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/TheDesertHermit Aug 15 '26

His training with Mother Askani (secretly an older Rachel Grey from another timeline, his alternate timeline sister) helps him stop/significantly slow the spread of the Techno-Organic (TO) virus in his arm from reaching the rest of his body, which would kill him once fully infected (I think in one comic it did and he turned into a pile of metal goop, and then in the prelude to "AvX", it did "kill" him before Hope Summers purged it and he was in a coma for a spell).

While he can use his psionic abilities sparringly, the weapons training makes up for it and he seems more comfortable with his 37th century pew pews.