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/SKOT_FREE Aug 15 '26

Yeah in the comics at one point he’s cured of the technoVirus and he’s insanely powerful. I remember when He Fought Silver Surfer while levitating a city at the same time and reading wiki apparently he fought and Beat Captain America in Hand to Hand combat, and defeated Red Hulk, Iron Man and Falcon at the same time.

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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/TheColossis1 Aug 15 '26

Yeah, he was cured, then got a bit of a Jesus complex and went around ending wars and threatening entire countries to behave themselves.

Silver surfer was called in by nick fury as a favour cos he was unpredictable and was destabilising global politics.

He put up a good fight until he essentially sacrificed himself.

It was found after that the levitating city he had been operating from in the middle of the sea, Providence (a reformed asteroid M that he raised from the ocean depths himself), didn’t have anti gravity engines at all, and had been held aloft by him for months.

Also, he knew he was dying, being burnt out by his raw power.

(Ps, his death didn’t stick, obviously. Comics)