Sinister to eventually challenge Apocalypse’s dominance. – In the Age of Apocalypse, Nate Grey was a clone made by Mr. It was a solid examination of some of Cable’s more absurd character elements, while also being a good, epic X-Men comic. Deadpool would do his thing (Bugs Bunny with an arsenal) while Cable did his (overpowered messiah saving the world with over-the-top action). In that, Nate was mostly just the straight man in a straightforward superhero action/humor comic. His link to Deadpool comes mostly from two things: they were both created by Rob Liefeld around the same time, and they shared the headlining role in one of Marvel’s better mainline hero books of the aughts, Cable and Deadpool. He was a badass soldier from the future, and he stayed that way whether he was fighting brushfire wars in eastern Europe, protecting a mutant messiah as they’re chased through the future like it’s Lone Wolf and X-Cub, or saving the world with his omega level telepathy and telekinesis after his techno-organic virus was completely cured. That set him adrift for a little while, but his core stayed the same. He becomes an interesting case study in comics storytelling – almost a decade after his first introduction, he actually succeeds in destroying Apocalypse and averting his terrible future (don’t worry, it’s comics: Apocalypse gets better). He jumps back in time and takes control of the New Mutants to help further that goal. While there, he discovered that he was destined to take down Apocalypse, the nigh-immortal mutant who eventually takes over the world and turns it into a Darwinist shitscape. But at the same time, he was placed at the center of the third age of X-Men comics, one defined by Apocalypse and soapy family relationships.Ĭable was eventually revealed to be Nathan Christopher Summers, the child of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, taken into the future to save his life after he was infected with a virus that caused his body to morph into a pile of loose technology. He also showed up packing heat – he was covered in giant guns to the point where he eventually became a parody/poster child for the excesses of ’90s comics. He was more militaristic than his predecessors: Charles Xavier, the secretly monstrous founder of the Xavier school, and Magneto, the surprisingly incompetent reformed nemesis. There are layers (and layers and layers and layers…sweet Jesus are there layers) added over that, but at his core, he’s always just been a badass soldier from the future trying to build a badass army to prevent his awful future from coming to pass.Ĭable was introduced in 1990 to be a new mentor to the second generation of X-students, the New Mutants.
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