisingly doesn't hold a grudge towards his younger self for killing him. He was brought back to stop their evil clone Stryfe]].

* BittersweetEnding: Teen Cable gave up his resurrection rights to bring Old Man Cable back, so that they could defeat Stryfe together. However, this also means that Teen Cable has to go back to the future.

* VillainWantsMercy: When both Cables take the upper hand on Stryfe he hastily and rather smugly tries to claim amnesty from Krakoa. The two Cables pretend not to hear it and kill him while he's in the middle of pleading for his life.

* CloningBlues / ClonesArePeopleToo: Played around with. Stryfe is Cable's evil clone and creates more Stryfe clones in an attempt to replace Cable in Krakoa, but they are able to kill them all. Then it turns out that since Stryfe needed ten babies for his sacrifice, but only had five, he cloned them, so when the babies were returned to their parents, they each had a twin. The parents, however, were just happy to get their babies back alive and considered the twins to be a bonus, showing that they don't really care if their kids have a clone.

The book will end with issue 12.

* {{Polyamory}}: Cable dates ''all'' of the Stepford Cuckoos.

* {{Polyamory}}: Cable dates ''all'' of the Stepford Cuckoos. Unlike most examples of this being used as a deceptive tactic in relationships, both Cable and the Cuckoos are aware of the arrangement of the romance and the "poly" part of the relationship (the Cuckoos) are actively manipulating the mono part (Cable).

* BrotherSisterTeam: Issue #7 is about Cable teaming up with Rachel Summers to find ten missing mutant babies. [[spoiler:They end up finding five of them, leaving the other five missing.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Cable offers his assistance to the NYPD in tracking down a missing mutant baby, but the cops write him off as a dumb teenager.

* CallAHumanAMeatbag: The Spacekights attacking Cable in #2 informs his allies that the "meatbag" has telekinesis.

'''Detective DiStefano:''' 'Cause we might got a hot lead for you.

* {{BFS}}: Part of Nate's attempts to differentiate himself from his father is picking up a fallen Space Knight's sword and declaring the weapons of his old, future self to be outdated. It's certainly big enough to give a Kaiju severe distress after years of being dislodged in its foot.

* CloseToHome: Cable takes it VERY personally after learning about a mutant baby kidnapped from his parents. It's pretty obvious he still has some issues from his own kidnapping as an infant which left him stranded thousands of years in the future.

* HarmfulToMinors: Cable's ordeal in #6 (an ComicBook/XOfSwords tie-in) leaves him so thoroughly traumatized that Cypher persuades Opal Saturnyne that that the death of his spirit counts as a defeat in his and Bei's duel to the death.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Cable and his dad Cyclops both confront the police in separate scenes, but it's framed the same way both times.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Aside from their constant enemies, the Dire Wraiths, appearing in the original ''Lifedeath'' storyline, the Space Knights of Galador have rarely interacted with the X-Men in a notable fashion. Here, they're the primary antagonists of the first arc thanks to Cable grasping the Light of Galador.