Cable Character Review
Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared as an infant in Uncanny X-Men (January 1986).
His adult identity of Cable, which was created by writer Louise Simonson and artist/co-writer Rob Liefeld, first appeared in The New Mutants (March 1990), though he was not revealed to be the adult
incarnation of the infant Nathan Summers until years later. He is the
son of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Madelyne Pryor (a clone of Jean Grey), and was born in the present, but was sent into a distant future where he was raised (More about Cable Character Review..Keep reading !).
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Powers and Abilities (Cable)
Cable was born with telepathic and telekinetic
abilities, however, the extent to which he has been able to utilize
these powers have varied dramatically throughout his appearances.
Originally both were limited by his need to restrain his techno-organic
infection and his powers were negligible compared to his more
traditional fighting skills. However, following the subsidence of the
infection they gradually increased to the point where they were similar
in magnitude to those of Nate Grey,
to whom he is genetically identical. At their height, he demonstrated
the ability to simultaneously levitate the floating city of Providence and combat the Silver Surfer. Following that story, his powers were burnt out and he replaced both
with technological substitutes. Later he states that both his telepathy
and telekinesis have faded to nothing.
When Professor Xavier's son Legion
travels back in time to kill Magneto in the "Legion Quest" storyline,
Beast notes that Cable possesses "latent time-travel abilities". With
the assistance of Shi'ar
technology, Professor Xavier "jump-starts" this ability while Jean Grey
telekinetically holds Cable's body together, allowing Cable to send his
consciousness into the past.
During Messiah War, during the fight with his clone, Stryfe, Cable demonstrates the ability to hide others from Stryfe's mental view,
implying that at least he retains some of his telepathic powers. He
also still possesses some of his telekinesis, but he is using it solely
to keep the techno-organic virus in his body at bay.
His techno-organic body parts possess enhanced strength and
durability, and his techno-organic left eye gives him enhanced eyesight,
allowing him to see farther than a normal human and in the infrared spectrum. He is also able to interface his techno-organic body parts with machinery, using them to hack into computers, open electronic locks, and travel through time.
As of the end of Avengers: X-Sanction, Cable has apparently
been fully cured of the techno-organic virus by the Phoenix Force (via
Hope Summers), and appears to at least have his telepathy.
Cable also made use of a spear-like weapon called the Psi-Mitar,
which was originally a long staff with a spear point on one end and a
scythe blade on the other, used primarily by the Askani. It functions as
a focus and amplifier for telepathic or telekinetic power, which it can
project as power blasts.
In Other Media (Film/Television)
- Cable made six appearances in X-Men: The Animated Series in the episodes "Slave Island", "The Cure", "Time Fugitives (Parts 1-2)", and "Beyond Good and Evil (Parts 1-4): The End of Time". He was voiced by Lawrence Bayne in the English version and by TesshÅ Genda in the Japanese dub. This version of Cable possessed his trademark metal arm but it is referenced as being a bionic construct rather than a result of the techno-organic virus. In this series, he lacks his comic book counterpart's telepathic powers, though telekinetic powers remain. There is also a discontinuity as to the age of his son Tyler, who appears as a child and an adult in different episodes both set in the year 3999, though several changes to the time-line had occurred.
- In 2009, Marvel attempted to hire a team of writers to help come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties, such as Black Panther, Cable, Iron Fist, Nighthawk, and Vision.
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