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Nathan Summers, aka **Cable**, is a superhero and a member of the X-Men from the future appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

## Background

Nathan Summers was born to Scott Summers (AKA Cyclops) and Madelyne Pryor (A clone of Jean Grey) as a weapon for the supervillain Mister Sinister to use against Apocalypse. Young Nate was later kidnapped by Apocalypse himself who infected him with the Techno-Organic virus, a deadly virus that spreads liquid metal and organic steel through the host's body and, if not stopped, eventually kills the host. To make things worse for poor Nate, there was no cure.

Thankfully, a visitor from 2,000 years in the future, Sister Askani of the Clan Askani, appeared to Scott. She claimed that Nathan would become a savior in her time and promised the Clan would cure him of the virus in the future, however, she would be unable to make a trip back, trapping Nathan in the future. Left with no other options, Scott sent Nate to the future with the hope of him being cured of the virus, but as it turned out not only was there no cure but to make matters even worse, the future world also happened to be ruled by Apocalypse.

So, Nate was in a pretty messed up situation..

When he arrived in the future he was raised by a time-displaced version of his sister - Racheal Summers - and placed in an incubation crib in order to stop the Virus from spreading, however, it was too late and the virus had already spread to his body making it impossible to remove it. Surprisingly though, Nate survived the process and was taken by Sister Askani of the Clan Askani due to Apocalypse attacking the Clan. Sister Askani brought Nathan’s Parents - Jean and Scott - to the future with new clone bodies (made from their descendants) as their previous bodies would not survive the trip.

Jean and Scott raised Nate, hoping that he would become the legendary Cable and overthrow Apocalypse. He was taught to use the Techno-Organic Virus that was in his body as well as Telekinetic Training from Jean - allowing him to contain the virus and prevent it from killing him.

