CABLE BECAME PRESIDENT OF RUMEKISTAN — A WHOLE COUNTRY HE TALKED INTO PEACE!
Cable & Deadpool #28–29 (2006) by Fabian Nicieza: after Flag-Smasher is killed during the transfer of power in Barjnov, resistance leader Petrovic introduces Cable as Rumekistan's new leader; Cable persuades ULTIMATUM's soldiers to lay down their arms and begins rebuilding the country.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE RAN X-FORCE THROUGH ONE-DAY CLONES OF HIMSELF — EACH COPY BLEW UP AFTER 24 HOURS!
X-Force Vol. 4 #1–6 (2014): infected by Volga's explosive 24-hour serum in Alexandria, Cable hides his real body in stasis under Dr. Nemesis and runs X-Force through thoughtlog clones — copies that live about a day, then detonate, by timer or by whistle.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE'S DAUGHTER HOPE GOT HER NAME FROM CABLE'S DEAD WIFE — ALSO NAMED HOPE!
X-Men #205 (2007) and Messiah Complex; Cable Vol. 2 #10 (2009): Cable raises the first post-M-Day mutant in the future haven of New Liberty, marries a woman named Hope who helps raise the child, and — after she is killed defending them — names the girl Hope Summers in her memory.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE WAS FORCED TO SHOOT HIS OWN SON — THEN HIS SON CAME BACK AS TOLLIVER AND GENESIS!
X-Force #1 (1991) flashback and X-Force #5 (1992) as Mr. Tolliver; Cable #19 (1995) as Genesis: Tyler Dayspring, son of Nathan Summers and Aliya Dayspring, is abducted and brainwashed by Stryfe, survives being shot by Cable, travels to the present as the arms dealer Tolliver, and dies trying to turn Wolverine into a Horseman of Apocalypse.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE WAS RAISED BY HIS OWN PARENTS IN DISGUISE — AND HIS HALF-SISTER RAN THE WHOLE THING!
The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1–4 (1994) by Scott Lobdell and Gene Ha: Mother Askani — an aged Rachel Summers, Cable's half-sister from an alternate timeline — pulls Scott and Jean's minds into the future, where as "Slym" and "Redd" Dayspring they raise young Nathan for twelve years and help him thwart Apocalypse's essence transfer into Stryfe.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE BUILT A FLOATING ISLAND NATION — THEN FOUGHT THE SILVER SURFER TO KEEP IT FLYING!
Cable & Deadpool #6–12 (2004), "The Burnt Offering" by Fabian Nicieza: Cable telekinetically builds the floating island nation of Providence from the wreckage of his space station Graymalkin, issues a 48-hour disarmament ultimatum, and fights the Silver Surfer as his powers burn out.
READ THE FULL FACT →AS A BABY, CABLE WAS SENT ALMOST 2,000 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE — JUST TO STAY ALIVE!
Nathan Summers, son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor (Uncanny X-Men #201, January 1986), was infected as an infant with the techno-organic virus at Apocalypse's order; Cyclops allowed Sister Jen Askani to take him to the 39th-century Askani future for treatment in X-Factor #66 (1991), where he was raised as Nathan Dayspring, the Askani'son.
READ THE FULL FACT →CABLE'S FIRST TEAM, THE SIX PACK — AND THEIR "DOMINO" WAS A FRAUD!
Before X-Force, Cable ran a mercenary crew — the Six Pack (first seen in a X-Force #8 flashback, March 1992, Nicieza & Liefeld) — renamed from the Wild Pack over a trademark fight with Silver Sable, and broken up when Cable abandoned them in Stryfe's bunker in Cable: Blood & Metal #1–2. Meanwhile, Tolliver's shapeshifter Copycat had replaced the real Domino in X-Force, exposed only in X-Force #11 (1992).
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