


Cable is the ultimate, archetypal, silent, strong and cynical warrior, which Deadpool is not,” he said. And I think Deadpool needs a straight man. “Why he was put together with Deadpool – other than that he was in a comic that wasn’t selling well and Deadpool was in a comic that wasn’t selling well so they put them together – it’s the same reason we had Colossus he’s a straight man. “There’s a lot about Cable’s history that I like because he’s so intertwined with the world of the X-Men” Miller explained. Deadpool has a lot of frenemies, and Miller compared Cable and Merc’s relationship to Deadpool’s partnership with Colossus. IGN caught up with Director Tim Miller, who explained Cable will “make a great foil” for Wade Wilson in Deadpool 2. Nathan Summers doesn’t take shit from anybody, and Merc’s smartass mouth is bound to end in some sort of tussle.ĭeadpool and Cable have a complicated history and adversarial partnership. In the comics, he actually saves the world from Apocalypse and is the founding father of New Mutants and, later, X-Force (a pugnacious, militant, R-rated offshoot of the X-Men.) Deadpool is all about the anti-hero, and Cable will be taking on a antagonist role in the highly anticipated sequel.
