Episode 140 - Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)

==Episode Description==
In which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don’t get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe’s Jan; and there’s probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this.
== X-Plained ==
* That one time Cable and Stryfe shared a body
* Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)
* Spinning nonsense into gold
* Cable and X-Force
* Cable’s controversial creative origins
* Collaborative character creation
* Cable origins that might have been
* A whole lot of time travel
* A whole lot of Summers family nonsense
* Professor (Ship)
* Tyler Dayspring (Tolliver)
* Hope Summers
* How to make Cable interesting
* What to do after you save the world
* Still more time travel
* Look, there’s a lot of time travel, okay?
* Old-man strength
* Stryfe
* David Willis’s theory of Batman humor (and Jay’s derivative theory of Stryfe humor)
* Muscle March
* Cable’s role on teams
* Stryfe vs. Hope
* Cable’s theoretical legal career
* Quantum operetta theory
== Listener Questions ==
* I recently realized that a solid percentage of Cable's rogues gallery are either related to him, like Stryfe or Genesis, or have been written as maybe related to him, such as Finality or Apocalypse. Do you think there's a reason for this, or is simply an amusing statistical anomaly?
* According to X-Force #30, Cable graduated from Harvard undergrad or law school, it's not clear, and then passed the New York state Bar Exam a year later. Have we ever found out what area of law is his specialty, or why he would have studied it in the first place?
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