Marvel Comics Character Profile - Cable
Name Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
Cable X- Men
Nationality American
Powers Mutant.
Affiliations X- Force, X- Men
1st App. New Mutants #87 March 1980
History- Nathan is the son of X- man Scott Summers (Cyclops), and Madelyne Pryor. Soon after his birth Scott left to be reunited with his former love Jean Grey (Marvel Girl) and Madelyne was left to raise Nathan alone. As it turned out (Not unusually in the Marvel Universe), Madelyne was actually a clone of Marvel Girl created by the evil Mr. Sinister to make a child for himself. Madelyne was perverted to his evil scheme and the baby Nathan was to be sacrificed to sustain a portal between Earth and demonic dimension Limbo, in the incident, that came to be known as the Inferno. After his rescue by the X- Men and X- Factor, Nathan was raised by Scott and Jean until he was infected with the Techno Virus, by Apocalypse. To save him his parents sent him 2000 years into the future with a member of the Clan Askani who assured the Nathan would be cured and become a saviour of his times. In the Future Nathan was raised to be the Askani's Son, to save the world from Apocalypse and the New Canaanites. At this time clone of Nathan was made that was kidnapped by the New Canaanites and grew to become the villain Stryfe. The young Nathan learned how to use his telekinetic powers to to keep the virus that wracked his body at bay although it spread up his right arm and side. He defeated Apocalypse in his own time, then taking the name Cable, travelled back to his original time frame with his attack force the Six Pack to defeat Stryfe. Here he discovered Sam Guthrie leader of the New mutants, and on his return to the future found records of Sam in the 23rd Century. Thinking him to be one of the group of Immortal mutants known as the Externals, Cable returned to the past to guide Sam, becoming the mentor of the New Mutants and reorganising them into the mutant team X- Force. During a battle to save Professor Xavier from Stryfe, both Cable and Strife fell into a temporal rift. Strife's body was destroyed but his mind took over Cable's body. Cable regained control of his and found his telepathic and telekinetic powers increased.