Overtime, Nathan would grow into a great warrior - naming himself Cable and dedicating himself to his training so that one day he would be the one to eventually defeat Apocalypse and save his ruined future...which he would eventually do so. These future events with Apocalypse were not the end for Nathan as he would go onto to have many adventures including going back and meeting the X-Men in the past, partnering up with the Merc with a Mouth - Deadpool, fighting his own clone in the form of Stryfe and even becoming the leader of X-Force. Ultimately, Cable is a survivor, a person with ruthless determination to achieve any goal he sets his mind to.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Techno-Organic Physiology:** Much of Cable’s body has been infiltrated and altered by the techno-organic virus, which has taken the form of cybernetics and bionics, meaning he is a cyborg. The primary infection resides in Cable’s left side. As a consequence of his telekinetic guidance and his ability to control his own physical substance, Cable’s entire body has been heavily fortified, down to the cellular level, rendering superhuman strength to an unknown degree, as well as a superhuman level of resistance to physical harm. While he was injured in combat with the Hulk, the injuries were not nearly as severe as they should have been, especially in light of the fact that he was suffering from the effects of his techno-organic virus getting out of control. His entire skeletal structure has been replaced by porous, marrow-filled organic metalloid bone replacements that do not interfere with the creation of erythrocytes (red blood cells). His entire CNS (Central Nervous System) has been augmented by chemical changes down to the atomic level and by bio-computer enhancement, rendering his reaction time far above what is possible for a human being. While initially purged of his T.O infection which crippled his mutant abilities, he has recently been remade into a fully Techno-Organic being once again.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:** Cable possesses superhuman physical endurance, just as he does superhuman levels of mental endurance. He is capable of exerting himself at peak levels (fighting full-out, sprinting, etc.) for several hours, before fatigue begins to visibly impair his performance. He is also capable of going extended periods of time without sleep, being fully capable of fully resting with not much over an hour of sleep. However, whenever both possible and feasible, Cable still chooses to sleep for hours at a time (approximately 6 – 8), in order to dream. This high endurance has had other effects on his body, making even his soft tissues extremely durable, and more than up to the task of rendering him virtually immune to conventional firearms and conventional firearm munitions.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** In spite of his great size and impressive build, Cable is literally fast enough to evade high-powered bullets in-flight (after they have been fired), and even has the ability to visually track rounds after they have been fired (though they are not easy to see, except through his cybernetic eye). This great speed is also visible in superhuman levels of dexterity and agility, including manual and pedal dexterity.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**
	+ **Superhuman Dexterity**
	+ **Cybernetic Eye:** This cybernetic eye permits Cable to see deep into the EM (Electro-Magnetic) spectrum, and far deeper than any known 20th – 21st century technologies are capable of. It is also possible that through this eye, Cable is able to see the deployment of psionic energies, as well as the less exotic spectra of electromagnetic energies.
		- **Cybernetic Arm:** His left arm is completely mechanical, and while Cable is ambidextrous, is his stronger arm, probably capable of allowing him to curl and dead-lift several tons, without assistance from his right arm. His right arm is also cybernetic, but far less so.
		- **Cybernetic Restoration:** Through a combination of his telekinetic abilities, and his ability to rearrange the atomic structures of matter (including his own techno-organic matter), Cable is able to rapidly repair any damaged components within his body. However, if there is widespread damage, this may not be possible, as he may be unable to muster the energy to affect these repairs. When he was attacked by Magneto, and virtually every component in the left side of his body was damaged or destroyed, Cable was left unable to repair enough systems to save his own life, and required outside assistance. It is through these abilities that the physical appearance of his cybernetic components has changed, over the passage of time, as well. At times, they have been articulated, smooth artificial limbs, while at others they have been observed to grow razor-sharp blades on command, as well as retract them. Cable is also able to rapidly redesign and improve his cybernetic and bionic components, thus. On-the-spot improvisations has allowed him to create a variety of microcomputers in his totally mechanized left arm that do such things as allow him to physically interface with exterior computers, up-link/download to computers he has hidden across the world and in space (such as those he had on Graymalkin), and even permit cellular communications and high-speed, broadband, wireless Internet access.
* **Telepathy:** Ability to read minds and project the thoughts of others.
	+ **Psychometry:** Cable's younger counterpart is able to glean psychometric readings off of objects with tactile contact.
	+ **Telepathic Illusion:** Ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
	+ **Telepathic Cloak:** Can mask his presence from being detected by others. Can extend these defenses to others around him as well. Cable's abilities can, at times, go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths, depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities.
	+ **Mind Link:** Ability to develop a mental link with any person, which remains as a connection to that individual.
	+ **Telepathic Camouflage:** Ability to mask himself and other people's presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around his quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).
	+ **Mind Control:** Ability to control the minds and even voluntary and involuntary bodily functions of sentient beings (such as other humans).
	+ **Mind Trap:** Ability to take another person's mind from their body and effectively trapping that mind within his own.
	+ **Mind Possession:** Ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as your own.
	+ **Mind Alteration:** Ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
	+ **Mental Amnesia:** Ability to cause loss of particular memories and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.
	+ **Precognition:** The ability to foresee events before they have even come to pass.
	+ **Psionic Shield:** Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of himself and of others minds. Cable has proven very difficulty to psychically assail, as he is very well skilled in shielding his own mind from mental-attacks (such as attempts to read, control or harm his own mind), and has been sufficient to protect himself from other psychics. His power was strong enough to break Onslaught's control over Hulk.
	+ **Psionic Blasts:** Can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind, so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
	+ **Astral Projection:** Ability to astral travel and communicate with others astrally through his own will or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others. In the Astral Plane, he can use his powers to create "ectoplasmic" objects. Cable has a mastery of astral projection, and is able to remain on his own plane of existence or to traverse into any of the so-called "Astral Planes".
	+ **Mental Detection:** Can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a large, but as yet undefined radius of himself, by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being. At his peak, Nathan is strong enough to sense a stray thought a continent away.
* **Telekinesis:** Cable possesses high-level telekinesis enabling him to manipulate matter with the energy of his thoughts. Capable of very fine control over objects, including himself. On larger levels, Cable can levitate great weights, but his upper limit has remained undisclosed. At his peak, Nathan could displace hundreds of tons of matter as he did when lifting and repositioning the sunken space station Graymalkin.
	+ **Technoactive Manipulation:** Nathan learned from Amelia Voght that through use of his TK to manipulate the virus swimming through his biology, that he can also manipulate foreign techno-organic substance to a similar degree. At first Cable had no clue as to why this was the case until he realized the former base of Magneto which he and others infiltrated was comprised of T-O substance. Through which he can channel his mind over matter skills through to control the fortress structure.
	+ **Intuitive Aptitude:** Can disassemble complex devices explosively (separating every last component, such as screws, nuts, circuit boards, etc.) and, just as quickly, easily assemble complex devices. This also has enabled him to even attain awareness and control over objects as small as individual electrons in an atom. For instance, Cable could detect if a seal was hermetic, or not, by checking for the presence of penetrating oxygen molecules. Can even detect and discern individual oxygen molecules, and determine the atomic weight of molecules, by the amount of atoms present.
	+ **Matter Alteration:** Ability to alter molecular and subatomic structures, both in his own techno-organic components (though this may be a function of telekinesis, as opposed to a discreet superhuman power), and the very chemical valences in objects i.e. changing food into poison, turning iron into pure gold, moving oxygen molecules to cause asphyxiation, transforming a man into a hideous man-bat or even changing the dermal layer of another's hands into glowing algae.
		- **Inorganic Disintegration:** Several times Cable has show cased the ability to disintegrate objects by dissolving their atomic and molecular bonds.
	+ **Psionic Spikes:** Ability to create destructive psionic spikes that destroy the physical objects that the spikes come into contact with.
	+ **Size Alteration:** Has used his telekinesis to alter his physical stature to that of a towering giant, similarly to Apocalypse.
	+ **Telekinetic Healing:** At the peak of his power as Soldier X, Nathan has showcased vast biological capabilities, such as regenerating himself and/or healing others of malignancies or bodily damage at an accelerated rate, like after getting shot in the head twice as well as healing his body after getting cut through by semi-automatic gunfire.
	+ **Force Fields:** Ability to create protective force shields that could deflect even the most powerful of attacks (even filter bacteria from the air). The upper limits of this ability remain unknown, but it is believed that he could probably protect himself from harm at the ground zero detonation of a 1 kiloton nuclear warhead (4.18 terajoules of energy from the heat, concussion and radiation effects). Cable has also displayed such control over the fields as to shape them precisely, even to conform very closely to his body’s form. There does not appear to be any correlation between field strength and the thickness of the telekinetic fields.
	+ **Concussive Blasts:** Can project telekinetic energies as powerful blast beams directed from his brain that could apparently affect matter with concussive force.
	+ **Tactile Telekinesis:** Cable can use his telekinesis to enhance his already impressive physical practices to superhuman levels, enough to force a reversion of the hulk to one of his many personas with one blow.
	+ **Telekinetic Flight:** By levitating himself, he can "fly" for very long distances and at varying speeds.
	+ **Telekinetic Teleportation:** While uninhibited by the T.O. infection Cable shows the ability to warp himself from place to place even without his "bodysliding" technology.
		- **Remote Teleportation:** So proficient in its use Nathan can warp people away remotely from anywhere across the world.
* **Time Travel:** Been hinted to have the psionic power to displace himself and others at almost any specific point in the time-stream and then re-emerging in the physical world from as much as a few minutes to years by generating chronal energies. Could apparently travel in astral form as well. Cable used the ability once with assistance and may no longer be capable of doing so.
* **Master Combatant:** Cable was a highly accomplished warrior and battle strategist, highly adept in many forms of hand-to-hand combat and in the use of a variety of weaponry from both the modern era and the late 37th-early 39th century.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Cable has a diploma in law and is also in possession of an education provided by the Clan Askani, which is far in advance of modern era conventional education, especially in the sciences.
* **Teleportation:** By "Bodysliding", Cable can teleport or 'bodyslide' to virtually any area, with a limited number of passengers. While in possession of the Cone of Silence, bodysliding deactivated Cable's suite for a short amount of time.

