Calvin guessed he was going to show up; largely because we just got him recently; but I swear this Cable might be a moderate pain in the ass to get: for a minute there, he wasn't available on Amazon or anywhere else I could find, and I thought I was going to have to order a full case to build Zabu. Then I found Cable at GameStop--and only Cable; I had to Amazon the rest. Really feels like he should have holsters; although maybe that's accurate there? I want to say that's the outfit he wore around
Uncanny #375, where maybe both Cable and X-Man were on one of the assorted X-Men squads of the time, and Cable had a magic spear? Anyway, Cable and Bishop are more connected in the cartoon than they were in the books, although I do recall a stretch where Cable was trying to save baby Hope, while Bishop had maybe gone a bit insane and was trying to kill her; which sounds bad but I also think was just a way to have Bishop vs. Cable,
Spy vs. Spy style.
For his part, I feel like Kurt knows them both, but they're both not guys to talk about their feelings or anything: they're both very mission focused, even if it seems like they come back sometimes and their mission goals have shifted dramatically? From his perspective, they both have a tendency to show up, make everything about them, push towards doing something, for reasons, now now now, then disappear until the next time they show up and do the same. Also, we saw Kurt and Bishop recently in
Uncanny X-Men #473: Bishop suggests, maybe the Sentinels guarding the mansion at the behest of the government could be used as assets; Kurt calls them prison guards and seemingly wants nothing to do with them.
Ha, I actually predicted something correctly for once! Combined with all my various predictions about comci storylines on my blog, I think that makes me about 11-for-893 lifetime. Eh, still better than Nostradamus.
ReplyDeleteI like your description of how Kurt would see Bishop and Cable (also Kurt's "12 Monkeys" crack was great.) Bishop and Cable kind of seem like all of Wolverine's worst "hard man" tendencies, minus the ability to relax and go shoot some pool and have a few beers. So Kurt would probably get tired of them pretty quickly.
I can pretty much only tolerate Cable when Deadpool's around to needle him. That's what happens when you grant Scott Summers parental custody rights. Kid gets infected, sent to the future, comes back as a Rob Liefeld character with a tedious messiah complex.
Yeah, Bishop chased Hope (who I think was a teenager by the end of the book) and Cable across multiple timelines, with a metal arm he stole from Forge that had a nuke in it. He just needed to get close enough to be sure he'd kill her, then set it off. I think that got quietly swept under the rug at some point, thankfully, and I'm not even a huge Bishop guy (although I liked the concept of his Bishop: The Last X-Men series, if not necessarily the execution.)
Sadly all of that did indeed happen & of course it was rightfully swept under the rug. They could’ve always explained it away as some form of time travel psychosis from time-traveling too much or Bastion/Nimrod having infected & brainwashed Bishop to kill Hope as a last option.
DeleteThe 12 Monkeys reference is definitely spot on, but I’m sure the Time Cop fits too, although I’ve only ever seen the 1st one myself.
ReplyDeleteCould be the lighting, but the paint job on that new Cable looks really dull & lifeless. Eww.
Isn’t that most future guys though? I feel like the Legion was always like “we can’t tell you why we’re here, just be glad we are” or “we know something big is happening that you don’t know”. I think Booster Gold’s the only one who just wanted to hang out with us backwards past people.
ReplyDeletePartly because he might’ve felt he had more in common with past us than his current future iteration of society, and partly because he wrecked his future life so bad he had no choice but to go back to the past and rebuild it.
DeleteH, I think you're right about the Legion; they seem pretty big on preserving the timeline, so they like to play vague with their reasons. Or if someone comes to visit them, make them forget what they saw before they return to the past (I was re-reading some of Abnett and Lanning's Legion stuff this afternoon, and '90s Superboy is there and they're not even letting him look at their files on 30th Century threats for fear he'll learn something he shouldn't.)
ReplyDeleteBishop and Cable usually tell the X-Men what they're trying to prevent, but they're also usually trying to change the future, rather than preserve it.
But all Marvel futures seem terrible, whether it's Days of Future Past, the Badoon conquering the Solar System in the OG Guardians of the Galaxy, the Martians in Killraven's version, 2099 and its polluted biosphere and megacorps. No real reason not to try and change that. The Legion's future seems pretty nice in comparison.
That looks like the outfit Cable wears in Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and he had a pistol in a hip holster in that game, but it was still one of his less heavily armed looks (Can't remember if the game gave him his "psi-mitar". Also, I like how Bishop is leaned forward in the first two panels. Really sells him desperately clutching at Kurt, practically begging him to not let Longshot and Dazzler hook up.