User blog:ARTaylor/25 Years of Cable

This month marks the mutant Cable. Though appearing four years earlier as an infant, the grown up Cable appeared in a cameo in New Mutants #86 and made a full appearance in New Mutants #87. Initially he was going after the terrorist organization known as the Mutant Liberation Front. He took command of the New Mutants before it was discovered that he was the child of Scott Summers and Madeline Pryor, the clone of Jean Grey, who had been taken to the future to be raised. Eventually, time travel became very common for him as he traveled between the future and present to fight the ancient villain Apocalypse.



Cable has made only one appearance in television or film, and that is in the X-Men animated series voiced by Lawrence Bayne. In his first appearance, he is merely a powerful mercenary who made his way to Genosha searching for the one who forced mutants into slavery. Eventually coming across Gambit, he helped the X-Man resulting in the slave revolt.

In the second season he appeared more true to his comic book appearances with a metal arm, though it is said to be a replacement rather than techno-organic virus. Fighting in the year 3999, he travels back in time when Bishop accidentally alters the course of history too much. He first had to help Apocalypse release his plague, before realizing that Wolverine's healing factor could stop the disease while also creating the necessary antibodies.

His last appearances were in the season four's storyarc Beyond Good and Evil. Originally intended to be the series finale, it features Cable joining forces with the X-Men to stop Apocalypse from rewriting the entire planet's history. Eventually the ancient villain was destroyed and Cable returned to his son Tyler.

This version did not specify that he was the child of Scott and Madeline, though it did reference that he already knew of Scott and Jean for some reason.