## Equipment

* **Futuristic Weaponry:**
	+ **Psimitar:** Since his earliest years Cable has always made use of the psychic focusing lance which combines both his normally hampered telekinetic and telepathic capabilities to create potent energy force blasts.
	+ **Hyper Viper Beam:** a large plasma-based energy cannon that fires beams of unstable spiral energy, made famous in the Marvel vs Capcom games.
	+ **Plasma Rifles:** Dual-wielded energy weapons capable of dishing out high powered plasma bolts
	+ **Time Freeze Grenades:** These Grenades are capable of freezing time allowing Cable to dodge attacks or simple freeze an enemy in place.
	+ **Electric Grenades:** In MVC2 he is cable of firing electrical grenades that have a much wider radius than your standard grenade and electrify enemies rather than blowing them up
	+ **Animal-Controlling Gadget:** Cable has gadgets that let him control animals, including Dinosaurs.
* **Modern Day Weaponry:**
	+ **Glocks:** Glocks are semi-automatic pistols that are designed for
	+ **Koch MP5K:** 30 rounds, best used as a close-combat weapon. He also uses an IMI Uzi in combat as a substitute.
	+ **Grenades:** If Cable wants some explosive damage done, he can fire Grenades
	+ **Knives:** For short range combat, he usually carries a pair of knives around in case anyone unfortunate to meet him wants to get stabbed.
* **Belle:** A sentient Artificial Intelligence that he can interact with to better access his chrono skimming abilities and interface with A.I. transmissions within the localized airwaves, through it Cable can also synthesize a type of M-Pox suppressant as well as other complex chemical elements with which to repress other virulent concoctions.
* **Light of Galador:** While on the Arak Maw, Cable found the Light of Galador embedded in the foot of an Arakkoan monster. It had previously belonged to Morn, the first of the Spaceknights. Despite its size, it is said to be lightweight

