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Superhero Origins: Cable, AKA Nathan Summers


exterminating evil one era at a time
welcome to watchmojo.com today we will
explore the comic book origins of cable
otherwise known as nathan summers not a
great start
as with most comic book characters
they’re often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past I don’t
mind being wrong as long as I can
correct my mistakes we’ve chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1986 is uncanny x-men issue
number 201 which was expanded upon in
1991 s x-factor number 67 this mutant
has appeared through multiple
continuities of the x-men franchise with
the aid of his time-traveling tech he’s
also quite notable for boasting some of
the most powerful telepathic and
telekinetic powers his universe has ever
seen
who are you the wild man of Borneo see
you around
gable first appeared as a newborn
conceived by x-men Scott Summers and
Madeline Pryor who was soon revealed to
be a clone of Scott’s first love Jean
Grey upon learning of her false origin
Madeline became unhinged and planned on
using her newborn as a sacrifice to open
a portal between Earth and a demon
inhabited limbo saving his son and
foiling Madeline’s diabolic plot Scott
would later encounter an even greater
threat when apocalypse infected nathan
with a deadly techno-organic virus
apocalypse discovered that the birth of
the child was actually an elaborate
scheme hatched by mr. sinister and
decided to retaliate before the plan
could be completed he won’t just a tag
material
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apocalypse is infection with soon’s he
Nathan’s whole body transformed into
techno organic material if Scott and
Jean couldn’t belper cure faced with no
other options the two left their baby in
the hands of a clan a scandi member from
a distant future claiming she could save
the boy
taking him two thousand years into the
future the mother s caddy determined
that the virus was far too developed and
settled on cloning Nathan in case he
didn’t make it
this would soon lead apocalypse to
kidnap the clone and raise it as his own
super soldier known as strike the
motherís can’t even opted on
manifesting the projections of Scott and
Jean to help raise the young cable in
the distant future in growing up with
his parents
Nathan soon discovered how to cease the
progression of the techno-organic virus
with his telekinetic abilities when his
mutant powers further increased into his
teenage years he succeeded in destroying
apocalypse
the names Jay will remember ed vaca lems
confident in his skill Nathan takes off
to defeat the super mutant in the past
while also adopting the alias of cable
catching on to the Time Traveler’s plans
stray follow suit to see an end to cable
and to stop him from killing apocalypse
while in the present the two would
frequently butt heads
however the evil clones armies proved
too formidable for cables to contend
with a lump it wasn’t until the mutant
formed a resistance team known as the
x-force that he was able to decimate
strife and his moon base without his
clone in the picture cable now had the
full opportunity to face off with
apocalypse once more to save the
sanctity of the present era cable
defeated apocalypse and preserved his
own future but thanks to temporal
paradox he would still live on in
multiple timelines cables future time
travels when inexplicably linked him to
apocalypse so much so that it was
revealed that cable himself infected
apocalypse with the techno-organic virus
long ago thereby allowing apocalypse to
infect him many years later rendering
his all existence into a paradox over
the years Cable has appeared in various
x-men titles spin-offs and media his
insurmountable telekinetic powers and
advanced weaponry from the future not
only make this character possibly the
most capable x-man of the series but one
of the most favored
are you a fan of the time-traveling
mutant take your best shot you’ll never
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