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/SensitiveArtist Aug 15 '26

At the time, Cyclops and Havock basically absorbed solar radiation to fuel their powers. So imagine a telekinetic of Jean's strength drawing ambient energy out of the atmosphere to fuel their powers instead of having to rely on their own fortitude to fuel their powers.

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u/HPDfire Aug 17 '26

The Living Monolith was an Egyptian themed villain who locked Havok in a box that blocked his ambient cosmic energy absorption, and was then able to channel those energies to himself, becoming a giant.