In New Mutants 88, Cable...

[evilheroics]

Cable is referred to, by a guard, as a legend and he said it was an honor to guard him.

I thought Cable just popped out of a time warp and was chasing the MLF/Strife/Apocalypse...

Does this suggest that he served in the US military? Or is there a backstory down the road where the writers explain this?

Any help would be great...

[Affinity]

Questions thread. (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=132932)

[evilheroics]

....

anyone?

[Affinity]

Ask in the questions thread, man. Not like we haven't told you before.

[evilheroics]

first of all, who is "we"? and who are you? youre not a moderator. just someone who thinks he is because he as 2000+ post. that or you're just trying to brown-nose to become one.

and to make the point, no one has ever told me about this questions thread.

ill post my question there.

[drwho]

On that note I will post a reply here also.:D I'm not sure exactly where, but Cable has been known to travel into the past so maybe something happend in the past. I have a bunch of vague memories, but nothing that I recall big enough for a nobody guard to be like hey you are cable arent you. Cus I believe his old group six pack worked for the government. Why should this post be placed in that thead?

[Ryan K]

first of all, who is "we"? and who are you? youre not a moderator. just someone who thinks he is because he as 2000+ post. that or you're just trying to brown-nose to become one.

and to make the point, no one has ever told me about this questions thread.

ill post my question there.

Not to be a dick, but the Questions thread was pointed out to you the last time you started a thread to ask a question on the X-Men forum. Whenever you (or anyone else) has a question, post it there. Most of the regular, well informed posters frequently check it and answer any question about the x-books you can think of.

Second of all, a person doesn't have to be a moderator (or a "brown-nose") to point something like that out. The community members are just as responsible for the community as the moderators are. Keep that in mind.

As for your question about Cable . . . they were making the whole thing up as they went along. At some point Cable was meant to be a future Cannonball if I recall correctly. So don't put too much stock in everything he says or everything said to him.

[drwho]

Not to be a dick, but the Questions thread was pointed out to you the last time you started a thread to ask a question on the X-Men forum. Whenever you (or anyone else) has a question, post it there. Most of the regular, well informed posters frequently check it and answer any question about the x-books you can think of.

Second of all, a person doesn't have to be a moderator (or a "brown-nose") to point something like that out. The community members are just as responsible for the community as the moderators are. Keep that in mind.

As for your question about Cable . . . they were making the whole thing up as they went along. At some point Cable was meant to be a future Cannonball if I recall correctly. So don't put too much stock in everything he says or everything said to him.

So why aren't all the other threads that ask questions on this board included in the ask questions thread? Maybe there should just be one gigantic thread and no other threads on this board.

[Sentinel K]

So why aren't all the other threads that ask questions on this board included in the ask questions thread?

Some of them are broad enough to deserve a legitimate thread.

Some are started by people like the guy who started this one.

[Ryan K]

So why aren't all the other threads that ask questions on this board included in the ask questions thread?

Brian Cronin (the moderator of the X-Men board) doesn't have the time to merge all threads that ask questions on here into that thread. But questions about the X-Men, characters, or issues should be asked there instead of having a new thread started. That's why the threads there.

Obviously questions like "Who's your favorite character" or "Did you like Morrison's X-Men" are different. They prompt discussion and everybody's going to have different answers and different reasons. But questions that just require information, belong in the Questions thread.

[Beast]

Brian Cronin (the moderator of the X-Men board) doesn't have the time to merge all threads that ask questions on here into that thread. But questions about the X-Men, characters, or issues should be asked there instead of having a new thread started. That's why the threads there.

Obviously questions like "Who's your favorite character" or "Did you like Morrison's X-Men" are different. They prompt discussion and everybody's going to have different answers and different reasons. But questions that just require information, belong in the Questions thread.
Yes, yes... to fan of Jubilee you listen. We just like to keep the forums fairly clean and smooth running. If it's just a question, it should go in the question thread. If it's a discussion inviting question, then a new thread is cool. :)

[Affinity]

Lolol post count is the funniest thing ever.

[fishtaco]

Lolol post count is the funniest thing ever.Wait, are there people on CBR who say things like, "I have a higher post count than you, so I'm better than you"? :eek:

[Affinity]

I sure as hell hope not.

I mean, I think it looks weird on a forum without any information on the sidebar (like on Newsarama now, it's so bland) but lol "OOH I HAVE A BIGGER POST COUNT!!!!" is lame.

[Sentinel K]

Wait, are there people on CBR who say things like, "I have a higher post count than you, so I'm better than you"? :eek:

It's more the other way round.

[Novaya Havoc]

Wait, are there people on CBR who say things like, "I have a higher post count than you, so I'm better than you"? :eek:

I do, and this is why I am better than Affinity.
I lie through my dirty Catholic teeth! <3 <3 <3 <3 for the drooleh behbeh mati

[rwsmith]

To answer the guy's question, Cable did not simply pop out of a time warp and start chasing Stryfe and the MLF around. He actually came back several years earlier than that and did a lot of mercenary stuff for the U.S. military (I'm assuming in Communist nations in Asia and Central America). He also met Xavier and Moira MacTaggert very early on in the X-men's existence, and I believe it was Xavier who taught him to speak English (since he spoke some funky futuristic language when he first arrived in this era).

So it's highly plausible that he was a legend to many military types who were "in the know" during the Reagan years.

EDIT---Y'know, I really liked Cable back in those days. IMO it's kind of a shame what they did to him afterwards. Hopefully Mike Carey can turn him into a cool character again.

[evilheroics]

what issues described this about him coming back earlier than the stryfe saga?

is that cannon? sources?

[streator]

what issues described this about him coming back earlier than the stryfe saga?

is that cannon? sources?
this
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=1938

and this
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=2493

i believe.

[rwsmith]

Also see page 2 and the top of page 3 of his biography: http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/spotlight/showquestion.asp?faq=10&fldAuto=64&page=2

[Kefky]

Didn't Simonson originally have different plans for him, though?

[DMike]

He was there at least long enough to get a law degree (or at least long enough to fake one and get law information out of real lawyers's heads, possibly).