## Feats

### Strength

* Ranked as a Class 10 in strength, though that’s insanely lowballing him
* Brawled with the Hulk
* Can go toe to toe by beings such as Luke Cage, War Machine, Omega Red, Wolverine, and Captain America.
* Threw Deadpool through a second story window
* Lifted hundreds of pounds with minimal problems
* Telekinetically caught Hulk in mid-air and slammed him through the street
* Managed to stagger Apocalypse with telekinetic punches
* Ripped apart cybernetic armor
* Punched his fingers into solid rock
* Smashed the head of a Brood
* Snapped the necks of two men simultaneously
* Burst through the floor of the X-Mansion
* Lifted an island with telekinesis
* Capable of moving planets & extinguishing stars

### Speed

* Avoided gunfire from androids
* Dodged Gambit's explosive projectile
* Dodged War Machine’s first attack so fast that WM says he barely saw Cable move
* Intercepted Hope shooting at Bishop
* Reacted to men being prepared to shoot at him and shields Hope from bullets before they can do so
* Blocked and took out a Commando who can move at Lightning Speed
* Sliced an arrow out of the air
* Blocked Riptide's shuriken with his Psimitar
* Caught Wolverine's strike
* As a general matter, sometimes shows good reactions in blocking attacks with his TO arm
* Evaded enemy's projectile fire
* Dodged a flying razor blade
* Shielded Hope from bullets

### Durability

* Tanked a blow from Apocalypse.
* Tanked a huge explosion caused by Nate Grey. Nate Grey is just as powerful as Dark Phoenix.
* Tanked a blow from The Hulk
* Stayed conscious after several Hulk punches
* Tanked several attacks from the X-Force
* Tanked Boom-Boom's energy explosion
* Got punched hard by Cannonball
* Tanked a blast from Ultron, and got KO'd for a page or so, but he is soon up and running
* Tanked a blast from Sunfire,
* Tanked Gambit's explosion,
* Tanked a telekinetic blast from Stryfe
* Took a blast from Selene

### Skill

* Omega level mutant
* Joined the X-Men, X-Force, Secret Avengers, New Mutants, and several more super teams
* Handled Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Falcon, Red Hulk, and Anti-Venom...at the same time
* In 75 (likely more) different battle simulations run by the X-Men, every outcome ended up with them killed by Cable
* Cable fought Apocalypse pretty evenly
* With Storm's help, held off Onslaught controlled Hulk
* Aided by the Avengers, he took on Apocalypse's Herald
* Fought Captain America and won
* Fought Wolverine equally
* Fought Wolverine and Bishop at once
* Fought War Machine though WM is stated to have the upper hand
* Defeated Sinsear
* Fought Machine Man and won
* Defeated Deadpool
* Ionized the Earth's atmosphere
* Rewrote DNA to remove the TO virus
* Fought Silver Surfer in hand-in-hand
* Nearly killed the Avengers by himself
* Once absorbed & vomited up Deadpool
* Defeated Apocalypse, Stryfe, X-Man, and the X-Men

## Weaknesses

* **Mind's Interconnection:** The minds of Cable and his alternate universe counterpart Nathanial Grey are interconnected and them coming close proximity to each other will cause both to experience excruciating pain.
* **Techno-Organic Virus:** Cable must constantly sacrifice a portion of his telekinetic powers by being required to use them to restrain the T-O Virus from spreading. An excessive effort could release the Virus, and cause him to die slowly, turned into a cyborg.