Characterization
According to Duane Swierczynski, although the writer "missed Cable's heyday in the early 1990s," Cable is " kind of antihero—the cryptic, Man with No Name of mutantkind. If quibbles with the Cable of yesteryear, it's that he was just a tad too powerful. could port around the world at will, fetch beer from the fridge with the power of his mind, and then crush said beer can against his metallic love handle." When asked whether Nathan Summers was a tragic character in his mind, Swierczynski replied that, "Cable's still a bad ass soldier, make no mistake. But is breaking him down like he's never been broken down before" and said that " going to see Cable struggling with a new bodily problem, one directly borne out of his experiences in 'Messiah War.'"
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