wherein i blog about marvel comics for a while
If you’re like me, you read a lot of X-Men comics in the 90s and probably saw a lot of the Marvel superhero “Cable” but never actually understood what he did. Most of the X-men are pretty easy to figure out—Cyclops shoots eye-lasers, Wolverine flips out. Cable though—always a mystery. Just look at this gigantic doofus:
Is glowering a power?
Anyways, friend Nate and I chatted for pretty close to an hour yesterday about this guy and tried to come up with a definitive list of his known powers:
Nate: what i know about him:
Nate: a. he and i have the same first name
Nate: b. his mutant power is something like “leadership”
me: awesome power!
me: i’m pretty sure he’s cyclops’ fictional son or something
Nate: he has a lot of prosthetic parts! but only his eye glows.
me: i think he can teleport? this might be robot aided
Nate: and he’s like the malcolm x to professor xavier’s dr king? i might have made that up.
Nate: also he is never not without a gun.
me: i think we’ve done a pretty good job of figuring out cable
Not content with this AIM convo brain-trust, I turned to Wikipedia and the Marvel web site for more insight. Aside from being a 1990s zeitgeist of Schwarzenegger action films and grunge rock cyber-sulking, he has about a million other super powers. Here’s a further list of some…::SOME:: of my favorites. (Quotes are taken from Marvel’s web site)
- telepathic
- “ability to rearrange the atomic structures of matter”
- robot arm that can hack computers and travel through time (!)
- can lift several tons
- “possesses an intellect that may be superhuman”
- “fast enough to evade high-powered bullets in-flight (after they have been fired)”
- “Cable also holds a diploma in Law.”
Come ON, Marvel Comics! Why don’t you just call him Jesus Christ Super Star? Anyways, if you think this is all an elaborate introduction to an mspaint drawing I did of Cable taking the bar exam, you’re right. Here you go
