Originally Posted by
Jackraow21
At this stage they’ve kind of ruined both characters. Or perhaps they just haven’t aged well.
In the case of Nate Grey, I’ve never been much of a fan.
But I really came to love OG Cable in the 00s. Probably starting with Messiah Complex through Second Coming, and continuing on into X-Sanction and Spurrier’s X-Force run, which was crazy weird but fun IMO. After that they seemed to not know what to do with the guy. The whole “time cop” angle in his most recent solo was lame, and then they just killed him off and replaced him with this terrible teen version in Extermination. So I’ve lost interest again.
Perhaps someone will come along and reinvent him again... making him relevant in a way that a shitty haircut and de-aging him 30 years or so just ain’t doing. At least for me. The Krakoan set up with the resurrection protocols gives them an opportunity to do so. Because at some point Kid Cable has to go back to the future to live out his life as it happened, ultimately jumping back to the past and dying at his own hands in a vicious ‘Looper’ cycle. So... what if after Kid Cable heads back to the future they just resurrect the OG version, resetting his memories to the last back up before he was killed? Seems like a nice loophole to me to get him out of the time paradox he’s presently in, no?
And they could even bring him back sans T-O virus, which could be cool. Perhaps with nanites or something in his bloodstream to act as a governor on his powers. Since left unchecked they have been shown to ravage his body and kill him. So that’s how they could keep them in check. Either that or some genetic modification that alters them somehow. Lots of possibilities here to kind of reset the character. Bring him back to basics, that being the X-men’s own super soldier.