| Cable | |||||||||||||
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| Real Name | Nathan Charles Summers | ||||||||||||
| Alternate Identity | Cable "Wild Man of Borneo" | ||||||||||||
| Powers and Abilities | Telekinesis Mechanical Arm Advanced Weaponry Telepathy | ||||||||||||
| Team Affiliations | Clan Chosen X-Force X-Men | ||||||||||||
| Allies | Bishop | ||||||||||||
| Family and Friends | Scott Summers (Father) Madelyne Pryor (Mother) Tyler (Son) Jean Grey (Stepmother) | ||||||||||||
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Nathan Summers, also known as Cable is a time traveling mutant, mercenary, and leader of both Clan Chosen and X-Force. He spends much of his time trying to take down the evil mutant Apocalypse in the year 3999 AD. He is also the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor.
Biography[]
Nathan Charles Summers was born to Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor, who is a clone of Jean Grey. He was delivered by Rogue after she syphoned the knowledge from a doctor who did not want to deliver him. Unfortunately, Nathan was captured by his mother and infected with the Techno-Organic Virus by Mr. Sinister. Beast was not able to find a cure for the virus, which resulted in Nathan being sent to the future with Bishop in order to receive a cure. However, he and Bishop were split in the timestream and they arrived at different points in the future.
Season 1[]
Nathan was cured of the Techno-Virus and went back to the present, which led to him working as a mercenary under the name of "Cable". He sought to bring down the army of a general who called himself "The Leader". After finding out that the Leader wasn't interested in democracy as he had claimed to be, Cable left his army and went off on his own to start a revolution. Cable began hunting him and tracked the man down to Genosha.
While there he found that the mutants were forced into slave labor to build Master Mold. He freed Gambit who then freed everyone else. When asked who he was he sardonically called himself the "Wild Man of Borneo." While the former slaves were revolting against their captors, Cable found the Leader and took his arm and leg.
Later he went to find a scientist named Gottfried Adler, who had helped in the mutant slavery in Genosha by inventing deadly collars that suppressed mutant powers and after finding out that he was on Muir Island in Scotland, he set off to track him down, unaware that Adler had already been killed and a shapeshifter named Mystique had taken his place. After finally capturing Adler and finding out who he really was, he was defeated by the X-Men, but managed to make his escape possibly traveling back to his own time.
At some unknown point afterwards, Cable lost his arm and replaced it with a mechanical one from the future. He also fathered a child whom he named Tyler.
Season 2[]
In the future, Cable fought tirelessly against Apocalypse, an ancient mutant who sought to control the world. However, something was going wrong with his timeline and it was being erased. He used his artificial intelligence to learn that Bishop, a time traveler from an earlier period, had gone back and changed the Techno-Virus. Therefore humanity did not develop proper immunity against other diseases so his past was disappearing. Unfortunately, the Techno-Virus was developed by Apocalypse, meaning Cable had to help his mortal enemy to save the world.
Cable went back and tried to kill Bishop, but was stopped by the X-Men. After discovering a better solution, Cable teamed up with Bishop and the X-Men to battle Apocalypse, and allowed one member of the team, Wolverine to be infected by the virus so his healing factor would develop the necessary antibodies, therefore saving everyone's future. Upon returning to his time, he found that everything was as it was, though still in a war with Apocalypse.
Sometime later that same year, the timeline changed and Tyler became an adult.
Season 4[]
Tyler joined him on a mission to destroy the Lazarus Chamber, the secret to Apocalypse's long life. However, Apocalypse stole his time traveling device and used it to "escape" time so he could travel to any period he wanted.
Cable used another time travel device to go back and get the help of the X-Men, whose members Charles Xavier and Jean Grey were kidnapped by Mister Sinister. Cable and the X-Men were joined by Bishop and stopped Apocalypse's plan, apparently destroying him for good.
Other Events[]
At one point he formed a group called X-Force consisting of himself, Bishop, Psylocke, Deadpool, Feral, Angel, Domino, and Lila Cheney. They helped save the X-Men when they were captured by Shadow King in the body of Cassandra Nova.
Powers and Abilities[]
Cable's mutant power is telekinesis. He can move objects with his mind.
Being from the future, Cable has access to highly advanced weaponry including a time travel device, Artificial Intelligence and high tech weapons such as rifles and grenades.
Relationships[]
Cable is mostly a lone wolf character, even though he has his own team in the future. He does not appear to get along with anyone. Though he shows a lot of love for his son. He admires the X-Men for their bravery, claiming "they aren't the wimps he thought they were" and is touched by Bishop's dedication to save his own future.
Background[]
Cable was voiced by Lawrence Bayne in X-Men and by Chris Potter in X-Men '97. Tessho Genda voiced Cable in the Japanese dub of X-Men.
When casting Cable, the producers had in mind a voice like William Smith, Robert Mitchum, and Clint Eastwood.[1]
So far, this is the only animated version of the character, though concept art of Cable was developed for the unproduced second season of Wolverine and the X-Men.
Inconsistencies[]
In season one, Cable is shown to be simply a highly skilled mercenary. In season two, and the rest of the series, he is suddenly a time traveler and has a cybernetic arm. Though the second version is more true to the comic book character, it is never explained how this happened in the series. There is a similar inconsistency with Angel.
Another inconsistency deals with Tyler. In two different multi-part episodes, both set in 3999, he appears as both a child and young adult. Though this could be due to the constantly changing nature of being in the future and these are alternate universe versions.
In the Comics[]
He carries a spear-like weapon called the Psi-Mitar. It focuses and amplifies his psychic powers creating powerful blasts.
He firstly was the leader of a team called The New Mutants.
He has an evil clone named Stryfe who was created by Apocalypse himself.
Tyler is a supervillain known as Genesis.
He has also partnered with Deadpool.
References[]
- ↑ Casting XMen:TAS at XMen:TAS