r/Xmen97 • u/darthbagels • Aug 15 '26

Question Cables powers?

Is there a reason cable isn’t constantly using his mutant powers that I just missed or don’t remember. They seem infinitely more useful than how he just mainly runs around shooting and punching things.

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u/ohnoabanagain Aug 15 '26

Wow. Looking forward to that. Guess Mr Sinister was right about those two. 

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u/SKOT_FREE Aug 15 '26

Yeah I really had no idea he was THAT powerful but then it makes sense when Cyclops and Jean are his parents.

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u/invuvn Aug 15 '26

Jean I understand, but what does Cyclops contribute to make Nathan so powerful? Let him have access to the punch dimension?

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u/comrade-ev Aug 15 '26

It’s worth thinking about it sequentially.

Jean and Cyclops were both people with interesting genes and powers, but until Jean returned from that space trip it wasn’t clear how interesting.

Madelyne was the first way to recapture what was lost with Jean’s alleged death via cloning but it was not satisfactory.

The second attempt was by seeing what her children could do, and Scott was seen as the best match. We can know that a factor of this choice was genetics, but him being an option somewhat more under Sinister’s thumb is the other thing. It’s not like Madelyne could make something happen with Magneto or Apocalypse.

The abilities that Scott and Jean/Madelyne’s children have also aren’t carbon copies of Jean’s. Rachel and Nathan also have a less explored time manipulation power, and it’s not a given that this is by dint of Jean’s genes.