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| Alternate Identity | Cable "Wild Man of Borneo" | ||||||||||||||
| Powers and Abilities | Telekinesis, Time Travel, Mechanical Arm, Futuristic Weaponry | ||||||||||||||
| Team Affiliations | Clan Chosen | ||||||||||||||
| Allies | X-Men Bishop | ||||||||||||||
| Family and Friends | Tyler | ||||||||||||||
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Cable is a time traveling mutant and mercenary. He spends much of his time trying to take down the evil mutant Apocalypse in the year 3999 AD.
Biography
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Cable went back to the present and began working as a mercenary in 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 supressed 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 travelling 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.
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. When the time came, Cable allowed Wolverine to be infected by the virus so his Healing Factor would develop the necessary antibodies. 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.
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.
Powers and Abilities
Cable's mutant powers is telekinesis. He can move objects with his mind. Though unlike the present day Jean Grey, he does not appear to be able to read other's minds.
Being from the future, Cable has access to highly advanced weaponry including a time travel device, Artificial Intelligence and high tech such as rifles and grenades.
Personality
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.
Background
Cable was voiced by Lawrence Bayne. Bayne also voiced Erik the Red, Fabian Cortez, Captain America (in his appearance in "Old Soldiers"), and additional voices. Bayne also voiced Zedaro on Silver Surfer. He was voiced by Tessho Genda in the Japanese dub.
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.
He is described in Genosha by Beast's former attorney Cameron Hodge as a lone mercenary seeking out the leader for his mission.
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.
So far, the only animated version of the character.
In the Comics
Cable's name is Nathan Christopher Charles Summers and he is the son of Scott Summers and the clone of Jean Grey named Madelene Pryor. None of this is referenced in the series. Though it is alluded to when his A.I. is telling him about the X-Men and he seems to already know about Scott and Jean.
He also has telepathic abilities.
Tyler is a supervillain known as Genesis.
He has also partnered with Deadpool.