Blog:Nathan “Nate” Summers/Cable (Marvel)

Cable (Nathan Summers) is a mutant cyborg superhero from the future infected with the techno-organic virus. He is Jean Grey and Cyclops’ son, Rachel Summers’ younger brother, and Nathaniel Grey’s older brother and Hope Summers’ adoptive father. He is Deadpool’s best friend and Domino’s on and off boyfriend.

Why He Rocks

 * The concept of Cable being a cyborg from the future is very cool within itself.
 * He’s Marvel’s response to Cyborg but he’s a lot cooler and has more depth, being a war veteran and having parental issues.
 * His friendship with Deadpool is very heartwarming and he enjoys the time he spends with him. Deadpool also knows things the other characters don’t know about Cable.
 * Cable may be tough and serious, but deep down inside, he’s very soft and emotional. He cries whenever he watches his favorite show and at weddings, he loves children and babies and appears to have maternal instincts for them and always knows what’s wrong when they cry, and he also cares about his friends and girlfriend.
 * Cable is also shown to secretly have feminine interests and they can be seen in his imagination spot and when he thinks no one is looking, this includes, wanting his free time to be spent cleaning and decorating his house with pink and floral decorations, picking flowers and wanting to keep them around his house, cooking and baking for long hours, having tea parties with his friends and girlfriend, and having a spa day. It’s shown subtly in Deadpool 2 showing him applying lip balm the same way a woman fixes her makeup out in public and carrying a “utility bag” containing items women often store in their purses, such as lip balm. Whenever he’s asked about his interests and maternal instincts he quickly denies it.
 * 1) * Cable also time travels to the past to care for and give his young selves advise, such as telling his young adult self he has to work hard in order to be a good hero and babysitting his baby self.
 * The House of M arc contains Cable being age regressed into an infant and being raised by Mr. Sinister and Deadpool has to rescue him and reage him. As a baby, Cable’s very adorable and the whole time he’s in the comics, Mr. Sinister doesn’t do anything really bad to him except wants him dead and injects Deadpool’s blood into him, the readers actually feel very sorry for him, he’s crying the whole time, given that he’s a baby. Baby Cable eventually got a fan base and is slated to return as an alternate universe counterpart to Cable.
 * Cable recently got a female counterpart and she’s very cool, she looks very similar to Sergeant Calhoun from Wreck-It Ralph.
 * Cable has an evil twin brother named Styfe who wants to take over the world, Cable’s been trying to defeat him.
 * Cable’s relationship with his daughter, Hope is very heartwarming and he’s extremely protective over her, especially when she was a baby, he got to the point when he flat out refused to have anyone touch her, even his best friend and a doctor so he can properly perform a medical procedure.
 * Cable’s relationship with his girlfriend, Domino is very sweet, they always greet each other with a kiss and do a lot together.
 * In Cable & Deadpool, Cable views his training time as bonding time as he trains with his best friend and girlfriend.
 * His close friend, Irene Merryweathers is jealous of Cable’s relationship with Domino and is bitter towards her because “she doesn’t like it when [they’re] together.”, according to Cable. It shows that Irene has a crush on Cable and her bitterness towards Domino is sometimes funny.
 * Cable plays the straight man to Deadpool’s comedicness and is always there to help him be serious when needed.
 * Josh Brolin does a great job portraying Cable in Deadpool 2 and wants to get more beefed up for future Cable roles so he can look as close to the character in the comics as possible.

Bad Qualities

 * As a young adult, Cable wanted to murder his father, Cyclops because he left the family during his childhood. While his anger is justifiable, he shouldn’t try to murder his father because Cyclops actually regrets this and tries to make things right with his family. Thankfully, he never murdered him because Deadpool gave him a morality check.
 * The bath page in a lost Deadpool Comic where he and Domino are in the bathtub together can be uncomfortable for some readers, due to them being implied to be having sex in the bathtub, as shown with their facial expressions, which are grossly detailed, they look like they’re having an orgasm. Thankfully, the page was revitalized for the Domino Annual of 2018 to not only fit the modern art style but remove the facial expressions so they’re just taking bath and probably not having sex.
 * While Cable loves his daughter, Hope, he should be more trusting of people to hold her, especially a doctor, who wants to perform medical procedure on Cable.
 * When raising his daughter, other characters called him out for neglectful and negligent, mainly because he was poor at the time and running from Bishop, he can’t afford diapers and uses bandannas from corpses as diapers and gives his daughter cow’s milk rather than formula. While he’s a good father, he’s doing his best to get by and shouldn’t be insulted.
 * Cable was murdered by his teen self, Kid Cable. This angered lots of fans and they sent angry messages to Marvel. Thankfully, Marvel brought Cable back to life in Cable (2020) due to fans’ pleas.
 * Cable has a little habit of stripping down to his underwear or to the nude in front of people because he comes from a future where people live like they’re in impoverished countries, where everyone takes community baths and eats from the same pot of food so seeing nudity doesn’t phase him. It may seem out of place for some people.

Trivia

 * Baby Cable wasn’t popular until 2020 when Marvel showed Baby Vision in Wandavision and revealed concept artwork of Baby Thanos for Endgame, which shocked fans and caused them to want to see more of Marvel heroes as babies.

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