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Character Cable
Nathan Summers
A soldier from the future with a metal arm, a teddy bear on his belt and one bullet's worth of patience.
- Status
- Alive
- Species
- Mutant
- First in print
- The New Mutants #87 (1990)
- On screen
- 1 entry
Who they are
Deadpool 2 imports the single most convoluted character in X-Men comics and gets him on screen in one line: he has come back to kill a child, because of what the child grows up to do. Brolin plays it entirely without jokes, which is the correct decision and the reason the double act works.
Connections
Ally
- Wade Wilson
Character · from deadpool 2
Appearances
Canonical timeline · 1 entry
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
Fox's X-Men
A separate universe, in its own order-
Deadpool 22018 · Major role
Beyond the screen1 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
The most complicated man in comics
Cable arrived as a gun-toting mystery and was later revealed to be Cyclops and a clone of Jean Grey's son, sent to the far future as a baby to cure a techno-organic virus and returned as a middle-aged man. The film declines to explain any of this, on screen, on purpose.
The New Mutants #87 (1990), Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld