Deadpool 2: Who is Cable?

Cable seemingly sacrificed himself while fighting Stryfe, but as it happens in comics, nobody stays dead. Cable’s first real encounter with the Merc with a Mouth was in 2004 series Cable & Deadpool. It is only then that Cable got interesting. While the two characters had met before, it was this series that explored their relationship, which is interesting to say the least. I suggest you read it to probably get a rough idea of what is coming in Deadpool 2.

Josh Brolin in a still from Deadpool 2.

In Deadpool 2, Cable seems to be after a mutant kid (played by Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison). There is strong indication that Cable may not be the bad guy, or at least not the only bad guy. He might even team up with Deadpool’s newly minted mutant team, “a little derivative” as Domino said, X-Force. Jack Kesy is said to be the main antagonist but we do not know what he is playing.

Cable is a mutant like Deadpool – a one man army from the future. He suffers from a techno-organic virus thanks to Apocalypse. This also gives him various abilities. He has telepathic and telekinesis powers. He fought Wolverine hand-to-hand to a standstill and defeated Captain America. His one arm is metallic à la the Winter Soldier, which gives him even more strength. His glowing eye that you probably wondered about is cybernetic that gives him enhanced eyesight and allows him to see in the infrared spectrum. Like DC’s Cyborg, he can use his cybernetic parts to interact with technology to hack computers, pick locks, time-travel and so on.

This is all comics, though. The film might have a totally different Cable.

Deadpool 2 will release on May 18.

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