Cheers for that!
Yeah, I’m still not sold on him being an soldier in the sense of enlisted in a military, he seems to be more likely to be a merc or private operating contractor who has no affiliation with the military besides being hired independently/no strings attached to help in a task. Which isn’t a bad thing since a tonne of Marvel’s heroes seem to be former military, which has become a tired and old trope.
Barely, lol. This title is one of the reasons behind starting the thread - I had been seeing it pop up and yet I haven’t read of Cable being in the military, so I thought I’d make this thread.
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I read somewhere that Liefeld planned for Cable to be an older version of Cannonball, and Stryfe an even older version still who was more powerful and from further in the future. Or something like that. It actually doesn't sound better than what we actually got, which was him being revealed to be the son of Scott and Madelyne Pryor (Nathan) sent to the future after being infected with the T-O virus.
Having said that, with regards to his past military exploits in the 20th Century... absolutely! Would love to know where he might've gone with that stuff, and would love for Gerry Duggan to pick it up when OG Cable comes back.
True but as you’ve seen in this thread “soldier” is a broad term. I was asking if he was a military soldier (enlisted). Which is still not totally clear. I’ve been reading zero tolerance arc and Cable seems to call any courageous character a soldier ie Caliban when he overcomes his fears and helps Cable break him out of the mansion.
I have it on good authority that Cable was in the KISS Army back in the late 1970s.
“Generally, one knows me before hating me” -Quicksilver
In general sense they are "soldiers" but they aren't "military".
The thread starter wants to know if Cable is "military". To which I will refer to the movie the Patriot. In it Mel Gibson characters son joins colonial "army" in the fight against the British. America wasn't a independent country yet so technically people who fought weren't enlisted soldiers of a country.
And bigger point I want to make with that example is that the person I am talking about was thrust into a War without the vast training for an entity that doesn't exist officially. The same would be true for Cable a conquering force took over his country. There was no formal government or formal military because of that. Cable was a part of a structured resistance which is a military force. The nature of resistance you don't get all aspects of regular military experience because normally a superior force is stopping you from organizing that way.
Cable was the military leader of a rebellion against Apocalypse. If you're the general of an army, are you not a soldier?
Depends on the definition: my definition I was using when I started this thread was: an individual who has been recruited by a country’s official military defence force, underwent BCT, Received a rank, etc.
Which seems like this isn’t the case when it comes to Cable (Nathan Summers)
Well, if nothing else it gives me an excuse to read old back issues of Cable noting all of his soldier-y exploits in the past.
Just re-read Cable 33 by Jeph Loeb and Ian Churchill, wherein it shows how Nathan actually created the villain Post after rescuing him with G.W. Bridge from The Mandarin on a mercenary op in Northern China. Good stuff.